Last time we ended with the characteristics of the hereditary system, that is, if you pass the throne for a long time, you will definitely encounter fools. The Zhou Dynasty was no exception, King Wu of Wen founded the country and the reign of Cheng Kang for the first time, and the subsequent generations of Zhou kings were not idle, surrounded by many princely states, the outer circle was barbarian RongDi, and the smoke of conquest never stopped. Although the imperial industry is decent, it is also a smooth transition. Until the appearance of King Zhou Li, the territory under Tianzi's feet began to be unstable. If you listen to the nickname of King Li of Zhou, you will know that this must be a very powerful king, a typical representative of not dying without death, and during his reign, there was a famous event in history, a rebellion among the chinese people.
The people's rebellion did not refer to the general strike of the people of the whole country, at that time there was no concept of the current state, as can be seen from the ancient map, compared with the slightly larger princely states, how much territory was controlled by Zhou Tianzi? It can be described by a song, "Ah ~ five rings ~ you have one more ring than the four rings... Ah ~ five rings ~ you are one ring less than the sixth ring..." So the people of the country rioted, that is, the rebellion in the capital. At that time, the people in the city were called Chinese, and the people outside the city were called foreigners... yes! No, people outside the city should be called savages, not as good as foreigners.
Due to the successive zhou kings who have used troops for many years, by the time of King Zhou Li, the national treasury has been empty, and King Zhou Li is a king with a less bright head, and he especially likes to pat his head when formulating policies. The head is not bright, but also like to shoot the brain door to make decisions, then the feasibility of the policy can be imagined. At this time, he also caught up with the instigation of the minister Rongyi Ofe (nìng), who slapped the head of King Li of Zhou, and the crackling sound went straight to the fire.
Legend has it that the Zhou Dynasty implemented the well field system, formatting the field like a tic-tac-toe, and then distributing small pieces of land to the people for farming, although the land was planted for you, but the property rights belonged to me. Ida is also divided into public land and private land, and the landlords and peasants know that it is difficult to improve the efficiency of all state-owned enterprises. Horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, since there is private land, then the public land must not be fattened, and the state tax is getting less and less.
In order to fill the empty treasury, King Li of Zhou joined hands with Rong Yigong to revise the Constitution and formulate laws and regulations from an unprecedented and innovative perspective. Zhou Li wang broke his finger and calculated, the flowers and trees in the forest, including fungi, are all national, fish swimming in the water, reptiles on the ground, amphibians (qī), mammals, as well as flying birds, insects... King Li himself was chanting there for more than half an hour, and finally counted Rong Yigong's toes and fingers before he finished speaking, which showed the strength of his greed. In the end, Rong Yigong was absolute enough to tell King Li directly, saying that your efficiency is too low according to the family category, and directly said that those who fly in the sky, run on the ground, and Hainan Island in Urumqi, as long as they are gasping for breath, they must pay money. Gasping for breathing has to pay for panting, drinking water has to pay for drinking water, and even has to be charged by pounds. What if I don't have any money? Develop an APP suitable for people's loans, and cut out their money from the cracks of their fingers.
When such a set of policies is released, the reaction of the people can be imagined, and when everyone usually chats together, they all go to greet Li Wang's family. After Li Wang knew about it, he also felt that this was not the way to go, and after a deep reflection, in order not to make the people complain, Li Wang urgently promulgated a supplementary draft, quickly recruiting an inspection team with high salaries, and assigning a senior inspector to each countryman, which is called taking from the civilian people, if anyone dares to discuss my policy, he will be imprisoned immediately.
Spitting out was originally a way of decompression that the people liked to see, and now that King Li has even deprived the people of the right to speak, then everyone can only raise their eyebrows on the street. In later generations, there was no shortage of dynasties where spies were prevalent, and King Li of Zhou could also be regarded as the old ancestor in this regard. Now the Chinese people go to the streets, every household is frowning to send Autumn Waves, dare not speak every day, and no one can stand it for a long time. Finally, the people's anger reached a critical point, didn't you Zhou Liwang not let everyone speak? Yes, people silently and quietly picked up their own hoes, wooden sticks, and large iron sticks to the door of Li Wang's house to demonstrate. No matter how much King Li is also a king, can those who have seen the world be afraid of the common people? Immediately, he angrily rushed to the crown and shot up, "Send me troops to suppress it." But at this time, there were still soldiers to be adjusted, and the soldiers he wanted to mobilize were all demonstrating below with big iron rods! King Li of Zhou was worthy of being a great king, with a wide range of wisdom and far-reaching, and when he saw that the troops could not be transferred, he made a strange plan, and used the thirty-six plans as the upper plan. Li Wang's plan was very successful, and he crossed the Yellow River and ran to the place of Yan (zhì), and we all know the word 彘, in addition to the place name, it is also spoken as a pig.
King Li himself escaped with a plan, but the anger of the people of the country has not yet dissipated, the so-called cutting of grass to remove the roots, the son of the Emperor of The Dark King is not much better, so if you can't find King Li, everyone will kill his son. So is this way of revenge that harms the family proper? It is difficult to say, because the father was killed, and the son avenged the father, there are many things in history, I don't care if my father is a bad person, anyway, he is good with me. Under normal circumstances, as long as the orthodox prince is still there, the royalists can support the prince and wait for the opportunity to fight back against the people with a little rectification, so the angry people will kill this hidden danger even if they say anything.
When the loyal ministers summoned Mu Gong to see that the situation was critical, he immediately stepped forward and made sense of the people's movements. Everyone listened to Mu Gong's words and also deeply believed it, and said one after another that we did not want to rebel, but simply wanted to kill King Li's son. Summoning Mu Gong to take a look, he can't say anything, don't you just want to kill your son? Whose son is not a son, look at my son, white and fat, you can beat him to death. When the people of the country heard this, they burst into tears, and let their sons die in place of the sons of the tyrants. In order to fulfill the loyal and righteous reputation of Summoning Mu Gong, everyone rushed forward together, one person and one hoe, tearfully beating Mu Gong's son to death, and since then the storm has gradually subsided.
After a heated debate in parliament, it was decided that The Duke of Zhou Ding and the Duke of Zhao Mu would be regent together, known in history as republican administration.
It is said that King Li lived in a shabby life in yandi, and the Duke of Zhou and Zhao Gong often sent people to send him some old clothes and furniture, and King Li relied on these second-hand items to make a living. So, as the initiator of the rebellion of the Chinese people, did King Li regret his previous mistakes? Of course, he regretted that his policy was improper, and he failed to forcefully press the people of the country to the ground and rub hard, so that the people of the countrymen took advantage of the loophole, if heaven gave me another chance, I would definitely send two senior inspectors to each countryman. So, looking at history, there are almost no tyrants who can introspect themselves (xǐng), and from God's point of view, we feel that the people are about to explode under high pressure, why don't the rulers know how to reflect? But if you think from the perspective of a tyrant, why should I reflect, the policy was originally formulated by me, this effect is what I want, if there is a mistake in it, it must be someone else's fault. Therefore, in our opinion, it seems that it is a simple and easy to understand truth, but Li Wang did not understand where he was wrong until his death.
The Emperor cannot know and introspect himself, but can the onlookers clearly understand the problem? Throughout history, the son of the tyrant who succeeded to the throne generally has two manifestations, one is to learn from history, to rehabilitate Zhongliang, and at the same time to adopt a policy of détente to protect the territory and the people, while the other is to wait for the opportunity to counterattack, after all, the title of prince has infinite potential, dispatch troops, restore the dynasty, and turn back to settle accounts.
There is a famous saying in history: "We defeat the king ninety-nine times, he is still the king, and after him, his descendants are still kings, but if the king defeats us even once, we will all be hanged, and our descendants will become slaves." Although this famous saying has been evaluated as a negative word in history, the truth in this can run through thousands of years of imperial times. If it is not the Liu clan but the king, the world strikes together, and even if there is a piece of wood on the dragon chair, it must be engraved with the character Liu. And the Zhou Dynasty is not the ji surname is not the king, the people have a sense of justice, but there is no legitimacy, even if you take the King of Zhou Li away, you do not dare to do his position, because you know that the position is unstable, under the chair is an awl. You are a native, you are a city man, but there are savages outside the city! There are also princes in the field! There are also barbarians in the outer circle! If you want to return to the world, you must go through a long transition of decades.
Therefore, this action of the chinese people is more like an assassin's assassination of the king, assassinating him in the king's inner chamber, and not giving the king the opportunity to dispatch troops. And the assassin, whether he succeeds or not, the end is generally very miserable, either suicide or he kills, never seen which assassin killed the king and became a king. And the people's revolt, like the peasant uprising, will not have a bright future at all, because the organization is loose, there is no strong leader, so it is just a ragtag group. When Wei Wugong, the king of the Wei kingdom, drove his army to the city, the people of the country scattered.
Many years later, King Li of Zhou died in another country, and the crown prince Ji Jing, who was almost killed by the countrymen, succeeded to the throne, which was the lord of the Zhou Dynasty, King Xuan of Zhou.
It is rare that King Li's son is not insatiably greedy under the influence of his father's genes, nor does he have the intention of settling the general account with the people of the country. Such a self-reflective monarch would certainly not allow the dynasty to decline. King Xuan reformed the government, divided the land among the people and slaves, and used troops to make Yidi submit to the country when the country was rich and the people were strong, so that the princes once again respected Zhou Tianzi. But everything has two sides, the country has used troops for many years, even if the defeat is less and the victory is more, it is a great consumption of national strength. During the reign of King Xuan, the census was also carried out, correcting the problem of many elites eating empty salaries, but these measures still had two sides, and King Xuan moved the cheese of the magnates, although he enriched the country, but also had sharp contradictions with the nobles.
In his later years, King Xuan also became more and more dictatorial, disobeying advice and killing ministers indiscriminately. In the end, the majesty of the Son of Heaven, which had been hard to establish, was also lost, and the Zhou Dynasty further declined.