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115 Vending Prison Quarter Calendar
According to the previous section, around 1120 BC (35 years of Wu Yi and 14 years of the Ji calendar), the Shang king Wu Yi used witchcraft to suppress the gods of the ghost side, and then joined forces with the Zhou army to conquer the ghost side. However, just as Wu Yi was going to hunt in the field between Hewei (eastern Guanzhong) (actually to supervise the battle), he was accidentally killed by lightning.
The cause of death is so bizarre and absurd that one can't help but doubt the veracity of the matter. For this reason, there are many theories, some believe that Wu Yi was killed by Fang Guo between Hewei and Wei, and some believe that Wu Yi died naturally in old age, but was only smeared by the Zhou people. There are even claims that Wu Yi was killed by the hands of the Zhou people.
The idea that the Zhou people killed Wu Yi seems to have more support, because the strength of the Zhou people is growing, and after this incident, the Zhou Gong Ji Calendar was also killed by wen Ding, the son of the successor Shang king, Wu Yi, so it seems that the antecedents and consequences are very logical.
But a little digging into the details of history shows that this claim simply does not hold water.
First of all, the strength of the Zhou people was indeed growing, but, on the one hand, the strength of the Zhou people, equivalent to that of a county in the later generations, was not enough to compare with the Shang Kingdom, which was equivalent to the strength of several provinces. On the other hand, the growth of the Zhou people at this time was based on the submission to the Shang Kingdom, without the support of the Shang Kingdom, the Zhou people could not form an alliance with the Fang State in the eastern part of Guanzhong.
Therefore, the Zhou people could not be stupid enough to kill the Shang King Wu Yi.
Secondly, the shang king Wending's claim that killed the ji calendar is indeed recorded in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", "History", "Later Han Book", "Lü Shi Chunqiu" and other historical books. However, this incident occurred in the later period of Wen Ding's reign, more than ten years after Wu Yi's death. If it was really Zhou Gong Ji li who killed Wu Yi, the King of Shang, then after Wen Ding took the throne, he would definitely lead an army to attack Zhou Gong quickly, rather than waiting until more than ten years later.
Some people may put forward a different view, thinking that the wings of the Zhou people have hardened, and the Shang Kingdom cannot immediately attack the Zhou Kingdom. Moreover, in the middle and early period of the Shang King Wending, the war with Fang Rong was not over, and the Shang Kingdom needed to completely solve Fang Rong's problem first, and then come back to clean up the Zhou Kingdom.
This statement does make sense at first glance, but if we look at the history of the first dozen years of The Ten Years that Wen Ding did not kill the season calendar, we may not think that this statement is reasonable.
Around 1118 BC (2nd year of Wending, 16th year of the Ji calendar), the Zhou Gong Ji calendar attacked the Yanjing Zhirong, and was defeated.
Around 1116 BC (Wending 4, 18th year of the Ji calendar), the Zhou Gong Ji calendar rebelled against Yu Wuzhirong. As a result, the Zhou people won, and the Zhou Gong Ji Calendar was crowned "priest" by the Shang King Wending, which is equivalent to the position of commander of today's army.
Around 1113 BC (7 years of Wending, 21st year of the Ji calendar), the Zhou Gong Ji calendar rebelled against the First Hu Zhi Rong, and the Zhou people won the victory.
Around 1109 BC (11th year of Wending, 25th year of the Ji calendar), the Zhou Gong Ji calendar rebelled against the Feng disciples, and as a result, the Zhou people won the victory and captured 3 tribal leaders. In that year, Ji Li took some of the captured materials and captives and went to Moyi (Chaoge) to offer victory to the Shang king Wending.
It was this time that Ji Li was placed under house arrest in the Shang Kingdom by Wen Ding and soon lost his life.
That is to say, in these ten years, Ji Li acted as the "thug" of the Shang Kingdom, frequently recruiting various Rong Di, and was also named a priest by Wen Ding, and eventually, Ji Li also went to the Shang King to meet the Shang King and offered victory to the Shang King.
No matter how you look at it, they are cooperative clan relations with each other, not enemies with "father-killing revenge". Just imagine, if Ji Li really killed Wu Yi, even if the Shang Kingdom did not immediately attack the Zhou Kingdom, even if the Zhou Kingdom expanded to conquer Rong Di when the Shang Kingdom responded to Fang Rong's lack of time, would Ji Li foolishly go to see Wen Ding and give his head to someone else?
Therefore, the suspicion that Ji Li killed Wu Yi has basically been ruled out.
So, how did Wu Yi die, was he really killed by lightning?
It is not excluded that Wu Yi was really killed by thunder, but it is also possible that Zhou Ren deliberately hacked him, in fact, Wu Yi only died of normal old age, or the expedition ghost Fang was injured and died.
As analyzed earlier, when Feng Xin and Kang Ding took the throne, they may have existed
Four or five
Ten years old. Feng Xin reigned for 4 years, Contin reigned for 8 years, and Contin died
Five or six
Ten years old. As The eldest son of Kang Ding, Wu Yi may have been in his thirties when he ascended the throne, reigned for 35 years, and died in his 60s and nearly 70 years old, which is too normal.
But this is only speculation, because there is no record of Wu Yi's cause of death in the oracle bone bu, we lack more information, so the cause of Wu Yi's death can only be a mystery for the time being.
Since the Zhou people did not kill Wu Yi, and the strength of the Zhou State was not enough to compete with the Shang, why did Wen Ding put Ji Li under house arrest and eventually kill Ji Li?
We have to go back and look at the several expeditions of ji Li in the Wending Dynasty.
The first conquest was the Yanjing Zhirong. From the records in the later "Huainanzi", it can be judged that the Yanjing Zhirong is probably located in the western part of the Taiyuan Basin.
The next three successive conquests were Yu Wuzhi Rong, Shi Hu Zhi Rong, and Feng Tu Zhi Rong.
Yu Wuzhirong was located in the Shangdang Plateau southeast of Jin, around present-day Tunliu. The First Hu Zhi Rong and the Feng Tu Zhi Rong may be located in the mountains of the eastern Taiyuan Basin in central Jin, or on the Shangdang Plateau in the southeast of Jin, and the specific location has not yet been verified.
That is to say, the "Four Rongs" conquered by the Zhou people can basically be confirmed to be located in Shanxi. Shanxi was the old base of the Rong Di tribes, and the Shang Kingdom could only control the eastern and southern marginal areas, and it was too normal for the Zhou people to help recruit other Rong Di departments in central Jin and southeastern Jin when the main force of the Shang army was mainly dealing with Fang Rong in northern Jin.
However, after all, Shanxi was too close to the Shang King, only a mountain away, and the Zhou people won consecutive battles here, which had exceeded the expectations of the Shang Kingdom and posed a threat to the Shang King.
It is likely that the original plan of the Shang King Wending was to let the Ji Calendar and the Rong Di departments of Central Jin and Southeast Jin consume each other, forming a situation in which the sandpipers were competing.
So, why can the Zhou people achieve such a great victory against the rong people's departments? There are two possibilities:
The first was that the war against the Four Rongs was not completed by Ji Li and the Zhou Army alone, but was completed in cooperation with the Shang army's east-west attack.
But if this was the case, the Zhou army would not be very strong, and it would not be able to pose a threat to the Shang Kingdom, and Wen Ding would not need to suppress and beat the Zhou people.
So there is only one other possibility, the Zhou people have become stronger.
Zhou Ren has indeed become stronger, and there are two reasons. First, the alliance with Qiang Rong, The Swallowing Chengguo, the Attacking Yiqu, and the Demon Fang expanded the territory of the Zhou people, and at the same time captured a large number of people to develop and produce, and their own strength was enhanced. Second, Zhou Ren received another powerful and more reliable foreign aid.
This foreign aid was Ji Li's brother, Taibo and Zhongyong's new Yu kingdom.
As mentioned above, when King Tai moved to Qi, he divided the tribe into two, and the other part, led by Tai Bo and Zhongyong, moved east to the ancestral lands of southwestern Jin, and eventually settled in the territory of the ancient Yu state.
The ancient Yu kingdom was a kingdom of the Yao clan, the legendary Fang kingdom of Shun. Yu was first written as "Wu", which literally means the image of a person who runs while hunting and shouts for command, referring to a tribal leader.
Around 4100 years ago, the ancient Tang state in the Linfen Basin declined, and the ancient Yu state became the new hegemon of the Central Plains. Around 4,000 years ago, due to the invasion of Rong Di in northern Shaanxi and the confrontation of the ancient Tang dynasty, the strength of the ancient Yu state was weakened, the hegemony was lost, and the Xianxia state replaced it as the new hegemon of the Central Plains.
More than 3800 years ago, during the Yixia War, the ancient Yu state helped the former Xia monarchs to recover the country and establish the Xia Kingdom, becoming the hero and senior foreign relative of the Xia Kingdom.
Around 3550 years ago, king Yi of the Shang Dynasty led the Shang people to destroy xia, and the remnants of the Xia people fled to southwest Jin, and held the western half of the country with the ancient Yu state for more than 40 years.
Around 3500 years ago, the Shang king Da Geng sent a Shang army to the west to occupy southwestern Jin and eastern Guanzhong. For more than 400 years, whether it was handed down to the world, oracle bones or bronze inscriptions, there was no record of the ancient Yu kingdom surnamed Yao.
This does not mean that the Guyu tribe does not exist. In fact, the Guyu tribe remained in the Area of Yusaka (present-day Pinglu County, southwestern Jin), and some tribes may have been moved to the Huaishang region by merchants to weaken their strength. As for whether the descendants of the royal family are still monarchs of the ancient Yu state, or whether the ancient Yu state was abolished by merchants, it is not possible to verify for the time being.
However, from the perspective of Taibo and Zhongyong Benyu, Zhongyong became the monarch of the State of Yu (虞公), and the ancient Yu tribe and place names were retained, but the original Yao surname Fangguo monarch may have been abolished by the Shang Kingdom.
In any case, by around 1120 BC (the end of the Shang Dynasty wu yi and the early Wen Ding period), the brother of the Zhou Gong Ji Calendar, Tai Bo or Zhongyong, had become the monarch of YuDi, and the new Yu State (later referred to as the Yu State) surnamed Ji had been established.
It did not seem to be a very important matter for Taibo or Zhongyong to become dukes of Yu, and given the consistent co-optation and support of the Zhou people by the Shang king Wu Yi, it was not surprising that the Zhou people in the east became the new Fang state.
But the key is that the geographical location of the Yu state is very important, it is located in the northeast of the Shaanxi Basin on the Yusaka Road, is the main transportation route connecting the Yuncheng Basin and the Shaanxi Plains Basin, and is also a transit station to control the connection between Guanzhong and Heluo. What's more, the northwest of Yuguo is adjacent to the most precious resource in the Yuncheng Basin, the Xiezhou Salt Pond, and can grasp part of the salt resources, and it is easy to enrich the party.
With the existence of such a brotherly country, the strength of the two Zhou people in the east and west is of course multiplied. In addition, Yu Guo could also use the outpost of Sirong in Shanxi province to shorten the logistical distance.
It's like the end of the Qing Dynasty more than 2960 years later.
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In the 0s, the British expedition to the Qing Empire was the same. That expedition, the British did not expedition from the mainland, but used the newly occupied India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula as outposts, which was equivalent to approaching the doorstep of the Qing Empire.
For the Zhou people, the Kingdom of Yu was their Malay Peninsula and India.
With the Zhou and Yu armies combined and the outpost advancing to the southwest of Jin, it was not surprising that they were able to continuously win battles against Zhurong in Shanxi.
However, for The Shang King Wending, this situation was a potentially huge threat, so after taking fang rong and pacifying Zhurong in Shanxi, it was necessary to suppress the Zhou people.
However, the Zhou people were clearly meritorious ministers, and if they attacked the Zhou State at this time, or killed Ji Li, they would lose their trust in the world, and they would no longer be able to make the big clans such as Lan Fang, Chongfang, and You Fang loyal to themselves.
Therefore, the method adopted by Ji Li was not to kill Ji Li, but to ascend and descend darkly, give Ji Li a higher title and treatment, and leave him in shang wangdu, in fact, under house arrest.
This practice is the same as the Qing Empire putting Zheng Zhilong under house arrest in the capital. More than 3,000 years later, during the Republic of China period, Kaishen often used this trick.
However, unlike the warlords who were promoted and secretly surrendered during the Republic of China, Ji Li did not seem to be able to accept this treatment, and eventually died of depression in the Shang King.
The monarch of the Zhou people inexplicably died in the Shang Wangdu, which made the Zhou people very angry, and the relations between the Shang and Zhou began to deteriorate, and the western part of the Shang Kingdom became more and more intense.
So, will there be a war between the Shang and Zhou Dynasties? What will the rest of history look like? Let's continue in the next section.