In "The Romance of the Gods", Yin Shang has four major marquis, namely Jiang Huanchu of the East Bohou, Ji Chang of the West Bohou, Chongyu of the South Bohou, and Chonghou Hu of the North Bohou.
Ji Chang was promoted from the Xibohou to the King Wen of Zhou, and was completely able to sacrifice the Eastern Bohou Jiang Huan Chu and the Southern Bohou E Chongyu, intensifying the contradictions between Yin Shang and the Eight Hundred Princes.
When the eight hundred princes met the king of Zhou, it was Xibohou Jichang who provoked the contradictions, let the irascible E Chongyu beat the northern Bohou Chonghou Hu, and also made the Dongbohou Jiang Huanchu prepare to question the king.
Jiang Huan Chu and E Chongyu were killed on the spot by the King of Zhou, causing Jiang Wenhuan, the son of Jiang Huan Chu, and E Shun, the son of E Chongyu, to raise troops against Shang in the east and south.
Ji Chang had already surrendered Chonghou Hu's younger brother Caozhou Hou Chong Heihu, he fled back to Xiqi from Chaoge, visited the flying bear Jiang Ziya, and led the troops to destroy the Northern Bohou Chonghou Hu.
Through a series of operations, Ji Chang pulled the eastern, southern, and northern princes into his western camp, forming a pattern of eight hundred princes of the four major princes jointly opposing Shang.
At the end of the Fengshenbang War, two generations of Northern Bohou and two generations of Southern Bohou were killed, of which the Nanbohou E family was completely wiped out, and the three generations of Northern Bohou Chongying Luan was weak and difficult to compete with the Great Zhou, and the ending was also disintegrated.
The major vassal states of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period all have shadows in "Romance of the Gods". Jiang Ziya's Qi State, Zhou Gongdan's Lu State, Wei Ziqi's Song State, Fei Lian's descendants of Qin and Zhao, Ji clan's Jin, Yan, Zheng State, etc.
The most strange thing is that the southern overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chu State, did not appear in "Romance of the Gods".
The author analyzes various materials and finds that the Chu State in the middle and late Zhou Dynasty is also looming in "Romance of the Gods".
Jiang Wenhuan, the powerful Eastern Bohou, mysteriously disappeared after the end of the Great War of the Gods, and in his eastern frontier there were Jiang Ziya's Qi State and Zhou Gongdan's Lu State, the fourth brother of King Wu of Zhou.
Most likely, the Nanbohou E family perished, and King Wu of Zhou, in order to weaken Jiang Wenhuan's powerful power, transferred Jiang Wenhuan's fief to the south, leaving the fertile east to Jiang Ziya and Zhou Gongdan.
King Wu of Zhou is also a Yang conspiracy, Dong Bohou offended Yin Shang, and the rest of King Zhou will not let Jiang Wenhuan go. If you obey King Wu of Zhou's arrangement, let Jiang Wenhuan's family stay away from right and wrong.
Jiang Wenhuan's name has "change", and "huan" is "change". The "Huan" of the old uncle Jiang Huan Chu is also "changed". "Huan Chu" is the meaning of "changing Chu". Their father and son's names implied that they were sent to the south through peaceful means.
Jiang Ziya's road name "Flying Bear", "Xiong" is the national surname of the Chu State. The monarchs of the previous generations of Chu were Xiong Xiong, Xiong Li, Xiong Maia, and Xiong Yi. In other words, the state of Chu is related to the surname Jiang, and the "bear" is the common totem of Jiang Wenhuan's family and Jiang Ziya's family, and Jiang Ziya used means to expelle Jiang Wenhuan from the East.
Jiang Wenhuan had no choice but to take his people to the south, hating Jiang Ziya for occupying his homeland, he was ashamed of his surname Jiang, so he changed his surname to Xiong to establish the state of Chu.
After Jiang Wenhuan's death, Zhou Tianzi demoted the Xiong clan from earl to viscount, and the successive monarchs of Chu dared not speak out. When King Zhao of Zhou toured the state of Chu in the south, the ship of King Zhou Zhao of Chu was wrecked, and the emperor and ministers of Zhou Tianzi drowned.
After the decline of Zhou Tianzi, Xiong Tong, a descendant of Jiang Wenhuan, took the lead in claiming the throne and broke with Zhou Tianzi in complete defeat. Chu Guoye and Jiang surnamed Qi are also very incompatible, in the past few hundred years, Qi and Chu have broken out I don't know how many wars for hegemony, and the people of Chu very much want to return to their homeland.