Dou Peng nodded: "Yes, no one would have expected that the Three Prison Rebellion would happen. When the Zhou State had just died and the new ruler was young, Zhou Gongdan was assisting the government, the two younger brothers Guan and Cai, led the Zhou State to guard the Central Plains army to launch a rebellion. Their allies were the Shang Dynasty survivors under Wu Geng, whom they wanted to monitor and control, and the later Shang State army."
Heibo smiled and said, "Not only that, the Song State of Weiziqi, stood on the side of Zhou State in this war, and the two survivors of Shang State also met with each other. Not only was the Zhou civil war, but it could also be seen as a civil war in the old Shang State. If King Zhou had made up his mind earlier, sent troops to eliminate Wu Geng and those conservative nobles, and personally unified the army and resources of their fiefdoms, perhaps the Battle of Muye would not have lost."
The ancestor said calmly: "This is still the consequence of the ninth-generation rebellion. The Shang king Zhongding was the former Shang king and the famous king of a generation, and was forced to rise to the throne, which caused dissatisfaction among many nobles and royal family members. Therefore, Zhongding died for thirteen years in power. During this period, the country's civil strife continued, and all the princes did not come to the court. Even Fengyi, Xinguo and other princes began to rebel. Zhongding died in depression. His brothers were outside his brothers.
After Ren came to power, in order to preserve the throne, he allowed brothers and brothers to keep the army and the priests' Zhenren group on their fiefdoms, and even allowed their own separate ancestors to worship, and they could also regard their mother as gods and ancestors. This gave the royal princes of the Shang Dynasty, especially the princes, who had very strong strength. Even the Shang King might not be sure to eradicate a certain brother."
"In fact, this incident is a bit similar to the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty. It is because it is actually enfeoffed and the princes are armed with troops, so it will eventually become a civil war. In the ninth-generation rebellion of the Shang Dynasty, although there were no war zones like the Eight Kings Rebellion, there were many wars in the same family. In the end, it was to let the foreign barbarians grow and he had to withdraw from the territory like Jin Dao Xixing in Jingchu that had been obtained after a hundred years of hard struggle. The territory of the Shang Dynasty was constantly shrinking in this upper-level civil strife, and for decades, after hundreds of years, the surrounding areas were lost, and another king of interests appeared, and then another expansion was made. Next, the same plot would be staged again due to the heir issue."
"Because the dispute over the inheritance rights of the throne is often based on the results of divination and the will of the ancestors is implemented. Therefore, the Zhenren and the priests group have a very large voice, and can even reverse the will of the Shang king to pass the throne to his son. In the end, it will be formed by a certain prince or brother, and a group of Zhenren priests and nobles will gather. Many of these people are also royal nobles themselves. They will form a powerful group with different opinions from the Shang king. The Bigan, Wei Ziqi, and even his own prince Wu Geng, which was facing, was such a group. In the end, during the Battle of Muye, this old noble group turned against him, causing King Zhou to completely fail."
"However, for Zhou State, Wu Geng's group was too large, including hundreds of thousands of Shang Dynasty tribes, with more than 200,000 troops and more than 200,000 slaves. It was not easy to destroy this group at once with the strength of Zhou State at that time, so it was not easy to split the group and become two countries of Shang State and Song State. Then Guan Shu and Cai Shu were set to monitor it. Xu Tuzhi was the best way to eliminate the Shang Dynasty tribe that still included most of the Central Plains and Hebei in the future. King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, also made a long-term plan.
The arrangement was, on the one hand, he led his army back to Guanzhong, rewarded his merits and further consolidated his strength in Guanzhong and Bingzhou. On the other hand, he asked Prime Minister Jiang Ziya to lead a large number of Western Qiang people to the fiefdoms of Qingzhou in the east and established Qi. In this way, not only could Zhou occupy and annex the territory of those left Western Qiang tribes, but his iron-core ally Xiqiang moved east and establish a foundation in the land of the East Yi. When there was something wrong in the world, the Qi army could attack the Guanzhong troops of the Western Zhou Dynasty on both sides. This was a very powerful arrangement."
Dou Peng laughed and said, "Not only that, the Zhou State also enthroned the Zhaogong clan to the northern part of Hebei, the Youyi tribe, and established the Yan State. This move was also very powerful. Zhaogong, who was born in the nomadic clan, established the Yan State in the northeast. It not only could aggravate with various local Hu people who were also nomadic, but also threatened and restrained the Shang Dynasty from the north, and the Hebei area of ​​Jizhou. After all, this was the origin of the Shang Dynasty and made a fortune, and people were interested in Shang. Therefore, the three-hand arrangement of Zhou State was very powerful, and it was obvious that one day, one would launch a Second War and completely eliminate the power of the Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains and Hebei, without leaving any future troubles."
Hei Pao nodded and said, "In the direction of the south, the Zhou State was actually arranged in some arrangements. Some royal families in the Ji family were enfeoffed to the Jianghan area and became the Jianghan Ji State. With Yong State and Chu State as the vassal state of different surnames, they destroyed and expelled the Zi princes and allies who were originally left here in the Shang Dynasty. In this way, they temporarily arranged their own people who were pro-Zhou in the south. Of course, Ji Fa still miscalculated. He did not expect that Chu State would become a prevailing state in the future and eliminated and annexed Jianghan Ji, becoming a giant in the south. However, how could such a thing be predicted? The entire middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty later had to pay a heavy price for the decision-making mistakes that year. However, from the time of the time, the Zhou State's siege of the Central Plains Shang State had already been established. Perhaps the Three Principal Rebellion was a second battle to destroy Shang that was prepared by Zhou State."
The ancestor smiled and said, "The Black Robe Venerable said it is really good. This is a second battle to destroy Shang. Moreover, after the agreement on the Enthronement of Gods, the gods of good and evil left the world and did not care about the world. From then on, the wars that followed were determined by humans' own military strategy and military strategy. In this rebellion of the Three Prisons, there was no fight between the gods and immortals on both sides, and they all depended on the battles of the Zhou and Shang sides' own troops."
Chapter completed!