Chapter 11 The princes of Zhou Youwang's beacon fire

Among the Three Realms, except for Lao Tzu's actions at this time, the rest, such as the Yuan Shi Tianzun and the Tongtian Sect Master, or the two in the West, are all very calm, but all living beings know that these are not the Lord of Peace, and there may be storms in the near future.

Since the raising of eyebrows and sanctification, the Three Realms have calmed down again, the major forces have come out of hiding, the Heavenly Court is in charge of the Three Realms, and all walks of life in the flood and desolation at this time have returned to the peaceful realm again, and in a flash, thousands of years have passed.

At this time, in the Three Realms, in the Human Realm.

It is said that after Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu of Xiqi, captured Chaoge, the Shang Dynasty fell, established the Zhou Dynasty, and set the capital of Haojing, which was the beginning of the world of the Zhou Dynasty.

And when Ji Chang invited Jiang Ziya out of the mountain, there was a saying that "King Wen pulled a cart for 800 steps, and the Zhou Dynasty was under heaven for 800 years", since Ji initiated, the Zhou Dynasty has been passed down to the present, it has been 295 years, and this Zhou Dynasty monarch, named Ji Gongni, that is, the King of Zhou You, is the son of Ji Jing, King Xuan of Zhou, and his mother is Jiang Hou, to his term, he is the twelfth monarch.

His mother, Empress Jiang, was too sad after the death of King Zhou Xuan, and she also died soon after. King Zhou You is a man, violent and unkind, and unpredictable. When Fang forgave Yin, he was a small group, drinking and eating meat, and had no sorrow. Since the death of Empress Jiang, he has been even more unscrupulous, lazy, and ignorant of the government.

The minister Shenhou repeatedly refused to listen to the advice and retreated to Shenguo. It was also the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Yin Jifu summoned a group of old ministers who died one after another. At this time, the Zhou Dynasty, in the eyes of many ministers, was no different from the original King of Zhou, absurd and unreasonable, and wasted state affairs.

However, it is said that after King Zhou You succeeded to the throne, one day he went to court, and the ministers of Qishan reported that "Jing, He, Luosanchuan, earthquake on the same day." "And I hope that King Zhou You will take measures.

But when King Zhou You listened, he smiled and said, "Landslides and earthquakes are a common thing, why bother to tell King Lone." After speaking, he retreated to the palace.

However, he said that the deacon Zhao Shudai had a loyal heart, and when he saw that King Zhou You ignored state affairs, he repeatedly admonished him, but it was ineffective.

A few days later, the Qishan Shouchen reported again, "The three rivers are all exhausted, and Qishan is also collapsing, and countless houses have been crushed. ”

But after King Zhou You heard this, he was completely unafraid, and still ignored it, and the ministers had no way. King Zhou You ignored state affairs, but ordered his subordinates to visit for beauty in order to fill the harem.

Seeing that King Zhou You not only ignored state affairs, but also continued to be so absurd, Uncle Zhao continued to admonish, but King Zhou You didn't listen to him, and under the slander of the traitor Maung Shi's father, he was dismissed by King Zhou You and returned to the Jin Kingdom.

But he said that the doctor was praised, and he came from Baocheng, and when he heard that Uncle Zhao was expelled, he hurriedly entered the court and admonished, "The king is not afraid of the changes of the sky, and he dethrones the virtuous ministers, I am afraid that the country is empty and the society is not guaranteed!"

King Zhou You was furious when he heard this, and ordered him to take down Bao Xi left and right, and go down to prison. Since then, the ministers no longer dare to admonish, it can be said that the admonition is pure, and the virtuous disintegrate.

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The words are divided into two ends, but it is said that there is a man who sells mulberry wood bows and straw bags, with a daughter in his arms, and runs away to Baodi, wanting to raise her, because of lack of milk, he happens to have a big wife, who has no children and no daughters under his knees, so he sends some cloth and the like, and turns this woman to the door, raises her, and names her praise.

In terms of age, although he was just over fourteen years old, his body was as good as sixteen or seventeen years old. And it is even more beautiful and eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, black clouds, fingers and jade, like a flower like the moon, and the appearance of the country and the city. And this compliment is intended to live in a remote place, and secondly, because of the young age, although there is a beautiful appearance, but no one has hired it.

But it is said that Hong De, the son of Bao Xiang, came to the countryside by chance because of tax collection and other things, and happened to see Bao Xiang fetching water outside the door, although he was wearing village makeup and wild clothes, he did not hide the country's beauty.

Seeing this, Hong De was shocked in his heart, and said, "I didn't expect such a poor and remote place to have such beauty!" Immediately, he secretly said in his heart, "My father is trapped in Hojing Prison and has not been released for three years. If this woman contributes to the Son of Heaven, she can atone for her father's sins. ”

So he interviewed the name of the neighbor, and then went home to his mother to discuss, and both of them thought that this plan could be done, so they gave a heavy gift and bought the praise back.

Then Hong De came to Haojing, explained his intention to King Zhou You, and offered a beautiful woman to King Zhou You, who released his father.

When the king listened, he announced that he planned to go to the palace. When I saw Bao Xi, I was shocked and loved her very much, and immediately made her a concubine, and at the same time ordered Bao Xi to be released.

After the king of Youwang was praised for himself, he spoiled her very much and blindly lived a life of absurdity and luxury. Although Bao Xi was born as bright as a peach and plum, but cold as frost, since entering the palace has never laughed once, in order to win Bao Xi's happy smile, you Wang did not hesitate to do everything possible, but Bao Xi did not smile all day long.

For this reason, the king of Youwang actually offered a reward for a plan, who could attract a smile and a bounty of a thousand taels. At this time, the traitor Maung Shi's father thought of an idea for King Zhou You and proposed to try it with a beacon tower.

The beacon fire was originally an emergency military warning signal when the enemy invaded, and beacon towers were set up all along the way from the national capital to the border town fortress.

In order to prevent the intrusion of dogs, the Western Zhou Dynasty built more than 20 beacon towers in the area of Lishan near Haojing, one every few miles. Once the dog Rong attacked, the first sentinel to be found immediately lit a beacon fire on the platform, and the neighboring beacon towers were also lit one after another, alerting the nearby princes.

When the princes saw the beacon fire, they knew that the capital was in an emergency, and the Son of Heaven was in trouble, so they had to raise troops to serve the king and rush to the rescue. Father Maung Shi offered a plan to make the beacon tower light the beacon for no reason, and attract the princes to come and run for nothing, so as to make Bao Xi laugh.

The mediocre King of Zhou You took the advice of Maung Shi's father, and immediately took Bao Xi and was accompanied by Maung Shifu to climb the Lishan beacon tower and order the guards to light the beacon fire.

For a time, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the beacon flames soared into the sky, and the princes from all over the country saw the alarm and thought that the dog Rong was coming, so they led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to rush to the rescue.

When I arrived at the foot of Lishan Mountain, there was not even a shadow of a dog soldier, only the sound of music and singing on the mountain, and I saw that King Zhou You and Bao Xi were sitting on the platform drinking and having fun.

King Zhou You sent someone to tell them that after working hard for everyone, there was nothing wrong here, but the king and the princess set off fireworks for fun, and the princes knew that they were being teased and returned with grievances.

Seeing that thousands of troops were summoned, they came and went, like child's play, and felt very funny, and couldn't help but smile. King Zhou You was overjoyed and immediately appreciated the beauty of Shi's father's daughter.

In order to further please Bao Xi, King Zhou You, and disregarded the rules of his ancestors, deposed the queen Shen and the crown prince Yijiu, canonized Bao Xi as the queen, and Bao Xi's son Bofu as the crown prince, and ordered the abolition of the title of the queen's father Shen Marquis, and prepared to send troops to attack him.

When Shenhou got the news, he preemptively attacked Haojing by uniting the troops of the Marquis of Xuanhou and the Northwest Yi Clan Dog Rong. When King Zhou You heard the news of the attack of the dog Rong, he panicked and hurriedly ordered the beacon tower to light the beacon fire. The beacon fire was burning, but the princes, because they had been fooled last time, did not pay attention to it this time.

There was smoke on the beacon during the day, and the fire was lit at night, but none of the rescuers came. made King Zhou You bitter.

The guards of Haojing were resentful of the mediocrity of King Zhou You, dissatisfied with the generals who often withheld food and wages, and were unwilling to serve at this time, as soon as the dog soldiers arrived, they reluctantly parried for a while, and then dispersed in a hurry, and the dog Rong soldiers and horses swarmed into the city, and the king of Zhou You took Bao Xi and Bofu, and fled from the back door in a hurry and ran to Lishan.

On the way, he once again ordered to light the beacon fire, although the beacon smoke penetrated through the nine heavens, but still did not see the princes' rescuers coming. The dog soldiers pursued closely, and the left and right of King Zhou You also fled along the way, leaving only more than a hundred people to flee into the Li Palace.

King Zhou You adopted the advice of his subordinates and ordered the front palace gate to be set on fire to confuse the dog soldiers, and he himself fled through the harem gate. After fleeing for a short time, the dog soldiers chased after them again, and after a burst of indiscriminate killing, only the three people left, Zhou Youwang, Bao Xi and Bofu, who were already paralyzed in the car with fright.

Seeing that King Zhou You was wearing the clothes of the Son of Heaven, the dog soldiers knew that it was Zhou Tianzi, so they hacked him to death on the spot. snatched the prince's robe from Bao Xi and killed him with a knife, leaving Bao Xi alone as a prisoner.

At this time, the princes knew that the dog Rong had really entered Hojing, so they united and brought a large team of men and horses to the rescue. When the army of the princes arrived, the dog Rong snatched the treasures and belongings that the Zhou Dynasty had accumulated over the years, and set fire to retreat.

After the dog Rong broke through Haojing, killed the king of You, and retreated, Shenhou, Luhou, Xu Wengong and others jointly established the original prince Ji Yijiu as the son of heaven and the king of Zhou Ping.

Because Haojing had been destroyed by the war, and most of the land in the west of the Zhou Dynasty was occupied by the dog Rong, King Ping of Zhou was afraid that Haojing would be difficult to protect, so under the escort of Qin, he moved the capital to Luoyi, and established a country with the assistance of Zheng and Jin.

The Zhou Dynasty after this eastward migration was called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the previous Zhou Dynasty was the Western Zhou Dynasty.

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