In ancient Chinese history, there are countless founding heroes, only some of them can be successfully killed, only a few people have been posthumously honored by the successor kings, and only one can be buried in the tomb of the previous king after death, that is, the Zhou Gong Ji Dan that the author wants to talk about today.
He was the founding hero of Western Zhou, serving two generations of emperors, and even when King Cheng of Zhou was young, he monopolized the government for 7 years, and he eventually returned to the government of King Cheng, which also left a good story in history. After his death, he left a last word to bury him in Chengzhou, indicating that he would also accompany King Cheng after his death, but King Cheng of Zhou did not dare to treat him with the courtesy of a courtier, and finally buried him in the tomb of King Wen of Zhou.
Zhou Gongdan was able to receive such courtesy after his death, thanks to his "great achievements" before his death, the author used this word on him, not exaggerated at all, as a courtier, established the great cause of the emperor, and also became the actual king of the Zhou Dynasty in the 7 years of becoming a king.
As the fourth son of Ji Chang, the King of Zhou Wen, Zhou Gongdan showed outstanding talent from an early age. Later, after his second brother Ji Fa inherited Xi Bo, he and Jiang Ziya became Ji Fa's right and left arm. From mengjin to the battle of Makino, he participated in every major military and political activity, and no matter how big or small, Ji Fa also consulted with him. After the destruction of Shang, as the second most important person after Ji Fa, he stood next to King Wu of Zhou with a large hand. It can be said that zhou extinguished the shang's number one hero.
Xiao Bang Zhou finally destroyed dayi Shang, but there were still a large number of princely states that expressed dissatisfaction, and Zhou Gongdan took orders to conquer all the states. After the situation was generally stable, he returned to Hojing with King Wu of Zhou and held a grand meeting to announce the formal establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, at which time it had been 4 years since the fall of the Shang Dynasty.
However, under the long-term conquest and fatigue, King Wu of Zhou died of illness for a long time, leaving the 13-year-old crown prince Ji Shu. At this moment, the Zhou Shang had just been established, and its foothold was unstable, and the descendants of the Fear Shang and other princes took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble. So Zhou Gongdan summoned Jiang Ziya and Zhao Gongyi to consult with them, and finally decided that Zhou Gongdan would temporarily become the king.
The change of throne did cause unrest, and Wu Geng, the son of the King of Shang, who was already eager to move, was originally stationed around Chaoge by the three prisons of Guan Shuxian, Cai Shudu, and Huo Shu. However, Zhou Gongdan's administration caused dissatisfaction among the three brothers, especially Guan Shuxian, as the third brother of Zhou Gongdan, who believed that he should be in charge of the government. So the three brothers decided to launch a rebellion and compete with Zhou Gongdan for power and profit. Wu Geng saw that the opportunity for the restoration of the Shang Dynasty had come, so he joined forces with his three brothers to rebel together, and at the same time joined forces with the princes of Dongyi, Fang Guoxiang and Xu.
Zhou Gongdan saw that the situation was becoming more and more difficult to control, so he took the wang order and led the elite of the Western Sixth Division straight to Chaoge to quell the rebellion. These three forces were not in the same heart, and in the face of the menacing Zhou Gongdan, it did not take long for them to be completely suppressed. In the end, Guan Shuxian was killed, Cai Shudu was exiled, Huo Shudu was deposed, and Wu Geng was beheaded. The Three Prisons Rebellion, or Wu Geng Rebellion, ended in less than a year.
Subsequently, Zhou Gongdan spent two years, cutting thorns and thorns, breaking through bamboo, all the way to the east and south to conquer, more than 50 Fang states were either destroyed or Kaesong surrendered. In the end, the territory of the Zhou Dynasty was expanded by a circle, larger than the previous Dayi merchants. At this moment, Xiao Bang Zhou was no longer looked down upon.
External conquest was only one of them, and Zhou Gongdan's greater merits were reflected in the establishment of the liturgical system, he summed up the experience of his predecessors, took blood relatives as the main stem, and divided the children of the Ji clan in important areas to consolidate Zhou's rule. More than 50 of the more than 70 newly divided Fang kingdoms were stationed by descendants of the Ji surname. He also chose the site in the Luoyang area to establish the capital of Zhou, so that the Zhou Dynasty truly became the Dayi Zhou.
At the same time, Zhou Gongdan also divided Shaanxi and ruled with Zhao Gongyi, on the one hand, to strengthen Zhou's military strength, on the other hand, to vigorously develop the agricultural economy. It laid a solid foundation for the Zhou Dynasty for the next 800 years. It also created the tradition of the primogeniture system, completely eliminating the chaos of brothers and brothers and competing with their sons for the throne, which was also the basis for the stable inheritance of the Western Zhou royal family.
Seven years later, King Chengwang of Zhou was also 20 years old and was fully qualified to be the king of a country. Zhou Gongdan was not obsessed with the 7 years of power monopoly, and he rationally chose to return the government to the king, creating a historical story. At the same time, he also taught the king to be diligent in government and love the people, and to sympathize with the suffering of the people.
It can be said that Zhou Gongdan played the role of a father and uncle here in King Zhou Cheng, so much so that King Zhou Cheng disobeyed his will and reburied him in the tomb of King Jichang of Zhou Wen, and also said that "The boy of Yimingyu did not dare to submit to Zhou Gongye"!
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