Source: Historical Records Yin Benji
Selected passages:
Thick taxes are based on the money of Lutai, but the millet of Yingju Bridge. Collecting strange things from dogs is beneficial to make up the palace. A light dune garden platform, where many wild animals and birds are placed.
Translation:
He raised taxes, piled up the money of Lu Tai Qian Ku, and filled the granary of Giant Bridge with grain. He collected dogs, horses and exotic playthings in many ways, filled the palace, and expanded the garden terrace of sand dunes to capture a large number of wild animals and birds.
Extended data:
This passage describes Shang Zhouwang's atrocities. As soon as Shang Zhouwang ascended the throne, he helped tens of thousands of people to build Lutai in Chao Ge (Shangdu, now Qixian County, Henan Province), where treasures from northern Guizhou gathered. He extorted money from the domestic people and spread it to various vassal States. A small Soviet State was invaded by Zhou. In order to escape the ravages of the army, she had to give a beautiful woman named da ji to Zhou.
Zhou Wang obeyed da ji and had a good time with her in the palace all day. It is said that in order to please her, she poured the wine into the pool and hung the meat on the tree to make a wine pool meat forest. She also asked the men and women who followed her to take off their clothes and chase and play in the forest of Chi Pan.
He also created all kinds of torture to curb public opinion. One of them is called the scorching method: people are put on a copper shelf with a grid, and the bottom is roasted with charcoal fire, so that people fall into the fire and die. Some loyal ministers were chopped to pieces because of exhortation, and even his uncle Bi Gan was dug up according to the rules. This is called "punishment". The brutal rule of Shang dynasty soon ended.