The real Shang Zhouwang in history

In the works of historians, Zhou Wang Zishou, the king of Yin Shang Dynasty, is portrayed as an absurd, cruel and ferocious image of a bad king, and is often regarded as synonymous with a bad king and a tyrant together with the king of Xia Dynasty. However, more and more historical data prove that Shang Zhouwang was not so heinous. Look at Zhou Wang's description of crimes in history books, which generally includes the following two points:

Shang Zhouwang is portrayed in the history books as an absurd and unscrupulous bad king.

It thinks witches are absurd. According to official records, I am very lucky to have Daji, a Sioux beauty. In order to please her, she sent people to collect all kinds of exotic animals from all over the world and filled the whole palace. At the same time, Zhou Wang, instigated by da ji, extorted money from the people of China, filling the whole Lutai, regardless of the lives of the people.

In addition, in order to pursue pleasure and avoid the intervention of courtiers, Zhou Wang expanded his palace on the sand dunes and placed various birds and animals for hunting. In order to achieve the ultimate happiness, Shang Zhouwang also built a wine pool and a meat forest in the palace, chewed and drank all night, and often ordered naked men and women present to chase games. It was abandoned. Slower than ghosts. Playing in the sand dunes, taking wine as the pool and meat as the forest, in the county town, let men and women drink all night. Citation as above).

Da ji instigated Shang Zhouwang to do many bad things.

Heavy punishment destroys loyal ministers. Zhou Wang's extortion and absurd behavior aroused people's complaints, but in order to suppress people's resistance, he set up various cruel methods to intimidate people, the most cruel of which was the punishment of firecrackers. Citation as above). The so-called stake is to burn a copper column on a charcoal frame, so that the prisoner can walk on the copper column, and the latter fell into the fire pit and was burned alive because of the unbearable heat. When this kind of torture came out, all the people in China were frightened. Few people dare to express their dissatisfaction publicly, but deep down they hate Zhou Wang.

There is no need for Zhou Wang to leave anything unpleasant to listen to. Anyone who dares to persuade him will kill him without hesitation. For example, because Wang Shubi advised Zhou Wang not to be ridiculous, he died by caesarean section. Hou was punished for eating bacon because he dissuaded him from killing indiscriminately. Xibe Jichang was put in prison because he sympathized with Hou's experience in Hubei. He worried about his life several times. All these, to name a few. In this case, the civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty were afraid of Zhou Wang and did not dare to make any suggestions. The situation of Shang Dynasty can be imagined.

After Konoha's defeat, Shang Zhouwang set himself on fire and died.

Zhou Wang's brutality and violence greatly cooled the world and eventually led to his own destruction. Around 1046, Zhou Wuwang Ji Fa took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Shang Dynasty expedition was Huai Yi and the defense around the capital was weak, and joined forces with the armies of Yong, Shu, Qiang, Kuai, Peng and Pu tribes to attack the pilgrimage. With superior forces, he completely defeated the merchant army hastily pieced together by slaves in Konoha. Zhou Wang set himself on fire after the defeat, and the Shang Dynasty, which had been established for nearly 600 years, perished.

The above is all the historical facts of Shang Zhouwang's crime and its final outcome. It is very legal, and many illegal acts will kill you. But comparing with Xia Jie in the official history, it is not difficult to find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, like Shang and Zhou Dynasties, she likes to amuse herself in the wine pool and meat forest, killing her subjects with the punishment of guns and fires, and so on. No matter how you look at it, their actions seem to follow the same script, but the names of the protagonists are different.

This is so strikingly consistent with Xia, the predecessor of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

However, even though Zhou Wang was not as hateful as Xia Jie, as a tyrant, later generations accepted the official history, which is undoubtedly a slander against him. This happened because Confucius' noble tribute hit the nail on the head. It turned out that after reading the story about Zhou Wang, Zi Gong said with emotion: Zhou Wang's evil is not as serious as the legend, but he was portrayed as a tyrant like Xia Jie, because a gentleman hates inferiority. Once he feels inferior, all the bad things and notoriety in the world will be attributed to him.

Gong's words told the truth of being slandered.

Zi Gong's remarks are, of course, a corresponding defense for Zhou Wang, but more importantly, he reminds the world, especially the emperors, to be strict with themselves on the stage and always be alert to themselves. Otherwise, once they lose power, China's notoriety in the world will focus on them, and they will end up in humiliation for thousands of years. Therefore, Zi Gong's point of view is really worrying.