After Jiang Ziya's death, his descendants were exterminated by the King of Zhou.
Confucius praised Jiang Ziya: "Taigong, the one who benefits the world." "Jiang Ziya can be said to be a military, politician, and strategist in the history of our country who developed morally, intellectually, and physically, and assisted the King of Zhou in destroying shang xingzhou and ruling the country with peace and security. The Confucian, Daoist, Dharma, and Bing families all pursued him as the Grandmaster of their own family and honored him as the "Hundred Masters of the Hundred Families".
The people admired his miraculous powers, prayed for his protection, and gradually people added mythological colors to him, influenced by the Ming Dynasty's "Fengshen Yanyi", Jiang Ziya had the supreme majesty and status of "Jiang Taigong here, the gods abdicated" in the folk! Jiang Ziya, also known as Jiang Shang, was born around 1156 BC, and his ancestor Bo Yi was the fourteenth grandson of Emperor Yan, and was enfeoffed in LüDi for assisting Xia Yu in controlling water, also known as Lü Shang.
When Jiang Ziya was born, the family road had fallen into poverty, in order to maintain his life, Jiang Ziya worked as a butcher when he was young, opened a hotel, sold rice, etc., making less and losing more. With a heart of governing the country, Jiang Ziya came to Kunming Mountain at the age of 30 to seek Taoism and study. Jiang Ziya, who has not met in half his life, fished on the shore of weishui, and finally met Ji Chang, who was bent on seeking talents at the age of 72, and the two met and hated each other late, and they talked happily in a car together, and were honored as Taishi. The hero has a place to play, and Jiang Ziya has since shown his fists.
Yin Shang was tyrannical and ruthless, the government was corrupt, the people were not happy, and the people complained. Jiang Shang assisted Ji Chang in promoting the german political state, uniting other princely states to pay tribute to the king of Lu, paralyzing the king of Lu, loving the people with internal diligence, recuperating, expanding production, and raising soldiers and horses, and the people's hearts and minds, and soon achieved the situation of "three points under the heavens, and two return to Zhou", and was ready to attack. After Ji Chang's death, Ji Fa succeeded to the throne and honored Jiang Ziya as "Master Shang's father". The King of Shang became more and more tyrannical and absurd, listening to rumors and killing the loyal minister Bigan and imprisoning his uncle Jizi.
In the eleventh year of Di Xin, Jiang Ziya and Ji Fa united with the princes to raise troops to cut down the Shang Dynasty, and in the first month of the eleventh year, Jiang Ziya led an army to Muye, only 70 miles away from the capital of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty was defeated, the Shang army collapsed, the King of Shang set himself on fire in Lutai and died, the Shang Dynasty collapsed, the Zhou Dynasty rose and the Zhou Dynasty was established, Zhou Tianzi divided the country into several princely states and assigned them to the relatives of the Ji clan and the heroes of the great cause of destroying the merchants, and Jiang Ziya was enfeoffed with the qidi Yingqiu (Linzi, Shandong).
In 1045 BC, Jiang Ziya led soldiers and horses to Yingqiu to establish the State of Qi, and Laihou of the nearby Lai state wanted to take the lead in seizing territory, Jiang Ziya commanded the army to fight with Laihou on the west bank of the Zihe River, and the Lai army was defeated and retreated, establishing the State of Qi. Jiang Ziya ruled the country by law, strengthened the country and enriched the people, and the state of Qi also became the largest and most powerful princely state. After the state of Qi was settled, Jiang Ziya and his eldest son Jiang Ling remained in The Capital of Ho to assist King Wen of Zhou, handing over the state of Qi to the old Sanqiu Mugong to take care of.
After the death of King Wen of Zhou, Jiang Ziya continued to assist King Cheng of Zhou and King Kang of Zhou to stabilize the Zhou Chamber. In 1017 BC (the sixth year of King Kang of Zhou), Jiang Ziya died in Hojing at the age of 139. Jiang Ziya's eldest son, Lü Ling, Duke of Qiding, continued to work in Hojing, assisting King Kang of Zhou and commanding the three thousand tigers of the Zhou Dynasty, making great contributions to the defense of Hojing. Jiang Ziya's personal life is very wonderful and legendary, the 30-year-old youth left home to ask, and returned alone at the age of 72.
One of his childhood friends was already full of children and grandchildren at that time, and he was very sympathetic to Jiang Ziya, so he introduced him to a 68-year-old ma widow, who looked down on Jiang Ziya, who had no long belongings at that time, and it was difficult to make a living, and the ma widow abandoned Jiang Ziya. Later, Jiang Ziya met his true destiny daughter Shen Jiang, husband and wife, husband and wife, Shen Jiang gave birth to 13 sons and a daughter for him in one breath, and the daughter married Ji Fa as the queen of the Zhou Dynasty, so Jiang Ziya was also the father-in-law of King Wu of Zhou and the maternal grandfather of King Cheng of Zhou.
Jiang Ziya, who married late and had children late, can still give birth to so many sons after seventy years, not only longevity but also a great body, how many people are envious! Those who have not retired in time since ancient achievements have made high achievements and shocked the lord, and in the end, it is inevitable that the cunning rabbit will die and the miserable end of the lackey cooking will be solved. In history, there have always been legends that the King of Zhou killed all his descendants after the death of Jiang Ziya, and there is no historical record, so did Jiang Ziya's descendants be killed by the King of Zhou?
Jiang Ziya also passed on his longevity genes to his sons, Jiang Ziya's fertility is also extraordinary, in the ancient times of sixty years of life, Jiang Ziya gave birth to three sons and a daughter with a super old age of late marriage and late childbearing, after all, people are Kunlun Mountain, and returned with a full load, how can mortals compare. Jiang Ziya lived 139 years old, quite a long life; the eldest son, Jiang Ling, was born in 1096 before birth, died in 976, lived 121 years old and lived a long life, and the second son also died in 976 BC, living 108 years old, and also a centenarian.
However, from the third son, the other eleven sons all died in 932 BC, and there is no historical record of why they died, so why did they all die in 932 BC? Murdered? What does such a mass death mean? It has to arouse people's imagination. King Mu of Zhou was about 1026 BC to 922 BC, and 932 BC was the forty-fifth year (or forty-fourth year) of King Mu of Zhou, could it be that King Mu of Zhou washed the sons of Jiang Ziya in blood?
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after Wei Zifu gained favor, the Wei clan became more and more powerful, and there were great generals Wei Qing, Hu Qi, and other officials of all sizes, including Empress Wei and Crown Prince Liu Zhao, and finally the Wei clan was not purged by Manmen, Liu Zhiman was bloodied and only escaped from Liu's illness, although Liu Zhao did rebel at that time, but who dared to deny that he was not on the sleeve of Emperor Wu of Han? What is the matter that cannot be directly called to the prince and asked clearly in person, and it is necessary to ask a favored courtier with ill intentions to look it up and over again, and to spread the word, and not to protect the prince?
Needless to say, Jiang Ziya's eldest son's contribution to the Zhou Dynasty is not worse than Jiang Ziya's, the Country of Qi is rich and strong, and Jiang Ziya's sons are not difficult to understand, which makes people feel congested. What is even more surprising is that King Yi of Zhou actually cooked Jiang Ziya's descendant, Qi Aigong, a descendant of Jiang Ziya, alive because he listened to the rumors of Marquis Ji, and a generation of monarchs was boiled alive in a hot pot, which was really unheard of. It's like a companion!