Among the six major crimes set up by Zhou Wu for Di Xin, the first ones were "appointing untouchables as officials" and "insulting nobles with untouchables". To put it bluntly, Di Xin used the lower class of people as ministers, infringing on the hereditary interests of the nobility. Therefore, the strong forces of the Shang Emperor can be suppressed, and once the Shang Emperor is a little weaker, they will go their own way, and there will be a miasma. Therefore, since Emperor Wuding, the Shang Dynasty was "the king of sages and sages six or seven", and most of the times the Shang emperor was a strong force. However, when Di Xin succeeded to the throne, due to the division of the royal family and the madness of the Weizi faction, these nobles were also ready to move.

And the entire Shang family, due to hundreds of years of prosperity, is exhausted. Extravagant enjoyment, greed for life and fear of death, selfishness and short-sightedness, "friends make enemies, coerce power and destroy each other", a group of declining and rotten Eight Banners. Moreover, the Shang people's good wine was very popular, from the Shang emperor, princes and ministers to the common people, all of them became drunk and became popular, so that "a country loses the sun". The Zhou people attacked Di Xin for "indulging in color", but they didn't know that this was the hobby and behavior of the Shang people as a whole, and "Qin for the long night" was not only possible but also inevitable under the circumstances at that time. No matter how wise Di Xin is, he can't get rid of the "vulgar".

Under such circumstances, the central Shang Dynasty had lost its ability to control the surrounding princes. The princes and uncles rebelled from time to time, harassed and attacked from time to time, especially Dongyi, who was repeatedly coated in Wangji and plundered. Dongyi was originally an ally of the Shang Dynasty, but although there was a discord in the future, it was not a big harm. But since the martial arts of the emperor Wu Ding punished the big Fang Bo Peng. After Fenwei, there was no one to control Dongyi. Although Wu Ding was obedient, it left hidden dangers for later generations of Shang emperors. Emperor Wuding can be said to have destroyed the Great Wall for a moment of anger. Therefore, the six or seven emperors and the southeast are restless. From Emperor Wuding to Emperor Xin, the use of troops against Dongyi has not stopped. In the west, the Zhou people have grown since the time of Emperor Wu Yi. The record of Emperor Wuyi's "hunting in the river and Wei, and the thunder shook to death" in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" is quite peculiar. Most modern people suspect the true cause of Di Wuyi's death, but it is definitely inseparable from the Zhou people. To Emperor Wending, Zhou Jili continued to be arrogant and arrogant, and was killed by Emperor Wending, and when Emperor Xin, Zhou Houchang intensified and became a major disaster in the West.

This is the situation after Di Xin succeeded to the throne, an empire that was divided internally and surrounded by external powers. The measures taken by Emperor Xin after his succession to the throne have been fully described due to the lack of historical data. However, according to the existing brief description, a general outline can be sketched together: first, the control of the interior. On the one hand, Di Xin divided and suppressed the huge internal opposition camp that was divided and divided, and did not hesitate to adopt high-pressure measures, or kill Bigan, imprison the basket, and chase the micron, and on the other hand, promoted the Fei Lian and the evil from the foreign fugitives to become generals, and firmly controlled the army. These two also lived up to the high expectations of Emperor Xin, Fei Lian was the commander of the Dongyi War, and after the death of Shang, he still insisted on fighting until he died in battle. And the evil came to die in the battle of Makino. As for internal affairs, Fei Zhong is used to counter the forces of all sides. The second is to stabilize the situation with military exploits, build prestige, and unite people's hearts. In the first year of Emperor Xin's accession to the throne, he ordered the Nine Marquis, the Marquis of Yu, and the Marquis of Han - this is fifty years earlier than the history of the Zhou people, and the reason and purpose are different. In the fourth year, the Great Search for Li, that is, the so-called "Emperor Xin rebelled in the east for the sake of Li" in the "Zuo Chuan", held military exercises in the west to deter the western princes, especially the Zhou people. In nine years, there was Su and Daji. In the twenty-second year, he searched Yuwei and imprisoned Xibochang - modern people believe that Di Xin killed Xibochang at this time in order to relieve the threat from the west, rather than being released because of the support of the princes, as the Zhou people said.

After solving the threat from the west, Di Xin turned around and went on a crusade against the Dongyi, which often invaded Wangji, in the hope of eliminating the great troubles of the elbows and armpits that had plagued him for a hundred years. The battle between Shang and Dongyi was a long and costly battle, and it took decades to decide the winner. At this time, all the essence of the Shang Dynasty had been exhausted, and although it was the victor, with countless prisoners and goods, the empire had become an empty shelf. Therefore, with the wisdom and strength of Emperor Xin, he could only turn a blind eye to the Zhou people's expedition in the west, but tried his best to digest the results of the war and strive to heal the wounds of the war in the shortest possible time. At this time, the opposition, which had been strongly suppressed by Di Xin, dealt a fatal blow to the weakened Shang Empire at a critical moment - Dafu Jia, Neishi Xiang Zhi, and Weizi fled to Zhou successively, betraying the truth of the empire that Di Xin tried to conceal to the Zhou people, and guiding the Zhou people to take advantage of the void to enter.

Looking back at Mao Zedong's comments, we can understand why "King Shou is a very capable and capable person of literature and martial arts", and can understand that "Di Xin was very famous at that time." The common people of the Shang Dynasty supported him very much. Therefore, the descendants of the merchants of the Song Kingdom, whom Wei Ziqi begged to build from the Zhou people, wrote poems like "Xuanniao" to commemorate and praise Di Xin, calling Di Xin the invincible "King of Wu or Emperor Wu".

Because Emperor Xin died on the fifth day of the first month of the 53rd year of Emperor Xin (BC1049), King Wu of Zhou officially acted as Shang, so the history books record the reign of Emperor Xin only to the 52nd year (BC1050).

From Shang Tang (1737 BC) to Di Xin (1050 BC), there were 30 monarchs and 628 years.

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This is the end of the history of the Shang Dynasty, so stay tuned for the eighth installment of the "Romance of the World" series.