King Shang, the last king of the Shang Dynasty, was called Di Xin (帝辛) and was given the name.
Since ancient times, the reputation of the King of Qiu has not been very good, with the title of "all evil and no way", also known as the first tyrant in history.
In people's cognition, the Shang Dynasty King, spoiling himself, absurdly misleading the government, building civil engineering, expropriating tyranny, building wine ponds to create meat forests, digging the heart of Bigan, speculating whether the children conceived by pregnant women are male or female, but also dissecting the abdomen to verify, in order to maintain the rule, set up all kinds of torture.
So is King Gong really so cruel and ruthless?
Historically, with the change of dynasties, the contrarians will certainly use the banner of justice to cite the evil deeds of the previous dynasty, many of which are exaggerated.
King Wu of Zhou had a vow in the form of a confession when he was cutting the silk, "Now King Yin only uses what a woman says, abandons his ancestors and does not answer, abandons his homeland, and leaves his father and brothers behind, but only the many sins of the four sides are revered and long, and the messenger is messenger, and he is tyrannical to the people, and to commit adultery in the Shang kingdom." ”
The general meaning of this political theory of conquest is that the king listens to the words of the woman, does not respect the etiquette of sacrificing ancestors, does not appoint relatives to do things but appoints criminals, is tyrannical to the people, and governs the country with villains.
It can be seen from the text that digging up the heart of Bi gan and dissecting pregnant women did not mention any bit, which was completely added by later generations and belonged to fiction, and as for the matter of the wine pond meat forest, it was even more impossible, because in the slave society at that time, the antiseptic technology and the brewing of wine quality could not reach the quality of the present.
Speaking of the King of Qiu himself, Shi Zai, The Emperor of Qi, who smells very sensitive, who has superior material strength, who has a fierce hand, who knows enough to refuse advice, whose words are enough to adorn himself, and who thinks that everyone in the world is inferior to himself. It can be seen that the King of Lu can write and be able to use martial arts, and his wisdom is superior, but his arrogance has reached its peak.
At that time, the Western Zhou Dynasty developed rapidly, and the Shang Dynasty nobles Weizi, Bigan, Jizi, repeatedly entered the advice, the king of Qiu did not listen, but disgusted several people who entered the advice, and Bigan had a great reputation at that time, the king of Qi was also jealous of his talent, so he killed it, Jizi was also imprisoned, and The microzi fled, so that the king of Qiu fell into the scene of rebellion and separation.
So did the King of Qiu listen to his own words and misuse the government?
The southeast of the Shang Dynasty was ruled by the Yi people, and from time to time there were wars between the two countries from his father's generation, but in the end they could not eliminate it, so the King of Shang sent a large army to fight a victorious battle, and the King of Zhou Wu rebelled when the Shang Dynasty army had just won the battle and had not yet returned, and the King of Shang had to arm the former prisoners of war to resist, and as a result, the prisoners of war counterattacked, and the King of Shang was completely defeated and set himself on fire.
In fact, King Huan was not a man without a way, and his slander also came from the continuous evil rumors of the previous dynasty.
After all, the Shang Dynasty is far away, and the deeds are also from the history books, and these things are difficult to verify, "If you believe in books, it is better to have no books"