Why did the story of another slave promoted to prime minister in Shang Dynasty invent Fu Shuo's version?

When Pan Geng's two younger brothers were in power, they failed to expand the Shang Dynasty. There is a big reason why they can't get good ministers, because really good ministers are not always above the court. Just like Yi Yin in the soup, he is just a diligent cook. Fu Shuo, the hero of this article, is also a slave, but he is not a cook, but a construction worker.

Fu Shuo, this? Say? What is the pronunciation? Yue? He is a native of Gu Yuguo (now Pinglu, Shanxi), a professional and a prisoner. Because it is just a pariah, it is called? Say? (Yue), he spent the first half of his life building cities.

Statue of Fu Shuo

Despite his humble origins, Fu Shuo was smart and curious from an early age. In the process of building the city, he invented a new technology, that is, plate building. The so-called plate building is to build a wall with two plates (plates) sandwiched in the middle, and the width between the two plates is equal to the thickness of the wall. The boards are supported by wooden columns, then filled between the two boards, built (rammed) with pestle, and the boards and wooden columns are removed after construction to form a wall. However, it is said that the plate building method appeared in the Longshan period (Neolithic age), so some people think that Fu Shuo invented the plate building method because of Mencius? The sentence "tell me"? Fu Shuo was sandwiched between two buildings. ?

But Fu Shuo won't care too much? Version construction? The right of invention is such a thing. Because he cares about state affairs and has many opinions, he has nothing in common with the people who jointly build the city. Whenever he wanted to say something, the workmates would get together and make noise, and Fu Shuo didn't care. But today is different. When commenting on state affairs, Fu Shuo noticed that a person was very serious. He is Wu Ding, the later Shang King. He is dressed in cloth.

Isn't Wu Ding the king? How can you travel with your clothes on? Can we talk about this in Wuding? Fu Shuo often tells stories to his companions, analyzes the right and wrong of the dynasty, and criticizes the royal family bluntly. Wu Ding likes Fu Shuo very much. They worked together and learned a lot from Fu Shuo. Before he left, Wu Ding made friends with Fu Shuo. After Wu Ding acceded to the throne, he managed to find him and worshipped Fu Shuo as prime minister. One example is Fu Shuo's suggestion that Wu Ding should reduce the tribute when offering sacrifices.

Wu Ding obeyed, starting from the royal family, rectifying corruption and vigorously promoting the New Deal. Fu Shuo lived up to expectations and tried his best to maintain order inside and outside the courtroom. While recovering his vitality at home, he also actively repaired relations with neighboring countries and severely punished those small countries that dared to invade. Finally, the country became rich and strong, and the national situation revived again, becoming the world's largest power in the East for a time.

Wu Dingju's story about Fu Shuo was very popular in the pre-Qin period, and it was one of the typical stories of sage choosing high and low. It was recorded in Historical Records, Hanshu, Lunheng and many other ancient books handed down from ancient times.

In fact, the "life-telling theory" handed down from later generations is not the whole of the "life-telling theory" in the pre-Qin period, such as "Mandarin? In The Merchant of Chu Yu, when Bai Gong remonstrated with King Chu Ling, Tsinghua's bamboo slips did not contain the word "command", but directly started from Wu Ding's search for Fu Shuo, which shows that Tsinghua's bamboo slips are not a complete book. Therefore, some scholars believe that there are actually many articles in the pre-Qin period, but Confucius chose the latter three when deleting books, which is very reasonable. It is very likely that the Fortune Telling in the pre-Qin period told a long story about Wu Ding and Fu Shuo, and recorded a lot of words and deeds about them. Later generations edited it because of its long length and divided it into several articles, all of which were called "fortune telling". The three articles in Shangshu are only part of it.

Tsinghua bamboo slips

There are three ancient characters in Tsinghua bamboo slips The Life of Fu Shuo, which are difficult to understand. The last two sentences are Wu Ding's exhortations to Fu Shuo, mainly to make Fu Shuo do his duty, be diligent in government affairs, give himself more advice and manage the country well. Fu Shuo's words and deeds are not recorded. Only the first article tells the story of Fu Shuo's joining the Shang Dynasty, which was not mentioned in previous books. It probably means:

During the period of Wu Ding, a country was lost. The monarch was Zhong Zhong, and Wu Ding wanted to attack him. He dreamed that God gave him a sage to fight Zhong Zhong? Making people? A person who leads an expedition. When Wu Ding woke up, he ordered hundreds of workers to paint a portrait of the saint, and sent people to post it everywhere with the portrait, looking for it all over the country. A Bi person (official name) found a person in this place, Yan Fu. His shoulders are high, like a bird with wings. He is very similar to the man in the photo, that is, Fu Shuo.

At that time, Fu Shuo was being built by Yan Fu, and the wall was rammed up and down (? Take off hard? )。 After this Biman found him, he took him to Shangdu. When Wu Ding met him, he was the sage he saw in his dream.

Wu Ding asked Fu Shuo:? I dreamed that the gods gave you to me, didn't they? ?

Fu Shuo replied? Yes, I also dreamed that the gods said they would give me to you. I still remember the dream. You pulled my skirt with your left hand and kowtowed with your right. ?

Fu Shuo even told the details, and Wu Ding was overjoyed, so he ordered Fu Shuo to crusade against injustice.

Wu Ding lost because he offended the gods. There is another story: the separated wife gave birth to twins. These two children look very strange, like two little pigs. Second? . I think this is an ominous sign. I want to kill these two pigs, but I can't make up my mind. So I divined and asked the gods. Did I kill them? Forget it, don't kill them? ? What is the result of divination? Do not kill Ji? This is God's will. Dislocation violates the result of divination and kills one of them to stay? A glimpse? . God was furious and used Wu Ding's artificial hand to destroy him. Wu Ding has been unable to start work, because there is no suitable candidate to lead the troops. Many years later, when tapir grew up, God gave Wu Ding a Fu Shuo. Wu Ding ordered him to lead the merchants to attack the lost country and surround the lost city. What was this called? Surround? .

The father and son know that they can't beat the merchant. In order to survive, they dug a tunnel under the city and fled along the tunnel with their close relatives.

Fu Shuo led the army to occupy the lost city and appease the people. Since then, the lost country has become a vassal state of Shang Dynasty.

On the way to escape, Yi Gou and Yi Gou secretly left Yi Zhong with some of his people to fend for themselves. Later, the lost tribe multiplied into a tribe called. The Red Army? .

After losing the clock, Wu Ding ordered him to build a city on an island in Beihai. Bury the soil? , is a prison.

After Fu Shuo finished building the city, he came back to finish the work. Wu Ding found that he was really talented, so he named him? Public? Later generations also said that Fu Shuo was the highest post in Wuding period? Sangong? One.

Fu Shuo was an outstanding politician, strategist, thinker and architect in the Shang Dynasty. He assisted Emperor Gaozong of the Yin and Shang Dynasties in governing the country, forming a famous? Wuding Zhongxing? This glorious era has left three immortal "talking about life", among which? It's not difficult to know, but difficult to do? Famous sentences are the cornerstone of China's earliest simple materialistic view of history; His general plan of governing the country changed the lasting decline of Shang dynasty, which was created by him in times of crisis? Version construction? Architectural technology is a great achievement in the history of architectural science in China and a great progress in the history of human architecture.

Plate-making skills

With such a sage to assist Wu Ding, it can be said that there is a mezzanine, but it still takes martial arts to create a prosperous time. And who was the most effective and popular military commander during Wu Ding's reign?