After King Zhou You was killed, was the accession of King Zhou Ping really as the historical records say?
The conventional wisdom is recorded as follows:
In 771 B.C., because of Zhou You's ** Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan, the king abolished Chang Liyou, and abolished the prince Ji Yijiu and his grandfather, Shenhou (or possibly uncle), took the dog Rong to capture the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Haojing, killed the king of Zhou You and the new prince Bofu, and established King Zhou Ping as the son of heaven.
In the second year, due to the dilapidation of Hojing and the ravages of the dog Rong, King Ping of Zhou moved his capital to Luoyi, which was known as King Ping's eastward migration, and the Great Zhou Dynasty after that was called the Eastern Zhou.
This history mainly comes from Sima Qian's "Historical Records" of the Western Han Dynasty, which has been circulated for more than 2,000 years, and is currently deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and is the cognition that everyone has accepted from the era of reading picture books.
But now, it's about to change.
There is a saying in advance, Lao Zhang is not a historical nihilist, of course he will not use wild history as an argument in his speech, everyone should be patient, and we will continue to discuss if there is a problem.
Without further ado, let's get straight to the point.
Let's first look at the original words of the "Historical Records":
The princes are the marquis of Shen and jointly establish the prince of Youwang, Yijiu, who is the king of Ping, in order to worship Zhou.
Which princes participated in supporting the crown prince? The "Historical Records" does not say specifically.
At this time, it is time for "Bamboo Book Chronicle" to appear, and Bamboo Book not only wrote, but also explained one more thing:
Shenhou, Luhou, Xu Nan, and Zheng Zili should be in Shen, and Yu Gonghan should be the prince and Yu Chen.
Note that the Lu Hou here is actually the Hou of Yan, that is, the one who attacked the capital of Ho with Shen Hou and Dog Rong above.
One of the three major killings**. Zheng Zi is Zheng Wugong, the son of Zheng Huangong who was killed, so it is reasonable to rush to King Qin.
Pay attention to the location, which is in Shen Guo Yijiu as the Son of Heaven, not in Hojing.
At about the same time, Xiyu Gonghan also set up a prince named Yu Chen. According to the investigation, this little prince named Yu Chen is the little brother of King Zhou You, the son of King Xuan of Zhou, Ji Yuchen.
At this point in the story, there is not much conflict between the historical records and the bamboo book chronicle, right, because the historical records do not say that the Yu ministers were appointed at the same time as King Zhou Ping's accession to the throne, but it does not mean that it is negative, which is equivalent to the latter making an information supplement to the former.
Plausible. 
However, in the collection of Tsinghua University's "Tsinghua Jane Department Year", an even more shocking news was added.
Youwang started to learn, back (around) Ping Wang Yu Xishen, Shen people Fuyi, Zeng people are descending to Xirong, in order to attack Youwang, Youwang and Bopan are destroyed, Zhou is dead. Bangjun and Zhu Zheng are the younger brothers of King Liyou, Yu Yu, who is the king of Hui.
After introducing the killing of King You of Zhou and the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ministers and princes appointed Yu Chen, the younger brother of King You, as the Son of Heaven in the Kingdom of Qiu. It is known as the King of Hui. (We'll talk more about the meaning of this epithet.)
Even the accession of King Zhou Ping to the throne has been saved!
According to the "Department Year", after the death of King Zhou You, the person who was made the Son of Heaven was Ji Yuchen.
We can make up the picture at that time:
King You of Zhou raised an army to attack the Shen State, besieged the city, and then the Yan Kingdom defected to the dog Rong to rescue the Shen State, and the alliance of the three kingdoms defeated the Zhou army together, all the way to Haojing, and killed the King of Zhou You.
King Zhou You is dead, the legitimate prince is also dead, and the abolished prince is still in the hands of **, besides, isn't he a abolished prince? The heirs of King Zhou You have all hung up here, so the heirs can only be arranged from the son of King Zhou Xuan.
So the Duke of Yu took the lead, and together with some of the princes, he supported Ji Yuchen, the younger brother of King You of Zhou, and in order to avoid the secondary damage of Xirong and Shenhou, the Kingdom of Xiyu also moved to the Guannei, which was roughly located in the area of today's Sanmenxia.
This point just happened to be in line with the "Yu Gong Hanli Prince Yu Chen" in the Bamboo Book Chronicle.
Since the historical records don't talk about this point, let's not compare the historical records, but only compare the Wei history book "Bamboo Book Chronicle" with the Chu history book "Tsinghua Jane Department Year".
If the information recorded in both documents is true, then we can conclude that
After the death of King You of Zhou, Shenhou and Duke Yu respectively established Yijiu and Yuchen as the Son of Heaven.
From the point of view of the color, these two are not important, not that your King Zhou Ping is on the throne, and my King Zhou is fake.
Legally speaking, Yi U is the deposed heir, no matter who turns next, at least his inheritance rights are deprived. Although Ji Yuchen is not a son-in-law, according to the order of succession, he is at least qualified to ascend the throne.
In particular, as an indirect ** that led to the death of King Zhou You, Yijiu's accession to the throne itself faced the problem of legitimacy.
Therefore, there was a situation in which the ministers and princes of the "Bangjun and Zhuzheng" were established and the remaining ministers of the princes. From the perspective of the ministers of the court and the central government supporting Ji Yuchen, everyone obviously regards Ji Yuchen as the heir to King Zhou You's inheritance.
Therefore, the two kings stood side by side at the beginning, in my opinion, it was actually Ji Yuchen who was legally enthroned first, and Ji Yijiu who competed for the title last.
Okay, so let's go ahead and see, what's going on next.
The Bamboo Book Chronicle says:
In the first year, Wang Dong migrated to Luoyi, and Xiwen was ordered. The Marquis of Jin will guard the Marquis, Zheng Bo, and Qin Bo, and learn from Wang into Cheng Zhou.
This record is consistent with our common sense, the first year of the throne, in fact, is the second year of the throne, King Zhou Ping moved the capital to Luoyi, and the people accompanying him include Marquis Wen of Jin, Duke Wu of Wei, Duke Wu of Zheng, and Uncle Qin.
No problem. But don't forget, in "Tsinghua Jane: The Year of the Department", there is no recognition that a person named Yijiu ascended the throne.
So this "first year" is very debatable.
Tsinghua Jane Department Year records next:
In the twentieth year of the establishment, the Marquis of Jin Wen killed King Hui Yu Yu. In the ninth year of the death of the king of Zhou, the princes of the state did not start to court in Zhou, and the Marquis of Jin Wen was the king of the rebellion against the king of Shao'e, and he was established in Beijing. Three years, it is an eastward migration, and it ends in Chengzhou.
This section is immediately after the Bang Zhengli Zhou Xihui King in front, that is, after Zhou Xihui King was established for 21 years, Jin Wen Marquis Ji took revenge and killed Zhou Xihui Wang, and the location was in the Kingdom of Yu.
After that, the time when the Zhou Dynasty did not have a Son of Heaven was nine years, so the princes began not to come to the court, because there was no Son of Heaven to see.
This situation lasted for nine years, and the Marquis of Jin Wen welcomed back King Zhou Ping from Shao'e, supported him in Hojing, and three years later, everyone moved the capital to Luoyi together.
I have a little bit of a disagreement here.
If the "nine years of the death of the king of Zhou" is understood as the nine years of the king of Zhou, then according to the timeline, the king of Zhou died in 750 BC, and there was no king for nine years after that, and another three years, and the king of Zhou Ping had to wait for twelve years to move the capital, that is, in 738 BC, the king of Zhou Ping moved east to Luoyi.
It was 32 years behind King Zhouping's eastward migration to Luoyi in 770 BC!
Is it reasonable? It is unreasonable, there is a difference of more than 30 years between the major events of moving the capital, and the history books of various countries will not turn a blind eye, and there will never be no clues.
And at this time, Qin Xianggong, who escorted King Zhou Ping's eastward migration, had already hung up.
Therefore, the meaning of "the ninth year of the death of King Zhou" here should be the ninth year of King You of Zhou. The meaning of the dead king should be the dead king.
In "Chinese ยท Zhou Yu", I found the same usage: "This one king and four uncles are not more favored." After the death of the king", it can be seen in the context, which means that Dayu and Siyue are the descendants of the king of the dead country.
Therefore, the relatively reasonable explanation for the passage of "The Year of the System" is:
King Zhou was killed for twenty-one years, and in the second year when King You of Zhou was killed, because there was no king to reign, "the princes did not dynasty".
So if the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" and "The Year of the Department" are not lying, then taking the intersection of the two should be understood in this way:
In the eighth year of King Zhou You, he died, and then King Zhou Ping stood in the Shen Kingdom, and Zhou took the king to the Kingdom of Yu, but no one came to see him in the second year, and everyone was very confused and did not know who was the official Son of Heaven.
So the Marquis of Jin Wen went to Shao'e to meet the king of Zhou Ping, returned to Haojing as the son of Zhou Tianzi, and moved east to Luoyi three years later.
After that, the Zhou Dynasty formed a situation of peace and two kings standing side by side.
The Marquis of Jin Wen is the reverse of the King of Ping Yu Shao'e", which should mean that the other party has been moving in the opposite direction, and he went to meet him, so it is speculated that the King of Zhou Ping has set off under the escort of Qin Xianggong and others, and was greeted by the Marquis of Jin Wen in this place and arrived in Haojing, three years later, "The Marquis of Jin will guard the Hou, Zheng Bo, and Qin Bo, and enter the Chengzhou with the teacher of Wang." "From Hojing to Luoyang.
The time of King Zhou Ping's eastward migration, according to the "Chronology", should be in 767 BC.
King Zhou Ping was very grateful for the help of Jin Wenhou, so he specially wrote a letter of thanks to Jin Wenhou, this letter was included in Sima Qian's "Historical Records", the name is "Wenhou's Life", everyone who is interested can go to search the original text, Zhou Ping's gratitude and joy, overflowing.
So in "The Sixth Year of the Hidden Prince", Zhou Gong said with a black shoulder: I moved east of Zhou, and Zheng Yanyi of Jin.
The reason why Marquis Wen of Jin (which should also include Zheng Guo) chose to support King Zhou Ping may be because King Zhou Xian at this time was already an adult, and compared to King Zhou Ping, who was still a child, Ji Yuchen was more difficult to control, which was purely speculation by Lao Zhang.
This time the choice of sides has obtained rich political capital for Jin and Zheng, and the "Year of the Department" commented after King Ping moved east:
The Jin people began in Beijing, and Zheng Wugong was also the prince of the east.
That is to say, the strength of the Jin State began with the welcoming of Yu Haojing, the king of Zhou Ping, and the Zheng State began to command the eastern princes as a secretary.
Interestingly, in addition to the Xiyu Kingdom, there is also a Dongyu Kingdom, which is located in the "system", that is, the fief that Zheng Zhuang Gong and his old mother first asked for for Gongshu Duan, and Zheng Wugong destroyed it in 767 BC when King Ping moved eastward.
Although this incident violated the patriarchal law, it was in line with the exchange of interests between King Ping of Zhou and Zheng Guo, and judging from the fact that Zheng Wugong still served as the secretary of the Zhou Dynasty after that, this incident obviously did not cause him to be punished in any way.
The meritorious Qin Xianggong also became a prince from then on, and got the promise of King Zhou Ping that "Qin can conquer Rong, that is, he has its land", although this is only a big cake painted by King Zhou Ping, but in hindsight, it was this promise that allowed Qin to begin its expansion in the western territory.
Therefore, the biggest winners of King Zhouping's eastward migration were Jin, Zheng, and Qin.
Because the backer of King Zhou was too small, although he was nominally a more reasonable heir, it was a pity that he was finally abandoned in the political game of the princes, and he was killed by Marquis Wen of Jin for twenty-one years.
As for the Duke of Yu who supported Ji Yuchen, it is amazing that later generations did not explain him to any ending, but later when King Zhou Ping and Duke Zheng Zhuang "exchanged relations between Zhou and Zheng", and when King Huan of Zhou and Duke Zheng Zhuang met each other, Duke Yu from the Kingdom of Xiyu magically appeared.
not only appeared, but also became Zhou Tianzi's main tool to suppress Zheng Guo.
After King Zhou Ping ended the two kings and grasped the right to speak, he gave Ji Yuchen a not very friendly nickname "carrying" king, "slacking off politics and diplomacy", fortunately, the people of Chu have always been dissatisfied with Zhou, and the title of Ji Yuchen in "Department Year" uses "King Hui" to restore another evaluation of Ji Yuchen by later generations.
The reason why Lao Zhang recognizes the content of the "Department of Years" is that on the one hand, it is because the bamboo slips of the Chu State were unearthed in modern times, and have been circulating in the hands of collectors since then, and were collected by Tsinghua University in 2010.
And according to the "iron-headed" nature of the Chu people, they will even record the theft of cattle by their own monarch, and use this to encourage themselves, and from time to time there is a sentence "I am a barbarian", so I am afraid that the tampering of the history of the Zhou royal family is a little disdainful.
The above is purely a personal opinion, to share with you, if you have other views, welcome**.