Chapter 1: The princes of the Beacon Fire Opera of the Son of Heaven
The black flying rabbit in the sky goes, and the world has come and gone through the ages. Shen Yin Qu index talent, how much success or failure.
The rich song building dances, and the desolate and abandoned graves are deserted. Looking back at the dust, only Qingshan does not change.
A poem "Xijiang Moon", telling the story of the ancient dynasty, the iteration of the wind and clouds, let him be rich and powerful, let him enjoy the glory, let him dominate the career, can not stand the years ruthlessly turn into dust, the world only remembers a piece of the past, the past is a mirror, and then guide future generations.
Read all the fragments and concise, and comment on the heroes of the ages. In the joke of fame and wealth, looking back on a spring dream.
Yesterday's fragrant car BMW, today's autumn breeze. Whoever is strong and who is weak is always empty, and the puppet shed is moving.
Another poem "Xijiang Moon", the fragment is simply said to be three generations. Since the combination of Feng Fuxi and Feng Lixi, the beginning of Chinese humanities, following the Shennong clan to taste the herbs, and the Yellow Emperor unified the Chinese tribes and conquered the Dongyi and Jiuli tribes to achieve the unification of China, the world respectfully called it the "Three Emperors", and then the five emperors of Shaohao, Zhuan, Emperor Yu, Yao, and Shun, and the Shun Emperor passed on the throne to Yu, and then opened the first hereditary dynasty "Xia". After 471 years, the Xia Dynasty experienced the "Taikang Lost Country", and the "Shaokang Zhongxing", and until the accession to the throne, the desolation was unpopular, and finally caused the Shang Tang crusade, since then the Xia Dynasty died, and the Shang Dynasty was established. That Shang Tang learned the experience of the tyrannical people, made great efforts, widely implemented benevolent government, and created a period of emerging, but then the wise emperor, there will eventually be unworthy descendants, in order to compete for the throne civil strife, helpless to move the capital many times, and to Wu Ding ascended the throne, because he had lived in the people, well known about the suffering of the people, so he conscientiously revitalized the big business, and created a period of "Wu Ding Zhongxing" situation, but the good times did not last long, after the death of Wu Ding, he created a peaceful and prosperous era failed to continue, the Shang Dynasty is declining day by day, and then to Emperor Xin, pampered Daji, vain trust in traitors, and widely implemented residual government, In the end, Ji launched an army to invade the world, and since then, more than 500 years of Shangtang have ended, and a new dynasty has been opened - the Zhou Dynasty. That Zhou Dynasty from Zhou Wu Wang Ji initiated the construction, the capital of Haojing (now Xi'an Chang'an District), and to the Zhou Yi King, Rong Di invasion, tyrannical China, Zhou Yi King suffered deeply, had to move the capital to Dog Hill (now Xianyang), after that, the Zhou Dynasty Emperor continued to be disturbed by foreign invasion, the war continued, and in 781 BC, Zhou You King succeeded to the throne.
Since ancient times, heroes have been born in troubled times, and this story starts with King Zhou You.
Let's say that in 781 BC, the eleventh monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, King Ji Jing of Zhou Xuan, returned to heaven and turned into a void. After the death of King Xuan of Zhou, his womb was born and succeeded to the throne as King Youyou of Zhou.
During the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, he also fought for many years, the people were not able to make a living, there were strong enemies outside, and there were disasters inside for many years, and the ruling party injured his humerus, and killed loyal ministers indiscriminately.
After ascending the throne, he did not want to save the Zhou Dynasty from danger, and worked hard, but reused the minister Yu Shifu to exploit the people. Without the virtue of the Ming Monarch, he did the things of the Holy Monarch in vain, and raised troops to attack Xirong many times and was defeated.
Maybe even the heavens can't see it, and a series of natural disasters are sent down as punishment for its inaction, which undoubtedly makes the Zhou Dynasty at this time even worse. About a year after King Youyou of Zhou succeeded to the throne, a major earthquake occurred in the area of Guanzhong where Wang Ji of the Zhou family was located, and drought for many years caused the people to suffer from hunger and cold, exile, and the whole society was in turmoil and the national strength was exhausted.
Troubled times produce not only heroes, but also loyal ministers. There was a minister named Bao Jue, who saw that the new monarch was indulged in lewd wine every day, singing and dancing, and disregarded state affairs, so he decided to advise King You. Since ancient times, once the word exhortation is used for the king, it mostly indicates that the king must have something immoral, if you meet the lord of the Ming and it is easy to say, if you meet the faint king, most of them are not guaranteed to live, and if you don't see the death of Nabigan as a historical example, can you not know it? But today's national affairs are important, and their own life and death are small. Then he advised King Zhou You many times, but once failed, twice, twice failed, and three times. But that Zhou Youwang was already a faint king, how could he listen to it, so instead of listening, he imprisoned Bao Jue.
This Bao Jue has been in prison for three years.
This Bao Jue is the patriarch of the family, the patriarch is in prison, and the clansmen are doing everything possible to rescue the patriarch. Bao Jue's son, Bao Hongde, heard that King Zhou You was so beautiful that he was ordering the world's beauties to enter the palace, so he took this opportunity to visit the beauties. Finally, he found a woman surnamed Bao in Baocheng, taught her to sing and dance, and dressed her up and named her Bao Xi, pretending to be his daughter dedicated to Youwang.
When King Youyou saw Bao Ju that week, he was shocked and loved very much, and immediately made her a concubine, accepted the minister's daughter, and naturally wanted to release the old father-in-law, so Bao Jue was released and reinstated.
After King Zhou You's praise was praised, he spoiled her very much and blindly lived a life of absurdity and luxury. Although Bao Xi was born as bright as a peach and plum, but cold as frost, the whole cold beauty, since entering the palace has never laughed once, King Zhou You in order to win Bao Xi's happy smile, did not hesitate to do everything possible, but Bao Xi did not smile all day long, maybe was sent to the palace to serve the faint monarch in the heart of the sad. For this reason, this week, the king of Youwang actually offered a reward, who can attract a smile, and the bounty is a thousand taels. Driven by interests, there are people who offer clever plans. However, he couldn't laugh at the Pomeranians, and King Zhou You was furious about it. At this time, Shangqing Yu Shifu offered a plan to King Zhou You and proposed to try it with a beacon tower.
What is a beacon? It was originally used to detect the emergency military warning signal when the enemy invaded the frontier, and this beacon fire was made of wolf smoke emitted by burning wolf dung with firewood. In order to prevent the intrusion of dogs, Zhou Tianzi built more than 20 beacon towers in the area of Lishan (now southeast of Lintong) near Haojing, and then from the national capital to the border town fortress, beacon towers were set up all along the way, and there was one every few miles. Once the dog Rong attacked, the first sentinel to find it immediately lit a beacon fire on the platform, and the neighboring beacon tower saw wolf smoke, and also lit a fire one after another, alerting the nearby princes. When the nearby princes saw the beacon fire, they knew that the capital was in an emergency, and the Son of Heaven was in trouble, so they had to raise troops and rush to the rescue.
This Yu Shi's father offered a plan to make the beacon tower light the beacon fire for no reason, and attract the princes to come and run for nothing, so as to make Bao Xi laugh. This is a nonsensical ploy that should never have happened and should not have been adopted.
The mediocre King of Zhou You, holding the mentality that no matter whether the black cat or the white cat catches the mouse is a good cat, he tried to adopt the suggestion of Yu Shi's father, and immediately took Bao Xi, and was accompanied by Yu Shi's father to climb the Lishan beacon tower and ordered the guards to light the beacon fire. For a time, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the beacon fire soared into the sky, but it alarmed the princes of various places, and the nearby princes saw the alarm, thinking that the dog Rong was coming, so they hurriedly set off to rescue the driver.
The princes of those roads ran wildly all the way to the foot of Li Mountain, but there was not even a shadow of a dog soldier, only heard the sound of music and singing on the mountain, and looked at the king of Zhou You and his concubine Bao Xi sitting on the high platform drinking and having fun. King Zhou You saw that the princes had arrived, so he sent someone to tell them that they had worked hard for everyone, and there was nothing to do here, but the king and the princess set off fireworks for fun. The princes knew that they had been teased, and their hearts were full of anger, but the king's order could not be violated, and they returned with grudges.
The beauty is already at the age of cardamom, and still has the mentality of a child, seeing that thousands of troops are called to come, and they are going away, just like child's play, I feel very fun, and I can't help but smile. That smile, it was really a sinking fish and a goose closing the moon and a shy flower, King Zhou You was simply stunned, so he was overjoyed, and immediately rewarded Father Shi's daughter.
Since he found a way to win the smile of the beauty, King Zhou You teased the princes several times for this, at first, the princes were worried that the capital would change and had to come, but the repeated teasing made the princes lose trust in this mediocre king in their hearts, and then there was wolf smoke, and the princes did not come. I don't know if the fairy tale of folklore "The Wolf is Coming" is adapted from this, once people break their trust many times, it is difficult to restore trust.
The doctor Bao Jue, seeing that King Zhou You was obsessed with women all day long, and this woman was dedicated to the king because of his own reasons, and he couldn't say anything about the bitterness in his heart, and he died of depression not long after.
In order to further please Bao Xi, and disregarded the rules of the ancestors, he deposed the queen Shen and the prince Yijiu, canonized Bao Xi as the queen, canonized Bao Xi's son Bofu as the crown prince, and ordered the abolition of the title of the queen's father Shen Marquis, and prepared to send troops to attack him.
When Shen Hou got the news, he was so angry that the mediocre monarch couldn't sit on the ground and wait for death to make a preemptive strike, so he united with the soldiers of the Marquis and the Northwest Yi Dog Rong to attack Hojing in 771 BC.
The fake turned into a real thing, and when King Youwang heard the news of the attack of the dog Rong, he panicked and hurriedly ordered the beacon tower to light the beacon fire. The beacon fire was burning, but the princes were fooled many times, and they learned that this incident was completely caused by King Zhou You, which hurt the hearts of the princes, and they also deviated from the law of their ancestors, abolished the prince and crusaded against Shenhou, so they ignored it.
There was smoke on the beacon during the day, and the fire was lit at night, but none of the rescuers came. made King Zhou You bitter. The guards of Haojing were already resentful of the mediocrity of King Zhou You, dissatisfied with the generals' frequent deduction of food and salary, and they were unwilling to serve at this time.
King Zhou You had no choice but to take Bao Xi and Bo Fu, and fled from the back door in a hurry and ran to Lishan. On the way, he ordered the beacon fire to be lit again, and although the beacon smoke penetrated through the nine skies, the princes still did not come to help. The dog soldiers pursued closely, and the left and right of King Zhou You also fled along the way, leaving only more than a hundred people to flee into the Li Palace. Some ministers offered a plan to burn the front palace gate to confuse the dog soldiers. King Zhou You was overjoyed to adopt this suggestion, so he arranged for the soldiers to light the fire at the front palace gate, and he himself escaped from the harem gate.
After fleeing not far, the dog soldiers chased after them again, and they killed indiscriminately, leaving only Zhou Youwang, Bao Xi and Bofu. They had already been paralyzed in the car with fright. Seeing that King Zhou You was wearing the clothes of the Son of Heaven, the dog soldiers knew that it was Zhou Tianzi, and hacked him to death on the spot. snatched the prince's robe from Bao Xi's hands and killed him with a knife, leaving Bao Xi alone as a prisoner, and Bao Xi changed from a dignified concubine to a lady of the village.
Really:
Fate is interesting and uninteresting, and the reincarnation transformation technique is alive. Born into the royal family, the wolf smoke is only for the concubine to smile.
Anger provoked the princes to lead soldiers, and then ignited the beacon fire and no one could walk. Dishonesty, immorality, and people's hearts, no talent, no virtue, no life, return to the West.
At this time, the princes gradually knew that the dog Rong had really entered Hojing, so they united and brought a large team of men and horses to the rescue. When the general of the dog Rong saw that the army of the princes had arrived, he hurriedly snatched up the treasures and belongings that the Zhou Dynasty had accumulated over the years, carried the praise, and set fire to retreat.
After the dog Rong broke through Haojing and killed the faint king Zhou Youwang and retreated, several princes gathered together, and the big princes led by Shenhou, Luhou, Xu Wengong, etc., discussed and decided to jointly establish the original prince Ji Yijiu as the son of heaven.
It was the new son of heaven Ji Yijiu who ascended the throne in Shen (now Nanyangbei, Henan) in 770 BC and was the king of Zhou Ping.
Because Haojing had been destroyed by war, and most of the land in the west of the Zhou Dynasty was occupied by the dog Rong, King Ping of Zhou was afraid that Haojing would be difficult to protect, so in 770 BC, under the escort of the Qin army, moved the capital to Luoyi (now Luoyang, Henan), and appointed Zheng Wugong as Situ to govern the country with the assistance of Wenhou of Jin.
When King Ping of Zhou moved the capital eastward, because Qin Xianggong, the king of Qin, fought effectively and made great contributions when the dog Rong attacked the Zhou Dynasty, and also sent troops to escort the Son of Heaven to move the capital, he promoted Qin Xianggong to the prince, and gave him the land west of Qishan (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province) that Xirong had captured, and said: "Xirong is vicious and unreasonable, plundering our Qi and Feng lands, as long as Qin can attack and drive away Xirong and capture these lands, then these lands will belong to Qin." And swore an oath to Qin Xianggong.
With the promise of the Son of Heaven, a strong impetus was generated, and soon the Qin State captured the area west of Qishan, and the Qin State began to develop from then on.
Due to the loss of a large area of homeland, the Zhou Dynasty only has a corner of the northwest of Henan, the east is not Xingyang, the west does not cross the Tongguan, the south does not cross the Rushui, the north only to the south bank of Qinshui, the radius is only more than 600 li, the land is narrow and the people are outnumbered, compared with the large vassal states within a radius of thousands of miles, at this moment, it is only equivalent to a medium vassal state, so the Zhou Dynasty has greatly declined.
The Son of Heaven is weak, and the princes are strong, and the king's decree will not be carried out.
In order to compete for land, population, and dominance over other small vassal states, the Zheng, Jin, Qi, Lu, Yan, Song, and Chu vassal states continued to engage in annexation wars with each other, forming a chaotic situation in which the princes competed for hegemony, and Chinese history entered a turbulent period of great changes.
It can also be said that this move of the capital moved out of the famous Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Chinese history.