Chapter 1,459: The sheep cart looks lucky, and the jade body is lying around
It is normal for an emperor to like wine and sex, and there are conditions to better satisfy himself.
As for King Zhou's hobbies of "good wine and lust", looking at ancient monarchs and emperors, there are many people who have these hobbies.
For example: Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, had as many as ten thousand concubines in his harem.
As a result, it became a headache for Sima Yan to decide which concubine he wanted to visit at night. For this reason, there was an allusion of "looking for luck on a sheep cart".
If you are interested, you can learn about this allusion, it is quite enviable.
What does this mean? It means that Sima Yan allowed the sheep cart to walk freely in the palace garden. Wherever the sheep cart was parked, Sima Yan favored the concubine there.
There is also an allusion to the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Empress Gaowei, whose "jade body was laid out".
These stories are enough to make people drool with envy.
It is said that the queen of Galway was extremely beautiful, with a curvy figure and skin that could be broken by blows.
When Gao Wei had something to do, he would put her in his arms or lap and play with her.
This is true even when discussing matters with ministers, and the ministers often turn red in the face.
And this is nothing, Gao Wei also felt that it would be too wasteful to enjoy it alone, so he let everyone enjoy it together.
Gao Wei asked Queen Feng Xiaolian to lie on the eucalyptus table in the court hall, and asked the ministers to line up to take a look at the beauty.
This is not nonsense, but it is a pity that there is no record of this allusion in official history.
Seeing this, what do you think of King Zhou's "Wine Pond and Meat Forest"?
As ordinary people, it is normal to like drinking and liking women.
It's just that he is not as exaggerated as King Zhou, nor is he as wanton and indulgent as King Zhou.
But King Zhou was not an ordinary person, but the supreme ruler of the Shang Dynasty.
Although King Zhou was too extravagant and wasteful for his own hobbies, he also spent a lot of time and energy.
But in ancient society, it was considered normal for King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty to indulge in excessive drinking and sex.
After all, in ancient history, King Zhou was not the only monarch who was fond of wine and lust.
As the supreme ruler of the dynasty, King Zhou had no one to restrain him.
But it doesn’t have to be ancient times, because this kind of behavior is not advisable today.
"Jie is a wine pond, where boats can be transported, and the hills are enough to see for ten miles; and the cattle drink from three thousand people." - From "Han Shi Wai Zhuan"
Is this severe? So before King Zhou, there were others who were even more extreme.
In the Xia Dynasty before the Shang Dynasty, Xia Jie, the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty, ordered people to build a wine pond that was large enough to row a boat in order to enjoy the hobby of his beloved concubines.
Then 3,000 drinking masters were allowed to drink in the pool. There were more than 3,000 people, which shows how big the wine pool is.
Even if they don't drink in the wine pool at the same time, can the wine pool that is big enough to row a boat still be smaller than the wine pool built by King Zhou?
Who is Yu Xi? No worse than Su Daji!
And this is one of her three hobbies, she likes to watch people drinking in large wine pools.
Everyone knows that the main raw material for wine is grain, and the agricultural production of the Xia Dynasty was even more backward than that of the Shang Dynasty.
Xia Jie built such a large wine pond, which required a large amount of grain and grass to make wine.
Looking at it this way, the wine pool built by King Zhou seems a bit unsightly.
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The wine pond built by Xia Jie also consumed more manpower, material and financial resources than the wine pond and meat forest built by King Zhou.
In this way, it can also be confirmed from the side that the "wine pond and meat forest" is real.
Until now, later generations are accustomed to calling the last monarch of the Shang Dynasty "King Zhou of Shang".
However, this is not his imperial title. After all, no one wants to have such a "critical" posthumous title.
The reason is that King Zhou was cruel and cruel during his reign and committed many evil acts.
Coupled with the Zhou Dynasty's massive publicity and slander, later generations gave this last monarch of the Shang Dynasty such a posthumous title.
Regarding the title of "Zhou" for King Zhou, who gave it to him?
What was determined is still an unsolved mystery.
But the posthumous title was invented by the Zhou people, and it is very likely that they came from the Zhou people.
The image of King Zhou also became worse and worse after the Zhou Dynasty.
The word "Zhou" has also become synonymous with cruelty and tyranny.
King Zhou's real name was "Shou", and his original name was "Di Xin".
And it is also called this in the historical records and the name of the Yin Xu sacrifice. This is the official name of King Zhou.
And at that time, "Zhou" was just a neutral word with no bad connotations.
In the existing "Yi Zhou Shu·Posthumous Law", it is not found that "Zhou" is an evil posthumous title.
But with the spread of various romances about Emperor Xin, Emperor Xin's evil deeds were instilled in people's minds.
The word "Zhou" also became a derogatory word and a posthumous title due to Emperor Xin's actions.
However, Emperor Xin in real history was not as bad as the rumors spread.
I don’t know why, but later generations of literati have always been willing to believe that King Zhou was immoral. Perhaps this was the result of offending the literati?
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According to the analysis of historical data recorded in the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions, Emperor Xin was not as bad as rumored. On the contrary, Emperor Xin was a king with great ambitions.
This was discovered among a large number of relics from the Yin and Shang Dynasties unearthed in Anyang, Nanhe River at the end of the last century.
After Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne, he has been working hard to revitalize the Shang Dynasty and expand territory.
But because of the stories and legends that have been circulated, Emperor Xin became a mediocre and ignorant emperor in people's hearts who only knew how to indulge in drinking and sex.
"Emperor Xin is huge and beautiful, he is a hero in the world, his muscles are super strong, he is the enemy of a hundred people."
From "Xunzi Feixiang Chapter", famous people like Gouzi, who we respect as saints, are unlikely to tell lies.
"Emperor Zhou is gifted in discerning quick diseases, he is very quick in hearing and seeing; he has extraordinary physical strength, and his hands are capable of fighting ferocious beasts; he knows enough to distance himself from admonitions, and his words are enough to cover up his faults."
This comes from "Historical Records·Yin Benji". The historical status of Shiji is well known.
According to the historical record "Xunzi", Emperor Xin was tall and handsome, with a handsome appearance, a figure that was outstanding in the world, and a body that was agile and strong enough to fight against hundreds of people.
The records in "Historical Records" are similar. Emperor Xin was talented, quick in action, and very strong. He could fight ferocious beasts with his bare hands.
Emperor Xin's wisdom was able to reject the advice of his ministers, and his eloquence was able to cover up his own mistakes.
Looking at it this way, Di Xin is simply an all-round talent. He is smart, has a high IQ, is also eloquent and adaptable, and is in excellent health.
It is unreasonable to say that such a person is ignorant and only greedy for pleasure.
After all, Di Xin was talented and very intelligent.
Otherwise, his father, Emperor Yi, would not have made Emperor Xin the crown prince.
After all, Emperor Xin had two older brothers, and during the Shang Dynasty, although the eldest son inheritance system was not strictly implemented, there was still an inheritance system of "brothers eventually descend to younger brothers" in the middle and early Shang Dynasty.
Therefore, if Emperor Xin could be established as the prince, he must not be a playboy.
According to records, after Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne, he began to develop aggressively toward the southeast.
The Shang Dynasty also achieved victory in the war, and its sphere of influence extended to the East China Sea and the Yangtze River Basin.
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