Chapter 5605 Too many mediocre gods can harm the world
Hei Rou nodded and said, "It is indeed these two modes, the type of feudalism or annexation, or the type of great unification. The Zhou emperor was the type of feudalism, and Qin was the beginning of the great unification."
Dou Peng shook his head: "No, Qin State is just a great unification of the whole world. Before Qin State unified the world, the eight hundred princes of the Zhou Dynasty had already merged with each other, so that in the end, only the seven heroes of the Warring States Period and the others were left.
Some slightly larger vassal states, they finally survived after annexing many other small vassal states, such as big fish eating small fish. If we start from the Zhou Dynasty and enter the era of farming as the main source, then it is indeed
There are obvious differences from the Xia, Shang and even earlier Tang and Yu eras. The most important difference is that this kind of merger and expansion is increasing, and nomadic tribes are indeed mainly robbery and looting.
, the demand and desire for land are not so strong."
The ancestor smiled and said, "Because farming requires long-term and stable land, while nomads live by water and grass, only population, cattle and sheep, so I said that farming is more expanding and aggressive.
It is based on the instinct of its production method, and it is impossible to have the situation in which the Black Robe Venerable ideals are not invading each other, and they are in the local area."
Black Robe frowned: "Wouldn't it be impossible to demarcate the boundaries of the land and make an agreement to help each other in the deserted years and form a good alliance forever? If the two sides have equal strength, they may not have conflicts easily."
The ancestor said seriously: "The power cannot always be equal, there will always be times when there is no balance. Just like the so-called Qin and Jin, it eventually turned into shameful betrayal and sneak attack. As we have said before, farming needs expansion, and
More population and land are determined by their nature. There is no day or day, and there is no two masters in the country. If you want to have a parallel and equal regime that exists at the same time, it is only temporary at most, just like the Zhou Dynasty who enfeoffs the world.
It means that the division lasted for eight hundred years, and the later Han Dynasty was destroyed, and the Three Kingdoms were in power. After a hundred years, the three parts were still returned to Jin. This shows that although the world will be divided for a long time, it will eventually be merged into one. This is also when our Heavenly Dao Alliance was in Qin.
The reason why Shang Yang came to educate the people of the world."
Heibo sighed: "You have said before that Shang Yang is a member of our Heavenly Dao Alliance, but I never understand what the meaning of his doing so is. It is not that after the demise of the Zhou Dynasty, we will go underground to cultivate immortals and not to follow the world.
Is it true?"
The ancestor sneered: "No matter how you don't ask about the world, it is always necessary to sacrifice people to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors in the sky to obtain the reward of magic power. Moreover, a painful lesson in the demise of the Shang Dynasty is this kind of feudal division.
The system made a large number of tribes based on the righteous path of cultivation and the natural guardian of mountains and rivers as their totems become princes of the Shang Dynasty. These princes had too much autonomy, so that the Shang Dynasty could not directly manage the people of these tribes. Is it a rebellion?
Loyalty is only in the thought of these princes. In the past, Da Shang had kindness to the Zhou tribe, saving them from the state of almost extermination, and made them become princes guarding the western frontier, but this still could not be stopped.
The betrayal of the Zhou Dynasty, including the Huaiyi tribe of Fuhao, Wu Ding gave them such high courtesy, took the initiative to truce with them, and made Fuhao his first queen, and did not stop Huaiyi from betraying again afterwards."
"So, after the demise of Shang and Zhou, the predecessors of our Heavenly Dao Alliance also understood and placed their hopes on the tribes of foreign surnames and foreign races, hoping to break up the territory and share the land and share the
In the end, all the world was replaced by them and became the emperor of the new dynasty. Only by unifying the world, there were no other tribes, and all the different places were divided into different prefectures and counties, and the emperor sent officials to govern them. Only in this way can the world be stable and stable.
Only by becoming a country with the same culture and race can there be more people and do bigger things. Even if you sacrifice to your ancestors and gods, there will be enough sacrifices."
Black Rou suddenly spoke, "If the world is unified and there is no war, then we cannot hunt the Qiang people as human animals as before, as sacrifices, how can we sacrifice them to our ancestors?"
The ancestor smiled and waved his hand: "There is no foreign war, but there are also internal slaves. Some are illegal, some are in chaos, some are in trouble, some are in bankruptcy, some are unable to pay taxes, and these people are not used as sacrifices.
Just get married? There is no need to fight and kill anymore. Just like after the Guifang tribe conquered India, people were divided into four levels, plus an untouchable class, the fourth class and the untouchable class, can be at will
If you kill the sacrifice, you don’t have to worry about not having enough sacrifices. One advantage of the era of slavery is that you can kill slaves at will, without any reason or crime. Even when you were in the Zhou Dynasty,
The same is true for slaves.”
The black robe curled her lips: "But the Zhou Dynasty was benevolent and righteous, and she could not kill slaves at will. This is the difference between them and Da Shang. Even if they were buried with her, the number of people sacrifices used was much less than that of Da Shang."
The ancestor said calmly: "Although there are a lot less, there are still people offering sacrifices to others, right? This shows that although the Zhou Dynasty usurped Shang, it also absorbed and accepted the protection of many Shang Dynasty and other tribes that believed in evil gods.
Gods should sacrifice to them with human sacrifices, and the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty also needed sacrifices. After the death of the Zhou Dynasty kings, in order to make their mortal bodies become immortals and become gods, they would also have to be buried with dozens or hundreds of them.
The slaves entered the tomb and were buried with them. On the one hand, they needed to have slaves to serve the king after death, and on the other hand, they needed to sacrifice these people, and with their spiritual essence, they helped the dead King Zhou become a god and ascend to the sky.
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Dou Peng sneered: "It seems that the kindness and righteousness of Zhou State, Zhou Li and other things are also deceptive things. The things they do are no different from those of Da Shang, but the scale is not as large as that of Da Shang. Is it because of Lao Zu?
They don't need to worship so many ancestors and gods. As you said, the emperor only set up seven temples and only worshiped ancestors of seven generations. Instead, like the Da Shang Dynasty, it may be necessary to worship dozens, hundreds of ancestors, and ancestors, so use
Can't so many slaves come to be buried with you?"
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, this is exactly the key point I emphasized before. The failure of the Shang Dynasty was that there were too many ancestors and gods to worship, and the more they went to, the more they became, the vast majority of Shang kings became after death.
The gods who became have no magic power to help their descendants, but they will cause various causes. This would make them unable to ascend to heaven or become gods. The Zhou people learned this lesson and only worshiped seven generations of ancestors, limiting the sacrifices.
Scale, so there is no need to sacrifice a large number of people. Otherwise, if all living people go to sacrifice to the god of death, then who will work in the world and who will produce it?" (End of this chapter)