Career
He reigned from 781 to 771 British Columbia. In 780 British Columbia, a major earthquake hit Guanzhong. A soothsayer named Bo Yangfu (伯陽甫) considered this an omen foretelling the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty. In 779 British Columbia, a concubine named Bao Si entered the palace and came into the King You"s favour.
King You deposed Queen Shen (申后) and Crown Prince Yijiu.
He made Baosi the new queen and Bofu the new crown prince. lieutenant is said that Baosi did not laugh easily.
After trying many methods and failing, King You tried to amuse his favorite queen by lighting warning beacons and fooling his nobles into thinking that the Quanrong nomads were about to attack. The nobles arrived at the castle only to find themselves laughed at by Baosi.
Even after King You had impressed Baosi, he continued to abuse his use of warning beacons and lost the trust of the nobles.
King You called for his nobles using the previously abused beacons but none came. In the end, King You and Bofu were killed and Baosi was captured. After King You died, nobles including the Marquess of Shen, the Marquess of Zeng (繒侯) and Duke Wen of Xu (許文公) supported the deposed Prince Yijiu as King Ping of Zhou to continue the Zhou Dynasty.
As the national capital Haojing had suffered severe damage, and was located near the potentially dangerous Quanrong, in 771 British Columbia, King Ping of Zhou moved the capital eastward to Luoyang, thus beginning the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and ushering in the Spring and Autumn period which would last for more than 300 years.
