A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 27 The Balance Between the Zhou Dynasty and the Princes
After completing the deal with Bang Zhou, Wang Zhao led the army back to Huai State.Huai Country gained a lot in this war, and Zhongwu Country was annexed, so he needs to go back and share the results with Xu Country.

The territory of Zhongwu State is not small, so Wang Zhao decided to divide it into two parts, the eastern part belongs to Huai State, and the western part belongs to Xu State.After annexing the land of Zhongwu, Huai country directly expanded its territory by one-third.Siwu City, the original capital of Zhongwu Kingdom, became the front line for Huai Kingdom to defend against the princes of Shandong in the north.

Although Huai was conferred by Bang Zhou and became a duke, the attitude of Bang and Zhou countries towards Huai has not changed.Especially after Huai State and Xu State formed an alliance and defeated Zhou Zhou and annexed Zhongwu, the Shandong states were very wary of Huai and Xu.

[Huai country was canonized by Emperor Zhou, Huai country became a country of vassals, the country you established was recognized by Bang Zhou, your luck value increased, your family was reduced by the fate of fate, and you got the heaven-ranked item: Supplement Tian Dan. 】

[Bending pill: After using it, it can completely transform people, all attributes +5, and the highest attribute can reach 95. 】

The sudden system prompt awakened Zijue. After seeing Zhou Tianzi pinching his nose and sending the canonized gold book to Huai State, Zijue nodded slightly. .

After Wang Zhao and Xu Gong distributed the spoils, they returned with the army.At the same time, Bang Zhou also started a series of adjustments.More precisely, it is the division of rights.

Zhou Tianzi passed away, the emperor's six armies suffered heavy losses, and the crown prince ascended the throne. The power of Bang Zhou Wangji can be said to be a major reshuffle.

The Marquis of Jin got the position of Taibao and Chunguan Zongbo. Zongbo was a ceremonial official who managed the emperor and princes' genealogy, inheritance, and sacrifices. All princes surnamed Ji were under his control.

Qi Hou won the position of Grand Master, and concurrently led Xia Guan Sima, and commanded the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven.Shenhou is the Taifu and the head of the Tianguan Tomb, who is in charge of Wang Ji's governance and is the head of all officials.

The local official is Sui Hou, who is in charge of Wang Ji's tax revenue. Sui Hou's daughter is the emperor's queen, and letting him serve as a local official also allows the emperor to control money and food.

As for the autumn officials and winter officials, the feudal princes also served respectively, and Wang Ji's power was quickly distributed.

Naturally, the division of power will not satisfy everyone, but as long as most people agree, this power structure will work.Bang Zhou suffered a heavy loss this time, and the next step is to recuperate.

Bangzhou's politics seemed to be stable, but it couldn't change the situation that the princes were strong and the emperor was weak.

Fortunately, following the peace talks with Huaiguo and the canonization of it as a duke's country, Huaiguo began to release captives one after another.The return of more than [-] captives also provided a large number of experienced soldiers in the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven, which improved the strength of the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven.

Huai country.

After the great victory, Huaiguo began to digest the spoils obtained this time, and the land of Zhongwu needed to be built.At the same time, the army also needs to be recruited.

This battle hurt Bangzhou, and for at least 20 years, Bangzhou would never dare to deal with Huaiguo again.Huai State's next policy is to strengthen the defense of Zhongwu State, while continuing to develop to the south.

Compared with the northern countries, the strength of the Huaiyi tribe in the south is low, which can continuously improve the strength of the Huai country.Wang Zhao is not a fatuous monarch, on the contrary, under Zijue's education, he knows his position very well.

During the 50 years of Zijue's reign, Huai State has developed greatly, and the population has prospered. 50 years is enough for two to three generations of people to reproduce, and because of the improvement of sanitation and medical treatment, the population of the capital of Huai State has exceeded 10.

The last time the state attacked Huai'an, part of the population was relocated to other cities.

In this era, there is no fertilizer on the land, and there are no good seeds. The long-term maintenance of such a large city puts great pressure on the land.Therefore, Wang Zhao began to take advantage of the opportunity of this reward and began to relocate the Chinese in Huai'an city.

Of course, what Wang Zhao adopted was not enfeoffment, but fiefdom.

Some of these fiefs were arranged in the land from Zhongwu country to the north bank of Huai River, and the other part was arranged in the south.On the one hand, it is to strengthen the defense of the north, and on the other hand, it is to open up the south.

With the passage of time, Huai State continued to prosper under Wang Zhao's administration.In a blink of an eye, four years passed, and Emperor Bangzhou was crowned as an adult, and then officially began to rule.

It's just that the transfer of this kind of power is not very smooth. After all, not everyone is Zhou Gongdan, who can assist the emperor and return the power when the emperor becomes an adult.How terrible the corruption of power has appeared countless times in history.

Although Ji Man took back his rights in the end, the rift between the Zhou royal family and the princes had also appeared.

The battle between the Zhou royal family and the princes did not affect the Huai State, and the Huai State was still growing under Wang Zhao's governance.In the next ten years, the Zhou emperor also wanted to weaken the increasingly prosperous dog army in order to revive the royal family's reputation.Zhou Tianzi launched two wars against the dog army.

The first time the dog army was conquered, because there were ministers who dissuaded it, in order to prevent the old incident of "the assassination of the king in the south" from happening again, and the dog army had always been subject to the Zhou Dynasty, and it was not easy to use force.It's just that the words of the minister seeking his father's "the assassination of the king in the south will never return" touched the emperor's sensitive nerves.

Ji Man firmly rejected the strategy of finding his father and insisted on marching westward.Ji Man has learned from his father's lesson. Although the Western Expedition won this time, the results were not many.It's just that the consequences of this war were a bit serious, which led to the frontier Rongdi tribe no longer worshiping Bangzhou.

The border barbarians did not go to court, which intensified the conflict between the Zhou Dynasty and the border barbarians, so Ji Man once again launched the Western Expedition to the Dog Army. In this battle, Zhou won a big victory, defeated the Dog Army, and forced some of the Rong people to relocate.

Ji Man conquered Rong and Di, demonstrated Wang Ji's strength, boasted of martial arts, and shocked the princes.This also swept away the decadent atmosphere of the royal family since the assassination of the king, and the Zhou royal family experienced a revival.

Due to some power struggles between Ji Man and the auxiliary ministers, there were also some cracks in the relationship between Ji Man and Jin and Qi.In order to beat Qi Hou, Ji Man appointed Ji Hou as one of the three princes, and on the other hand, Guo Hou and Yu Hou were appointed as Wang Ji's ministers.

Ji Man used this political method to weaken the influence of Qi and Jin.It is right for the royal family to maintain the balance among the princes, but in the eyes of the princes, this approach is a betrayal.

But the ass determines the head, and Ji Man's approach is more in line with the interests of the Zhou royal family.Ji Man's ruling brought the Zhou Dynasty into ZTE.

The enfeoffment system of the Western Zhou Dynasty made the Western Zhou Dynasty grow rapidly in the early days of the dynasty, and the policy of the Xia Junyi and the people brought the Zhou royal family into its heyday. With the decline of the royal family and the reduction of tribute from the princes, the Zhou royal family gradually became a symbol. ——"Cambridge History of China Western Zhou Dynasty Volume Three"

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