False preaching of the Holy Will
"Holy Will" originally referred to the will and command of the Emperor. "False transmission of the Holy Will" means that the will and orders that are not the will and orders of the emperor are passed on, and the people or the other party are deceived in the name of the emperor. Nowadays, it is often used as a metaphor for falsely transmitting opinions or words that cannot be violated by superiors.
The allusion comes from the sixth time in the Chronicle of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "Wei Shi Jie's great righteousness destroyed his relatives, and Zheng Zhuang Gong falsely ordered the Song Dynasty": "Zheng Zhuang Gong said that the sacrifice was enough: 'Chen has been flat, why not cut down the Song?'" The sacrifice of the foot said: "The Song Dynasty respects the country, and the dynasty is treated with courtesy, and it should not be lightly cut." The Lord wants to make a pilgrimage... Today, it is advisable to first enter the Zhou Dynasty, meet the King of Zhou, and then pretend to be the King's Order, call on Qilu, join the army and add the Song Dynasty, and the soldiers are famous and invincible. Zheng Zhuanggong was overjoyed: "Qing's plot can be described as perfect." ’”
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Weiguo's state called for the killing of his brother who took over his father's throne and established himself as a monarch, causing social unrest in Weiguo. The state called for stability of the domestic situation by waging war against foreign countries, because weiguo and Zhengguo had a vendetta, and decided to attack Zhengguo in order to gain the trust of the people, and also wanted to establish prestige among the princes. However, Wei Guo was too weak compared to Zheng Guo, so Zhou Wu contacted the Song State to attack Zheng and sent emissaries to the Song Kingdom to lobby the Song Dynasty. Song Yangong readily agreed. Therefore, Zhou Wu contacted Chen Guo and Cai Guo, and the troops of four countries in total cut down Zheng, pushed the Song State as an ally, and pushed the Song State to the cusp of the storm. As a result, due to Zheng Zhuang's good planning, the purpose of cutting down Zheng was not achieved, and the coalition forces withdrew.
Soon after, suddenly, one day, a message came from Wei Guo to Zheng Guo: Zhou Wu was killed, and Wei Guo had established a new monarch. Zheng Zhuanggong said to his courtiers: "The Four Kingdoms want to avenge Zheng's revenge, but Zhou Wu has been killed, wei guo has a new jun, and the matter of zhou wu has nothing to do with wei guo xin jun, and we don't have to seek revenge on Wei Guo." The four countries have formed an alliance to cut me down, the leader of the alliance is Song, and the widow wants to settle accounts with the Song kingdom. "First sent emissaries to Chen Guo and Cai Guo, and then sent envoys to Lu Guo to pay bribes." Chen Guo and Cai Guo promised to reconcile with Zheng Guo, and Lu Guo also promised not to help Song Guo.
Zheng Zhuanggong asked the sacrificial foot, "How about the Song Dynasty at this time?" The sacrificial foot said, "Fighting the Song Kingdom is not so simple. First of all, the title of Song Guo is a duke, Zheng Guo is only a marquis, and the Song State is higher than the Title of Zheng Guo; secondly, the Song Kingdom is not easy to provoke, they have sent troops to fight wars year after year, although the battle results are not good, but they have accumulated rich combat experience. If the Song Dynasty is fought, it is necessary to use the banner of the King of Zhou and order the princes of all sides to go on a crusade. In this way, not only can the name be justified, but it can also be won by the multitude, and the battle will be won. "Zheng Zhuanggong was overjoyed.
In the third year of King Huan of Zhou, Duke Zheng Zhuang personally brought a heavy gift and went to see King Huan of Zhou with the sacrificial foot. King Huan of Zhou remembered that in the past, Zheng Jun had provoked the Zhou Dynasty and snatched the wheat from the Territory of the Zhou Dynasty, and not only did not set up a banquet for their monarchs, but also did not give gifts as normal circumstances, but only let people send them with ten carts of rice, and ordered someone to send a message to Zheng Zhuang, and these ten carts of rice were used as relief, so that he would not let people rob the royal family's crops again. Zheng Zhuanggong was very angry and said, "Where is this gift?" Obviously it was humiliation and warning. Since the King of Zhou was so impatient with us, we were not uncommon for him to have these ten carts of rice. Let's give him the rice back and go home immediately!" ”
The sacrificial foot immediately said, "No. The reason why the princes valued Zheng Guo was because Zheng Guoshi was a secretary of state and was around the king. The king's gift, no matter how thick or thin, is always 'heavenly favor'. If the lord resigns and does not accept it, will he not annoy the King of Zhou? Since Zheng lost zhou, why did he take the weight over the princes? Zheng Zhuanggong swallowed his anger and accepted it.
Zhou Gong Black Shoulder was a descendant of Zhou Gongdan, the elder of the Zhou Dynasty, and was a secretary of the Zhou Dynasty, and felt that Zheng Zhuang was not good, so he privately sent Zheng Zhuang Gongcai two cars as a gift, saying: "Tianzi thinks that Zheng Gong is his own person and does not care how much gift he gives, so he only gave ten carts of rice." Please Zheng Gong don't care. After the black shoulder left, Zheng Zhuanggong said with shame: "Everyone in the world knows that you and I are the king of Zhou, even if there are two cars of silk, it can't hide the humiliation of those ten carts of rice!" The priest smiled and said, "After the lord washes his feet, let's see what kind of surprise the lord gives the lord." ”
Zheng Zhuanggong washed his feet and came out to see that the ten carts of rice had turned into ten carts of silk, and asked what was going on with the sacrificial feet. The priest said, "The courtiers opened two carts of satin and covered them with ten carts of rice, and they became ten carts of satin." We just rushed back to the car, who knows that the car turned out to be mimi? We preached all the way that the King of Zhou was very kind to us, sent us ten carts of silk, and at the same time asked us to organize a coalition of princes to fight against the Song Kingdom. Apart from you and me, who knows the truth or the false? ”
Zheng Guo's delegation left Luoyi and flaunted all the way, trumpeting that the King of Zhou had given ten carts of silk and ordering Zheng Zhuang to organize a coalition of princes to fight against the Song State. Back in zhengguo, Zheng Zhuanggong immediately sent various envoys to the princely states to falsely pass on the holy will of King Huan of Zhou. Qi and Lu believed it and had to respond. Duke Zheng Zhuang personally unified the army, raised his might and yaowu, and killed the Song Dynasty. The old man provoked a battle, and killed the Song soldiers to abandon the armor and flee for their lives. Duke Zheng Zhuang was overjoyed, and ordered Uncle Yingkao and Gongzi Yi to lead an army to attack Gaocheng.
Song Yangong asked Sima Kong how his father Jia responded. Father Kong Jia guessed that the King of Zhou would not have the order to cut down the Song, and Zheng Zhuanggong's so-called "cutting down the Song at the behest of the King of Zhou" was a fake, but the two countries of Qi and Lu had already fallen into the trap of the State of Zheng, and the three kingdoms joined forces together, and their momentum was fierce, and they really could not compete with them. In order to save the country, he tried to say that wei guo and Cai Guo helped each other. As soon as Wei and Cai heard that Zheng Zhuanggong was falsely passing on the Holy Order, they immediately sent troops and sneaked around behind Zheng Jun's back. Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhuanggong was a traitorous giant, and he had already taken precautions, and the sneak attack between the two countries was unsuccessful. Kong Father Jia led the army to attack the Zheng army, and was killed by the Zheng army and almost completely destroyed, Kong Father Jia only had more than twenty people left around him, and had to abandon the car and flee back on foot. The combined forces of Wei Guo and Cai Guo were also beaten.
The news of Zheng Zhuang's false transmission of the Holy Order soon reached King Huan of Zhou. King Huan of Zhou was furious and deposed Zheng Zhuanggong from his position as secretary of state. Zheng Zhuanggong did not show weakness and never went to worship the Zhou Dynasty again. King Huan of Zhou was even more angry, so he and Zheng Guo's old enemies Wei Guo, Cai Guo, and Chen Guo formed a multinational force to jointly conquer Zheng Guo.
Because of this history, "false preaching of holy will" has become an idiom.
Example sentence: "In the first year of Xianfeng, Yu Longguang of Zhixian County, Qingpu County, saw that the harvest of that year was slightly better, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get a vote, so he falsely passed on the holy will and levied the money and grain that had been exempted from Daoguang in the disaster years before thirty years ago." (The Ninth Book of the Enmity of the Cangshan Mountains) (622)