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Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

author:Pick up some Chinese studies

Ji Hu, the King of Zhou Li, was the tenth king of Western Zhou, and what he received from his father King Zhou Yi was a mess: "The royal family is small, the princes or not the dynasty, and they are fighting each other" ("History of the Chu Family").

According to historical records, during the reign of King Li of Zhou, he was violent and violent, monopolizing the imperial program, and trying to put all the wealth in the world under his own name, so the people of the country hated him, opposed him, and talked about him.

Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

In this way, Li Wang was angry, a country "profit is greater than governance, harm is greater than chaos", there is no stable social environment, the people of the country can talk about anything, then everything they want to do.

Therefore, King Li of Zhou sent witches to monitor the people of Li Min, and if anyone was talking about chaos, he would be arrested and killed.

Sure enough, the Chinese people "look at each other with eyes", you look at each other, I look at you, you are good, no one dares to get together to talk about anything anymore.

King Li of Zhou was very happy and said to Zhao Gong, "I can stop their nonsense, and now no one dares to slander me anymore." ”

After hearing this, Zhao Gong said very worriedly, "O Great King! You are blocking the mouths of the people! The mouth of the defense of the people is better than the defense of sichuan. The river will collapse, and there will be many wounds. Therefore, those who control water are all opening ditches to make the flood flow smooth; those who govern the people are enlightened to let them speak. Then, the good will be promoted, and the bad will be prevented, so as to win the support of the Chinese people! "How good is that advice! Unfortunately, King Zhou Li just didn't adopt it.

If he had adopted it, wouldn't he have fallen into the fate of being exiled by his countrymen in just three years?

Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

No, because he also made a "reform".

The Western Zhou Dynasty received tribute in two ways: the common people assisted in cultivating the public land and the tributes of the princes. However, by the time of King Yi of Zhou, the Western Zhou royal family was weakened, and many princes no longer paid tribute.

In addition, the people secretly developed private land, the public land was abandoned, and more and more people went to the mountains, forests and lakes to fish and hunt, and the well field system was seriously damaged.

The well field system, the basic land system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the land is divided into nine pieces according to the "well" glyph, the middle one is public land, everyone cultivates together, and the harvest belongs to the state; the surrounding eight pieces are private land, and the harvest belongs to each family.

However, all the land belonged to the Son of Heaven, so the Son of Heaven had the right to pay tribute to the commoners or nobles who cultivated the land, and the right to take back the land of the cultivator.

The economic income of the Western Zhou royal family fell off a cliff, but the nobles still indulged in lust and pleasure, resulting in incomes that were difficult to meet the needs of the royal nobles.

Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

After Cheng Kang's rule, the world has been peaceful for more than forty years without punishment. However, from King Kang's son, King Zhao, the slave-owning aristocracy continued to increase exploitation, and social contradictions began to intensify. Successive years of war have caused the country's financial resources to dry up and stretch to the limit. When King Li of Zhou ascended the throne, the Western Zhou Dynasty was in such a crisis.

Therefore, it was necessary to straighten out the state finances, expand the economic income of the imperial court, and nationalize the mountains and forests and lands owned by the original publicly owned forests and rivers and the nobles, increase the state financial revenue, increase the strength of the state, build the army, and better maintain the rule of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In fact, judging from the practical experience of later generations, this kind of proposition of King Li of Zhou is very valuable. But he was the first monarch to be knocked off the throne by civilians, why is this so?

First of all, the "patent" policy implemented by King Zhou Li is actually similar to the model of the planned economy, which can be implemented for a while, but not for a long time.

For example, the mountains, forests and lakes are owned by the Son of Heaven, and the Chinese people must pay taxes if they want to use these natural resources to make a living. In this way, the "patent" policy of the imperial court has monopolized social wealth and resources, the burden of the working people has become heavier, and the rights of some middle- and lower-class nobles have also been infringed.

Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

Doctor Rui Liangfu persuaded King Li: "Mountains, forests, lakes and mountains are naturally owned by heaven and earth, and everyone has the right to use them, so how can one person monopolize it?" Exclusivity will make many people dissatisfied and lay the root of the disaster. As a king, even if you let the whole world benefit, you must be wary of attracting people's resentment, but now you are allowing Rongyi to use public wealth to tempt you, and the disaster is probably not far away. If you have to do this, sooner or later you will lose your heart. ”

King Li listened to it and continued to appoint Rong Yigong as a secretary of state to implement patent policy.

Second, there is no focus on policy advocacy. Zhou Liwang's patent policy, even if there are many problems, is still more beneficial than harmful. If he pays attention to policy publicity and publicizes to the public that the benefits of "patent policy" outweigh the disadvantages, over time it will also penetrate the hearts of the people, and the resistance will be much smaller.

However, King Zhou Li would not do this, because he knew very well that he was cruel and tyrannical, and had already committed heinous crimes, and the people had already complained. No matter how he changes, the people of the country will not forgive, let alone he does not want to change.

In the end, the reason for the praise is difficult to ignore, the original princes were dissatisfied with the policy of King Li of Zhou, and finally the anger broke out after the beacon play princes, and they no longer rescued.

Zhou Liwang's "Ge Dian", what the hell is going on?

Finally, in 841 BC, the chinese people gathered a crowd to revolt, rushed into the palace, and tried to kill King Li of Zhou, which is known in history as the "rebellion of the people". King Li of Zhou fled to Yanyi (彘邑, Ino, Shanxi), but the people still refused to give up, shouting that they would kill the crown prince Ji Jing.

The crown prince had to hide in the house of the chancellor, and the countrymen surrounded the house of the prince. Zhao Gong was unable to do so, so he had to hand over his son to pretend to be the crown prince. The son of the summoner was killed with a stick, a hoe, and an axe. King Li of Zhou never returned to the capital and eventually died there.

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