After the truth was revealed, King Miaozhuang was so angry that he remembered what the Third Emperor's Aunt Miaoyin had said to Prime Minister Su: "Kowtow once and fart twice. Doing good deeds is not as bad as doing evil." He really regretted it and immediately ordered Prime Minister Su to be pushed out of the afternoon. Behead the door. All his family property was confiscated and the previous imperial list was declared invalid.
Not to mention King Miaozhuang's severe punishment of treacherous ministers, nor the details of the dismissal of the personnel recorded in the previous imperial list, but the ghosts of the five hundred scholars lingered after their death, turned into five hundred flying insects, and flew into the palace to pay tribute to him. King Miaozhuang repays the blood debt.
Because it is an insect transformed by literati, it is called "literary insect". Later, someone added the word "worm" next to the word "文" and wrote "mosquito".
What is interesting is that until the fourth year of the Qing Dynasty, there was still an incident when a government lady wrote the poem "Mosquito Song" and quoted "A scholar in a red tent, we are together until dawn. The fine skin and tender meat are for you to pick, why bother to talk about personal affairs on the pillow" etc. sentence, and was kicked out of the house by his father. Although this matter is off topic, it also shows that later generations also knew that mosquitoes were insects transformed by literati.
Some people say that after a long time of commotion, it turned out to be mosquitoes. "Xiucai rebelled for three years." Why make such a fuss? At night, burn a handful of straw, light a bunch of mosquito smoke or make a tent, and everything will be fine. Just ignore them, that's all. Anyway, you can neither make money nor harm your life.
You may not know, but the five hundred mosquitoes back then are completely different from the mosquitoes that came later. Rather than saying they are blood-sucking and stinging bugs, they are more like a group of innocent ghosts seeking revenge and redemption.
Not to mention that the mosquito fumes can't get away and the mosquito nets can't stop them. Even if the doors and windows are closed, they can still break in and pass through the windows! What's even more powerful is that because their purpose is not just to suck blood, but to King Miaozhuang paid for his life, so after sucking blood, he deliberately excreted some poisons into King Miaozhuang's body. After a few months, his whole body would inevitably rot and die.
As soon as King Miaozhuang heard this, he knelt down on the ground with a plop and begged: "The real man saved my life. If I can come back to life, I will definitely build a temple to hold fasting rituals to save the souls of the dead, and build a temple to create a Bodhisattva and regain his golden body." "
The crazy Taoist said: "It's not that the mountain people don't want to save Banzai's life. It's true that the prescription is easy to prescribe, but the medicine's introduction is difficult to find! I'm afraid it's a poor Taoist who prescribes the prescription, but you won't be able to find the medicine's introduction!"
"I am the head of a family and the king of a country. Let alone the real person who wants two kinds of medicine, even if he wants dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, he can do it with just one sentence. It doesn't matter if the real person just prescribes it!"
The mad Taoist said: "In this case, Lord Long Live, listen up: "Firstly, I don't want dragon liver, and secondly, I don't want wind gallbladder, I just want my own hands and eyes of flesh and blood!"
King Miaozhuang looked at the crazy Taoist in confusion, "Hands and eyes? Are you trying to cut off my daughter's hands and dig out my daughter's eyes?"
Crazy Taoist: "Exactly!"
"This..." King Miaozhuang heard that he would cut off the hands of his closest relatives and dig out their eyes to make medicine to save his life. He couldn't help shouting: "This... ..." He bowed his head and said nothing.
For him, there are only two so-called closest relatives - the eldest daughter Miaoqing and the second daughter Miaoyuan. The older you get, the more you love your children. This is human nature.
After the death of his wife Baode, King Miaozhuang devoted all his love to his daughters and regarded them as his sweethearts; his daughters also treated him with more filial piety.
King Miaozhuang thought in his heart: No matter what, he can't do this kind of thing of cutting flesh and mending sores, harming his son to benefit himself! What's more, he is already half buried in the earth, how can he let his young daughter become a hand for his own sake? What about the cripple who cannot hold, the blind man who cannot see? A tiger will not eat its seeds if it is poisoned, and an old cow will lick its children, not to mention those who have seven emotions and six desires?
King Miaozhuang thought about it, but still refused to bear the pain and give up his love. He would rather bury his old bones in the ground than leave his two young and filial daughters without hands or eyes.
The crazy Taoist saw King Miaozhuang yelling "This..." and then fell silent. He sat down, stood up, paced back and forth, and stood blankly, but only actions and no words, so he endured it. I kept asking, "How come Long Live Master has become mute? The poor Taoist said you couldn't do it, but you insist on forcing the mountain man to waste your words."
King Miaozhuang said: "No, let alone hands and eyes, even if you add so many people, someone will pay tribute with a smile. It's just that the lonely king doesn't want to do it! A ruthless man may not be a true hero. How can you not be a husband if you pity a child? Why go and kill them?" Woolen cloth?"
Crazy Taoist: "No, long live my lord, ordinary people are all for themselves, even you. You begged for a son to inherit the throne, killed your daughter for the sake of the imperial family tradition, and burned Que'an to vent your anger."
King Miaozhuang: "Isn't it for my own sake that I can't bear to harm my own daughter and save myself?"
Crazy Taoist: "Yes, this is worse than your killing of the Three Emperors' Aunt. For the sake of the personal relationship between father and daughter, you abandoned the country, the country, and the people! After your death, the civil servants, military generals, and princes will inevitably The struggle for power and gain caused chaos in the world, and it was your daughter and son-in-law who bore the brunt. In order to be a compassionate hero and a non-toxic husband, you ignored the lives of the people, your daughter and your son-in-law. Isn't this not for yourself? !"
King Miaozhuang asked: "Ordinary people are bound to die. After the death of the king, the crime of fighting for power is also the king's fault. So how can we avoid this chaos in the world? If it cannot be avoided, then the king will always be selfish."
The crazy Taoist said: "Didn't King Gu choose you as King Miaozhuang to avoid chaos in the world? Why do you bother to pass it on from generation to generation?"
After the mad Taoist finished speaking, he took off his disguise, revealing his childlike face and white hair. When King Miaozhuang saw it, he saw that it was the late king who had gone to the mountain to practice Taoism. He quickly knelt down and asked the late king for advice. The crazy Taoist said: "There is a perfect solution, but I'm afraid you won't follow it."
It turns out that the premise of this perfect strategy is first that King Miaozhuang be willing to give up the throne, and secondly that he abandon the love between father and daughter, and the righteousness between king and minister.
King Miaozhuang was stunned for a long time and couldn't answer. He suspected that this "crazy Taoist" was really crazy at this moment. If not, why would his words be confused and confused, and his words would not match the words at the beginning?
The mad Taoist seemed to have guessed what King Miaozhuang was thinking. Before he could speak, he said to the point: "Don't think that the poor Taoist is talking crazy. If you are wise, money can't buy you and look back. It's better to look back at yourself, San Ten years ago, you were like a sharp sword, invincible, invincible, and invincible. When you first ascended the throne, you were like a huge rock with horns and edges, rolling down the steep mountain and breaking through all resistance. , clear all obstacles, those who follow will prosper, and those who go against will perish. Decades of ups and downs have passed, and now your edge is blunt, your sword is rusty, your edges are rounded, and your corners are broken, just like the huge stone rolled into the valley, the sword Buried in the loess, the tiger in the mountains enters the cage, and the golden-horned old dragon is trapped on the beach. The tiger trapped in the cage is no different from a sick cat, and the old dragon trapped on the beach would have difficulty waiting for the clouds and rain of the Xijiang River. A hero does not mention his courage in the past, but according to the opinions of the people in the mountains, It is better to retreat bravely. If you do not retreat bravely, you will definitely do many foolish things. If you transfer power to your daughter and son-in-law, it will be even more harmful to the country and the people."
When King Miaozhuang heard this, he was shocked again and said in his heart: Ruling the country depends on literature, Taoism and military strategy, and it doesn't matter whether he is a son-in-law or an outsider! The crazy Taoist didn't care what King Miaozhuang thought, he just kept going. Let’s talk.
But every word he spoke could touch the heart of King Miaozhuang: "Although culture, Taoism and military strategy are necessary to govern the country, loving the people is the foundation of governing the country. Daughters and sons-in-law seem to be filial, but some of them are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country." , sacrificing his life for the people? If you don’t believe it, you can have an interview with him about his filial piety. If someone is willing to give his hands and eyes to save the life of the father of the country, it can be said to be true filial piety."
If King Miaozhuang's greatest comfort when he was young was that he had not harmed the country or the people, then what he would be proud of throughout his life was his daughter's filial piety towards him.
He felt that it was not necessary to ask them to give up their hands and eyes, even if they were asked to throw themselves into a river or jump off a rock, they would never say no. The third daughter's refusal to complain was an example of this.
