Secondly, the Dongyi rebellion contained the main army of the Shang Dynasty and gave the Zhou people a strategic opportunity to further develop and grow. Without the suppression of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou could let go of their development and growth, and even attack the hardcore allies of the Shang Dynasty. In the final analysis, this so-called "snipe and clam fight, fisherman profits", and it was the Zhou people who benefited from the Shangyi war.

King Wu Keshang established the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the Yi tribes in the east still refused to tame. According to the Book of Shang. According to the record of Fei Oath, a tribe named Xu Yi claimed to be the king during the reign of King Mu of Zhou, and raised troops to attack Luoyang of Zhou, almost breaking through Luoyi City. In the end, King Mu of Zhou united with the State of Chu to attack Xu Yi, and finally broke through the State of Xu, and the King of Xu Yan, who was under the false name, committed suicide.

In the legend of the Yi people, the day of King Xu Yan's suicide was like the end of heaven and earth. The thick clouds in the sky suddenly converged, and the rumbling thunder shook the heavens and the earth, and the entire Xucheng was suddenly as dark as ink. The lightning and snakes danced in the cloudy sky, the huge thunder exploded repeatedly, the torrential rain overturned the river and the sea poured into the sky, the huge roar of gold and iron was endless, and the high sky was rolling with fiery red clouds......

When the clouds and rain stopped, the Dading privately cast by King Xu Yan and his own body were all gone. Since then, the Yiren tribe has fallen into a hundred years of silence.

Fifty or sixty years have passed in a flash, and the people of the Yi people have gone crazy again.

In fact, since the beginning of the "state" in the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, the way in which the victorious powers treated the remnants of the previous dynasties went through two processes: first, the nobles of the previous dynasty were made autonomous princes, and later the feudal lands were retained and the ruling power was abolished. The evolution of this process is the result of bloody restorations and repeated contests.

Three generations were replaced, Shang destroyed Xia, Zhou destroyed Shang, and in the early days, they all respected the remnants of the previous dynasties, allowing them to establish autonomy in the birthplace of their ancestors, that is, allowing them to exist as a prince with governing power. In fact, the autonomous princes meant almost exactly the military and political power. As long as there is no rebellion, as long as the tribute to the Son of Heaven is proclaimed, the central royal family has almost no interference with the autonomous princes.

The intention of the newly victorious state was to convince the common people of the world of the benevolence of the king of their own dynasty by preserving and honoring the royal family of the previous dynasty, so that they would submit to the new dynasty with joy and sincerity. Zhou was known for his royal benevolence, not only for the previous dynasties, but also for the surrounding Yidi regimes.

However, the reality is always the opposite of what the newly victorious powers expected. Once the remnants of the previous dynasty existed as the ruling princes, they would do everything possible to restore the old royal system, which eventually led to the bane of subverting the new regime. The first to taste the bitter fruit was precisely the new dynasty of the Zhou Dynasty, which advocated the moralization of the king.

The Zhou people boasted of ruling the world by virtue, and after the destruction of the Shang, they not only allowed the original residence of the Yin Shang remnants to be autonomous princes, but also made the descendants of the "holy kings" such as Shennong, Huangdi, Yao, Shun, and Yu all autonomous princes.

However, only two or three years later, King Wu of Zhou had just died of illness, and Wu Geng, the leader of the remnants of the Yin Shang Dynasty, immediately instigated a large-scale rebellion, which not only united almost all the princes of the "Holy King" remnants and the Dongfang Yi tribe to rebel against Zhou, but also unbelievably instigated the rebel forces in the Zhou royal family to oppose Zhou together, and its momentum was so great that it almost overwhelmed this new dynasty. It was only thanks to the all-out strategy of the scheming Zhou Gongdan that the Zhou Dynasty finally put down this great rebellion based on the remnants of the Yin Shang princes.

This was an extremely tragic civil war in China, and it was also an extremely painful lesson in governing the country.

It made the whole world understand that the desire of the royal family of the previous dynasty, which has a centuries-old tradition, to restore the old system of their ancestors is almost forever indelible; As for the barbarians, there is only one rule: "If you are not of my race, your heart will be different".

Since then, the Zhou Dynasty has changed its policy of "deserted clothing" to suppress with one hand and appease with the other. However, in the era of King Mu, the two events of the raid on the Lynx and the eastward expedition to Xu Yi were the turning points, and it became a complete suppressive policy. Unfortunately, the lynx became stronger and stronger, and finally became a sharp sword hanging over Guanzhong Wangji; And Dongyi, because it is too close to the core ruling area of the Zhou Dynasty - the Central Plains, has been constantly suppressed, and its living space is getting smaller and smaller, and the life of the Yi people is getting more and more difficult.

The first grievance was the Jingtian system implemented by the Zhou Dynasty.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, roads and channels crisscrossed the land, dividing the land into squares shaped like the character "well", hence the name "well field". The well field belonged to the king of Zhou and was allocated to the common people. The lord was not allowed to buy, sell or transfer the well field, and he had to pay a certain tribute. The lord forced the commoners

The well fields are cultivated collectively, and the surrounding area is private land, and the middle piece is public land. The Jingtian system evolved from the original communal land ownership system, and its basic feature is that the actual cultivator has no ownership of the land, but only the right to use it.

This kind of system is not rigid, and it is acceptable to be implemented in the Central Plains, but in the Jianghuai region, which is crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, especially in the areas where the Yi people are mainly inhabited, it has been rejected and disgusted by the people. First of all, the terrain of Jianghuai is mainly hilly, all of which are small pieces of farmland or even terraced fields.

Secondly, because of the small plot, most of the people are engaged in fishing and farming to make a living, but the well field system traps the common people in cultivating the fields and is not allowed to engage in other industries. If there is a famine year, can't you sell your land to escape the famine? How can you win the hearts of the people if you are so rigid?

The second grievance is endless conscription throughout the year.

Generally speaking, in addition to the due hard work, the regular duties of the common people were nothing more than two kinds of servitude: one was to open ditches, dredge rivers, repair castles and fortresses, and other state projects, and the other was to serve as a baggage camp porter or various craftsmen for the army.

However, for the Yi people in the Huai River Valley, there is another type of conscription that is inevitable. That is, through the Suizao Gold Road, countless ox carts loaded with copper were transported to Zhou Wangji in Chengzhou and Hangu Pass, which continued all year round.

This is enough, because the Dongyi tribe has been known for its good iron smelting copper since ancient times, and from time to time there are requisition orders from the Chengzhou military camp or the Luoyi official office, and the craftsmen who are good at smelting copper in the Yiren tribe are recruited to cast sacrificial bronzes for the royal family, or cast weapons for the military camp. As soon as the person is transferred, he only cares about the food, does not pay the salary, and the old and young in the family starve to death.

If the two grievances of the Jingtian system and the conscription can be swallowed by the majesty of the Zhou royal family, then the last grievance is something they can't bear no matter what. That is the plundering of the young men and women of the Yiren tribe by the surrounding vassal states, this is to cut off their roots!.

In the beginning, the Yi tribe occasionally rebelled, and once defeated, all the young men and women of the tribe were taken captive by the surrounding vassal states.