Chapter 71 Guiguzi and the Wordless Book

During the Warring States period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there was a well-known political strategist. His outstanding disciples included Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Sun Bin, and Pang Juan.This man's name is Wang Xu, he was born in Wei State, and his father is Wang Cuo, a doctor of Wei State.Wang Xu once served in Han, Song and Qi.Later, because he didn’t want to embarrass his old friend, he resigned from his official position and lived in seclusion in Ghost Valley of Chaoge Qingxi. He called himself Mr. Guigu. He often went to Yunmeng Mountain to collect medicine and practice Taoism. He died at the age of 75. For Mr. Ghost Valley.This person is the famous Guiguzi.

After Guiguzi passed away, he left behind a scroll that is regarded as a strange book in the military circle. "Sui Shu" said: "Those who are vertical and horizontal, so they can argue clearly and be good at eloquence, so as to communicate with the aspirations of the upper and lower." This sentence, in terms of the essence of the content, is a book in today's vocabulary. A comprehensive and successful inspirational book that teaches people how to socialize and give speeches.Therefore, it can be deduced that Guiguzi, who was able to write this wonderful book, must be an eloquent person.

The image of Guiguzi left in history is similar to the essence left in his works.But the myths and legends surrounding Guiguzi are comparable to his sophistry talent. According to legend, Guiguzi is the son of villager Qinglong and Donghai Dragon Girl.Although Qinglong and Longnu were crushed to death in Yunmeng Mountain by the Dragon King of the East China Sea and turned into a mountain and a dragon spring, their ghosts lingered and they wanted to reproduce in their own bodies for the benefit of future generations. More than 2,000 years ago, a wife called Wang Yuanwai was pregnant for three years without giving birth.On a night in early spring, there was a strong wind and thunder and lightning.The villagers all thought it was a sign of a catastrophe, but they saw a fireball flying from the dark clouds and landed in front of Mrs. Wang's bed, where it turned into a small snake.The little snake slowly got into the bed of Mrs. Wang who was sleeping soundly. After a while, Mrs. Wang felt that she was about to give birth.

However, Mrs. Wang gave birth to a red-haired and ugly daughter. When the family members were frowning, the baby girl who had just landed held her mother's hand and started talking.The girl claimed that she would definitely become beautiful, and then she turned into a dead person.Mrs. Wang hurriedly hugged the child and cried for help. She didn't hear the girl's cry until after dawn.Taking a closer look, the child had already turned into a child with red lips and white teeth. Wang Yuanwai was also overjoyed, thinking that the child born in three years' labor must be rich and powerful in the future.When the girl became an adult, her belly grew big for no reason.Outsiders knew she was pregnant at first glance, but the girl was still a virgin, how could such scandalous things spread.So the girl was kicked out of the house by her parents.

Girls don't really know where they should go.However, the journey was bumpy, and the girl's weak body couldn't stand the wind and rain at all.When she was heartbroken, she saw a kind old woman.According to legend, this old woman is the illusion of the old mother of Xitian.The old mother of Xitian told the girl that although she was born from her mother's body, she was not a mortal. pregnant.Under the guidance of the Queen Mother of the West Heaven, the girl came to Guigu Village and gave birth to a boy here, which is Guiguzi. Therefore, Guiguzi's mother was originally the daughter of the Dragon King. Although his father was a mortal, he could cross reincarnation and marry his lover in the previous life to conceive because he sensed the heavens. mortal.

Legend has it that Guiguzi was originally a Taoist real immortal in Dongfu, who is the thirteenth person on the left of the fourth seat.He is revered as Xuanwei Daoist, also known as Xuanweizi.The real person Xuanwei Guiguzi lives in Guigu Dongtian in order to save several immortals to go to the cave.But his four disciples, Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Sun Bin, and Pang Juan, all have endless ties to each other.Guiguzi had no choice but to pay attention to his disciples secretly, helping the good and suppressing the evil from time to time. According to another legend, Guiguzi is also good at invisibility and the method of moving the sky and the earth.Not only can he be reborn and transcend life and death, but he can also use magic to sow beans into soldiers and cut grass into horses.And the sleight-of-hand things are even easier to come by.

Such a Taoist immortal is naturally proficient in divination and fortune-telling.According to legend, when Guiguzi's master passed away, he left a scroll of bamboo slips with the words "Book of Heaven" written on it.When I opened it, there was not a word from the beginning to the end.Guiguzi, who was puzzled for a while, thought about it day and night, but he couldn't understand the meaning of this wordless book left by Master. One night, tossing and turning, Guiguzi turned on the light and continued to study the heavenly book left by his master. It didn't matter. He saw golden lights on the bamboo slips, and Guiguzi realized that this was the "golden book" handed down from generation to generation.

It turns out that what is recorded in this wordless heavenly book is a book from a family of strategists, and it talks about the techniques of swaying, reacting, internalizing, resisting, and flying forceps.There are a total of thirteen articles, each of which has its own meaning.It mentioned that when debating with others, one should choose different strategies among the thirteen methods according to different situations.After reading these thirteen articles, Guiguzi couldn't help but be overwhelmed.Guiguzi, who thought he had learned the true meaning of the "Golden Book", extinguished the open fire, got into bed and fell asleep.

However, when he woke up the next day and opened the "golden book" to study it carefully, unexpectedly there was no word in it again.For a period of time after that, Guiguzi has been practicing the content taught by the "Golden Book" until he has a perfect tongue, which is considered a small achievement. That night, Guiguzi fiddled with the "golden book" again, and unexpectedly it sparkled again.Looking closely, I found that the content in the book was completely different from the previous ones. The words engraved on the bamboo slips had been replaced by the art of war.The only thing in common is that these Art of War are still thirteen chapters.

Guiguzi's thirteen Art of War and Sun Tzu's thirteen Art of War handed down by later generations, one article and one military are both exterior and interior, and complement each other.Guiguzi advocated a round strategy to strengthen the army, while Sun Tzu advocated a strategy to achieve complete victory.Both Art of War advocates subduing the enemy without fighting. Guiguzi discovered the mystery of the "Golden Book", and naturally unlocked the method of preaching and teaching karma.Since then, if he reads it every night, it is equivalent to getting a book every night. On the third night, what he got was the wonderful book of getting rich, which talked about farming methods and trading principles, saying "If you want to get what you want, you must give it first", and it says "If the world is irresistible, then hide it until the time".This method was passed on by Guiguzi to Ji Ran, Fan Li, Lu Buwei, Bai Gui and others.

On the fourth night, what Guiguzi read from the book was "Cultivating Nature and Cultivating the Great Law", which mainly talked about "Seven Techniques of Yinfu in the Classic", which said that the spirit depends on the five qi, the spirit is the growth, and the heart is the technique.The five qi depend on spiritual factors such as will, thought, spirit, and virtue.These four are not declining, and only by calming and nourishing one's qi can one become a real person.Guiguzi passed on the secret to Mao Yu, Xu Fu, and later to Tao Hongjing and others. On the fifth night, Guiguzi also read the technique of pushing fate, which talks about Tianwu Jing; fate, facial appearance, and life's misfortunes and blessings. Guiguzi must read it every night, each time a new book, about heaven and earth, governing the country, career and economics, astronomy and geography, astrology, elixir and health preservation, everything is inexhaustible.Guiguzi regards it as a treasure and can't put it down.From the moment Guiguzi unraveled the secret of this wordless book, the method passed down by later generations has its source.Therefore, although Guiguzi's achievements are not above the divination and divination, it is precisely because the technique of divination and prophecy has been passed down from him that the name of Guiguzi has become the most indispensable stroke in the history of ancient divination.