Chapter 2 Song of the Imperial Palace

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Corporal Ji Chang Lixian, Guangluo talents. He treated many talents from outside the country and the wise men who came to defect from the Shang Dynasty with courtesy and appointed them. For example, Boyi, Shuqi, Taidian, Hong Yao, San Yisheng, Manxiong, Xinjia and others were successively attached to Ji Chang's subordinates.

In the first year of Emperor Xin, Zhou's power expanded from Guanzhong to the Jianghan region, and the princes were attached to the six states, and Zhou's national strength increased and strengthened, causing unrest in the Shang Dynasty. In order to appease Ji Chang, Di Xin gave him the false title of the third duke, and Ji Chang was 51 years old at this time.

In the third year of Emperor Xin, in the capital of the country, there were birds and birds, which were considered bad omen by the priests. In order to weaken the power of the prince of the clan, Di Xin took the Qi (Hebi Qi County, Henan) as the capital, and the imperial court institutions were moved to the Yuan, which was built by Wu Ding, so it was also called Wu Ding City, and then Wu Yi and Di Yi successively took it as the capital. During the Emperor Xin period, the large-scale construction of Wuding City began, and it was expanded and expanded, because there was a mountain name Chaoge in the west of the city, and the name of the capital was changed to Chaoge (zhāogē), which means to sing the dawn of the song, welcome the rising sun, thriving, and prosperous.

In the era of King Shang, the song was very prosperous, and the history records that "the song is fifty miles at night, and eight hundred princes are on the Ling Mountain". King Wu was on behalf of the Emperor, and after the defeat of the King of Mu Ye, the soldiers withdrew from Lutai and died. After King Wu conquered the merchants, the soldiers arrived at Chaoge and moved Jiuding to Chaoge.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the song appeared as a place name, and it was still used as a place name from the Warring States Period to the time of the fall of the Qin Dynasty and the rise of the Han Dynasty. In the Western Han Dynasty, Chaoge set up a county, and after the Han Dynasty, Chaoge sometimes set up a county, sometimes placed a county, and sometimes merged into a neighboring county. After liberation, Qi County was set up, and Qi County was set up Chaoge Town.

Shang Wang Xingtai, Zhou Wang's Palace, Jing Ke Mound, Weiguo Ancient City, Tang Dynasty Chen Po made the Heart Sutra Floating Map, the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty talk about the tablet, etc. Qihe culture has a long history. As early as thousands of years ago, the descendants of the Chinese living in this land, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, hunting in summer and winter, "Kankan Vatan" created the Qihe culture and developed human civilization. There are the well-known ancient battlefields of the Battle of Muye at home and abroad, the prestigious Yunmeng Mountain Warring States Military Academy, the first ancient military academy in China, the Qi Garden, the first royal garden in China, and countless cultural relics of Yin Shang.

The capital city of the Shang Emperor Xin period has the Qi River in the east as a dangerous obstacle, there is the Taihang Mountain as a barrier in the west, there are three city walls in the north and south of the city, the outermost city wall is south to Changtun Village of Qi County, north to Qi County's Qi Water Pass, more than 50 miles from north to south. The second city is Wangcheng, the north wall of Wangcheng is in the east of the industrial road of today's Qi County to the north of Sanhai Village, and the south city wall is in the area of Qinguan in today's Qi County. The third city is Miyagi, which is located in the area of Sanhai Village and Xitan Village in Qi County. The "Qi County Chronicles" said that "Qiyi goes out of the north gate and passes through the king city in the west" refers to the two cities of the king of Qi.

The ruins of Miyagi, the inner castle of the Emperor of the Tsuki, are still known locally as the Shrine of the Tsuno. There is a temple on the left of the palace of the king, there is the altar of the community on the right, it is the place where the king of Yin worships the ancestors and worships the sky, the Xitan village of Qi County today is named after the altar of the king of the village with the altar of the king of the emperor. The ancient city wall that remains so far, part of the city wall is about 10 meters high, the top width is about 130 meters, the base thickness is about 150 meters, the city wall is 4 miles wide from east to west, 6 miles long from north to south, 20 miles around the city, with a total area of 24 square miles. The city wall of Chaoge is majestic and magnificent, reflecting the record of the Book of Poetry that "Banggi is thousands of miles, and the people are stopped".

King Wu fell, Muye fought a battle, the country was destroyed, and the 600-year-old society was destroyed. However, the war did not affect the walls of the castle of Chaoge, and the walls of the castle remained as majestic as before. After the end of the war, King Wu of Zhou made Wu Geng, the son of the Emperor of Zhou, a prince, a prince of the Emperor of Zhou, to continue the worship of Yin, and Wu Geng lived in the palace of his father. After Wu Geng rebelled against Zhou, the Zhou soldiers captured Chaoge, Wu Geng died, the palace was burned, the people were taken captive, and the recalcitrant people were moved, and Chaoge became a ruin from then on. The hometown of Chaoge became the capital of the country in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After Di Xin succeeded to the throne, he attached great importance to agriculture and mulberry, so the social productive forces developed and the national strength gradually became stronger.

After the national strength of Di Xin was strong, he thought about expanding the territory and opening up the territory. It can be seen that the national strength of the Shang Dynasty was still strong at that time, and if the reader was born at that time, he would definitely not feel that this was the era of the last Shang king. It can be seen how important Sun Tzu said: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country", it is precisely because of the military affairs that Di Xin finally died in the country.

At that time, Shang's main enemies were mainly Dongyi in the east and Xirong in the west, while Zhou was a potential threat to the west.

Because of the crusade against Dongyi in the era of Emperor Yi, which led to the disintegration of the Yi side, Emperor Xin decided to cut off the threat from the West first, especially Zhou.

In the fourth year of Emperor Xin, Emperor Xin thought that the time had come, and planned to move troops to attack Zhou, and transferred most of the country's troops to Li in the name of reviewing the army in Li (so Zhifangdi, also known as Qi, Changzhi Lucheng, Shanxi), and did not expose his intention to destroy Zhou. Di Xin originally wanted to annihilate the Zhou army in one fell swoop, but due to the emptiness of the southeast caused by his transfer of troops, after the Yifang tribes that Di Yi had conquered and defeated were divided, they were divided into the Dongyi Tribal Alliance (the tribes of the Yi side were independent, but they still dealt with foreign enemies together in the form of an alliance), and took the opportunity to attack Shang on a large scale. But Di Xin was not reconciled, and took a defensive position against Dongyi, always thinking about how to attack Zhou.

In the same year, Emperor Xin invented the punishment of cannon burning to deter the princes, that is, he ordered the prisoners to walk on a bronze pillar covered with oil, and light a charcoal fire underneath, and if they slipped, they would fall into the charcoal fire, and their skin would be charred and rotten. This became a major crime in the historical evaluation of Di Xin.

The Shang Dynasty has always implemented the system of brother to brother, that is, as long as the king dies, the brother is still there, although there is a son, the brother must inherit it, which is the cause of the rebellion of the early Shang Dynasty IX.

Therefore, after arriving in Wuyi, in order to fundamentally solve this problem, the Shang Dynasty began to abandon this system and implement the father-son inheritance system.

This effectively deprived the brothers of their inheritance, and from Wu Yi onwards, there was constant infighting. Therefore, Di Xin's accession to the throne is actually contrary to the interests of Jizi and Bigan.

Di Xin was naturally wary of Jizi and Bigan, and Jizi and Bigan often worked for the well-being of the people as the spokesmen of the people, and they often did not consider the dignity of Di Xin as an emperor, and their advice often put Di Xin in an embarrassing situation.

It was in this suspicion of Di Xin that Fei Zhong, who curryed favor with Di Xin everywhere, got to the top of the position.

Fei Zhong was good at sycophants and greedy for financial gain, and Di Xin began to covet pleasure under his influence. The people of the Shang Kingdom were miserable and separated from Emperor Xin.