There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5618 Shang Army's Eastern Expedition to Seize Copper
Chapter 5618 Shang Army's Eastern Expedition to Seize Copper
Dou Peng sighed, and his tone revealed unwillingness and helplessness: "When a dynasty was first established, the founding king and minister needed to sacrifice their ego and broaden their ethnic groups. Zhou Bojili did this, for the sake of Zhou's country.
For their development and growth, living space must be fought and expanded everywhere. This expansion and development will inevitably attract the attention and suspicion of the Shang king, and it is impossible to rely on a few words or to offer prisoners and pay tribute.
To dispel the suspicion of the Shang King, only by taking the initiative to sacrifice one's life for death, while allowing the Zhou Kingdom to continue to act respectfully and continue to act respectfully, can we hide it from the Shang King's eyes."
"This is the real sacrifice. In the eyes of King Shang and Emperor Xie Tian, Ji Li dedicated his soul to Emperor Xie Tian. For the State of Zhou, he sacrificed his leader but saved the country and obtained it.
The temporary trust of the Shang Dynasty allowed them to openly conquer the barbarians around them. As long as they offered enough people to sacrifice, the Shang Dynasty would be satisfied, because in the eyes of the Shang King and the Evil Emperor, these wars in the Zhou Kingdom were nothing more than
When they attacked their tribe, the more they fought and the more they fought, the more they would become, the more they would become enemies with the Qiang and Di people around them, but the Shang army ended up being idle and had no need to work hard to go on a thousand miles of expeditions.”
Heibo said coldly: "The Shang Dynasty was too wrong in this regard. The benevolence and righteousness of Zhou State was also developed during this period. In fact, those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish, and those who go against me will perish, to summon the side and others.
As an example, those who take the initiative to surrender should be protected. Even if they are fighting for Ji Li's life, they must not be given to the Shang Dynasty again as a sacrifice. This practice is also related to the Zhaofang clan.
Other Western Qiang people in the West were grateful to Zhou State and trampled on their hearts. The patriarch of Zhao Fang later recognized Ji Zhou as his adopted father and himself as his adopted son. The Zhao Fang clan became the core tribe of Zhou State.
1. When King Wu defeated Zhou in later generations, Duke Zhao also played an important role as the adopted son of King Wen of Zhou."
Dou Peng laughed and said, "So later, the Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed this Zhaogong to Youzhou and became the origin of Yan State. It can be seen that this righteous brother did not regard him as his real person. After all, he was blood thicker than water, and this was also
I won’t say anything later, but after Ji Li’s death, Zhou Bo Ji Chang ascended the throne, which was also the later King Wen of Zhou, and the so-called three-part division of the world was also realized in the hands of Ji Chang. I have to say that Zhou Guo
Since the reign of Emperor Tai of Zhou, the King of the King of the King of Zhou, he has been a wise ruler of the king for several consecutive generations. It is also considered a misfortune of the Great Shang Dynasty when encountering such a Zhou Kingdom."
The ancestor said in a deep voice: "These may be the will of heaven in the dark. After Ji Li sacrificed, the Evil Heaven Emperor let the Zhou Kingdom go for some reason. He probably thought that the Zhou Kingdom was in the company's leader.
He could swallow his anger even when sacrificed, which shows that he was really afraid of the Shang Dynasty and was not worth worrying about for a while. The matters in Guanzhong in the West were left to the Zhou Kingdom to fight against the Quanrong and the Western Qiang tribes. He believed that as long as the Zhou Dynasty was every year
If you need to make a large number of people, you have to go to the Quanrong and the Western Qiang tribes to fight to the death. Not to mention the victory or loss, this blood feud has been formed for generations and cannot be resolved. If the Zhou Kingdom continues to kill, it will not be able to unite and unify.
The west posed a threat to the Shang Dynasty, so the Evil Emperor and the Shang kings he controlled turned their targets again in the direction of Huaiyi.”
Heibo frowned: "Didn't the wars of several generations of Shang kings to attack Huaiyi were not going well? Why are you going to attack Huaiyi again now? Why didn't you expand in Bingzhou after several successful military strikes?
Build the city into central Jin, where is the land in northern Jin?"
The ancestor sighed: "Because the Jinzhong area had not been fully developed at that time. Unlike later generations where there were big cities like Jinyang, there were mostly grasslands in terms of landforms, and not thousands of hectares of fertile land like later generations. At this time, the Shang Dynasty,
Expanding to Jinzhong and building a city requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and the results will only appear slowly after many years. Moreover, they also have to face the transformation of the local nomadic Rongdi into farming farmers. This is not a matter of
The merit of the day.”
"Even if everything goes well, the reward that the Jinzhong area can bring back to the Shang Dynasty was at most only the grain output and population. The top priority facing the Shang Dynasty at this time was military technology and weapon level, which could no longer be completely unsatisfied.
The reason why the Shang army was dispatched less and less is to put it bluntly because the Qiang and Di people absorbed the military technology of the Guifang, such as cavalry and chariots, were crucial military forces.
Technically, there are no fewer than the merchants, and it is even slightly higher. This can be seen in the Zhou Dynasty's conquest of the Rong in Bingzhou, including the previous battle to defeat the Quanrong. Perhaps the Shang Dynasty was not only the power of ghosts and gods at this time.
In addition to ancestor magic, relying solely on human military, it is no longer possible to suppress the great princes like Zhou State."
Dou Chou frowned and said, "The nomadic tribe of the grassland, war horses, cattle and sheep, and big carts are the things that are necessary for their survival. This is different from the farming nation. It is fair to God. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The grassland tribe has its horses.
While we are with cattle and sheep, we also have unstable food sources and have no fixed place to live, so the population cannot be too large. Zhou State was also very weak during the nomadic tribe period, and it was constantly attacked until Zhou Yuan gained a foothold.
It was considered a great development, and it also relied on stable food. With more population, the Shang Dynasty wanted to compete with these princes in all directions, and could not rely solely on military technology, because the Shang Dynasty lived in the Central Plains after all, and it was not easy to carry out large-scale development here.
But the population of the Shang Dynasty was ten times that of these nomadic princes on the border could completely crush them by number. This idea cannot be misunderstood."
The ancestor nodded and said, "The Shang Dynasty's idea was not really a big mistake. As the Venerable Dou Peng said, the biggest advantage of the farming dynasty is the population. The Shang Dynasty was almost the same as the whole nation was a soldier, and the scholars were the people.
Everyone needs this model of warfare, so for the Shang army, it may not be possible that everyone can ride a horse or fight on a chariot, but it can still be possible that everyone can wear armor, and the weapons they hold are not sharp.
The branches are bronze weapons made of, at least the front ends of the spear, halberd, and spear must be made of bronze. This requires the Shang Dynasty to have a large amount of copper ore available, which can smel out enough weapons to arm tens of thousands of Shang troops.
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"After Wu Ding Dynasty, after Fu Hao's death, the alliance between the Shang Dynasty and the Huaiyi was broken again. For more than a hundred years, almost no tribes and countries in the Huaiyi area came to pay tribute, and the Shang Dynasty relied on it.
The subsequent copper ore was cut off from supply. After defeating the Rongdi of Bingzhou, the Zhou Kingdom was temporarily guarded by the West, providing human, horses, leather and other tributes, the Shang Dynasty focused on the east, war
The fundamental purpose is still to copper ore.” (This chapter ends)