100 Historical Stories That Unlock Teenage Wisdom

Chapter 95 1 The Battle of Makino

Chapter 10 There are many competitive strategies that give full play to the strength of the team, but to a large extent they must be based on teamwork, because a person's mental and physical strength is limited after all, and he cannot cope with the complicated and competitive society. Firewood flames high.But with so many people in the team, the ideas will be different. How can we gather everyone's strength and maximize the strength of the team?This requires us to have the special intelligence of operating the team to optimize the team, so that the strength of the team can shine.

Chapter 101 The Battle of Muye: The Merchants and the Army Turn Their Backs——The Persistent Fragrance of Kindness
Kindness is a rare pearl in history, and kind people are almost better than great people, so each of us should sow the seeds of kindness in our hearts.In this way, brilliant flowers can bloom in the future.

Around 1042 BC, King Wu of Zhou heard a report from a spies and knew that the last King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty had reached the point of betrayal. The Yellow River advances.When they arrived in Mengjin, the eight hundred princes who had accompanied King Wu to rebel against Zhou reunited again.King Zhou Wu held a swearing-in meeting in Mengjin, announcing Zhou's crime of harming the people, and encouraging everyone to attack Zhou with one heart.

On the way of King Wu's army, one day, two old men blocked the way of the army and wanted to see King Wu.Someone recognized that these two were originally the two sons of the king of Guzhu Kingdom (in today's Lulong, Hebei). The elder brother was named Boyi and the younger was named Shuqi.King Guzhu loved Shuqi very much and wanted to pass on the throne to him. Boyi knew the old king's intentions and left Guzhu Kingdom voluntarily.When King Wen of Zhou was alive, the two of them defected to the state of Zhou and settled down together.This time when he heard that King Wu was attacking Zhou, he came to stop him.

When King Wu of Zhou received them, the two grabbed the reins of King Wu's horse and said, "King Zhou is the Son of Heaven, and you are a subject. How can a subject attack the Son of Heaven? This is an outrageous thing."

The soldiers around King Wu were very angry when they heard these words.Some even wanted to kill them.

Jiang Shang knew that these two people were just two nobles abiding by etiquette, so he ordered the left and right soldiers not to embarrass them, but to pull them away.Unexpectedly, these two people couldn't think about it, and later hid on Shouyang Mountain (in the southwest of Yongji, Shanxi Province), and committed suicide on a hunger strike.

The morale of King Zhou Wu's army against Zhou was strong, and they were like a broken bamboo along the way, and soon they reached Muye (now southwest of Qixian County, Henan Province), which is only [-] miles away from Chaoge.

When King Zhou heard the news, he immediately assembled 70 horses, led by him, and went to Muye to fight.He thought, King Wu's army is only 5, and 70 can't beat [-]?

However, more than half of the 70 merchant troops were temporarily armed slaves and captives captured from Dongyi.They have been oppressed and abused by King Zhou on weekdays, and they have long hated it, and no one wants to work for him.On the Muye battlefield, when the Zhou army attacked bravely, they turned around and turned back one after another, and cooperated with the Zhou army to attack the Shang army. The 70 merchant army fell apart in an instant.Jiang Shang commanded Zhou's army and pursued them as far as Chaoge, the capital of Shang.

King Zhou fled back to Chaoge. Seeing that the situation was over, that night, he hid in the tall and luxurious Lutai, lit a fire, and committed suicide by jumping into the fire.

King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, moved the capital from Feng to Haojing (now west of Xi'an, Shaanxi), and established the Zhou Dynasty.

Wisdom Interpretation:

King Zhou cruelly oppressed and abused slaves and captives, which finally led to their counterattack, so cruelty is tantamount to self-destruction.

Hume said: "The happiest spiritual temperament in human life is to be kind and be kind to others, and you will gain more." In many cases, success does not require us to pay more, what is needed is only a benevolent and kind heart.

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