"The Mystery of Jin Yong's History: The True Face of the Persian Assassins".
In Mr. Jin Yong's classic ** "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", there is a mysterious and amazing character - "Old Man in the Mountain" Huo Shan, who is said to be the founder of Persian Mingjiao. And this character is not fictional, but a real person in history, he is the Persian Hassan bin Sa**, the founder of a small sect of Islam - Ismaili, which is Jin Yong's Ismailian. Huoshan is the Chinese translation of Hassan's name, and the English word assassin means assassination, the root of the word comes from hashashin, Chinese translated as Assasin, known as "Murayi Kingdom" by Chinese historical books, derived from the Ismaili school of Huoshan.
Legend has it that Assasin was the name of a terrorist assassination group that shook the Arab world and Europe in the Middle Ages, existed for nearly two hundred years and was passed down for seven generations. Since the group refers to the leader as "Sheikh", which in Arabic means both an elder and an elder or a leader, the leader is called the "Old Man of the Mountain".
Hassan bin Sa** is rumored to be the spiritual idol of Osama bin Laden, perhaps due to the location of the Eagle's Nest and the unique method of training Assassins by the Old Man of the Mountain. Assasin's methods of training Assassins consisted mainly of religion and material rewards. In this regard, the old man in the mountains obviously has a lot of experience.
First, the Old Man of the Mountain promised the Assassins the right to ascend to Heaven if they sacrificed for the Sect. There, seventy-two ** and endless wine await them. Legend has it that the Assassin would be stunned by a special medicine before his mission, and then sent to a *** fountain that spewed wine, countless delicacies, and a dozen young girls. The Assassins would spend three days here, singing and laughing, playing with flowers, and feasting on all of them.
However, after three days, the Assassin would be stunned again and sent to the Old Man of the Mountain. At this time, the old man of the mountain will assure the Assassin that you will get countless times more in heaven than you have in the past three days!Hearing this promise, the Assassins, who believed in the old man of the mountain, often succeeded in his assassination in order to return to heaven for pleasure, but in order to die an early death.
It is said that Assasin's Assassins wreaked havoc in the Middle East, West Asia, and North Africa, and were killed by Crusader leaders, Abbasid elites, and Muslim feudal lords. Even Saladin, the great hero of Arabia, almost died by their swords. The whole area is prostrate under the obscenity of the old men of the mountains.
However, Assasin's hubris eventually led to a more powerful Mongol. Assasin dared to bully the Mongols, and the Mongol army launched an attack on Assasin's eagle's nest. Assasin, who used the Assassins as his "selling point", was no match for the Mongol army and was soon trapped in the Eagle's Nest. In the face of absolute violence, the old man in the mountain finally realized that terrorism as a magic weapon was not worth mentioningAn assassin who is not afraid of death is even more vulnerable to professional soldiers. The desperate old man in the mountains surrendered to the Mongols, but the Mongols did not tolerate them, and left them with no armor, not even babies. Since then, this formidable terrorist organization has come to an end, and terrorism has been suppressed by the Mongols for 500 years.
Looking back at the history of Assasin, especially the ** methods of the assassins, one cannot help but think of some modern organizations, such as Hamas. Hamas's suicide bombs also appear to have been cultivated according to Assasin's methods. History, however, tells us that barbarism will eventually be countered with greater barbarism.