After the death of King Li, Prince Jing succeeded to the throne as King Xuan of Zhou. King Xuan became the king of Zhongxing for half his life, and he was the king of decline for half his life. When King Xuan ascended the throne, the Western Zhou Dynasty had gradually recovered from decay after fourteen years of peace, and the external environment was not so bad.

King Xuan built some success on the favorable situation built by the two elders, but when he lost the treasury and became as arbitrary and reckless as King Li, the dynasty irreversibly declined.

In the middle of King Xuan, Lu Wugong took his two sons, Prince Kuo and Gongzi to meet the Son of Heaven. Gongzi Opera is a smart and clever boy, he used ingenious means to win the favor of King Xuan, King Zhou Xuan was confused by him, and even forced Lu Wugong to abolish the crown prince and change Gongzi Opera to the prince.

The destruction of the primogeniture system was an appalling act that shook the foundation of Zhou Li, and as a result, this order was strongly opposed by the great physician Nakayama's father and some ministers.

But could the ministers get a better outcome than to provoke Long Yan and be driven out of the palace? The stubborn King Xuan firmly believed that the king's mandate was the mandate of heaven; When the king's decree is issued, even if it is wrong (just as heaven will send calamities to the people), there is absolutely no room for criticism.

After the death of Duke Lu Wu, the crown prince Xi (Lu Yigong) succeeded to the throne, and the Lu people were not convinced, and launched a rebellion under the leadership of the old prince and killed the new monarch. King Xuan was furious and mobilized heavy troops to besiege the state of Lu, as if to erase the state of Lu from the territory of the dynasty. The Lu people finally surrendered in Kaicheng, and King Xuan of Zhou established Lu filial piety and returned.

King Xuan of Zhou's act of attacking the country that adhered to Zhou's rites as an enemy aroused the great anger of the Chinese princes. The princes said that if it would become a crime to defend the Zhou rites, then what reason did the king of Zhou have to demand that the people of the world obey the Zhou rites? What reason is there to demand that the people of the world obey him?

Later, King Xuan abolished the land ceremony that was held in 1,000 acres every year. Agriculture was the foundation of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the field ceremony was one of the most important rituals in the Zhou ceremony, which is why the Son of Heaven had to participate in person to show the importance that the dynasty attached to agriculture and encourage the development of agriculture. Even when King Zhou Li was in exile, he had to pretend to hold a ceremony every year in the land (as if he were still the co-ruler of the world).

Soon after King Xuan abolished the Tianli, Wang Shi and the allied army were defeated by Jiang Shirong in the Battle of Thousand Mu.

As a result of this defeat, the Western Zhou Dynasty was almost exhausted, and King Xuan conducted the first census in medieval history. This order was also strongly opposed by Nakayama's father.

The land system practiced in the Western Zhou Dynasty was the "well field system", and the officials in charge of statistics could roughly calculate the country's population based on the amount of land and the statistics reported by officials such as the people, merchants, stuto, sku, herdsmen, workers, and farms. However, due to the turbulence of the times, the frequent fighting, the displacement of people, and the devastation of large amounts of land, the basis of statistics has become unstable.

The issuance of the order of "Tai Raw People" is tantamount to announcing to the world that the work of the organs of state power has been paralyzed, and the royal family is going to register the countrymen like registered slaves!

King Xuan committed a major atrocity in the last years of his reign that made him truly belong to the tyrant club. It turned out that the royal family had an iron-clad doctor, Du Bo, who angered King Xuan because of his strong advice, and was finally executed.

You know, King Xuan has even destroyed the foundation of the Zhou rites, what is the secondary etiquette? The reason for the collapse of the rites was not due to the ambition of the princes, nor to the betrayal of the barbarians, but precisely to the tyranny of the supreme ruler.

Violating the Zhou rites is equivalent to violating the Constitution and the Bible, and Zhou Tianzi has shaken the foundation of governing the country and will definitely pay a heavy price; Who else can they impose on the charge of "there is no way in the world, and the conquest of Lile comes from the princes"?