Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Cranes Destroy a Country

Qixian County, Henan Province is a very ordinary county town, but it has a very famous name in history: Chaoge. Speaking of Chaoge, those who have read it will of course know that the capital of the Shang Dynasty has been glorious for six hundred years, because King Zhou of Shang was innocent and was taken over by others.It deserves it, and it's not worth being sad.To say he was sad was because he became the capital of another vassal state. This country is called Weiguo.The man who created the sad, called Wei Chi, was the tenth king of the Wei State in the Spring and Autumn Period.Duke Wei Yi.Like most monarchs who have created a sad heart, he is also a fool.

Wei Yigong has the same awareness as all the foolish kings: the country was left to me by my father to spoil it, and being a leader is to have fun. Excessive taxation is what I should do. However, he is different from other stupid kings. Others are either playing with women, or robbing the property of ordinary people, and collecting some rare antiques, gold, silver and treasures. These Wei Yigongs are not interested in them. He only loves to keep pets - cranes. Cranes, a rare animal that is protected by national law today, would not be so rare in the Spring and Autumn Period thousands of years ago.Ordinarily, it is not a bad thing for a leader to love to keep pets. Bill Gates also plays with fish and raises birds in his spare time, but Mr. Wei Yi is an animal protectionist with a firm stand and ambitious goals.Not only do I love raising cranes, but the people of the whole country must agree with me.

Heling in the northwest of Chaoge and Crane City in the southeast, regardless of whether he has people who cultivate land, are all conscripted to serve as nests for cranes.Those who pay tribute to the country (in fact, himself) will be rewarded with a lot of money.All the precious cranes are given senior civil servants (official titles) and enjoy high national salaries, the highest of which is equivalent to the country's prime minister (top food doctor's salary).When the cranes go out, they always take the first-class Xuan cars—the high-end curved-wheel cars, which are the same as the high-ranking officials and dignitaries at that time, even more BMW than BMW...

This is messed up, and the people are angry.If you want to plant the land, the cranes occupy the nest; if you want to go to the street, you can see the cranes sitting on the "BMW"; He was told that the government is closed, and the leaders are playing with cranes, and there is no time for such trivial matters as the national economy and the people's livelihood... Officials are also angry, working hard, it is better to flap their wings a few times than a crane!After working hard for a year, the salary is not as much as that of the crane!The soldiers are also angry, standing guard in the wind and sun, carrying guns and working hard to protect their hometown, they are not as good as a bird!

All walks of life, thousands of words, a common voice: Crane!What is it? Why?The reason is that Wei Yigong doesn't treat everyone as human beings.Anyone who does not treat us as human beings, of course we do not treat him as human beings.In the court songs of the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch, ministers, and people have been awkward in this anger of not treating each other as human beings.There are a lot of shivering angry things in the middle, accumulated over time. After saving until 660 BC, retribution came. The world at that time did not talk about peace and development. Needless to say, the strong powers of the Central Plains preyed on the weak, and some neighbors in the north who lived by grazing were thinking about this colorful world in the Central Plains. The most famous of them was Di Ren.

The Di nation is no longer in the big family. It doesn’t matter whether they have been assimilated or wiped out. The important thing is that they were very powerful in China during the Spring and Autumn Period. Whoever has money will be robbed, and whoever is weak will be bullied.Wherever he passed, blood flowed into rivers and not a blade of grass grew, he was very strong and arrogant, very fierce and violent. Weiguo is very rich, but Weiguo makes Wei Yigong, who likes to keep pets, and his group of cranes very weak.For Chi Zhai and his group of blood-licking brothers, it is unreasonable not to rob once and bully another.Of course you can't do things that are unreasonable, so Chi Di led his brothers to call in a murderous manner!

Disaster is imminent!What awaits the Weiguo people will be a stormy looting and massacre.Life and death, everyone knows.Now that it is clear, what should I do? Wei Yigong panicked. It is not necessary to do a good job, but you can't lose your good life.If you don't want to lose a good life, you must repel the enemy's attack, and if you want to repel the enemy's attack, you must recruit, reorganize, prepare for battle, and strengthen your defense.In a critical moment, Wei Yigong finally demonstrated the resilience that a leader should have: issued an emergency mobilization order, opened warehouses to distribute weapons, and the whole army sounded the assembly call, at all costs - preparing for war.

After the mobilization order was issued, he found that no one paid any attention to him.Chi Zhai's invasion was like a fuse, detonating Wei's accumulated anger. The officials are slow and do nothing, the soldiers doze off with their weapons in their hands, and the common people are numb, what should they do or what should they do.Mr. Wei Yi is in a hurry, his eyebrows are burning, are you all stupid? Of course not stupid, everyone replied: "Let your cranes go, they have higher ranks than us, and their wages are higher than ours. Of course they should do such an important job as defending the country!"

Changing Wei Yi is a fool... Finally, there are people around who are not stupid, Minister Qi Zi said: "Hurry up and 'crisis public relations', maybe there is still a rescue!" Then let’s do public relations, first do sincere self-criticism, then slaughter all the cranes and serve them to the common people, cancel all the cadre establishments, and use all the BMWs for military use.The pampered crane became a delicacy on the table of the common people, and the whole Chaoge City was decorated with lights and festoons in those two days, which was more lively than the New Year.

The crane ate, the anger disappeared, and self-criticism was done, and then... What's more, the officials are still slow, the soldiers are still dozing off, and the common people are still doing their best.This battle cannot be fought. Di Ren is a master of tigers and wolves who takes war as his job. There are less than 200 chariots used for war, let alone generals and soldiers who have been off duty for a long time.Such a battle is not called fighting, it is called suicide. What's more, I usually don't take me as a human being, and now I come to "crisis public relations" when my death is imminent, it's too late!

But it was too late to fight. Wei Yigong worked hard from door to door, and finally managed to get a team together, and set off dejectedly.The assembled army is unreliable, and the battle to die is of course even more unreliable. After walking halfway, someone sings: Cranes have wages, we will farm, cranes have cars, we will work hard, Di people fight fiercely , If I go to the front line, I will die, the crane is gone now, I am going to die... (Crane Shilu, Min Ligeng; Where are you now? And I, Qu Qu, are here for this!) People's hearts are scattered, the team is not difficult to lead, but impossible to lead.Such a battle, even Yue Fei would not be able to fight it.Then, in the battle of Xingze, the Di people charged, and the guards scattered like birds and beasts.The bare commander Wei Yigong refused to surrender, was chopped into meat, and then was eaten up, leaving only one liver intact.Later, when the minister Hongxi cleaned the battlefield, he discovered that Hongxi cut open his own belly and used it as a coffin to bury the faint king of the bloody battlefield.Then, the story about Wei Yigong's love for cranes and his subjugation of the country grew out of the soil and was passed down from generation to generation until today. The story is over. Throughout the ages, some people say that Wei Yigong is stupid, and some people say that such a subjugation of the country is ridiculous. The negative teaching materials have been made for thousands of years, and it does not seem to make people sad. But it also makes people feel sad, because in this story, there are several details that have been ignored by historians countless times. First, before Duke Wei Yi left for the battle, he gave his most precious jade to Qi Zi, who had advised him on "crisis public relations", gave him the right to make decisions, and gave the soldiers noble embroidered clothes, encouraging them to fight for the country .When defeat was inevitable, he refused to surrender, preferring to die in battle.Before this failed war, he was a foolish king, and he did everything that any wise king could do under the same conditions.As the old saying goes, one must keep one's duty. Duke Wei Yi did not do one's duty all his life, but at the last moment of his life, he finally did one's duty. It's just that this gun is too rusty, and after a long time of grinding, let alone fast, it can't shine.We can despise all his irresponsible duties, but we still have a little respect for his rare duties at the last moment.Because many people messed up worse than him and ended up worse than him, but they never did their duty in their lives. Then, it was the end of Weiguo. After Wei Yigong died in battle, the soldiers scattered like birds and beasts, and the common people fled one after another, abandoning the country that made them angry all their lives.Di soldiers occupied Chaoge without bloodshed, burned, killed, looted, and ravaged the people of Weiguo like eating the corpse of Duke Wei Yi.Only more than 4,000 people escaped from the entire Wei State. Although the country was reluctantly restored with the help of Duke Huan of Qi, the superpower in the Spring and Autumn Period that once dominated the princes no longer existed. The Chaoge in 660 BC was a complete hell on earth. But I want to say that this hell was not created by Di Man, nor by Duke Wei Yi, but by the people of Wei. Because the people of Weiguo abandoned Wei Yigong and their own country. The reason for abandoning was that Wei Yigong didn’t treat them as human beings. He still abandoned his country without hesitation. The way to give up is not to resist, to scatter like birds and beasts, but not resisting does not mean that Diren will not come to kill you, you should kill or kill, if you hide, I will kill you, if you stretch your neck over, I will kill you even more.As for the scattered birds and beasts, human legs cannot run as fast as the horseshoes of nomads, if they catch up with you, they will be killed, and if they cannot catch up, they will be chased and killed.The result of abandonment is to kill kill kill.Maybe the result of resistance is also killing, but it seems not so useless.The people of the Wei state always blame the king for not treating them as human beings, but with a knife on their necks, they understand that the invaders don't treat you as human beings. It was too late for a monarch who had no people in his heart.A group of people who have no country in their hearts, the monarch has repented, but they themselves have not repented.If everyone repents, it may not be too late.The demise of Wei, that's all. Because they didn't realize that this country is said to belong to the monarch, but in the final analysis it belongs to you.It is said that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, because not only the people belong to the country, but the country also belongs to the people.Saving the country is actually saving the people themselves. It is difficult to talk about democracy with people thousands of years ago, so let's use a simple analogy.You live in a village, and the village head is usually domineering and the people are very angry, but suddenly one day the flood comes, and there is nowhere to run or hide. The village head is full of remorse and tears and begs the young and old to follow him to fight the flood. Was the village chief thrown into the flood, or did he want to fight the flood first to save his life?I don't think anyone would take their own life as a joke. So before the War of Resistance Against Japan, even though the Kuomintang was making a lot of noise, the little devils came in, Hengyang was resisting, Changsha was resisting, Taierzhuang was resisting, and Wuhan was resisting. Year, we won. But our history has played such jokes time and time again.The story of Wei Yigong's love of cranes and his country's subjugation has become a negative teaching material for all dynasties, but after many things happened, he realized that it was just an extended version of Wei Yigong's story.Even, in those stories, from the king to the people, there is no remorse, only complaints, and sadness. When I was in middle school, the school invited a hero who fought back in self-defense against Vietnam to give a report. The first sentence of the hero was: to love the country is to love yourself, and the dignity of the nation is equal to self-esteem. Thinking of this sentence, and thinking of the hell-like Chaoge on earth thousands of years ago, boundless sourness and piercing pain arose in my heart.