It is said that the Praise Is a Red Face Disaster, and the King of Zhou You's Fire Drama Princes led to the destruction of Western Zhou, so in the end should the Lady of The Curse bear this black cauldron? Modern scholars have made new discoveries, and today we will talk about it.
Because the Zhou Dynasty moved its capital once, the history was divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou. Let's start with the Western Zhou.
The last Tianzi king of the Shang Dynasty was crusaded by King Wu of Zhou, and the Shang Dynasty was destroyed, commonly known as "King Wu of Wu". Later, King Wu of Zhou was honored as the Son of Heaven by various princes, and established the capital Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi) and established Western Zhou.
The Western Zhou Dynasty was very powerful, first, it was built on the basis of Xia and Shang, second, its territory was vast, and third, its political ideology and official system had a very far-reaching impact on future generations. It strictly implemented the "patriarchal system" and the "primogeniture system", and established the Zhou Tianzi - Qing Shi - Princes - Qing Dafu - Shi Shi - Guo Ren, from top to bottom of the ruling sequence.
The core and key of the patriarchal system is the "primogeniture system". What is 嫡?
Concubine is the right wife, because the wife and the husband are rivals, so it is called a wife. The son born to a wife is called a concubine, and the eldest son is called the eldest son. Hahaha, around the halo? The simple phrase is "the first son born to the eldest wife". Yes, you read that right, it is the "big wife", because the Zhou Dynasty implemented the "monogamous and polygamous concubine" system, and even ordinary people can marry multiple concubines.
The "primogeniture inheritance system", to put it bluntly, is that the inheritance law at that time was only a civil law and a ceremonial law, not a law officially promulgated by the state, which stipulated that only the eldest son of the concubine could be qualified to inherit the title and power of the father, and others could not reach it at all.
"Inheritance of the eldest son" is the hidden killing machine in this story, this is not the reason for the mysterious Ha, you see, a lot of wives, a lot of sons, contradictions will naturally increase. The sons of large families, in order to compete for their father's power and wealth, fought openly and secretly, and used various tricks, and their degree of brilliance was not inferior to that of the palace fighting drama. Then, the open and secret struggle in the palace is even more powerful.
Speaking of the originally powerful state of Western Zhou, when King You took the throne, he certainly did not think that he had become the last monarch of Western Zhou, and the problem occurred that he was addicted to women, attracted the attack of Inu rong in the west, and died in the country (cù, scaled back), to his son King Ping, in order to avoid the disaster of Inuyasha, had to move the capital from Chang'an to Luoyang (present-day Henan). After the capital was moved, the Western Zhou Dynasty was no longer vibrant, and it was called "Eastern Zhou" after that.
There are two key words here, one is "female color" and the other is "Inuyasha". First of all, talk about inuyasha, it is also known as "Rong Di", is an ancient tribe, legend inuyasha is one of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, living in Rong Father Mountain, the father is a white dog, so it got this name, "Rong" is the general name of ancient weapons. This tribe was once active in the area of present-day Shaanxi and Gansu, and they fought bravely and fiercely, very powerfully.
"Female color", named sì (姒), how did she make the King of You indulge in it and ignore the affairs of the state?
King You's wife was the daughter of Shen Guo, and everyone called her "Empress Shen", and her son was named Yi Usu. According to the Zhou Dynasty system, Yi Usu was the eldest son of a concubine, and when he died in the king, he could succeed to the throne as king, so Yi Usu was naturally made crown prince.
In this year, King You personally led an army to fight against the kingdom of Chu. The state of Chu was in present-day Hanzhong, Shaanxi, about 450 kilometers away from the Western Zhou capital Chang'an. When they saw Zhou Tianzi personally coming to fight, they were frightened up and down, and they looked around, looking for suitable people and opportunities, approaching the Youwang, hoping to bribe the people around the Youwang and persuade the Youwang's men to be merciful.
Soon, they found a man named Guó Shi Father who was particularly suitable: he was a close confidant of The King of You, and his official title was "Shangqing". Father Yu Shi is very greedy for money, and good at clever words, the key is to know how to cater to his boss the most - the King of You, the King of You, he was coaxed to be very happy, Father Yu Shi said everything is good to hear, so the King of Youshi trusts Father Yu Shi very much.
It was precisely because of this that Chu Guo secretly sent a lot of gold and silver jewelry to Father Yu Shi and asked him to intercede with the Youwang on his behalf, and at the same time, everyone knew that the Youwang was a good woman, and they also promised to offer beautiful treasures to atone for their sins. Father Yu Shi saw that Qian's eyes were open, and after silently accepting the gift, he interceded with the Youwang. After hearing this, the Youwang was very happy, patted his thigh, and announced that he would retire and return to the dynasty.
Among the beauties sent by the Chu Guo, there is a beautiful woman named Bao Ji. Speaking of the origin of this woman, it is almost mythical, but in ancient history, there are many such strange things, and it is interesting to talk about it.
Legend has it that in the Xia Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, more than a thousand years ago, a strange thing happened on this day. Suddenly, two dragons came to the imperial court! Yes, you read that right, it's the dragon, Dragan! Chinese is also called the descendant of the dragon, from ancient times to the present, we all want to see what the dragon looks like?
But at that time, Emperor Xia saw two dragons, because they were huge and fierce, and Emperor Xia was very scared, and even helpless.
Therefore, he quickly asked: Is it better to kill it? Or is it better to evict? Or is it better to keep it?
At that time, people believed in bu gua, that is, counting gua, and even before the Tianzi planned to do big and small things, they liked bu gua. As a result, the yáo resigned and told Emperor Xia that none of this was in favor.
Emperor Xia then asked, "If the saliva (xián) foam (ha ha, commonly known as saliva) spit by the erlong is hidden in a wooden cabinet and kept, how about it?" As a result, the words of the gua said: "Daji"! Therefore, Emperor Xia was relieved, and hid the dragon saliva with a wooden cabinet, and the two dragons flew away.
Later, the Xia Dynasty died, and this cabinet containing the dragon's saliva spread to the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty died, and then spread to the Western Zhou, and after more than a thousand years, no one ever opened it, until King Li of Zhou (the grandfather of king You).
King Zhou Li's curiosity was very heavy, he had heard from childhood that there was a cabinet containing dragon saliva that had been guarded in the palace for more than a thousand years, but the ancestors had an order not to open it, otherwise it would lead to great disaster. But King Zhou Li did not believe in evil at all, and driven by strong curiosity, he decided to open it and see what was going on.
As soon as King Li opened the cabinet, the dragon saliva inside quickly flowed all over the imperial court, like a living animal. King Li was horrified, thinking that the monster had summoned some women, shouted loudly in his mouth, and went to drive it away, and the dragon saliva was indeed a little frightened, and immediately turned into a big black turtle and fled to the harem.
At this time, there was a seven- or eight-year-old maid in the harem, and as soon as the big turtle saw this maid, it disappeared instantly. Everyone was relieved to see the situation.
But something even stranger was that since the maid had seen the turtle, her stomach had swelled up day by day, and at first people thought that she often stole the food in the palace and quietly gained weight, but she only grew up with a belly, and her hands, feet and feet were very slender, no different from pregnant women. Ten years later, at the age of eighteen, the maid gave birth to a baby girl! Right! You read that right, it's "ten years"! Everyone is pregnant in October, and this maid is "ten years pregnant", which is really a miracle.
This maid has been staying in the palace, and she has not married, how can she give birth to an illegitimate daughter, and everyone knows the ins and outs of the dragon saliva, confirming that the baby girl is a monster and an ominous thing, so she was left in the wild.
In the year the baby girl was born, King Li was dead and King Xuan took the throne. At this time, on Chang'an Avenue, the capital of the country, there was a group of children, who did not know who it was, and taught the children to sing a nursery rhyme: "檿 (yǎn) arc ji clothing, the real death of the Zhou Kingdom." This means that as long as it is a bow made of mulberry wood and an arrow made of jimu, it can destroy the Zhou Dynasty.
When King Xuan overheard this song, he was very angry, how could such a song be circulated in the folk, so he ordered that children be forbidden to sing this song, and at the same time banned the sale of mulberry bows and arrows.
A man who made a living from mulberry bows and arrows, living in the countryside, did not know that the city had made this trick, and he and his wife carried the mulberry bow and arrows to the city as usual and went to the city to sell them. Suddenly, an inspecting soldier shouted at them to go forward to arrest them, and they were so frightened that they immediately lost their bows and arrows, and fled without distinction. They ran, they ran, they ran into a secluded wilderness.
They were tired of running and were trying to sit down and catch their breath when they suddenly heard the cry of the baby, and they looked for it according to the sound, and saw that it was a very cute baby. They knew that they must have been thrown away, and when they looked at the lovely child, they had no children of their own, and they showed great compassion. They picked up the baby girl and decided to keep it for her. So the couple fled together with their infant children and fled all the way to the country of Bao.
You guessed it, this discarded baby girl was a monster born to the maid in the Palace of the Zhou Dynasty, and it was thrown out. It was thought that the child in the wild would not survive anyway, and would have been eaten by the jackal beast, but by no coincidence, she was carried away by the fleeing couple.
After another ten years, the baby girl born by the maid was carefully raised by the husband and wife who sold bows and arrows, and raised her to the age of seventeen or eighteen, looking extremely beautiful, and was truly a beautiful person. Coincidentally, when the Chu Guo wanted to choose a beautiful woman to contribute to the Zhou You King, people chose her at a glance and sent her to the Zhou You King's palace, called The Lady of Zhou.
The King of You, who saw Her, was attracted by her beauty, as if he had lost his soul, and since then he has been fascinated by her, and has been pampered a lot, plus he is good at seducing, so that the King of You really does not know how to offer praise. Later, she gave birth to a son named Bofu.
After receiving the praise of the beautiful woman, the king of you single-mindedly pounced on the praise, and even regarded his former wife Shen Hou as a thorn in his eye. But after the people applied, they didn't do anything to apologize to the Youwang.
In order to make The Empress dowager happy, he did not hesitate to change the system of the Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years, abolishing the empress position after Shen, and establishing the empress dowager as the empress, and also abolishing the prince of Yi usu and making li Bo the prince. This further leads to the scourge that follows.
Although she was born beautiful, she didn't like to laugh and played cool with her face all day long. But if you smile, oh hey, that kind of feminine state, really want to make people fly outside the nine clouds, so the King of You's IQ in front of the praise of the queen became zero, he did everything to make the praise laugh, but it was always rare for her to laugh.
During the Zhou Dynasty, beacons were set up near the capital. Beacons are used to send alarms, and once the Son of Heaven is in danger, they will light the beacon fire and inform and summon all the princes to rescue the Son of Heaven.
One day, he and the two of them, idle, ordered the people who guarded the beacon to raise the beacon. The princes of all sides, seeing the smoke of the beacon, immediately tensed up, thinking that the state had a police and needed rescue, and immediately led the soldiers and horses, ran lifelessly, and rushed to rescue the Son of Heaven.
When the beauty saw the princes of all sizes with soldiers and horses, rushing to the scene, sweating profusely and burning with fire, she couldn't help but smile.
This laugh was unbearable, and the Youwang was moved to see it, but the princes who hurried to the capital, seeing that the Tianzi was safe and sound, knew that it was the Yuwang who laughed in order to induce the beauty of the concubine. This is really speechless, no one has ever seen the king of a country make such a boring joke and treat the affairs of the state as a child's play!
After the words were deposed, her father Shen Hou had always been unfair to his daughter and had long had the heart of revenge. He saw that the King of You, obsessed with women, disregarded state affairs, and even came up with the idea of colluding with Inuyasha to raise troops together to attack the capital.
The King of You, who was obsessed with Qiu Ji and was militarily defensive, saw that Shen Hou and Inuyasha's soldiers were coming, so he had to raise a beacon and gather the princes of all sides to rescue him. The princes of all sides thought that it was again to make a joke and laugh, so none of them answered the call. Oh, this is really a realistic version of "Wolf Coming"!
Inuyasha's soldiers, who were extremely ferocious, broke into the capital, killed the Yu King, abducted the Concubines, and plundered the silver.
The biggest reason why the story of the princes of Zhou Youwang has been passed down to this day is that it was recorded by Sima Qian in the "Records of History", and even Sima Qian himself felt that the praise was a red face and a disaster, and was mainly responsible for the demise of Western Zhou.
However, this view was questioned by later generations, such as Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhen of the Ming Dynasty, etc. By 2012, Tsinghua University found that according to the records on the Warring States Bamboo Jane, King You of Zhou took the initiative to attack the State of Shen, and Shen Hou joined forces with Inuyasha to defeat King You, in order to protect himself.
On the 2338 bamboo tablets, there is no mention of "Beacon Theatre Princes", so experts are more convinced that the Beacon Theatre Princes are just a fabricated story. In this way, this weak beauty has carried a black cauldron for a thousand years, which is really black enough! What do you officials think?
After the death of King You, the Zhou Dynasty made the old crown prince Yi Usu king, known as King Ping. After that, Inuyasha often came to invade, and King Ping was helpless, in order to avoid Inuyasha, he had to move the capital to Luoyang, and the power of the Zhou Dynasty was from then on, and entered the situation of the Princes of Eastern Zhou vying for hegemony.
Author: Tong Jia Language Unruly Academy Contracted Author