Chapter Seventy-Two: The Death of King Xuan of Zhou
readx;? In the forty-third year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan killed the doctor Du Bo, and Du Bo's son Uncle Xi fled to the Jin Kingdom and became the ancestor of the Fan family, one of the six secretaries of the Jin State. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the long historical novel "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty", King Xuan of Zhou appeared in the first episode of "King Xuan of Zhou Heard the Rumors and Killed Dr. Du to Resolve Grievances".
Legend has it that Taishi Boyang's father consulted the historical records that in the Xia Dynasty, there were two dragons who claimed to be the founder of the Bao Kingdom and stayed in the courtyard of the Xia King. Through divination, killing or driving away the dragon will get a bad omen, but the divination collection of the saliva left by the dragon will get a good omen. King Xia then ordered to pray to the dragon, collect the saliva left by the dragon, and seal it in the box, and no one opened the box when it was passed to King Zhou Li. In the last years of King Zhou Li, he ordered the box to be opened to watch. Saliva flowed in the courtyard and could not be removed.
King Zhou Li decided to use witchcraft to get rid of it, and ordered the woman to cry out to it naked, and the saliva turned into a black lizard and disappeared into a seven-year-old virgin in the harem. The virgin became pregnant unmarried at the time of the ceremony, and abandoned the girl she had given birth to.
When King Xuan of Zhou was parading and preparing to return to Haojing, he heard the nursery rhyme of the children on the side of the road singing, "The moon will rise, the sun will not be gone; It indicates that there will be a woman in the future who will be in turmoil, and this woman is related to the bow and arrow, so King Zhou Xuan ordered a strict ban on the bow and arrow throughout the country, and the doctor Du Bo supervised the matter.
It happened that the two Shanye couples did not know the decree and entered the city to sell bows and arrows, and King Xuan of Zhou ordered the arrest and execution of the two, and Du Bo specifically supervised them. However, although the two were arrested, Du Bo believed that the two were not guilty, so he secretly let them go, panicking that they had been executed. King Xuan was greatly relieved.
Unexpectedly, not long after, King Xuan dreamed at night that a beautiful woman came from the west, entered the Taimiao and went east with the gods of the seven temples. King Zhou Xuan was shocked and knew that the rumors had not been dispelled, so he killed Du Bo for the crime of ineffective supervision. Du Bo's friend Zuo Ru advised King Zhou Xuan not to listen, and after Du Bo's death, Zuo Ru killed himself.
From then on, King Xuan of Zhou kept dreaming that the two of them were wronged and asking for their lives, and he was angry with Sikong Qi and the minister Zhu, and killed the two.
And the Shanye couple found an abandoned girl on the way to escape, so they adopted the girl, and finally the two fled with the girl to the country of Bao, where they settled, and the girl was the Bao Xi who led to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
In the same year, Fei Sheng, Marquis of Jin, died, and his younger brother Uncle Yan established himself as the Marquis of Jin.
In the first month of the forty-fourth year of King Xuan of Zhou, Uncle Yan was officially enthroned as the Marquis of Jin.
In the forty-sixth year of King Xuan of Zhou, it is said that when King Xuan of Zhou was hunting in the garden (Zhongmu County, Zhengzhou, Henan), Du Bo's soul rode on a white horse and a white car, and the left was protected by Sikong Qi, and the minister blessed the right. Du Bo wore a red hat and galloped from the side of the road, holding a red bow and a red arrow, an arrow hit King Xuan's heart, and King Xuan of Zhou broke his back and fell on the quiver and died.
When King Xuan of Zhou ascended the throne, after the rule of King Zhou Li of the Western Zhou Dynasty was corrupted and the people were scattered, King Xuan of Zhou ordered the restoration of the office, the advice of Guangjin, the settlement of the people, and the repair of weapons; Uncle Fang successively crusaded against the dog Rong (猃狁), Xirong, Huaiyi, Xu and Chu Man, so that the declining authority of the Zhou royal family was briefly restored, so that the Zhou Dynasty once presented a situation of "the four sides are peaceful, the kingdom is stable", and the princes met the Son of Heaven again, and the four Yi Xianfu were called "Xuanwang Zhongxing" in history.
King Xuan of Zhou not only made extraordinary achievements in politics, but also made great contributions in culture, and once ordered Taishi to make fifteen chapters of the Great Seal "Shi Zhou", which were used as textbooks and teaching materials for Taishi history students. After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he decided to unify the languages of various countries as small seals, so he ordered Li Si to make seven chapters of "Cangjie", Zhao Gao to make six chapters of "Calendar", and Taishi Ling Hu Wujing to make seven chapters of "Erudition" as the national standard script, all of which are based on the Great Seal "Shi Zhou". The text in the "Shi Zhou" is also known as the Zhou Wen and the Zhou Seal, and six articles have been lost by the time of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. After research, the "Chen Cang Stone Drum Text" is the only surviving text that is closest to the "Shi Zhou".
Due to the consumption of national strength by successive years of conquest, the social crisis of the Western Zhou Dynasty was exacerbated, and King Xuan of Zhou was arbitrary, did not enter the loyalty, and killed ministers indiscriminately, King Xuan's Zhongxing became a flash in the pan, and in his later years, he suffered successive failures in the use of foreign troops, especially in the battle of a thousand acres defeated by Jiang Rong, and the army of the southern kingdom was annihilated, laying the groundwork for the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the period of King You of Zhou.
Sima Qian's "Historical Records": "The government of the country, the legacy of French, martial arts, Cheng, and Kang, and the princes restored the Zhou." ”
Dong Zhongshu: "Fu Zhoudao is declining in seclusion and strength, not the death of the Tao, and the secluded and powerful are not in the past." As for King Xuan, thinking about the virtue of the previous kings, the stagnation of the stagnation, the merits of the Ming Dynasty and the martial arts, the revival of Zhou Dao, and the unremitting deeds of this night. ”
Sang Hongyang: "Tang and Wuzhi are not easy to use soldiers; King Zhou Xuan opened up the country for thousands of miles, and it is not greedy; so he removes the thieves and reassures the people." ”
Huang Qiong: "King Xuan of Zhou is not from a thousand acres, and Duke Yu Wen thinks it is a big ridicule, and it is difficult for Jiang Rong to die, and the name of Zhongxing will be damaged." ”
Xu Jian's "Beginner's Notes": "King Xuan inherits the decline, and the state family has many obstacles; Shanfu made up for the que, and Uncle Fang was insulted, and Zhongxing was used to restore Zhou Yu. ”
Liu Zongyuan: "Fushimi Zhou Xuan Wang was called Zhongxing, its way was great, rare in the future, and then enlisted in the "Poem" big and small "Ya", and its selection of disciples to hunt, then "Car Attack", "Auspicious Day"; ordered the official to divide the land, then "Songgao", "Han Yi", "Haoren"; the Southern Expedition and Northern Expedition, then "June", "Caizhi", Pinghuaiyi, "Jianghan", "Changwu". Sonorous and shining,. Therefore, the description of King Xuan and his assistance, from now on, if God and man are. ”
Xia Yuanji: "Zhou Xuan Wang Pinghuaiyi, Tang Taizong captured Jieli, at that time, the literati Xianxing Zhu Yong, to Ji Hongxiu. ”
"Ming Shizong Record": "Although Zhou Xuan Wang Yunhan's side, Chang Wu's Pinghuai, there are Shanfu inside, and Shen Bo outside, it is not impressive, but it is happy and forgetful, and it is rude and Yan Qi, not from thousands of acres, the southern country mourns the teacher, Taiyuan, and kills Du Bo, so that Yu Gong does not listen, and Shanfu does not listen, so the beauty of Zhongxing is not exhausted. ”
King You of Zhou, reigned in years.
King Xuan of Zhou, surnamed Ji, named Gong Yu (pronounced shēng, 一作宫生).
Father: Zhou Xuan Wang Ji Jing (Jing).
Mother: Empress Jiang, surnamed Jiang, daughter of the monarch of Qi State.
Empress Shen, surnamed Jiang, is the daughter of Shenhou, the monarch of Shen State.
Bao Xi, surname Ji, Bao Guoren, Zhou Youwang's favorite concubine.
Son:
Zhou Ping Wang Ji Yijiu, born to Shen Hou.
Zhou brought Wang Ji Yuchen, born to Empress Shen.
Ji Bofu, born of Bao Xi.