King You of Zhou was the son of Ji Jing, the King of Zhou Xuan, and his mother, Empress Jiang, was the daughter of the Prince of Qi, who made him crown prince during his reign. In the late zhou xuanwang foreign wars were repeatedly frustrated, the country's power has declined, king You of Zhou took over the mess left by his father, he did not have his father's early efforts to govern, after succeeding to the throne, he was greedy and corrupt, did not care about political affairs, and appointed Yu Shi's father as a secretary of state and took charge of political affairs.
Father Yu Shi was a traitorous and well-behaved man, good at flattery, and greedy for money, but King Zhou You used him very much, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the people. And the trigger that led to the demise of Western Zhou was the incident in which the Youwang deposed Chang Liyou, deposed the original prince Yiusu, and deposed the younger son, Bofu, what exactly caused the Youwang to disregard the opposition of the ministers and even go to war with Shen Guo to establish a more prince, we do not know, but this incident directly accelerated the demise of Western Zhou. The fall of Western Zhou was something that King Youwang of Zhou would definitely have to do with it and needed to bear the main responsibility. Ironically, regarding the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty, posterity is all blamed on a woman, and this cauldron is thousands of years old
Liu Xiang's "Biography of the Daughters of Lie": "The king of You, who was confused by the praise, came and went with him, did not sympathize with the affairs of the state, and drove the hunting from time to time to suit the meaning of the praise." Drink alcohol, advocate excellence in front, and continue the day with night. ”
In the last year of the Xia Dynasty, two divine dragons stopped in front of Emperor Xia's court and said, "We are the two ancestor kings of the Kingdom of Praise." "It is not auspicious for emperor Xia to divinate, or to kill the dragon, or to drive away the dragon, or to leave the dragon behind. Emperor Xia also divined and asked for the dragon's spit to be stored before it was auspicious. So he displayed the jade veil and wrote a letter to the dragon with a simple strategy, and after the dragon left, he left spit, and Emperor Xia used a box to pack the spit and remove the traces of spit on the ground.
The Xia Dynasty fell, and this box spread to the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty fell, and the box was passed on to the Zhou Dynasty.
After three dynasties, no one dared to open it. In the last years of King Li of Zhou, open to watch. The spit flowed into the palace and could not be removed. King Zhou Li ordered the woman to shout at it naked, and the spit turned into a black lizard and sneaked into king Zhou Li's harem. There was a maid in the harem, just seven or eight years old, who ran into it. When King Xuan of Zhou, this maid became pregnant when she became an adult, and she gave birth to a child without a husband, and she was very afraid, so she discarded the child.
Proverb Cloud: "The arc of the arc is obeyed, and the Zhou Kingdom is destroyed."
A little girl once sang a song: "A bow made of mulberry wood, a quiver made of miki, is to destroy the Zhou Kingdom." At that time, when King Xuanwang of Zhou heard this song, he was shocked and scared that it was true. Ordered the whole country to arrest the people who sold bows and arrows made of mulberry wood, just as a couple of people in the Zhou Kingdom sold mulberry bows and arrow bags, they began to flee in order to avoid arrest. On their way out, the couple met the strange girl whom the maid had abandoned on the side of the road, who cried at night, so they took pity on her and adopted her. As a result, the couple fled to the kingdom of Chu. Later, when the people of the Chu kingdom were guilty, they asked for the strange girl discarded by the maid to be sacrificed to King Zhou You to atone for his sins. This woman is a praisegirl, because she comes from the country of praise, so she is called a praise.
After King Zhou Youwang received praise, he was very fond of her. Later, she gave birth to a son (姬) for King You of Zhou. After She gave birth to her son Bofu, King Zhou You was even more fond of her. In the end, King You of Zhou deposed Queen Shen (the daughter of Marquis Shen of the State of Shen, and later King You of Zhou made her empress, so she was called Empress Shen) and crown prince Ji Yiusu (born to Empress Shen, that is, King Ping of Zhou), and Li Yu was made queen and Ji Bofu was made crown prince. Tai Shi Boyang was too spoiled by King You of Zhou, believing that the plague had already formed, that no one could change it, and that Western Zhou would perish.
Zhou Youwang came up with various ways to make her laugh, but She never smiled. King Zhou You set up beacon towers and large drums, and when the enemy came, he lit the beacons to gather reinforcements. Once, King You of Zhou lit a beacon, and all the princes led their troops to come. When the princes arrived, they found that there were no enemies, and when they saw the panicked look of the princes, they laughed. King Zhou You was very happy, so he lit the beacon fire many times. Later, the princes no longer believed it, and gradually refused to answer the call. In the eleventh year of King You of Zhou (771 BC), shen guo joined forces with the state of Jian and Xiyi to attack king of Zhou you, and king You of Zhou lit a beacon to summon the princes to rescue, but the princes did not come to the rescue. Inuyasha eventually killed King You of Zhou under Mount Li, captured Him, and Western Zhou perished.
In the Outline of National History, Qian Mu once raised doubts about the "princes of beacon theater"
"This is the talk of the villain. What is ridiculous about the princes who cannot see the same thing, and who have nothing to hear, and who will cease to stay and stay? Raising the beacon to pass on the police, it is the Han people who prepare the Ears of the Xiongnu. At the Battle of Lishan, the Youwang raised an army to seek revenge, not to mention the need to raise a beacon. ”
We will not delve into whether the princes of the Beacon Drama are true or not, but in the eighth year of King Zhou You (774 BC), King Zhou You deposed Li Shu and deposed Queen Shen Hou and Crown Prince Ji Yiusu, and Li Yu Concubine was made queen, and Ji Bofu, the son born of Concubine Zhao, was made crown prince, and such an unfair treatment of his daughter and grandson caused Shen Hou's father, Hou Shen, to be greatly angry. The relationship between Shen Guo and Zhou Mu took a sharp turn. As a mother-in-law, it was inevitable to ask for explanations for Shen Hou, and King You of Zhou heard that Shen Guo was actively contacting other princely states to plan to "defend their rights by force", And King Zhou You did not want to sit still and intended to attack Shen Guo first, so he took the initiative to attack Shen Guo.
The State of Shen began with a fief west of Zong Zhou, roughly located in the western part of present-day Shaanxi Province, after leading his division to conquer Jingman during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou. In order to consolidate his rule over Nantu, King Xuan enfeoffed his uncle Shen Bo to Xie (roughly in present-day Nanyang, Henan), and thus formed the State of Nanshen, with the title promoted from earl to marquis. The Shen state, which was still retained in the shaanxi homeland, became the Western Shen state. It can be seen that the marriage relationship between Shen Guo and Zhou existed as early as the time of King Xuan's father, King Zhou Li. After King You of Zhou deposed Shen and the crown prince, he probably wanted to get rid of this foreign force. But it is not easy to get rid of this foreign clique. As a result, in the eleventh year of King You of Zhou (771 BC), Marquis Shen joined forces with the State of Jiao and Xiyi Dog Rong to attack King You of Zhou, so he killed King You of Zhou at the foot of Mount Li, and Western Zhou perished. After the death of King You of Zhou, the princes and The Marquis of Shen jointly supported the succession of the previous crown prince Ji Yiusu, and moved the capital to Chengzhou Luoyi, which was the King of Zhou Ping, known as Eastern Zhou.