This is a very small original record. It was written on a piece of pure white animal skin with a special kind of leaf juice in ancient times. The color has not faded to this day.
The content recorded in it is familiar to Chen Zhi. In fact, it is an idiom that has been circulated for thousands of years, an allusion to "not eating Zhou millet".
Millet, millet, generally refers to grain.
The content of the allusion is:
Boyi and Shuqi are the two sons of Guzhujun in the late Shang Dynasty, and their surname is Motai.
After the death of Gu Zhujun, Shu Qi wanted to choose a successor, and Shu Qi ran away to give way to his elder brother Boyi. The two were humble to each other, and later they left home one after another.
Later, the two met on the road. They heard that Ji Chang, the Marquis of Xibo, was good at taking care of the old and young, and was deeply supported by the people, so they went to Zhou to seek refuge.
After entering Xiqi, we learned that King Wen had passed away and King Wu of Zhou succeeded to the throne and supported his troops to attack Zhou.
The two of them thought that it was unkind for the princes to attack the king, and tried their best to persuade him, but King Wu refused to listen and was determined to destroy Shang.
Boyi and Shuqi scorned the behavior of King Wu of Zhou, thinking that they were rebellious ministers and traitors, and vowed not to become Zhou's subjects until death.
After the empire returned to the Zhou Dynasty, they did not eat the food of the Zhou Dynasty and lived in seclusion in Shouyang Mountain, picking wild fruits for a living.
When the latter woman saw them, she said:
"You claim that you don't eat food from the Zhou Dynasty, but have you ever thought that the wild vegetables and fruits you pick now also grow on the land of the Zhou Dynasty!"
When the two heard this, they realized that every plant and tree in the world belonged to the Zhou Dynasty, so they decided to go on a hunger strike and wait for death. From then on, they left the story of not eating Zhou millet.
Later generations used this idiom to describe noble integrity, backbone, and unyielding ambition to the death.
However, he did not agree with their behavior and criticized them for being narrow-minded. The Zhou Dynasty ruled the world with virtue, and the world was so big that it was only the kingdom. They did not understand current affairs, so why were they so pretentious?
In any case, this idiom has indeed remained.
Chen Zhi once wondered how the ruling class, with its character, would allow such a hostile story to be passed down to future generations.
So I once suspected that this story was fabricated by later generations.
It was only now that I found this animal skin scroll that I learned the beginning and end of this idiom. It turns out that this incident really happened in the early Zhou Dynasty, and it was recorded from beginning to end.
The reason why it was not eliminated by the ruling class at that time was because the place where this incident occurred was not within the sphere of influence of the Zhou Dynasty at that time.
It was a very ancient piece of foreign writing with foreign totems on it, which should have been preserved by a hunting tribe at that time.
The content of the record is roughly the same as what is circulated now, except that the two men acted more violently at that time and the scene was more bloody.
They did not die from being laughed at by ignorant women, but during the coronation ceremony of King Wu of Zhou, they climbed to the tallest tower at the time, pointed at the Zhou royal family below, sang and cursed, and then fell to death.
At that time, many people witnessed this incident with their own eyes, and many tribal leaders also saw this incident when they came to celebrate, and then recorded it.
So in the end, we can't cover it up, we can only beautify it.
But the scolding song by the two people at that time contained some special content.
The song says:
"It's brutal! Don't you know what's wrong?
Shen Nong, Yu Shun, and Xia Yu are all without traces!
Xibigan, loyal minister Liezi~~~
I swear to bury the king with my flesh and blood!
My king~~, where is he buried now?
Xi Bigan, loyal minister and son~~~, where is the place where you can tear out your heart?"
From these words, it is obvious that this man named Bigan was a loyal minister and good general in the hearts of people at that time.
He once promised to give Emperor Xin, King of Shang Zhou, a rich burial, and said that he would be buried with flesh and blood, and the concept of flesh and blood seemed to be related to heart-breaking.
Since these people were cursing before death, they didn't know where Di Xin was buried.
This shows that the place where King Zhou of Shang was buried was kept very secret at that time.
Even King Wu of Zhou and Jiang Ziya, who were in power at that time, did not know where his grave was.
It seems that after the war, Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya did not see the body of King Zhou of Shang...
In the time that followed, Chen Zhi held the white paper in his hands and pondered over it, hoping to find all possible clues from these ancient texts.
Ji Ying stayed with him all the time, holding the lamp for him and reading the words without saying a word.
Finally, Chen Zhi found many faint fingerprints behind the white paper.
He used an e-light to shine on those finger prints and found that these prints were very old, and the fingerprints were all from the same person. The texture of the fingerprints was very different from normal human fingerprints.
Perhaps out of a blood intuition, Chen Zhi knew that these finger prints all belonged to Jiang Ziya.
In other words, this white animal skin scroll was specially kept by Jiang Ziya.
He couldn't forget this incident at that time, as if it was stuck in his throat.
So I hid this animal skin scroll, hoping that one day I could find the tomb of Emperor Xin, King of Shang Zhou.
why?
Are you afraid that he will make a comeback?
Or there is another possibility, maybe King Zhou of Shang escaped and successfully escaped with a certain secret...
Therefore, Jiang Ziya had to find him and avoid the serious problem forever, but he failed even until his death.
"Bury him with flesh and blood..." Chen Zhi thought slowly in his mind.
Although I am not sure what this sentence means now?
But one thing is basically certain, Bigan must be responsible for Di Xin's tomb.
As long as we find Bigan, we should be able to find clues.
But since Chen Zhi can think of this, Jiang Ziya 5,000 years ago,
He will definitely go to Bigan...
What happened in history later confirmed that Chen Zhi's speculation was correct.
Because the subsequent Zhou Dynasty highly respected Bigan, calling him the most loyal minister, making him a national god, looking for his descendants, granting him land and power, and doing their best to win over him.
But one thing is very illogical. This loyal Bigan seems to have died long before the death of Emperor Xin of Shang Zhou.