Before stepping into the main topic, let's first understand the division of the Spring and Autumn Warring States time and the famous names of each Zhou Tianzi in this period.
The Spring and Autumn Period was a historical period from 770 BC to 476 BC, the year when King Ping of Zhou moved east to Eastern Zhou began, ending in 476 BC (the forty-fourth year of King Jing of Zhou) on the eve of the Warring States, a total of 295 years, during which the eldest Zhou Tianzi rotated 14, starting with King Zhou Ping, the son of king You, of the Beacon Theatre, and ending in the year before King Jing of Zhou resigned, that is, before the three divisions of Han, Zhao, and Wei into the Jin dynasty. Of course, the Warring States period began with the destruction of Zhi Bo Xun Yao by the three masters of Han, Zhao, and Wei, and the division of Jin lands, until the end of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Seven Kingdoms, and the boss of the period began from the elderly King Jing of Zhou to the end of the unified King of Zhou, at this point, the Son of Heaven as the boss withdrew from the stage of history.
Shortly after King Ping of Zhou was initially supported by his grandfather to become the boss, the prince Gonghan supported the brother of King You of Zhou as the Son of Heaven, and was known as King Zhou, that is, King Ping's uncle, until 20 years later, when Marquis Wen of Jin attacked and killed King Zhou, and the poor boy of King Ping sat firmly in the position of boss. Of course, at this time, there was a little brother who had meritorious escort and was promoted to a close brother, that is, Qin Xianggong, and was given a fief in the original Tianzi fief. Because the son of heaven was seized of his homeland, as the newly ascended boss only had a corner of the northwest of present-day Henan, the east was not Xingyang, the west did not cross the Tong Pass, the south did not cross Rushui, the north only reached the south bank of Qinshui, the square circle was only more than six hundred miles, the land was narrow and widowed, compared with the large princely states with a radius of thousands of miles, it was only equivalent to a medium princely state, so the boss was bullied from here.
King Zhou Ping died, King Huan of Zhou took the throne, because his father left early, this child directly skipped the uncles directly as the boss, this child just became the boss, some people felt that he was too young to look down on him, the young man was angry, disobedience is to do it, the result was the establishment of the first beaten Tianzi, was Shot in the shoulder by the Zheng general Zhu Jiao, Zhou Tianzi's authority was gone, this battle made the baby depressed, and soon hung up.
King Zhou Zhuang ascended to the throne, this son is more powerful than the old father, the guy is to do it, quelled the rebellion of prince Ke, is one of the few bosses with relatively high force values, due to the limited space, Xiaobian will focus on a few more provocative Tianzi bosses.
King Zhou (also known as King Zhou), this guy is very powerful, as the eldest son of heaven, he actually publicly admitted the identity of the younger brother, recognized the hegemonic status of the Duke of Qi Huan, and officially crowned the Duke of Jin wu as the king of the Jin state, this young man did not know whether it was his father King Zhuang who was born, this baby could not be supported at all.
King Hui of Zhou, like his father, was not only bullied by outsiders, but also bullied by his own people. First, he was stripped of his seat by his own uncle, and later regained his seat with the support of his younger brother, and the originally not very rich man also pretended to be generous, so he gave Jiuquan to Yu Guo, and gave the land east of Tiger Prison to Zheng Guo.
King Xiang of Zhou's name sounds very domineering, but in fact it is not very useful, this elder brother was even captured during his reign, the old family crystal was copied in that sad spring, and later the jin wengong who took the throne soon after, under the banner of king Qin, flipped back the capital and welcomed back the king of Xiang, because the capital had just been taken back, resulting in him being buried with money after his death, and his son King Zhou borrowed money from the State of Lu to bury him. This also indirectly leads to the status and treatment of the boss of tianzi in the back.
By the time the king ascended the throne, the great princely states had no respect for the Zhou Dynasty and the Zhou Tianzi, and the central power continued to weaken. During the reign of King Ding of Zhou, the then Overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhuang of Chu, was on a military parade near the Eastern Zhou capital luoyi, and he also asked the eastern Zhou chancellor about the weight of jiuding in the palace, implying that he already had ambitions to become king of Zhou. When King Ding heard the news, he hastily sent his ministers to comfort King Chuzhuang, and only then did he give up.
King Zhou Weilie, as the eldest son of Tianzi, many of the former ones were generally unpopular like mascots, but he was instead valued by the three doctors of the Jin Dynasty, and the etiquette was exchanged, and in 403 BC, Wei, Zhao, and Han were respectively named princely states, and successfully promoted three big men to the later Tianzi.
King Xianwang of Zhou,000 was even more curious, and he actually took the prince of Zhou Guo, who had not much of a fief left, to Gong and built the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, and he himself only remained as the Zhou King's Palace and lived in the Eastern Zhou Kingdom.
The King of Zhou was even more miserable, and Ji Yan initially lived in the "Eastern Zhou" (i.e. Chengzhou), and in 307 BC, the King of Qin Wu wanted to enter the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to try to lift Zhou Ding, and ordered the right minister Li Li to lead a military vehicle to the Eastern Zhou Kingdom to test the reaction of the Eastern Zhou. When the King of Zhou zhao sternly refused, Li Li was furious and expelled the king of Zhou Zhao from the palace, forcibly moved to the "Western Zhou" (that is, the royal city), and was driven out of his house by his little brother. At this time, the State of Chu wanted to suppress the expansion of the Power of the State of Qin, and sent emissaries to ask Ji Yan to order all countries to cooperate in attacking Qin in the name of the Son of Heaven. Ji Yan was overjoyed and ordered the Western Zhou Gongding to assemble an army of five or six thousand men, but there was a shortage of weapons and food. Ji Yan raised military funds from wealthy households in the territory, paid them vouchers, and promised to repay them with booty on the day of the Zhou Army's class. However, the battle was unbearable, and the rich families of the "Western Zhou" saw that the Zhou army had returned, and they all took the coupons to collect debts from Ji Yan. They gathered outside the palace gate from morning to night, and the noise was incessant, and the sound reached the inner palace. Ji Yan was ashamed and remorseful, and had no choice but to hide on a high platform behind the palace to avoid debts, and the "high debt platform" also came from this. After that, the Qin army refused to give up, and after capturing Yangcheng (southeast of present-day Dengfeng County, Henan Province) and Negative Huang (southwest of present-day Dengfeng County, Henan Province), the Qin army directly attacked the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Duke of Western Zhou went to apologize for his sins.
Western Zhou Jun ran to the Qin kingdom, prostrated himself and confessed his sins, and dedicated all thirty-six yi and 30,000 people to King Zhaoxiang of Qin. The State of Qin tied the Western Zhou Jun to the pillars and paraded them to the public, reducing him to a commoner. He let it go back to the Western Zhou. In the same year, king Zhao of Zhou died in anger. Dynastic power was already controlled by the Dukes of Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, with The Western Zhou Dukes in Luoyang and eastern Zhou in Gongyi. Shortly thereafter, The Western Zhou Dynasty Emperor Wen died, and the people of Western Zhou fled to the east. The State of Qin then easily took jiuding and other treasures, and did not establish a new king, and the Western Zhou Dynasty collapsed, while announcing the end of the Zhou Dynasty that lasted for eight hundred years.
In 249 BC, King Xiang of Qin zhuang destroyed the Eastern Zhou kingdom. The eastern and western zhou all belonged to the Qin state, and the sacrifices of the Zhou Dynasty were cut off from then on.