Sima Qian wrote in "Historical Records": "When the filial piety was high, the people of Lebanon were freed from the suffering of war, and both the monarch and the minister wanted to rest and do nothing. Therefore, Hui Di hung down his arch, and the high queen was called a mistress. If you can't leave your home, the world will be in chaos, the punishment will be rare, the sinner will be rare, and the people will have plenty of food and clothing. " Sima Qian spoke highly of Lv Hou's political achievements, but when talking about Lv Hou's past, he usually called it "the disaster of Lv Hou in the Western Han Dynasty".
The word "Lv Hou's curse" is often used by princes to warn concubines who are fighting for power and profit. The speaker whispered in a gloomy tone, implying a heavy warning; The listener sweated, panicked, prostrated and begged for forgiveness. The name "Lv Hou" is like a legendary horror monster that can cure children's night crying. It can always make the dog blood fighting between the harem concubines temporarily stop and be honest and quiet for a few days.
So, what kind of woman is Lv Hou? What's her experience? Where did her name "Poison Woman" come from?
Lv Zhi is the single father of Yang Shan, this place is in today's Heze area. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Lv Gong was estranged from his hometown people. In order to avoid the enemy, he moved to Pei County, which is now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Lv Gong has a good friendship with Pei county magistrate. We had a housewarming reception, and the county magistrate personally came to congratulate us. Some local bigwigs came to exchange gifts to celebrate. This is an ordinary entertainment in the county, but there was a little accident at the dinner that day.
Xiao He, one of the "three outstanding heroes of early han dynasty", was a small official in Pei County. The county magistrate sent him to arrange the seats for the Lujia banquet guests. The hall is full of VIP seats with limited places. Xiao He asked the servants to arrange all the guests whose bride price was less than 1,000 copper coins to sit down under the hall, and rank them according to the number of bride price. As soon as Xiao Hegang walked away, a man came in front of us. This man was a penniless poor man, but our servant was a foreigner, didn't know him, and asked him to fill out the gift list. With a stroke of the pen, the man wrote down the words "Congratulations on 10,000" and then swaggered to the class and sat down.
Master Lv Gong was surprised when he heard a stranger bid 1 10,000 yuan, so he paid special attention to this person. During the dinner, the man laughed and teased Peixian officials and celebrities from all walks of life at will, which made everyone a little unhappy. Someone asked about this person's identity, but Xiao He knew him and had to tell the truth. It turned out that he was the curator of the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County, and his name was Liu Ji (Ji is the word in the ranking of brothers, and Liu Ji is the youngest son in the family, which was very common at that time).
What is the identity of Tingchang? Let's just say that Tingchang was the most basic public official in the Qin Dynasty. The Qin dynasty implemented the county system, with counties under the county, townships under the county and pavilions in the townships. Counties and counties are official civil servants, well paid, and the candidates are arranged by the court. But from the township, it is all local clan autonomy, and each township has "three old men" (as the name implies, three old men with white beard) to coordinate rural affairs. The village takes Shili as the pavilion, and there are pavilions in the pavilion. The pavilion governs two people, one is a security guard and the other is a cleaner. Tingchang's salary is very low. Although he is also a public official, he belongs to a low-level grade. This kind of weak scholar at the grassroots level can't do it, only local gangsters can do it, and Liu Ji is a small gangster in that area.
Lv Gong attached great importance to Liu Ji, while Xiao He was still an honest man. He told Duke Lu the truth: "Liu talks much, but does little." This boy, Liu Can, boasted and accomplished nothing. ) But Lv Gong not only didn't listen, but also quickly made an amazing decision. He wants to marry his daughter Lv Zhi to Liu Ji!
This is a strange move, but it is said in Historical Records and Hanshu, so it is probably true. Why did Lu Guild make such an amazing move? According to historical records, that's because Lu will meet each other.
It is said that Liu Ji has a strange face and a dragon face. Lv Gong thought it was a noble face, and Lv Gong had observed Lv Zhi's appearance many times before. He concluded that Lv Zhi's future was expensive. On this day, he saw Liu Ji, suddenly shine at the moment, know that Lv Zhi's wealth must fall on this person. Therefore, although Liu Ji is ugly, he is the most handsome guy in the world in the eyes of Duke Lu, so it is necessary to take him home as a son-in-law.
What is a man with a dragon face like? In my imagination, Liu Ji is a long horse face. The chin is flat, the face is square, the cheekbones are angular, the cheeks are high, the cheeks are fleshless, the skin is dark and dry. Most of the time, he is expressionless. When he smiles, he always gives people the feeling of smiling. His eyes are very long, and there is always some anger in them. His nostrils are very big, like Erkang, and he has long black nose hair, just like Ng Man Tat in Detective Naomi. He has a beard, but not as beautiful as Guan Yu, but two moustaches and a lock of goatee. Well, the goatee was braided into a braid, tied with a thin red cotton thread and carefully tied with a small bow. His hair is dirty and messy, with a fluffy bun tied casually on his head, a twig in his hand as a hair clasp, a shabby and wide blue robe, a pair of old and new sandals, and a shiny copper coin hanging on the gray cloth belt around his waist. This is the country idler that Lv Zhi, the daughter of Huanghua, is going to marry.
Now we know that there are no dragons in the world. Dragon is a magical creature imagined by ancient people in China, but it doesn't exist. The image of the dragon is actually a hodgepodge, which brings together many animal parts. But in Lv Gong's time, everyone believed that there were dragons in the world. Historians believe that Liu Ji won the favor of Lv Gong with this painting.
Liu Ji is in his fourth year, but he is still a poor single dog. He has no savings and can't see the future. Not to mention "He Qian 10,000", even if he couldn't come up with a hundred pence, suddenly a rich man was willing to marry his teenage daughter. Being CEO and marrying white is a lifelong dream of poor diaosi! Liu Ji won't refuse such a good thing, so he and Lu Gong touched a cup and the marriage was finalized.
So, did Duke Lu really marry his daughter because he took a fancy to Liu Ji's unique face? No, no, there is a lot of information hidden behind this seemingly neurotic move.
At the end of the Qin dynasty, military service and corvee were very heavy. Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, Mount Li and Afangshan and recruited hundreds of thousands of civilian workers at every turn. As long as these people go, they will be unlucky, even if they die, even if they are lucky to come back, who knows when? Men all over the world suffer from military service and corvee, which leads to a large number of leftover women. This situation of more men and fewer women gives men a great advantage in mate selection. Therefore, although Liu Ji was poor and ugly, at that time, it was not difficult for him to choose a spouse, and Lv Zhi, a little girl, was in a bad mood, but she didn't have many choices. Moreover, Liu Ji, director of the exhibition hall, is a civil servant, and even a small official still has some power at the grassroots level. For example, he is in charge of local recruitment of rural civilian workers, and he himself can be exempted from military service corvee because of his status as director. It seems that although Liu Helu's marriage is not happy, it is even more impossible to be a widow. If she marries someone else, she won't be another Meng Jiangnv.
In addition, although Liu Ji was incompetent, Lv Gong saw the power behind him during the dinner.
Xiao He, who is in charge of arranging guests' seats, knows Liu Ji. He knows that Liu Ji is a poor man. Why didn't you say earlier that you had to wait until the guests were unhappy to expose Liu Ji's identity? Xiao He is the principal official of Pei County. Although he is not a formal national civil servant, his position is much higher than that of Liu Ji. Of course, he will not be silent about Liu Ji's identity as a pavilion director. Lv Gong is a close friend of the county magistrate, and the county magistrate is Ho's boss. The county magistrate was present, and Xiao He, as the lobby manager in charge of the banquet, still dared to openly neglect his duty. This is a big risk, so why did he cover up Liu Ji? Lv Gong is a wise man. He knows that this is actually because the county magistrate is just a mud fetus in the temple, and Liu Ji may be more powerful than the county magistrate.
The Qin Dynasty initiated the county system, but at that time this system was only a basic framework, far less perfect than later generations. Officials at the county level are all appointed by the emperor and responsible to him, but these people are not local aborigines. Their authority sounds scary, but it is actually an empty name. When officials really want to do something, they still have to do it through the local family elders, so the real power at that time was in the hands of rural clans. Although these people, the Three Elders and the Tingchang, have poor official positions, if they disobey the official orders, the decrees will be greatly discounted.
The county system is particularly dependent on the power of the central government. Usually, when the world is stable and the central government is strong, the efficiency of the county-level system will be higher. But if it is in troubled times, the efficiency of the county system will be greatly reduced, and Qin is no exception, but the situation in Qin is a little more complicated. Qin pursues severe punishment and severe laws, and its military strength is strong. The central government could have had great power to control the grass-roots political power, but Qin was the first empire in China. It has created many systems, but there is no previous experience to learn from, and the system operation is not mature. The first emperor often went out to patrol. At that time, even the emperor's patrol was a very hard thing, so the first emperor did not go out to travel freely. The purpose of his patrol is to show the majesty of the emperor and make the people of the world submit to him from the bottom of their hearts. However, these are all his wishful thinking. In fact, people found that the first emperor was not a fairy with three heads and six arms, and even his face was not as long as Liu Ji's. Instead of awe, he has many ideas that "he can replace". Qin is short-lived. In the end, many people at the bottom were brewing riots in the name of restoring the old country, and the underground society was surging, and Qin's control system over grass-roots political power had failed.
Lv Gong left his hometown because he offended people in his hometown and was afraid of retaliation. This shows that we have realized that the grass-roots regime of Qin is gradually disintegrating, and strict laws and regulations can no longer protect the safety of his family. When he arrived in Pei County, he found that the situation in Pei County was similar. The magistrate is just an embroidered pillow. If he wants to feel safe, he must establish a relationship between blacks and whites.
Although Liu Ji was a gangster and was born in that era, he was a figure who could rise at any time.
Liu Ji wanted to be a guest of Xinlingjun when he was young, but when he arrived in Daliang, Xinlingjun just died and had to turn to Zhang Er. Wei was destroyed by Qin and fled. Liu Ji returned to his hometown to make friends with Fan Kuai, the drummer and the county magistrate Xiao He. Although Qin ruled the country, the world was not peaceful. Liu Ji crouched in Pei county, actually waiting for the opportunity of storm.
Liu Ji is a talkative person. He drinks in the hotel, often boasting about what he saw and heard in the girder, and there is little entertainment in China. Many people gathered in the hotel to listen to his story. He couldn't afford the drinks, so he had to write a bill of credit. As soon as the boss counted the end of the month, the hotel business was much hotter in the days when Liu Ji came, so he tore up the note and was willing to provide him with food and drinks for free. At that time, Liu Ji was telling books in a pub. He always sits in the best position by the fire.
Liu Ji has many passers-by fans and several diehard brothers. He is regarded as a gangster with certain influence in the local area. Lv Gong came to Peixian County to avoid disaster. He is very sensitive to these things. Pei county is not too far from his hometown. If his enemy comes after him, the county magistrate may not be able to protect him, but hooligans like Liu Ji can help him.
At the time of Liu Lu's wedding, although the surface of the Qin Dynasty was stable, the chaotic weather had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone knows in their hearts that according to the game of the first emperor, the day of the complete collapse of the country is not far away, and once the country collapses, any fertile land treasure will become the bubble of dreams, and only fists and swords can save lives, so the folk mate selection at that time did not value family fortune, but valued each other's ambitions and hearts. In these respects, uncle Liu Ji, who is down and out, is somewhat outstanding. (To be continued)