Chapter 60: Master Zhou is defeated by the dog Rong
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The ancients believed in celestial phenomena, and "Tian Zaidan" was considered a bad omen, which made King Zhou Yi have a shadow in his heart that always lingered, and he always felt that the national capital Hojing was not good for him.
In the seventh year of King Zhou Yi, Xirong invaded the Zhou realm, and once soldiers came to Zhou Haojing.
During the period of Chengkang Zhaomu, the border Rongdi has been suppressed, and after King Yi of Zhou ascended the throne, they continued to invade the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even arrived at Gyeonggi several times, proving that the national power of the Western Zhou Dynasty was in decline at this time.
The weakening of the state is caused by various reasons, and the problem of the ruler himself is one of the important reasons.
The ordination system is a system of appointing and rewarding officials in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is an important part of the Zhou rites and a very important performance ceremony to demonstrate the royal power. The main symbol of the ordination system during the reigns of King Zhao of Zhou and King Mu of Zhou was the appearance of a guide to the benefactor of the ordained and a historian who read the ordained in the process of appointment and reward.
The ordination system was further improved, and in the process of appointment and reward, there was the etiquette of pilgrimage to the king of Zhou: "Establish the middle court, northward". It should be pointed out in particular that "standing in the middle court, facing north" is not simply standing in the center of the courtyard facing north, it is actually the name of the two ceremonies of the Hajj to the king of Zhou before accepting the canonization, which is equivalent to the title of the article. "Lizhongting" may be the etiquette for the person to arrive at the position of receiving the ordination under the guidance of the blesser, while "Beixiang" may be the etiquette for the person to pay homage to the king of Zhou after arriving at the position of receiving the ordination.
The inscriptions of King Yi of Zhou only recorded the content of the canonization, but did not describe the entire process of canonization as the previous generation, and the historian who read the ordination in the Zhaomu period disappeared in the process of canonization. In particular, it is specifically mentioned in the "Xuan" that the princes entered the palace to receive the order: "The king is in the palace of the sun, Dan, Wang Ge, and Yigong enter the palace." "The process didn't say a word. This shows that the etiquette of the Hajj to the King of Zhou during the canonization of the ordination obviously caused dissatisfaction among the elders and ministers, and exacerbated the contradictions between the Zhou royal family and the princes and ministers. It was under such circumstances that some of the old rituals and systems were broken, and the historian was no longer called to read the decree.
Not only that, it can be seen from the direct use of the word "life" in the inscription that the person who read the book of orders in the book of orders was changed to King Zhou Yi himself. It can be seen that the aura of King Zhou's supremacy has begun to fade at this time.
"Historical Records of Zhou Benji" contains: "At the time of King Yi, the royal family declined", but the specific extent of decline is unknown. These Yi inscriptions can just supplement the lack of historical materials and prove the decline of royal power during the reign of King Yi of Zhou.
In February of the seventh year of King Yi of Zhou, the imperial court appointed Yigong Mu to govern the Baishi Bureaucracy (Tianyin's position). In his appointment speech, he said: The bureaucracy is arrogant and extravagant, ignores the laws and decrees formulated by the previous kings, acts arbitrarily and tyranny, and brutalizes the small people, and as a result, the small people revolt and endanger their own lives, all of which are to blame. It is strictly ordered that the minister should act in accordance with the decree of the previous king, clearly observe and make judgments, and sentence according to the law. This not only proves that King Zhou Yi had the intention to rectify the dynasty, but also proves the political chaos at that time. Judging from the subsequent development, King Zhou Yi failed to reverse the decline.
Although King Yi of Zhou was not able to govern the country well, he still effectively controlled the power of the Zhou Dynasty to a certain extent.
In September, the ninth year of King Yi of Zhou, King Yi ordered Yigong to conquer the Meiguo. Yigong won, returned to Beijing to report the victory to King Yi, and reported that the chief of Meiguo, Ao, was about to come to worship King Zhou. In the same year, King Yi of Zhou appointed LΓΌ Fuyu to replace Bei Zhong, to take charge of the Sixth Division, and to give the Sixth Division a general service;
In the thirteenth year of King Yi of Zhou, the northern Zhai (Di) people invaded Qizhou, the birthplace of the Western Zhou Dynasty (Qishan County, Fufeng County, Baoji, Shaanxi), and robbed the property of the Zhou people frantically, and killed many people of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The defenders of the border pass attacked, but were defeated by Zhai's army, and the enemy army took advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the Zhou army, all the way to Qishan. Qishan is less than 200 kilometers away from the royal capital Hojing, and the safety of Qishan directly affects Hojing. The defenders of Qishan held the pass on the one hand, and on the other hand, they successively complained to the imperial court. Zhou Yi Wang Ji Yan hurriedly selected the elite soldiers in the country, and at the same time recruited the troops of the vassal states to jointly send troops to defend Qishan, and the Zhai people retreated.
Zong Zhou was successively harassed by Rong Di, coupled with the so-called heavenly revelation of "Tian Zaidan" at the beginning of his accession, after repeated thinking, King Zhou Yi decided to move the capital to another place. King Zhou Yi personally selected the new capital as the Dog Hill (also known as the waste hill, southeast of Xingping City, Xianyang, Shaanxi) in the northwest of Haojing, believing that this place was the best place to build the capital, and ordered the recruitment of craftsmen throughout the country, the procurement of building materials, and the construction of the new capital on a certain day.
In the autumn of the fifteenth year of King Zhou Yi, the palace of Inuqiu had not yet been fully built, and King Zhou Yi couldn't wait to order the capital to be moved. At his urging, the ministers had no choice but to move with him to the new capital. After moving the capital, King Yi of Zhou named the new capital Huaili.
In the seventeenth year of King Zhou Yi, Lu Ligong died.
In the twenty-first year of King Zhou Yi, due to the repeated invasions of foreign enemies, King Zhou Yi felt the importance of army building, and without a strong army, he could neither restrain the princes at home nor resist strong external troubles. Therefore, he ordered to increase investment in national defense construction and recruit young and middle-aged people to join the army. He appointed Gong Yu as the supreme leader in charge of the army, expanded the strength of the army, and strengthened military training.
Located in the west of the Zhou Dynasty, the dog Rong was not on good terms with the Zhou Dynasty for a long time, and King Mu of Zhou had conquered it and was forced to move to Jinyang (Taiyuan, Shanxi) by King Mu. With the decline of the Zhou Dynasty's national power, the threat from the northwest became severe again. After the training of the Zhou army was completed, King Yi of Zhou personally inspected this mighty army and had the ambition to conquer the Quartet and dominate the world.
In the autumn of the twenty-first year of King Yi of Zhou, King Yi ordered Duke Yu to lead the Northern Expedition to the Dog Rong, but he was defeated. The failure of the conquest of the dog Rong awakened King Zhou Yi's dream of external expansion, and also dispelled his ambition to dominate the world.
In the winter of the twenty-third year of King Yi of Zhou, the Western Zhou Dynasty suffered a catastrophic natural disaster, heavy rain and hail hit the royal capital Huaili, many livestock and poultry were killed by hail, and then the cold snap soared, the weather was extremely cold, and even the Jialing River and the Han River were frozen. Some people didn't have time to protect themselves from the cold, and they were frozen to death.
King Zhou Yi was very superstitious, and because of the "day again" feeling ominous, he moved the national capital from Haojing to the new capital Huaili, but what he didn't expect was that everything was still not going well in the new capital.