Praise is not funny, especially if the king wants to laugh, he doesn't laugh. Wang You is the drum of the lighthouse. If you have a coach, you will light a bonfire. The princes did not blame them when they learned that they had arrived. Praise is laughter. Wang You said, a few bonfires. If you don't believe it in the future, the princes will not benefit. Selected from Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, Volume 22, Cautious on Doubts, Three Years (779 BC), You Wang Aizan (Si, Xiang). Bao Si's son is called uncle, and you Wang wants to abolish the prince. The mother of the prince is the daughter of Shen Hou and the queen of the king. Later, you Wang got great praise and love, so he wanted to abolish Shen Hou and Prince Yijiu together, and let you Wang be the queen and Fu Bo be the prince. Zhou Taishi Boyang read the history books and sighed with emotion: "The Zhou Dynasty is going to die." Once upon a time, when Xia Houshi was in decline, two dragons landed in the court of Emperor Xia and said, "We are two sages who praise the country." Emperor Xia didn't know whether to kill them, drive them away, or keep them, so he divined, and the result was unlucky. And the exhibition made them hide their saliva, and the result was auspicious. So they took out coins and silk as sacrifices, wrote down simple strategies and prayed to the two dragons. Two dragons disappeared, leaving saliva. Wang Xia asked for a wooden box to collect dragon saliva. After the demise of the Xia Dynasty, the box spread to the Yin Dynasty, and after the demise of the Yin Dynasty, it spread to the Zhou Dynasty. For three generations, no one dared to open the box. But at the end of Zhou Liwang, I opened the box and read it. The dragon's saliva flowed on his temples and could not be swept away. Zhou Liwang ordered a group of women, naked, shouting at the saliva. The saliva turned into a big black lizard and climbed into Li Wang's harem. There was a little maid-in-waiting in the harem, six or seven years old, who just changed her teeth and saw a big lizard. Later, when she reached adulthood, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child without a husband. She threw the child away in fright. In the new era, little girls sang such a nursery rhyme: "Sanggong, dustbin bag, disaster week." When Xuan Wang heard this song, a couple happened to sell a sangbow and a wooden rocket launcher. Xuan Wang ordered people to arrest them and try to kill them. The couple fled to the main road and found the baby thrown away by the little maid-in-waiting. Listening to her crying in the middle of the night, they were pitiful and took her in. The couple continued to flee and fled to the country of praise. Later, Baomin offended the Zhou Dynasty, so he wanted to dedicate the girl thrown away by the little maid-in-waiting to Li Wang in order to make amends. Because the girl who was thrown away at the beginning was a national tribute, it was called a compliment. In the third year, you Wang went to the harem. As soon as he saw this woman, he liked it very much and gave birth to his son Bofu. In the fifth year of Zhou Youwang (777 BC), the Empress Dowager and the Prince were abolished, and Bao Si was the Queen and Bofu was the Prince. Tai Shi Boyang sighed with emotion: "The disaster has been caused, and there is no way to think about it!"
Do you like to laugh? In order to make her laugh, you Wang used various methods, but Zan still didn't laugh. Zhou Youwang lit a bonfire, displaying smoke and drums, and lit the bonfire when the enemy invaded. Zhou Youwang lit a bonfire to make his admirers laugh. The princes came when they saw the bonfire. When I arrived, I didn't see any enemies and smiled complimentarily. Wang You was very happy about this and lit a bonfire for her many times. From then on, the princes no longer believed the warning of the bonfire and did not lead the troops to rescue. In the end, Zhou Guo perished. After Zhou Xuanwang's death, her son shēng succeeded to the throne, namely Zhou Youwang (795- 77 BC1). At that time, there was a great earthquake in Guanzhong area, where Wang Ji of Zhou Shi was located. After years of drought, the people were hungry and cold, exiled everywhere, social unrest and exhausted national strength. Zhou Youwang is a dissolute and heartless bad king. He didn't want to save the Zhou Dynasty from peril and made great efforts. But reuse courtiers and uncles, exploit the people and intensify class contradictions. Also attacked Xirong, and suffered a crushing defeat. At this time, a minister praised you and exhorted your king. Zhou Youwang didn't listen, but he imprisoned you.
Bao Jun was imprisoned for three years. The national security people did their best to save the national security. They heard that Zhou Youwang is very beautiful. They ordered all the beautiful women to enter the palace, so they took this opportunity to look for beautiful women. Finally, I found a very beautiful girl, bought her, taught her to sing and dance, dressed her up, and gave her a compliment name and dedicated it to the reclusive king. Make amends for praise.
When he saw the compliment, You Wang was very surprised and liked it very much. He immediately named her a princess and issued a compliment. After boasting, the king loved her very much and lived a dissolute and luxurious life. Although praise is as gorgeous as peaches and plums, it is as cold as ice. You Wang has never laughed once since he entered the palace. In order to win the happy smile of the admirer, he will do his best, but the admirer will not smile all day. To this end, you Wang offered a reward for his plan to capture him. Who can attract compliments and smiles from others? Reward 1200. At this time, a courtier named Guo Shifu gave Zhou Youwang an idea and proposed to try it with a beacon tower.
The bonfire was originally an emergency military warning signal when the ancient enemy invaded. Beacon towers are all the way from Guodu to the border fortress. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to guard against the intrusion of dogs, more than 20 beacon towers were built in the area of Lishan near Haojing (now southeast of Lintong, Shaanxi), one every few miles. Once the dogs attacked, the first sentry found immediately lit the beacon tower on the stage, and the neighboring beacon towers were also lit one after another to warn the nearby princes. As soon as the princes saw the bonfire, they all knew that the capital was in an emergency and the son of heaven was in trouble. They must get up and try to save. Shi Guo's father put forward a plan to let the beacon tower light a bonfire for no reason, so as to attract governors to come for nothing and make them laugh.
The fatuous Zhou Youwang listened to Guo Shifu's advice, and immediately, accompanied by Guo Shifu, boarded the beacon tower of Lishan Mountain and ordered the defenders to light the beacon. At that time, shows everywhere, flames, governors around saw exclaimed, thought that the dog Dijon called, and sure enough, led the military forces to come to the rescue. At the foot of Mount Li, there is not even a dog or a soldier, only the music and songs on the mountain. It seems that Gao Zheng and I are sitting on the stage drinking and having fun. Zhou Youwang sent someone to tell them that everyone had worked hard, and there was nothing here. Only the king and princess set off fireworks for fun, and the governors realized that they had been teased and returned with resentment. When praise comes under the call of thousands of troops, it lingers, just like a child's game. It's funny, I can't help laughing. Zhou Youwang was overjoyed and immediately rewarded Shi Guo's father's daughter.
In order to further win the favor of praise, regardless of the rules of the ancestors, they deposed the queen Shen and the prince Yi Jiu, and after conferring praise, they praised their son Bo as the prince, and ordered to cancel the title of the queen's father Shen Hou and prepare to send troops to attack him. After receiving the news, Shen Hou took the initiative to attack Haojing in 77 1 year BC, uniting Guihou and the northwest foreign soldiers. When Zhou Youwang heard the news that the dog was attacked, he panicked and quickly ordered the beacon tower to light it. The bonfire did burn, but the rulers ignored it this time because they were fooled last time.
The beacon tower braved the smoke during the day and lit candles at night, but no reinforcements arrived. Zhou Youwang squealed. Soldiers stationed in Haojing have long resented Zhou Youwang's fatuity, and disgruntled generals often deduct their salaries. At this time, they don't want to work. After the soldiers of Dog Rong arrived, they barely parried for a while and dispersed in a hubbub. Dogs and military forces poured into the city, and Zhou Youwang praised its merits, and fled from the back door in a hurry and ran to Mount Li. On the way, he ordered the bonfire to be rekindled. Although the smoke soared into the sky, there was still no help from the princes. Dogs and soldiers chased after them, and some of them fled along the way, leaving only 100 people to escape into Li Palace. Zhou Youwang listened to his liegeman's suggestion and ordered the front palace gate to be set on fire to confuse the soldiers, while he escaped from the back palace gate. Not far away, the dog soldiers caught up again, and there was a burst of indiscriminate killing, leaving only Zhou Youwang, Bao Si and Bofu. They collapsed in the car with fright. When the dog soldier saw Zhou Tianzi's clothes, he hacked him to death on the spot. He also snatched the prince's clothes from Zankou and killed him with one knife, leaving Zankou as a prisoner (saying he was killed). At this point, the Western Zhou Dynasty was declared dead.
At this time, the princes knew that Dog Rong had really entered the Haojiang River, so they joined forces and brought a large group of people to the rescue. Seeing the arrival of the Hou army, the dog army robbed the precious property accumulated by the Zhou Dynasty for many years and set fire to retreat.
The dog army attacked Haojing and killed the queen. Shen Hou, Lu Hou and Xu Wen established the former Prince Ji Yijiu as the son of heaven, and acceded to the throne in Shen (now Nanyang North, Henan Province) in 770 BC. Because Haojiang River has been destroyed by the war, and most of the land in the western part of Zhou Dynasty was occupied by dogs, I am afraid that Haojiang River is difficult to protect. In 770 BC, under the escort of Qin, he moved the capital to Luoyi (now Luoyang, Henan) and founded the country with the assistance of Zheng and Jin. Zhou dynasty after moving eastward. History is called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.