Chapter Seventy-One: The Southern Army is Lost
readx;? In the twenty-second year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan Xi had many fathers, and many fathers were a son of King Xuan, who was sealed near Luoshui. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the twenty-fourth year of King Xuan of Zhou, Duke Wen of Qi (Jiang) Chi died.
In June, the twenty-fifth year of King Xuan of Zhou, there was a great drought, and King Xuan was afraid that the drought would make the people of Li suffer and the community would be overturned, so he personally went to the temple on the outskirts of the city to lay wine and bury jade, sacrifice to heaven and earth, pray to the gods and pray for rain, and soon the sky rained heavily. The doctor still wrote a song to praise King Xuan of Zhou because of this incident, that is, "The Book of Songs, Daya, Yunhan".
In the twenty-ninth year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan for the first time "did not originate from a thousand acres", that is, less than a thousand acres, and carried out a cultivation ceremony.
Originally, the ritual was held by the chief to cultivate the collectively owned land before the start of a certain agricultural work in the village community, which had the effect of encouraging collective farming.
Thousand acres (near Zongzhou) is a sacrificial field opened up by King Wu of Zhou for the preparation of the felling merchants, with an area of about 1,000 acres, and its production is used to worship the Emperor of Heaven.
From the Zhou Dynasty onwards, the Western Zhou Dynasty adopted the economic policy of the well-field system. In a well of 900 mu, eight peasant households each get 100 mu of private land, and all the income is private; the middle 100 mu is public land, and the eight families work together and hand over the income; first make public land, and then do private work after the official work is completed. This is a mode of production that borrows the power of the people to cultivate, and it is also a backward mode of production.
The peasants were not able to raise their spirits at all for the work of the public fields, and the well field system could no longer be maintained after hundreds of years of development. Originally, the land owned by the collective, that is, the public land, became the private property of the Son of Heaven, the princes and the nobles, and the nationality ceremony also became an activity in which the Son of Heaven and the Ministers held ceremonies to supervise and inspect the cultivation of the Shu people and the free possession of the fruits of their labor during the spring ploughing, ploughing and harvesting.
The Jingtian system had been severely damaged during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, and the public fields were privatized in large quantities, King Xuan of Zhou recognized the established facts, and the relevant rites of origin were abolished. This is a pragmatic performance of King Xuan, but it has caused a change in people's hearts that is not conducive to Zhou.
The ministers and princes believed that "not being from a thousand acres" was a sign of disrespect for heaven, and the legitimacy of Zhou's imperial power was therefore questioned. The performance of the struggle between royal power and divine power at the beginning of the reign of the king was that the king did not respect heaven, so as a negative teaching material, the Zhou Dynasty, as the "destiny of heaven", always attached importance to the role of thousands of acres in the sacrifice to heaven. It is precisely after "not a thousand acres" that Zhou seems to have really been abandoned by God, and all foreign wars will be defeated.
In the thirty-second year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou crusaded against the State of Lu and killed the Duke of Lu.
King Xuan of Zhou asked the minister who among the princes of Lu could be qualified for the position of king of Lu. Fan Muzhong (Zhong Shanfu), who had previously advised against abolishing the elders and young and was deeply respected by the Lu people, said that Lu Yigong's younger brother Gongzi said that he was solemn and respectful, respected the elderly, and that he must follow the etiquette system of the previous dynasty in handling affairs and enforcing the law. King Xuan of Zhou then set up a prince in Yigong and called him the monarch of Lu State, which was for Lu Xiaogong.
After the two turmoils of "not from a thousand acres" and "abolishing the long and young" (King Xuan abolished his martial arts and personally destroyed the only Zhou ritual system in the Zhou Dynasty that controlled the princes), Zhou Tianzi's prestige was greatly reduced, and the princes disobeyed the king's orders. In his later years, King Xuan of Zhou used troops against the surrounding tribes many times, and he seemed to be punished by God, and no longer maintained the momentum of victory as before, and most of them ended in failure.
King Xuan of Zhou was very dissatisfied with the use of troops by the surrounding tribes, mainly Xirong, which had a close relationship with Xirong, and began to collude with Xirong. However, the Xishen State, which was originally the western barrier of the Zhou Dynasty that was more important than the Qin State, served as the logistics base for King Xuan's battle against Xirong, but leaked the operational deployment of Zhou to the Xirong departments.
In the thirty-third year of King Xuan of Zhou, due to the military leakage of Shenhou, the battle of Dog Rong in Taiyuan was lost and the army was withdrawn.
In the thirty-eighth year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou sent Wang Shi and Jin Muhou to join forces to crusade against Tiaorong and Benrong, (its place was called Anyi in ancient times, one of the capitals of the Xia Dynasty, Xia County, Yuncheng, Shanxi), and this time it was also defeated.
Year, the thirty-ninth year of King Xuan of Zhou, Jiang Rong in the Shenhou under the strategy, invaded to the thousands of acres near Zong Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou hurriedly went to the rescue, in case the sacrifice of the Emperor of Heaven was destroyed in the production of thousands of acres, in the thousand acres and Jiang Rong who was waiting for work, and finally defeated, the division of the southern country was lost, and King Xuan of Zhou was able to break through under the desperate rescue of his father.
This was believed by the people of the Zhou Dynasty and the princes of all walks of life to have offended the Emperor of Heaven by virtue of Yu Tian, and the Emperor of Heaven sent down divine punishment, and Zhou was no longer blessed by God. The princes of all walks of life despised the royal family even more.
year, the fortieth year of King Xuan of Zhou, after the elite of the Zhou Dynasty was exhausted, the border was empty, and Beirong took the opportunity to capture and destroy Jiangyi City. The Marquis of Jin led the Jin army to meet the battle and defeated Xirong at Fenxi (Shanxi Jin intermediary closed market).
As the chief of the princes, the Jin state began to appear as the defender of the Zhou dynasty, defeating Beirong Yu Fenxi for the first time, which was the beginning of the Jin state's strength.
King Xuan saw that after the southern army was lost, on the one hand, the interior of the dynasty was constantly invaded and encroached upon by the Xirong tribes, and on the other hand, the princes from all walks of life who were originally the subjects of the Zhou Dynasty gradually rose, and the central position of the Zhou Dynasty was gradually lost.
King Xuan of Zhou was anxious to rebuild the army, but lacked funds, so he made a painful decision to resolutely implement the poll tax reform despite the opposition of his ministers and nobles, and ordered "the people to be in Taiyuan", that is, to pull everyone to an open field, and then register the population as the basis for the conscription of soldiers and the requisition of materials (i.e., military service and poll tax).
Zhong Shanfu believed that since ancient times, the population could be known without a census, because the people were responsible for registering life and death, the merchants were responsible for giving surnames to the clans, the people in charge of the Situ were responsible for the exchanges, the Sikou was responsible for executing criminals, the pastor knew the number of employees, the workers knew the number of craftsmen, the person in charge of the field moved in, and the people in charge of the department moved out, and the number of people could be known by asking the hundred officials, and the investigation could also be carried out by managing agricultural affairs, so there was no need to work the people and waste money to deliberately conduct a census. King Xuan of Zhou did not listen to the dissuasion, and finally did so.
In fact, King Xuan of Zhou did this in order to save the financial and military affairs of the Zhou Dynasty, which was already on the verge of collapse, and it was a helpless move.
After several failures, King Xuan of Zhou finally discovered the problem of leaking, and pointed the finger at Shenhou, who had always had a close relationship with Xirong and had a relationship by marriage.
year, the forty-first year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou sent Wang Shi to conquer the West Shen Kingdom (called Shen Rong by King Xuan at this time), this time no one reported to Shen Hou, Wang Shi won the victory, Shen Hou hurriedly sent someone to plead with King Xuan's mother (Shen Hou's sister), which came forward to plead with King Xuan, and the West Shen Kingdom was saved from destruction.