The Duke of Zhou is Confucius's model rather than Confucius himself being the tradition's starting point, which is a distinction the tradition takes seriously. Younger brother of King Wu, who overthrew the Shang, he acted as regent for his nephew King Cheng during the dynasty's fragile early years, put down a major rebellion led by his own brothers who accused him of usurpation, consolidated the eastern territories, and then returned the government to the king when he came of age. Tradition credits him with establishing the ritual and musical order — the li and yue that Confucius spent his life trying to restore — and with the feudal settlement of the early Zhou. Confucius took the return of power as the decisive fact. His remark in Analects 7.5, that he had grown very weak because it had been a long time since he last dreamt of the Duke of Zhou, is one of the most quoted lines in the book and is usually read as a statement about ageing and about the receding of the possibility of restoring the old order.