Was Emperor Xin of Zhou really a tyrant in Chinese history? Of course, I mean in history, not in the Zhou Dynasty. In fact, King Xin of Zhou is the Ming Emperor. Those in the TV plays are all made up. At least King Zhou Xin has a lot of merit. There is no Daji. The list of gods is a novel. It is a fiction, which makes sense.
What is it to overturn a case for a tyrant? From ancient times, when one dynasty was destroyed to another, they would leave that country in infamy to show that they conform to the law of heaven. Are they good rulers? In fact, they are not greedy for wealth, fame and wealth. The Shang Dynasty has been five or six hundred years, and he has only been a Zhou Dynasty for many years. So the broken book of the God List is just to fool the people at that time and please the emperor. I like the Shang Dynasty very much, How could he have so many loyal ministers with him if he was really cruel to the mob and didn’t have a living? The Zhou Dynasty advertisements were very good, and he said he was supernatural.
When the Shang Dynasty overthrew the Xia Dynasty, it never used any intrigue, but overthrew the Xia Dynasty. When the Shang Dynasty overthrew the Xia Dynasty, many people supported the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty did not fail to destroy the Xia Dynasty. In the Shang Dynasty, the territory became larger and larger. Do you know how difficult it was after King Zhou Xin ascended the throne?
He who does not obey others has little reputation. Nobody listens to him, and the territory is so large. What does he do? Then King Zhou Xin attacked Xuzhou, resulting in a shortage of troops and a large number of prisoners. National strength and grain consumption are extremely fast. So finally it was destroyed. The Zhou Dynasty must have used some means like advertising. Therefore, many prisoners turned against the emperor, and Emperor Xin of Zhou moved his main forces to the border. There are no soldiers in the capital, so only slaves can be used. However, the slaves were not as strong as the regular troops of the merchant army, and a large number of slaves eventually defected. This was the real reason for the demise of the Shang Dynasty.
Moreover, the real reason why King Zhou Xin’s army was defeated by the Zhou army was not the so-called “tyranny”, but when King Zhou Xin originally sent a strong army to the southeast to fight against the Huaiyi garrison, the Zhou army took the opportunity to attack the Shangyi · Chaoge, which made King Zhou Xin unable to dispatch enough troops to fight against the enemy in time. He temporarily dispatched slaves from Huaiyi to serve as soldiers. However, Huaiyi slaves were not more loyal than their relatives, and they broke up before the war, King Zhou Xin killed himself when he saw that the tide had gone.
When the Three Prisons Rebellion broke out after Emperor Xin of King Zhou was defeated and killed himself, the Zhou Dynasty really encountered the powerful troops stationed in the East, which made it take about three years for the Zhou army to quell the war.