In order to decide to increase taxes, Zhou Liwang led a dissolute life. How can we set up a new tax under various pretexts when all the taxes should be collected? In what name is the tax levied? He can't remember. He has collected all his taxes. At this time, a minister named Rong gave an idea to levy "patent tax" on some important products. Both princes and civilians should pay taxes as long as they collect herbs, cut firewood, fish and shrimp, shoot birds and animals; You have to pay for drinking water and walking. This method was strongly opposed by the common people, and even some more enlightened officials felt that it was inappropriate. Many ministers also avoided Li Guowang's suggestion. Among them, a doctor named Rui Fu Liang advised Li Wang not to implement "patent". He said: "patents will infringe on the interests of most people, which hurts people." However, Wang Li didn't listen at all. He blindly favored Rong and asked him to waive his "patent".
After the implementation of the patent. People's lives are even worse, and people's grievances suddenly boil. At that time, there was such a ballad:
If you are a mouse, you will be a mouse. Three years old, I am willing to take care of you. Death will come to you, suitable for another heaven.
It means: "Mouse, mouse, stop eating my millet." I used to spoil you for many years, but you didn't take care of us. We vowed to leave you and go to a happy paradise. "The people's strong dissatisfaction with Zhou Liwang is beyond words.
People are full of resentment against Zhou Liwang, and they all curse him. Seeing the critical situation, Minister Zhao Gong Tiger advised Zhou Liwang, "Your Majesty, the people really can't stand it. If the patent law is not abolished, it is rare that there will be no turmoil! " King Crick simply wouldn't listen. He asked the wizards of Weiguo to spy on the people. If anyone is caught talking about "patents" and cursing Li Guowang, they will be arrested and beheaded. Since then, although people are full of complaints, they have to swallow them, and no one dares to say anything more. Acquaintances are afraid to speak when they meet on the road. They just make eye contact. This is the origin of the idiom "seeing the road with your eyes". The whole scene suddenly became lifeless.
Li thought his brutal rule had an effect. He said to the tiger smugly, "Look, who else is talking?" Hearing this, King Tiger said to Li, "Although the people's mouths are not blocked, they are full of complaints. Just like blocking water, once it is broken, it will hurt more people; Instead, the method of dredging rivers should be adopted to control water, which is also the principle of governing the people and should open up a road. Isn't it dangerous for the king to use harsh laws to block his remarks? " Li turned a deaf ear to what he said, but instead practiced brutal rule more cruelly.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the people of China can't stand it any longer! Small nobles, small businessmen and craftsmen in Beijing gathered and rushed to the palace to settle accounts with Li. At first, Wang Li wanted to suppress the people. The soldiers in the adjustable army are all civilians. When they saw the resistance of China people, many people joined in. Seeing the tide was gone, Zhou Liwang had to sneak out of the palace with a few followers. Before leaving, Li gave Prince Ji Jingtuo to him and then fled to Huoxian County, Shaanxi Province.
The angry uprising people couldn't find Li Guowang, so they decided to make amends with the prince. They learned that Zhao Gong Tiger, the minister, had taken in the prince, so they surrounded Zhao Gong's home and ordered Zhao Gong to hand over the prince. Zhao Gong thought, "In the past, the son of heaven didn't listen to my advice, so we came to this step. Now that I hand over the prince, will someone say that I am unfaithful to the son of heaven and wait for revenge? At the beginning, I promised to protect the prince and let Wang feel at ease. Now, wouldn't it be a great injustice if I handed over the prince? However, when China people saw that they couldn't find the prince, they would definitely refuse. What should we do? " After careful consideration, he decided to replace the Prince with his own son and distribute it to the uprising masses to save the Prince from being killed by China people.
On the second day of the China Uprising, Wei Wugong, the monarch of the State of Wei, came to Haojing with his troops. This Duke Wu of Wei is called Bohe. * * * Bo led the army to Haojiang to put down the rebellion, but the uprising crowd had dispersed before he came to Wang Du. So * * * Bohe led the troops into the palace.
Li Wang is at large and afraid to return to Beijing. Although the prince is in the capital, he is too young to be in power. He was replaced by Zhao Gong's son. Now that the riots have just ended, it is not time to tell the truth. So the tiger proposed that state affairs should be temporarily represented by * * * Bo and other ministers, and everyone agreed. * * * Although Bohe is an agent, he is actually the same as the Emperor in governance and politics, so these two years are called * * * and the first year (84 BC1year). That is, from this year on, the history of our country began to have an accurate age to check.
* * * After Bohe came to power, he adopted the proposal of calling Bohe, abolished Li's "patent" law, reduced various taxes, made the people live and work in peace and contentment, and stabilized the society.
History books refer to Bohe's reign as * * * and the period. Fourteen years later, Zhou Liwang died, and Prince Ji Jing had grown up in a tiger's house in Zhao Gong. Zhao Gong Tiger felt that the time was ripe, so he went to the court to tell the truth to Hebo and other ministers, saying that the ministers of the Zhou Dynasty saw that the prince was still alive, and as a result, everyone agreed to let the prince succeed to the throne. * * * Bohe knows that they are not authentic Zhou people. If it is difficult to convince the public, it is better to accommodate them. He personally went to Zhao Gong Tiger House to receive the Prince into the palace and held a grand ceremony of accession to the throne. He returned to his former fief and became his vassal. The new acceded to the throne is Zhou Xuanwang.