Chapter Forty-Eight: The Eighth Division of Makino

When Di Xin saw Weizi fleeing, he no longer pursued whether he was the mastermind or not, and he didn't care about the fact that he was carrying a ritual weapon. However, Weizi was afraid of the possible arrest of Di Xin, and moved his people from Shanxi to Liangshan, Shandong, also known as Wei. It's farther away from Chaoge, and Weizi can feel at ease.

Although Weizi left the court, because of the relationship between Mizi and Bigan's old department, his latent power in the court was extremely strong, and he knew the situation of the Shang Dynasty well.

After learning about the situation of the Mengjin Alliance of King Wu of Zhou, Weizi thought that he could use the power of the princes to overthrow the rule of Emperor Xin and claim the throne himself, so he sent two people to ask for a meeting with King Wu of Zhou.

Ever since the Mengjin Alliance, King Wu of Zhou had been worried that Emperor Xin would launch a large army to attack him. However, soon after, he heard that Jizi was under house arrest and Bigan was killed, and after Weizi fled, he sent a representative to ask for a meeting with King Wu of Zhou. Weizi's representative revealed the emptiness of Chaoge's army and the main force guarding Dongyi to the monarchs and ministers of Zhou. Jiang Taigong: "Great joy, God helps Zhou Guo, and deserves the world." ”

Later, the representative of Weizi promised to lead the way for Zhou Shi, and even directly helped the defenders who said that they would surrender their hearts to Weizi. In fact, Weizi and other royal relatives generally had a good impression of Zhou, and he was a relative of Shang, so it was not a problem to borrow troops from him. Unexpectedly, Zhou's goal was to subvert SenseTime.

Taizu's evaluation of microns: "...... Weizi is the worst, a traitor. He sent two people as representatives to the Zhou Dynasty to ask for troops. King Wu went to Mengjin for the first time to observe the troops and went back. Then it took another two years (from the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" to defeat Di Xin in the second year), he said that he could fight, because there was an internal response. The king killed Bigan and locked up Miko, but he was defenseless against Weizi, only knowing that he was an oppositionist, and did not know that he was in contact with foreign countries. ”

The Zhou Dynasty was established, and the capital was Hojing (now southwest of Xi'an, Shaanxi). King Wu of Zhou posthumously crowned his father as King Wen and divided the princes.

Emperor Xin's reckless military force and continued to launch wars against the southeastern Yi had left the Shang Dynasty in poverty and the people in need.

In the autumn of the 52nd year of Emperor Xin (the 11th year of King Wu of Zhou, BC1050), Ji Fa discovered that Emperor Xin was even more tyrannical, and the good ministers were more tyrannical than Gan and Jizi, one was killed and the other was imprisoned;

Jiang Ziya saw that the time was ripe, so he proposed to Ji Fa to make a proposal.

In December, Ji Fa studied with Jiang Shang and believed that the conditions for destroying the Shang were fully ripe, so he decisively decided to send troops to attack the Shang and inform the vassal states to march to Chaoge. In the pre-Qin era, before the war, there would definitely be good fortune and evil, so Taishi Bu made a hexagram, and the omen was like a big murderer, and when he saw this bad omen, the hundred officials were shocked. But according to King Wen's research experience on the Book of Changes, although King Wen can calculate anything in the legend, but King Wen's creation of the Book of Changes is indeed not a simple divination book, and King Wen does not see the role of divination very much, if you decide to do something, you have to do it, and don't doubt it because of divination.

Ji Fa understood the truth of King Wen's "Book of Changes" very well, so he ignored the results of divination and notified the princes to join forces to conquer. Jiang Ziya gathered a large army in Xianyuan, selected 300 chariots, 3,000 tigers, and 45,000 armor soldiers to form an army of war.

The princes responded in droves, and the eight largest princes who joined the Zhou division in Xingqiu (the land of the old state of Qinyang, Jiaozuo, Henan) were Yong, Shu, Qiang, Ji, Wei, Lu, Peng, and Pu, and later generations called them the Eight Divisions of Muye. King Wu of Zhou changed the name of the punishment mound to Huaiqing.

Yongguo, the head of the Eight Divisions of Muye, is a big country in Jingchu, and the capital is Shangyong (Zhushan County, Shiyan, Hubei).

During the Shang Dynasty, Yongguo was the head of the barbarians, and the "Baipu" in northern Hunan and southwestern Hubei were all gathered under the command of Yongguo, which was inseparable from Yongguo's political and military strength and prestige at that time.

From Shang Tang to the early Zhou Dynasty, the territory of the Yongguo Kingdom included the southern part of present-day Jingzhou City and Jingmen City to the area around present-day Zhongxiang. The southern part of Yongguo included the northeastern region of present-day Chongqing, including Wanzhou, Kaixian, and counties north of Liangping. The western part of Yongguo contains most of the territory of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. "Huayang Guozhi Hanzhong Zhi" said: "(Hanzhong) is a vassal state and belongs to Shu. In other words, Hanzhong was originally a territory of Yongguo. The northern part of Yongguo included present-day Yunxi County in Hubei, Xunyang County in Shaanxi Province, and eastern Shangluo.

Yongguo experienced a long historical period before the Spring and Autumn Period, and its founding history was continuous and stable. Yongguo had become a relatively unified, relatively stable, and uninterrupted state in the summer or at the latest in the Shang period. It has a history of more than 1,700 years if it is counted from the summer time, and more than 1,100 years if it is calculated from the commercial time.

The unique feature of Yongguo's funeral culture is rock burial, that is, "hanging coffin culture". Hanging coffins have always been an important topic for historians to study, and some mysteries have not been uncovered for a long time. The ancient Yong people have a tradition of rock burial culture, where there is a rock house, the coffin is directly put into the rock house, and where there is no rock house, a cave is carved into the cliff. In the Zhuxi River Basin, there are still some caves on the cliffs on both banks, which the locals call "Old Man's Cave". Recently, complete human bones were also found in a cave in Luojiahe, Shuiping Town. These caves were used for burial by the ancients. There is also a local legend that the ancients died when they saw people getting old, and the snake became young when it shed a layer of skin in the hole, which was unfair. I ask God to change "the dead snake sheds its shell" to "the dead snake sheds its shell". Heaven granted the request. So when the man is old, he sleeps in a cave, sheds a layer of skin, and returns to his youth. Unexpectedly, if this continued, it was overcrowded, and the ancients had to ask Heaven to restore it to the original state. The above folklore is closely related to the Zhuxi rock burial customs, and the old man's cave is actually the burial place of the old man after his death. The ancient Yong people were originally popular for rock burials, which later became man-made caves, and then gradually evolved into earth burials. Most of the coffins and corpses buried in the rock have weathered and disappeared for many years. The rock burial culture has continued until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even in modern times, its customs have not been completely broken. Yong people have the custom of rock burial, it is not difficult to understand, Yong country for thousands of years, why did not find the mystery of the ancient Yong royal tomb.

Another unique feature of Yongguo's funeral culture is "playing gongs and drums at night", also known as "singing filial piety songs". There are generally two or three people playing gongs and drums at night, one person is tied to the drum, one person carries the gong, and dances slowly around the coffin, singing while walking, one should be a pair, or one person sings along. Discovered in the Shennongjia forest area, "The Legend of Darkness" is now known as the first narrative epic of the Han nation, and is actually a popular folk song book of gongs and drums in the central and western regions of Jianghan. "The Legend of Darkness" is not born in a certain person and a certain place, but the crystallization of the cultural continuity of the ancient Yong people from generation to generation.