Kings of the Zhou Dynasty: The theoretical eight-hundred-year Zhou Dynasty, but after moving east, it has died in name only

After the King of Zhou Ping moved east, it was historically called Eastern Zhou. In the process of establishing the King of Zhou Ping and in the battle to defeat Inuyasha, the most contributed to the Qin and Jin dynasties, Zheng Wei and other countries, and they also received many benefits later.

Eastern Zhou has been in power since the time of the first monarch, King Ping of Zhou.

In central politics, at the same time as King Ping succeeded to the throne, one of the forces in the princely states, represented by the monarch of the State of Yu, Gonghan Of the Kingdom, also established another son of King You as the King of Zhou, called the King of Carrying, and at this time there was a situation in which the two kings stood side by side. It was not until more than ten years later that the jin monarch Marquis Wen of Jin attacked and killed the king in order to please the king of Ping, which ended the situation in which the two kings stood side by side.

In the comparison with the political power of the princes, because of the eastward migration of King Ping, at this time most of the land in the west has been lost, the land directly ruled by the King of Zhou has become very narrow, and secondly, after king Ping moved east, in order to win over the meritorious princely states, he also vigorously rewarded many lands, and the territory directly administered by the King of Zhou was even inferior to that of several large princely states, which was both a symptom of the decline of the Zhou king's power and an important reason for the decline of the Zhou dynasty.

Because the capital of the original Zhou Dynasty, the Hojing area, had been captured by Inu rong (in fact, because in fact, because inu rong had to move east because the king of Zhou had to move east), in order to recover the lost land, but also to win over the heroes, the king of Zhou Ping divided this part of the region to qin Xianggong who had saved the meritorious service in the process of moving east (because of the merit of saving the driver, so the king of Ping promoted the status of the duke of Qin as a prince), and let him attack, although it was said to be a blank cheque, but this actually established the legitimacy of Qin's rule over this region, and the Qin state developed from it. Secondly, because of the merits of his maternal grandfather Shen Hou, King Ping granted Shen Hou a large fief and also sent the people in the area directly under the jurisdiction of the King of Zhou to garrison, which further weakened the strength of the central Zhou Dynasty.

Zheng Wugong, who had made meritorious contributions in the process of moving eastward, was also rewarded with a large amount of land and held important positions in the central government. His ambitions gradually expanded, and on the basis of inheriting his father's expansion strategy, Yu Pingwang destroyed the Eastern Yu Kingdom and the State of Qi after moving east. King Ping of Zhou was jealous of Zheng's growing power and powerful expansion, so he withdrew some of the rewarded territory, and Zheng Wugong moved his capital to the newly occupied land. Later, Zheng Zhuanggong, the son of Duke Wu of Zheng, continued to hold important positions in the central government of the Zhou Dynasty, and King Ping of Zhou wanted to take advantage of this to remove Duke Zhengzhuang, and Duke Zhuang rushed back to Luoyang to exert pressure on King Ping, and King Ping actually apologized to Duke Zhuang and eventually agreed with Zheng Zhuang to send the crown prince as a hostage, which is known as Zhou Zheng as a hostage. This incident has proved from fact that the status of the central government of the Zhou Dynasty has been reduced to equal to that of the princely states.

When King Ping died, Crown Prince Jihu was taking hostage in Zheng Guo, and Zheng Zhuang duke welcomed back the crown prince. However, the crown prince was too sad on the way back, and after returning to the dynasty, he fell ill and died, so Zheng Zhuanggong and others supported Ji Lin, the grandson of King Ping, as king, and made him king of Zhou Huan.

After King Huan succeeded to the throne, he vigorously suppressed the power of Zheng Zhuanggong and removed Zheng Zhuanggong from his position, Zheng Guo and the central government of the Zhou Dynasty were at odds, Zheng Zhuanggong no longer came to the dynasty, and sent troops to harass Zhou Jing, pretending to use the name of tianzi to attack other princes, and finally the two sides began a major war. During the great battle, the combined forces of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty were defeated by the Zheng army, and the Zheng general Zhu Tan shot an arrow in the shoulder of king Huan of Zhou, who fled, and afterwards Zheng Zhuang sent people to comfort king Huan.

Shooting the king's shoulder is a landmark event, different from the decline of Zhou Zheng's power, this event marks that the King of Zhou has no face and authority to speak of, Zhou Tianzi has lost the leadership and control of the princely states in fact and face, since then, one big country after another began to appear on the scene, opening the scene of hegemony, zhou Tianzi became a symbolic tool.