Xia Jie, the emperor of the Xia Dynasty, was tall and powerful, and it was said that he could break iron hooks, kill crocodiles in the water, and capture bears, horses, tigers, and leopards on land.
After Xia Jie ascended the throne, in order to facilitate the conquest, the capital was moved back to the south of the Yellow River, which is also the place where Taikang once built the capital. To the east of the Xia Dynasty, there was the Shi clan, a small country in the east, which refused to submit to the Xia Dynasty.
Very angry, he mobilized a large number of troops to attack the clan of The Shi clan. There is a shi clan who is weak in strength, and seeing that the Xia Dynasty's soldiers are pressing the territory, he is busy expressing his willingness to pay tribute to Xia Jie.
At first, Jie did not accept the surrender of the Shi clan, and must be destroyed quickly, at this time, the shi clan monarch heard that Shi shi was a lustful person, and he chose a beautiful woman named "Mei Xi" to dedicate to Xia Jie. Seeing that his sister was happy and charming, he took his sister Xi and retired from the army.
In order to please his sister, Jie sent people and slaves to build a new palace and a terrace next to the old palace. The shape of the palace is unique, like the appearance of being dumped, called the leaning palace, and a beautiful terrace was built with jade in the garden of the leaning palace, called "Yaotai", after the completion of the palace and the Yaotai, Jie and Meixi moved here.
Ji and her sister xi indulged in pleasure in the newly created palace. He summoned many women who could sing and dance, people who played musical instruments and clowns who played burlesque, and performed for them every day, and Xia Jie and Mei Xi and the palace girls drank and played day and night, in order to find excitement, Mei Xi came up with many strange games. She asked Xia Jie to build a large wine pool and asked many people to stick their heads down to drink next to them.
It is said that xia jie beat the drum once, and there were 3,000 people who drank in the pool. These people were drunk and drowned in the pool of wine, which Mei Xi found interesting. Meixi wanted to see how people pulled carts, so they called some slaves, put on stiff ropes, and ordered them to pull the cart to run, and Meixi thought it was funny.
Meixi also came up with a strange trick, she wanted to trade in the market, release the tiger in the city, people ran in panic, trampled on each other and injured countless people, seeing these tragic situations, Meixi and Jie were very happy.
They live a life of spending time and drinking, and are extremely poor and extravagant, paying no attention to government affairs and the people's livelihood. In addition, he endlessly plundered the people, brutally exploited and oppressed them, and conscripted them for hard labor. The people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they used passive work to resist and did not carry out the orders of the superintendent Shi, because Xia Jie often compared himself to the sun in the sky, so the people cursed the sun and cursed Xia Jie.
There were two courtiers during the Xia Dynasty, one called Gan Xin and the other called Tuidao. Gan Xin flattered Xia Jie in every way, while insulted and harshly exploited the princes and the people.
Pushing and shoving can speak the truth, reverse right and wrong, sinister in the heart, and vicious in means. He is good at manipulating the monarch's behavior. These courtiers pushed Jie step by step into the abyss.
At Jie's side, there was a loyal servant named Guan Longqi. He saw that He was wantonly plundering the people's fat and the people's anointing, living a life of absurdity and shamelessness all day long, the princes rebelling, the people resentful, and once there was a foreign invasion on the border, the fate of the country was in danger, so he held the imperial map in his hand and came to the palace to ask for a meeting.
The imperial map is a picture drawn by the ancient dynasty to publicize the merits of the emperor's ancestors, and its role is to let the future generations of emperors carry forward the merits of the ancestors, imitate the achievements of the ancestors in governing the country, and continue the dynasty from generation to generation.
The imperial drawings held by Guan Longqi depict scenes such as Da Yu Zhi Shui and Tu Shan Princes' Assembly. His purpose was to emulate the previous kings and be frugal and love the people like Dayu, the ancestor of the Xia Dynasty. Only in this way can we win the support of the people and ensure long-term peace and stability in the country.
Guan Longqi held the imperial map in his hand to show Ji And said: "In ancient times, the people and kings were righteous and righteous, loved the people and saved money, so the country was stable and lived a long life. Now you, as the monarch, are profligate and murderous. In the long run, natural disasters will surely come, and it will definitely be the turn of the king to kill. My King, you must change! After saying that, he got down on his knees and hoped that Xia Jie would wake up.
After hearing this, he couldn't help but be furious, and ordered the guards on the side to pull Guan Longkui out and burn the imperial map. Guan Longqi was sentenced to capital punishment, first beheading his limbs and then beheading him, and the tragic situation was unbearable.
The ministers heard that Guan Longqi was loyal and advised, and he got such a fate, and the people rebelled and left. There were fewer and fewer loyal subjects around him, and there were more and more courtiers, and the demise of the Xia Dynasty was not far away.
Seventeen years after Xia Jie's succession, someone introduced Yi Yin to Xia Jie, and Yi Yin persuaded Him with the benevolence of Yao and Shun, hoping that Ji would understand the sufferings of the people and govern the world with his heart, but Yi Yin could not listen to it, so Yi Yin had to leave and turn to Tang.
Xia Jie's political tyranny and absurdity led to the rebellion of one of the princes, the Kunwu clan. Tang then raised an army to command the princes, followed by Yi Yin. Shang Tang attacked Kun Wu, and then attacked Xia Jie.
Xia Jie lost the battle at Youluo and fled to Naruto, the Xia army was completely defeated, and Xia Jie was exiled to Nanchao, and eventually died at Tingshan.