Taihang Mountain and Wuwangshan Mountain, 700 miles in Fiona Fang, are seven or eight thousand feet high, south of Jizhou and north of the Yellow River. There is a man named Gong Yu at the foot of the North Mountain. He is almost 90 years old and lives directly opposite the mountain. Suffering from the congestion in the northern mountainous area, he called the whole family to discuss and said, "I'll try my best to level the steep mountain with you and make the road go all the way south to the south bank of Hanshui, okay?"

Everyone agreed. His wife raised a question and said, "With your strength, even Kuifu's mountain can't be leveled. What can you do with Taihang Mountain and Royal Family? " Besides, where are the excavated soil and stones? "They said," throw it on the edge of the Bohai Sea, north of the Tibetan soil. "So Gong Yu led his three children and grandchildren up the mountain, chiseled stones, dug dirt and transported them to the Bohai Sea with a dustpan.

The wise man on the bend laughed at the foolish old man and stopped him from doing so, saying, "You are so stupid! With your remaining years and strength, you can't even move a grass on the mountain. What can you do with mud and stones? "

Gong Yu of Beishan sighed and said, "Your heart is so stubborn that you can't begin to understand, even orphans and widows can't compare with you. Even if I die, I still have a son; Son gives birth to grandson, grandson gives birth to son; A son has a son and a son has a grandson; Children and grandchildren are endless, but mountains do not increase. Are you afraid of digging rough? " There is nothing to answer about knowing beans in a meandering river.

The mountain god who caught the snake heard about it, fearing that he would dig endlessly and report to the Emperor of Heaven. The emperor was moved by Yugong's sincerity. He ordered the two sons of Hercules Kwae to move two mountains, one in the east of Shuofang and the other in the south of Yongzhou. From then on, from the south of Jizhou to the south bank of Hanshui River, there was no mountain barrier.

2. smell the chicken dancing.

Zu Ti, a native of Fanyang, had great ambitions when he was young. Served as the main book of Sizhou with Liu Kun, slept with Liu Kun, and heard a cock crow in the middle of the night. He kicked Liu Kun and said, "This is not an unlucky cry." So I got up and danced with my sword. After crossing the river, Si Marui, the left prime minister, asked him to be a military adviser to offer a drink offering.

Zu Ti summoned valiant men to Si Marui and said, "The chaos in the state of Jin was not caused by the monarch's helplessness, but by the imperial clan fighting for power and profit, killing each other, allowing Emperor Rong to exploit loopholes and endangering the Central Plains. The adherents of the Jin Dynasty were devastated and wanted to strive for self-improvement. Your majesty, you can really send a general to lead the troops to recover the Central Plains, and the heroes of the whole country will certainly have people who respond to the news! "

Si Marui never had the ambition of the Northern Expedition. After listening to Zu Ti's words, he asked Zu Ti to be the general of Wei Fen and the secretariat of Yuzhou, and only gave him one thousand people's rations and three thousand pieces of cloth, without supplying weapons, so that Zu Ti could find a way to raise himself.

Zu Ti led more than 100 families of his private army to cross the river, paddling in the river and swearing: "If I can't clear the Central Plains in Zu Ti, I will cross the river again, just like this river!" So he stationed in Huaiyin, built furnaces and cast weapons, and recruited more than 2,000 people to move on.

Eat your bread and taste your courage

In 496 BC, He Lv, the king of Wu, sent troops to attack the State of Yue, and was defeated by the State of Yue. He Lv was seriously injured and died. Two years later, He Lv's son, Fu Cha, led an army to defeat the state of Yue, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, was escorted to the state of Wu as a slave. After serving the King of Yue in humiliation for three years, Fuxi cleared his guard and sent him back to Yue.

In fact, Gou Jian did not give up revenge. On the surface, he obeyed the king of Wu, but secretly trained elite soldiers, strengthened the government, and waited for an opportunity to fight back against Wu. Hardship can exercise the will, and ease will kill it. Gou Jian was afraid that he would covet the comfort in front of him and kill the will for revenge, so he arranged a hard living environment for himself.

He sleeps at night without a mattress, just laying some firewood (called salary in ancient times) and hanging a gallbladder in the house. In order not to forget the shame of the past, he will taste the gallbladder from time to time. In order to encourage the people to join the Queen and the people in the labor, Gou Jian made the State of Yue strong with the help of Vietnamese Qi Xin, and finally found the opportunity to destroy the State of Wu.

4, head hanging beam, awl thorn strand

Sun Jing was a believer in the Han Dynasty. He is young, studious, well-read and likes reading. He often stays up reading and studies at night. Neighbors call him "Mr. Close the Door". While studying, Sun Jing always takes notes. He often stays up until after midnight. After a long time, he sometimes falls asleep. I regretted it when I woke up.

One day, he looked up and thought hard, his eyes stayed on the beams, and suddenly his eyes shone. Then I found a rope. One end of the rope is tied to the beam and the lower end is tied to my hair. In this way, whenever he is tired and sleepy and wants to doze off, as long as he lowers his head, the rope will yank his hair, and when it hurts, he will wake up to drive away sleepiness.

Since then, he has studied hard in this way every night. After studying hard year after year, Sun Jing read many poems and became a learned scholar. At that time, he was quite famous in the north of Jianghuai, and students often traveled thousands of miles to him to study and discuss knowledge.

During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When I was young, I went to many places to do things because of the lack of knowledge, and I was not taken seriously. After returning home, his family was also very cold and looked down on him. This greatly stimulated him, so he was determined to study hard.

He often studies late into the night. When he wants to sleep, he holds an awl, and once he dozes off, he stabs his thigh with the awl. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke up by myself, and then insisted on reading.

5. Suwu Shepherd

Su Wu was a native of the Han Dynasty in China in the first century BC. At that time, the relationship between the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains and the Xiongnu, a minority regime in the northwest, was good and bad. In BC 100, Sinkhan, the Xiongnu regime, ascended the throne, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Su Wu to lead the people as a gesture of friendship. Unexpectedly, when Su Wu finished his task and was ready to return to China, civil strife broke out in the upper Huns, and Su Wu was detained, demanding to betray the Han Dynasty and submit to Khan.

At first, Khan sent people to lobby Su Wu, promising him a generous salary and high official position, but Su Wu flatly refused. When Huns saw that persuasion was useless, they used cool behavior. It was the middle of winter. Khan ordered Su Wu to be locked in an open cellar, without food and water, hoping that this would change Su Wu's faith. Over time, Su Wu was tortured in the cellar. When he was thirsty, he ate a handful of snow. When he is hungry, he will chew the sheepskin jacket he wears.

After several days, Su Wu, who was dying, still refused to give in and had to let Su Wu out. Khan knew that there was no hope of persuading Su Wu to surrender, but he respected Su Wu's integrity more and more, didn't have the heart to kill Su Wu, and didn't want him to return to his own country, so he decided to exile Su Wu to Siberia's Baikal region and let him shepherd sheep.

Before he left, Khan summoned Su Wu and said, "Since you don't surrender, I'll let you go herding sheep. When the ram gives birth to a lamb, I will let you go back to the Central Plains. " After being separated from his companions, Su Wu was exiled to the inaccessible Lake Baikal. The only people who accompanied Su Wu were the ambassador stick representing the Han Dynasty and a small flock of sheep.

Su Wu used this ambassador stick to herd sheep every day, thinking that one day he could bring it back to his own country. In this way, day after day, year after year, all the ornaments on the ambassador's stick fell off, and Su Wu's hair and beard turned white. In Lake Baikal, Suwu herded sheep for nineteen years.

For more than ten years, Khan, the Hun who ordered his imprisonment, has passed away. Even in Su Wu, the old emperor died and his son succeeded to the throne. At that time, Xin Khan carried out the policy of reconciliation with the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately sent envoys to take Su Wu back to his own country.