Playing with the princes with beacon fire, and losing the world with a smile
Playing with the princes with beacon fire refers to King You of Zhou Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty. He lit the beacon tower and teased the princes with a smile to praise Si. Bao Si really laughed after seeing it. King You was very happy and lit the beacon many times. Later, the princes no longer believed it and gradually stopped coming.
The Story of "Historical Records"
King You of Zhou: [1] The Zhou Dynasty monarch in Western China. His surname is Ji, and his given name is Gongyuan (榦一 means Nirvana, Nirvana). During his reign, various social conflicts sharply intensified, the political situation was unstable, and earthquakes and droughts occurred frequently. King You of Zhou intensified the exploitation and appointed Guo Shifu, who was greedy for money, good at profit and good at flattery, to preside over the government, which aroused the resentment of the people. He also deposed Queen Shen and the prince Yijiu (son of Queen Shen), established Bao Si as the queen, and established Bao Si's son Bofu as the prince. After Shen and Yijiu fled back to Shen. In 772 BC, the Marquis of Shen joined forces with the state of Zeng and Quan Rong to attack the Western Zhou Dynasty. The princes from all over the country refused to rescue him. King You was defeated miserably. He fled to Lishan Mountain with Bao Si, Bo Fu and others and the royal treasures, and was later killed. Quanrong captured Haojing and the Western Zhou Dynasty fell.
In 781 BC, King Xuan of Zhou died, and his son came to the throne, King You of Zhou. King You of Zhou was stupid and ignorant, looking for beautiful women everywhere. The doctor Yue Shudai advised him to be more careful about government affairs. King You of Zhou was so angry that he removed Uncle Yue from his official position and kicked him out. This caused dissatisfaction with Minister Baoxiang. Baoxiang came to persuade King Zhou You, but was thrown into prison in anger. Bao Xiang was imprisoned for three years. His son presented the beautiful woman Bao Si to King Zhou You, and King Zhou You released the praise. King You of Zhou fell in love with Bao Si when he saw her. Bao Si frowned all the time and never even smiled. King Zhou You tried his best to make her laugh, but she couldn't laugh. Guo Shifu said to King You of Zhou: "In the past, in order to prevent the Xirong from invading our capital, we built more than 20 beacon towers in the Fanshan area. If the enemy came in, we would set off the beacons one after another to let the neighboring princes see it. , so that troops can come to rescue. At this time, the world is peaceful, and the beacon tower is long gone. It is better to light the beacon fire and make the princes a big fool. When the empress sees these soldiers and horses, they will run over and over. . Do you think my method is good?"
King Zhou You squinted his eyes and clapped his hands. The beacon fire started at one o'clock, and the sky was filled with flames in the middle of the night. The neighboring princes saw the beacon fire and rushed to the capital with their troops. I heard that the king was in Xishan, so I hurried to Xishan. Unexpectedly, no enemy was seen, nor did they look like they were fighting. Only the sounds of music and singing were heard. Everyone looks at you and you don’t know what’s going on. King You of Zhou sent someone to tell them, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone. There are no enemies. You can go back!" Only then did the princes realize that they had been deceived by the king. They were very angry and led their troops back. Bao Si saw so many soldiers and horses busy coming and going, so she smiled. King Zhou You was very happy and rewarded Guo Shifu. Not long after, Xirong really came to the capital. King Zhou You quickly lit the beacon fire. These princes were fooled last time, but this time they thought it was a joke and ignored him. The beacon fire was lit, but no reinforcements came. There were not many soldiers and horses in the capital, and only one Zheng Boyou went out to resist for a while. However, his men and horses were too few, and he was finally surrounded by the enemy and was shot to death by random arrows. King Zhou You and Guo Shifu were both killed by Xirong, and Bao Si was kidnapped. The princes and ministers all supported the deposed prince Zhijiu as the emperor, namely King Ping of Zhou. King Ping moved the capital to Luoyang. Historically, the period before the capital was moved was called the "Western Zhou Dynasty", and the period after that was called the "Eastern Zhou Dynasty". The Eastern Zhou Dynasty began in 770 BC. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty existed in name only, and the feudal princes fought against each other. It had two stages: the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The Zhou Dynasty existed for eight hundred years and was later destroyed by Qin.
Official historical records
The official history of Bao Si comes from Volume 004 of "Historical Records". In the fourth and third year of the Zhou Dynasty, King You fell in love with Bao Si. Bao Si gave birth to a son, Bo Fu, and King You wanted to depose the prince. The crown prince's mother Shen Hou's daughter became the queen. Later, King You got Bao Si, fell in love with her, and wanted to depose the queen, so he went to Yijiu, the prince, to make Bao Si his queen and Bo Fu his prince. Boyang, the Taishi of the Zhou Dynasty, read the historical records and said: "The Zhou Dynasty has perished." In the past, when the Xia Hou clan declined, two divine dragons stopped in the Xia Emperor's court and said: "I am the two kings of the day." The Xia Emperor predicted and killed them. Get rid of it and stop it, Moji. It is auspicious to ask for fortune-telling and hide it. So the coins were distributed to give advice, the dragon was there, and the mandarin flew away. After the death of Xia Dynasty, this instrument was passed down to Yin Dynasty. After the death of Yin Dynasty, this vessel was passed down to Zhou Dynasty. Compared with the three generations, no one dared to express it. At the end of King Li's reign, he only expressed it and watched it. It flows in the courtyard and cannot be removed. King Li made the women naked and made noise. The turtle transformed into a mysterious turtle to enter the queen's palace. The concubines in the harem are exposed to conflict, are pregnant with hair, and give birth to children without a husband, and are frightened and raped. During the reign of King Xuan, a girl's ballad said: "If you wear an arc-skirt suit, you will actually destroy the Zhou Kingdom." So King Xuan heard about it and found a couple selling this weapon, and King Xuan's envoys killed them. Fleeing on the road, he saw the demon son of a concubine in the harem of a countryman who came out of the road. Hearing his cry at night, he mourned and took it away. The couple died, and they were so grateful. If the praiser is guilty, please take the woman as a concubine to the king to atone for his sin. □A woman comes out of praise, for the sake of praise. In the third year of King You's reign, the queen saw her in the palace and fell in love with her. She gave birth to a son, Bo Fu. However, she deposed the Queen Shen and the crown prince, and made Bao Si the queen and Bo Fu the crown prince. Taishi Boyang said: "The disaster has come, there is nothing we can do!" Bao Si is not funny, King You wants her to laugh in all directions, so he doesn't laugh. King You set up the beacon and drum, and when the bandits arrived, he raised the beacon fire. When the princes arrived, there were no invaders, and they praised Si and laughed. King You said it and raised beacon fire several times. If you don't believe it later, no benefit will come from the princes.
Translation
In three years (779 BC), King You doted on Bao Si (sì, similar).
Bao Si gave birth to a son named Bo Fu, and King You wanted to depose the prince. The prince's mother is the daughter of Shenhou and the queen of Youwang. Later, King You got Bao Si and loved him very much, so he wanted to depose Empress Shen and the prince Yijiu together, so that Bao Si could be the queen and Bo Fu could be the prince. Boyang, the Taishi of Zhou, recited historical books and said with emotion: "The Zhou Dynasty is about to perish." Once upon a time, when the Xia Hou family was declining, two dragons landed in the court of Emperor Xia and said: "We are the two ancestors of the Bao Kingdom. King." Emperor Xia didn't know whether to kill them, drive them away, or keep them, so he performed a divination, and the result was unlucky. The beacon fire plays on the princes
The divination also requires them to hide their saliva, so that the result will be auspicious. So he arranged coins and silk sacrifices, wrote simple policies, and prayed to the two dragons. The two dragons disappeared, leaving their saliva behind. King Xia asked him to bring a wooden box to collect the dragon's saliva. After the fall of the Xia Dynasty, this box was passed to the Yin Dynasty, and after the fall of the Yin Dynasty, it was passed to the Zhou Dynasty. For three generations, no one dared to open the box. But in the last years of Zhou Dynasty, King Li opened the box and looked at it. The dragon's saliva flowed on the hall, and it couldn't be cleaned away. King Zhou Li ordered a group of women to scream loudly at their saliva while naked. The saliva turned into a big black lizard and crawled into King Li's harem. There was a little maid in the harem, six or seven years old, who had just lost her teeth and met the big lizard. Later she became pregnant when she became an adult and gave birth to a child without a husband. She was very scared and threw the child away. In the time of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty, little girls sang this kind of children's song: "Mountain mulberry bow, Jimu bag, the disaster that will destroy the Zhou Kingdom." King Xuan heard this song, and a couple happened to sell mulberry bows and Jimu bags. quivers, King Xuan ordered people to capture them and wanted to kill them. The couple fled to the road and found the baby that had been abandoned by the palace maid. They heard her crying in the middle of the night and took pity on her, so they took her in. The couple continued to flee and fled to Baoguo. Later, the people of Baoguo offended the Zhou Dynasty, so they wanted to offer the girl abandoned by the little palace maid to King Li in order to atone for their sins. Because the girl who was thrown away was originally donated by Baoguo, they called her Baosi. In the third year of King You of Zhou Dynasty, King You went to the harem. He fell in love with this woman very much when he saw her. She gave birth to a son, Bo Fu. In the fifth year of King You of Zhou Dynasty (777 B.C.), he actually deposed Empress Shen and the Crown Prince, and made Bao Si the queen. After marrying the queen, Bofu became the prince. Taishi Boyang said with emotion: "The disaster has been caused, and there is no way out!" Bao Si didn't like to laugh. King You tried various methods to make her laugh, but Bao Si still didn't laugh. King Zhou You set up beacon fires, smoke and drums, and lit the beacon fire when enemies invaded. In order to make Bao Si smile, King You of Zhou lit a beacon fire. When the princes saw the beacon fire, they all rushed over. When they arrived, no enemy invaders were found.
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After the death of King Xuan of Zhou, he succeeded to the throne as King You of Zhou. At that time, a major earthquake occurred in the Guanzhong area where the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty was located. Coupled with successive years of drought, the people were hungry and cold, and fled everywhere. The society was in turmoil and the country's power was exhausted. King You of Zhou was a dissolute and immoral king. He did not want to save the Zhou Dynasty from danger and worked hard to improve himself. Instead, he reused the sycophant Guo Shifu to exploit the people and intensified class conflicts. He also attacked Xirong and was defeated. At this time, a minister named Bao Jue admonished King You. Instead of listening, King You of Zhou imprisoned Bao Jue. Bao Jue was imprisoned for three years. The Baoguo people tried every possible means to rescue Baojue. They heard that King You of Zhou was very beautiful and was ordering to recruit beauties from all over the world to enter the palace, so they took this opportunity to look for beauties. Finally, he found a very beautiful girl and bought her. He taught her to sing and dance, dressed her up, named her Bao Si, and presented her to King You. To atone for Baojue. When King You saw Bao Si, he was astonished and fell in love with her very much. He immediately made her his concubine and released Bao Jue at the same time. After King You was honored by her, he favored her very much and lived a luxurious life. Although Bao Si is as beautiful as a peach and plum, she is as cold as ice. She has never smiled once since she entered the palace. In order to win Bao Si's happy smile, King You tried every means to win Bao Si's happy smile, but Bao Si never smiled. For this reason, King You even offered a reward for advice. Whoever could make Bao Si smile would be rewarded with a thousand taels. At this time, a fawning minister named Guo Shifu came up with an idea for King Zhou You and suggested using a beacon tower to try it. The beacon fire was originally an emergency military alarm signal in ancient times when enemy invaders invaded. From the capital to the border town fortress, beacon towers were set up all along the way. In order to prevent the intrusion of dog soldiers in the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than 20 beacon towers were built in the Lishan area near Haojing (southeast of Lintong, Shaanxi today), one every few miles. Once the Quanrong attacked, the first sentry found immediately lit a beacon fire on the platform, and nearby beacon towers also lit fires one after another to alert the nearby princes. When the princes saw the beacon fire, they knew that the capital was in danger and the emperor was in trouble. They must raise troops to serve the king and come to the rescue. Father Guo Shi proposed a plan to light the beacon fire on the beacon tower for no reason, so as to attract the princes to come and make a futile trip, in order to make the concubine laugh. The beacon fire plays on the princes
The fatuous King You of Zhou accepted the advice of Guo Shifu and immediately took Bao Si, accompanied by Guo Shifu, to the Lishan beacon tower and ordered the guards to light the beacon fire. Suddenly, there was smoke everywhere and beacon fire soaring into the sky. When the princes from all over the country saw the alarm, they thought that the dog soldiers were coming, and they led their troops and horses to rush to the rescue. When we arrived at the foot of Mount Li, there was not even a shadow of the dog soldiers. We could only hear the sound of music and singing on the mountain. It turned out that King You of Zhou and Bao Si were sitting on a high platform drinking and having fun. King You of Zhou sent someone to tell them that thanks to everyone's hard work, nothing happened here. The king and his wife were just setting off fireworks for fun. The princes realized that they had been teased and returned with resentment.
Bao Si saw thousands of troops and horses coming and going as soon as they were summoned. It was like child's play. She found it very interesting and couldn't help but smile. King Zhou You was overjoyed and immediately rewarded Guo Shi's father with a thousand gold coins. In order to further please Bao Si, King You of Zhou ignored the rules of his ancestors and deposed Queen Shen and Prince Yijiu. He made Bao Si the queen, and Bao Si's son Bofu was the prince. He also ordered the deposed Queen Shenhou, the queen's father. He also wanted to send troops to attack him. After receiving the news, Marquis Shen took a preemptive strike and united with the troops of Marquis Zeng and the Quanrong troops of the northwest Yi tribe to attack Haojing in 771 BC. King Zhou You was panicked when he heard the news of the Quanrong attack, and hurriedly ordered the beacon tower to light the beacon fire. The beacon fire was burning, but the princes ignored it this time because they were fooled last time. The beacon tower was filled with thick smoke during the day and bright with flames at night, but no reinforcements arrived. This made King Zhou You complain endlessly. The guards at Haojing resented King You of Zhou for being fatuous and dissatisfied with the general's frequent deductions of food and pay. At this time, they were unwilling to serve. As soon as the dog soldiers arrived, they reluctantly resisted for a while and then dispersed. The dog soldiers and horses swarmed into the city. King Zhou You, with Bao Si and Bo Fu, fled from the back door in a hurry and rushed to Lishan Mountain. On the way, he ordered the beacon fire to be lit again. Although the beacon smoke penetrated into the sky, no princes came to rescue them. The dog soldiers pursued them closely, and King Zhou You's left and right people also fled along the way, leaving only more than a hundred people who fled into Li Palace. King You of Zhou accepted the advice of his ministers and ordered the front palace gate to be set on fire to confuse the dog soldiers, while he himself escaped through the harem gate. After not escaping far, the dog soldiers caught up with them again, and there was a killing spree. Only King Zhou You, Bao Si and Bo Fu were left. They were already paralyzed in the car with fear. When the dog soldiers saw King You of Zhou wearing the emperor's clothes, they knew he was the emperor of Zhou and hacked him to death on the spot. He also snatched the prince's uncle's clothes from Bao Si and killed him with one knife, leaving only Bao Si as a prisoner (some say he was killed). At this point, the Western Zhou Dynasty was declared destroyed. At this time, the princes knew that Quan Rong had really invaded Haojing, so they united and led a large team of troops to rescue. When Quan Rong saw the army of the princes arriving, they robbed the treasures that the Zhou Dynasty had accumulated over the years and set fire to retreat. After Quanrong attacked Haojing, killed King You and retreated, the princes Shenhou, Luhou, Xu Wengong and others made the original prince Ji Yijiu the emperor, and he ascended the throne in Shen (now north of Nanyang City, Henan Province) in 770 BC. , is King Ping of Zhou. Because Haojing had been destroyed by war, and most of the land in the west of the Zhou Dynasty was occupied by the Dog Rong, King Zhou Ping was afraid that Haojing would be difficult to protect, so he moved the capital to Luoyi (now Luoyang, Henan) under the escort of Qin in 770 BC. Founded the country with assistance. The Zhou Dynasty after moving eastward. It is called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in history.
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The demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty is a historical necessity, and the Beacon Fire Plays on the Princes was just a catalyst, exacerbating its demise. Even if there was no Playing with the princes with beacon fire, the Western Zhou Dynasty will be destroyed in other events sooner or later, irreparably. The gorgeous incarnation of evil can only last until King You is old... Playing with the princes with beacon fire is just an opportunity, as long as the emperor breaks his promise If this is the case, the princes will have a strong basis to break promises, be arrogant, and strive for hegemony... Before the war with the princes, each family was just secretly expanding... At that time, the political power was already on the verge of collapse, and the war with the princes was just an introduction, a step from quantitative change to qualitative change. inducement. If this doesn't happen, there will still be other incentives.
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King You of Zhou Ji Gongni (shéng) Era: Western Zhou Dynasty Birth and death years: 795 BC - 771 BC Reign time: 781 - 781 BC 771 B.C. Related events: Beacon Fire Opera, The Destruction of the Princes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Life Brief Introduction, King You of Zhou, Ji Gongni
King You of Zhou was the son of King Xuan of Zhou, and the dynasty monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty. His surname is Ji, and his given name is Gongyuan (榦一 means Nirvana, Nirvana). He was born in the 33rd year of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty (795 BC, according to Qian Bao's "Sou Shen Ji"). King Xuan ascended the throne in the forty-sixth year of his reign (782 BC), and the next year was regarded as the first year. After he succeeded to the throne, natural disasters were severe, and "three rivers were shaken" in Jing, Wei, and Luo. He was greedy and corrupt, and relied on Guo Shifu, who was "a clever man, good at flattery and profit-loving", to carry out patents. He also deposed the concubines, deposed Empress Shen and Prince Yijiu, and established Empress Baosi and her son Bofu as crown princes. He also harmed Prince Yijiu, causing the tribes of Shenhou, Zhenhou and Quanrong to attack the Zhou Dynasty. In order to please Bao Si, King You of Zhou raised the Lishan beacon fire several times and broke the trust of the princes. As a result, he was killed by dog ??soldiers under Mount Li, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed. The queen of Zhou You Wang Ji Gongni, Bao Si was originally an abandoned baby, and was frowned upon by a couple doing small business. She grew up in Baoguo (now northwest of Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province). In 779 BC (the third year of Zhou You Wang III) Year), King You of the Zhou Dynasty conquered the Kingdom of Bao, and Bao Si was offered a beautiful woman to beg for surrender. King You loved her like a pearl in his palm, and made her his concubine, doting him in the palace of the King of Zhou. The next year, Bao Si gave birth to a son, Bo Fu (a son named Bo Fu), and King You loved her even more. , actually abolished Queen Shen and Prince Yijiu, appointed Baosi as the queen, and established Bofu as the prince. Boyang, the Taishi of Zhou, sighed and said: "The Zhou royal family has faced a great disaster. This is inevitable." He was very angry that his daughter, Queen Shen, was deposed. He united with the Zhen Kingdom and the Quanrong tribe to attack King You, and together they attacked Haojing, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty. Although King You raised the alarm, the princes from all over the world were afraid of being teased again, so they did not send troops to help King You. When Haojing was captured, King You took Bao Si and fled to the foothills of Mount Li, where they were killed by the soldiers and Bao Si was taken prisoner. From the time when King Wu established the Zhou Dynasty to the time when King You was killed, the Western Zhou Dynasty, which had ruled for about 250 years, perished.
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