11 Yao got Shun

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Huandou once recommended Gonggong, and Yao said "no", but Huandou still tried him as a master craftsman. As expected, Gonggong turned out to be debauchery, evil and unfair. And Siyue once recommended Gun to be in charge of flood control, Yao said "no", but Siyue insisted on giving it a try, and it resulted in that nothing could be done, and all the people thought it inexpedient. In the basins between the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, Sanmiao had caused many rebellions. At that time, Shun returned from his inspection, and reported to the Emperor Yao, requesting that Gonggong be exiled to Youling in the north in order to change the customs of northern Beidi; and Huandou be exiled to Chongshan in the south in order to change that of the southern Barbarians; and Sanmiao to Sanwei in the west to change the western Xirong, and Gun to Yushan in the east to change the eastern Dongyi. After punishing all those four villains, every one in the world was all convinced and obedient.

After seventy years of his reign, Yao got Shun, and another twenty years later he resigned due to old age, and Shun was made taking charge of the emperor's duty and was recommended to the Heaven. Yao died twenty-eight years after abdicating his throne. The people mourned and mourned as if they lost their own biological father. Within three years, in mourning the Emperor Yao. no one played any music anywhere in the world, Yao knew that his own son Danzhu was not worthy of the throne being passed down to him, so he authorized it to Shun. If it were passed on to Shun, everyone in the world would benefit from it and only Danzhu would be at a disadvantage; if it were passed on to Danzhu, everyone in the world would suffer and only Danzhu would benefit. Yao said: "After all, I cannot cause harm to all the people in the world and benefit only one person," so he finally passed the world to Shun. After Yao's death, three years of mourning passed, Shun abdicated the throne to Danzhu and hid on the south bank of the Nanhe River. The princes who came for pilgrimage did not go to Danzhu but only came to Shun; those who had lawsuits among them did not go to Danzhu but came to Shun as their judge; it was Shun but Danzhu who was praised by the people. Shun said, "That's Heaven's will!" Then he went to the capital and ascended to the throne. So there was the Emperor Shun.

讙兜进言共工，尧曰不可而试之工师，共工果淫辟。四岳举鲧治鸿水，尧以为不可，岳强请试之，试之而无功，故百姓不便。三苗在江淮、荆州数为乱。于是舜归而言于帝，请流共工于幽陵，以变北狄；放驩兜于崇山，以变南蛮；迁三苗于三危，以变西戎；殛鲧于羽山，以变东夷：四罪而天下咸服。

尧立七十年得舜，二十年而老，令舜摄行天子之政，荐之于天。尧辟位凡二十八年而崩。百姓悲哀，如丧父母。三年，四方莫举乐，以思尧。尧知子丹朱之不肖，不足授天下，于是乃权授舜。授舜，则天下得其利而丹朱病；授丹朱，则天下病而丹朱得其利。尧曰“终不以天下之病而利一人”，而卒授舜以天下。尧崩，三年之丧毕，舜让辟丹朱于南河之南。诸侯朝觐者不之丹朱而之舜，狱讼者不之丹朱而之舜，讴歌者不讴歌丹朱而讴歌舜。舜曰“天也夫！”而后之中国践天子位焉，是为帝舜。