Yesterday, when I said Ji Chang, the King of Zhou Wen, I already mentioned Ji Fa, so today I will continue to talk about Ji Fa and talk about how he destroyed Yin Shang, and what needs to be stated is that what is said here is still very different from what is described in the "Fengshen Yanyi"!
Fengshen Rendition
People who have seen "Fengshen Yanyi" know ji fa as a person, although in the novel he is only a role in playing soy sauce, but this soy sauce is a well-known figure in history, he is the second son of Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen, because his brother Bo Yikao was killed by the King of Qi when he rescued Ji Chang, and became the successor to the throne of the Zhou Dynasty.
The image of Bo Yikao in the film and television drama
As Ji Chang's son, Ji Fa was carrying an unprecedented burden, his grandfather and eldest brother died at the hands of the Shang Dynasty, his father was also tortured by the Shang Dynasty, and the hatred between the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang royal family had reached the point of endless death. In 1033 BC, Ji Chang died, and In order not to shake the hearts and minds of the army and the people, Ji Fa still used Ji Chang's era name, and he still called himself a prince.
Three years later, Ji Fa held a large-scale military parade ceremony and military exercise at mengjin ferry port, which was also a military preparation and test before the shang war, known in history as "Mengjin Guanbing" (this was the earliest military parade held in China's history), and as a result, eight hundred princes came to participate in the news. In the face of the eight hundred princes who were fiercely fighting, Ji Fa did not have the impulse, and after consulting with Jiang Taigong, Ji Fa believed that although the Shang Dynasty was corrupt, it did not reach the level of the world in the First World War, so he continued to be a low-key person.
Two years after Mengjin watched the army, the King of Shang went farther and farther down the wrong path, he regarded his people as grass and mustard, regarded loyal subjects as tigers and wolves, and the class contradictions were extremely acute, and at this time, the internal and external difficulties of the Shang Dynasty had reached the point of terminal illness. Ji Fa, who had been paying close attention to the movements of the Shang Dynasty, agreed with Jiang Taigong that the time was ripe to destroy the Shang, and according to Ji Chang's last words of "don't doubt the time to come", he sent an army to cut down the Shang in 1029 BC. Ji Fa personally led 300 military vehicles, 3,000 tiger warriors, and more than 40,000 armored soldiers, and together with the armies of other princely states, crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin, and soon reached Makino, which was only 70 miles away from the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and held an oath ceremony here.
Battle of Makino
In the face of the Zhou Dynasty army under the siege of the city, the King of Shangxi panicked, in order to suppress the other side in numbers, he even gathered the slaves and prisoners of war in the capital, and even put together an army of 700,000, and the King of Shangyi used this patchwork force as a vanguard, in a vain attempt to consume the living strength of the Zhou army. However, this improvised army became the last straw to crush the Shang Dynasty, and as soon as it entered the battlefield, it turned its gun and led the Zhou Dynasty army into Chaoge City, and the King of Shang set himself on fire in despair.
After the Battle of Makino, the Shang quickly declined and perished, and Ji Fa did not take credit for his own achievements, he adopted the advice of the Duke of Zhou, gave preferential treatment to the descendants of the Shang Dynasty royal family, and granted amnesty to the world, except for the ruling class, the other classes of society were as usual, and this practice soon stabilized the turbulent situation due to the war. In the face of a country that was in ruins and waiting to be revived, Ji Fa was worried, and with the lessons of the King of Shang, his heart was full of uneasiness, so he often lost sleep, and was busy dealing with the major affairs of the military state all day, and eventually became ill, and died of illness in 1027 BC at the age of fifty-four, only two years after he seized the world.
---well today is the end of the day, if you are interested in the later Zhou Dynasty, I may write about the later monarchs of the Zhou Dynasty! Thumbs up, follow! Long-term operation, adhere to the original!