By the middle of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the princes were already busy developing their own forces, and there was no time for the Zhou royal family to toss around. Zhou Tianzi had completely degenerated into a chicken rib and lost his use value, but he was also a bodhisattva, allowing others to offer, and no one dared to move him easily. Therefore, Zhou Tianzi stood there alone, watching everything that happened around him, but he couldn't do anything.
When King Kuang of Zhou, the eighth heavenly son of Eastern Zhou, ascended the throne, the last overlord of Spring and Autumn and the biggest villain of Eastern Zhou, King Zhuang of Chu, also came to power in the Chu state. However, in the first 3 years of his appearance, King Zhuang of Chu was unknown, and he also encountered the rebellion of Gongzi Xie and Dou Ke within the Chu State, and almost died. However, King Zhuang of Chu was a tyrant, and after 3 years of stoicism, he suddenly made a big splash and quickly seized the power of the State of Chu, using Wu Ju, Su Cong, and others to put the State of Chu on the right track of hegemony.
King Zhuang of Chu
Just when King Ding of Zhou took office, it was the time when King Chu Zhuang rose. King Ding of Zhou was named Ji Yu (姬瑜), the younger brother of the former King Kuang of Zhou, the son of King Qing of Zhou, and the ninth son of Eastern Zhou.
King Kuang of Zhou only served as a tianzi for 6 years, he was still very young when he died, it is estimated that his sons were still young, if in the past, it should be the eldest son of the concubine to take the throne, but in the chaotic world, if the child who does not understand things is the son of heaven, it is easy to cause turmoil in the political situation, it is estimated that for this reason, the king of Zhou Kuang passed the throne to his younger brother Ji Yu, who was the king of Zhou Ding (in fact, the son of heaven at this time is not a good errand).
King Ding of Zhou
After the Chu state became strong, it was not so polite to the Central Plains states, because it was a prince who grew up in the barbarian land, and the feudal jun was originally a Qiang, but for a long time it had been integrated with the Jing barbarians, so that they formed a new culture - Jing culture. Therefore, the State of Chu was not at all polite to the Central Plains states.
The State of Chu developed from the south to the north, while the overlord of the North, the State of Jin, was just the opposite, they developed from the north to the south, and the conflict between the two sides never stopped. In the past, it was the Jin state that won most of the victories and suppressed the Chu state in the south, and the Jin state at this time was no longer what it used to be.
Jin-Chu contended for supremacy
It was not that the Jin state was not weak, but because they were seriously infighting, they were already too busy to take care of themselves. Zhao Dun's son Zhao Dun's monopoly on power in the Jin dynasty caused dissatisfaction among the Duke of Jinling, who wanted to get rid of Zhao Dun, but was instead killed by Zhao Dun's cousin Zhao Pu. Zhao Dun also set up Ji Hei, the uncle of the Duke of Jinling, as the king, for the duke of Jincheng. Later, Zhao Dun died, and his son Zhao Shuo assisted Duke Jing of Jin and married Zhuang Ji, the sister of Duke Cheng of Jin. At this time, Tu Anjia, a former supporter of the Jin Linggong, launched a power grab campaign against the Zhao family. He killed the Zhao family all over the door, but ran away with an orphan, this orphan later revived the Zhao family, killed the enemy, and made the Zhao family one of the later "Seven Heroes of the Warring States", he was the only bloodline that Zhuang Ji kept for the Zhao family, the orphan of the Zhao family - Zhao Wu!
Zhao Wu
The above things all happened during the 21 years of King Zhou Ding's reign, and King Zhou Ding himself did not do anything earth-shattering, but earth-shaking changes were taking place around him!
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