At that time, King Zhou of Shang was tyrannical and immoral, and could not distinguish between good and bad employees, so he imprisoned the Jizi whom Mencius had just praised. Later, King Wu defeated

At that time, King Zhou of Shang was tyrannical and immoral, and could not distinguish between good and bad employees, so he imprisoned the Jizi whom Mencius had just praised. Later, King Wu defeated Zhou and destroyed the Shang Dynasty. Knowing that Jizi was a wise man, he released him from prison. Two years later, King Wu of Zhou came to see Jizi and asked Jizi a very embarrassing question: "Why did the Shang Dynasty perish?" Jizi said in his heart: "Didn't you get an advantage and behave like a good boy?" After all, it was a scandal of his own. Jizi didn't want to say anything, and it was hard for King Wu of Zhou to press him, so he turned to him and asked him how to bring peace to the people. "God's way of calming the people -" Jizi said, "There are nine principles in a government." King Wu of Zhou quickly called the historian in, "Teacher Jizi is going to deliver an important speech. Please write it down for me." Historian Quickly record it, and the "Nine Principles" in classical Chinese are "Hong Fan Jiu Chou", which later became a classic of Chinese political thought (as to whether these words were really said by Ji Zi, this is really not certain). Jizi said: "When Gun was controlling the floods, he made a mess, and God was angry. If the Nine Principles (Hongfan Jiuchou) were not given to him, the world would be in chaos. Later, Gun was finished, and his son Yu continued to control the floods. He was very successful, and later he managed the people very diligently. When God was pleased, he gave him the nine principles. From then on, he had a way to govern the country, and the world became stable. "I will not list these nine principles of peace for the people. To elaborate, I will only tell you that the fifth principle is called "Building and Using Huangji". You see, the "Huangji" in Shao Kangjie's "Huangji Jingshi" comes from here. So, what is "Huangji"? It's very simple, it's the king's rules. Jizi has specific explanations for this, such as the king should set an example and set a good example for his ministers, ministers should not form cliques for personal gain, everyone should take the right path and not take the wrong path, etc. These laws must be widely publicized, and a craze for learning Huangji's thoughts must be vigorously set off across the country, so that ministers can use Huangji's thoughts to guide their work, and even slaughterhouses must claim that they use Huangji's important thoughts to guide their slaughtering work, etc. wait. This is Huangji, the governing principle mentioned by Jizi. Jizi's "Hongfan Jiujiu" actually has a category about fortune telling. The seventh item, "Ming use to judge doubts", is about what to do when there are difficult problems. Everyone can guess that Jizi is from the Shang Dynasty. People, the most popular way to use tortoise shells for divination was in the Shang Dynasty. Didn’t the oracle bone inscriptions come from that time? Therefore, when encountering difficult problems, it is natural to go to divination. Jizi then goes on to talk about how to divination and so on. So, if what Shao Kangjie wrote is really a fortune-telling book, why should it be called "Jiyu Jingshi" instead of "Huangji Jingshi". Say a word derived from "huangji". Everyone knows that when a new emperor comes to power, it is called "ascension to the throne." Don't we often see the phrase "the emperor ascends to the throne" in TV dramas? The "pole" the emperor ascends to is the "emperor's pole", which means that the emperor has accepted what God has given him. Those who govern the country are ordered by Heaven. The emperors were willing to accept this rhetoric of "mandated from heaven", which could give their identity a cloak of legitimacy. In the same way, the founding monarchs were most willing to accept the theory of historical development cycles, because it meant that the previous dynasty's The cycle is over, and it’s time for a new cycle to begin. In the final analysis, it’s time to legalize your identity. They are using this thing to fool the people, but many people really believe it. This type of idea of ????finding patterns from historical cycles and personnel cycles is just like current stock traders using K-line charts to do so-called technical analysis. Its accuracy is the same as flipping a coin to see the probability of heads and tails. More than two thousand years ago, Mencius made a simple mistake worthy of forgiveness with his simple understanding of history. However, until modern society, many people still make this kind of mistake again and again, which makes people feel a bit incomprehensible. .