Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Decline of the Western Zhou Dynasty Stems from the Face Project

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According to the custom, King Mu should be buried in Biyuan, but in the south of Gongzhang Village, Guodu Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an, there is a rammed earth platform, and legend has it that this is the tomb of King Mu of Zhou.

The rammed earth Taifeng soil was originally covered bucket-shaped, due to the long-term soil extraction, the south, east and north sides of the damage are serious, has become very irregular, has become a straight up and down the steep wall. The longest side from east to west is about 18 meters, the longest side from north to south is about 35 meters, and the height is 8 meters.

In the forty-first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1776), Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi, erected a stone tablet in front of the mausoleum: the book "Tomb of King Mu of Zhou" is written in four large characters, and the stone tablet is now missing.

On May 31, 1957, the Shaanxi Provincial People's Committee announced that the Mausoleum of King Zhou Mu was the second batch of key cultural relics protection units in Shaanxi Province.

In April 1986, the top of King Zhoumu's tomb was excavated, revealing a brick dome roof, the top of which was about 2 meters above the ground. Under the dome roof is a square antechamber, its north is the back room, there are side chambers in the east and west, according to the analysis of the tomb shape, bricks and sealed soil, this tomb seems to be a tomb of the Han Dynasty.

In the Zhou Dynasty historian's pen, King Mu is full of wisdom, and can rule the Quartet, a powerful king in the universe.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, when Wu Zixu, the grandfather of Wu Zixu, the great doctor of Chu, persuaded the monarch of Chu State, he compared King Mu of Zhou with Shang Tang, King Wu of Zhou, Duke Huan of Qi, Duke Wen of Jin and other heroic lords; Guan Zhong told Duke Qi Huan that King Mu of Zhou imitated the governing ideas of King Wen and King Wu, and achieved meritorious deeds and achieved his good name. These all affirm the historical merits of King Mu of Zhou.

During the reign of King Mu of Zhou, the territory of the dynasty continued to expand, effectively consolidating the rule of the Zhou dynasty. However, the perennial conquest, the absence of the Son of Heaven in the court, led to the relaxation of the government, since King Mu, the Zhou Dynasty began to decline from prosperity.

King Gong of Zhou, reigned for years.

King Gong of Zhou, surnamed Ji, is also written as Yihu.

Father: Zhou Mu Wang Ji Man

Younger brother: Zhou Xiao Wang Ji Pifang

Son: Zhou Yi Wang Ji

In the first month of the first year of King Zhou Gong, King Zhou Gong, the son of King Mu of Zhou, inherited the throne of the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty and was the sixth monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

When King Gong of Zhou succeeded to the throne, the country spent a huge amount of wealth due to King Mu of Zhou's travels, which made the country's finances very empty and gradually difficult to support economically. However, on many occasions, he had to maintain the shelf of the Son of Heaven. For example, in order to show that the rewards and punishments were clear, King Zhou Gong had to divide the land near the capital to the princes and doctors one after another, so that the area under his direct control became smaller and smaller, and the income became less and less. The state of the Zhou dynasty began to decline. This can be said to be a typical example of the killing of people by face-saving projects.

After the king of Zhou Gong succeeded to the throne, he made great adjustments to the strategy of governing the country, and militarily, he changed the practice of his father and ancestors to conquer the world by force, cut the army, and made the law clear to calm the people, so that more people could be content with production and create wealth to increase the country's financial revenue. In foreign relations, China has adopted a peaceful and stable foreign policy, mainly adopted peaceful negotiations to resolve border disputes, and avoided armed conflicts as much as possible. Politically, he abolished the old system of "state ownership of land and subdivision of vassals" and implemented private ownership of land to allow land to be bought and sold freely. The State collects and pays taxes to landowners in accordance with regulations. This was the first time that the Western Zhou Dynasty legalized the private ownership of land.

These measures of Zhou Gongwang are very beneficial to the country. Because before that, the state only taxed the area of land that could be cultivated, and the arable land cultivated by the nobles without paying taxes. Nowadays, the state allows the existence of private land, and the owner of private land must truthfully declare it, otherwise it will be regarded as illegal private land and confiscated once it is found. This forced the nobles to report their private land truthfully, and once they did, they had to pay taxes according to the regulations, thus increasing the revenue of the state treasury.

Confucius's Spring and Autumn Edition was approving to King Gong of Zhou, believing that there was nothing wrong with his approach.

As mentioned earlier, the secret country, also known as the secret country, is a small country surnamed Zhou Chaoji. The secret country was originally in the area of Lingtai County, Gansu Province, and was the country surnamed Ji that was re-divided in its old land after King Wen of Zhou Wen of the late Shang Dynasty destroyed the country surnamed Misu.

In the third year of King Gong of Zhou, King Gong, like his father King Mu, liked to travel, and visited the Jing River in Gansu, where the fief of Mi Kanggong, the contemporary lord of Mi Kingdom (Pingliang Lingtai County, Gansu) was nearby, and rushed to accompany King Zhou Gong. It may be because Mikang Gong is young and handsome, so three beautiful women come to defect, hoping to marry Mikang Gong. Kui, the mother of the Duke of Mikang, said, "You must sacrifice them to the king." If there are three beasts, it is called a group, if there are three people, it is called a crowd, and if there are three beautiful women, it is called a group. When the king hunted in the field, he did not dare to hunt herds of beasts, and when the princes traveled, they should also be courteous to everyone, and their surnames should marry concubines and not marry their fellow sisters. Those three women are beautiful, and they have come to you. There are so many beautiful women, what virtue can you afford? The king can't afford it, how much more about a little person like you? A little person who has good things will eventually invite trouble. "Mi Kang Gong coveted beauty, and in the end he didn't sacrifice those three beauties, but just ordered people to keep quiet. At this time, someone had already reported to King Zhou Gong, who held a grudge, but there was no seizure at that time, because King Gong was still near Migong's territory, and the army did not accompany him in large numbers.

In the fourth year of King Gong of Zhou, King Gong was well prepared and sent troops to attack the secret country, and in the decisive battle of the Battle of Rotten Cow Bay, the Duke of Mikang was defeated due to the disparity in numbers. The secret kingdom perished. After the Duke of Mi Kang was killed, the Mi Kingdom submitted to King Gong, and with the permission of King Gong, he moved from remote Gansu to the Mishan area near the capital Nanzheng (Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou, Henan), and re-established the Mi Kingdom (Xinmi City, Zhengzhou, Henan). This may be because King Gong was still a little uneasy, so he placed it under the direct jurisdiction of King Gong to prevent chaos in remote areas. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was destroyed by Zheng Guo and became a vassal of Zheng State.

Year, on the twenty-second day of the first month of the ninth year of King Gong of Zhou (Dinghai Day), the king ordered Shi Liang Xi Mao Bo to live.

In the twelfth year of King Gong of Zhou, King Gong of Zhou died and was buried in Biyuan.

King Yi of Zhou, reigned for years.

King Yi of Zhou, surnamed Ji, name 囏 (jiān).

Father: Zhou Gong Wang Ji Hu

Wife: Jiang

Son: Zhou Yi Wang Ji Xie

Uncle: Zhou Xiao Wang Ji Pifang

In the first month of the first year of King Zhou Yi, King Zhou Gong's son King Zhou Yi inherited the throne of the Western Zhou Dynasty and was the seventh monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

King Zhou Yi was cowardly by nature, and after succeeding to the throne, his politics became increasingly corrupt and his state continued to decline.

At the beginning of King Zhou Yi's accession to the throne, there were dogs who invaded the border of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the people suffered greatly, and wrote poems to satirize King Zhou Yi's incompetence in governing the country.

This year, there was a vision of "day after day".