? Qi Huangong's decline stems from his failure to listen to Guan Zhong's advice.

Qi Guojun led a great army to attack Lu, and the army was in a state of gloom. Like a flood, the Qi army poured into the Lu army, which was not a vegetarian. Arrows flew to the Qi army like locusts, but all the soldiers of the Qi army fought bravely and fought like this. & gt But there was a man in the Qi army who didn't "fight hard" and "strive for the first place". He slid the shield behind him, covered it, and disappeared as soon as he fired. Here it is. & gt Fortunately, the Qi army won a great victory in this campaign, and Qi Hou didn't care. Not only did he not be punished, but even the bonus was not less. & gt Unexpectedly, Guan Zhong did the same thing in the next two battles. The others held their shields on their chests and rushed forward. He ran back with a shield. Qi Huangong couldn't bear it, so he was expelled from the army. & gt Guan Zhong had no royal food to eat, so he had to do a small business and sell the famous Zhoucun sesame seed cake in partnership with his friend Bao. It is agreed that they will settle accounts once a month and share the profits equally, but Guan Zhong will take charge of the accounts. Cheating is possible because he is in charge of accounts. At the end of each month, Guan Zhong reported a bunch of flowers to Bao. He hid a lot of money for Bao, three melons and three dates. & gt Guan Zhong embezzled a lot of money from his partners and gained capital. He plans to go into politics. & gt At that time, there were two sons in the State of Qi, of whom Miyako was a little stronger, so Guan Zhong hugged this thick leg and prepared to eat in the future. Unexpectedly, Childe Xiaobai is more calculating. Three times five divided by two, arrested Miyako for a long time and smashed it with a millstone. Miyako's men all died defending Miyako for a long time, but Guan Zhong was calm and became a prisoner. He also wrote a confession to Xiao Bai, stating that he had divorced Miyako for a long time and was willing to take refuge in Xiao Bai. & gt childe xiaobai became Qi Huangong, which was later. The first important thing for Huan Gong to take office was to appoint a prime minister and ask Bao for advice. & gt Lao Bao is a celebrity of Qi State. His words are equivalent to the weight of nine tripods. Huan Gong listened to his words and thought that he would recommend a very good prime minister to the country. But when he opened his mouth, it was Guan Zhong, which made Huan Gong's hair stand on end and his hat fell to the ground. & gt Duke Huan put his hat back on his head, regardless of the weight of the bag, and began to swear: "Do you think I'm alone in Qi?" Bao doesn't have to worry: "Guan Zhong is a genius in the world. Huan Gong scolded again: "Wizards! I will tell you that he is a genius. Going out with the army, I used my shield to block * * * from escaping three times! & gt Bao said with a smile, "Do you know that Guan Zhong's only son died in battle, who will support me? Loyalty and filial piety can't be both. Since there are so many people loyal to Qi, Qi has nothing to lose. Huan Gong said, "It's filial piety. I can do business with you, make false accounts and steal your money. Everyone knows this day. What is this? Bao Shu Ya smiled again: "I know, but I never said anything." . I have a lot of money, and my business is just for fun. Huan Gong said, "He is not greedy. & gt But for so many years, he can't do anything, he can't eat anything ... He has nothing to eat and looks poor! Bao said, "When a gentleman is in trouble, Guan Zhong never has a chance. He is an awl. He can stand out in his pocket, but he needs a pocket to hold him. Just give him a pocket and let him stand up once. & gt Huan Gong is still indignant: "Everyone in Gongzi Nine died in battle. Not counting that Guan Zhong didn't sacrifice for his son, but also wrote a confession. He has no integrity! " Bao Shu Ya said, "If he dies, don't you lose one of the greatest prime ministers?" Bao Shu was sharp-tongued and sharp-tongued, but Huan Gong was eloquent, so he had to listen to Lao Bao and appointed Guan Zhong as Prime Minister of Qi. & gt As soon as Guan Zhong became prime minister, it was like a different person. His previous malaise, timidity and narrow-mindedness were swept away, and he appeared in front of Huan Gong as a smart, scheming and smart super-big shot. & gt Cai Guo was very angry, and Huan Gong wanted to destroy Cai. Guan Zhong said, "No, cut Chu. Qi Huangong was overjoyed and thought that Chu was the biggest enemy of Qi. If Chu State was destroyed, the world would be unified, so he decided to attack Chu State. Guan Zhong said, "No, attack Cai." Huan Gong was angry again: "Do you have an opinion in twos and threes? Guan Zhong said: "My idea is to attack neither Chu nor Cai. We sent troops to criticize, representing Zhou Tianzi, and it was also an attack, but it represented Zhou Tianzi instead of us, and it felt different. " Huan Gong was overjoyed: "Yes, this son of the King of Chu committed a great crime. Wang Zhaonan was thrown into the river and drowned. Deceive the king, cut! Guan Zhong added, "No, you can't talk about hurting Emperor Zhou." Huan Gong was always rejected by Guan Zhong and blushed four times in a short time, so he had to keep silent and listen to Guan Zhong. & gt Guan Zhong said, "The King of Chu killed Zhou, which is a great sin. If you push him, the dog will climb the wall in despair. Let's deal with him slowly from childhood to adulthood. So the army set out, holding the banner of the Emperor of Zhou, and marched south to Chu, ordering Cai Hou to send all the domestic troops to the army. Cai Hou refused, and Guan Zhong secretly said proudly, "Idiot, you have been cheated. & gt When the Qi army arrived at the border of Chu, the King of Chu issued an imperial edict: "Qi is in the North Sea, and my Chu is in the South China Sea. Your cows and mares in Qi want to have sex, but they can't run to Chu. Aren't you better than cattle and horses? How did a brave soldier come to my South China Sea? However, Guan Zhong turned a deaf ear to Chu's insult: "It is clearly written in the newspaper:" These things should pay tribute to the son of heaven. Even if you don't pay tribute to oranges and grapefruit, the shelf life of that thing is too short, but you don't pay tribute to bracts, which leads to no sieve to filter the distiller's grains in the sacrifice of the Emperor of Heaven. Are you still guilty? The king of Chu was relieved: "Well, I know the crime. Go home, and the tribute will come later. " Qi defeated Chu without fighting and came back to destroy Cai. & gt Guan Zhong always does things so easily. He led the sheep, followed the first cow, and finally gathered the princes of the world together and became the overlord for more than 20 years. & gt Guan Zhong, awl, was put into his pocket by Huan Gong and pointed out, making the ministers bleed profusely and cry bitterly. & gt Guan Zhong's great achievements were all recommended by Bao, and he was very grateful. & gt On this day, Bao was ill, and he was suddenly far away and near. Seeing that his time was running out, Guan Zhong went on a hunger strike and prepared to die with Bao. Ning Qi advised him to "grieve". Besides, Bao is not dead yet, and even "mourning" will take a while. & gt Guan Zhong said, "If my parents gave birth to me, Uncle Bao would know me, and my death would be my bosom friend, and my horse would be my bosom friend. If Uncle Bao dies, no one in the world will understand me. Can I still live? " So I have to die. "Fortunately, Bao later switched to Qu Yuan, and when Qu Tian was near, his life turned to safety, so Guan Zhong continued to be the prime minister and continued to" hang the arch "as the overlord of the princes. & gt Prime Minister Guan Zhong is very ill. Seeing this, he didn't expect to be saved. When Huan Gong came to visit, he said a set of comforting words as usual: "Guan Zhong looks very good. I think you can start work in ten days. Guan Zhong said, "Hmm." It's not that he is impolite, but that he doesn't have much strength to speak, and he doesn't answer such pleasantries. & gt Sure enough, Huan Gong hit the nail on the head: "In case something happens in Guanzhong, I mean in case, who should I give the country to?" Hearing this, Guan Zhong was refreshed and his eyes widened: "Who do you think is suitable? Duke Huan said, "Needless to say, you know, I want to make Shu Ya the prime minister and take over Guanzhong. & gt When Guan Zhong heard the word "Bao", he was so anxious that he rolled out of bed and said, "No, absolutely not! Guan Zhong's reaction surprised Huan Gong. He pressed Guan Zhong and asked, "Why can't he? You are best friends. How can your friend be worse? "Guanzhong this array, the less intake, the more vent, zhang zhu's mouth like a mouthful of old water? After breathing for half a day, the fish calmed down a little, and then enlightened Huan Gong and said, "Uncle Bao is noble in character, upright in conduct, honest and clean, dedicated to serving the public, and has never had a private character in his life. It took China hundreds of years and thousands of years to build one. "> However, a perfect person must have another shortcoming, and that is conceit. They are used to treating people as human beings, and people who are inferior to him are not qualified to stand in the same sky with him. Politics is never pure. As a pure man like Uncle Bao, he can never make decisions, and others can't stand his own pain. & gt Huan Gong thinks what Guan Zhong said is very reasonable. For example, Huan Gong himself is a conspiracy theorist. He has never said a few words of truth in his life, and his ideological and moral assessment is definitely unqualified. & gt Not to mention Guan Zhong, he is corrupt, saying that his property is richer than Qi's national treasury, and the origin of huge property is unknown; He has numerous wives, and he often goes out to eat junior high school, gambling abroad, horse racing, dog racing and cricket racing. However, under his and Duke Huan's governance, Qi became rich and powerful, and "nine kings ruled the world together". Even Zhou He had to look at Qi's glances. If Uncle Bao is in power, he must be "rich and poor". & gt So, who is suitable? Huan Gong asked. Guan Zhong has answers: "Let's be friends. He is ugly, shallow and extreme, and stupid. Moreover, he is not disgusted with people with various shortcomings, but sympathetic and tolerant. & gt The Prime Minister is a big official, and a big official will grasp great things. All knowledge and wisdom are useless to the prime minister. Great carpenters don't open planes, great cooks don't leave the kitchen, and great soldiers don't touch swords and guns. & gt A breathless speech made Huan Gong feel happy, just like clearing the fog to see the light of day. However, Peng Ji, a man called Huan Gong, is so stupid. He is a little stupid. He didn't want to appoint Peng Ji, so he proposed his own candidate: "The final criterion is whether he is loyal to me or not. I think Yiya is not bad. He loves me the most. I said that I had never eaten human flesh, so he gave me his son in brown sauce. Guan Zhong said: "Even his only son is willing to kill, which is cruel to his relatives and not necessarily cruel to the monarch." "Vertical Diao, he castrated himself into the palace to serve me in order to love me." "He doesn't even care about his own body, will he care about the monarch?" "Often a witch, this person is like a big fairy, but he can predict people's life and death, and his medical skills are extremely bright. He is a master of special functions. Guan Zhong, who always despises fortune-telling, especially hates the constant warlock: "Life and death are life, wealth is in the sky, how old can you live?" If the prediction is not accurate, it is a waste of effort. If the prediction is accurate, there will be no mystery in life. He calculated that someone died on a certain day in a certain year, two years and three years before his death. To support the psychic master, the court must collapse. There are monsters everywhere. What has Qi become? Lord, you must be close to the virtuous and stay away from evil. "Guanzhong said these many words, the whole body strength is exhausted, eyes closed tightly, never wake up. & gt Duke Huan remembered Guan Zhong's last entrustment, refused to let Bao be the prime minister, and exiled Yi Ya, Vertical Carving and Chang to Chengshanjiao to show them Haicheng. But he didn't listen to Guan Zhong completely, and he didn't let Peng Ji be the prime minister. After all, Peng Ji is stupid, like a retard. He is so wise that he doesn't look good with a mentally retarded prime minister. & gt However, the problems followed: without elegant cooking, every meal he ate was tasteless; without the harem, the little girls fell out; without the usual witch as a health care doctor, there was a headache and brain fever, and no one even prepared a cold granule for him to drink. But he persisted, endured, endured for three years, and finally could not bear it. At one order, all three people were recalled to Linzi, the capital. Seeing three close-fitting "nannies", Qi Huangong was speechless with joy: "Where have you been all these years? "Huan and live a good life. & gt A whole year has passed. On this day, Huan Gong had a bad cold, was dizzy and didn't want to eat. Come to see a doctor often, fill him with a bowl of ginger soup and brown sugar water, cover him with three quilts, and let out "external qi", saying that it can change Huan Gong's lung cells, and when the cells expand, he will not cough. After being tortured for a long time, Huan Gong ordered a meal without coughing. He wants to eat an appetizing bowl of bird's nest porridge before dinner. But from noon until sunset, I didn't wait for bird's nest porridge, and my stomach was flat all night, and no one came until sunrise. & gt Huan Gong can't bear it. He wanted to open the door and cook porridge in the kitchen by himself, but the door was closed outside. Duke Huan felt bad and shouted, and all the walls had only their own echoes. Three days later, a maid-in-waiting climbed over the wall and helped up the hungry Huan Gong, who said, "I'm hungry. Give me a sesame seed cake. The maid-in-waiting said, "No, you can't bring it in." "A glass of water will do." Duke Huan said, "Hey, why?" The maid-in-waiting said, "The witch of Chang 'e treated you and said that the king died seven days later. Elegant, vertical carving, Chang witch usurped your power and gave orders in the court. & gt Recalling Guan Zhong's last words, Huan Gong burst into tears: "It doesn't matter if I die, but I am ashamed to see Guan Zhong. & gt After being locked up for seven days, Huan Gong starved to death, and there was nothing in the empty house. Huan Gong covered himself with a poplar board before he died, so he had the right to die. People in the palace are busy grabbing the fruits of victory and have long forgotten Huan Gong. It was midsummer, when maggots filed out of Huan Gong's cell and crawled all over the palace, and everyone suddenly remembered, "Alas, the old Duke has not been buried yet. & gt Guan Zhong would rather give up his closest friend bag and recommend his successor in order to rule the country and level the world. Duke Huan didn't know Guan Zhong's painstaking efforts, but for a few jesters, he drove Qi's career to the wall. Aren't you sad?