In 782 BC, the 11th generation king of Zhou Dynasty, King Xuan of Zhou, Ji Jing, suddenly died suddenly when he went out to hunt again after his reign of 46 years. When King Xuan of Zhou succeeded to the throne, he worked hard and started to solve the mess left by his father, King Li of Zhou. The three tricks he used indeed effectively restored the strength of the Zhou Dynasty, and a rare situation of ZTE was also seen. The gradually alienated vassal states began to regain their clusters, and in history, this period was called " Xuanwang Zhongxing ".
So what three tricks did King Xuan of Zhou use to regain the vitality of the Zhou Dynasty, which was originally beginning to weaken?
's first move is to appoint wise ministers to vigorously rectify the court's principles, advocate the policy of conquering people with virtue and governing the country with virtue, reduce taxes and accumulate grain, so that the originally rioting people will be stabilized again.
The second move is to rectify the army and re-establish the prestige of the emperor in Zhou, restore the ritual and music system, the vassal states restore tribute, and the treasury gradually filled.
The third move is to use the power of various vassal states to suppress small border countries. Because the implementation of tyranny during the reign of King Li of Zhou led to chaos in the domestic people's livelihood, the surrounding Rong tribes began to take advantage of the situation and frequently cause chaos in the surrounding borders. After King Xuan of Zhou ascended the throne, he united the vassal states to defeat the Rong army many times, and the border crisis was lifted.
When he was young, King Xuan of Zhou was also considered a literary and martial arts strategy, and his pattern was quite large. Combined with his bumpy experience when he succeeded to the throne, King Xuan of Zhou's achievements in the first half of his life were enough to make him famous in history. However, King Xuan of Zhou began to be confused in his later years. A series of operations brought the situation of ZTE to an abrupt end, and even put the Zhou Dynasty into a greater crisis.
King Xuan of Zhou used three moves to revive the Zhou Dynasty, and only three steps were needed to make the Zhou Dynasty decline.
The first step is to interfere with the internal affairs of the princes, so that the prestige of the emperor who had finally established was gone.
The second step is to use excessive force and not know how to rest and recuperate.
The third step is to forcefully collect heavy taxes after successive defeats, which once again aroused domestic conflicts.
In fact, in addition to the above trilogy, the decline of Zhou King Xuan's later period is also related to his excessive superstition in his later years. According to legend, in 789 BC, when King Xuan of Zhou returned to Beijing from Taiyuan to recruit soldiers and grain, he heard a large number of children singing a nursery rhyme in the street market: "The month is about to rise, the day is about to disappear, the arc is about to stop, and the arc is about to stop, and the country is almost dead. "The nursery rhyme has only a few sentences, but the meaning is also clear, which refers to the demise of the Zhou Dynasty.
King Xuan of Zhou was very distressed when he heard such nursery rhymes. He thought that the nursery rhymes were sent by God to warn him, so he was depressed. In order to prevent the nursery rhymes from becoming a reality, he did not look for the reasons from himself, but instead ordered the whole city to search and sell mulberry bows and saps. The people with grass quiver harmed many common people, and this move was an abuse of royal power.
Zhou Xuan King worked hard in the early stage, and ZTE was expected, but the ending of a confusing in the later stage is sad. The story about him has been circulated in later generations. If King Xuan King did not confusing in the later stage, do you think that the Zhou Dynasty might really move towards ZTE?
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