King JiZhao of Zhou Kang was the son of King Ji of Zhou, and his fate was much better than that of his father. When King Zhou Cheng ascended the throne, he was still a minor, the Zhou Dynasty had just been established, the Dynasty was unstable, the West Sea was not served, there were dangers and killing opportunities hidden everywhere, fortunately there were two uncles of Zhou Gongdan and Zhao Gongyi, especially Zhou Gongdan, who not only quelled the rebellion at the beginning of Zhou, but also established the military system of the Zhou Dynasty, surrendered siyi, and formulated the system of ritual music. King Zhou Cheng picked up a big bargain, and most importantly, Zhou Gongdan did not usurp power and seize the throne, but returned power to him when King Zhou Cheng became an adult. King Cheng of Zhou was greatly influenced by his ancestors, and during his reign, he inherited the legacy of Zhou Gongdan's governance, which made the Zhou Dynasty tend to be stable, and the wind and rain were smooth, and the four seas were obeyed.
Zhou Gongdan
When King Zhou Kang ascended the throne, he didn't need much effort to enjoy it. But the words are divided into two ends, no matter how good the world is, if you do not cherish and govern well, you may lose in your hands. Are there fewer examples in later generations? In an age of supremacy, the king is the key to the rise and fall of a dynasty.
King Cheng of Zhou
When King Zhou Chengwang was on the throne, he was a minor, and King Zhou Cheng reigned for only 22 years (according to the Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty Project), that is to say: when King Zhou Cheng died, he was about 30 years old, and at this time King Kang of Zhou should still be a teenager, and many places did not understand (at that time, feudal society was created, and the emperor had not yet received systematic training). Therefore, King Cheng of Zhou appointed two auxiliary ministers to King Kang of Zhou: Zhao Gongyi and Bi Gonggao. These two dukes were the grandfathers of King Zhou Kang, especially Zhao Gongyi, who assisted three generations of kings (King Wu of Zhou, King Cheng of Zhou, and King Kang of Zhou). King Kang of Zhou adhered to the legacy of his ancestors, listened carefully to the advice of the two elders, and concentrated on governing the country.
Summoning the GongYi
First, politically
King Kang of Zhou continued to carry out the policies since Zhou Gongdan, so that the economy was further developed, the people were prosperous and the country was rich, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the society was stable and united, and everywhere there was a scene of rising peace and prosperity. After the people's sense of happiness rose, the number of crimes became less and less, the social atmosphere became better and better, and with the implementation of the ritual music system, the people reached the level of not picking up the road and not closing the house at night, so that king Zhou Chengwang to king Zhou Kang basically did not use punishment for more than forty years (of course, exaggerated methods).
King Kang of Zhou
Second, militarily
The Zhou royal family and several closely related princely states formed a strong military alliance system, such as: the State of Lu (the country of Zhou Gongdan's eldest son Bo Bird), the State of Wei (the country of Wei Kangbo, the ninth brother of King Wu), the State of Qi (the country of King Wu's father-in-law Jiang Taigong), and the State of Jin (the country of King Zhou Cheng's half-brother Tang Shuyu) and so on.
The Zhou Dynasty divided the princes
During the reign of King Kang of Zhou, the old enemies of the Zhou people, Xi Rong and Beidi (now known as Ghost Fang), rebelled again, squeezing from the mountains around the Weihe Plain to the zhouyuan, the birthplace of the Zhou people, posing a serious threat to the western capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Fenghao. King Kang of Zhou decided to remove this threat, he ordered a large army to attack the ghost side, the two sides experienced two major wars, and finally the Zhou army killed more than 4,800 people on the ghost side, captured 4 leaders and more than 13,000 people, and also captured a large number of carriages, horses, cattle and sheep, and the Zhou army expelled the ghost side to the surrounding mountains far from the Weihe Plain, and the western border of the Zhou Dynasty was stabilized for a long time. However, this batch of Rong people was like a dog skin plaster, which was always attached to the Zhou people, and eventually one of theirs, the Inuyasha, led to the demise of the Western Zhou! This is a posthumous story.
The same world, governed by different people, will really show a very different result! King Zhou Kang and his son King Zhou Zhaowang are such a pair of examples, King Zhou Zhaowang got a world that was better than his father, but it was he who destroyed this world!
(Continues tomorrow)
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