The story of hanging a book in the corner

Emperor Yang Di attacked Korea for the first time and suffered a fiasco. Only 2,700 of the1000000 Sui soldiers escaped. Such a fiasco did not make the arrogant tyrant give up. Only a year later, he launched his second attack on North Korea. He personally attacked Liaodong with a great army, and sent Yang Xuangan, a minister, to supervise the transportation of grain and grass in Liyang.

Yang Xuangan's father, Su Yang, was a close friend of Yang Di and helped him seize the throne. Later, he was suspected by Emperor Yang-ti and died of depression. Yang Xuangan has been dissatisfied with Yang Di for a long time. Seeing this chaotic situation, he wanted to take this opportunity to overthrow Emperor Yang Di.

In the name of supervising grain transportation, Yang Xuangan recruited more than 8,000 young migrant workers and boatmen, asking them to deliver food to Liaodong front. Those young people have had enough of coolies, and they are even more angry when they are told to stay away from home to do coolies.

One day, Yang Xuangan called the civilian workers together and said, "Today, the emperor ignored the lives of the people and let thousands of buddies die in Liaodong. This situation can no longer be tolerated. I was forced, too, and now I am determined to overthrow the tyrant with everyone. What do you think? "

When everyone heard that someone had taken the lead in opposing the imperial court, there was a burst of cheers.

Yang Xuangan organized 8,000 civilian workers into teams, gave them weapons, and prepared to attack Sui Jun. He found that he lacked a counselor to help him advise, and he couldn't help thinking of his good friend Shi Biao in Chang 'an.

Shimi's predecessor was a nobleman in the Northern Zhou and Sui Dynasties. When Shi Biao was a teenager, he was sent to the court in Yang Di as a bodyguard. He is naturally flexible. When he was on duty, he looked around and was found by Yang Di. He thought the boy was dishonest, so he was excused from his job. Shi Biao is not depressed. After returning home, he studied hard and determined to be a learned man.

Once, Shimi rode an ox to meet his friends. On the way, he hung Hanshu on the loudspeaker and took the time to study. Just as Prime Minister Su Yang was catching up with him in a carriage, he was surprised to see a young man reading on the back of a cow in front of him.

Su Yang greeted her in the car and said, "Which scholar works so hard?"

Looking back, Shi Biao recognized the Prime Minister, jumped off the cow's back, bowed to Su Yang and gave his name.

Su Yang asked him, "What are you looking at?"

Shi Mi replied, "I am reading the biography of Xiang Yu."

Su Yang had a cordial conversation with Shi Biao for a while and found the young man very ambitious. After returning home, Su Yang said to his son Yang Xuangan, "I think Shimi's knowledge and talent are much stronger than your brothers. If there is anything urgent in the future, you can discuss it with him. "

After that, Yang Xuangan made friends with Shi Biao.

This time, Yang Xuangan is looking for a psychological counselor. Thinking of his father's advice, he sent someone to Chang 'an to pick up Shi Biao and go to Liyang.

When Shimi arrived in Liyang, Yang Xuangan asked him how to fight this war to overthrow Yang Di.

Shi Mi said, "There are three ways to defeat the loyalists. First, the emperor is now in Liaodong, and we are leading troops north to cut off the retreat of the bad king. There is Korea in front of him, and there is no retreat behind him. Within ten days, there will be no rations, and we will win without fighting. This is the best policy. The second is to take Chang 'an to the west and copy their lair. If the loyalists want to withdraw their troops, we will take the Guanzhong area as the base and take risks and stick to it. This is China's strategy. The third is to attack Luoyang, the eastern capital, nearby. But this is a bad idea. Because the imperial court still has some garrisons in Du Dong, it may not attack soon. "

Yang Xuangan is eager for success. After listening to these three strategies, he felt that the first two were too time-consuming. He said, "I think what you said is a good strategy. Now the families of court officials are all in Du Dong. We occupied Du Dong and captured all our families. The morale of the loyalists is shaken and detention can win. "

Yang Xuangan immediately sent troops from Liyang to attack the eastern capital. Along the way, many peasants joined the insurgents, and the number of troops expanded to100000, and they won several battles in succession. Emperor Yang Dizheng stormed Liaoyang with his army, got an urgent document, withdrew it overnight, and sent general Yuwen Shu and others to attack Yang Xuangan separately. Yang Xuangan couldn't resist and wanted to retreat to Chang 'an to the west. Yuwen Shu led the troops in pursuit and finally surrounded Yang Xuangan's troops. Yang Xuangan was killed.

Shi Biao escaped in disorder and tried to sneak back to Chang 'an. But Sui Jun's search was very strict, and Shi Biao was captured.

Sui will send troops to escort Shi Biao to the camp in Yang Di. On the way, Shi Biao discussed with more than a dozen prisoners and gave all his money to the soldiers of the Sui army who were escorted to let them eat and drink. Sui soldiers were bribed by them, drinking and having fun, and their guard was relaxed. Shi Biao and others took advantage of the drunkenness of Sui soldiers and saw the opportunity to climb over the wall and escape.

After Shi Biao escaped from danger, he wanted to find another chance to resist the Sui Dynasty. He wants to find a rebel leader as a backer, but some rebel leaders think he is a weak scholar and don't pay much attention to him. Shi Mi had no choice but to change her name and surname, hiding in Tibet and almost being arrested by the government several times. Finally, he heard that there was a rebel army in Wagangzhai, East County (now east of hua county, Henan Province), with a strong force. The leader's name is Zhai (zhái) Jean. He is kind and likes to make friends with heroes, so he decided to join the Wagang Army.

(2) All rivers return to the sea

Source "Huainan Ji Zi Lun Xun"

Hundreds of rivers come from different sources, but the risk still returns to the sea.

Interpretation means that many things come together in one place, and it is also a metaphor for the general trend and the will of the people.

Story Liu An, a thinker and writer in the Western Han Dynasty, was the grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and was named King of Huainan with his father. He likes reading and playing drums, and he has a quick mind. He once called thousands of soldiers and people who knew astronomy, medicine, calendar calculation and divination, and collectively compiled a book with hundreds of thousands of words, Lie Hong, which was also called Training Notes in Huai Nan Zi, and talked about the development of human society. Its basic viewpoint accords with historical materialism. The article writes: Our ancestors lived in caves and by the water, were poorly dressed and led a very hard life. Later, saints led people to build palaces; Only in this way can people get out of the cave and live in a house that can keep out the wind and rain, cold and heat. Saints also taught people to make farm tools and weapons for farming and killing wild animals, which made people's lives more secure than in the past. Later, the system of rites and music saints formulated various rules, which made people have etiquette and constraints. It can be seen that society is constantly developing, and people don't always live in one way. Therefore, the ancient system will be abolished if it is no longer suitable for use, and the current system will be carried forward if it is suitable for use. All of the above shows that, just like thousands of rivers from different sources, they all finally flow into the sea. Everyone does different things, but they are all for better governance and better life.