King Yi of Zhou was named Ji Xie (姬燮), the ninth heavenly son of the Zhou Dynasty. He was a lucky man, but unfortunate for the Zhou Dynasty.
Ji Xie and his father, Zhou Yi Wang Ji Yuan, are the weak father and son we talked about last time. King Yi of Zhou casually moved the capital from Fenghao to Inuqiu because of the total solar eclipse, causing the people to be displaced, and the secretary of state complained bitterly. King Yi of Zhou's weakness caused Rong Di to invade, the princes were not subjects, and the prestige of the Son of Heaven was gradually lost, and the secretaries of state gradually fell to the more capable Brother Ji Peifang of King Yi of Zhou.
King Yi of Zhou
After the death of King Yi of Zhou, he was supposed to take the throne with his eldest son Ji Xie, but Ji Xie was also a soft egg, so Ji Peifang raised his arms, and everyone followed and supported Ji Peifang. Therefore, Ji Peifang, the son of heaven, was the King of Zhou Xiao.
Why did later generations define Ji Peifang's nickname as "filial piety"? Because he made a kind act after his death, that is, he returned the throne of Tianzi to his nephew Ji Xie, indicating that Ji Peifang was still very concerned about family affection.
King Xiao of Zhou
So for Ji Xie, he was a lucky man who picked up what he had lost. However, Ji Xie's weakness brought the Zhou Dynasty into the abyss like his father's, which was unfortunate for the Zhou Dynasty.
King Yi of Zhou was simply unable to control the increasingly powerful princes, causing them to attack each other and could not stop them, and even some princes could not come to see Zhou Tianzi and they were helpless. The most arrogant of these was the Chu state that Zhou Tianzi had helped.
At the beginning, King Zhou Zhao, the high ancestor of King Yi of Zhou, led the "Zong Zhou Sixth Division" and the "Cheng Zhou Eighth Division" to cut down Jingman and help the Chu state gain a firm foothold in the Han River Valley, and King Zhou Zhao was also killed in Hanshui. However, after the chu state and Jing man merged, after developing and growing in the south, they forgot the kindness of Zhou Tianzi, and Xiongqu, the king of the Chu state, actually arbitrarily crowned his three sons as kings, and at that time only Tianzi could be called kings, meaning that he was taller than Zhou Tianzi. The hegemony of the Chu state also began.
In addition to being weak, King Zhou Yi was also a faint person. At that time, there was a Ji state between the State of Qi and the State of Lu, as shown in the following figure:
Map of the Zhou Dynasty
Due to the continuous expansion of the State of Qi, it seriously threatened the surrounding States of Ji, and the State of Ji could only rely on the United States of Lu to balance the State of Qi. The Prince of Ji also often said bad things about the State of Qi in front of King Yi of Zhou, and King Yi of Zhou indiscriminately thought that the State of Qi was guilty, so he arrested the Duke of Qi and sentenced him to death. King Yi of Zhou was supposed to have taken him down when he was visiting the Duke of Qi, and it was unlikely that he would go directly to the State of Qi to arrest people.
King Yi of Zhou cooked qi to mourn
After the death of Duke Qi Ai, King Yi of Zhou also made Lü Jing, the younger brother of Duke Qi, the Marquis of Qi, the Duke of Qihu. In order to prevent further persecution by Ji Guo, the Duke of Qi Hu moved the capital from Yingqiu to Bogu, farther away, to show his concessions. As a result, this move was opposed within the State of Qi, and Gongzishan launched a rebellion, killed the Duke of Qihu, established himself as a prince, and moved the capital back to Yingqiu and renamed it Linzi. This is all the butterfly effect caused by the fainting things done by King Zhou Yi.
Fortunately, during the zhou yi king, the Rong di tribe temporarily stopped in the fusion of the Zhou Dynasty, and the king of Zhou Yi also sent the Duke of Yu to symbolically clean up the Rong Di. But at this time, the internal troubles of the Zhou Dynasty seemed to be more serious than the external troubles.
(Continues tomorrow)
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