Mountains and rivers are getting worse and worse.
After the Zhao Mu era in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou's strength weakened. During this period, the influence of the dog army became stronger and stronger, which hindered the exchanges between the Zhou Dynasty and the northwest countries. The legendary Emperor Wudi conquered the dog Rong in the west, won his five kings, and moved several dog Rong tribes to Taiyuan, which temporarily opened the way for Zhou and the northwest countries. After that, the dog Rong still invaded the surrounding areas many times. At that time, there had already been the invasion of China by Rong Di and powerful countries, and the people of Zhou suffered greatly.
During the period of Zhou Liwang, domestic contradictions became increasingly acute. In order to cope with the increasingly powerful ruling crisis, drastic reforms were carried out, which greatly hurt the interests of the nobles in the Zhou Dynasty, leading to riots by Chinese people and Li Wang fleeing. The ruling foundation of the Zhou Dynasty has been shaken, which also planted seeds for the collapse of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
In Zhou Youwang, a rare earthquake happened in Guanzhong area, and Zhou's rule became more and more unstable. In spite of the opposition of the ministers in the DPRK, Wang You abolished the original Empress Shen Hou and Prince Yi Jiu, changed them to praise Hou, and took his son as the Prince. In this way, the contradictions within the Zhou Dynasty, the contradiction between the Zhou royal family and Shen State were seriously intensified.
Shen Guo was actually one of the Rongdi tribes recruited to join the armed sequence of the Zhou Dynasty. Considering Wang Xuan's defeat in successive years of war in the later period, Zhou's armed elite lost. Therefore, the existence of Shenguo is the key force to maintain the balance of power between Zhoutianxia and Rongdi tribes, while Shenguo's rebellion directly reversed the world situation. The hostile military alliance quickly defeated the remnants of Zhou's armed forces and broke through Haojing in Ji Wang. The son of heaven was killed and Zhou Zong was occupied. The rest of the Zhou people were enslaved by barbarians, and all the Huaxia countries below the emperor were also deeply invaded and bullied by Rong Di. After decades of efforts, Qi, Jin and Qin fought back barbarian countries and managed to restore order in China.
Give a fatal blow
After Shizhou moved eastward, the national situation was not the same as that of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it was still a first-class power in the early Spring and Autumn Period. Historical Records Qin Benji Day: In the sixteenth year, the civil army was defeated and defeated. So Wen Gong accepted the Zhou owned by others, divided the land and the east. According to this record, in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou royal family did not completely abandon the homeland of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In fact, last week, the royal family also intended to govern the western regions, and left the story of Huan Gong for four years: in winter, he and Qin surrounded Wei and turned Rui Bo back. You can see one end. Geographically speaking, the reason why the Zhou royal family can be like this is because Guo is west of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the west of Guo is the original land of the Western Zhou Dynasty and some small countries with the same surname. Because Guo still respected the royal family and the traffic between the east and the west was not smooth, these places were still influenced by the Zhou royal family in the early Spring and Autumn Period. However, with the rising of Jin State, the country with the surname of Ji, represented by Guo, is the first to threaten its hegemony, which is also the main obstacle to its outward expansion. The existence of Guo was the key to Zhou Jin's rule in northern China, and it was also a key to the rise and fall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
The specific turning point was that after Guo was destroyed by gold in 655 BC, the royal family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty lost their ankles and was completely destroyed. To make matters worse, after Guo was destroyed, the contact with his hometown Xiling was completely cut off, so he had to surrender to the Qin people, and Ji Wang was greatly reduced. However, Jin tightly controlled the plug of Taolin from Hanguguan to Tongguan, and the royal family of Zhou Dynasty was revived. As Mr. Wang said: gold destroys Guo. It is a key to the rise and fall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
The dice were cut.
The geopolitical pattern determines the subsequent political situation. After the fall of the royal family, it was basically doomed to the historical trend of the decline of the emperor, the civil strife of the royal family and the hegemony of the princes.
Famous Classic Sentences in The Book of Songs Feng Wang;
He is separated from Xiaomi. He is a seedling of Xiaomi. The line is decadent and the center is shaken. Those who know me make me worry, and those who don't know me make me want. Heaven is long! Who is this?
It is in this situation that the aristocrats of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty went to Xiqiao ancestral home and saw the ancestral temple foundation and the Zhou Dao world destroyed once, but they never had a chance to return to their native land for revival. They couldn't help feeling sad and tears filled their shirts. The subversion of Minzhou Stone made them hesitate to write poems.
After that, the actual ruling area of the Emperor of Zhou was only Chengzhou and Mozambique, a "hidden" territory that was rumored to be ruled by King Xie of Zhou, who was later murdered by Jin Wengong.
Internal disintegration, frequent civil strife, the control of kingship and the shrinking of wealth population lost the emperor with military and economic advantages, which led to the Zhou Emperor becoming more and more dependent on the overlord. If the Zhou royal family had worked hard, it might not have declined so fast. Of course, on the other hand, if the Zhou royal family was too strict, there might not be a hundred schools of thought contending later, which is also a good thing from this perspective.