Western Zhou once experienced a riot, king Li of Zhou offended the gongqing nobles due to his reform and efforts to strengthen, was driven out of power, and fled to the Jin state for refuge, known in history as the "rebellion of the people". Then the Western Zhou Dynasty spent a period without a son of heaven, with Gong Bohe ruling on his behalf, known in history as "republican administration".
Republican administration
The fifth heavenly son of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Ji Lang the Prince of Zhouhui, also suffered a similar experience.
Ji Lang (姬阆) was the eldest son of Ji Huqi, the King of Zhou, who was crowned as the Son of Heaven after the death of King Zhou, and was the "King of Zhou Hui".
King Hui of Zhou's father, King Zhou Ofe, was a very lucky son of heaven, and during his 5-year reign, he happened to encounter the Qi Huan metric system dominating the Central Plains and put forward the slogan of "Honoring the King". The Duke of Qi Huan was the first of the princes of the Kwantung to attach importance to the use of Zhou Tianzi, and the earliest use of Zhou Tianzi was actually Zheng Guo, who moved from Guanzhong to Guandong at the same time as the Zhou royal family, and later, because of the breakdown of the relationship between Zheng Guo and the Zhou royal family, qi Huan Duke had an opportunity to take advantage of it. Duke Huan of Qi used Zhou Tianzi's "Nine Princes" to command the world and become the first hegemon of Eastern Zhou.
Qi Huan Duke Lü Xiaobai
Qi Huangong's slogan of "Honoring the King" made Zhou Tianzi's life suddenly better, and when various countries came to the court, the King of Zhou Huan became arrogant and lascivious, overhauled the palace, improved his clothing, and spent all the savings he had accumulated so hard. Zhou Tianzi's blood no longer had the iron-blooded factors of their ancestors, and they were all eroded by ease and laziness.
King of Zhou
The Zhou royal family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was basically the object of the princes' manipulation, relying on the afterglow left by their ancestors, how long it could live.
After King Hui of Zhou ascended the throne, he continued his father's strategy and continued to live with the support of Duke Huan of Qi.
King Hui of Zhou
The history books say that King Hui of Zhou was very greedy, and he occupied the vegetable garden of the concubine kingdom as a hunting ground; forcibly seized the house of the doctor Bianbo near the palace; seized the land and land of the grand master's son, Zhu Kneel, and Zhan Father; and recovered the feng lu of the diner Shi Suo, thus arousing strong dissatisfaction from the concubine state and several doctors.
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Concubine Guo and several masters united to support King Hui of Zhou's uncle Ji Yan as the Son of Heaven and send troops to attack the palace. Unfortunately, they did not succeed, but were defeated by king Hui of Zhou's guards and fled to Weiguo for refuge. Wei Guo had long been suppressed by the State of Qi and had a bad relationship with Zhou Tianzi, so he joined forces with the State of Southern Yan to attack the Zhou royal family (Ji Ke, the younger brother of King Hui of Zhou's grandfather, King Zhuang of Zhou, once launched a failed rebellion and fled to the State of Southern Yan, where anti-royal forces were entrenched).
Spring and Autumn Situation Map
The coalition forces conquered the palace, Li Ji became the son of heaven, and King Hui of Zhou fled to Wendi for refuge.
Zheng Guo has always had a bad relationship with Wei Guo, and is close to Tianzi, and seeing that Wei Guo controls the royal family, he wants to take power away. Therefore, Zheng Ligong welcomed King Hui of Zhou to the State of Zheng and joined forces with the State of Yu to fight against the rebellious pseudo-Tianzi Ji Decadence. Wei Guo and Southern Yan were far away from Luoyi, and there was no time to rescue them, so Ji Decadence was destroyed by Zheng Guo and Yu Guo, and King Hui of Zhou was restored again.
Ji Ji stepped down
In gratitude to Zheng Guo and Yu Guo, King Hui of Zhou allocated the land east of the Tiger Prison of the Zhou royal family to Zheng Guo, and the area around Jiuquan to Yu Guo (rather, Zheng Ligong and Uncle Yu took the initiative to ask for it). The land of the Zhou royal family became smaller step by step. thereafter:
King Hui of Zhou ordered the State of Qi to defeat Wei Guo and avenge his rebellion.
King Hui of Zhou ordered the state of Fan to be cut down and Fan Pi to be captured.
Later, when King Hui of Zhou grew old, Duke Huan of Qi began to establish a central plains pattern centered on himself, and he supported King Hui of Zhou's crown prince Ji Zheng as the new servant. King Hui of Zhou was very angry and wanted to unite with Jin, Chu, and Zheng against the State of Qi. As a result, before the plan was implemented, Zheng Guo was defeated by the State of Qi, and the "Four-Nation Alliance" plan was destroyed.
After king Hui of Zhou died, Ji Zheng, who was supported by Duke Huan of Qi, took the throne, and what would happen to the world next?
(Continues tomorrow)
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