In the Fengshen Rendition, The Marquis Jichang of Xibo was summoned by the King of Xi to the Chaoge software, and the eldest son of Bo Yikao, who was acting on his behalf in Xiqi to govern the people, decided to entrust the heavy responsibility of defending the land to his younger brother because he missed his father, and he himself chose to go to Chaoge alone to visit his father, and as a result, he never returned.
When he arrived at Chaoge, King Huan made him a big meal and gave it to King Wen to test whether King Wen Jichang was a so-called saint, because the tiger poison did not eat children, as a result, Ji Chang knew the intentions of King Huan in advance, so he ate the delicacies made by his eldest son, and King Huan saw this, so he released him.
After returning to Xiqi, the elderly Ji Chang made his second son Ji Fa the heir. Later, Bo Yikao was named the Emperor of Zhongtian Arctic Ziwei, and the prestige and power of the position could be described as quite high. What does the real situation in history look like? Is it because Bo Yikao is alone for the sake of filial piety? Or is he the heir to the battle for the loser?
In the Zhou rites, if there is a concubine, there must be a concubine, and if there is no concubine, the eldest son must be established, this system has been written for a long time, it has long been the inheritance system of the Zhou tribe, or the system of the Shang Dynasty at that time was already the inheritance system of the eldest son, so it was not a rule for Ji Fa to become the heir.
Of course, history cannot be as mysterious as the evolution, and there is no inevitability in the direction of history, but some unrelated accidents are connected together, giving people the wrong feeling: thinking that history is inevitable and will not change the inevitable trend because of the appearance of someone, that is, the common fallacy that there is no Zhang San, there must be Li San.
It is true that just like the plot of the Fengshen Yanyi, at that time, the Zhou people had two of the three worlds and occupied an absolute advantage, and Bo Yikao, as the eldest son of the concubine, took the place of his father to guard the side of the town, responsible for guarding the land and protecting the people, neither reason nor possibility to take the initiative to leave, at that time he could send his own close ministers or a bunch of younger brothers to explore the way.
There is absolutely no need to go by himself, because the King of Lu imprisoned Ji Chang, at this time his heir also took the initiative to go, which is tantamount to throwing himself into the net, this is completely contrary to common sense, others hit the left cheek, and then handed the right cheek to test it, no, when the King of Lu holds two important hostages in his hand, as long as he moves his mind slightly, I am afraid that the Zhou people will kill each other.
Such a thing can be done by the King of Qiu, and the Zhou people will not be unexpected, so as the eldest son, Bo Yikao, who has a filial heart, cannot think about the consequences of going to Chaoge lightly, not to throw himself into the net of Chaoge, and it is his main job to guard the land and the people well, in other words, at that time, he protected the land of the people of Xiqi from being attacked by others, which was the greatest filial piety.
At this point, it seems that it can be concluded that the only possibility for Bo Yikao to go to Chaoge is to fail in the competition for inheritance qualifications, or that Ji Chang is really detained, he cannot intimidate everyone in Xiqi, and finally he is forced to leave the palace by Ji Chang, in short, leaving Xiqi is a dead end.
However, not leaving Xiqi is also a dead end for Bo Yikao, as a loser of power competition, he has always been a rat trap, and it is better to live than to die, and there are too many such examples in later generations, because of the structure of the ambitionist, the firstborn son is abolished one after another.
In the canonical history, There are not many records of Boyikao, at least not after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, according to the available information, after the Zhou people seized the world, there was no record or canonization of this eldest son and his descendants, and at that time, a very large number of clans were canonized as princes, which obviously confirmed that Boyikao belonged to the losers of the power struggle, and his descendants were either purged or relegated to common people, and the Zhou people were secretive about this.