Although there are many other ancient documents as reference, orthodox historical materials still occupy the commanding heights of public opinion, resulting in a bad result, that is, some emperors can use their power to influence historians, forcing them to tamper with history, discredit some people and whitewash some people. History is a little girl dressed up for everyone. Everyone has seen the history beyond recognition, and no one cares about the truth.
Among the emperors of the past dynasties, the one who was blacked out the worst was the king who perished. There are quite a few people hacked by the king of national subjugation. For example, Yang Guang and Yang Di accused him of killing his brother and sister-in-law. Anyway, the toilet is on someone's head. To put it bluntly, all the smearing is to prove that the Li family overthrew the brutal rule of the Sui Dynasty, which is extremely glorious, great and correct.
In the final analysis, there is only one sentence: win without arrogance and lose with grace.
Today, Shang Zhouwang Di Xin, he is the worst king to be hacked. Shang Zhouwang's tyranny and debauchery have spread for thousands of years, and his absurd image has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Even later generations invented an idiom based on him-helping others.
After Zhou Wuwang destroyed business, vested interests began to denigrate Di Xin? What wine pool meat forest, what brand punishment, what forced Wang Shu to dig his heart to treat da ji, but also all kinds of toilets can be hard-buckled.
I'm not here to whitewash Shang Zhouwang. As the king of national subjugation, he must have failed, otherwise he would not have died. However, it is completely discredited to say that he is ignorant. First of all, there is no da ji, which was invented by later generations. Shang Zhouwang was given to him by Zhou Wang posthumous title, whose original name was Di Xin. He was a good king.
Di Xin was the last emperor of Shang Dynasty. According to "Historical Records Yin Benji", "(Di Xin) is different from other diseases. He is very sensitive in hearing and vision, and has great material strength, holding a wild animal in his hand." Translated into vernacular Chinese, it means: Di Xin is very talented, quick-thinking, insightful about the world, and tall, and can beat wild animals with his bare hands. This kind of record of historical records is still relatively objective. Sima Qian, the author of Historical Records, is a man who is not afraid of imperial power (he was executed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for treating Li Ling fairly). His record comes from personal investigation, which is very reliable.
After Di Xin (Shang Zhouwang) succeeded to the throne, he did not indulge in extravagance, but tried to govern the country. At that time, Dongyi tribe in the eastern part of Shang Dynasty often invaded, and Di Xin (Shang Zhouwang) personally led troops to defeat Dongyi tribe by personal expedition, which not only opened up territory for the country, but also contributed to the integration of Dongyi tribe and descendants of Chinese people in the Central Plains. Dongyi tribe has been harassing the Central Plains since the establishment of Shang Dynasty, and Di Xin can be said to have solved the headache of kings in past dynasties. Di Xin personally led troops to conquer Jiumiao tribe in the south. He didn't have time to build a wine pool and a meat forest. All he can think about is how to stabilize the square.
Since Di Xin was a wise king, why did he become the king of national subjugation?
Shang Zhouwang's invasion of the East and the West led to the emptiness of domestic troops, but he just ignored two most deadly things. First, it despised the rise of the Zhou royal family in the northwest, and then the contradiction between slave owners and slaves in China deepened. Slave owners mistreated slaves and even sacrificed the living. Zhou Wuwang seized this opportunity and waged a war with Shang Zhouwang in Mu Ye, which decided the fate of the Shang and Zhou countries. Zhou Wuwang sent lean chariot soldiers, accompanied by infantry, while Shang Zhouwang temporarily recruited slaves to participate in the war because of the emptiness of troops. Although the number is dominant, it is just a mob. In the end, the result of the war was that the slaves rebelled, the Shang Dynasty perished, and Shang Zhouwang perished. Slaves were oppressed by slave owners, and they were very eager to change their identity after the change of dynasty, so they defected collectively.
Shang Zhouwang's greatest failure was that he only knew how to expand the territory and didn't know how to run the country, ignoring the biggest class contradiction at that time-the contradiction between slave owners and slaves. After the Western Zhou Dynasty entered the historical stage, although slavery was not abolished, there were a lot fewer things to sacrifice living slaves like the Shang Dynasty. This was barely social progress at that time.