Chapter 2 Zhao Wuxie, the patriarch of the Zhao clan who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside

In fact, Zhao Yang chose Wu Shi as his heir after careful consideration. Zhao Yang is an old-fashioned aristocrat at heart, and has a gentle respect for all traditional things.When he was in power, the state of Jin's official office had been in extreme decline, and the power was completely controlled by the four major families, but he still maintained respect for the official office (at least on the surface), which was not uncommon in those days. common. On the issue of choosing an heir, he also strictly abided by the rules of Zhou etiquette at the beginning, and made his eldest son Bolu his eldest son.

At that time, Wuxie was still young, and he was the son of a servant girl. Among the many brothers, he had the lowest status (so Xun Yao called him a bitch).Even if Zhao Yang doesn't make Bolu, he probably won't be able to get Wuxie. Until one day, a fortune teller named Gubu Ziqing came to Zhao Yang's house.Zhao Yang called out all his sons and asked Gubu Ziqing to show them their faces.After reading it, Gubu Ziqing shook her head and said, "You have quite a few sons, but none of them are generals." Zhao Yang was very nervous: "According to what you said, isn't the Zhao family hopeless?"

Gubu Ziqing said: "When I came in, I saw a child playing with mud in the yard. I wonder if it is your son?" Zhao Yang hurriedly asked someone to bring the child in, patted his head and thought for a long time before saying, "This is my son, what's his name... By the way, no shirt." Gubu Ziqing stood up and said, "This is the real nobleman." Zhao Yang said, "Aren't you joking? The child's mother is a slave I bought from Di Ren. It's not expensive at all!" Gubu Ziqing said inscrutably: "The destiny bestows, even though it is cheap, it must be expensive." When Zhao Yang asked again, he just smiled without answering, and drifted away.

Zhao Yang was skeptical, but from then on, he began to pay attention to Wu Shi's speech and behavior, and found that this child was indeed different. Once, Zhao Yang wrote some of his life mottos on bamboo chips and sent them to his sons for study.After a few days to check, no one else could recite it, only Wu Shire recited it fluently, and could draw inferences from one instance and express his own opinions. Zhao Yang was very surprised, so he asked Wuxie why he studied so well.Wuxie took out a kit from his bosom, opened it carefully, took out the few pieces of bamboo from it, and said: "I take my father's teachings with me every day, and I take them out to review from time to time, so I naturally remember them well."

This incident undoubtedly greatly increased the weight of Wu Shi in Zhao Yang's mind. After some years, the shirtless also came of age.One day Zhao Yang called all his sons to him and said that he had buried a treasure in Changshan (that is, Beiyue Hengshan), and whoever found it first would be rewarded. Everyone hurriedly set off to look for it, but Wu-shirt was the last one to set off slowly, taking his time.After a few days, everyone returned empty-handed.After Wu Shi came back, he said to Zhao Yang, "I found it." "Oh?" Zhao Yang said happily, "Where is it?"

Wuxie said: "Your so-called treasure is that we can take advantage of the danger of Changshan to annex the country of Dai." Dai State is located at the junction of the northeast of Shanxi and the northwest of Hebei today, and it is a country established by the Baidi people.In order to win over Dai Guo, Zhao Yang married his daughter (that is, Wuxie's elder sister) to Dai Wang as his wife.But in his heart, he had long planned how to annex Dai State to expand the Zhao family's territory, and at the same time obtain the good horses that Dai State abounds in. So many sons went looking for treasures, only Wu Shih saw through his mind.After this incident, Zhao Yang made up his mind to abolish Bolu and make Wuxie his son.

In 458 BC, Zhao Yang died.After finishing the funeral without shirt, before he took off his mourning clothes, he took people to the summer house (now Dai County, Shanxi Province) and invited his brother-in-law to come and meet him on behalf of the king. Dai Wang happily attended the meeting. He took this banquet as a gesture of goodwill to him after he took the stage without a shirt, and did not expect any conspiracy. During the dinner, the host and guest chatted happily, and there was no trace of grief for losing his father from the shirtless face.If you are from the Central Plains, you will definitely be able to see something is wrong - your father passed away not long ago, even if you pretend to be sad, how can you talk and laugh happily?But Dai Wang obviously didn't understand the culture of the Central Plains, he was unprepared, and soon got drunk, and his entourage also staggered from drinking.

At this time, a team of shirtless and strong cooks came up, each holding a long copper spoon, to share the soup with the guests.The shirtless coughed and covered his face with his wide sleeves.Before Dai Wang could react, he had already been hit by a copper spoon on the head, and his brain burst immediately.The people he brought were also killed in the same way. Wuxie quickly mobilized troops to go north, and easily won Daiguo. If you want to ask how much Wuxie won, it’s actually not too big—more than a hundred years later, King Zhao Wuling, a descendant of the Zhao family, set up Daijun here, with only 36 counties under his jurisdiction.

When Wuxie's sister heard the news that Dai Wang had been killed, she screamed and grieved.When Wuxie sent someone to take her back to the state of Jin, she cried, "It is unkind to forget the hatred of killing your husband because he is your own younger brother; it is unrighteous to hate your younger brother because your husband is dead." He ran to a mountain to grind the ji (ji) and committed suicide. The so-called sharpening means to sharpen the hairpin.The people in Daidi felt pity for this staunch woman and called the place where she committed suicide Moji Mountain (now Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province).Later generations used "Moji" to call the empress and concubine committed suicide and died for the country, and the allusion came from this.

Wuxie felt very guilty for his sister's death.At that time, Bolu was dead, so Wuxie enfeoffed the land of Dai to Zhao Zhou, Bolu's son, and called him Daijun.By doing this, he may want to tell the world that Zhao Wuxie is not a ruthless person. Everything he does is not for himself, but for the Zhao family.