The wheel of history rolled forward, following King Wu, King Cheng, King Kang, King Zhao, King Mu, King Gong, King Yi, and King Xiao, Western Zhou ushered in the ninth heavenly son, Ji Xie, the King of Yi.
The throne of Western Zhou has always been passed down from father to son, and it is orderly, but in the last year of King Yi, there was a big chaos, and king Xiaobu coldly inserted a lever. The "History of Zhou Benji" records, "King Yi beng, the brother of the king of Gong, was established for the king of filial piety. The prince of filial piety collapsed, and the princes restored the prince of Yi, Xie, for the king of Yi"; and the reason why the king of filial piety was able to ascend to the throne was because "when the king of Yi was in decline, the royal family declined, and the poets stabbed", and the majesty of the royal family deteriorated.
The royal family is weak, the times call for the Lord, and the son of King Mu and the brother of king Gong, the king of filial piety, has a high prestige and a high voice. In this context, King Xiao replaced Yi Wang, who was then the crown prince, as the Son of Heaven, while Yi Wang sat on the cold bench. The throne that originally belonged to him was occupied by his uncle, and King Yi was unwilling to do so, so he married the princes and actively sought foreign assistance. With the intervention and support of the princes, after the collapse of the Filial King, the Yi King was fortunate to ascend to the throne.
After King Yi ascended the throne, he remembered the merits of the princes and behaved very low-key in handling the relationship between the royal family and the princes. The "Rites" says: "Li, the Son of Heaven does not go down to the church and sees the princes." Go down to the church and see the princes, and the disrespect of the Son of Heaven is also. King Yuki has also descended". The Gangjian Yizhilu says: When yi wang, "the son of heaven began to go down to the temple to see the princes, and the ceremony was abolished." The "Century of Emperors" says: "The king of Yi is on the throne, the princes come to the dynasty, and the king surrenders and resists."
The Son of Heaven "went down to the hall to see the princes", and yi wang's practice made the princes feel very useful, so that "the princes of Virtue" ("Imperial Century") thought that Yi wang was good. However, this so-called "virtue" is a major sacrifice that Yi Wang was forced to make politically, not as his heart desired. In order to revive the royal family and regain its lost dignity, King Yi must take action after he sits on the throne, and the first person to suppress it is the State of Qi.
The State of Qi was the first feudal state after the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Marquis, and the first monarch was the famous Jiang Ziya. Jiang Ziya was the father-in-law of King Wu, the maternal grandfather of King Cheng, and had close relations with the royal family. Because of this, from Jiang Ziya onwards, the State of Qi gained the right to independently conquest "from the sea in the east, to the river in the west, to Muling in the south, to Wudi in the north, to the Five Marquises and Nine Uncles, and to shide zhengzhi" ("History of the Family of Taigong Qi"), becoming a political power and a military power.
The State of Qi was originally a hundred miles in circumference, sparsely populated, and after several generations of Qihou's management, by the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, its territory had expanded several times, its population had gradually increased, its national strength was rich, and it had become the de facto hegemon of the East. Moreover, the State of Qi was far away from Zong Zhou, and it was difficult for Zhou Tianzi's influence to penetrate into the State of Qi, and the royal family's control over the State of Qi was greatly reduced. During the reign of the Duke of Qi, the relationship between the royal family and the State of Qi became delicate, and it was necessary for the King of Yi to take the State of Qi to the sword.
The "Century of Kings" says, "For three years, the king had a bad disease and was worried about his body." The author believes that Yi Wang did not really suffer from a bad disease, but wrote and performed a political drama of his own to test the princes. After hearing the news, the princes "did not go to the crowd to pray for the king's body", showing the necessary actions as human subjects. However, the Qi Laigong of the "Wild And Obscene Field Tour" ("History of Suoyin") either did not express anything, or did not care enough.
Qi Aigong still has some arrogant capital. First, the Duke of Qi Ai was the fifth grandson of Jiang Ziya, and the King of Yi was the eighth grandson of King Wu, Jiang Ziya's son-in-law, according to the generations, the Duke of Qi was the elder; second, when the royal family was in decline, the State of Qi had risen, and the Duke of Qi would inevitably look down on the Yi King who "went down to the hall and saw the princes".
Just when the Duke of Qi'ai was wandering, Ji Hou said bad things about the Duke of Qi to king Yi. Ji Guo was adjacent to the State of Qi, and the strength of the State of Qi made Ji Guo very uncomfortable. During the reign of King Yi, the daughter of Emperor Naji Guozong was a concubine, and perhaps King Yi was born to a woman of Ji Guo. In this way, Ji Hou became a new descendant, overshadowing the previous Hou clan Qi state in the political limelight, and if Ji Guo wanted to develop and expand, he must attack the Qi state to satisfy the ambition to replace it.
The "Chronicle of Zhou Benji" says, "When the Duke of Lai, the Zhou of Ji Hou Tan, the Zhou Cooking of the Duke of Lai". The ancient "Bamboo Book Chronicle" records that Yi Wang "three years, the king to the princes, cooking Qi Lai Gong Yu Ding". At the instigation of Ji Hou, King Yi summoned the Duke of Qi and other princes to Jingshi. In full view of everyone, King Yi ordered that the Duke of Qi be thrown into the Great Ding and cooked alive to show that he had killed a hundred people. Qi Lament's public name is not Chen, but his name is not a subject, or it is related to this matter.
When was the Duke of Qi'ai cooked, in what year? The author adopted the "Ji Jia Shu in the beginning of February of the sixth year of the Sixth Year of the Falcon, Wang Cai Zhou Shi Yan Palace,...... Si Tu Rong Bo Right SlaughterIng Beast Introduction", the sixth year of the Yi King is 881 BC, and the third year of the Yi King is 884 BC. According to the inscription of the "Ying Gui", the author verifies that in 883 BC, King Yi reiterated that he would command the Qi army by Ying, and rewarded Tong Bow and Tong Ya, which should be the follow-up of Yi Wang's mourning.
After the death of Duke Ai of Qi, near the burial of Jingshi, King Yi set up another half-brother of Duke Qi Ai, for Duke Hu. In order to prevent the neighboring Ji Hou from repeating the rumors and avoid the impact of domestic opposition forces, Hu Gong moved the capital to Bogu. The death of Qi Aigong was a major event in the history of the State of Qi, and it was also an unspeakable scandal, and the two kingdoms of Qi and Ji became feuds. Later, Qi Qinggong, a descendant of the Duke of Qi, destroyed the State of Ji, and Yixue hated the ninth emperor of the state. (Liu Bingguang)
