Abstract:
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the king of Zhou achieved the purpose of controlling the special military power of the feudal state by controlling the main officials of the feudal state.This kind of general book of the king of Zhou ordered the feudal lords and the main officials of the country not only to be recorded in the literature of ritual books, but also confirmed by the inscriptions on bronze wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty.Judging from the inscriptions and documents, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, there should be two ministers appointed by the king of Zhou and in charge of the army.The king of Zhou ordered a state count to control his military power.In the early Spring and Autumn Period, it followed the ritual system of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Zhou King’s book ordering the main officials of the feudal lords.After the midSpring and Autumn period, with the decline of the status of the king of Zhou, the power and status of the princes increased, and the princes ordered all the officials and only reported to the king of Zhou.By the end of the Spring and Autumn period, several officials of the princes were no longer controlled by the king of Zhou, and they no longer even reported to the king of Zhou, and the system of the Zhou King ordering the main officials of the princes and state no longer existed.
