Zhou Wenwang was carrying Jiang Ziya. Why was he stopped after 300 steps?

In almost every dynasty, a wise and respected minister appeared to help the king create some achievements, such as Zhuge Liang under Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bowen, a strategist of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, and Jiang Ziya, a fairy figure who helped Zhou Wenwang create the Zhou Dynasty. Many interesting stories happened between these kings and their advisers. It is said that Zhou Wenwang was carrying Jiang Ziya at first, but he was stopped after only a few hundred steps. Why?

Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties are three ancient civilizations in China, so there are few records. However, the existence of the Zhou Dynasty should be the longest dynasty in China, and many controversial figures were born in the Zhou Dynasty. For example, The Romance of the Gods written by later generations, these myths and legends cast a more mysterious color on the already vague Zhou Dynasty.

According to historical records, Jiang Ziya was originally named Jiang Shang, and people also called him Jiang Taigong. His ancestors helped Dayu to control water, so he made great contributions and was assigned a piece of land in Lu. Therefore, Jiang Ziya was also named Lu, known as Lu Shang. However, with the change of time, after Xia and Shang Dynasties, the Lu clan has declined. As a descendant of Lu, Jiang Ziya lived an ordinary life. In order to support his family, he worked as a pork dealer like Zhang Fei when he was young. He kills pigs all day and then sells them in the market. Later, when the pork business failed, Jiang Ziya simply went out to work as a waiter in an inn. It's a pity that his fortune was bad in the first half of his life.

Perhaps influenced by his half-life experience, Jiang Ziya studied hard the knowledge of Yin and Yang, five lines of gossip Daoism, Art of War, Astronomy and Metaphysics, and gradually grew into a master in the hard days. At this time, Jiang Ziya, who has a skill, is open-minded and believes that fate will treat him well until a Bole monarch appears. Therefore, Jiang Shang waited and waited until his temples were gray in his 70s. On this day, he looked at the stars at night and realized that there would be a noble person tomorrow, so he was relieved. So the next day, as usual, Jiang Ziya came to the river to fish with a fishing rod.

In myths and legends, Jiang Taigong Panxi fished, and King Wen dreamed of flying bear at night, and he was thirsty for talent. On this day, Hou Jichang of Xibe nationality came from Zhou Wenwang. Because he had a dream last night that flying bear appeared. So when he was traveling, he shook six hexagrams and calculated a divination for himself, and the divination he got pointed to the Weihe River in the southeast. Then, Ji Chang suddenly realized, and quickly took a group of cronies to the Weihe River area to look for them.

When a group of people came to the river, Jichang found Jiang Taigong, who was sitting quietly on the river bank fishing. Judging from the color of his skin, he looks like an expert. Ji Chang came forward to look closely and saw a hook without bait tied to Jiang Taigong's fishing rod. Out of curiosity, he asked Jiang Taigong, and Ji Chang said, Why don't old people put bait in fishing? ? Jiang Ziya opened his eyes slightly and said, Would you like to take the bait? Ji Chang listened to the face upwards and Jiang Ziya laughed at the same time. They hit it off and talked about the general trend of the world. Through talking and watching, Ji Chang decided that Jiang Ziya was the sage he was looking for day and night, so he sincerely invited Jiang Ziya to join his camp.

Two people back to Xiqiao, Jiang Ziya specially to test Ji Chang, resolute don't want to ride a horse or take a carriage back, at the repeated request of Jiang Taigong, put forward to let Zhou Wenwang drive himself back. Faced with this unreasonable request, he was immediately reprimanded by other ministries, but Ji Chang agreed happily, so he picked up Jiang Ziya and went straight away. Walked 300 steps and was stopped by Jiang Ziya. It turned out that Zhou Wenwang made a mistake and went in the opposite direction. Jiang Ziya knew it, but in order to test him, he took three hundred steps to tell him that he was in the wrong direction.

So Zhou Wenwang gritted his teeth and walked more than 500 steps eastward with his back to Jiang Ziya. He can't walk any further until he puts it down. So Jiang Ziya thought he was a high-quality and cultured monarch, and told Ji Chang that every step he took behind his back would make the Zhou Dynasty last for one year, and more than 800 steps indicated that the Zhou Dynasty would be prosperous for more than 800 years.