He is a butcher, a wine seller, and a down-and-out son-in-law who is despised by his wife and ridiculed by his neighbors.
He was also the originator of the military strategist, the founder of the Qi State, and the first contributor to the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. After his death, he was named the "God Above Gods."
Before the age of seventy, he had accomplished almost nothing. In his later years, he fished with a straight hook on the Wei River. When he came to Xibo Hou Jichang, he assisted the Zhou Dynasty in destroying the Shang Dynasty and achieved eight hundred years of prosperity.
But history hides too much truth.
He never became a god in the first half of his life - he slaughtered cows and sold meat in Chaoge, his fingers were stained with blood; he entered his wife's house and was expelled from the court; he was humiliated in public at the banquet of the powerful, but he calmly quoted ancient classics that had been lost for thousands of years, leaving the whole hall dumbfounded. He was not a born hero, but a man who was repeatedly crushed by fate but never bowed his head.
This book uses official history such as "Historical Records" and "Six Tao" as the skeleton, and archaeological finds such as Yinqueshan Han Bamboo Bamboo Slips and Dingxian Han Slips as flesh and blood. It strips off the mythical cloak of "Fengshen Yanyi" and restores a flesh-and-blood, humiliating and glorious Jiang Taigong.
You will see: how his twenty-year career as a butcher honed his foundation for governing the country; his pyrotechnic marriage to Ma; the truth about fishing in Fengxi River - not that he is noble, but that he is so poor that he can't even afford a fishhook; the thunderous method he used against all opinions on the eve of the Battle of Makino; and the final destination of the incense that was buried in Haojing and the tomb of Qianqiu.
This is not a myth, this is the most hard-core counterattack gained by a loser with seventy years of patience.
