Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

This time Zhao Heng and Zhao Yan shook their heads together, so there is no need to talk about this kind of sub-question.

Zhao Dan nodded and said: "So you should understand by now that it is just nonsense to build a deer tower hundreds of feet high with millions of people."

As he said that, Zhao Dan couldn't help pinching his second son's little face, and said, "Father, ask you again, do you know who said these things about Lutai?"

Little Zhao Yan, who was left speechless by Zhao Dan's series of rhetorical questions, cheered up, and said loudly: "It's the grandfather Lu Shang who said it!"

Zhao Dan asked again: "Do you know who the Grand Duke Lu Shang is?"

Zhao Yan replied: "Grandpa Lu Shang is a great hero in the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. There is an allusion that the Taigong is fishing and willing to take the bait!"

Zhao Dan smiled and said: "Very good, I remember very well. All right, let's go in with the widow."

A group of people walked towards the deer platform.

Unlike Zhao Dan's Dragon Terrace Palace, which came from the etiquette system of the Zhou Dynasty, this Lutai Palace was seen in the Shang Dynasty, and its style is naturally very different from that of the Dragon Terrace.

For example, this Lutai Palace is surrounded by palace walls and palace gates, and it is an independent small palace city by itself, unlike the Dragon Terrace, Fengtai, etc. among.

And walking into the Lutai Palace, the oncoming one is not a huge square like the Dragon Terrace, but a large pond instead.

The size of this pool is about the size of a football field in later generations. There are no plants in it, just very clear water.

Zhao Dan pointed at the pool in front of him, and smiled at his wife and children, "Who knows what this pool is called?"

This time it was Princess Zhao Yi who shouted, "Father, this is the swimming pool!"

Of course, Zhao Yi learned the vocabulary of swimming pool from his father.

Zhao Dan smiled and said, "Of course this is a swimming pool. What the widow asks is the name of this swimming pool."

The eldest son Zhao Heng said again: "Father, is this the so-called wine pool?"

Chapter 722 Wine Pond Meat Forest, The Power of Lies (Fourth)

Zhao Dan glanced at his eldest son, a look of relief flashed in his eyes, and said: "Heng'er said exactly, this is King Shang Zhou's wine pool."

"Ah?" Zhao Yan and Zhao Yi were stunned when they heard this, and their two little faces suddenly became confused.

It took Zhao Yi a while to shout: "Father is lying, this pool is clearly clear water, not a wine pool!"

Zhao Dan laughed loudly, pinched his daughter's little face lightly, pointed to the rows of wooden shelves next to the wine pool and said, "Do you know what those are?"

It was still Zhao Heng who said, "Father, is this the meat forest?"

Zhao Dan smiled and nodded.

But Zhao Yi and Zhao Yan on the side were even more unhappy, and immediately shouted again: "Father, this is a fake wine pool meat forest!"

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "Then tell your father, what should the real wine pool and meat forest look like?"

Zhao Yan said: "The real wine pool should be a big pool filled with countless fine wines!"

Zhao Yi also said: "The meat grove should be a large forest, and every tree in it is hung with a lot of cooked meat, so that King Zhou's lackeys and concubines can use it at will during their licentiousness!"

Obviously, the two sons and princesses are quite attentive in class on weekdays.

Zhao Dan laughed out loud again.

After a while, Zhao Dan stopped laughing, and asked his second son with a smile: "Yan'er, my father asked you, if all this wine is poured into such a big pool, people will come and go. I don’t know how many people’s footprints and soil were spilled in it. How dirty it must be. Isn’t King Zhou of Shang afraid of getting sick after drinking it? Moreover, wine is only mellow after being stored in a cellar, so how can it be placed in the open air? reason?"

"This..." Zhao Yan and Zhao Yi's eyes widened, not knowing what to say.

Zhao Dan continued: "Let's talk about this meat forest. You all know that the meat should be eaten while it is hot, and it will not taste good when it is cold. And it is cold and has no seasoning when hanging on the branches. Who can eat such meat? Can you eat it? What's more, there must be no shortage of mosquitoes in the woods. Could it be that King Zhou of Shang really likes to eat cold meat that has been bitten by mosquitoes and hung on trees?"

"" Zhao Yan and Zhao Yi continued to be confused.

Zhao Dan finally looked away, pointed to the swimming pool and wooden stakes in front of him, and said seriously: "The so-called wine pool is actually the swimming pool used by King Zhou of Shang to escape the summer. The many wooden racks that King Zhou used to cook food for his officials in open-air feasts. This is the truth, the irrefutable truth."

After Zhao Dan finished speaking, he took a special look at his children, and found that only his eldest son, Zhao Heng, had a thoughtful expression on his face, and the other faces were full of bewildered expressions.

There was no way to do this. After all, Zhao Dan's children were still young. In terms of age, there was only one Zhao Heng who was over 16 years old. He had the most mature way of thinking and was closest to adults.

So Zhao Dan said: "Heng'er, what do you think?"

Zhao Hengdao: "Father, my son does have some ideas."

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "Let's talk about it to my father."

Zhao Heng thought for a while and said, "Father, could it be that it is absurd to say that King Zhou's wine pool and meat forest are absurd, but someone is actually trying to smear King Zhou?"

The smile on Zhao Dan's face grew stronger, and he said, "Then who do you think is smearing King Zhou?"

Zhao Heng hesitated for a while before saying, "Since the legends about Lutai and Jiuchi Meat Forest are all told by the Grand Duke, then it must be."

Zhao Dan nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, it is the founders of the Zhou Dynasty who really want to discredit King Zhou!"

As soon as Zhao Dan said this, the young children were fine, but the queen and prince beside him changed color at the same time.

Queen Han Wan, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but said, "Your Majesty, it's better to be cautious about this matter."

Zhao Dan understood what the Queen meant. After all, the Zhou Dynasty had not yet completely perished, and Zhao Guo was also one of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

Zhao Dan waved his hand, and said to the Queen: "Queen, don't worry too much, what the widow said naturally has the widow's intentions."

After a pause, Zhao Dan turned his head to Zhao Heng and his group of children, and continued: "Heng'er, Yan'er, Yi'er, the reason why I brought you here today and told you these stories is that I just want you to understand a truth. Sometimes, the people people keep talking about are not necessarily what those people really look like."

"The deer platform is not as high as a hundred feet, and the population of expropriation cannot be as large as one million. The wine pool is not a pool poured with wine, and the meat forest is not a forest with meat hanging everywhere."

"But the question is, why has this kind of extremely absurd statement that can be exposed with just a careful thought has been regarded as a standard by us in the past hundreds or thousands of years?"

Zhao Heng couldn't help but said, "Since Father knows that these are all lies, why don't you make things right?"

Zhao Dan laughed and said: "The reason is very simple, because the people who said these words were the great men who created the Zhou Dynasty! How can anyone not believe the words of great men? Although the father is the overlord of a generation, But right now, the status in the minds of the people of the world is still inferior to these great men!"

Zhao Heng's young face was full of tangles, and he said, "Those great men are all extremely smart, why did they make up such a clumsy lie?"

Zhao Dan said earnestly: "Heng'er, I am very pleased that you can think of this. Yes, why do great people fabricate such lies? The reason is actually very simple, because they need such lies to win people's hearts."

"Are the founders of our Zhou Dynasty really people who obeyed the destiny? No. They are just a group of Guanzhong barbarians who seized the opportunity to rebel successfully. But in order to make the princes and the people of the world submit, Let the whole world return to its heart, that's why they made up such a lie."

"To put it simply, compared with King Wu of Zhou's ambitious rebellion and King Zhou of Shang's licentiousness, and King Wu of Zhou acting for the heavens, which one is easier to win the hearts of the people? Needless to say, you You should know that too, right?"

"People's hearts are a very important thing. Only with people's hearts can there be justice, and only then can historians regard them as the party that obeys God's will. And the people are very, very easy to deceive. It only takes a few clumsy, even incompetent If you start a well-thought-out lie and repeat it for thousands of years, people will eventually believe it without thinking."

Zhao Dan stretched out his hand slowly, patted his eldest son on the shoulder, and said, "This is what I want to tell you."

In fact, Zhao Dan himself knew a Han Dynasty that was slandered by the later dynasties with clumsy lies.