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According to the truth narrated by Jizi, King Wu of Zhou consulted with Jiang Taigong, Zhou Gongdan and others to further improve and determine the patriarchal system that existed in ancient times but had not yet been fully formed. That is, the whole country was divided into a number of princely states, and King Wu of Zhou divided the relatives surnamed Ji and the meritorious ministers who contributed to the great cause of destroying the Shang Dynasty in the name of the Son of Heaven to establish the capital and establish the state, which served as a barrier for the ruling center of the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the so-called "feudal relatives, to screen the Zhou".

The princes can support troops, but they must obey the dispatch of the Son of Heaven at any time, and regularly pay tribute and congratulate the Son of Heaven; they are allowed to inherit the feudal lords from generation to generation, and they can divide the feudal lords and doctors within the feudal country; the Son of Heaven has the right to reward and punish the princes, and he also has the right to intervene in the feudal kingdom. There is no doubt that the feudal state-building strategy implemented by King Wu is obviously an improvement over the phenomenon of primitive small states in the Shang Dynasty. It did have the meaning of ruling the whole world in one place, and it played a role in consolidating and strengthening the rule of the whole country at that time.

In order to strengthen the management of the land that had been under the control of the Zhou Dynasty, the founding fathers of the Zhou Dynasty were sealed in a large manner, and according to their merits, they were canonized in turn: Lü Shang was sealed in Yingqiu (Linzi, Shandong), Zhou Gongdan was sealed in Lu (Luyang, now Lushan County, Henan), Zhao Gongxiao was sealed in Yun (Yuncheng District, Luohe City, Henan), Ji Xian was sealed in Guan (Guancheng District, Zhengzhou, Henan), Ji Du was sealed in Cai (Shangcai, Henan), Ji was sealed in Huo (Huozhou, Shanxi), and Ji was sealed in Kang (Yuxian, Henan).

Among the founding heroes, only Zhou Gongdan remained in the center, indicating that King Wu could not do without him and replaced Lu Shang as prime minister. Other important ministers and nobles, including Lu Shang, were sent to the feudal state.

As the first meritorious hero, Lu Shang (Jiang Ziya, Jiang Shang, Taigongwang, Jiang Taigong), in the year, led the people of the headquarters to Yingqiu.

Because of the exhaustion of the long journey, the group marched slowly. One evening they came to camp not far from the camp hill, and prepared to arrive at the camp hill the next day. Someone said, "There is a way, but there is a rare opportunity." These people sleep sweetly and peacefully, which looks like a person who has gone to the country to build a capital." After hearing this, Lu Shang was completely sleepy, and hurriedly ordered to straighten out the people and horses and rush to the camp hill.

When they arrived at the west bank of the Zihe River at dawn, they saw that the Lai army was wading through the water and rushing to the camp hill, and the situation was critical. It turned out that Laiguo was very close to Yingqiu, and it was a vassal state of the king of Shang, and Laihou wanted to seize Yingqiu while Lu Shang's foothold was not stable. The two armies faced off on the west bank of the Zihe River, Lu Shang commanded calmly, the soldiers fought bravely and tenaciously, and the Lai army was killed so that they lost their armor and returned in a daze. In this way, the state of Qi, with Yingqiu as its capital, was established.

After Lü Shang established the Qi State, he first ruled the country by law to stabilize the people's hearts. In the East China Sea, there were the madmen and Huashi brothers, who were called "sages" by the people of the time, who did not claim to be vassals to the Son of Heaven or do anything for the princes, and peacefully confronted the new Qi State with a non-cooperative attitude. This kind of behavior seems to be a bit overbearing, a bit of a meaning that the future generations will kill all the people who will not be in my hands.

For a while, there was no more disobedience to orders and regulations in the Qi Kingdom, and the chaos was quickly calmed down. In just five months, Lü Shang went to "report to the Duke of Zhou", that is, to report to the Prime Minister Duke Zhou on his achievements in stabilizing the country. Zhou Gongdan said: "Why is it so fast?" Lu Shang said: "I simplified the courtesy of his monarch and ministers, and conformed to the original customs. ”

King Wu's intention in ordering him to establish a feudal state in the easternmost part was to use his military talents to appease the Dongyi tribes that had just been pacified by Emperor Xin for the Zhou Dynasty.

Politically, Lü Shang pursued a policy of respecting merit and meritocracy. It is to select talented people to be officials, and absorb a large number of talents from the local Dongyi indigenous people to join the ruling class of Qi State, so that they can play their due role in national construction. For those who meet the selection criteria through the assessment, they will use their strengths regardless of relatives and sparseness, and give full play to their positive creativity. This line of employment broke the orthodox ideological shackles of "respecting relatives and relatives" based on blood relations in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Jiang Taigong also raised the employment of personnel to a height related to the rise and fall of the country, and put forward the talent theory of "six guards", "eight levies", and "six non-uses". Practice has proved that his idea of employing people not only created a precedent for appointing people on the basis of merit and meritocracy, but also laid the foundation for Qi to dominate the world.

Lu Shang governed the country and established the governing policy of "because of its customs, simplicity and etiquette, trade and industry, and the benefits of fish and salt", which have been passed down from generation to generation in the development history of Qi for hundreds of years, which has had a huge impact and established the historical status of Qi culture.

Culturally, we have pursued an enlightened policy of "being simple and polite because of our customs". "Custom" refers to "Yi Customs", that is, the way of life of the local Dongyi people at that time, and "Li" refers to "Yi Li", that is, the etiquette system of the local Dongyi people at that time. Taigong believes that if the Zhou rites are vigorously implemented in Qidi, it is easy to produce ethnic contradictions, which is not conducive to governing the country and securing the country. After careful consideration, he decided to proceed from the reality of Qi and the place, to follow the customs and simple etiquette, not to interfere with compulsory interference, and to pragmatically create a new system that was not only acceptable to the people of Qi, but also not too contrary to the Zhou etiquette.

According to the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicle": "Qi land bears the sea lagoon (x-brake) halo, less grains, and few people. "Treatise on Salt and Iron" said: "In the past, the prince sealed the camp hill and lived in the grass. The ground is thin and there are few people. In the face of extremely harsh natural conditions, Jiang Taigong adapted measures to local conditions since the founding of the Qi State, and while paying attention to the development of millet and rice production, he also made use of the characteristics of abundant mineral deposits and abundant fish and salt resources in the territory to vigorously develop handicraft industries such as smelting, silk and linen textiles, and fishery and salt industries; Under the guidance of the macro strategy of "agriculture, industry and commerce", the crown and belt clothes and shoes made by Qi sell well all over the world, fish and salt circulate all over the world, and the princes come to worship one after another, and Qi gradually develops from a remote and desolate small and poor country to a large and rich country living in the east.

Lu Shang governed the country in a good way, and created a great country, and the legacy still exists, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, laying the foundation for the later Duke of Qi Huan "Jiuhe princes, one Kuang world to become the head of the five hegemons".

The Eight Divisions of Muye were also canonized as princes, including Yong, Shu, Qiang, Ji, Wei, Lu, Peng, and Pu.

One of the eight divisions of Muye, the Peng (Wei, Huan) clan under the leadership of Hou Yao with the Wu King to fight, made military achievements, soon after the destruction of the Shang, Xuan Fang State in what is now Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province rebelled, and the Wu King ordered Hou Yao to lead the army and the royal army to crusade together. After the destruction of Xuanfang, King Wu rewarded for meritorious service, in recognition of the merits of Hou Yao, he was sealed in the land of his ancestors (southeast of Huaxian County, Henan), which was the country of the earl, and was still called the country of Wei and Wei in some documents.