Volume 1: The Decline of the Son of Heaven's Status

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These are changing times. The history of this long country is full of exclamation points.

In China's first dynasty, the late Xia Dynasty, the princes Shang Tang personally led the army to defeat Xia Ji in Mingtiao, and established China's second dynasty, the Great Shang Dynasty, legend has it that there was a lively and charming daughter of the Rong family, and the descendants of the legendary character Qi who were born after swallowing the eggs of the Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, Shang Tang, the princes of the Xia Dynasty, was one of them. And Shang Tang established the Great Shang Dynasty, and finally enjoyed unlimited power and supreme honor.

But dynasties have risen and fallen, six hundred years later, the throne of the Great Shang passed to the hands of the Shang King Emperor Xin, he was arrogant and extravagant, tyrannical, and was spurned by the people of the world, so he was named by later generations as the word "纣" as a nickname. King Wen of Zhou can be said to be a sage who can be compared to Shang Tang. Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou, the son of King Wen of Zhou, defeated the descendant of Shang Tang, King Shang, and founded the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty went through two dynasties, the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou, and during the Western Zhou period, the Zhou Dynasty began to begin to weaken because of an event.

In the eleventh year of King You of Zhou, that is, on a certain day in 771 BC. Haojing, the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a happy and peaceful place in the eyes of the world, is now in the midst of war, men, women and children crying to the sky, and the panicked people are trying to escape from the iron hooves of the Rong people to save their lives. The beacon tower on the mountain outside the pickaxe capital was burning, and the thick smoke slowly drifted into the distance, but the princes and armies who were supposed to see the beacon fire and King Qin were nowhere to be seen. There are only a few beacon towers, and the helpless isolation in the cold wind is so lonely and vicissitudes. Why didn't the princes come to King Qin? That's all because King Zhou You smiled for the Pomeranian, the princes of the Beacon Fire Opera, and this beauty is a compliment. This is how the customary phrase of the princes of the beacon fire opera came about. The joke that King Zhou You made to the princes later became true. The Rong people invaded Haojing, the Son of Heaven was covered with dust, and when Zheng Wugong assisted King Zhou Ping all the way to move east to Luoyang, a new page was turned in the history books, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began. Since then, the Lile conquest has come from the princes, and Zhou Tianzi, although he is still the nominal co-lord of the world, but China has entered a new era of war.

This is an era of constant deforestation. It is also an era of some heroes, the first of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period is the prince of Qi Huan, followed by the king of Chuzhuang, the prince of Qin Mu, the prince of Jin Wen, and the prince of Song Xiang. These wise and ambitious monarchs all longed for the rise of their country. So there are so many allusions, such as Guan Bao's friendship, winning the Central Plains, Hufu riding and shooting, and the allusions of Jintai recruiting talents.

At the same time, there were also many talented and virtuous generals, such as Shang Ying of the Qin State, Bai Qi.

There are also Li Mu, Guan Zhong, Fan Li, Meng Weijun, Pingyuan Jun, especially Zhang Yi and Su Qin, who are from the same division but have parted ways.

How many outstanding people were born in this era. Like Qu Yuan, he exclaimed on the bank of the Miluo River, "The whole world is turbid, I am alone, everyone is drunk, and I am sober". Born at the wrong time, and ambition is difficult to pay is the greatest sorrow of his life.

Looking back at the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, someone once said that there was a period when the Chinese were bloody, unscrupulous, and wonderful.

I have consulted many books to compile this book, which opens a door for you to understand the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Let you know more about the national history of your country.

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