Time passed slowly day by day as Hua Feng cultivated and studied every day, as well as in the process of discussing the future and present with Yunmeng.

In the imprint of Emperor Yan, he was still working tirelessly to understand the history of China, and on this day, Hua Feng saw the before and after ......

The merchant legend is the descendant of the son of the emperor, because of the merit of the deed Zuoyu to control the water, so he was sealed in the Shang by Shun, and began to rise. After 500 years of development, by the time of Chengtang (i.e., Shangtang), it had become a powerful country with Bo as its capital. With the assistance of Yi Yin, Cheng Tang first enlisted the support of many Fang countries, conquered the Fang countries that did not return to Shun, and finally raised troops to attack Xia, Ming Tiao fought a battle, Xia Wei was defeated and fled to Nanchao and died, and the Shang Dynasty was established.

Although the newly established Shang Dynasty was no different from the Xia Dynasty in terms of social form, its birth injected new vitality into the ancient society and improved the mechanism of the ancient class society. Therefore, the ancient book fully affirmed the Shang Tang Dynasty's destruction of Xia, and believed that "the Tang Wu Revolution should follow the heavens and respond to the people."

Shang Tang's grandson Taijia had no way during his reign, and Yi Yin exiled him to his own regent. In three years, Taijia repented, and returned to the throne, diligent and thrifty and loved the people, the princes were attached, and the society was stable, and he was called Taizong, the lord of Shoucheng.

After that, until the ninth emperor Taiwu, it was a period of consolidation and development of the dynasty. In the eighth generation of Shang Wang Yongji, there was a situation where the princes did not go to court, Taiwu succeeded to the throne, under the assistance of Yizhi and Wu Xian, Yin Dao was revived, the princes were attached, and Taiwu was called Zhongzong.

From the tenth Emperor Zhongding, the Shang royal family was in chaos. In the following five generations and nine kings, there were many power struggles between abolishing the son-in-law and appointing a younger brother or concubine, as well as the power struggle between the younger brother and the son for the throne, and the capital was moved many times. First, the emperor "Hegan" moved the capital to Yuxiang, and then the emperor moved the capital to Xing.

The Ninth Rebellion caused serious social problems, the decline of national strength, the disappointment of princes, various contradictions, and crises. In order to save the crisis of the dynasty, Pangeng moved the capital from Xingyi to Yin, so that the situation could be stabilized, and politics, economy, and culture began to develop rapidly. The history is known as Pangeng Qianyin.

Wu Ding, the twenty-second Shang king, grew up in the countryside since he was a child, and understood the hardships of the people and the difficulties of crops. He wisely promoted Fu Shuo from the slaves, appointed people on the basis of merit, vigorously reformed politics, so that the nobles and commoners had no complaints, and sent troops many times to quell the invasion of nomads such as Tufang and Ghost Fang, and used troops against Jing and Chu on a large scale, and the power of the Shang Dynasty spread far to the four directions, and developed to its peak.

Since the twenty-fourth generation of Wang Zujia, social contradictions have intensified, and the Yin Dynasty has gradually appeared in a state of decline. The twenty-seventh generation of Wang Wuyi has no way, and he uses leather sacs to contain blood, and shoots it on his back, which is called shooting the sky. Later, while hunting in the river, he was electrocuted to death.

By the time of the thirtieth dynasty, the struggle between royal power and aristocratic power had reached its peak. The king is self-sustaining and smart, rigid and self-serving, and has been decorated with non-aesthetics, **incomparable, extravagant, drunk and dreaming of death, using wine as a pool, hanging meat as a forest, and drinking for a long night. The king set up the punishment of cannon branding and wantonly killed the princes and nobles.

The indiscriminate use of torture and the aggravation of accumulation caused the princes, nobles and small people to rebel against each other. When the crisis deepened, the king also used troops against the peripheral tribes on a large scale to pacify the east, which consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and accelerated the demise of the Shang Dynasty. The Zhou people in the West took the opportunity to develop and finally destroyed the Yin Shang.

The Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 B.C. - 771 B.C.) lasted more than 300 years from the destruction of King Wu to the founding of the Shang Dynasty to the death of King You, which was an important period in China and the heyday of Chinese classical civilization.

The Xianzhou were an ancient tribe that lived on the Loess Plateau in the western part of the Central Plains. The legend of the ancestor of the Zhou people is that the son of the emperor's concubine Jiang Yan was abandoned. It gradually developed into a new western power, calling itself Zhou. Zhou's development made Shang feel threatened, so he imprisoned Xi Bochang in Yili for seven years.

The Zhou people ransomed Xibo with treasures and beauties, and Xibo Chang accumulated good virtues and developed production, so that more princes came to join and became the so-called appointed lords, and proclaimed himself king, that is, King Wen of Zhou, and moved the capital to Fengyi.

King Wen of Zhou died. His son Fa succeeded to the throne and was called King Wu. Continue the unfinished business of King Wen. Expand the capital to Hokyo to the east of Fengshui. In December of the eleventh year of King Wen's order, King Wu went out of Tongguan, united the princes of all countries, waved his army to the east, defeated the army of the Shang Dynasty in Muye in February of the following year, killed the King of Yin, known as King Wu to destroy the Shang, and established the longest dynasty in Chinese history, the Zhou Dynasty.

After King Wu established the Zhou, he was a great feudal hero, and it is said that at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, a total of seventy-one vassal states were divided. The purpose of the feudal state was to strengthen its rule over various places and serve as a vassal of the Zhou royal family.

When the king was young, the world was initially decided, and Zhou Gongdan was afraid that the princes would not accept it, so he took Uncle Wang as regent. Uncle Guan and Uncle Cai were not convinced, and Wu Geng, the son of Yin Xun, led Huaiyi to launch a rebellion.

Duke Zhou resolutely led his troops to the east and put down the rebellion. In order to strengthen his rule over the East, the Duke of Zhou was ordered by King Cheng to take charge of the construction of Luoyi. After the completion of Luoyi, King Cheng personally came to the royal city of Luoyi, assembled the princes of the world and the rulers of Siyi, and moved the Yin remnants who followed the rebellion of Wu Geng into Chengzhou in order to control it. The Duke of Zhou also controlled the music of the Zhou Dynasty, established various rules and regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, and established a political system centered on the patriarchal system.

King Cheng personally crusaded against Dongyi and stabilized the east. After the death of King Cheng, King Kang, who succeeded to the throne, inherited the career of the previous king, was diligent in political affairs, approachable to the people, did not need to be punished for decades, and the society was more stable.

The three generations of Wu, Cheng and Kang, with clear politics, were the golden age of Zhou. During the reign of King Zhao, there was a crisis. King Zhou Zhao was the Son of Heaven, and when he was patrolling the Han River in the south, he was plotted by the boatman with a special rubber boat and buried in the belly of the fish.

After King Mu of Zhou succeeded to the throne, in order to restore the prestige of the Zhou Dynasty, he established a new position as the chief of the imperial servants to strengthen the central management of the dynasty. He enacted criminal laws and reduced punishments in order to strengthen his control over his subjects and to govern the world well. He conquered the dogs in the west and the Yi people in the south, and actively defended against the intrusion of the outlying peoples, and stopped the plunder. King Mu also had the rebellion of the Xu Yi tribes led by King Xu Yan in the east, and fought against the Chu State in the south, and the princes of the General Assembly were in Tushan.

Later, the Zhou Dynasty gradually declined, the four generations of Gongwang, Yiwang, Xiaowang, and Yiwang, due to the continuous intrusion of the surrounding Rong, the dynasty fell into a long-term war, the national strength was greatly consumed, and the exploitation of the people had to be intensified, and the domestic contradictions became increasingly acute. Some aristocrats also began to go bankrupt, and showed resentment against reality.

King Zhou Li, who succeeded to the throne, not only did not take measures to appease the people and develop the people's livelihood, but instead appointed ministers, squandered them on a large scale, and fought foreign wars for many years, intensified deprivation, monopolized the benefits of the mountains, and aroused dissatisfaction and discussion among the people. He sent sorcerers to watch and kill those who were talking, making the conflict even more acute.

Three years later, the enraged residents of Hojing finally launched a rebellion and exiled King Li to Yi, with Zhou Gong and Zhao Gong jointly ruling power, known in history as Zhou Zhao Republic. In 841 B.C., the first year of the Republic, Chinese history began with a definite and continuous chronology.

After the death of King Li of Zhou, his son King Xuan rectified the government and once revived the Zhou Dynasty. But by the time of the twelfth Emperor Zhou Youwang, the crisis of the dynasty was even more serious. When serious natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides and river depletion occurred in the Guanzhong region, King Zhou You not only did not care for the victims, but became more extravagant and corrupt and insatiable. In order to win the smile of the favored concubine, the princes of the Youwang Beacon Fire Play. The most serious problem is that King You decided to depose the queen Shen, kill the crown prince Yijiu, and set up Bao Xi as the queen, and set up Bao Xi's son Bofu as the crown prince.

Empress Shen's father, Shenhou, then united with the western tribe Dog Rong, raised troops to attack King You of Zhou, killed King You at the foot of Lishan Mountain, and kidnapped Bao Xi. When Yijiu, the son of King You, ascended the throne, Guanzhong was sacked by soldiers and ruined, and the dog Rong came to harass him from time to time. King Yijiu of Zhou Ping had to move the capital to Luoyi, which is known as King Ping's eastward move and the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Spring and Autumn Warring States:

The Spring and Autumn Period, referred to as the Spring and Autumn Period, 770 BC - 476 BC (another said, 770 BC - 403 BC), belongs to a period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period Zhou King's power weakened, the princes were in dispute, Qi Huan Gong, Jin Wen Gong, Song Xiang Gong, Qin Mu Gong, Chu Zhuang Wang successively hegemon, known as the "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons" in history. (One said that it was the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Wen of Jin, the King of Chuzhuang, the King of Wu, and the King of Yue, Goujian). The Spring and Autumn period was followed by the Warring States period.

The name of the Spring and Autumn period was given because Confucius revised the Spring and Autumn Period. This book records the history from the first year of Lu Yin (722 BC) to the fourteenth year of Lu Ai (481 BC). For the sake of convenience, modern scholars generally start from the founding of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the first year of King Ping of Zhou (770 BC) to the forty-third year of King Jing of Zhou (477 BC), which is called the "Spring and Autumn Period".

According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period 242, 43 monarchs were killed by their subordinates or enemy countries, 52 vassal states were destroyed, there were more than 480 large and small wars, and more than 450 court appointments and alliances of princes.

With the construction of water conservancy, the use of iron tools and the promotion of cattle farming, the economy of the vassal states developed in the middle and late Spring and Autumn periods, and the political situation also changed accordingly.

The power of the ministers and doctors in the vassal states gradually developed, such as the three huans of the Lu state, the Tian family of the Qi state, and the six secretaries of the Jin state. They used their economic power to control and divide the office, and fought each other to expand their territory. The six kings of the Jin State fought to the end, leaving the Han, Wei, and Zhao families. In the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC), King Zhou officially recognized the three families as princes. In the eleventh year of King An of Zhou (391 BC), Tian Min abolished the Duke of Qi Kang and established himself as the monarch, which was also recognized by King Zhou. The victory of the Sanjin and Tian clans announced the cruel political law of the survival of the strong and the elimination of the weak.

As a result, starting with the reform of Li Kui in Wei, various countries rushed to carry out a reform movement with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army. At the heart of the reform was the immobilization of laborers to the land in order to increase the state's tax revenue. The deepening of social civilization has caused the rulers' greed for material pleasures to swell rapidly. The most direct way to increase the amount of exploitation is to plunder more land, and the easiest way to plunder land is through war.

So, wars were frequent during this period. According to statistics, in the 255 years from the first year of King Yuan of Zhou (475 BC) to the 26th year of the reign of King Qin (221 BC), there were 230 large and small wars. When the war broke out, the two sides often dispatched tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled various materials about this period of history into a book and named it "Warring States Policy", and from then on, this historical stage was called the Warring States Period.