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King Li of Zhou

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depict King Li as a corrupt and decadent king. To pay for his pleasures and vices, King Li raised taxes and caused misery among his subjects. It is said that he barred the commoners from profiting from the communal forests and lakes. He enstated a new law which allowed him to punish anyone, by death,
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Formerly, during the decline of the house of Zhou, King Li brought trouble and chaos to all under heaven, the feudal lords governed by means of force, and the people desired to act as if there were no hierarchy and annex one another’s
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who dared to speak against him. King Li's bad rule soon forced many peasants and soldiers into revolt, and Li was sent into exile at a place called Zhi near
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inscription of the time of King Li, mentioning an attack from the northern tribe of the
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Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC
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fragments also depict King Li as a decadent and corrupt king. The fragments say:
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of China. Estimated dates of his reign are 877–841 BC or 857–842 BC (
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Index

King of the Zhou dynasty
King Yí of Zhou
Gonghe Regency
Issue
King Xuan of Zhou
Duke Huan of Zheng
Ancestral name
Ji
Posthumous name
House
Dynasty
Zhou
Western Zhou
King Yí of Zhou

Xianyun
Chinese
pinyin
king
Zhou dynasty

National Palace Museum
Taipei
Sima Qian
Records of the Grand Historian
Linfen
Shen Dao
Shen
Shen
King Xuan of Zhou

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