The "Left Biography" records that the prince made a pilgrimage to the princes: "As for the King of You, the heavens do not hang Zhou, and the king is not dim, and he uses the position of sorrow." With the king's treacherous order, the princes took his place, and the king's heir was built, and he used to move the king. It is the brotherhood that can exert force on the royal family also. ”
This mentions carrying the king. There is no record of the king in the Records of History, but the Zuo Biography records the official and official rumors of the prince dynasty. The "Left Biography" is relatively rigorous, and it will not fabricate the existence of the king out of thin air.
The Bamboo Book Chronicle records that "The King of You died, and Duke Yu established prince Yu Chenyu with him." Tuesday the kings stand side by side". This explains the identity of the king, Yu Chen, the son of King You of Zhou.
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However, the tricky thing is that we are almost unable to determine what "carrying the king" means, and scholars are divided into two factions:
One faction believes that "carrying" is a place name. However, where "carrying" refers to cannot be fully confirmed.
For the statement that "carrying" is a place name, one interpretation is that all the "wangcheng" and "lingtai" of the Jin dynasty are the ancient city of the eastern part of Heyi County in the Qing Dynasty, if we infer from this, since the Jin state uses the royal city as the "royal city", then it can be seen that the Jin state was once orthodox with the king; the other explanation is that "carrying" is actually the harmonic sound of the "play" of the King of Zhou You and BoFu, but this inference can only be used as speculation because it cannot provide clear evidence.
The other faction believes that "carrying" is a false name. Then the meaning of "carrying" the nickname is "slacking off diplomatic cooperation".
If the king of the belt was called "carrying", then it means that the people at that time had recognized the fact that he had succeeded to the throne; if "carrying" was a place name, it meant that the people at that time only regarded him as an aurropriator and did not recognize him as a Zhou Tianzi.
We suppose that if "Carrying the King" is really a nickname, then during the period from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family did split, but in the end, the victor, the King of Zhou Ping, gained the right to interpret history, and he wiped out the existence of the King with a big stroke of his pen, leaving only some clues in the "Zuo Zhuan" and "Bamboo Book Chronicle". And the information revealed is that the king did take power from his father at that time. That is to say, in fact, the person who succeeded to the throne in the form of "father death and son succession" was not King Yiusu of Zhouping, who established himself as king, but took Wang Yuchen with him.
Because of this, Lu Guo, as the defender of the "Zhou Li", did not recognize the identity of the Tianzi of The King of Zhou Ping. When King Zhou Ping was established, Lu Guo did not perform the "courtesy of retribution"; when King Zhou Ping died, Lu Guo did not run to mourn.
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If this is the case, it completely subverts our imagination of King Zhou Ping's succession. It should be known that scholars have always held a tolerant attitude when discussing King Zhou Ping, believing that all kinds of great rebellions in the usurpation of the throne by King Zhou Ping and his father were all because he was the "eldest son of Concubine", so he should have been made king, and King Zhou You's many acts of injustice, deposing Concubine Lishu, loving and praising him, and appointing adulterers, so he ended up being killed by Rong Di.
The existence of the king made people doubt the legitimacy of King Yiusu of ZhouPing. It is reasonable to say that the reason of "concubine's eldest son" is enough to make King Yiusu of Zhou Ping contact the princes to kill Zong Zhou. The "eldest son" was originally established to be able to determine the heir in an objective and innate way, so as to reduce the killing caused by the heir to the throne. However, king Zhou Ping killed his father under the banner of "the eldest son of a concubine", which is not a system.
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Let's look at the process of the Zhou royal family's abolition of concubines from the beginning: king You of Zhou changed his dress because he favored him. There are many doubtful things about the fact that praise is "red face and bad water":
1. She was born to a palace maid during the reign of King Li of Zhou, so after fourteen years of republicanism and forty-six years of King Xuan, when she came to King Zhou You, she was at least fifty years old. I would like to ask, is it possible to get the favor of King Zhou You at this age? Even if King Zhou You prefers older women, it is quite difficult for more than half a hundred concubines to give birth to Bofu that year, which is considered to be a "super elderly mother".
Second, contemporary historians have already reached a conclusion on the matter of the princes of the Beacon Theatre -- the possibility of this matter is not high. Moreover, Tai Shi Gong also added the bridge section of "praise does not laugh", which shows that the image of praise has the tendency to be gradually "demonized".
Third, there is the word "Bo" in the name of Bofu. According to the customs of the Zhou people, the "Bo Zhong Shu Ji" in the naming rules is related to the ranking, and since Bo Fu is named "Bo", he is most likely the eldest son of King Zhou You. Then The age of Bofu may not be as young as recorded in the Bamboo Book Chronicle. In this way, it is not impossible that Bofu is the elder brother of King Yiusu of Zhouping.
If Yi Usu was not the eldest son, then he was made crown prince, of course, because he was a concubine. We all know that during this period, the power of shenguo was very strong, and the Zhou royal family also established the shenguo woman as the queen of Shen because it wanted to balance the Rong Di in the west.
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Judging from the final result, Shen Guo united with Rong Di to overthrow the Zhou royal family, and Shen Guo's attitude towards the Zhou royal family was quite strong, and this attitude would definitely exclude the nobles in the original Zhou royal family, that is, the father of Yu Shi, whom we are all familiar with.
When historians count the sins of King You of Zhou, they will mention that King You of Zhou used his father and deposed him. It can be seen from this that Father Yu Shi supports Qiu Ji and Bo Fu, and his behavior is to "bet on the treasure". Later, the state of Yu established the prince Yu Chen, that is, the king, and together they stood on the side of opposing Yi Usu, the king of Zhouping.
From this point of view, the dispute between Yi Usui and the heirs of Bofu and Yuchen was not only caused by the favor of King You of Zhou, but also included the political struggle within the Zhou royal family at that time. If King Zhou Ping only inherited the throne by virtue of his concubine status, there were too many variables. Although many scholars have noted the importance of "meritocracy" or "standing", most are still blinded by the traditional "primogeniture system".
In the case of Yi usu, tradition says that he is the "eldest son" and has the right to inherit the throne, so it is considered that he is "justified" to succeed to the throne, but this is an act that only looks at the result, regardless of the process. Whether Yi Usui was the eldest son or not, in the political chaos and the weakening of the country, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, I am afraid that it is not the only factor to consider the establishment of an heir.
All in all, judging from the dispute between King Yiusu of Zhou Ping and Bofu and the King, we absolutely cannot easily use the "abolition of The Concubines" of King Zhou You in the "Records of History" as the only reason for considering the demise of Western Zhou, because it contains both political struggles and rivalries of external forces, and of course, it also contains the Zhou royal family's miscalculation of its own strength.