Although Guo was a vassal state in the Zhou Dynasty, why did five Guo States appear before and after?

Let's talk about Guo's state today. Strictly speaking, Guo should be four vassal States, namely, East Guo, West Guo, South Guo and North Guo. Guo's children, who straddled the land of Haojing and Luoyi, were the most mysterious vassal families throughout the Western Zhou Dynasty and even during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Among them, the western countries and the eastern countries are the strongest, and even once controlled the Saturday division, which is the strongest among the vassal countries. The rise and fall of this family is roughly similar to the rise and fall curve of Zhou people. They helped win the battle of Makino and pushed the Zhou People's Army criss-crossing between Yuan Ye and China. Guo was also one of the first four dukes.

After the destruction of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wenwang's two younger brothers, due to their outstanding achievements, were enfeoffed to the east and west sides and became an important force in Pingfan Zhou, among which Guo Shu was named Xiguo, which was closely related to Haojing; Guo Zhongfeng arrived in Dongguo, which is close to Luoyi. So it seems that Guo Shu and Zhong went too far and occupied a very important geographical position.

In Historical Records, there is a saying that "the king of Wu levied nine shepherds and climbed the hills to look at the merchants". As for Zhou, I have been up all night. What does that mean? Although Zhou Wuwang won the battle of Makino, he couldn't sleep all night. What is Zhou Wuwang worried about? This can be traced back to the origin of Zhou people. The place where the Zhou people made their fortune was under Qishan, which was the edge of the land of Middle-earth. It can be said that in the eyes of Yin Shang people, Zhou people are "barbarians of Yin Shang" and a poor ethnic group.

And Zhou people won the world overnight, and this sense of gap is unimaginable to anyone. Although countries such as Mao and Chong were conquered in those years, at the time of alliance, armies composed of remote tribes in the west and southwest, such as Yong, Shu, Qiang, Wei, Lu, Peng and Pu, were brought together. From the appearance, Zhou people are indeed a very powerful tribe, but if they leave the 800 vassals, it will be difficult for Zhou people to really break through the city of Yin and Shang on their own.

Zhou Wuwang understood, of course, that after the Shang Dynasty was conquered, all the allied governors had to leave themselves and return to their respective lands, but the old clan of Shang Dynasty did not completely submit, so it was difficult for Zhou people to face the resistance of these old clan of Shang Dynasty alone. Zhou Wuwang and Duke Zhou stayed up all night, thinking day and night, and finally came up with a complete set of strategies, namely the so-called "enfeoffment of princes" and "Luoyi, the eastern capital". The purpose of enfeoffment of princes is to enfeoffment relatives to the land originally belonging to the old clan of Yin Shang.

Let those lands belonging to the Shang Dynasty become the Xinjiang territory where the Zhou people branched and scattered, and the establishment of Luoyi, the eastern capital, is to move the political and military center eastward, push the strength of the Zhou people to the core area of the old capital of the Shang Dynasty, surround the princes outside and nibble away, and enclose the capital of the new dynasty inside.