Chapter 5601 Zhou Kingdom takes over the Western Front
Speaking of this, the ancestor calmed down for a moment and continued to speak: "After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the number of evil gods increased sharply, and as the tribes and states were destroyed, the righteous immortals and guardian gods were eliminated.
There were fewer and fewer people, and no one wanted to be the next one. So the powerful princes from all directions, such as Zhou tribe, Huaiyi, and Ba, almost all became unscrupulous. Most of the Shang kings after Wu Ding were incompetent.
, Without the ability of my father and grandparents to fight on the battlefield and defending the country, they were greedy for pleasure and comfort. As well as the entire Shang Dynasty nobles, they gradually fell into degeneration and corrupted, gradually losing their courage and enterprising spirit, and even joining the army.
Fighting, which was previously considered glorious, is unwilling to do it."
"The Shang Dynasty's territory was in the Central Plains and did not expand outward. But those who guarded the borders in all directions were foreigners from other races who were named princes by them, such as the Zhou tribe. Anyway, they would provide human sacrifices.
A tribe of princes could not defeat other hostile barbarians, so he asked the surrounding princes and states to help. In this way, there was no large alliance of foreign barbarians, just like the last time the ghost invasion, a powerful barbarian leader integrated dozens of them.
Even hundreds of barbarian tribes attacked the vassal states of the Shang Dynasty, and the border was generally peaceful."
"The four flattenings actually seem good, but it is actually a very dangerous thing. If there is no external troubles in the country, there will be internal troubles. The upper class of the Shang Dynasty began to fight for power and profit, and once again fought for the throne. The kings who ascended the throne were also overwhelmed and wanted more and more.
The more greedy and cruel the entire Shang Dynasty, from kings to nobles to civilians, rushed to sacrifice, and the demand for human lives became higher and higher. With the ghost-exorcist town taught by the submission guardians of the Guifang tribe
After the method of soul, the Shang Dynasty no longer moved the capital and was always in Chaoge. The number and scale of human sacrifices were far higher than the ancestors of the previous generations. From Yi Yin to Fu Shuo, several generations of wise men
The advice of large-scale human sacrifice that Xiang wanted to avoid was denied by the gods and gods of the Ghost Sect, and they regarded the victory of the Battle of Huozhou Canyon as ancestors.
Blessing, there are also large-scale sacrifices for people to sacrifice to their ancestors for the reasons of pleasing their ancestors.”
Heibo sighed: "From the founding of the Shang Dynasty to Wu Ding, I have always wanted to find a balance between large-scale human sacrifices and the benevolence and righteousness of the Zhou Li Confucianism. I killed too many people, after all, there are Gan Tianhe, and the same kind of people are killed.
Smart people will understand this principle when they violate the law of heaven. Yi Yin and Fu said that they were both from other tribes, and they were probably from the righteous immortal cultivation sect. They joined Shang as prime minister. They may also advise the Shang king not to be too cruel and to suffer the consequences of life.
It's a pity that after Wu Ding, no Shang king believed in this way, because in their opinion, even the powerful ghost party was defeated. This was the power of the ancestors and gods, and we must pay good sacrifices to repay our ancestors.
, How can we reduce the scale?”
The cloak curled his lips and said, "It is no problem to worship ancestors, and people sacrifice to sacrifice to others. The problem is that they have been worshipped too much. The ancestor said it just now. In fact, there are too many gods, and the ancestors can't send anything.
In use, in the Battle of Huozhou Canyon, most gods can only let thousands of ghosts scream together, which is just scaring people. They can't help at all. On the contrary, ancestors like Wang Hai are really helpful, and more
Needless to say, it's time to sacrifice to the gods who have strong magic power and can really help their descendants. Otherwise, there will be more and more ancestors, and I can't bear it. Today I understand why the big merchants
The scale of sacrifices and sacrifices for people will be so large."
The ancestor sighed: "Yes, I also became a god after ascending to become a god, and my horizons became broader, and I understood this truth. All things in the world have their own spiritual energy. Life is only tens of years, and cultivating immortality and becoming a god is the so-called immortality.
Immortality is just a matter of mortals. If there is no spiritual power and energy provided by the world, it will sooner or later dissipate. However, in this way, if more and more ancestors and gods are, but not less, then
It will bring more and more burdens to the descendants of the world. To put it bluntly, it is to steal the population of other tribes and directly sacrifice the resources provided by these people to their patron saints of their tribes.
The ancestors of Shang, in this way, the more they killed outside, they would destroy the patron saints of these tribes, and robbed the positions of other gods. How could this prevent the gods of each tribe from being forced to unite.
Get up and fight the decisive battle with the Da Shang?"
Heibo suddenly realized, "It turns out that this is the reason for the Battle of the Gods. In the final analysis, it is the righteous gods who do not want to be destroyed because of their tribesmen, united with the Zhou tribe as the core, and even
There was also some linkage with the Dongyi tribe. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Shang army going out to fight, I conquered Chaoge in one fell swoop. But I don’t understand one thing. At that time, King Zhou of Shang was so confident. The army went out and the Zhou tribe watched the tiger.
Dandan land is right next to him, and he is not afraid of their sneak attack?"
The ancestor curled his lips and said, "There is a reason for King Zhou's pride, but let's talk about this later. Now, the Zhou tribe has only moved to Zhouyuan for more than a hundred years after Wu Ding, and gradually grows and grows.
A small tribe in the west was raised. However, they relied on farming skills and wars to call the many Shang lords in the west to help, and gradually became stronger from weak and powerful for hundreds of years.
While providing human sacrifices and sacrifices, the King of Shang was also expanding his strength and territory. By the time of Zhou Hou Ji Li, the Ying tribe was still just a large tribe with about ten thousand people, but the Zhou tribe had already been promoted to the Marquis.
It can be called Zhou State, with 200 chariots and 20,000 soldiers and a national population of more than 100,000. It can be said that it dominates the western frontier."
"Its direct proof of dominance of the western border was that during the Jili period, the Zhou army had largely united more than ten square countries in the west to attack the coalition forces of the Guifang tribe and the Qiang tribe, just the captured Guifang tribe
There were twenty chiefs, and more than three thousand prisoners of the tribe, and these were sent to the Shang king as prisoners. They only left more prisoners of war slaves."
Dou Peng laughed and said, "It seems that the beating that Zhou State has been in vain for thousands of years. After learning the advanced tactics of the Guifang and having population and foreign aid, he has returned them all in the same way. Those bullies back then,
The Qiang tribes that had massacred Zhou State were afraid that there would be no good ending. They should have been eliminated under the banner of not submitting to the Shang Dynasty and needing to be wiped out or captured prisoners and offered merchants. Otherwise, how could the Zhou State have occupied this way.