What does Zhou Wenwang mean?

Everyone knows what it means to have no two masters in the country. Zhou Wenwang means that Ji Chang himself is the king, and he is on an equal footing with Wang Dixin of Shang Dynasty. He used to be Xibo, but later he became king, which showed that he was going to rebel.

As a small country with extremely limited resources, it is about 70 kilometers long from east to west. In order to develop a powerful military force rapidly, Zhou must have invested all his wealth in army building instead of distributing it widely to the people, and then launched a crazy attack on the commercial center according to historical records. To support the huge war machine, it is necessary to strengthen the collection and control of the people. If you can't see these benefits, but blindly do righteousness-no tariffs, no market taxes, less agricultural taxes, and free opening of natural zoological and botanical gardens, then what will he take to fight? My income is decreasing, and I still spend money on charity every day. In the end, the rest of the treasury will not be able to support the army. A monarch who values welfare and benevolence can only create small Nordic countries like Switzerland and Sweden, and can't have the fighting capacity to expand rapidly.

I think Zhou Wenwang should save every shell (money) collected from ordinary people to support the army beyond the capacity of that land, not the nursing home written in history books. Only in this way can it be similar to Shang Dynasty. Therefore, the sentence that Zuo Zhuan wantonly searched for fugitives just shows that he took these tax sources back to do hard labor, perform military service and pay taxes. Moreover, it was because of his heavy taxes on military service that he fled. Excessive service tax is not benevolent. Zhou Wenwang should not be a very kind person.

However, in the mouth of Mencius, a scholar in the Warring States period, Zhou Wenwang's country is still described as sunny, saying that under the influence of Zhou Wenwang's gentleness and benevolence, the common people have drawn wide ridges and made no aggression against each other. Prisoners are more conscious than ordinary people and stand in the circle of painting as a cell. People in neighboring countries are funnier. The two countries had a dispute over the ownership of a field and came to Zhou Wenwang for arbitration. As soon as I entered the boundary of Zhou State, I saw that the farmers here were humble to each other, and the farmers in Zhou State were particularly polite. They pushed the disputed border around and refused to accept it, resulting in a complete shortage of these lands. When Yu and Rui saw it, they were greatly ashamed and said, "Fuck! We are fighting for something that people are ashamed of, so don't show your eyes and hurry back. " So everyone went back to their own country. Let's not take this fable against humanity too seriously. If Zhou people were so kind and obedient and polite, they wouldn't be thinking about rebellion all day and organizing to attack the central government of Shang Dynasty. Zhou Wenwang's benevolent image was beautified because even the bones of the dead were covered by him, and the tyranny of Zhou Wang was magnified. It is nothing more than these Warring States literati living in the Zhou Dynasty who want to speak for the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, it should be said that evil is controlled by good and evil by right, and the essence of attacking the empire by Fang has become a crime of hanging people.

Of course, it is a bit unreasonable to say that the scholars in the Warring States period flattered the Zhou government. Intellectuals at that time were actually very backbone. There is another reason why scholars in the Warring States Period insisted on describing Zhou Wenwang as a man of righteousness. Well, Confucian people like to praise benevolent government, represented by Mencius. There is nothing wrong with advocating benevolent governance, but it is better than advocating tyranny. However, when they praised benevolent governance, in order to sell the efficacy of benevolent governance to the monarch, they advertised and said, "If you do benevolence, you will be invincible in the world." In order to prove that this advertising word is right, they said, for example, "Zhou Wenwang's benevolence destroys business", which is really bookworm-like innocence, but objectively it distorts history and misleads future generations. Zhou Wenwang has since become a pure image of a good man in the history books of China. However, we feel that if Zhou Wenwang really specializes in Shi Renyi, but does not strengthen the collection and acquisition, and does not engage in "wartime fascism" like Shang Yang, such as prohibiting people from migrating and searching for escape, it can only be a literati rebellion, which will take three years.