Black Rou frowned: "The Yingqin tribe appeared at this time. They were descendants of Bo Yi, and the most important ally and generals of the Shang Dynasty. Even when King Zhou finally perished, most of the princes in the world were
If he betrayed the Shang Dynasty, only the Yingqin tribe was still on the side of King Zhou. The general Eilai died for the battle. However, why did the Shang Dynasty have been established for hundreds of years, and the Yingqin tribe is still a western doctor?”
The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "When talking about Ying Qin, oh, Qin was a later incident, and there is no title yet. Speaking of the Ying tribe, its earliest ancestor was Bai Yi of the same period as Dayu.
This Bai Yi was the son of Gao Yao, the Supreme Justice of Yao period. He assisted Dayu in controlling the flood together, and made great contributions. After Dayu ascended the throne, he once regarded Bo Yi as his heir and also made a lasting order.
Abdicate Yu Boyi.”
"But at this time the patriarchal world has gradually become popular. Like the matriarchal tribe era, it has become unacceptable for many people to give up the position of the leader to outsiders who have no blood relationship, if the emperors of the world are all
The inheritance was passed on by abdication, and the leader of the tribe had to give it to others with this set of rules. Therefore, after Dayu's death, Bo Yi followed the old system to mourn Dayu for three years, and during these three years, all the princes of the world went to pay their respects.
Dayu's son Xia Qi, not Bo Yi, three years later, when Bo Yi returned, it was no longer possible to ascend the throne as he originally thought. He could only give up the power and the throne to Qi and retreat to him.
Princes.”
"Boyi had two sons, one was the Fei family and the other was the Dalian. Fei Chang, the descendant of the Fei family, went to Xia and returned to Shang in the late Xia Dynasty, became the imperial master of Cheng Tang, and since then he became a prince of the Shang Dynasty.
The descendant of another son, Dalian, was named Zhongyan. During the reign of King Taiwu of Shang, he also became the lord of the King of Shang and was granted the title of prince. This descendant of Zhongyan worked under the command of the King of Shang in the following dynasties.
They all have some contributions of different sizes, so they are very famous, so they become princes."
Hei Rou nodded. He had read all these things in history books, but he still had a question in his mind, so he asked: "Then this Ying family had already had it when he was in Boyi, and the subsequent two sons were his
The descendants of the family became princes again. Are they all Ying clans? Shouldn’t they set up a new branch after they split up?"
The ancestor smiled slightly: "Wing is a surname. If you set up a new family after you split up your family, you will have different clans, just like when the Zhou Dynasty came to the Zhou Dynasty, there were differences between the Ying surname Zhao and the Ying surname Qin. Finally, they were Zhao Guohe
The origin of Qin State was that in the ancient Xia and Shang dynasties, the division of this surname was not so strict. Boyi's descendants, no matter what branch they came from, had the surname Ying."
Hei Rou frowned: "Then is this evil, is it the descendant of Zhongyan or Fei Chang?"
The ancestor curled his lips and said, "The evil one is the descendants of Zhongyan. The tribe of Ying surname has a tradition of raising horses. Most of the descendants are in barbarian areas. This is because of the generations they can take the princes and the ancestors are all given to the kings.
As the emperor, you can see that it is basically the best equestrian in the world who has this qualification. This also shows that the Ying tribe has always developed in the grassland area. During this Shang Ghost War, Zhongyan's descendants,
The leader of the Ying tribe also led his troops to participate in the war. However, most of their troops were partial troops and Qiang people from the eastern Longyou area to defend against the ghost side. Only the clan leader brought dozens of chariots and hundreds of soldiers to rescue Wu Ding.
During the Battle of Huozhou Canyon, they also made military achievements. Through captives and seizures, they learned the advanced chariot and cavalry techniques of the Guifang clan. With these techniques, after they returned to the tribe, the chariot and equestrians were obtained again.
It has developed greatly and has become a relatively powerful vassal state in Guanzhong."
Heibo smiled slightly: "Since the Ying tribe has always been loyal to the Shang Dynasty and has strong military strength, why did the Shang Dynasty better and more value the Zhou tribe, rather than the Ying tribe becoming a Western power?"
The ancestor said calmly: "Because Ying tribe itself is a nomadic tribe, living with the Qiang people, this is not very reliable in the Shang Dynasty. For Ying tribe, they regard it as similar to the Nine Yi Army.
If you plant foreign barbarians, you can summon wars, but it cannot be used as the cornerstone of stabilizing one side."
"As for the Zhou tribe, although they had lived among the barbarians before, after the Zhou tribe moved to Zhouyuan, they picked up the ancestral craftsmanship of farming, so they could quickly gain a foothold and gain a foothold. Farming can bring
The stable grain output can make people's population increase rapidly. Like other nomadic tribes, the grain output is extremely unstable because nomadic tribes are everywhere. Once there is no water source and grassland, or natural disasters are encountered, cattle and sheep
The tribe will be very weak and can only migrate again, which makes the Shang Dynasty unable to find the Ying tribe in many cases. Only at the tribute meeting every few years can the Ying tribe send envoys to explain the current tribe.
However, when the Shang Dynasty sent envoys there, the Ying tribe moved again and was no longer in place. However, the Zhou tribe guarded Zhou Yuan and later went to Qishan to build a city, which remained unchanged for hundreds of years. From this point
In the mind of the Shang King, Zhou tribe is definitely more stable and reliable than the Ying tribe."
Dou Peng suddenly said, "Is there another point, that is, the main task of the Zhou tribe to the Shang Dynasty sect, that is, to capture the Qiang people and the Guifang tribesmen, and to sacrifice as human animals, and to work harder on this point?
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The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "Yes, the Lord Dou Peng talked about the essence. Who will support and who will be used in the end, and it still depends on this point. Defending the border is only the second most important thing, because these vassal states cannot defeat them.
The barbarians and Shang Dynasty could also send kingly troops to fight. Even the powerful ghosts were defeated. It was even more difficult to fight some Qiang people, but this consumed a lot of national resources. In that era,
The Central Plains dispatched tens of thousands of troops to Longyou and the south of the Mo area to fight, and the cost is very high. The labor force will not be able to go on an expedition like today. There are granaries, military warehouses, and supplies, and food that have to be taken along the way.
The storage of vassal states along the way is not so easy, so, generally speaking, the Shang Dynasty still hopes that these vassal states can defeat the four barbarians themselves and not let the Shang Dynasty dispatch a large army."
"However, even these Shang lords, such as the Zhou tribe and the Ying tribe, had a stronger combat power than the scattered Qiang Di tribes. It would be no big problem to fight them, but, like the Ying tribe, they are themselves
It was also mixed with the Qiang Di tribe, and the relationship was complicated and he might not be willing to kill the Qiang people. On the contrary, the Zhou tribe, because the Di people bullied the Qiang people for thousands of years, had too many blood hatreds, and they hugged the Shang Dynasty behind them.
After this thigh, I finally have a chance to take revenge." (This chapter ends)