Ji Fa succeeded to the throne because his younger brother Boycott was killed by Shang Zhouwang and inherited his father's will. 1 1 century BC, the Shang dynasty was destroyed, the national political power was seized, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was established. Ji Fa showed outstanding military and political talents in the process of conquest and became a wise king in the history of China.
1, the rise of the Zhou Dynasty
The first week is an ancient tribe active in the Loess Plateau in the west of the Central Plains. The ancestors of Zhou people were abandoned by the legendary Jiang Yuan, the son of Di Ku Yuan Fei, who was an agricultural teacher in Shun Di. His name is Hou Ji, who taught the people to cultivate crops and was enfeoffed in Thailand. In the early years of Shang Dynasty, his descendant Gong Liu led his troops to move to Qi Huangong's father, and moved to Joo Won? in the south of Qishan (now Qishan County, Baoji, Shaanxi).
After Gu Gong's youngest son, Ji Li, succeeded to the throne, he enforced morality, developed production and expelled Yi Di, making him stronger. He was suspected by Shang Dynasty. Wang Wending of Shang Dynasty sent someone to kill Ji Li, and Ji Chang, the son of Ji Li, succeeded to the throne. Often known as Xibo, kind and loving the people, courtesy corporal, all the people in the world come to defect.
The Shang and Zhou Dynasties were threatened by the development of the Zhou Dynasty, so they imprisoned Xibochang in prison for seven years, and Zhou people redeemed Xibo with treasures and beautiful women. Since then, with the help of Jiang Ziya, Xibochang indulged in amusement on the surface and tamed Yinzhou, but in fact he was better at Xiu De, vigorously developed production and moved the capital to Fengyi (now the west bank of Feng Shui southwest of Chang 'an, Shaanxi).
Ji Chang has been in power for 50 years, and has implemented many correct policies, and his national strength has gradually become stronger. By the time he died, two-thirds of the people in the world had won, which laid the foundation for the destruction of business. In nine years, Ji Chang died and his son Ji Fa succeeded him.
After Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, he reused the sages in his family, and continued to take Jiang Taigong (that is, Jiang Shang) as his strategist and his younger brother Zhou Gongdan as Taizai. Zhao Gong, Bi Gong, Kang Shu, Ji Dan and other good ministers are all in their respective posts, with abundant talents and flourishing politics, striving to unite more vassal states and strengthen their own strength. At this time, Shang Zhouwang became more and more dissolute and cruel, and became arrogant and extravagant, which made many traitors leave Zhou Wuwang's profile and complain everywhere.
Jin Meng looked at the soldiers.
Under the tyrant Zhou Wang, the Shang Dynasty was very corrupt politically, but it still had strong military strength. King Wu sized up the situation and actively prepared to eliminate the conditions of Shang Dynasty. After Ji Fa ascended the throne, in order to crusade against Shang Dynasty (now Qixian County, Henan Province), he moved the capital from Feng (now the west bank of Feng Shui in southwest Shaanxi Province) to Gao (now the east bank of Feng Shui in southwest Shaanxi Province) and held a famous "soldier-watching" in history.
In the second year after Zhou Wuwang acceded to the throne, he led a great army to pay homage to the tomb of King Biyuan (now Chang 'an County, Shaanxi Province), and then turned to the east to March on Chao Ge. Now, he set up a big wooden sign with the name of his father Xibochang written on it, claiming that there is only Prince Fa, which means that King Wen is still the commander in chief.
When the army arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River (now northeast of Mengjin County, Henan Province), 800 governors rushed to participate, forming a situation in which the people were isolated from Zhou and Zhou. The vassal urged King Wu to March into Chao Ge immediately, but King Wu and Jiang Shangze thought that the time was not yet ripe, ordered the army to return after crossing the Yellow River, and warned everyone not to rush, because the time was not yet fully ripe, so let's move back.
3. King Wu attacked Zhou.
Zhou Wenwang/Kloc-was born King Wu at the age of 0/5. After King Wu ascended the throne, he continued to use Jiang Ziya as the national phase, with his brother and Zhao as his assistants, to further rectify internal affairs and strengthen military strength, and his national strength became stronger and stronger.
Nine years later (about 1048), Ji Fa became a vassal at the meeting in Jin Meng (Jin Meng), and 800 vassals joined the Union, and jointly held a commercial cutting exercise.
In the eleventh year (about 1046 BC), Shang Zhouwang was belligerent and continued to wage a war to conquer Southeast Yi, which left the Shang Dynasty in a state of poverty and impoverished the people. Seeing that the time has come, we have joined forces with tribes such as Yong, Shu, Qiang, Kuai, Peng and Pu to lead 300 chariots and 3,000 warriors.
King Wu found Zhou Wang more fatuous and tyrannical, a good minister was fighting, and Ji Zi gave advice. One was killed and the other was imprisoned. When a surname defected, Shao Shi saw that Zhou Wang was hopeless and fled with sacrificial vessels from the ancestral temple of Shang Dynasty. People looked askance and closed their mouths.
King Wu studied Jiang Shang and thought that the conditions for destroying this enterprise were completely ripe. In accordance with the will of King Wen, "Don't doubt it then", he decided to send troops to attack the merchants decisively and informed the vassal states to March on the Song Dynasty. Before he left, the master divined a divination, which was an ominous sign. Seeing this ominous sign, the officials were shocked.
King Wu is determined not to be superstitious about ghosts and gods. He resolutely led 300 chariots, 3,000 guards and 45,000 soldiers to Chao Ge. The army arrived at Konoha (now south of Jixian County, Henan Province) 70 miles outside Chao Ge. The princes led 4000 chariots to meet them. Zhou Wang heard that Zhou Bing had arrived, mobilized soldiers in the capital, and armed prisoners, slaves and prisoners of war, starting with an army of 65,400 people.
4. Battle of Mu Ye
The Battle of Makino, also known as "King Wu's Conquest", was a decisive battle between the allied forces of Zhou Wuwang and the Shang army in Mu Ye (now south of Qixian County, Henan Province). Because Di Xin (Shang Zhouwang) first conquered Lebanon in the northwest and then settled in the southeast, although he won, he was militaristic, which aggravated social and class contradictions. Finally, he was defeated and set himself on fire, and the Shang Dynasty perished.
Zhou Benji, the fourth volume of Historical Records, records that when the Emperor of Zhou heard that King Wu was coming, he also sent 700,000 troops to leave King Wu. The prince of Wu ordered the teacher to respect his father, the centurion to respect his teacher, and used the big pawn to rule the emperor. Although there are many teachers, they have no intention of fighting and want the prince of Wu to enter the court. All the divisions fought in ambush to open the king of Wu. When the king of Wu arrived, all the soldiers fell down. When he left, he climbed onto the deer platform, covered himself with rare treasures and set himself on fire. The king of Wu held a big white flag to persuade the princes, who worshipped the king of Wu, who was a vassal and obedient. King Wu went to Shang State, and the people from Shang State stayed in the suburbs. So the king of Wu asked his ministers to tell the businessmen and people, "Go to heaven and rest!" " The merchants kowtowed again, and King Wu also answered. Then go in and die. The prince of Wu shot himself, fired three shots, got out of the car, killed him with a lightsaber, and beheaded him with Huang Yue, the flag of Dabai County.
King Wu swore an oath to the whole army before the war, recounting Shang Zhouwang's sins and mobilizing soldiers to kill the enemy heroically. The army of Shang and Zhou Dynasties collapsed under Zhou Jun's fierce offensive. Those slaves and prisoners who were forced to fight did not want to work for Zhou Wang, but regarded King Wu as a savior, abandoned Zhou Jun and brought him to Chao Ge. Zhou Wang saw that the tide was gone and set himself on fire on the Lutai, and the Shang Dynasty perished. Zhou Wuwang cut Zhou Wang's body with a lot of money.
When the Zhou Dynasty was founded, Haojiang (now southwest of Xi City, Shaanxi Province) was taken as the capital, and Wen Lue Wang was introduced and enfeoffed.
5, packet regulator
After Zhou Wuwang destroyed the business, in order to consolidate the national political power, Haojing (now southwest of Xi, Shaanxi Province) was its capital, and a series of policy adjustments were made:
Rebuild Beagan, who died in vain at the hands of Zhou Wang, and release Ji Zi imprisoned by Zhou Wang.
As for other tribes, the descendants of Shennong were sealed in Jiao, Huangdi in Zhu (Ganyu, Jiangsu), Yaofeng in Ji (Jixian, Tianjin), Shunfeng in Chen (Huaiyang, Henan) and Xiafeng in Qi (Qixian, Henan).
Zhou Wang's son Wu Geng was sealed in Yin, the capital of Shang Dynasty. In order to surround Wu Geng's territory, he also enfeoffed his three younger brothers: Xianyuguan (Zhengzhou, Henan Province) in Guan Shu, Cai Shudu in Cai (Shangcai, Henan Province) and Huo Shu in Huo (Huozhou, Shanxi Province) as the third supervisor.
In order to strengthen the management of the land under the control of the Zhou Dynasty, the founding fathers of the Zhou Dynasty were all sealed, such as Lu Shang was sealed as Qi, Gong Dan was sealed as Lu, Yan was sealed as Guan, and Shu was sealed as Cai.
According to records, at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, a total of 7 1 vassal States were divided, including 5 brotherly countries 15 and more than 40 countries with the same surname, and then troops were sent to pacify the remnants of Shang Dynasty and the forces of Dongyi. According to records, at that time, a total of 99 countries were conquered, and 652 surrendered. Some former kings were also blocked, such as Jiao, Zhu, Ji, Chen and Yi.
In order to draw lessons from the demise of the Shang Dynasty and govern the country well, King Wu specially took Ji Zi to Beijing and humbly asked Anbang for advice on how to govern the country. According to the truth, he discussed with and decided to further improve and determine the patriarchal clan system that had existed in ancient times but had not yet been fully formed, that is, to divide the whole country into several vassal States, and the Zhou Emperor was enfeoffed to the relatives and heroes of Ji who had contributed to the great cause of destroying commerce; The vassals can call up troops, but they must always obey the emperor's orders and pay tribute to the emperor regularly. Allow Marquis to inherit from generation to generation, and can enfeoffment Qing and doctors as countries; The son of heaven has the right to reward and punish governors, and also has the right to ask questions about the feudal system of enfeoffment in the Qing Dynasty and doctors.
There is no doubt that the general plan of the king of Wu to seal the country is obviously an improvement compared with the primitive small country phenomenon in Shang Dynasty. It did have the significance of unifying the world and played a role in consolidating and strengthening state rule at that time.
Two years after the death of King Yin Ke (about 1043 BC), Zhou Wuwang died. In the summer and June of the first year, he was buried in Bi, and Zhao Gongying and Tai assisted the prince to be king.
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