Ji Dan is now regent, as if he is in a big river of rapids. What I hope most is that I can work with you to find a way to overcome this difficult situation. Ji Dan is only a shallow learner, but now he is in a big position, if you don't come to supervise and correct me, I guess no one will point out my shortcomings. You are a man of old age and virtue, and you must show me the rules of governance. We have come together to accomplish the deeds of King Wen, and we must not slack off and redouble our efforts, until the sunrise by the sea, no one will disobey us!

Zhou Gong's heartfelt words to Zhaobo later became one of the "Shangshu", called "Jun Zheng". Zhao Bo was also moved by the sincerity of Duke Zhou, eliminated his worries, and did his best to assist King Cheng with Duke Zhou.

When Zhao Bo governed the area west of Shaanxi, in the handling of political affairs, from Hou Bo to the common people, they could get their own place, no one neglected their duties, and was deeply supported by the common people. Before his death, King Zhou Cheng was worried that the crown prince Ji Zhao would not be able to take the throne of the king, so he ordered Zhaobo to lead all the princes to assist the crown prince Ji Zhao to succeed to the throne. After the death of King Cheng of Zhou, Zhao Bo guided Ji Zhao to visit the temple of the first king, and repeatedly warned him that the reason why King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou were able to achieve the royal industry was hard-won, and the important thing was that they were thrifty, had no greed, and ruled the world with dedication and integrity all their lives. After the crown prince Ji Zhao succeeded to the throne, he was the king of Zhou Kang.

Zhao Bo assisted the two generations of monarchs of King Cheng of Zhou and King Kang of Zhou, and created the "rule of Chengkang" without punishment for more than 40 years, laying a solid foundation for the Zhou Dynasty to continue for more than 800 years.

Zhao Bo and Zhou Gong should be the best partners when assisting Zhou Chengwang, let's introduce Zhou Gong in detail.

Duke of Zhou, surnamed Ji Mingdan, is the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, who twice assisted King Wu of Zhou in his eastern expedition to King Zhou, and made ceremonial music. Because his fief is in Zhou, and the title is Shanggong, he is called Zhou Duke. The officials of the Zhou Dynasty were divided into nine ranks, called the nine lives, of which eight lives were the three dukes of Zhou Tianzi and the following officials, plus one life, called the upper duke. When the Duke of Zhou and Zhaobo were in the same dynasty, the title was higher than that of Zhaobo.

Zhou Gong was an outstanding politician, military strategist, thinker, and educator in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and was revered as a Yuan Sage and a pioneer of Confucianism. The "Great Biography of Shangshu" summarizes the seven major achievements of Zhou Gong's life: rescuing the chaos, conquering the Yin Shang, quelling the rebellion of the three eunuchs, establishing a feudal state outside Wangji, building the eastern capital Luoyi, formulating rituals, and returning the government to Chengwang.

In the seventh year of the regency of the Duke of Zhou, he put forward a system of rules and regulations with fundamental characteristics in many aspects, and improved the patriarchal system, the feudal system, and the primogeniture inheritance system. When King Cheng grew up, the Duke of Zhou finally returned power to King Cheng, formally establishing the primogeniture system of the Zhou Dynasty. The most important feature of these orders is that they are linked by patriarchal blood, and they integrate the family and the state, and politics and ethics as well. The formation of this system had a great impact on China's later feudal society.

When King Wen of Zhou was still alive, Duke Zhou was very filial as a son, and his loyalty and benevolence outperformed his other brothers. After King Wu succeeded to the throne, the Duke of Zhou often assisted King Wu in handling many government affairs. During the reign of King Wen of Zhou, the Zhou people had already begun to wrestle and struggle with the Shang Dynasty. At the beginning, King Wen Ji Chang won the trust of Emperor Xin, the king of Shang, who gave Ji Chang a bow and an axe, and gave Ji Chang the right to conquer, and Ji Chang was also called king. Seven years later, King Wen of Zhou died and was succeeded by King Wu. King Wu still has Jiang Ziya as the national teacher and Zhou Gong as the auxiliary minister. Jiang Taigong and Zhou Gong became the most powerful assistants during the Wuwang period.

In February of the year when King Wu officially succeeded to the throne, he came to Fengdi to discuss with the Duke of Zhou. King Wu is thinking day and night, how to destroy the major events of Yin Shang, at present, there are two things worth thinking about: one is that the Yin Shang under the governance of Emperor Xin has been chaotic and lost the hearts of the people, King Wu feels that the time to destroy Yin Shang has come, if you don't grasp the opportunity, it will be very difficult to compete again after Yin Shang is recovered; The second is that once King Wu raises troops, what should he do to get the cooperation and response of other princes, after all, with the strength of the Zhou clan alone, it is still alone.

King Wu told his worries to the Duke of Zhou, and the Duke of Zhou replied: The decisive factor in overthrowing Yin Shang is still virtue, for the Zhou people, the most important thing is to respect the mandate of heaven, the princes near and far should not be offended, and the princes who have established friendly relations, we should not lose anything; We also need to continue to cultivate our self-cultivation and morality, and we can't be comfortable and inactive, otherwise it will be difficult to clean up.

In 1049 B.C., King Wu held an alliance and oath in Mengjin, which is today's Mengjin County, Luoyang City, Henan Province. After worshipping the gods, King Wu began to parade his army to the east, all the way to Mengjin. This operation was the first large-scale expedition after King Wu succeeded to the throne, and Duke Zhou went forward as an assistant, accompanied by Zhaobo and Bigong. They made the deity of King Wen, carried it in a chariot, and placed it in the middle of the army. King Wu said: He was ordered by King Wen to carry out the expedition, and he did not dare to act without authorization. At the same time, King Wu told the hundred officials, asking everyone to be respectful and pious, strive to inherit the virtues of their ancestors, distinguish rewards and punishments, and better complete the mission.

This time, the alliance and the oath were in the nature of exercises, the purpose of which was to facilitate the Zhou army to familiarize themselves with the terrain and routes, which was conducive to the future wars of the Zhou army, and at the same time, it could also test the reality of the Shang Dynasty and the reflection of the princes. This time, there were 800 princes who came unexpectedly, which strengthened King Wu's determination to wait for the opportunity and destroy the Shang Dynasty.

Di Xin does not seem to have a deep understanding of the seriousness of the development of the Ji surname in the West. In the later part of his reign, Di Xin was proud of his achievements, spent huge sums of money to build Lutai, wine ponds, hanging meat for forests, built luxurious palaces and gardens, and lived a life of poverty and luxury, which made the treasury seriously empty. In the later political period, Emperor Xin slowly became self-righteous and could not listen to correct opinions, and many high-class nobles began to oppose him. For opponents, Di Xin used torture such as cannon branding to suppress them, and killed a group of loyal ministers such as Bigan. Emperor Xin fought every year, and when he was crusading against Dongyi, he relaxed his defense against the Zhou people in the west. Years of use of troops led to the exhaustion of the Shang Dynasty's national strength.

At that time, the politics within the Shang Dynasty were in chaos. When Emperor Yi passed the throne to his second son Di Xin instead of his eldest son Wei Zi Qi, the court slowly divided into two factions, leading to a split situation. "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" said that Weizi, Weizhong and King Su were brothers of the same mother, but their mother did not become queens when she gave birth to Weizi and Weizhong, so they can only be regarded as concubines. And when King Su was born, their mother had become the queen, so King Su was the son in law and had the qualifications to inherit the throne. In addition, the king is talented and talented, and he is deeply loved by his father, Emperor Yi.

The faction formed by Wei Ziqi constantly attacked Di Xin, and they carried out all kinds of despicable activities: spreading rumors and slandering, launching infighting, plotting assassins, betraying the country for glory, and so on. During the reign of Emperor Xin, in order to stabilize the rule, he carried out campaigns for many years, and after conquering Dongyi, most of the troops had been consumed, and he had not had time to repair and train, and the Zhou army at this time had arrived. King Wu of Zhou's army was a battle for the survival of the Zhou people, and after a long period of preparation, it was strong and organized, and it was united. In the end, in the first battle of Makino, the captives of the Shang Dynasty defected, and the wavering elements also dispersed in a hurry, and the opposition forces took advantage of the situation to hand over the royal city.

King Su and Di Xin are the same person, but the title is different, and the feeling in this will be much worse. Emperor Xin attached great importance to agriculture and the development of productive forces, and in the early stage of his rule, the national strength of the Shang Dynasty was still very strong. He continued to use troops against Dongyi, repelled Dongyi's expansion into the Central Plains, and extended the Shang Dynasty's sphere of influence to the Jianghuai region. Especially after the victory of the crusade against Xu Yi, the territory of the Shang Dynasty expanded to Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other coastal areas. Di Xin's use of troops against the Yi people in the southeast protected the security of the Shang Dynasty. After the unification of the southeast, the advanced production technology and culture of the Central Plains began to spread to the southeast, which promoted the progress of the local society and economic development, and promoted the integration of ethnic groups.

There is also a saying about Di Xin in the Analects, Zigong said: The unkindness of the king is not as powerful as the legend; Therefore, the gentleman's hatred has gone to the inferior place, and once a person lives in the inferior place, all the bad reputation in the world will come to him. A dynasty has its own laws of development from the beginning of its development, then reaches its heyday, and then declines from its heyday. The Shang Dynasty did not suddenly perish when it arrived at Di Xin, and when Di Xin's father Di Yi succeeded to the throne, the Shang Dynasty's state had tended to decline. To a certain extent, Di Xin is just a king of the dead country who has exhausted his qi and his destiny has been decided, and finally committed suicide in Lutai. From this point of view, he is also quite pitiful. Later legends and literature basically described Di Xin as a representative of all the evils in the world.