Among the kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the founding emperor Ji Fa of Zhou Wu, there was only one person who could be called a generation of male lords, and he was the Zhou Mu King Ji Man, who reigned the longest and spent his life in the East and West. Even Guan Zhong had praised the historical merits of King Mu of Zhou to the Duke of Qi Huan in person. However, he has a great historical mystery in him, his father King Zhou Zhao killed Han Shui on the way to Chu, and after he successfully ascended the throne as the crown prince, he did not raise an army to fight Chu and avenge his father King Zhao.
King Mu of Zhou reigned for a total of 55 years, conquering Inu Rong and Kunlun in the west and Xu Yi in the east, and during his tenure, he expanded the territory of the country by a circle, and the rule of the Zhou Dynasty was more stable. As the fifth king of Western Zhou, the previous Zhou kings only focused their main energy on the Yi people in the east, and the northwest inuyasha was basically treated with "absurd clothes", that is, they could nominally worship the king of Zhou, after all, the rule of the Zhou Dynasty had not yet been stabilized, and they could not free up their hands to toughly treat the Inuyasha tribe.
However, during the reign of King Mu of Zhou, he frequently sent troops to Inu Rong, and also beat Xu Yi, who had frequently rebelled since the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, back to Laowo. Such a monarch who can fight a good war can endure the revenge of killing his father and let Jing Chu go? Therefore, why did King Mu of Zhou not avenge his father King Zhao, the root cause is not in King Mu, we still need to go back to the time when King Zhao's southern conquest of Jingchu, or what is the real reason for his death in Hanshui?
It is said that King Zhao of Zhou had three southern expeditions to Jingchu, and according to records, the first time he crossed the Han River, he also encountered a big rhinoceros; 4 years later, King Zhao did not personally go out on horseback, but sent the priest and Xin Bo to attack Jingchu, but this time he encountered a natural disaster, the wind raged, and the soldiers suffered heavy losses; the third time, because the sixth division was lost last time, so the king of Zhou Zhao simply personally conquered Jingchu, and this expedition was huge, but this time it killed King Zhao, and the reasons for this are not recorded in the history books.
Therefore, the following is a reasonable guess, divided into 3 points:
First, the weather problem
In 982 BC, when King Zhou Zhao sent his people to conquer Jingchu in the south, a series of abnormal things occurred in the Capital of Zhou, and the rivers, wells, ponds, and springs were all flooded, and the earth and houses were shaky, and the sky was still a vision at night. At that time, people did not understand, and thought that it was caused by the lack of royal road, but in the eyes of our modern people, this is clearly an earthquake. On this expedition, Zong Liushi also died on the shore of the Han River. Therefore, in that era of frequent geographical activities, King Zhao of Zhou's personal conquest of Jingchu, after arriving at the shore of the Han River, coincided with a natural disaster and the death of King Zhao.
2. Submission of the opponent
Let's make a hypothesis, if Jing Chu killed King Zhou Zhao and defeated King Zhou's master, what would happen next? Of course, it is to take advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle and occupy a large area of land! But what about reality? Jing Chu did not follow all the actions speculated above, but chose to submit to Zhou. There is only one explanation for this, King Zhou Zhao died in a natural disaster, and before that, Jing Chu had been put down.
Third, the son has not taken revenge
As the author analyzed in detail earlier, Ji Man was proclaimed king of Zhou Mu by all his courtiers after the death of King Zhao of Zhou, and he did not mourn the death of King Zhao, so he first let Ji Man ascend to the throne. Sure enough, in the early days of King Mu of Zhou's reign, he basically did not fight foreign wars, but focused his main energy on the governance of internal rule. From this point of view, first, King Mu of Zhou's foundation was unstable and he could not raise an army to march, second, Jing Chu surrendered, and there was no need to send troops; third, King Zhao died in a natural disaster, and he could not complain about Jing Chu's head. So the claim of revenge is nonsense!
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