Chapter Seventy-One: The Golden Sound of the Funeral Axe (I)
In March of the year of Ding Chou, most of the ink people left Shangqiu to go to Pei. Nursery rhymes spread all over Songcheng, and the whole city was shocked. Sicheng Huangsuo did not get the whole city, or said that Lao Peng's words must not be observed. Then he sent the carriage and horses to take office, but before the weasel land, he knew that the Song Dynasty was purchased by the emperor. The son of the star of the Chuan Si Xu heard it, hanged in the room, volunteered to be martyred, and all relatives and nobles praised.
The nursery rhyme says:
"Xing Hancan, Destiny Knows."
"Sickness looks north, dreams mourn south."
"Three liters of clothes, and Tho scarf."
"Participation in the Chamber of Commerce, Death."
"If you can solve it, why is the doctor busy?"
"The sun hangs in the sky, and the moon shadow fades."
"The moon shines brightly, and the stars are scarce."
"The sun hangs over the moon and the moon is not light, and the golden crow covers the yin."
"The moon and the stars are not rare, and they are often ashamed."
"Heaven and earth have their own way, and they are connected with human life?"
"Who knows the destiny of heaven, please solve this dispute."
"Yin business customs, brothers follow."
"Wen Zhouli, sister-in-law."
"After the decay, it will be buried."
"Knowers, please settle the dispute."
Nursery rhymes are mowgli.
Therefore, nursery rhymes are not guilty.
This nursery rhyme, which has been circulating since the end of February and the beginning of March, was transmitted back to Shangqiu by the Song Gongfu on the way to Rendi Huimeng Jin Marquis, this nursery rhyme of being innocent and innocent, and the whole city of Dasuo had nothing to gain, and could only claim that it was the words of an ancient hermit like Lao Peng, and the hidden meaning was finally known by the Song people of Shangqiu.
It is said that after Si Xingzi Xu heard the news of Song Gongxu's halfway, he hanged himself that night, and his last words said that he was willing to accompany him to the martyrdom. It was also said that he had made a mistake in stargazing and mistaken the monarch, so he was ashamed and hanged himself. In short, it's dead.
When Zang, the father of Sicheng Emperor, heard that Song Gongxue cried, fainted several times, and mourned: "On that day, the monarch was going to the alliance, so I persuaded him, and the monarch insisted on going." It's my sin to die now, and if I had died at that time, how could there have been such a thing? It's my sin! Why don't you punish me, O Emperor? β
The emperor's father, Yue Ling, also cried: "I am also at fault! As early as the beginning of the year, there were nursery rhymes in Shangqiu, I knew about the nursery rhymes of Bu Yan and Jin Xiangong, but I couldn't immediately chase after the king and persuade him to return, isn't it the responsibility of the courtiers? β
At this time, nursery rhymes are a very mysterious thing. Not to mention the famous song of the East Head Han and the West Head Han, it was in the Spring and Autumn Period earlier than this time, and the monarchs were very afraid of nursery rhymes.
In the past, Jin Xiangong was on a holiday, and he once asked Bu Yan if he could succeed this time, and Bu Yan replied with a nursery rhyme that was circulating in the Jin Kingdom at that time.
That's how nursery rhymes were sung at the time. In the morning of C, the dragon's tail is Fuchen, and they all serve Zhenzhen and take the grace of Yu. The quail is benben, the sky is a rookie, the army is in the fire, and the public is running.
Bu Yan said that he would definitely be able to destroy the Kingdom of Yu, and the time should be around October.
So the Jin State really destroyed the Kingdom of Yu.
So, it's a causal relationship.
If this is really the cause and effect, then these children must be the greatest astrologers, but such nursery rhymes are often forged by well-intentioned people.
The forgery of a well-intentioned person is, of course, for the sake of the well-intentioned person's own purposes.
This nursery rhyme also made different people have different ideas, and it also had a great impact on the political situation of the Song Kingdom, at least at this time, Si Xingzi, who should not have died, was hanged.
Emperor Sicheng and Gongzi Tian panicked after hearing the nursery rhyme before, and their hearts were uneasy.
When the nursery rhyme actually became a reality, they had to admit that it might really be what the children said, and that it was a legendary character like Peng Zu warning the Song people.
Admit it, but it doesn't mean you believe it.
After this prophecy-accurate nursery rhyme was verified, Si Chenghuang thought that it was his political opponent who was dealing with him, and he didn't think about it at all. The ink man will not be idle and bored to do this kind of thing, it must be used by political enemies to deal with him, in his opinion, this nursery rhyme is not good for the ink man, and even he did not think of the ink man.
What he values is the nursery rhyme that asks at the end, will Song Guo's inheritance this time be a brother and a brother? Or will it be inherited by the eldest son?
In his view, this is clearly a political opponent taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.
After the weeping during the day, father and son did not sleep that night, agreeing that they could not do what they had planned, and that they had to be more intense and swift, so that their political opponents had no chance of gaining a foothold.
Huang Yueling does not believe in the Mandate of Heaven or ghosts and gods, so he does not believe in those so-called divination and astrology.
Even if Jin Xiangong and Bu Yan had such a story, he was sure that Bu Yan was just judging the situation in the world and using nursery rhymes to comfort Xiangong.
Song Gonggou was sick and bumpy halfway, and he could die. Then if it is a political opponent to make such a nursery rhyme, it is not impossible, it may die, and this nursery rhyme may be true. If you don't die, there will inevitably be immortal nursery rhymes in the future.
This nursery rhyme is saying that Song Gongbao is dead.
Three liters of clothing, three liters refers to the number of wide strands of linen. Eighty strands for one liter.
The width of the cloth is fixed, and the lower the number of liters, the coarser the cloth.
The cloth for the crown is thirty liters, which means two thousand four hundred warp threads in one wide width.
According to the Zhou Lilai mourning, in order to show filial piety, the eldest son who is closest to him must wear the coarsest and tattered linen, that is, three liters, and only two hundred and forty warps are needed for a wide width.
No one is idle and has nothing to do to wear three liters of clothes, and someone must have died to wear them.
And the one who can use this kind of etiquette must be the prince and the prince, the common people can't afford to play such a regular funeral, not to mention the widespread Shangqiu of the Mo's festival funeral, the bottom rarely keeps three years of filial piety, only according to the rules of the Mo's three-day filial piety - can't afford to keep it for three years, and if you don't work, you will starve to death.
On the contrary, if one day the rule of keeping filial piety for three days becomes the etiquette of the world, then the common people will also feel that the spiritual level between them and the nobles is closer...... Everyone keeps it for three days, and no one is more filial than anyone else. Now we can only keep it for three days, but you can keep it for three years, and the ceremony is said to be the best for three years, it seems that the spiritual level of the nobles is indeed higher than that of the common people...... This is to turn the sophistry of material distinction into spiritual disparity.
For funerals that conform to the norms of the Zhou rites, the eldest son must wear three liters of clothes, wear a white cloth on his head, wrap a white cloth around his waist, hold a mourning stick, live in a side room, sleep on wheat straw, cover with straw curtains, wear straw shoes, and cannot drink water from hunger strike for the first three days, drink one or two corn of rice porridge every morning after three days, eat vegetables after one year, and eat meat after three years.
Such etiquette can and can only be passed down among the scholars and above.
Since there is no such etiquette at the bottom, and the nobles in the Song Kingdom also know the statement of the Chamber of Commerce, then it is obvious that this is saying that Song Gong is dead, so Si Xingzi Xu also had to die because of this nursery rhyme after Song Gong's death, and he didn't even have a chance to defend Song Gong for not holding out to participate in the Chamber of Commerce.
It was such a terrible, but it could be considered a nursery rhyme made up by someone with a heart, which made Si Chenghuang and his son believe that it must be a political enemy who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to deal with their family.
The whole nursery rhyme came out before the death of Song Gong.
After the death of Song Gong, anyone can understand what this nursery rhyme means:
Song Gong, he will die on the way to the alliance, what is the use of saying that Xingchen can change his life and need a doctor? You stargazers, let me ask you, can you guess whether the next Song Duke is father and son? Or is it brother to brother? Both of these inheritance methods are reasonable.
Emperor Si Cheng had a ghost in his heart, and felt that he had bribed Si Xingzi Xu for a long time, and the rest of the people must know about it, and the people who knew it must be nobles.
Gongzitian is young, strong but not long-lasting, strong but not talented, and is a monarch who can be deceived and used.
The Song State has always had the tradition of brother to brother and brother, this is the habit of Yin Shang, after the Song people are Yin Shang, there are often brothers and brothers, fighting for power and taking the throne, which is not in line with Zhou etiquette, Song people have been accustomed to it, and even feel that it doesn't matter.
Now in addition to Gongzitian, the Song State can justifiably touch the position of the monarch, as well as the younger brother of Song Gong, and there are also several big families standing behind him, all of whom are staring at the Sicheng Emperor family.
In the era when princes and princes are like each other, the more skilled the imperial father Yue Ling is, the more he can only think of the problem to those political enemies.
So after deciding to support Gongzitian to ascend to the throne, the first thing he did was to find an opportunity to kill the entire family of political enemies, so that he had no chance to turn over at all.
Besides, I'm afraid that after this nursery rhyme, it will be impossible not to tear your face.
Although the Duke of Song died, the three pairs of Jiahe were still given to the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, and when this matter was known to the whole world, it was impossible for the political enemies of Emperor Sicheng not to seek help from the Chu State, otherwise it would definitely be a dead end in the future.
Emperor Sicheng and his father, Yue Ling, decided to completely eradicate their political enemies before the power of Chu regained control of Song.
As soon as the Duke of Song died, a coup d'Γ©tat affecting the nobles of the Song State was coming.
Not only because of this nursery rhyme, but also the previous three pairs of Jiahe, as well as the earlier policy of pro-Chu to control the king, and the earlier merchant tradition of brother to brother under the Yin Shang clan system.
The three pairs of Jiahe and this nursery rhyme are just igniting this inevitable contradiction in advance.
Since nursery rhymes are taboo, then nursery rhymes point out this hidden contradiction.
After it has been pointed out, if either side does not react, it is waiting for death, and the reaction of both sides will intensify the reaction of the other party, and finally it will be irreconcilable and compete for the surface.
The most terrifying thing is that this nursery rhyme has been verified.
This nursery rhyme is full of saying that the destiny of heaven is unknowable or there is no destiny, but this nursery rhyme itself knows the destiny of heaven and knows the future.
The future may not be the destiny of heaven, it may just be the art of knowledge, but the nobles will not think about this.
So, who is the one who knows the destiny of heaven? Who can solve the succession dispute?
No one can solve it, but anyone can solve it.
I don't know who made it, so anyone can make up the next one.
Since this nursery rhyme can predict the death of Song Gong, can the next nursery rhyme predict who the next Song Gong will be?
If you make it up to your advantage, you will have the meaning of destiny.
When the uncle finds someone to make up a nursery rhyme that is the result of the brother and the end of the brother.
When the nephew finds someone to make up a song, the inheritance of the son-in-law is the result of the nursery rhyme.
This nursery rhyme is forcing the two sides to make up the next nursery rhyme first, and the contradictions between the two sides will not be able to hide after making it up, it will only get more and more serious, and the upper echelons of the entire Song Kingdom will become more and more chaotic.
Fishermen in troubled waters, too many. The water in the Song Kingdom is already very muddy, but the person who made up this nursery rhyme feels that it is not muddy enough.
The aristocracy is in turmoil, and there is little to manage the affairs of those marginal areas, and they are powerless to manage it.
For example, Pei at this time.
When I don't mess up and want to manage it, I'm afraid I can't manage it anymore.
For example, Pei in the future.
Just as the aristocracy was concerned about the conspiracy behind this nursery rhyme.
Those who are far away from the conspiracy at the bottom care about the middle of the nursery rhymes that the nobles care about the least.
They care not about who is going to die or who is going to inherit, but about those who question the destiny of astrology. Neither the king's death nor the inheritance mean anything to them.
The stars are brilliant, the sun and the moon are circulating, this is just an unchangeable thing between heaven and earth, and it makes sense in it, how can it be connected with the world?
It is already clearly explained in the nursery rhyme.
When there is a moon during the day, the moon looks faint and difficult to observe unless you look closely. But at night, the moon will be bright again. It is not that the moon is dim during the day and bright at night, but because the sun obscures the moon's light.
At night, when the moon is bright, many stars are not visible. It's not that the stars can't be seen, it's because the moon's light is so bright that it's hard to observe.
Many people think: there are no stars during the day, so there are no stars during the day? Or are the stars obscured by the sun's rays during the day?
People who think a lot are wondering: If there are stars during the day, can the stars in the day be in the same position as the stars at night?
This question, in the absence of a total solar eclipse, is difficult to know, and can only be guessed.
But if there is a total solar eclipse, then many things that are incomprehensible at this time will be taken very seriously because of this nursery rhyme.
What are the stars, the sun, the moon, and the earth beneath your feet?
This nursery rhyme will be spread all over the world because of the death of Song Gongbuyo.
There will always be more people looking up at the sky and then starting to think about the universe and the earth beneath their feet.
At this time, no one in the world knows when a total solar eclipse will occur, not even the person who made up this nursery rhyme.
But the solar eclipse will one day occur in the land of Kyushu, and there will always be a total eclipse that will fall in the eyes of those who like to look up at the stars or because of this nursery rhyme.
The solar eclipse, perhaps before this rebellion of the nobility of the Song Kingdom, or after the rebellion of the nobles of the Song Kingdom.
But that's all a matter of eternity, and what the person who made up the nursery rhyme is asking for it at this time, just for a while, and by the way, he brought the opportunity to ask for a chance for eternity. It's a pity to gain, but it's not a pity to lose.