With a heavy heart, the head of the Ji clan secretly passed the bad news to the current King of Zhou.
King Zhou was also frightened to death. He repeatedly asked for confirmation, which made the head of the clan no longer confident and suspected that he had heard wrongly.
As soon as it was postponed to the Spring Festival, the head of the Zong family tremblingly asked his ancestor, Emperor Ziwei, and found out that it was true. This time he really fainted.
After waking up, he immediately went to tell King Zhou, who almost fainted.
what to do!
The two of them were speechless. After discussing and summarizing, they found a question: when will the Great Zhou Dynasty die?
Naturally, the two of them didn't know, so they could only continue to ask Emperor Ziwei during the sacrifice, but Emperor Ziwei didn't know the specific time.
The three of them could only continue to add up and look for various factors.
The monsters outside the city don't think they can break through the city's defense formation.
If it’s not an external trouble, it’s an internal trouble.
The King of Zhou and the head of the clan carefully sorted out the aristocratic families in the court, worked together to suppress the royal family, and looked for those who wanted to rebel.
As a result, after ten years of testing, no abnormality was found, or in other words, everyone still thought it was abnormal.
The monsters outside the city have not attacked, they just blocked the door.
The internal affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not bad, the food was sufficient, the people were wealthy, and their lives were stable. Although there were some complaints about the failure to exterminate the monsters outside the city, it was not even a minor trouble.
Quiet and peaceful, it doesn't look like it is about to perish.
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Fast forward ten years, the king of Zhou and the head of the clan passed the throne together, and at the same time, they passed on top-secret news to the prince and the new clan.
It's just that this time, the news leaked out. Otherwise, this is the reason why they have been suspicious and suppressing the royal family and important officials of the court for twenty years, and have repeatedly targeted aristocratic families.
The royal family and the aristocratic families all thought it was the emperor's trick, so in order to protect themselves, they had to resort to some means, such as deploying people to monitor the king's movements.
There weren't many people, and we weren't trying to eavesdrop on secrets. We were just trying to keep track of the trends. When we met so and so, we happened to be listening. It was just a lucky coincidence.
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At the beginning, the news was still in the hands of a few people. Everyone was doubtful, and this doubt had to be proved.
They met in secret, hiding it from the king above, but not from the people below.
The news was intercepted by intelligence spies who were curious about what they were doing, and spread quickly, becoming a secret among the wealthy families.
Everyone is skeptical, and as more people know the information, the information becomes less valuable, and the confidentiality level gradually decreases.
Five years later, the news reached the public and quickly spread throughout the streets.
According to news from the palace, Emperor Ziwei said that the Great Zhou Dynasty was about to fall and he wanted to move away from the royal capital.
The people were talking a lot, and some reputable people jointly signed a letter to the King of Zhou to confirm the authenticity of the news, and requested that the person who released such news be investigated and punished.
The ministers also took the opportunity to inquire and confirm with King Zhou.
King Zhou confirmed it, and the whole court was in an uproar. Then things went in the direction Yamazaki expected.
Someone in the hall said that the King of Zhou and the head of the Zong family were talking nonsense, and demanded that they be dismissed and replaced with a new king and new head of the family.
The royal family was moved and all agreed.
Everyone saw their thoughts and did not agree to change the king. They changed the head of the family first and let the new head of the family perform sacrifices.
King Zhou and the head of the Zong family were stunned. They never expected that they would be completely thrown aside. They all walked around them without asking what they meant, let alone obeying their orders.
For the first time in thousands of years, the Ji family clan has left his family behind. The direct descendants of Emperor Ziwei have become an ordinary branch, and the family head is no longer the clan leader.
However, during the New Year Festival (275th year of the Linghai Calendar), Emperor Ziwei still told the descendants of the Ji family.
As a result, the new patriarch concealed his selfish motives and did not mention it.
This deprived the arrogant King of Zhou from the throne and became the second king to be deposed.
In order to fight for the throne, all parties were at odds and took great action.
The new clan leader came forward to mediate, saying that he would let Emperor Ziwei choose.
No one responded and no one believed him, thinking that he would falsely convey the will of Emperor Ziwei.
In less than a year, the internal forces of the Great Zhou Dynasty were torn apart. Finally, all parties still cared about the name of benevolence and righteousness and tried their best not to affect the people.
Even so, the people were still panic-stricken.
During the New Year sacrifices (in the 276th year of the Linghai calendar), some people not only participated in the clan sacrifices, but also held additional family sacrifices. Emperor Ziwei was no longer the only one.
Then everyone followed suit, and everyone put their ancestors first. Some people even brought out Emperor Ziwei's father, King Wen's brother and elder, to overpower Emperor Ziwei in terms of seniority.
After receiving the retribution, Emperor Ziwei in the sky was dumbfounded. Looking at Zhou Yanyu with his legs crossed, eating and drinking, he had to admire the wisdom that others had expected.
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Twenty years passed by. For the monsters, some were just taking a nap, but for the people of the Zhou Dynasty, it was twenty years of rapid changes.
People are experiencing disputes every day. As the timetable for King Zhou's replacement approaches, the disputes become more and more intense. Even children know about it.
There are tens of thousands of Ji's royal family, each with its own family members, retainers and guests, servants and slaves who have been there for thousands of years, and their relatives.
They form their own armies and support camps. There is me among you, and you among me. On the surface, there is harmony, but behind the scenes, the sky is dark and the earth is dark.
Devouring each other, cannibalizing each other, and suppressing each other, they are like worms in a jar. There are hundreds of millions of worms in a big jar that is millions of miles long.
For the sake of the throne, countless of his sons and grandsons died, not to mention his bodyguards and slaves.
Hatred spread everywhere among the clan members who were relatives, not only the royal family, but also the relatives and clans of their retainers and servants.
Suspicions and suspicions were everywhere, and countless slaves died unjustly because of this.
The Ji family, which was originally revered by people, has become feared.
Thousands of years of benevolence, righteousness and morality seem to be fake, just a mask put on the face.
Nowadays, for the sake of power and status, and for revenge, they hurt each other by any means. The Ji family has changed in the minds of the people of Zhou Dynasty.
Hypocrisy, this word is in everyone's heart, but not many people dare to say it to their face, or even dare to say it out loud.
Because there were many spies, and because of the complicated family relationships, no one knew who the brother-in-law sitting next to him was, and a single word might lead to death.
Not just an individual, but a whole family, or even a whole clan.
Yes, it is so cruel, so everyone looks very hypocritical when they meet, even children have to be like this.
The irony is that no one from the King of Zhou to the powerful factions wants to do this, but they just can't stop.
They have done a lot of killing, and they have to take revenge on those members of the family they destroyed.
They didn't know who those people were, so they killed everyone they knew, but there were too many relatives from each family. The more they killed, the more people they involved, so they couldn't find who the target was.
In this way, in order to ensure that they can survive, they can only continue to kill each other in the quagmire endlessly.