Chapter 2 2. Who should die

Yu Rang finally committed suicide. Before committing suicide, Xiangzi helped him fulfill a wish, which I will talk about later. In fact, Yu Rang was not the first assassin to commit suicide, and it was not the first time that the Zhao family was assassinated.Zhao Xiangzi was neither the ancestor of the Zhao family, nor the first person to be assassinated.The first person to encounter the assassin was Zhao Dun, that is, Zhao Xuanzi, the grandfather of Zhao Wu, the "orphan of the Zhao family". The name of the assassin is 鉏麑 (pronounced like hoe mud). 5 This assassin with a strange name was sent by Duke Ling of Jin.

Duke Ling is the king of the state of Jin, and Lu Zhao Dun is the official minister of the state of Jin. 7 The relationship between the two is equivalent to the president and the prime minister.It is certainly unusual for a president to assassinate a prime minister.The killer he chooses should also be extraordinary. However, the 鉏麑 couldn't do it. Now it is impossible to figure out how Linggong found the deer, nor who is the deer.Close to your heart?Palace guard?Hitman?Neither is clear.It is not clear what method he is going to use to assassinate.In short, this person accepted the mission and sneaked into Zhao Dun's residence.

It was just at dawn when the 鉏麑 arrived at Zhao's residence, and all three gates of Zhao's house were opened.Since it was still early to go to court, Zhao Dun sat in the room in a well-groomed manner to rest his mind, completely unaware that the assassin had arrived, and there were no guards around him. The deer was in awe. It is said that the deeply moved 鉏麑 sighed at that time: Mr. Zhao Dun, who is not forgetting to be respectful alone, can make decisions for the people! Can such a person be murdered? Can't. In fact, it was not Zhao Dun who deserved death, but Duke Ling of Jin.As a well-known absurd monarch in history, what he thinks about day and night is not to eat bear's paws, but also to search for people's fat and people's anointing to decorate his palace; the game he never tires of is standing on a high platform and shooting people with a slingshot, watching passers-by dodge bullets for fun.In 607 BC, that is, on a certain day in the second year of Lu Xuangong in the Spring and Autumn Period, he killed the cook just because the bear's paw was not boiled, put it in a dustpan and threw it out, only to be caught by Zhao Dun.As the "prime minister of a country", Zhao Dun certainly had to ignore him; but the response of Duke Ling was to send killers to kill Zhao Dun.

The deer at this time is a bit like Hamlet in Shakespeare's works. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, has been in trouble since the ghost appeared.Because he knew clearly that his father was murdered, and the murderer was his own uncle.The motive is because he covets his father's throne and covets his mother's beauty.What's even worse is that the villain has succeeded, but the father is suffering in hell. This is very difficult. Yes, as a son of man, Hamlet should take up the sword of revenge; as a subject, he cannot murder the king, let alone the queen.To murder them is to resist evil with evil; to not avenge one's father is to appease and support adultery.He can't even kill himself because that's avoiding responsibility.It seems that he can only "live".However, what is the point of living in the world for him who shoulders the heavy responsibility?

Therefore, whether to kill the uncle king or not has become whether to kill himself or not.He also had to ask himself: Why should I live?Should we live?What is the meaning of life and death? This is the famous "Hamlet's question" - To live, or to die, that is the question. 8 Ao Ni is also caught in a dilemma: orders must be obeyed, and Zhongliang must not be killed.Killing the pillars of the country is injustice; disobeying the order of the monarch is disloyalty.Either unrighteous or disloyal, what should I do? He chose to die by himself. Died in a dilemma, the deer slammed into a locust tree and became the first "suicide assassin" in history.

4.The first ancestor of the Zhao family was Zhao Su, followed by Gongmeng, Zhao Shuai (Zhao Chengzi), Zhao Dun (Zhao Xuanzi), Zhao Shuo (Zhao Zhuangzi), Zhao Wu (Zhao Wenzi, also known as "Zhao's Orphan") , Uncle Jing, Zhao Yang (Zhao Jianzi), Zhao Wuxie (Zhao Xiangzi).After the death of Zhao Xiangzi, his younger brother expelled the successor appointed by Xiangzi and made himself the king of the family. This is Zhao Huanzi.One year after Huanzi ascended the throne, he died.The people of the country believed that Huanzi's succession did not conform to Xiangzi's last wish, so they killed Huanzi's son, and made Zhao Huan, whom Xiangzi appointed, as the king, which was "Xianhou".This matter was mentioned in the third chapter of the second volume of the history of China, "The State".

5.鉏 is a polyphonic character, and it is also a variant of hoe.When used in the name of a country, it is read like Xu; when used in "鉏铻" (龃蓻), it is read like Ju; when used in a surname, it is read like Chu.Deer, read runes or fans.The assassination of Zhao Dun by 鉏麑 and related historical facts are recorded in Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu, Gongyang Zhuan, Lu Shi Chunqiu, Jin Shijia and Zhao Shijia in Shiji. This book The description integrates what everyone said. 6.Jin was one of the earliest feudal states in the Zhou Dynasty, and the first feudal king was Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Wu.The kings of Jin have been handed down all the way since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and they are all called "Hou", and the last generation is called "Aihou".After Aihou, the direct lineage was destroyed and replaced by Quwo's ​​offshoot. The first ancestor was called "Wu Gong".From then on, all the kings of Jin were called "Gong", followed by Duke Wu, Duke Xian, Duke Hui, Duke Huai, Duke Wen, Duke Xiang, and Duke Ling.Ling is "evil posthumous posthumous posthumous title".Most of the posthumous titles of "spirit" in history were "ineffective".For example, Zheng Linggong was murdered by his own brother because of a dispute over eating bastards ("Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong Four Years").Chen Linggong shared a mistress with courtiers, and was killed by the mistress's son in anger ("Zuo Zhuan Ten Years of Xuan Gong").

7.Qing is the senior assistant of the emperor or princes in ancient times. There are three grades: upper, middle and lower.Those who are in power in the same class as Shangqing are called "Zhengqing" or "Zhongqing". 8.The original text of this sentence is "To be or not to be", and there have always been various translations.Mr. Zhu Shenghao's translation is "to be or not to be, this is a question worth thinking about".