Throughout his life, Confucius traveled around the world to promote Confucianism, hoping that a certain prince could accept the Confucian political theory, that is, to restore the ideal dynasty of Political Clarity and Peace and Contentment of the People in Western Zhou. In Confucius's eyes, the Western Zhou Dynasty was a dynasty of high morals and reasonable institutions, of course, relative to the Xia, Shang, and even Yu dynasties. If the Western Zhou Dynasty was really as beautiful and superior as Confucius said, how could the Western Zhou Dynasty perish so quickly that no one wanted to recover after its demise?
Without foreign invasion, the Western Zhou Dynasty would have been likely to maintain a thousand-year lineage like the Japanese Imperial Family. Unfortunately, almost all of China's dynasties have the same characteristic, a powerful foreign race is watching from the side, and the neighbor of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Inu rong, is particularly close, only 120 kilometers away from the Western Zhou capital of Hojing. The "Records of History" traces the demise of Western Zhou back to King Li of Zhou, believing that he was particularly greedy, extravagant and extravagant, and did not allow the people to discuss, which led to the rebellion of the people, which was one of the reasons for the demise of Western Zhou.
This is not the case at all. Western Zhou was able to suppress Inuyasha before the reign of Chengkang, and in the subsequent battles Inuyasha began to gain the upper hand, and not only was the Western Sixth Division defending HoJing depleted, but even King Zhou Zhao himself died on the way to conquer Inuyasha. In order to cope with the attack of Inuyasha, the Zhou royal family had to rely on the princes from all over the country to lead soldiers to serve the king, but hundreds of chariots did not come just before they came, the soldiers had to eat, and the princes wanted to be rewarded, so the Zhou royal family became poorer and poorer.
The princely states became fatter and fatter, and there are many records of the defeat of inuyasha by the princely states in the Western Zhou Dingwen, while the eighth division of the royal family into the Zhou Dynasty was repeatedly defeated. Faced with internal and external troubles, King Li of Zhou had to find a way to increase the income of the imperial court, "specializing in the benefits of mountains and forests and rivers". King Li of Zhou was likely to nationalize all the mountains, forests, rivers and rivers in the zhou royal family and the surrounding princes, and anyone who hunted, chopped firewood, or fished had to pay taxes to the royal family. Since the Zhou royal family had already given a large amount of land under its rule to the princes, the "benefits of the mountains and forests" must include the princes' countries.
It may be a bit too much to say that King Zhou Li is greedy, but it is true that King Zhou Li wants to share the benefits from the princes. According to the "Ritual System and Royal System", the mountains and rivers of the Western Zhou Dynasty were originally public, and anyone could cut firewood and hunt. However, as the strength of the princely states increased, they blocked the way for ordinary people to enter the mountains, forests, and rivers, and regarded the mountains and forests as their property. The implementation of the "patent" by King Li of Zhou was actually to take back the mountains and forests and rivers from the princes, or to let the princes who occupied the mountains and forests and rivers pay taxes to the royal family.
However, the "Chronicle of History" records that the final result was "the rebellion of the Chinese people", which is very interesting. Whether it is King Li of Zhou or the princes occupying the mountains, forests and rivers, it is the same for the people, king Li of Zhou did not have a monopoly or compete with the people for profits, but in the end he was attacked by the people and driven out of Hojing. It must be those whose interests have been touched to mobilize the masses and oust King Zhou Li from power. In fact, tax collection was a very common thing in later dynasties, but the taxes collected by King Li of Zhou were not imposed on the heads of ordinary people, but by princes. Otherwise, King Li of Zhou would not have been ousted from power, after all, the Eighth Division of Cheng Zhou could not defeat Inuyasha, and it was more than enough to deal with ordinary people.
The demise of Western Zhou actually had little to do with King Li of Zhou, and his son King Xuan of Zhou was once in a state of prosperity during his reign, but unfortunately, during the reign of King You of Zhou, Ho jing was attacked by the combined forces of Inuyasha and the princes, King You of Zhou was killed, and Western Zhou perished. The successor King Ping of Zhou not only failed to unite with the princes to defeat Inuyasha, but instead moved east to Luoyi and divided the territory of the Western Zhou State occupied by Inuyasha to the Qin. Even Zhou Tianzi was unwilling to restore the Western Zhou, so what was the use of Confucius traveling around the world to lobby? The Qin people who were divided by the King of Zhou Ping were the ancestors of the Ying clan who later destroyed the Zhou Dynasty and the Six Kingdoms! Finally, ask for attention