King Ji of Zhou cheng was the son of Ji Fa the King of Zhou Wu and Yi Jiang, the daughter of Taigong Jiang, and later succeeded to the throne. Jiang Taigong came out of the mountains at the age of 70, and the time when Yi Jiang married King Wu of Zhou should be after Jiang Ziya was 70 years old, and Yi Jiang had not been married before, which proved that Jiang Ziya was an old woman. When King Wu of Zhou died, Ji Shu was still very young, so King Wu left behind his more talented brother Zhou Gongdan and Zhao Gongyi to assist him.
Zhou Cheng Wang Ji chanted
King Cheng of Zhou was very lucky, because Zhou Gongdan was a man with little ambition, and he did his best to assist his nephew, and also put down the rebellion of the Three Prisons and the remnants of Yin Shang, surviving the most difficult period in the early years of Western Zhou.
Zhou Gongdan
After Zhou Gongdan eliminated the rebellion, he continued to conquer the Dongyi tribe, successively destroying more than fifty Dongyi tribes such as the Yanguo, and extending Zhou's power to the seaside and Jianghuai area.
In order to defend the rule of the Zhou royal family, at the suggestion of Zhou Gongdan, during the Zhou Chengwang period, the members and heroes of the Zhou royal family were once again greatly enfeoffed. Seventy-one vassal states were successively enfeoffed, and the fifteen brothers and sixteen meritorious servants of King Wu were all enfeoffed to the feudal kingdoms as princes, in order to serve as the ping domain of the arch guard royal family.
The state was sealed at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty
Zhou Gongdan then ruled shaanxi (around present-day Sanmenxia) with Zhao Gongyi, with Zhao Gong in charge of Shaanxi and Zhou Gong in charge of eastern Shaanxi. The Duke of Zhou built the Eastern Capital Luoyi in the Iloilo region, called "Chengzhou", to strengthen the rule of the newly occupied areas. At the same time, the army of the Three Prisons was reorganized and the "Chengzhou Eighth Division" was built, and later the remnants of the Yin merchants were moved to Luoyi, the "Yin Eighth Division" was formed, and an army relatively independent of the "West Sixth Division" was established in Chengzhou in order to suppress the rebellion in this area.
Into the Zhou Eight Division
Later, the Duke of Zhou formulated the ritual music, which strengthened the rule and centralization of power of the Zhou Dynasty.
In the end, King Cheng of Zhou grew up, and the Duke of Zhou returned to power king Cheng of Zhou. This is what it means:
"(Zhou Gongdan) one year to save the chaos, two years to ke yin, three years to jianxian, four years to build hou wei, five years to camp into Zhou, six years to make liturgical music, seven years to become a king."
History refers to the Zhou Dynasty before king Ping moved east as "Western Zhou", and the Zhou Dynasty after moving the capital to Luoyi was called "Eastern Zhou", because the capital of Western Zhou, Fenghao (present-day Chang'an District, Xi'an), was west of Luoyi. However, the He Zun Inscription unearthed in 1963 refuted this claim. The inscription clearly states that King Wu of Zhou requested to move the capital to the Central Plains before his death, and King Cheng of Zhou moved here after Zhou Gongdan built Luoyi. As shown in the figure:
Ho Zun inscription
That is to say: Western Zhou moved the capital to Luoyi (present-day Luoyang) during the zhou chengwang period, but later the capital of zhou you was in hojing, so when did Zhou Tianzi move the capital back? We'll talk about that later.
King Ping of Zhou moved east
After King Cheng of Zhou came to power, the princes of luoyi in the eastern capital came to the dynasty one after another, which was the biggest grand event since the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty. Since then, King Chengwang of Zhou has opened the prelude to the first prosperous era in Chinese history, the "Rule of Cheng Kang".
Under the tutelage of Zhou Gongdan's Dun Dun, King Cheng of Zhou was diligent and thrifty, diligent in government and loved the people, and promoted the idea of "ruling the country by virtue" internally in order to alleviate class contradictions; externally, he constantly attacked Dongyi and strengthened the rule of this area by force. At the same time, it strengthened the patriarchal system of dividing the feudalism, defending the royal power, and during the period of becoming a king, social stability, the people were harmonious, and the voices of praising the taiping and prosperous world were endlessly heard.
The perfect cooperation between King Cheng of Zhou and Gongdan of Zhou made the world of the Zhou Dynasty for nearly eight hundred years.
(Continues tomorrow)
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