1 On the eve of Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao personally led a million-strong army and stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, intending to cross the river and take Soochow directly. Zhou Yu, commander-in-chief of Soochow, also led troops to confront Cao Jun across the river, and the two sides were at daggers drawn, preparing for a big war.
Jiang Gan, Zi Ziyi, was Cao Cao's counselor. As a classmate of Zhou Yu since childhood, he volunteered to cross the river to Cao Cao to be a lobbyist in Soochow to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender.
Jiang Gan came to Wu Dong, and Zhou Yu hosted a banquet for him. Everyone is as drunk as a fiddler.
After the banquet, Jiang Gan helped Zhou Yu back to the tent, and Zhou Yu wanted to sleep with Jiang Gan. He fell asleep as he talked. Where can I sleep in Jiang Gan? He suddenly found a letter written by Cao Cao's water army commanders Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to Zhou Yu. Jiang Gan was surprised and quickly hid the letter in his clothes.
Early in the morning, Jiang Gan got up secretly and went straight out of the barracks. The garrison sergeant didn't stop him. He came to the river, found a boat, flew over the Yangtze River, and later met Cao Cao.
In fact, all this is a double spy set by Zhou Yu. Cao Cao was fooled and beheaded Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.
There were many ways for the ancients to transmit information, such as flying pigeons passing books, bonfires and fast horses. This is a story about a bonfire.
To a great extent, the occurrence of this story was the trigger for the dog army to perish in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and praise became synonymous with disaster. ...
After Zhou Xuanwang's death, his son, niè, succeeded to the throne, namely Zhou Youwang. Zhou Youwang doesn't care about any national affairs, only knows to eat, drink and be merry, and sends people everywhere to look for beautiful women. There was a minister named Boxiong who advised the king. Zhou Youwang not only refused to listen, but also sent him to prison.
Bao Jun was imprisoned for three years. Zanjia people try their best to save Zan. They bought a beautiful girl in the country, taught her to sing and dance, dressed her and gave her to the reclusive king to compensate for her praise. This girl is a compliment to her family. Her name is Si.
Wang You was so happy when he got the compliment that he said it. He likes Zan very much, but Zan has been unhappy since he entered the palace, and has never smiled once. Wang You tried to make her laugh, but she couldn't.
Zhou Youwang offered a reward: anyone who can make the princess smile will get a reward of 1200 gold coins.
There is an apple polisher named Master Guo, who has an idea about it. It turned out that in order to guard against dog attacks, the Zhou Dynasty built more than 20 beacon towers in the area of Mount Li (now southeast of Lintong, Shaanxi), and there was one every few miles. If the dog barks, the soldiers who guard the first level will burn a bonfire; The soldiers in the second level saw the fireworks and burned the bonfire. In this way, bonfires burned one after another. When the nearby governors saw it, they would send troops to save it. Guo Shifu said to Zhou Youwang, "Now the world is peaceful, and the beacon tower has not been used for a long time. I'd like to invite your majesty and queen to visit Mount Li for a few days. In the evening, let's light a bonfire and show it to the nearby governors. This will be a big trick. The empress will laugh when she sees these many military forces. "
Zhou Youwang clapped his hands and said, "Great, let's do it!"
They climbed Mount Li and really lit the bonfire on Mount Li. The neighboring princes got this alarm and thought it was a dog barking, so they quickly led their troops to rescue them. Unexpectedly, when we got there, there was not even the shadow of a dog soldier, only the music and songs in the mountains, and everyone was shocked.
Wang You sent someone to tell them that it was difficult for everyone. There is nothing here, only the king and the princess set off fireworks. Go home! Knowing that he had been cheated, Zhuang Ke suppressed his anger and went back.
I don't know what they're doing, but I saw some horses coming at the foot of Mount Li, so I asked you what's going on. Wang You told her in detail. The compliment really smiled.
When you saw the smiling face of praise, the king gave Guo Shifu 1200 gold coins.
Wang You loved praise. Later, he simply abolished the queen and the prince, made praise the queen, and made the son of praise the prince. It turned out that the queen's father was a vassal of the state of Shen. When he got the news, he linked the dogs to attack Haojing.
When Wang You heard the news of the dog attack, he panicked and quickly ordered the bonfire of Lishan Mountain to be lit. The bonfire did burn, but the governors ignored them because they were cheated last time.
The beacon tower braved the smoke during the day and lit candles at night, but no reinforcements arrived.
When the dog soldiers arrived, there were not many soldiers and horses in Haojing, and they barely resisted for a while, so they were beaten out of the water by the dog soldiers. Dog troops flooded into the city, killing Zhou Youwang, Guo Shifu and Fu Bo, who was born in Baosi. The compliment that didn't laugh was also taken away.
At this time, the princes realized that Dog Rong had really entered the Haojiang River, so they joined forces and took a large group of people to rescue them. Seeing the arrival of the warlord's army, the dog army leader ordered his men to plunder the precious property accumulated in the Zhou Dynasty for many years and set fire to retreat.
The central plains governors beat off the dog Rong and made the original Prince Ji Yijiu the son of heaven, that is, Zhou Pingwang. The vassals also returned to their fiefs.
Unexpectedly, when the governors left, Dog Rong called again, and most of the land in the west of Zhou Dynasty was occupied by Dog Rong. King Ping was afraid of losing his capital and made up his mind to move to Luoyi.
In 770 BC, Zhou Pingwang moved the capital to Luoyi. Because Haojing is in the west and Luoyi is in the east, the Z period of Zhou Dynasty with Haojing as its capital is called the Western Zhou Dynasty. After moving the capital to Luoyi, it was called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
3 wolf smoke
It was recorded in China during the Spring and Autumn Period that military warnings were transmitted by fire and smoke. After Qin Shihuang, a beacon tower was built every ten miles on the Great Wall of Wan Li, using dried wolf dung as fuel. After ignition, the flame and smoke soar, which may spread the emergency alarm to a long distance. The ancient poem "The sunset in Pingsha is red in the west of the desert, and the stars on the dragon are high and low; The phrase "watching bonfires in several places in the lonely mountain, strong men waiting to beat drums" is a true portrayal of the application of this original information transmission method. This medium was also used in the business activities of businessmen in ancient society. For example, there are records of night teams and caravans "lighting fires for the number" in different periods.
As early as the Zhou Dynasty, China had a method of transmitting information by bonfire. As a primitive means of acousto-optic communication, bonfire served the ancient military war. From the border to the capital and the border, a beacon tower is built at regular intervals. When the enemy invaded, firewood was stored inside, and the fire alarms were lit one by one. When the princes saw the fire, they immediately sent troops to help and resist the enemy.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to guard against enemy invasion, the "bonfire tunnel" was used as the contact signal for border defense emergency. In the ancient history book "Zhou Li", it is recorded that "on the passage from the frontier to the hinterland of various countries, a beacon tower is built at intervals, one after another. There are oranges on the stage, and there are cages full of firewood on the heads of oranges. When the enemy invaded, the beacon tower set off fireworks in succession to convey the alarm. Every night, the watchman lit the firewood in the cage and held it high, calling it a "lighthouse" to convey information to the leaders. During the daytime warning, the firewood piled up on the stage is lit, and the smoke is used to indicate the urgency, which is called "embarrassment". In order to make the smoke straight without bending, so that it can be seen from a distance, the ancients often used wolf dung instead of firewood, so it was also called wolf smoke. The Zhou Dynasty stipulated that when the emperor raised a bonfire, local governors must immediately lead troops to rescue and jointly resist the enemy. It can be seen that the implementation of the beacon system means that a huge and perfect military information contact network has appeared as early as last week.