Chapter 4 4. The new regime faces a crisis

Victory came too soon. The sudden victory caught Zhou people off guard.Fortunately, they were clear-headed and quickly recognized the situation and found a countermeasure. Let's look at the general trend of the world. At that time, there were probably quite a few ethnic groups in the world.Merchants are a loose alliance of them.The Kingdom of Shang is its leader and core, while some member states are determined, some are duplicity, some are eccentric, some are scheming against the law, and some stragglers who don't join are standing on the sidelines and ready to move.Now that the people of Zhou have killed the leader, the head of garlic has turned into a clove of garlic. It is not difficult to imagine what the world will be like.

What's more, these ethnic groups are also diverse.In the central plains there are "Zhuxia", in the west there are "Zhuqiang", in the east there are "Dongyi", in the north there are "Beidi", and in the south there are "Baipu" and "Qunman".Among them are tribal countries, as well as tribes and clans, and their attitudes towards Shang and Zhou are also different.Some are pro-business, some are pro-week, some are swaying, and some are independent.Only one thing is the same: none of them are fuel-efficient lamps. What's more, even Zhou's allies have a problem of "paying according to work and sharing the loot".

But the most urgent task is to deal with Yin Shang. In fact, the so-called "King Wu succeeded in defeating Zhou" only took away the "headquarters" of Yin Shang.Except for some of the defeated merchants retreating to the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, most of the remaining forces are still scattered in the Central Plains, entrenched in Huaidai, and ready to make a comeback at any time. This is inevitable.The Zhou people's method is to divide and conquer.King Wu first established a puppet regime for the survivors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the monarch was Wu Geng, the son of King Yin Zhou.Then he divided Shang's land into three parts, and sent his brothers Guan Shu, Cai Shu and Huo Shu to lead a unit to monitor each, known as the "three supervisors".

Such a two-pronged approach should be reliable, right? However, even King Wu probably didn't expect that once he died, the puppet Wu Geng and the tribal countries in the east would all be reversed one by one.And the ones who took the lead were actually the three troops sent out to monitor the Yin people. This is called "Guan Cai Rebellion" in history. The nascent Western Zhou regime was facing enormous pressure and serious crisis. Of course, the rebellion was eventually quelled by Zhou Gong, Zhao Gong and Tai Gong's sons.Wu Geng and Guan Shu were killed, Cai Shu and Huo Shu were exiled, and the Yin Shang nobles who participated in the rebellion were called "recalcitrant people" or "Yin stubborn".The Duke of Zhou coaxed and tricked them to Luoyang, where they lived in the new city "Chengzhou" for centralized management and ideological reform, and built a "king city" 30 miles west of Chengzhou as the eastern capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty.This is the "pagoda town river demon".

Worry is justified. What is more valuable is rationality and calmness.Whether it was King Wu's defeat of Zhou or Zhou Gong's rebellion, the victorious Zhou people did not take the Yin and Shang nobles as prisoners of war.They were not shackled and thrown into dungeons as slaves, nor were they treated as subjugated slaves.After Wu Geng was killed, the Zhou people entrusted Shangqiu, the old capital of Yin, to King Zhou's brother-in-law Wei Ziqi.Those who were unwilling to submit to Zhou were allowed to go far away.Some of them are said to have crossed the Bering Strait to America and became the ancestors of the Indians.

Cheng Zhou, which was built for Yin Jian, was not a concentration camp for the German Nazis.The Yin and Shang nobles who lived there still retained their own territories and vassals.Wei Hou Kangshu, who was given the task of monitoring Yin stubbornness, was warned to continue Shang's laws, reuse Shang's sages, and respect Shang's traditions, including treating his eating habits with tolerance.For example, if a group of people drink alcohol, they will be killed without mercy; if a businessman drinks too much, they will be lenient. Was the ruler of the Western Zhou Dynasty Guanyin Bodhisattva?

of course not.What they do is just a soft policy, and even has ulterior motives.For example, allowing businessmen to drink alcohol is suspected of "allowing them to take drugs".But in the state of Lu, the descendants of the Duke of Zhou, the survivors of the Yin and Shang dynasties could have their own altars, called "Boshe" (Bo read as Bo).The Bo Society and the Zhou Society are equally respected, and the Zhou people have always respected the Bo Society. Isn't this considered enlightened? It's not "kindness by nature", and it may not be "sinister intentions". Why are Zhou people like this?

Worry.