A gentle gust of wind awakens the body that has been sleeping for a thousand years; a gentle gust of wind blows away the mysterious veil of history. Standing on the shoulders of time, I talk to history.
Speaking of this question, the first thing that comes to my mind is "The Princes of Beacon Theatre". Since this story was first learned from textbooks in school, it was "convinced" of this story for a long time, in fact, as long as you think about it, you will find huge loopholes in this story, coupled with the conflict between "Tsinghua Jane" and "Bamboo Book Chronicle" and "History", which is the main reason why I am now "killing unbelieving".
In the textbook" of the "Beacon Theatre Princes", the Fainting of king Zhou You led to the destruction of the country.
The historical allusion of "Princes of Beacon Theatre" comes from Sima Qian's "History of Zhou Benji". Among them, when King You of Zhou succeeded to the throne, the power of Western Zhou had already declined, and he reused the father of Yu Shi and further exploited the people, causing Western Zhou to further become precarious. Later, the chancellor Chu Jue advised, but was imprisoned by King Zhou You, and in order to rescue Chu Jue, the Chu people sent Chu Ji to King Zhou You.
King You of Zhou was shocked to see Herao, and his favor for her was incomparable, and not only abolished the original Queen Shen and Crown Prince Yiusu, but also crowned Her majesty as empress dowager, and Crown Prince Bofu as the crown prince. However, she was as cold as frost and never showed her face. In order to win the smile of the beauties, King Zhou You, in order to win the beauty of the people, tried his best but could not, so he offered a heavy reward for a strategy, and Yu Chenshi's father proposed to try it with a beacon.
Beacon fire was originally an emergency military alarm signal when the enemy invaded in ancient times, when the Western Zhou Dynasty built more than 20 beacon towers in the area of Lishan Near Hojing in order to prevent the attack of Inuyasha, one every few miles. As soon as Inuyasha attacked, the first sentry to find it immediately lit a beacon on the stage, and the neighboring beacon was also lit one after another to warn the nearby princes. When the princes of various places saw the beacon tower burning, they had to raise an army to serve the king. Father Yu Shi made the beacon tower light the beacon for no reason, and invited the princes to come to Bai for a run, so as to make the lady laugh.
King You of Zhou then took the advice of Yu Shi's father and accompanied him to the Beacon Tower of Lishan Mountain, ordering the soldiers to light the beacon. For a time, wolf smoke was everywhere and flames were raging in the sky, and the princes everywhere thought that Inuyasha was coming, and hurriedly gathered soldiers and horses to rush to the rescue. However, when the princes from all over the country rushed to the foot of Lishan Mountain, they did not even see the shadow of a Dog Rong soldier, but instead there was a burst of liturgical music from the mountain, and King Zhou You and Qiu Ji were drinking and having fun on the mountain.
When King Zhou You saw the reinforcements arriving, he sent someone to tell them that there were no inuyasha attacks, but that the king and princess were just setting fires for fun, and the princes learned that they were being teased, and had to return with resentment. Seeing that thousands of troops and horses were summoned to come and go, like a child's play, she thought it was very interesting, and she couldn't help but smile. King Zhou You, seeing the great joy, rewarded Yu Shi's father, and then teased the princes several times, and the princes were deceived many times, and they were no longer willing to be deceived.
Later, Inuyasha did indeed attack, and King Zhou You once again ordered people to light the beacon, but no more princes came. So Inuyasha invaded Hojing, and King You of Zhou, Chu Ji, and Crown Prince Bofu were all killed, and Western Zhou perished.
The story is flawed, and the newly discovered historical sources differ from those recorded in the Chronicle of History.
In the story of "The Princes of Beacon Theatre", there are actually huge loopholes, and if you carefully examine, it is not difficult to find that the whole story is extremely unreasonable. In addition, the records of qinghua jian also have a huge conflict with the records of the "Records of History".
We may wish to think about it, from the ignition and transmission of the beacon, to the receiving of news from the princely states, to the gathering of the armies by the princes, and finally to the departure to the ho capital, it will inevitably take a long time. Although it is said in the "Princes of Beacon Theatre" that Beacon Fire only summoned the princes near Hojing, it took at least a few days or even more than ten days from the time King You of Zhou ordered the flames to be lit and then to the arrival of the various princes with troops. In addition, even if the princes from all over the world arrived, it was difficult to say that they would all gather at the foot of Mount Li, after all, Inuyasha was north of Hokyo and Lishan was south of Hokyo. Therefore, if he could really brave the cold wind on the top of the mountain and laugh once when the army of the princes arrived, then it could only prove one problem, and he was a fool.
In July 2008, Tsinghua alumnus Zhao Weiguo donated a batch of Warring States Bamboo Jane obtained from overseas auction to Tsinghua University, and after carbon 14 measurement, this batch of bamboo Jane is a cultural relics of the middle and late Chu State, because "Tsinghua Jane" has been buried in the ground before the Qin, and is currently the only Warring States ancient book that has not been affected by the "Book Burning Pit Confucianism", so the credibility is extremely high. At the beginning of 2012, when Tsinghua University was sorting out the "Tsinghua Jane", it was also found that the bamboo brief account was contrary to the "Princes of Beacon Theatre". In addition, there is also no record of "Beacon Theatre Princes" in the Bamboo Book Chronicle, which was unearthed during the Western Jin Dynasty and is said to be a historian of the State of Wei during the Warring States period.
As Professor Liu Guozhong of the Center for The Research and Protection of Excavated Documents of Tsinghua University said, according to the records of the Bamboo Book Chronicle and the Qinghua Jane, historians can conclude that the "Princes of Beacon Theatre" was not the cause of the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even concluded that this story was simply fabricated.
The historical "Beacon Theatre Princes" are most likely a royal turmoil
In order to please the beauties, King Zhou You not only deposed Shen Hou and Crown Prince Yi Usu, but also made Empress Dowager Shen the queen, and made her son BoFu the crown prince, and even ordered the abolition of the title of Marquis Shen, the father of Shen Hou. In order to completely eliminate the threat of crown prince Yiusu, He also tricked King Zhou You into executing Shen Hou and Yi Usu, and the two had no choice but to flee back to their mother country, Shen Guo.
In the eleventh year of King Zhou You's reign (771 BC), King You of Zhou sent an army to besiege the State of Shen and demanded that Hou Shen hand over the deposed prince Yi Usu, and although Hou Shen refused, he also knew that he was not a rival to King Zhou You, so he joined forces with King Youguo and Inuyasha to attack King Zhou You, and as a result, King Zhou You's army was defeated, Hojing was breached, King You of Zhou and Bofu, the son of Qiu, were beheaded under Mount Li, and Inuyasha plundered in Haojing, which captured him and left.
After the death of King You of Zhou, Marquis Shen, Marquis Of Jing, Duke Wen of Xu, and other princes supported the deposed crown prince Yi Usu as the Son of Zhou, known in history as the King of Zhou Ping, while Duke Han of Zhou and others supported The brother (also said to be his son) Ji Yu of King Zhou as king, for the king of Zhou. As a direct result, the Zhou royal family had a situation of "two kings standing side by side".
Later, marquis Ji Qiu of Jin personally went to Yudi in 750 BC for the benefit of the Jin state and killed the King of Zhou. After king Zhou was killed, some of the other princely states, for their own benefit, turned to support the king of Zhou Ping, such as the state of Zheng and the state of Qin, and some of them looked at it from the sidelines, such as the state of Wei, the state of Song, and the state of Qi, and only one state of Lu had a great war with the state of Zheng. However, although King Ping of Zhou was the ultimate victor, due to his notoriety of killing his father and killing the king, it was difficult to gain the overall approval of the princes of the world, and the prestige of Zhou Tianzi was greatly reduced.
Perhaps it was precisely because king of Zhou Ping was not in the right place, in order to save his reputation, which degraded and smeared king Of Zhou You, so that there was the story of "Princes of Beacon Theatre", which was widely circulated over time, and was finally included in the "Records of History" by Sima Qian.