The eleventh emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Xuan of Zhou, Ji Jing

Reign: 827 BC – 782 BC.

　　Year of Birth and Death: BC? - 782 BC.

　　Birthplace: Hojing (present-day Chang'an County, Shaanxi).

　　Lidu: Huaili (槐里, in present-day southeast of Juping County, Shaanxi Province), Luoyi (present-day Luoyang, Henan).

Era name: The first year of King Xuan of Zhou (甲戌, 827 BC).

Ji Jing (姬静), Ji Jing (姬名静), Yi Zuo Jing (一作靖), courtesy name Xuanwang (宣王). The eleventh king of the Western Zhou Dynasty during the Chinese royal family division era, his grandfather was the ninth king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Ji Xie, and his father was the tenth king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Ji Hu.

In the thirty-seventh year of King Li of Zhou (庚申, 841 BC), the people rioted and rushed into the palace to try to kill King Li, which is known in history as the "Rebellion of the People of the People". King Li escaped from Hojing and fled to the Zhou Dynasty border, Yan (彘, in present-day northeast of Huo County, Shanxi). After his escape, zhao gong (召穆公虎) and Zhou Gong (周定公) administered the imperial government, and the title was Republican (一說由官公伯) and regent). Since the first year of the Republic (841 BC), Chinese history has a clear chronology.

At this time, King Li's crown prince Ji Jing was hidden in the zhao gong's house, and when the people of the country knew about it, they surrounded the zhao gong family. The summoner said, "I have advised the king many times before, but the king did not listen, so that he suffered such a calamity. If the crown prince were killed now, the king would think that I had a vendetta against them and resent the king, right? Those who serve the monarch should not be resentful even if they encounter danger; even if they are resentful, they should not be angry, let alone the son of heaven? So he replaced the crown prince with his own son, and the prince was finally spared from being killed.

In the fourteenth year of the Republic (癸酉, 828 BC), Ji Hu died in Yan. At this time, Prince Jing also grew up in the Zhao Gong family, and the second assistant minister supported him as king together, which was King Xuan of Zhou. After King Xuan ascended the throne, he rectified the government and revived the declining Zhou Dynasty for a time.

In the fourth year of King Xuan of Zhou (Ding Ug, 824 BC), Ji Jing ordered Qin Zhong to be a doctor, attacked Xi Rong, and was killed. King Xuan also ordered his son, Duke Zhuang of Qin, to fight five of his brothers, and he was victorious.

In the fifth year of King Xuan of Zhou (戊寅, 823 BC), King Xuan and Yin Jifu (尹吉甫) together cut down the Fox (i.e. Xi Rong) at Peng Ya (彭衙, northwest of present-day Chengcheng, Shaanxi). Yin Jifu led a direct attack on Taiyuan (太原, in present-day Zhenyuan, Gansu) during the War of Conquest, forcing the foxes to retreat to the northwest. For Huaiyi, which invaded the Jianghan region, King Xuan of Zhou ordered Mu Gong and His Majesty Nanzhong, Emperor Shi, Emperor Shi, and Father Sima Chengboxiu to lead an army to fight and march east along the Huai River, so that Xu Guo, the most powerful of the local large and small Fang states, would obey and meet with Zhou.

In the eighteenth year of King Xuan of Zhou (庚寅, 810 BC), Ji Jing sent Gao's father to Huaiyi, and all the kingdoms greeted the king and offered tribute. At the same time, King Xuan also ordered Uncle Fang to lead a division to conquer Jingman (i.e., the State of Chu). In order to consolidate his rule over Southern Tu, King Xuan enfeoffed his uncle Shen Bo to Xie (present-day Nanyang, Henan).

In the 22nd year of King Xuan of Zhou (Jia Wu, 806 BC), Ji Jing continued the division of the Early Western Zhou Dynasty, sealing his brother Yu Zheng (in present-day eastern Hua County, Shaanxi).

In the thirty-first year of King Xuan of Zhou (甲辰, 797 BC), Ji Jing conquered Taiyuan Rong.

In the thirty-sixth year of King Xuan of Zhou (己酉, 792 BC), he failed to cut down the stripe and run rong.

In the thirty-ninth year of King Xuan of Zhou (789 BC), VashenRong, although victorious, was defeated by the Battle of Qianmu in the same year by the Rong of the Jiang clan, losing the division of the Southern Kingdom at his disposal.

In his later years, King Xuan of Zhou gradually became stubborn and could not listen to different political views. In order to show his prestige, when Lu Guo chose an heir, he forced the abolition of Chang Li young according to his own preferences. If the Lu people were not convinced, he raised an army to fight, which plunged the State of Lu into chaos, which not only destroyed the system of succession of the eldest son of the Zhou Dynasty, but also caused discord among the princes of the same surname, making the princes even more dissatisfied with King Xuan. This is still true for the princes, and it is even more arrogant and unreasonable for the subordinates who are officials in the dynasty.

Once, for a small matter, the doctor Du Bo angered King Xuan and was sentenced to death. His old friend Zuo Ru hurried forward to dissuade him, and King Xuan angrily rebuked him, saying, "In your eyes, there are only friends and no monarchs. Zuo Ru replied, "If the monarch is reasonable, the subject obeys the monarch; if the friend is reasonable, the subject supports the friend." Now Du Bo is not guilty, and he should not be beheaded, so the minister advises the king not to kill Du Bo, otherwise he will kill good people in vain. "I'm going to kill him, what can you do?" King Xuan said angrily. Zuo Ru continued, "The subject is willing to die with Du Bo." "I won't let you die, see what you can do?" King Xuan said this and ordered Du Bo to be beheaded left and right. Zuo Ru was ashamed and angry, and when he returned to the mansion, he killed himself, which caused a panic among the ministers. Afterwards, King Xuan calmed down, felt that he had indeed gone too far, secretly regretted, and was embarrassed to say it, so that he had trouble sleeping and eating, and suffered from a kind of shyness.

In the forty-sixth year of King Xuan of Zhou (己未, 782 BC), Ji Jing, who reigned for 46 years, once took his subordinates out on a safari to distract himself. During the safari, he suddenly shouted in the car and passed out, the medicine stone was ineffective, and he died a few days later. Later, there was a saying that when King Xuan of Zhou was hunting, he suddenly saw Du Bo coming out from the left side of the road, wearing a red robe, wearing a red crown, holding a red bow, riding a red arrow, shooting at the key point of King Xuan, and taking his life, which is naturally a superstitious word, but the cause of his death has indeed become a mystery for eternity.

After the death of King Xuan of Zhou, his son Ji Gongne succeeded to the throne as King You of Zhou. At this time, the social contradictions of the Western Zhou Dynasty further developed, which finally led to the fall of the Western Zhou.