Di Xin was the son of Di Yi. He took his mother as the right queen and Xin as the heir. He was a brilliant man and devoted himself to fighting in the southeast. Di Xin's talent is smart, he is very sensitive to smell, and he has great talent. He has the power to drag down the nine cows and caress Liang Yizhu, which won Di Yi's favor. After Di Xin succeeded to the throne, he attached importance to agriculture and mulberry, developed social productive forces and became strong in national strength. Di Xin ascended the throne in 175 BC, and died in 146 BC. He reigned for 3 years, and later generations gave mixed comments.
dongyi spread to the central plains and extended the influence of Shang dynasty to jianghuai area. In particular, the victory of the crusade against Xu Yi expanded the territory of Shang Dynasty to the coastal areas of Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, and Di Xin used troops against Southeast Yi, thus safeguarding the security of Shang Dynasty.
In the battle of Makino, Zhou Wuwang, the son of Zhou Wenwang, defeated the Shang army in Mu Ye, 7 miles away from Chaoge (now Qixian County, Henan Province), and Shang Di Xin boarded the Lutai, "covered himself with pearls and jade, and died of self-burning", and the Shang Dynasty perished. "Zuo Zhuan" said: "He lost his body when he spread to the east".
There are two stories about Di Xin's defeat. First, it is said that in the later period of his reign, Di Xin took great pride in his achievements, spent huge sums of money to build deer platforms, make wine ponds, hang meat as a forest, build luxurious palaces and gardens, and lead a luxurious life, leaving the treasury empty. He was headstrong, refused to listen to correct opinions, formed an opposition at the top, and used torture such as branding to suppress the people.
Killing Bigan, imprisoning ji zi, fighting every year, losing people's hearts. When he crusaded against Dongyi, he didn't pay attention to the prevention of the western race, used troops year after year, and his national strength was exhausted, and he had to face the burden of how to deal with a large number of prisoners who had accumulated over the years because of his long-term campaign. This paragraph was written by Zhou Wu.
Another saying is that Di Xin used slaves heavily, which violated the interests of the nobility. Among the six major crimes set up by Zhou Wu for Di Xin, the first ones are "appointing untouchables as officials" and "humiliating nobles with untouchables". To put it bluntly, Zhou Wang tried to end the slavery society one thousand years in advance and wanted to play democracy three thousand years in advance ... Imagine that Shang Yang's opening of the feudal system after more than 7 years ended in a car crash, let alone more than 7 years ago? So at that time, the big slave owners, headed by Zhou Jichang, joined hands to kill Di Xin.
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How did Shang Zhouwang, the last monarch of Shang Dynasty, die in history?
According to legend, Shang Zhouwang in the last period of the Shang Dynasty was an extravagant and cruel and heartless bad king. "Xibo" Ji Chang, later Zhou Wenwang, tried many ways to get out of prison because he opposed Zhou Wang's imprisonment. At that time, Zhou's capital was Qishan (now Qishan County, Shaanxi Province). After Zhou Wenwang returned to Qishan, he made up his mind to overthrow the rule of Shang Dynasty. He first hired Jiang Shang (Jiang Taigong), a military strategist, to actively train and prepare for the war, and then merged several neighboring small vassal States, and his power gradually became stronger. Then, the capital city was moved to Fengyi (now near Huxian County, Shaanxi Province), ready to March eastward. However, Zhou Wenwang died shortly after moving the capital.
Zhou Wenwang's son Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, namely Zhou Wuwang. Jiang Taigong continued as a strategist. King Wu's half-brother Ji Dan (namely Duke Zhou) and half-brother Ji Shi (namely Zhao Gong) are two right-hand men of King Wu. At the same time, King Wu won the support of several other governors. Therefore, King Wu officially announced that he would send troops to attack Zhou. The army crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin (now a Yellow River ferry in the south of Mengxian County, Henan Province) and advanced to the northeast, approaching the Chao Song of Shang Dynasty (now northeast of Qixian County, Henan Province). Because Shang Zhouwang had lost all his heart, and the army was unwilling to die for him, he fled and fell, and the uprising of the uprising was quickly conquered. Zhou Wang committed suicide, and the Shang Dynasty ended. In the next 8 years, it became the world of Zhou, known as the Zhou Dynasty.
At the beginning of Zhou Wuwang's conquest of Chaoge, the King of Wu was not sure how to deal with the nobles and officials left over from Shang Dynasty and whether he could stabilize the situation, so he was worried. To this end, he consulted with Jiang Taigong and others. There is a written record in Shuo Yuan Gui Fa compiled by Liu Xiang, a man of Han Dynasty:
"King Ke Yin, the king of martial arts, called Tai Gong and asked,' What will the Naiqi people do?' Taigong said to him,' I love people who love them, and I love the black house; He who hates others hates others. What if the salty Liu defeated the enemy and made it more than enough? "
Zhou Wuwang defeated the Shang Dynasty, summoned Jiang Taigong and asked, "What should we do with their personnel?" Taigong replied: "I heard that if you love that person, you will also love the crows on his house;" If you hate that man, take away his servants and household officials. What do you think of killing all the enemies and leaving none of them? "
The so-called "Yu Xu" in the original text refers to the petty officials in the lowest position, the stewards of the slave owners and nobles and so on. (the meaning of Yu, Wei, etc.; Xu; A petty official. )
There is a similar record in the Great Biography of Shangshu, compiled by Fu Sheng in the Han Dynasty:
"When you die, the King of Wu is in a state of panic. Calling the squire, he asked,' What can I do if I enter Yin?' The squire said,' I heard it; He who loves is also the black house; He who doesn't love others, and his spare time. "
this record is similar to that contained in Shuo Yuan. However, the word "Yu Xu" is written as "Xu Yu", and the meanings of the two are different. "Xu Yu" no longer belongs to the level of professional history, but is a slave or criminal who is lower than "Yu Xu" For example, ji zi, a "Taishi" in Shang Zhouwang, pretended to be crazy because he was dissatisfied with Zhou Wang and was imprisoned, so he was willing to be a slave, so Zhuangzi called him "Xu Yu".
In addition, Zhou Wuwang's conversation with Jiang Taigong is also recorded in Biography of Han Poetry and Six Taoyi Wen, and the contents are basically the same. Because of this legend, the idiom "love me, love my dog" came into being.
There has been a superstitious custom in China since ancient times, thinking that a crow is an "ominous bird", and whoever falls on its house will suffer misfortune. In the Xiaoya part of The Book of Songs, the oldest collection of poems and songs in China, there is a poem entitled "The First Month", in which there is "whose home is it?" It can be seen that the ancients hated crows, but few people loved them. The so-called "love me, love my dog" means that because I love that person, even the crows on his house don't think it's ominous or annoying. This idiom has always been used as a metaphor for pushing love. Because you love someone deeply, you love his relatives, friends and others or other things, which is called "love me, love my dog" or "love my dog". Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Presenting Li Sizhang with Shehong" (Shehong, place name, in present-day Sichuan; In Li Sizhang's poem, the first two sentences are: "It's good for a husband to live in a house, and it's good for him to be good." In the Song Dynasty's Poem of Lianxi written by Zhou Dunyi, there is a saying: "Anger moves crabs in the water, love the dog on the house". In the poem "Jane Li Boyi" written by Chen Shidao in Song Dynasty, there is also a saying that "when the time is clear, I look at the birds in front of my door, and people look at the Wu in your house." They all use the idiom "love me, love my dog".