Why did Xia Jie, who had outstanding literary talent and excellent martial arts, perish in the country?

Why did Xia Jie, who had outstanding literary talent and excellent martial arts, perish in the country?

Xia Jie (夏桀), also known as 癸 (癸), 皏癸, was given the courtesy name given to him by Shang Tang: 桀 (陳) (meaning ferocious). He was the son of Emperor Fa, the sixteenth monarch of the Xia Dynasty, who reigned for fifty-two years (1818 BC to 1766 BC), and was the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty. He is brilliant in literature and excellent in martial arts; he can kill tigers and leopards with his bare hands, and he can bend and straighten iron hooks like ramen noodles at will, so that a man of martial arts should have the ability to become a generation of wise kings. Unfortunately, Xia Jie put all his ingenuity into tyranny, pleasure, and blindness. Therefore, he was the first famous tyrant in Chinese history.

During the reign of Xia Dynasty, the princes of all sides no longer came to the court, the xia king's internal affairs were not repaired, external troubles were continuous, and class contradictions became increasingly acute. Xia Jie reused the courtiers and rejected Zhongliang. He reused a villain named Zhao Liang, who was dedicated to teaching him how to enjoy himself and how to blackmail and harm the people.

Xia Jie was a tyrannical politician, destroyed agricultural production, indiscriminately levied foreign countries, and extorted small states. In the thirty-third year after Xia Jie ascended the throne, he was conceited and brave, and sent troops to conquer Shi Shi (present-day Teng County, Shandong), but Shi Shi resisted, but asked for surrender, so he took out all the treasures he had accumulated over the years, and then selected many young and beautiful girls from the people to pay tribute to Xia Jie, among these many beautiful women, there was a woman named Mei Xi, because of her beauty, which made Xia Jie full of joy, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Xia Jie heard Mei Xi say that she was originally the righteous daughter of Shi Guojun, and took the initiative to ask to serve the King of Xia, and her heart was even more ecstatic, and the next day she crowned Mei Xi as the queen, and she was extremely pampered, and he felt that the original palace rooms were not worthy of Living for Mei Xi, so he ordered the recruitment of people's husbands to rebuild a gorgeous and tall palace for Mei Xi.

After the palace was built, it towered into the clouds, the floating clouds swam, and looked far away, as if the palace was going to fall, so this palace was called the leaning palace, and there were Qiong Room Yaotai in the palace, ivory corridors, white jade carved beds, and everything was luxurious. Xia Jie accompanies her sister Xi Deng to the palace every day, watching the scenery and enjoying it.

Mei Xi was originally a tribute to the defeat of the shi kingdom, specially for the overthrow of the Xia kingdom, so she changed her tricks to make Xia Jie waste the people's strength and financial resources, so that the people's anger boiled. But Xia Jie obeyed her requirements and did as she was told.

Xia Jie was afraid that her sister would miss her hometown, so she built some new houses according to the style of Shi Guo's houses, and visited and admired them with her sister to eliminate the pain of her sister's homesickness. According to Mei Xi's request, he sent people from house to house to select three thousand beautiful women to sing and dance in the palace, and sent people to supervise the making of three thousand embroidered dance clothes, and the people who could not hand over the embroidered clothes were severely tortured and plundered, causing the people to cry bitterly and the family to resent.

Xia Jie also ordered that meat be hung on the trees in the courtyard, called the meat forest, and a large pond was dug in the courtyard, filled with fine wine, called the wine pool. Whenever he and his sister Xi ascended to the palace, he ordered the three thousand palace ladies to dance together. When they were tired of dancing, they let the palace ladies go to the meat forest to pick meat and lie down in the pool to drink bitterly.

The sister also said: "The sound of the cracking veil is crisp and very pleasant." Xia Jie then ordered the people to pay tribute to a hundred horses every day, and ordered the powerful palace maid to tear it apart every day to her sister.

Xia Jie was desolate and promiscuous, and there were many well-known tyranny, such as releasing hungry tigers in the city and admiring the way people fled for their lives in terror. The people of the country hated Xia Jie to the bone, and made up a song and sang: "The rivers and rivers are full of water, and the boats are defeated." My king is wasteful, and the fun is thin, and the thin is also big. "Bo (Bo) was the capital of the Shang Kingdom. This song shows that the Xia Dynasty has lost the hearts of the people. Someone read the song to Xia Jie, and Xia Jie actually said, "This is a demon." I have the world, just as the sky has the sun. When the sun in the sky is finished, my country will perish. When the people heard this, they pointed to the sun in the sky and said, "O sun, when will you perish, and we are willing to perish with you." The resentment of the common people towards Xia Jie can be seen.

In the thirty-seventh year after Xia Jie succeeded to the throne, Shang Tang, the leader of the Eastern tribes, introduced a sage with both moral integrity and ability, Yi Yin, with the benevolence of Yao and Shun, to persuade Him, hoping that He 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.

When Taishi Ling saw xia jie's absurdity and luxury, he went into the palace and wept and advised Xia Jie: "Since ancient times, emperors have been the strength of thrift and thrift to cherish the people, so that they can get the love of the people. The blood and sweat of the people cannot be fed for the entertainment of one person. Such a luxury, only the subjugation of the country. Xia Jie was very impatient to hear this, and reprimanded Zhonggu for being nosy, and Zhonggu knew that Xia Jie was hopeless, and knew in his heart that Xia Jie must perish, so he defected to Shang Tang.

The chancellor Guan Longqi advised Xia Jie several times, but Xia Jie just did not listen, Guan Longqi said: "The Son of Heaven is humble and pays attention to faith, frugality and protection of talents, the world can be stable, the dynasty is stable, and now His Majesty is extravagant and murderous, so that the people are looking forward to his early demise, His Majesty has lost the hearts of the people, and only by quickly correcting his mistakes can he save people's hearts." Xia Jie listened, was very angry, and ordered Guan Longkui to be killed, so that the Xia Dynasty government became more corrupt, Xia Jie also lost more and more people's hearts, and the rebels left.

Under the plot of Yi Yin, Shang Tang raised an army to cut down the army. Shang Tang first attacked the henchmen Wei Guo and Gu Guo, defeated the Kun Wu State, and then attacked Xia's important town of Mingtiao (present-day Xi'an Yixi, Shanxi). Later, he was captured by Tang and exiled here. The nation died, exiled and starved to death. The Nearly Five-Hundred-Year-Long Xia Dynasty came to an end.

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