The internal reason why the Western Zhou Dynasty s sub sealing system was finally eliminated

If you want to know the internal cause, it is a problem of the system itself.

The conditions of the feudal system are still quite harsh, the eldest son inherits, and the rest is one level lower, there will definitely be many sons who are not satisfied, and the rights of the sons who cannot inherit their father's original position are not as weakened as the feudal system later, so the non-eldest son retains the strength that can threaten orthodoxy, so the vassal states began to be chaotic.

There is also land that has almost been divided, and the number of sons continues to increase, and the lowest title after the nobility is also "Shi", the descendants of the noble who have blood and talent began to fall, but they were unwilling to accept it, so they began to form gangs to expand the power of their group, and then there were more talents and ambitions, so they began to merge and conquer.

I am also a liberal arts student, and my personal opinion is that the changes in history are due to the changes in people's hearts......

I think it was the development of the power of the vassal states.

With the strength of the princes, being able to fight against the Son of Heaven will cause the princes to disobey and even seek power; And like the later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's policy of "cutting the domain", the land and people's ownership of the vassal states became smaller and smaller, and the rights (non-descendants) were slowly recovered, and it became a little impossible to oppose **, so the political stability.

Fundamentally speaking, the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed because it did not consider the long-term and failed to centralize power

The reason for the implementation of the feudal system in the Western Zhou Dynasty was to ensure the strength of the royal family and protect the royal family; Effectively control the vassal states and strengthen their rule.

The Western Zhou Dynasty implemented a feudal system, which was closely integrated with the patriarchal system of hereditary primitiveness. In their respective fiefdoms, they are also the big clans of the same surname, and their titles are still inherited by their eldest sons, and the rest of the concubines are divided into small clans. In this way, according to the patriarchal system and the feudal system, a pyramidal hierarchical system composed of clan nobles at all levels, such as the Son of Heaven, princes, princes, ministers, and scholars, was formed.

The relationship between the various levels is not only the relationship between the large and small clans, but also the relationship between the upper and lower levels.

Under the Western Zhou feudal system, the land and laborers were nominally owned by the king of Zhou, and the lower level had to bear the obligations of paying tribute, serving in forced labor, military defense, and reporting on work to the higher level. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the system was gradually replaced by the county system.

1. In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, with the increasing strength of the vassal states, the royal power weakened, and the feudal system was destroyed; In the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Chu Sanliang won the throne, which was an open challenge to the feudal system by the vassal states. Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. Large countries merge small countries, countries with the same surname also fight with each other, Zhou Tianzi can't control it, and in the last years of the Warring States Period, the Zhou royal family completely lost the power to divide the feuds.

2. Zhou Tianzi Yinkong has supreme authority, and the state power has gradually become stricter from loose. However, the feudal princes enjoyed considerable independence within their own domains.

3. With the growing power of the vassal states, by the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the royal power weakened and the feudal system was destroyed. Through this "sub-feudal system", the relationship between Zhou Tianzi and the princes was layer by layer.

There are also many disadvantages of the feudal system, the most typical is that the feudal is only the land and population that can be cultivated, which belongs to the privatization of land property, and the domestic mountains and forests, rivers and rivers belong to public property, that is to say, the great brother and the family can go to these places to obtain the resources they need, with the increase in the number of princes, the country's land is getting less and less, and the harvest from privatized land is only paid as a part of the state tax according to the tribute system, and the rest is returned to the princes and nobles. In this way, the tax revenue handed over to the state after layers of peeling was very limited, and the public ownership of mountains, forests, rivers and rivers could not provide taxes for the state, coupled with the long-term war with the two fronts of Dongyi and Inurong, the treasury began to gradually empty in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, resulting in a rapid decline in national strength. During the Western Weekend period, the dominance and prestige of the Son of Heaven began to waver, and the princes gradually became stronger through the annexation of the law of the jungle, and there was a phenomenon of contempt for royal power and disobedience to the orders of the Son of Heaven. It's really strong and divided; Defeat is also divided.

The reason for the implementation of the sub-sealing system should be analyzed from many aspects such as the social environment, economic conditions, and traffic conditions at that time.

First of all, because the use of animal power in the Western Zhou Dynasty was still in a relatively primitive period, most people were destined to live near their birthplaces for a lifetime, the population mobility was poor, and the clan power was strong, and if there was no strong deterrence, it was easy to affect the monarch's rule. In addition, the traffic conditions in the Western Zhou Dynasty were extremely simple, and the transmission of information was carried out by people carrying bamboo slips, and the efficiency of information transmission was extremely low, which meant that the monarch could not get the news in time and effectively after an event, and could not take measures to deal with the event in time, resulting in a great decline in the monarch's dominance over distant areas. The territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty was a relatively vast territory in terms of people's travel ability at that time, and the mobilization of soldiers and horses was an extremely complex and difficult matter, which meant that if the monarch insisted on ruling such a large territory, he needed to keep a large number of troops stationed in the local area to deal with local emergencies, but the social and economic conditions at that time did not allow the monarch to keep a large number of troops, because the low social production capacity led to difficulties in the production of important materials such as grain and cloth, and the actual conditions directly controlled the size of the army.

At that time, the social, economic, technological, and transportation conditions limited the monarch's control over the territory under his jurisdiction, and the implementation of the feudal system was a last resort, which was not changed until the Qin Dynasty vigorously developed the transportation infrastructure, providing objective conditions for the existence of the county system.

I don't talk comprehensively, because why the implementation of the sub-sealing system is a very complex topic, to go deep into the implementation of the sub-sealing system or it is recommended to listen to the hundred pulpits or history!