King You of Zhou ignored the government affairs at all and spent all day eating, drinking, having fun, and being obsessed with women.
Once he did not go to court for three months to manage politics. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a vassal state called Baoguo. Its king, Bao_, saw that the emperor was so absurd, so he came to persuade him. King You didn't listen at all, and instead put Bao_ in prison.
Bao_'s son was very anxious when he saw his father being imprisoned, so he discussed with his mother how to rescue Bao_. They heard that King You liked beautiful women very much, so they spent a lot of money to buy a young and beautiful girl, named her "Bao Si", taught her palace etiquette, and then gave her to King You. King You was overjoyed when he saw it, so he ordered Bao_ to be released.
Bao Si has a strange temper. She never smiles, no matter how interesting things are, she never smiles. King You felt very puzzled and told Baosi that the queen was so charming. If she smiled again, she would be even more charming. "Bao Si said calmly: "I'm a concubine who doesn't like to laugh by nature. Your Majesty, don't be surprised. "King You didn't believe it and was determined to make her smile.
A minister under King You named Hu Shifu came up with an idea. In ancient times, when encountering an enemy situation, beacon towers were the main means of calling the police. Those There are beacon towers all over the vassal states, and two adjacent ones can see each other. If the enemy is discovered somewhere during the day, they will light the dried wolf dung to convey the information.
If it is night, they will light the firewood. The information was transmitted by fire. It would not take long for the news to spread from one person to another, and the princes from all over the country would rush to Kyoto to wait for dispatch.
After hearing this plan, King You decided to give it a try. King You ordered the beacon fire to be lit, and suddenly the smoke rose into the sky. When the princes from far and near saw the beacon fire lit, they thought that the enemy was invading, so they ordered their troops and horses to rush to the gate of Haojing, but no one could be seen. The enemy soldiers only saw King You and Bao Si sitting on the tower, drinking and watching the fun.
The rush of the princes made Bao Si laugh. She laughed at King You for acting so rashly and at the princes for being so easy. Baosi smiled, and King You was happy, and immediately rewarded Hu Shi's father with a daughter. The princes were so angry that they knew they had been fooled, so they cursed and led their troops back.
There was no real enemy. When they came, but this time, the princes thought that King You was playing with the queen, so they all stood still. In this way, Haojing was attacked by the Rong people, and King You fled to the foot of Lishan Mountain and was killed.
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After the death of King Xuan of Zhou, he succeeded to the throne as King You of Zhou. At that time, a major earthquake occurred in the Guanzhong area where the royal family of Zhou was located. Coupled with successive years of drought, the people were suffering from hunger and cold and were in exile. The country was in turmoil and the country's power was exhausted. However, King You of Zhou was a dissolute and immoral king. He did not want to save the Zhou Dynasty from danger and worked hard to strengthen himself. Instead, he used the sycophant Guo Shifu to exploit the people and intensified class conflicts;
Also The external attack on Xirong was defeated. At this time, a minister named Bao_ admonished King You. Instead of listening, King Zhou You imprisoned Bao_.
Bao_ was imprisoned. Three years later, the Bao tribe tried their best to rescue Bao_. They heard that King You of Zhou was so beautiful that he ordered all the beauties from all over the world to enter the palace, so they took this opportunity to find a girl named Si in Bao City and teach her how to sing. He danced and dressed her up, named her Bao Si, and presented her to King You to atone for Bao Si.
When King You saw Bao Si, he was astonished and loved her very much, and immediately made her his concubine. Bao Si was also released. After getting Bao Si, King You favored her and lived a life of luxury and luxury. Although Bao Si was as beautiful as a peach and plum, she was as cold as ice and had never smiled once since she entered the palace. In order to win Bao Si. Si smiled happily and tried every means, but Bao Si never smiled.
For this reason, King You actually offered a reward of a thousand taels to anyone who could make Bao Si smile. Chen Chen called Guo Shifu and came up with an idea for King Zhou You and suggested using a beacon tower.
Beacon fire was originally an emergency military alarm signal when the enemy invaded in ancient times, from the capital to the border town fortress. Beacon towers are set up everywhere. In order to prevent the intrusion of dog soldiers in the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than 20 beacon towers were built in the Lishan area near Haojing (southeast of Lintong, Shaanxi today), one every few miles.
Once the Quanrong attacked, the first sentry to be discovered immediately lit a beacon fire on the platform, and nearby beacon towers also lit fires one after another to alert the nearby princes. When the princes saw the beacon fire, they knew that the capital was in danger and the emperor was in trouble. They must raise troops to serve the king and come to the rescue.
Father Guo Shi proposed a plan to light the beacon fire on the beacon tower for no reason, so as to attract the princes to come and make a futile trip, in order to make the concubine laugh.
The fatuous King You of Zhou adopted Father Guo Shi’s suggestion and immediately took Bao Si, accompanied by Father Guo Shi, to the Lishan beacon tower and ordered the guards to light the beacon. Suddenly, there was smoke everywhere and beacon fire soaring into the sky. When the princes from all over the country saw the alarm, they thought that the dog soldiers were coming, and they led their troops and horses to rush to the rescue.
When we arrived at the foot of Lishan Mountain, there was not even a shadow of a dog soldier. We only heard the sounds of music and singing on the mountain. It turned out that King You of Zhou and Bao Si were sitting on a high platform drinking and having fun. King You of Zhou sent someone to tell them that thanks to everyone's hard work, nothing happened here. The king and his wife were just setting off fireworks for fun. The princes realized that they had been teased and returned with resentment.
When Bao Si saw thousands of troops and horses summoned and waved away, it was like child's play. She thought it was very funny and couldn't help but smile. King Zhou You was overjoyed and immediately rewarded Guo Shi's father with a thousand gold coins. King You of Zhou teased the princes several times for this, and gradually the princes stopped coming.
In order to further please Bao Si and disregard the rules of his ancestors, King You of Zhou deposed Queen Shen and Prince Yijiu, named Bao Si the queen, and Bao Si's son Bofu was the prince, and issued an order. He deposed the title of Marquis Shen, the queen's father, and prepared to send troops to attack him. After receiving the news, Marquis Shen took a preemptive strike and united with the troops of Marquis Zeng and the Quanrong troops of the northwest Yi tribe to attack Haojing in 771 BC.
When King Zhou You heard the news of the Quanrong attack, he panicked and hurriedly ordered the beacon tower to light the beacon fire. The beacon fire was burning, but the princes ignored it this time because they were fooled last time.
Dense smoke billowed out from the beacon tower during the day, and flames lit up the sky at night, but no reinforcements arrived. This made King Zhou You complain endlessly. The guards at Haojing resented King You of Zhou for being fatuous, and were dissatisfied with the general's frequent deductions of food and wages. At this time, they were unwilling to serve. As soon as the dog soldiers arrived, they reluctantly resisted for a while, and then dispersed in a crowd. The dog soldiers and horses swarmed into the city. King Zhou You, with Bao Si and Bo Fu, fled from the back door in a hurry and rushed to Lishan Mountain.
On the way, he ordered the beacon fire to be lit again. Although the beacon smoke penetrated into the sky, no princes came to rescue them. The dog soldiers pursued them closely, and King Zhou You's left and right people also fled along the way, leaving only more than a hundred people who fled into Li Palace. King You of Zhou accepted the advice of his ministers and ordered the front palace gate to be set on fire to confuse the dog soldiers, while he himself escaped through the harem gate.
After not escaping far, the dog soldiers caught up with them again, and there was a killing spree. Only King Zhou You, Bao Si and Bo Fu were left. They were already paralyzed in the car with fear. When the dog soldiers saw King You of Zhou wearing the emperor's clothes, they knew he was the emperor of Zhou and hacked him to death on the spot. He also snatched the prince's uncle's clothes from Bao Si and killed him with one knife, leaving only Bao Si as a prisoner (some say he was killed). At this point, the Western Zhou Dynasty was declared destroyed.
At this time, the princes knew that Quanrong had really invaded Haojing, so they united and led a large team of people to rescue them. When Quan Rong saw the army of the princes arriving, they robbed the treasures that the Zhou Dynasty had accumulated over the years and set fire to retreat.
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