Chapter 3 3. Surrounding the city by the countryside
The Zhou people started to think about business, about when they moved to Qixia.
This is what Zhou himself said.Their hymn "Poetry·Lu Song·閟宫" (Song of Lu·閟宫) says "the grandson of Houji, the great king of Shiwei; living in the Yang of Qi, he started to build Shang".The great king is Taiwang, that is, the father of Gongdan, and some scholars believe that it is Wang Ji, the father of King Wen.In short, according to this statement, the Zhou people seem to have just changed from a tribe to a tribal country, when they put a gun in their waist and started to beat cats.
However, archaeological discoveries and historians' research have proved that Zhou's political, economic and military power was actually far from that of Shang.So, how did they succeed?
planning and operation.
The first step is to "win over allies".The friendly states include Zhuqiang and Zhuxia, and the representatives are Jiang of the Qiang nationality and Zhao of the Xia nationality (read as Shao).Zhou regarded himself as the Xia clan.Both of them and the Zhao clan have the surname Ji, and they are married to the Jiang clan.The abandoned mother was Jiang Yuan, a Qiang woman.Later, Ji Jiang intermarried from generation to generation.Danfu's wife was Taijiang, and King Wu's wife was Yijiang.The emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty had a queen surnamed Jiang every other generation.Ji Zhou and Jiang are as close as a family.
On the contrary, the Qiang and Shang are mortal enemies.It is often mentioned in inscriptions that merchants captured Qiang people and used them as sacrifices for sacrifices.So the three Dukes at the beginning of the week are Zhou Gong, Zhao Gong and Jiang's Tai Gong.Taigong Wang is the Taishi, Zhou Gongdan is the Taifu, and Zhao Gongshi (read as it is) is the Taibao.
They are also descendants of Yanhuang, because Emperor Yan's surname is Jiang, and Emperor Huang's surname is Ji.
The second step is to "manage the southern country", which includes the development of the Zhou and Zhao tribes southwards into Zhounan and Zhaonan, and also includes the establishment of strongholds in the Jianghan Plain.There is also the southeast Wu State, the founding monarchs are the two uncles of King Wen.They ran to Wu, and it is said that they wanted to give way to King Wen's father.Looking at it now, it may be that Danfu sent it out, with the purpose of copying Yin Shang's back road.
Zhou Ren's layout is steady and steady, step by step.
The full-fledged Zhou people began to implement the third step, which is "big digging".Known as Xibo, King Wen unceremoniously destroyed several vassal states of Shang soon after he became the overlord of Shangxi, such as Mi (Lingtai, Gansu), Li (Shangdang, Shanxi), Bing (Qinyang, Henan), and Chong (Xi'an, Shaanxi). .After destroying Chong, they also turned that place into their frontline headquarters, called "Fengyi".
This is almost at the gate of Shang, and the south, north, and west sides are all Zhou's sphere of influence or allied forces, as the saying goes, "There are two thirds of the world."Of course, these two-thirds of the world are mainly rural areas.As an agricultural nation and a rising star, the Zhou people could only make a fuss in the countryside beyond the reach of the Shang king.Material wealth, human resources, and elite troops were still concentrated in the cities, in the hands of the king of Shang.
Can the countryside encircle the city?
Hard to tell.
Zhou people can't help worrying.
At this time, they completed the book "Book of Changes".The ancients said it was the work of King Wen, which of course can neither be verified nor falsified.But it is not bad to say that "Book of Changes" was produced during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, and the author of "Book of Changes" "has worries".Because the core idea of "Book of Changes" is "change", the main content is the evolution of the sixty-four hexagrams.So, how do you know that God is changing?
However, history often has surprises, and things develop and change faster than people imagine.Just when the Zhou people encircled the Yin and Shang from the west, north, and south, the Yi people in the east also rose up.Dongyi started earlier than the Western Zhou Dynasty, so of course King Yin Zhou had to deal with them first.As a result, although Yin Shang won, their strength and vitality were greatly damaged.The defeated barbarians also harbored resentment.Because according to the usual practice, after they were captured, they were either turned into slaves to work as cattle or horses, or they became human flesh buns on the altar.
Zhou Wuwang's chance has come.
King Wu is full of confidence.At the swearing-in meeting of the multinational forces, he said with confidence to the soldiers of the coalition army: Don't look at the "Shou" (King Zhou of Yin) who has hundreds of millions of barbarians, none of them have the same heart and mind as him!
It turns out that is exactly the case.
We don't know whether King Wu read his father's posthumous works before he sent troops.If he has read "Yi", he may see such a sentence under the Qian hexagram: "The flying dragon is in the sky, and it is beneficial to see adults."
It's time to do it!
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