
Investiture of the Gods: I Want to Be a Foolish Emperor
封神之我要当昏君
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To be honest, I think it's okay for the author to write this way. There were too many loyal ministers in the Shang Dynasty. If Emperor Xin hadn't been a prodigal himself, Ji Chang would have had nothing to do with him! The god-like King Zhou is not only a coward but also a tyrant, and the protagonist just wants to be a coward, with more loyal ministers than treacherous ministers, and all loyal ministers are disfigured. Tell me how I, the Flying Dragon Rider, lost! ! !
I haven't read it for a while. I'll take the exam at the end of August and it's all finalized. I'm editing it now.
"Historical Records. History of Shang. Chronicles of the First Emperor" The First Emperor of Shang was also the youngest son of Emperor Yi. Emperor Yi's eldest son was called Zi Qi. Qi's mother was humble and had no heirs. The youngest son Xin, Xin's mother is the queen, and Xin is the heir. Emperor Yi died, and his son Xin was established. He became the first emperor of Shang Dynasty, and the world at that time called him Zhou. King Xinzi of the Shang Dynasty was very quick in identifying diseases, he was very quick in hearing and seeing; he had extraordinary physical strength, and his hands were able to handle fierce beasts; he knew enough to distance himself from admonitions, and his words were enough to cover up his faults. can enjoy great peace, all the people are happy, the weather is smooth, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the barbarians are surrendered, the guests from all directions are submissive, and the eight hundred princes are all in the Shang Dynasty. In February of the seventh year, Yuan Futong of Beihai rebelled. When the Grand Master heard about Zhong's attack, he could not win for a long time. The prince sent Fei Lian to attack Beihai, and won a great victory. Beihai was settled. In May of the seventh year, Fei Lian returned to the court victorious. In the sixth month of the seventh year, the queen welcomed the daughter of Su Hu, the Marquis of Jizhou, into the palace and made her a noble concubine. She secretly sent Su Hu to raise an army, and sent Wen Zhong to attack her, and sent people to build a beacon tower. In December of the seventh year, the perpetual calendar comes out. The king summoned Yun Zhongzi to the Jiujian Palace to discuss the destiny. Yun Zhongzi retreated without saying a word. The king then removed himself from the title of emperor and used it to control the destiny. People were shocked. In April of the eighth year, Ziqi became aware of the rebellion. He corrected the order of the late king and colluded with Bigan, Leikai, Chongheihu and others to raise troops to cause chaos. When the king knew it, he started a beacon fire and made lies to tease the princes, which made Concubine Su smile. Seeing this, Ziqi hurriedly raised his troops and rebelled. The king then ordered Concubine Huang and General Lu Xiong to attack the rebels outside the city. War song, great victory. In Chaoge, Lei Kai made a rebellion and wanted to attack the Meridian Gate. The king led the rebels to the beacon tower and killed hundreds of them. Some civilians of the Chaoge guards shouted "if the people are not destroyed, the king will not be destroyed". When Wei Ziqi saw that the rebels were destroyed, he was frightened and committed suicide, so he sent Mai Yun Mai Zhi to assassinate King Shang. Wang Juezhi felt pity for the loyalty of the two men and could not bear to kill them, and spread the news widely to the world. Wang Shu Bigan was moved by Wang's benevolence, so he went out to pick up a dagger and stabbed it into his belly. He took out his heart and exposed his crime, saying: "The guilty minister Bigan helped Qi to commit cruelty, and his heart is so dark." The king issued an order and sent prisoners of war and slaves to the border to build the Great Wall to ward off the barbarians. In May of the eighth year, the black bird Phoenix was seen in Fenghuang Mountain. The ministers expressed their congratulations and thought it was auspicious. The king immediately ordered Jizi to go to Fenghuang to announce the sacrifice to his ancestors. In August of the eighth year, Wang traveled eastward and wanted to go up to Phoenix Mountain. Passing by the mouth of the Guanjiang River, I heard that there had been a long drought at the mouth of the Guanjiang River. I discussed with the ministers about offering sacrifices to pray for rain. It is a standing stone with the name of the king carved on it and a shrine for worship. When the storm comes, the people are happy and praise the king's virtues. Go to Fenghuang Mountain, worship at the temple, seal the statue, and practice Zen. Wang praised Shang's virtues and called him Emperor. When clouds suddenly came down, the First Emperor set up a stone on the altar and said: "I am the First Emperor, and I shall be addressed as Your Majesty. I am a minister of Thunder and Rain, and I hold three feet to control the world. Isn't this the king's order? This is my wordless tablet. Heaven is not allowed to speak lies, and the earth is not allowed to lie. The people will comment on their merits and demerits." Then he named Thunderstorm as the lower official, and the wordless tablet as the upper official. After a while, the phoenix appeared, and the goddess appeared to see the first emperor. The first emperor accepted the goddess and returned with the phoenix. After the Zen ceremony, he returned to Chaoge and traveled to Chentangguan. At that time, Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of Chentangguan, had an untalented man who was fond of committing crimes and could not be taught a lesson. He was named Li Nezha. Nezha killed the three sons of Donghai Yaksha and deposed the Dragon King. The Dragon King appeared in Chentang. The First Emperor came out with the dragon and said: "Everywhere is guilty. The crime lies in Wanfang." He then convicted Li Nezha and killed him to comfort the Dragon King. The Dragon King respects the First Emperor's wisdom and serves as his ministers to ensure smooth weather in the Great Shang territory. In September of the first year of the First Emperor, the earth invaded the south. The First Emperor was displeased and personally ordered the Royal Forest Guards, a total of 800 people, to look for Tufang's side troops. On Pingdan, the First Emperor, wearing armor and holding a sword, first captured Chen, killed dozens of people himself, beheaded the enemy, and won a great victory. Returning to Chaoge, the First Emperor personally summoned Wu Tuanhou, the leader of the Tufang, to the outside of the city and told him: "Shang Yi is the best in all directions. I am performing the ceremony of enshrining Zen. You should know the great righteousness of the world and merge it into one. In the past, there was Tang Yu, and now there is strong Shang. Your Tufang is miserable. Poison spreads among the people, and great evil spreads to heaven. I will punish the rebels and hang their heads in the middle of the city to show that those who violate the powerful merchants will be punished no matter how far away they are." After saying this, the First Emperor swung his sword to behead the enemy and raised his troops to fight in the north of the city. They won a great victory and Tu Fang fled. The First Emperor returned to court and called all the officials to gather in the palace. They used wine as a pond and county meat as a forest. At that time, some princes resented the First Emperor for using earthen figurines and grass figures as substitutes for his victims, so the First Emperor punished them severely and used artillery techniques.
The title "King Zhou" is inherently controversial. There are roughly posthumous titles, first titles and posthumous titles. There are many titles during his lifetime. It is inherently inconclusive. As a novel, there is nothing wrong with whichever version the author adopts, as long as it can be justified, not to mention that each of these disputes has certain evidence to support it. Moreover, this book is a fictional comedy novel that combines history and romance, so this kind of problem is even more trivial. However, some people should not be self-righteous. Once they have mastered a statement, they think it is the truth. Things that even historians cannot confirm are confirmed in your mouth, and you still call people idiots. Your quality is really high
Regarding whether the title of King Zhou is a posthumous title or a bad name
Zhou is not a posthumous title. Posthumous titles only come from the Zhou Dynasty. There are inscriptions on the bronzes unearthed in the Western Zhou Dynasty indicating that King Mu of Zhou was the living title. And there is no record of Zhou in the posthumous chapter of Yi Zhou Shu, and it was first annotated in the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, when King Zhou was still alive, King Wu of Zhou led his army to Muye, a suburb of Shang, to prepare for a decisive battle with the Shang army. In the oath he issued, he was called "King Zhou of Yin" (or "Shou of Shang"). The original text of the oath can be found in "Shang Shu" "Oath of Mu" (also found in "Historical Records·Benji of Zhou") "Historical Records·Benji of Yin" wrote: "Emperor Yi died, and his son Xin was established. He was Emperor Xin, and the world called him Zhou." Zhou Tong, the name of King Zhou, is what others call King Zhou. In addition, Cheng Tang also called himself King Wu, which is a precedent. Zhou was not given the posthumous title to King Zhou because it was a posthumous title, but because there was King Zhou first, Zhou became a posthumous title. King Zhou could not have been given a posthumous title in the late Shang Dynasty. Those who have no historical knowledge can stop.
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Interesting Talks about King Zhou
About 3100 years ago, Chaoge was still called Yiyi and was the capital of the Shang Dynasty. Qiyi was first used as the capital, which can be traced back to the time of Wu Ding. Later, due to various reasons, the Shang people moved many times. By the time Emperor Yi made Qiyi the capital, some palaces were in disrepair. According to legend, one time, Emperor Yi of the Shang Dynasty was discussing matters with the princes and ministers in the court hall. Suddenly there was a click above their heads. Everyone looked up and saw that a pillar on the main hall was broken at the waist, and it looked like the main hall was about to collapse. Although it is said to be a main hall, it is certainly not as majestic as the Jinluan Palace in later generations, but no matter what, if you are really photographed below, even if you can save your life, you will probably be injured. Everyone was panicked and didn't know whether to protect the driver or run for their own lives. Soon after, a person suddenly jumped out from the middle of the prince's seat. He rushed forward and hugged the pillar that was about to collapse. With his arms, he managed to hold up the beam again. Everyone calmed down and saw clearly that it was Wang Zixin. The guards quickly replaced it with a new pillar, thus preventing the monarch and his ministers from a disaster. From then on, Emperor Yi fell in love with his son even more, and finally appointed him as the heir to the throne. This prince who was born with divine power was Di Xin, the last king of the Yin and Shang Dynasties who would later be both reviled and reviled. The idiom of replacing beams with columns comes from this, and later evolved into replacing beams with columns. Why can't I see divine power in the list of gods? King Zhou was already 60 years old at that time. I seriously suspect that King Zhou was suffering from senile dementia at that time. (Manual funny)
King Zhou... Go to Di Xin and call him King Zhou to see if he will let someone kill you with a knife.
The writing is very good, please update it soon. However, the Mulan poem mentions it so embarrassingly that I am suffering from cancer. The capital letters are embarrassing... I almost gave up... Can I inscribe such long words on the wall... Hey, if I want to highlight the female spirit, can I change the way... Mulan poem... Embarrassing.
The first sentence I read was poisonous. King Zhou was not an emperor, but a human emperor, with the same status as the emperor of heaven. Moreover, he was not called King Zhou at that time, but Emperor Xin!
It is generally accepted in the historical circles that Zhou was not given a posthumous title (for two reasons, some of which were refined), but the title he received during his lifetime. Just like when everyone talks about Qin Hui, they say he is a treacherous minister, and when they talk about King Zhou, they say he is a tyrant. The person who overturned the verdict of King Zhou in modern times was undoubtedly the founding father. He said that King Zhou was actually very capable. So now everyone thinks that since he is not a bad person, he cannot be described as King Zhou, but they forget that King Zhou is his real name. Since posthumous titles began to appear in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty and became popular in the later period, the posthumous title came into being after the former person's name was changed to posthumous title.