I believe that many people have heard a saying: "Xia Shang and Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou divided into two halves."
As the longest dynasty in China's history, the Zhou Dynasty added up to more than 800 years in the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou Dynasties.
Legend has it that during the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou prepared to rebel against the Shang and one day dreamed of a flying bear. The minister told him that flying bears were auspicious to fall asleep, and that a strange man named Jiang Shang also called himself Flying Bears. So Ji Chang went to invite him out of the mountain. Later, Jiang Shang asked Ji Chang to pull a car for him as a courtesy corporal. King Wen of Zhou was pampered and treated well, and how much strength he had. I started pulling 400 steps, then rested for a long time; I continued to pull 400 steps hard and finally I lost my strength.
Jiang Shang said, "King Wen pulled a cart for 800 steps, and the Zhou Dynasty Guozuo for 800 years." The first 400 steps are stable, so the Western Zhou is stable, and the last 400 steps are intermittent, so the Eastern Zhou countries are chaotic.
King Wen pulled the cart eight hundred steps, and the Zhou Dynasty was eight hundred years old
Let's talk about the Western Zhou today.
There were a total of 12 kings in western Zhou. First of all, Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu, replaced the Shang Dynasty and made a good start, followed by King Cheng and King Kang, who took the throne as the Duke of Zhou, and the Duke of Zhou was named Dan, and was the younger brother of Ji Fa, the King of Zhou Wu. He monopolized power but did not have any dissent, and finally returned power to King Cheng, and Zhengshi regarded the reign of the Duke of Zhou as the beginning of the rule of etiquette. The Chengwang father and son created the reign of Cheng Kang in the Zhou Dynasty.
Zhou Gongdan
After King Kang's son King Zhao ascended the throne, the situation changed. Abandoning the zhou gong's way of ruling with courtesy, those who can use force will not be treated with courtesy. Once, when there was a problem with the tribute of the southern Chu state, he felt insulted, and went to the crusade with a large army, and he himself died in the war. King Kang's son, King Mu, inherited his father's violent bloodline and was belligerent and patrolled. Knock out the enemies around you. For pleasure, countless precious BMWs were kept in captivity, the most famous of which was Mu Wang's eight horses, when Tianzi's car was 6 horses, and Mu Wang used eight horses, which can also be seen that Mu Wang was not a frugal person.
Tianzi Six
Mu Wang Bajun
The treasury was becoming emptyer and weaker, and King Mu was harsh on government and miscellaneous taxes and plundered the people. Just as Qianlong went down to Jiangnan six times, leaving a deficit treasury to Jiaqing, King Mu's son Gongwang also inherited a mess. When rewarding meritorious people, they had no property and could only distribute land. The zhou dynasty began to lose power from then on, and at this time the enemies around it saw that the weakening Zhou Dynasty also came to plunder from time to time.
By the time of the ninth King yi of Zhou, the Zhou Dynasty's ability to resist the surrounding large tribes was completely insufficient, and the King of Yi needed to condescend to the princes of the sub-feudal lords for help, and the status of the Son of Heaven was getting lower and lower.
However, in order to regain his might, King Li of Zhou, who later ascended the throne, began to show his muscles to the outside world, making the princes tremble and tremble.
It was not until the time of King Xuan that Western Zhou began to return to the light, and King Xuan began to select talents and carry out major reforms, but the monarch was dazed in his old age and began to learn from his father Li Wang to fight around. Under the profligacy of generations of grandchildren, the national strength of the Zhou Dynasty was completely exhausted.
Until the King of Zhou You, not only inherited a mess, but also a monarch who loved beauty and did not love Jiangshan. His queen was called Bao Ji and was a famous beauty in history. Legend has it that she did not laugh at all, in order to amuse her, King Zhou You not only deposed his original queen, but also staged a beacon drama of princes, shengsheng dragged the Zhou Dynasty to the bottom.
King Youwang of Zhou Played princes
Later, King You of Zhou and Yi Usu, the son of the first queen Consort Shen, fled due to being deposed by King You of Zhou, but escaped the disaster when Inuyasha attacked the capital.
Yi Usui ascended the throne as King Ping of Zhou. In order to avoid the war in Inuyasha, King Ping moved eastward to Luoyi (present-day Luoyang, Henan). The glorious Western Zhou came to an end, and what was about to begin was the chaotic and turbulent Eastern Zhou.
Throughout history, taste life. We always say that if you are in good war, you will die, if you forget the war, you will die of war, since the beginning of King Zhao, the kings behind The Western Zhou are basically belligerent, and they are often very popular, so that they hurt the vitality of the country. Reading Shi Mingxin, everyone should take it as a warning, for individuals, although they do not cause trouble in life, they are not afraid of things.
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