Lv Buwei played the biggest power and money transaction in history with rare goods. Through a series of operations, he turned money into power, from a wealthy businessman to the prime minister of Qin. This is much bigger than what red top businessmen such as Hu Xueyan, Liu Xue and so on. Moreover, he changed the flowers and made his son the king of Qin. This legendary life is unique and complete throughout history! However, because it is too complete, it has come to an end. The Book of Changes said that Kang Long had regrets. If it is good enough, it will be out of luck, and the monthly profit will be lackluster. Finally, Lv Buwei committed suicide.

Why kill yourself?

This has to start from 249 BC, when strangers, that is, Zhuang's gang, inherited the throne and sat on the throne of Qin. King Xiang of Zhuang said that after the job is done, it is impossible to "divide Qin from Jun". Of course, it is impossible to fully cash in. It is impossible to give away half of the State of Qin, but it is also extremely generous. It will be awarded to 100,000 households in Luoyang and Lv Buwei. Wan Huhou is incredible, Lv Buwei is 100,000 households, and military and political power has also been entrusted to him.

Three years later, King Xiang of Zhuang died, 13-year-old Ying Zheng acceded to the throne, and Lv Buwei was the minister in charge of state affairs. Ying Zheng, the king of Qin, called him "Guan Zhong"-the second father. Then until the incident, Qin was basically his for ten years.

During Lv Buwei's administration, he still made great achievements, such as building water conservancy projects. However, what really adds points to his historical position is mainly one thing. How about writing a book?

At that time, the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States were famous all over the world, and Meng Changjun, Xin Lingjun, Ping Yuanjun and Chun Shenjun all recruited talents. Lv Buwei was almost contemporary with these people, but he certainly couldn't lag behind and cultivated thousands of public figures.

Why raise so many people? There are all kinds of tricks, as we said before, which have all kinds of uses. However, there seems to be one thing that the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States did not do, at least not in the history books. What is this? Is to write a book

As we have said, these men and women are scholars, mainly intellectuals. They are all scholars. These people are perfect for writing books. By the way, regarding this scholar, it is said that Confucius has a saying: Push ten into one to be a scholar. That's a wonderful statement. Let's look at the word "yes", with a cross above it and a word below. Pushing ten means that one thing should be analyzed and broken down into ten small parts, one part should be understood and the other part should be understood. Unite again, work together, make a summary and induction. Or pushing ten, it can also be understood as drawing inferences from one point of a problem, sorting out ten points, and then synthesizing them to draw a reliable conclusion. This is the thinking of scholars, that is, the typical way of thinking about learning. Qian Mu spoke highly of this "pushing ten in one"

Lv Buwei selected such a group of top-notch talents from his scholars, and jointly compiled such a book-Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals, which became a classic of Chinese studies handed down from generation to generation. Our program is not a simple historical story, but an inspirational talk show about China studies. If you can introduce more people and classics on this main line, please introduce more.

According to historical records, Lv Buwei thought that the book Lv Chunqiu "prepared the ancient and modern things of heaven and earth", and the truth of all things in heaven and earth through the ages, this book has been written completely.

He put the book at the gate of Xianyang. At that time, there were all bamboo slips and a lot of bamboo slips, which were put there for scholars from all over the world to read. There are two hundred gold coins hanging on the top of the book. What are you doing? In other words, you can read this book. Who can see a little fault, change a word in the book, add a word, subtract a word, and the 2200 gold will belong to him.

In fact, no one can change it! This is the origin of the idiom "in a word"

Is it really that powerful? You can see for yourself. You can buy one for a few dollars. If you can add one word and subtract one word, you can forget about 2000 gold. You can contact the publishing house to see if there is any problem with their typesetting. bend

I finished reading "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", and I feel that this one is really powerful. Classics are classics. And I have a feeling that if Qin Shihuang doesn't kill Lv Buwei, the Qin Dynasty will definitely last longer and it is impossible to die for two generations.

Both Guo Moruo and Lv Simian hold this view. Lv Simian said this: "I don't know if Qin will be Wei in the end, and I don't know if it will be virtuous, so that it will last forever and not die the next year." ("amethyst problem solving")

Guo Moruo said: "If we follow the new route, Qin will still unify China, and after reunification, it will never collapse quickly and completely in just fifteen years."

Why do you say that?

Let me give you an example. There is an article "The Original Chaos" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, which is an analysis of the root causes of disasters in various countries in the world.

King Wu won it by force and held it in words, so he kept it. -Lu Chunqiu

Zhou Wuwang won the world by force, and then he defended the world with a set of essays. As a result, the Zhou Dynasty lasted for 800 years.

These words are almost exactly the same as those given to Liu Bang by Jia, a great strategist thirty years later. At that time, Liu Bang had just won the world. Jia Lu said: You will win the world at once, but you can't rule the world at once. You should accept and obey it. Liu bang listened to Liu Jia's words and completed the transformation from farmland to guarding the world in time, and the Han Dynasty was solid.

As for the Qin dynasty, II died because this transformation was not completed. Qin Shihuang didn't have this consciousness of Lv Buwei.

Although Lv Buwei didn't write The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu, it clearly reflected his ideological will. It is an ideological system that takes Confucianism as the main body and integrates Taoism, Legalism and Hundred Schools of Thought to govern the world. It can be said that it is a summary of pre-Qin thought, which is very pragmatic and modern.

Moreover, it is reasonable to say that these foreigners are spies sent by various countries and have not defected to the State of Qin. This is not a pure fabrication. It is true that some people are spies and some people have been exposed and investigated. The most famous is a Korean named Zheng Guo. This name, get the name of a country, he called it.

This Zheng should be a Korean spy. After he arrived in the State of Qin, he lobbied Lv Buwei and the King of Qin to build large-scale water conservancy projects. This is consistent with Lv Buwei's ruling thought. Okay, that's a good idea. Fuck! Mr. Zheng, if you have this ability, I will appoint you as an official and you will be in charge of this work. You can have as many people as you want. Zheng is very happy. That's what he wants. Through this project, Qin occupied a lot of manpower and material resources, thus delaying the attack on South Korea. As a result, halfway through the project, his spy identity was exposed and he would be beheaded when he was arrested. Zheng Guo said: I admit that I am a spy. The purpose of letting Guo Qin build this project is to prolong the life of South Korea for several years. However, once this project is completed, it is indeed the eternal beneficiary of Qin. Don't just look at my motivation, you should look at the final result of this motivation. The motive is bad, but the result will be good. Finally, the people of Qin thought it was reasonable, so they let Zheng continue to be in charge of this work, and finally completed the famous Zheng Guoqu, which is more than 300 kilometers long. Today, people in Shaanxi have benefited from this project.

Where are the other spies? It's not that easy to say.

Ying Zheng has issued a special "marching orders", all foreigners in Qin leave the country within a time limit. Where are you going back?

An official of the State of Chu, depressed, wrote a letter to Ying Zheng while packing his books and preparing to go home.

Then, this letter was really received by Ying Zheng. At first glance, it said, "Wow, this guy writes really well and is very philosophical." . I got the person who wrote this letter at once, and I got the letter back on the way. Don't go, my eviction order is revoked, withdrawn, and will not be expelled. From now on, you can talk to * * * directly. As a result, this guy did it right away. From then on, he became a golden partner with Ying Zheng, the king of Qin. "In a few years, he will be the whole world."

This awesome person is Reese, and the letter he sent to Ying Zheng is the famous "guest-expelling book" in history. This text is in the middle school textbook. There is a famous saying:

Mount Tai can become big because it doesn't allow soil, and rivers and seas can be deep because they don't choose streams.

Mount Tai doesn't give up the tiny soil, so it can make it high, big and big, and the sea doesn't dislike small currents, so it can make it deep and wide. The emperor has achieved great things. How can he go abroad?

There is a similar saying in Lv Chunqiu:

Water springs are deep, fish and turtles return to them, trees are full, birds return to them, grass is lush, animals return to them, and people are wise and heroes return to them.

What do you mean? That is, you should be tolerant. If you want to achieve great things, you must have a broad mind that can accommodate everything. What is tolerance? You are good to me, and I am good to you. That's not tolerance. You are obedient and capable. If I don't fire you, it's not tolerance. Tolerance is to tolerate those who make you look uncomfortable, uneasy and dislike, and also to leave some opportunities for each other. So your countertop can be very big. The so-called, virtuous, that's what I mean.

It is often prejudice that affects tolerance. That man should sound good, but it is hard for you to think that he is bad and biased against him in your imagination. There is a story of "suspicious neighbors stealing axes" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. This story also appeared in Liezi, and I can't say who copied it. Generally speaking, someone lost an axe, and he suspected that it was stolen by a neighbor. Then as soon as he saw his neighbor, he thought he stole it. His every move, every look, every movement, every smile, every way he walks, all feel like stealing an axe. As a result, one day, he found the lost axe in his vegetable field. Look at that neighbor again, every move, every look, every movement, every smile and the way he walks don't look like a thief.

The title of this story is "Going to You", which means that people have to get rid of preconceptions before they can see each other. This kind of prejudice and truth can be about specific people and things, or about life. The reason is quite profound. You want to go.

Similarly, there is a title in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, which means to get rid of the limitations of thinking. When we pay close attention to a certain point, we will be limited by it, and it is easy to have a blind spot of thinking and enter the water. I also told a short story: there was a man who was crazy about gold. He got up early in the morning, put on his clothes and went out. He came to the market, grabbed a piece of gold in front of a gold counter and turned away. The gold seller quickly called the police, and the security guard got up and held the man down. Your boy is too blatant. With so many people here, you took the gold and left?

As a result, this man made an angry remark: I only saw gold just now, but I didn't see anyone at all.

Any classic fable points to the deepest problem of human nature. Up and down for thousands of years, human nature remains unchanged, and the meaning of classics will not decay. It has thoroughly studied human nature and told it nothing.

For a long time, I haven't told you how Lv Buwei died.

Actually, the reason is quite simple. Although exiled back to the fief and deprived of power, his aura is still too strong. The vassal States are eyeing him. Why? Invite him. Qin won't let you be prime minister. Zhao Yao, Wei Yao. You'd better come to Yan's country and treat it as you like. Missions invited by various countries have kicked the threshold.

The warring States period is quite lovely. The "world" at that time was very different from the "world" now. Now, after the US Secretary of State leaves office, can she still be prime minister in Russia? That's impossible, but it was normal between countries during the Warring States period.

In this way, Zheng Can can't stand it. Which country you really want to go to is a great threat to Qin. What shall we do to get Lv Buwei back and get him reinstated? That's impossible. That's equivalent to letting Ying Zheng know that this is not Ying Zheng's character. Besides, if Lv Buwei comes back, the new celebrity Reese will step aside. Reese, who's that? I'll talk about this later. Or, simply send someone to send Lv Buwei a glass of poisoned wine and sentence him to death. How simple it is, then there is no trouble at all. However, Ying Zheng still can't do it. He thought of a compromise and sent a messenger to bring a letter to Lv Buwei. The main idea of the letter is: Lv Buwei, what contribution did you make to the State of Qin? Why did you seal up 100,000 households? Who are you? Why should I call you Guan Zhong, Dad? I order your family to move to Shu, and don't make trouble for me in the Central Plains.

After reading the history books here, I have an idea that Ying Zheng may know the truth, which is the so-called truth in the history books. In other words, Lv Buwei is his biological father. So, he still wants Lv Buwei alive. If Lv Buwei went to Shu, although far away from the Central Plains, he was still a big landlord and a rich man in the name of exile, but he had no political future.

What about Lv Buwei? He saw through life and death. There are many thoughts about life and death in Lv Chunqiu, such as:

Anyone born between heaven and earth will inevitably die.

A scholar can be divided into life and death.

Knowing life by trial is the most important thing for a saint, and knowing death by trial is also the most important thing for a saint.

In addition, the word "death" also comes from Lv Chunqiu. For life and death, he emphasized an attitude of "birth and death"

To put it simply, Lv Buwei committed suicide after receiving this letter.

After that, the doormen risked being beheaded and buried his body secretly. This is also to "settle down" so as to avoid what kind of injuries will happen behind him, such as beheading, flogging, smashing bones and smashing ashes.

Ying Zheng was annoyed and upset that Lv Buwei's body could not be found. Really dead, or pretending to be dead, right? This is where novelists can make a big fuss. Ha. But today Yanshi in Henan Province has his tomb, which is also a scenic spot.

If this story is set in the west, Freud also knows that it is very likely that Ying Zheng-Qin Shihuang will add an Oedipus complex. Because, on the one hand, he attacked Guanzhong and Lv Buwei, on the other hand, he quickly forgave his mother, who was kind and filial. Ten years later, Qin invaded Handan, and Ying Zheng went to Handan himself, killing all the people who had had enmity with his grandmother's family.