Author: Li Dakui
A mythological novel, "The Evolution of the Fengshen Gods", wrote the King of Shang as a tyrant who was uninformed, and since then he has been branded with the pillar of shame of history and it is difficult to turn over. In fact, the real Shang Dynasty Emperor Xin was not absurd, but a generation of accomplished male lords.
So, what are the praiseworthy historical feats made by Emperor Xin Of The Shang Dynasty?
Emperor Xin of Shang, whose original name was Zi Shu, was the younger son of Emperor Wenwu, born around 1105 BC, because the eldest brother Wei Ziqi's mother was born in the side chamber and could not inherit the unification, and the throne also fell to Emperor Xin.
In 1076 BC, after the death of Emperor Yi, the 30-year-old Di Xin ascended the throne as a concubine, then known as the King of Shang, and was the 31st tianzi of the Yin Shang Dynasty.
This Shang King, Emperor Xin, was a suitable candidate for the throne.
When he was young, he was talented, intelligent, and had strong language expression skills, could argue that his opponent was dumbfounded, and his ability to adapt to the environment was extraordinary, and he should strike decisively when he was shot, which caught people off guard; and he was strong and strong, and could fight alone with the beast.
There is a record of "Di Xin" in the "Records of History": Emperor Gongzi discerns the disease and smells very sensitively; the material is superior, and the hand is fierce; the wisdom is enough to refuse advice, and the words are enough to decorate the wrong; the people are able to be powerful, and the world is high in the world, thinking that they are all under themselves. "
Di Xin was called empress dowager, and did not spoil himself and kill loyal subjects as described in the "Fengshen Yanyi".
In history, there was indeed a daji, an ordinary woman of the Su tribe. Emperor Xin of Shang won the conquest of Yousu, and Dai Ji was taken into the harem by Emperor Xin as a prisoner of war, and died of illness a year later.
Di Xin's pet concubine is purely illusory.
His ability to kill loyalists is also fictional. For example, digging up bikan's "seven clever hearts" to treat Dai Ji is only out of vilification of the Shang King. The King of Shang was not even willing to kill Xi Bohou Jichang, and would he also inflict a hard hand on the loyal Uncle Wang, just to dig up his "Seven Qiao Heart" to treat Dai Himself? Obviously, it didn't make sense, not to mention that Dai Ji had already died at that time.
In fact, the King of Shang was not a king who liked to kill innocents indiscriminately.
He has been in power for 30 years, has courage and strategy, not only governs the government with heart, but is not afraid of internal and external troubles, recruits the Su clan, uses troops against Dongyi, focuses on expanding the territory, and disseminates the advanced culture and technology of the Central Plains, aiming to promote social and economic development and national integration. Under the long-term cultivation of Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty, he once expanded the land area of Yin Shang to the Jianghuai region, directly reaching the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea, which is today's Tianjin and Lianyungang area.
This is specifically recorded in the Huainan Zi: "The land of Lu, the left East Sea, the right quicksand, the front toe, the back of the youdu." "
It can be seen from this that Emperor Xin of Shang had great merits, and he was able to achieve such a great feat, worthy of being a great lord.
"Left Transmission" praises it as: 100 grams and no queen. This means that he won every battle in the war against Dongyi, although his later defeat in the key "Battle of Makino" did not negate his previous achievements.
In the "Fengshen Rendition", Fei Zhong is written as a heinous traitor. Under his rumors, there was also the villain Youhun who obstructed it, and The Marquis Of Xibo Jichang was imprisoned in The King of Xi.
In fact, Ji Chang's imprisonment had nothing to do with Fei Zhong. The real Fei Zhong was not a traitorous villain, but a loyal vassal of the Yin Shang Dynasty who was very capable of governing the country.
Under the supervision of Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty, on the one hand, he promoted cattle cultivation and irrigation and drainage, encouraged nongsang, and vigorously developed agriculture; on the other hand, he straightened out the history of governance and eliminated dissidents within the royal family, which greatly weakened the power of the nobility, so that the government decrees during the period of the King of Shang were smooth, and the social and economic development reached a period of extreme prosperity.
This fully shows that Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty knew that people were good at their duties, and was not a dimwitted monarch who did not know how to govern the country and did not know how to employ people, but could only enjoy himself.
The shang king used talents such as rubber mane, fei lian, and evil lai, which can prove that he is good at reusing talents in an eclectic manner.
Shang dafu Jiaoman did not want to be an official, but he could not cultivate the land, but he was industrious and eloquent, and he was a good hand in business. Emperor Xin, the King of Shang, agreed to go to the sea to do business and run the salt industry. Later, together with Guan Zhong (the first to propose "salt profit") and the Su Sha clan (making sea salt from seawater), it became the three great ancestors of the salt industry.
Among the fugitives, Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty saw that the powerful evil Lai and Fei Lianfa could fight good battles, so he broke through the rules and used them as generals, and let the two lead troops to conquer Li, Su and other vassal states, and made a great contribution to the world. Later, in the "Battle of Makino", the two were also heroic and unyielding, and the evil lai was killed on the spot, and Fei Lian was also killed in the later Anti-Zhou War.
It is said that the Ying clan, who established the Qin state during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was a descendant of General Fei Lian. Qin extinguished the Zhou Dynasty, and it seems to have fulfilled the providence of the causal cycle, which is an afterthought, not a table.
Mentioning the famous "Battle of Makino" in history, the fiasco of Emperor Xin of Shang was actually caused by objective reasons.
Because the King of Shang went all out to conquer Dongyi and the country was empty, in order to avoid being attacked on both sides, he implemented a "Huairou" policy against Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen.
However, this Ji Chang is also a generation of heroes, who will take advantage of the opportunity to develop strongly. His son King Wu of Zhou, Hime Fa (姫发), was also a young and promising tyrant, seizing the favorable opportunity of Yin Shang's indissoluble fight with Dongyi and losing both, and accumulating strength to attack Yin Du Chaoge in one fell swoop.
The King of Shang was powerless to return to his division, so he had to hastily organize Yiren prisoners of war to resist the attack of King Wu of Zhou in this place of Muye. The improvised armies had little fighting power, and the prisoners of war had little loyalty.
The results are predictable.
The Yin army was defeated, and King Wu of Zhou led his army to the song with murderous spirits. The helpless King of Shang, seeing that the general trend had gone, had to set himself on fire in Lutai and martyr himself at the age of 60, that is, in 1046 BC.
Since then, the Shang Dynasty, which ruled for 554 years, has ended, and the heroic Emperor Xin has left a full of regrets and passed away.
However, "the green mountains can't cover it."
Although the Shang Dynasty was lost at the hands of Emperor Xin of shang, its great deeds are still a fact and cannot be erased.
Historical facts prove that the King of Shang is not an absurd and unscrupulous emperor, of course, he also has such problems and deficiencies. For example, Bi gan, because of disturbing the hearts of the army, was indeed killed by him. The long-term war against Dongyi by the King of Shang and the neglect of Ji Chang's development also showed that he was somewhat immature in strategic considerations and control of complex situations.
Of course, the luck of the King of Shang was indeed not very good, but he met Ji Chang, the King of Zhou Wen, who was also a hero, and his son Ji Fa, the King of Zhou Wu, which led to his tragic ending.
The talent of the Shang Dynasty king was hindered, and because of the long-term negative publicity of a great mythological novel "Fengshen Yanyi" and the so-called conclusion of the defeat of the king, the generation of Shangyi king Emperor Xin was blackened for three thousand years.
It can be said that Emperor Xin of shang was the most blackened emperor in history.
This can only be a pity.
【About the author】Li Dakui, male, Han ethnicity, post-70s, Bachelor of Laws, Guizhou Meitan people, literature lovers.
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