Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 525
At that time, the state of Jin heard that the Zhou royal family was in turmoil, so they sent the senior officials Ji Tan and Xun Li to lead the army across the Yellow River and approached Luoyi.

The prince saw that the Jin army was mighty and unable to win, so he took all the officials to move to Beijing near Luoyi.

The Jin army escorted King Zhou Mourning into the royal city.

However, Zhou Mourning King Meng borrowed troops to restore the throne, and was unpopular. He was shocked three times a day, and died of fear that winter.

Shan Qi and Liu Juan also made Wang Ziji (Ji Gai), the same mother and younger brother of King Zhou Mourning, as king, as King Zhou Jing, who is now the emperor of Zhou.

After the Jin army retreated, Wang Zichao led an army to attack Wangcheng, and Zhou Jingwang sent troops to fight.

However, Ji Gai's army was vulnerable, and the prince moved into the royal city.

Ji Gai had no choice but to flee to Diquan.

From then on, the two kings of the Zhou royal family stood side by side, and people called Wang Zichao the Western King, and Ji Gai the Eastern King.

The two kings of the East and the West fought and killed each other, and they were indeterminate for several years.

In 516 BC, Zhao Zhuanggong, the minister of the Prince's Dynasty, and Nan Gongji, the general, died one after another.

Ji Gai sent people to spread rumors, saying that the chaos of the prince's dynasty made the heavens angry, and Nangong Ji was struck to death by lightning, so the people in Wangcheng were terrified.

Ji Gai returned to invite troops to the state of Jin.

The state of Jin sent a senior official, Xun Zhi, to lead troops into Zhou Dynasty.

Wang Zichao led the crowd to resist, and the city was destroyed. Wang Zichao, Zhao's clan, Mao Bode, Yin Wengong, etc. took Zhou's classics to Chu.

Finally, Ji Gai moved into residence in Chengzhou, and the chaos of the Prince's Dynasty was initially put down.

Until three years ago, Dang Danpian, a remnant of the prince's dynasty, caused chaos in Zhou Dynasty, and Zheng Guo helped him to attack Liuyi for him.

The State of Lu was ordered by the State of Jin to crusade against the State of Zheng, and the State of Jin led the army into Zhou with the doctor Yan Mei to help Zhou defend.

In the winter of that year, Dan Pian led the crowd to revolt, and Ji Gai escaped from Chengzhou and lived in Guju (Zhouyi).

The next year, the Jin army captured Wangcheng and welcomed Ji Gai to live there.

Then, the Jin army captured Gucheng and other places controlled by the rebels.

So far, the chaos of the prince's dynasty has been completely put down.

It was very sad for Ji Gai to talk about such past events.

After fleeing several times, she was terrified every day. Ji Gai didn't die of fear like her brother, King Zhou Mourning. She already had a strong heart.

Qingji is also very sad about this.

Faced with the grim situation of the feudal hegemony in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the monarchs and ministers of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty still did not want to work hard.

The princes competed for favor to seize the heir, and the ministers regarded abolishing the establishment as a joke, so the palace coups continued.

The Prince Chao Rebellion that occurred in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty lasted for more than ten years, which made the Zhou royal family in a precarious situation.

Ji Gai was the fourteenth monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Jing.

He is the son of King Zhou Jing and younger brother of King Zhou Mourning.

Qing Ji vaguely remembered that in history, in 476 BC, King Zhou Jing died in his [-]th reign.

Because the time of his death happened to be at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, historians use the year of his death as the dividing point for dividing the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

However, the great conflict in the world is no longer something Ji Gai can change.

"Marquis Wu, after the Ji Dynasty was defeated by the Jin soldiers, he fled to Chu with all the classics and some nobles."

Ji Gai frowned and said, "It's hard for me to find it. I don't care much about Ji Chao's life or death. What I care about are the classics of my Zhou family."

"That's a priceless treasure. However, Ji Chao went to Chu, but she had already concealed her name. When the Wu Kingdom conquered Chu in the past, the widow sent people to search for it, but they all returned without success..."

"Marquis Wu, do you know the whereabouts of Ji Chao and his party?"

Hearing this, Qingji shook his head and said, "I never know. But please rest assured, the Son of Heaven. After I return, I will definitely track down the traces of the Ji Dynasty and the classics of the Zhou family for the Son of Heaven."

"good!"

Only then did Ji Gai feel relieved.

In the original history, Zhou Jingwang Ji Gai took advantage of the opportunity of Wu State to break through Chu State and sent people to assassinate Ji Dynasty.

It is conceivable that Ji Gai pursued the classics of the Zhou family, but Wang Zichao refused to hand over the classics at the cost of death...

Now, the butterfly effect produced by Qingji, who is a traveler, is that Ji Chao and his party have disappeared.

In fact, Qingji had heard about this matter from Confucius, Ji Zha and other ministers, and sent people to search for traces of Ji Chao.

But there is no audio.

The chaos of the prince's dynasty left behind three ancient cultural mysteries.

First, the prince went to Chu, and the mystery of the disappearance of Zhou's books and archives, the priceless cultural treasure.

Second, the mystery of Lao Tzu, the author of the great thinker "Tao Te Ching", retiring from Zhou.

Third, the mystery of the author or editor of the world-famous book "Shan Hai Jing".

Wang Zichao and his party included members of the royal family and hereditary nobles, as well as officials and scholars working in the library and archives of the Zhou royal family.

And Lao Tzu, who had worked in the library of the royal family of Zhou for a long time, also followed him.

As for the Zhou family classics carried by Wang Zichao and his party, they should be quite precious.

Qing Ji guessed that they should include documents and cultural relics from previous dynasties (referring to the Shang Dynasty, Xia Dynasty and earlier dynasties), as well as imperial edict documents of the kings of the Zhou Dynasty.

There may also be documents and archives such as memorials and reports of various princes and countries.

The prince ran away when he fled, why did he run away with the ancient books of the Zhou royal family?

Because it is an ancient cultural tradition to bring classics to the "country of righteousness", and it is also the sacred duty of library and document management officials.

Therefore, if Wang Zichao brought the classics of the Zhou family to Chu, if it did not mean that he believed that Chu would prosper on behalf of Zhou, then it meant that he himself was still the legal heir of the Zhou royal family.

It is worth mentioning that having royal archives is one of the necessary conditions for having royal power.

Moreover, during the several years when the Prince Dynasty occupied Luoyi, the officials and scholars in the Zhou royal library still kept their posts, which was objectively tantamount to standing on the side of the Prince Dynasty.

Therefore, when Wang Zichao brought the classics of the Zhou family to Chu, these officials or scholars would have to go with Wang Zichao whether they wanted to or not.

However, when the prince went to Chu, it coincided with the death of King Ping of Chu, and the state of Chu was also in turmoil on the issue of succession.

Therefore, Wang Zichao did not hand over the classics of the Zhou family to the monarchs and ministers of Chu, but kept them properly in his own hands.

These priceless treasures in the history of human civilization have mysteriously disappeared since then!

Qingji was not reconciled to this.

After all, this is somewhat unacceptable for Qing Ji, who has the feeling of "family, country and world".

No one knows the importance of history and culture better than Qing Ji, who is a time traveler.

In modern times, foreigners doubt whether Yuxia exists, whether the stories of Huangdi, Yandi, Shennong, and Chiyou really exist.

No evidence can be produced, no cultural relics have been handed down, and some records may be fake?

Indeed, it is hard to admit such empty talk.

Of course, his own history does not need to be recognized by outsiders, but how can Qingji tolerate foreign countries and barbarians and slander his own great China?
Among other things, famous books such as "Book of Changes", "Shan Hai Jing", "Wu Zang Shan Jing", "Mountain and Sea Map" were packed and taken away by Ji Chao and his party.

Qingji himself was also belatedly aware of such a thing.

By the time Qingji realized it, Ji Chao and his party had long since disappeared due to the chaos of the war.

They used to live in the area of ​​Wan and Shen, and then disappeared mysteriously.

Qingji and Confucius asked Lao Tzu, but the latter also didn't know.

However, with so many people, how could they suddenly disappear?

Qingji suspects that Wang Zichao and his party fled to the southwest, and they are no longer in the territory of Wu.

With such a precious batch of documents and cultural relics, Qingji naturally hopes that he can get them, and then properly preserve them, leaving a precious legacy to future generations...

(End of this chapter)