Historically, Cheng Tang destroyed Xia Jie, ended the rule of the Xia Dynasty, established the Shang Dynasty's capital Luoyang, and began a 600-year reign, producing a total of 32 generations of kings. But in fact, the early Shang Dynasty was chaotic. So why did its rule last more than 500 years? Is king Huan really the king of the destroying kingdom?
In the pre-Qin period, more than 500 years has been a very long-term inheritance. But in fact, when the throne passed to the 6th generation, more and more civil unrest had already occurred.
The reason for this is that in fact, the seeds of turmoil were already planted when Dayu's son Qi turned the public world into a family world.
The original Zen system was replaced by a hereditary system. The hereditary system of the throne is divided into two types, one is the brother and the brother, and the other is the father's death and son's succession.
In the first days of the Shang Dynasty, when the peers of the monarch of the Dynasty passed on the throne one by one, when the children, the sons of each brother, the struggle for the throne began to intensify.
The palace lacked rulers, the qualified people snatched the head and broke the blood, and the court nobles all began to rebel.
The palace chaos is to seize power, but in that class-defined society, there is no one at the bottom to exert pressure and rule, and naturally it is also taking advantage of the chaos.
In the midst of chaos, the capital fell into a fire, so the ruling class decided to move the capital. Such a chaotic situation caused the capital of the early Shang Dynasty to move back and forth in Henan, Shandong, and Hebei, moving left and right, and repeatedly jumping sideways. Later, the historical record was recorded as "the Ninth Chaos".
Finally, the king who can end the chaos, Pan Geng, appears.
Pan Geng asked people to find the address of the new capital, and after several screenings, it was finally determined that Yin (present-day Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan) was the best location to build the capital. The terrain there is flat and wide, far from the often flooded Yellow River, and there is foam water available in the city, and finally decided to move the capital.
The aristocracy, who were vested interests, rose up against it, and the populace did not want to be upset any longer. Pan Geng held a meeting, and finally took advantage of the contradictions between the nobles and the people to reverse public opinion and successfully move the capital. And it has developed steadily here for 200 years.
In 200 years, the national strength of Yin Shang grew, reaching its peak during the reign of Gao ZuWuding.
Wu Ding grew up with farmers and hunters, and at the same time was heard and heard from within the court. Succeeding to the throne, he was able to sympathize with the sufferings of the people and understand the internal operations of the bureaucracy and nobility, so he developed the national strength of the Shang Dynasty to the peak during his reign.
As a generation of sages, he is good at adopting suggestions and selecting talents and abilities. Someone recommended that among the slaves who built the city, a person named Fu Yue be selected and promoted to be an auxiliary minister. This is mentioned in "Born in Sorrow, Died in Comfort":
"Shunfa is held up in the mu, Fu said to be held up between the plates, the rubber mane is held up in the fish salt, Guan Yiwu is held up in the shi, Sun Shu'ao is lifted in the sea, and Baili Xi is lifted in the city."
However, because Fu Yue was from a humble background, it was inevitable that the direct introduction of the court would destroy the system of dignity and inferiority. So Wu Ding had a plan in mind, and ignored the government for three years. Under the persuasion of the ministers, a story of the immortal Tuomeng was made up, saying that Fu Yue was the important minister who could assist the emperor, and borrowed the hand of the minister to welcome him into the court in a justifiable manner, and also blocked the gossip of others.
In addition, in addition to Fu Yue, who was an important courtier, Wu Ding's wife, Lady Hao, was also the empress dowager of Wen Neng An Bang Wu Neng Dingguo. Among the tombs of women excavated in this world, there are actually Xinjiang and Tian Yu. Under such backward transportation conditions at that time, it was difficult to imagine that the Central Plains had contacts with the border provinces.
After Wuding, there were often conquests, and the rulers indulged in wine and had no intention of governing the country, and the Shang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline.
Some people say that before Wu Ding,
Many kings are over 50 or even 75 years old. After Wu Ding, many of the Shang kings died in three or five years, eight years and ten years.
But there are exceptions, when it was passed down to the 32nd generation of Wang Di Xin, Yin Shang entered the last reign. As the 32nd king of the Shang Dynasty, king Huan had superior arm strength, was able to speak eloquently, looked dignified, and had a majestic posture. But also indulging in wine.
In his 60s, the King of Shang obtained a beautiful woman from a small country in a conquest, Daji. The king of Lu was in love with her, and entertained her day by day, drinking ponds and meat forests, building high-rise buildings, and laboring and hurting the people. According to legend, Dai Ji was pampered and arrogant, and his heart was fierce, and he persecuted pregnant women pregnant with Liujia for some inhuman lust, and cut off their feet when they were caught hungry and frozen. And the tyrant King, later even invented the inhumane punishment of cannon burning...
Even if his brothers and cousins, Mizi Jizi, came to advise, the King of Qiu still insisted on going his own way; and when King Qiu's uncle Bi Gan entered the advice, plus Dai Ji was fanning the wind and igniting the fire, Bi Gan was cut off and dug his heart.
After that, due to the exhaustion of national strength due to the conquest everywhere, the internal cruelty, ignoring the government and government, the people's resentment boiled over, and finally, it was overthrown by a small state in Shaanxi, Zhou.
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