The landmark event of the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the "Dog Rong Disaster" in 771 BC, which led to the "Eastward Migration of King Ping".
This event was a key turning point in the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, leading to the death of King Youyou of Zhou, who "loved beautiful young ladies", and the fall of the Western Zhou regime.
Let's talk about the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
In 781 BC, King Zhou You succeeded to the throne, and his father King Zhou Xuan was a generation of strongmen, but it had lasted for almost 300 years when the country was handed over to King Zhou You.
None of the dynasties in history have been more than 300 years old, not counting the nominal ones, but only those that can play the actual ruling effect.
The Zhou Dynasty was a model for the later dynasties.
So when King Zhou You took over, the country's management system was no longer very bright, and the sub-feudal system had been in place for 300 years, and there was no land to seal in the world, and there were princes everywhere.
To sum up, coupled with the fact that King Zhou You himself was not very competitive, his reign was full of corruption and turmoil.
King You of Zhou later appointed the general father of Yu Shi to govern, and the government was seriously corrupt, which caused strong dissatisfaction and resentment among the people in the country.
At the same time, King Zhou You also favored the beautiful woman Bao Xi, and abolished the status of the daughter of the Empress Shenhou and the crown prince Yijiu, and renamed Bao Xi as the queen, and his son Bofu as the prince.
This move provoked political instability and exacerbated internal contradictions.
Shenhou was Yijiu's grandfather, and he was deeply angry at the deposed queen and the deposed prince of King Zhou You.
In order to seek justice for his daughter and grandson, Shenhou united the state of Xuan and the Ourong tribes in the west to jointly attack the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Hojing.
This has to be said, why Shenhou is so impulsive and praised, and why he was made the queen.
In fact, when King Zhou You's father was in power, he had already started a war with Shenhou, but it was estimated that Shenhou's power was too strong, so the Zhou royal family made a peace relationship and let King Zhou You, as the crown prince, marry Queen Shenjiang.
King Youwang must be unhappy this week, so even if there is no praise in the future, it is estimated that it will not affect King Zhou's abolition, and the so-called princes of the Beacon Opera may just add a drama to King You, the king of the dead country.
Therefore, the Western Zhou Dynasty perished, it really can't be said that it is a disaster and blames Bao Xi, but it can only be blamed on King Zhou You himself, and Bao Xi can't carry this pot.
In the battle between King You of Zhou and Shenhou, the army led by King You of Zhou was defeated and fled back to Haojing, but was caught up by the Datou soldiers of Shenhou and Dog Rong at the foot of Lishan, and King You of Zhou himself was killed.
The Inurong tribe took the opportunity to plunder a large amount of treasure, and even the beautiful Bao Xi was taken captive, and since then Bao Xi has been missing like Charlotte's father.
This time the Dog Rong Rebellion brought serious losses to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the territory of the Western Zhou royal family was basically gone.
Due to the death of King You of Zhou and the collapse of the Western Zhou regime, Yijiu ascended to the throne with the help of the princes and became King Ping of Zhou.
However, at this time, the Western Zhou Dynasty was already seriously damaged and could not maintain its original dominance.
In order to avoid the threat of the Inurong tribe and stabilize the regime, King Zhou Ping decided to move the capital from Zongzhou to Luoyi (Luoyang).
In 770 BC, King Ping of Zhou officially moved his capital to Luoyang, marking the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the rise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
The demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the result of a combination of factors
First of all, the corrupt rule of King Youyou of Zhou and the deposing of the crown prince led to political instability and the intensification of internal contradictions.
Secondly, the attack of Shenhou and Inurong made the Western Zhou fall into the quagmire of war and could not resist the invasion of foreign enemies.
Finally, the relocation of the capital of King Ping of Zhou marked the fall of the Western Zhou regime and the rise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. If King Zhou Ping does not move the capital, then the Western Zhou Dynasty cannot be regarded as destroyed, and it can only be said that King Zhou You died in battle.
The fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty had a profound impact on the development of Chinese history.
It ended the centuries-long rule of the Western Zhou dynasty and laid the foundation for the later Eastern Zhou dynasty.
The fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty also accelerated the arrival of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the vassal states began to compete for hegemony in the world, and Chinese history entered a period of change and change.