Chapter 64: The Battle of Zhou-Hubei
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Attaching importance to agriculture is another major measure of Zhou Liwang's reform. King Zhou Li mainly grasped agriculture and regarded "crops" as a national treasure. This reform, which did not touch the interests of the aristocracy, was carried out smoothly and allowed agriculture to develop.
In the era of King Yi of Zhou, the state of Chu had already disobeyed the orders of the king of Zhou, and its monarch claimed to be the king without authorization, and attacked the Yong state. After King Zhou Li ascended the throne, Xiong Yan, the monarch of Chu State, watched the wind and did not want to become the target of Zhou's first attack, so he chose to automatically cancel the king title and send an envoy to offer turtle shells to please King Li.
Since the reign of King Yi of Zhou, the national strength of the Western Zhou Dynasty has been weakening day by day, and the surrounding tribes have launched attacks and incursions against the Zhou Dynasty.
During the reign of King Li of Zhou, the E-kingdom that had moved to Nanyang became strong after more than 60 years of recuperation, rebelled against the Zhou Dynasty and attempted to occupy the territory of the Zhou Dynasty.
The Emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty, contacted the Huaiyi and Dongyi tribes, and sent troops to attack the eastern territory and the southern territory of the Zhou Dynasty.
In order to defend Kyoto and the Zhou Dynasty's Sheji, King Li of Zhou transferred the troops of the Western Sixth Division from Zong Zhou, and also transferred the army of various princes from the north, commanded by the eldest father of Duke Yu, to gather in the Heluo area from the west and north, in an attempt to form a flanking attack and annihilate the army of Hubei in one fell swoop, but it was unable to win for a long time.
Thanks to the minister Wu Gong sent his subordinate Yu to mobilize 100 military vehicles, 200 soldiers, and 1,000 soldiers to participate in the battle, and finally repelled the coalition army, captured the Hou of E, and kept Cheng Zhou's safety.
However, after the defeat of the Hou Yufang, King Zhou Li did not destroy the Hu State, according to archaeological data, the Hu State still existed in Nanyang until the Spring and Autumn Period.
More than 100 pieces of bronze ritual vessels were unearthed from the tombs of the nobles of the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period in Nanyang City, Henan Province, of which 38 were engraved with inscriptions, and the longest inscription was more than 20 characters, which provided important physical and written materials for interpreting the history of the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Of the 20 tombs excavated in the first phase, at least four generations of Ehou were buried here. A historical mystery is thus solved: it can be determined that from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, the E-state did not disappear, but existed in Nanyang, and still had a certain strength and influence;
In the third year of King Zhou Li, after King Zhou Li's attack on Hubei (O), Huaiyi, who lived in the Huai River valley in the north of present-day Anhui, sent troops to attack the Zhou Dynasty again.
Huaiyi is a Dongyi tribe in the Huai River and Han River, also known as Nan Huaiyi, Huai Nan Yi or Nan Yi, who have invaded the Yishui and Luoshui basins many times. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Huaiyi led by Xu (Rong) invaded the Luoshui area, and then Xu was broken by Chu, and Huaiyi declined. At this time, Huaiyi once again became a threat to the Zhou Dynasty.
King Zhou Li ordered the father of Duke Yu to go out on the expedition, but due to the short time of reform and the lack of national strength, the father of Duke Yu could not win. This made the nobles even more dissatisfied, accusing King Zhou Li of choosing a non-human.
Huaiyi's momentum was even more arrogant, and once again launched a more ferocious attack, all the way to the center of the Zhou Dynasty, hit between Yishui and Luohe, and plundered innocent civilians and looted property, which was the second time in history that Huaiyi invaded Luoshui.
King Zhou Li personally came to Chengzhou to command the counterattack and personally commanded the counterattack of the Zhou army.
The Zhou army launched several counterattacks from the upper reaches of Luoshui, making Huaiyi unable to parry, so they had to retreat in defeat and flee one after another. The Zhou army pursued the victory, to Jiao (Huaiyin District, Huai'an, Jiangsu), Jin (Baoying County, Yangzhou, Jiangsu), Tong (Tongcheng City, Anqing, Anhui), and Qi (now Huoqiu County, Lu'an, Anhui), and finally completely defeated Huaiyi, beheaded more than 140 people, and recaptured 400 Zhou people captured by Huaiyi.
After the war, Huaiyi was shocked by the force of the Zhou Dynasty and surrendered slightly.
Due to the victory of King Li of Zhou Li in attacking the night and pacifying Huaiyi, the military prestige of the Zhou Dynasty was greatly boosted, and the military strength of the Zhou Dynasty was enhanced, and the national prestige of the Zhou Dynasty was also revitalized.
In the same year, Qi Xian Gongshan died.
In the sixth year of King Zhou Li, Xiong Yan, the monarch of Chu State, died.
In the eighth year of King Zhou Li, he summoned the public to advise: "The people can't stand the tyrannical decree!" King Zhou Li also heard the people's accusations of his "patent" reform, and even scolded himself, angry, and found a sorcerer to defend the country, let him monitor those who are discussing, and whoever the sorcerer sues, King Zhou Li will kill.
Legally, King Zhou Li took measures to strengthen the legal system. This is in the Confucian concept since the pre-Qin period. When King Zhou Li had a strong patriarchal concept (the patriarch judges the life and death of the clansmen), in order to ensure economic and political reform, he did not hesitate to use high-pressure means: "The king is angry, and he has to defend the witch, and the slanderer will be killed if he sues him."
It should be noted that what is the criterion for "killing a person if he is told to do so"? Is it an indiscriminate killing without a reason? Obviously not. As early as the time of King Mu of Zhou, the "genus of five punishments" has been formulated, it is said that there are as many as 3,000 kinds, and King Zhou Li does not need to create a law: the punishment is 3,000, and the crime of "slander" must have a root. King Zhou Li used the legal system to maintain the progress of the "revolution", and he would not use Wei Wu alone, but probably a special agency headed by Wei Wu to enforce the law. It can be inferred that Wei Wu's men were scattered throughout the capital to spy on the "countrymen" who made public comments, while Wei Wu himself and his cronies might stay around the palace to spy on those who dared to disagree with the new policy.
Rui (Guo) Earl (Earl) Liangfu admonished the officials in the court not to say things that should not be said. In fact, it is because there are already people monitoring the words and deeds of hundreds of officials, and Liangfu is actually kindly reminding hundreds of officials not to be caught.
It can be seen that in order to ensure the progress of reform, King Zhou Li adopted simple, naïve and crude methods, which were used by the opposition (conservatives to accuse him of "****" and scolded him for thousands of years. However, King Zhou Li's "violence" is just an abstraction of "killing him if he is sought".
In this way, the number of people talking about it gradually decreased, but the authority of King Zhou Li was not as good as that of the princes, so the princes did not want to be restrained, but they also did not want to offend King Li, so they did not come to worship, and the authority of the central Zhou Dynasty was gone.
year, the ninth year of King Zhou Li, when King Zhou Li was more strict, no one dared to speak again, and they could only exchange glances when they met on the road, and the idiom "road to eye" was born.