In the last period we said that the later Yi Dynasty Xia hou courtier Han Hun was killed, but in the end Han Hun was spurned by the people for murdering the monarch, shao kang seized this opportunity to use the power of the Yu state to attack han hun, and finally achieved the restoration of the country, which is known in history as Shao Kang Zhongxing!
After Emperor Shaokang, the Xia Dynasty experienced 7 monarchs, and these 7 monarchs also did a very good job, and the small days of the Xia Dynasty were also very calm, and there was no major turmoil.
But as we said earlier, the biggest problem with succession is that there is no system of supervision over heirs, and the successor is determined according to the preferences of the previous successor, and the selection is limited, either his brother or his own son.
This was the so-called brother and brother at that time, the succession system of father and son, because the scope of selection is small, so the fault tolerance rate is naturally very low, and when selecting a successor, there is a high probability of selecting an incompetent monarch!
And incompetence is actually quite good, the most important thing is to choose the kind of monarch who is both incompetent and moral, incompetence may make the country weaken, but the direct result of the lack of way is the destruction of the country!
The eighth monarch since Shaokang, Emperor Kong Jia, was such an incompetent and immoral monarch.
After Emperor Kongjia succeeded to the throne, he was very enthusiastic about the art of sacrificing ghosts and gods, and in the past, the emperors and heavenly sons only sacrificed the heavens and the people, but in the period of Emperor Kongjia, the wind of sacrificing ghosts and gods flourished, and sexual activities were very frequent, which caused Emperor Kongjia to lose the trust of the princes.
However, emperor Kong Jia of the Xia Hou Clan Wei De was not impressed, and slowly the princes began to betray him and no longer pay attention to him to the church.
However, for all this, Kong Jia did not have a good way to control it, if when the first prince rebelled, Kong Jia, like his ancestor Xia Qi, would solve the problem of this prince on behalf of the heavens, then the rest of the princes naturally did not dare to despise the authority of the Xia Hou clan.
However, Kong Jia did not take action, and he hoped to continue to maintain his rule by sacrificing ghosts and gods.
This is very magical, because the Heavenly Ghost God is only a tool of the ruler, just like Xia Qi exercised the right to cut down sins in the name of the Heavenly Heavens in order to give himself the means to control the princes, but Emperor Kong Jia himself was superstitious in it, which was equivalent to becoming ruled by the Heavenly Heavens and the Ghost Gods, and he could not tell whether his dominance was obtained by force or given by the Heavenly Ghost Gods.
In Tai Shi Gong's "Records of History", there is a story that Emperor Kong Jia obtained two dragons and then gave them to a man named Liu Lei, who was born in the Tao Tang clan and had the technology to raise dragons.
But there are sometimes accidents with technology, and it didn't take long for Liu Lei to raise one of the dragons to death.
After raising him to death, Liu Lei quietly made the dragon into food and gave it to Kong JiaDi to eat, but he did not expect that Kong Jia Emperor felt that the taste was good after eating it, and the taste was good, and naturally he wanted to eat it! Liu Leiyi heard that Emperor Kong Jia still wanted to eat, that was unbelievable! Because there is only one dragon left, what if Emperor Kong Jia still wants to eat himself and give it to him in the future? So I could only run away!
What exactly is the dragon in this story? What exactly did Tai Shi Gong want to express when he wrote a paragraph?
In fact, the dragon is a horse, and the horse is an important military resource at that time, so there is a special horse breeder, this horse breeding is good, it can make a fortune, for example, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States, the Qin State is relying on zhou Tianzi to raise horses to get a fiefdom, really called the opening of a group of horses, and finally the unification of the seven kingdoms, very inspiring!
So why did Tai Shi Gong write this story in particular? The main purpose is to show that Emperor Kong Jia is a person who does not pay attention to the military, such important military resources are casually found by someone to raise, but also do not pay attention to it from time to time, at least there is no special supervision system, so the horse breeder raises the horse to death, he does not know, and he eats important military resources himself and does not know it, compared to the later Han Wu emperor You look at his efforts to get sweat and blood BMW, you can see that Kong Jia you do not care about the political issues of the court, nor do you care about the military issues of national defense. Such a monarch comes to helm the Xia Dynasty, can the Xia Dynasty last long?
During the reign of Emperor Kongjia, the people's hearts were lost, and the rebellions of the princes were one after another, and after his sons and grandsons succeeded to the throne, these two mediocre monarchs were powerless in the face of all this, and finally after Emperor Xia Jie succeeded to the throne, the Xia Dynasty ushered in the moment of final collapse!
Emperor Xia was a brutal monarch in Taishi Gong's evaluation, but we can see that after he imprisoned Shang Tang, he did not use direct execution to deal with Shang Tang, but directly released Shang Tang shortly after!
Since Xia Jie was cruel, why did he let go of Shang Tang, who had rebelled against him?
We have reason to believe that Xia Jie still wants to use virtue to win over the princes, so as to continue to maintain the rule of the Xia Dynasty!
Among them, we also have reason to believe that there was some kind of agreement between Shang Tang and Xia Jie, and this agreement may be that Shang Tang asked Xia Jie to spare him, and he promised Xia Jie that he would continue to be loyal to Xia Dynasty and continue to be loyal to Xia Jie, thus obtaining Xia Jie's forgiveness!
But what did Shang Tang do when he went back?
After returning to Shang Tang, shang tang continued to spread the cruelty of Xia Jie, and he himself gave virtue to win over the princes, and finally led the princes to fight against Xia Jie, Xia Jie was eventually exiled to Naruto because of the alliance of the enemy princes, and before he died, his last words were: I regret not killing Shang Tang in Xiatai, and finally let me fall to this point!
First of all, regardless of whether Xia Jie was really cruel or not, Shang Tang repaid morality with resentment and betrayed his faith.
Then there is the situation when Xia Jie succeeded to the throne was already doomed to the fall of the country, so Xia Jie was just a man with a back pot, and the turning point in the demise of the entire Xia Dynasty was actually during the reign of Emperor Kong Jia, so that Xia Jie was the last king, but not the king of the fallen country, and it was Kong Jia who really led to the fall of the Xia Dynasty!
Kong Jia was superstitious about ghosts and gods, and did not think about building military defense, which was the biggest reason for the fall of the Xia Dynasty!
And the reason why shang used Xia Jie as a courtesy name, this naturally needless to say, everything imposed by the new dynasty on the last monarch of the previous dynasty was to declare his legitimacy, to put it simply, if this monarch is not guilty, then I do not have justice for him to overthrow, then it does not become my guilt?
This simple truth is not difficult for everyone to understand, so it does not matter how well Xia Jie does as a ruler, what matters is that he is the last monarch, then he must stand on the opposite side of the new dynasty and become the person who imposes all the crimes by the new ruler.
After Shang Tang attacked the Xia Dynasty, he became the de facto controller of the world, and history transitioned from the Xia Dynasty to the Shang Dynasty.
After Shang Tang became the Emperor Tianzi of Ren, he sealed the Xia Hou clan to the place of Qi, and this Qi is now Qi County, Henan, so the people of Qi County, who are now native to Qi County, are also the descendants of Dayu of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and further ahead, they are the direct descendants of Emperor Zheng'er Eight Classics.
And the story of the Shang Dynasty, subscription is not two, we will continue to tell in the next issue!