There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5619: The beginning of chaos and the end of the rebellion of Huaiyi
Chapter 5619: The beginning of chaos and the end of the rebellion of Huaiyi
Black Robe said thoughtfully: "Bronze was too important in ancient times. In daily life, bronze products were daily tools for nobles and middle and upper gentry, compared with the ceramic cooking utensils used by the lower gentry.
To be exquisite, strong and much more durable, it is also a symbol of identity and power. So the Zhou Li clearly records that the emperor, princes, and literati can use the number of bronze utensils with different status.
What's the difference."
The cloak followed and said in a deep voice: "Yes, and bronze utensils can be made of not only daily necessities, pots, pans, etc., or several incense burners, several sets of chimes and other musical instruments, ritual instruments, and more.
Used to make sharp and tough weapons, in that era, the technology of iron smelting was not mastered by the world, and bronze weapons became the main combat weapon at that time. In addition to the short-lived soldiers who were conducive to assassination, such as bronze swords and bronze swords, they were long and long.
On the wooden handle rod of the weapon, a sharp spear, spear, and axe can be used for formation battles, and the arrows of bows and arrows must be made of bronze, so that they can break the armor and kill people.
The arrow made of bones is far less lethal than those created by this kind of hardware. This principle is the same in the Shang Dynasty and in the present."
The ancestor nodded with satisfaction: "So, whether it was to maintain the daily lives of the nobles and scholars or to maintain the weapons of a huge army, it required a large amount of copper ore. In the Middle Earth, there was the most copper ore.
The place is in Huainan and Jiangzhou areas of Huaiyi. This is actually why the Shang Dynasty set its capital in Xiaodi when it destroyed Xia, and it is also because it is more convenient to obtain copper ore, but on the grassland
On the other hand, horses have everything, but they lack copper and iron ore, which makes their hardware products, especially the sharp weapons needed in the military, very rare."
Black Robe sneered: "The war horses and chariots are already invincible tools of war in this world. If these barbarians have a large number of hardware and weapons, then the Central Plains China will be gone. This can only be said, God
It is fair. I remember that the Yan Kingdom of Murong's family suddenly rose because of the emergence of a large number of iron ore in Goguryeo and Liaodong. This made the Murong Ministry, which originally lacked hardware products, put on armor for war horses.
Not to mention humans, their combat ability and level suddenly surpassed the Han army in the Central Plains."
Dou Peng sighed: "This is the misfortune of China in the Central Plains. The barbarians, especially the forces such as the Beidi and Xiqiang, which have a large number of horses and chariots. Once they have excellent hardware and weapons, it will be difficult for the Central Plains dynasty to resist, unless
It was ten times or a hundred times the population. The Shang Dynasty probably saw this and realized that over the past few hundred years, the Western Qiang and Beidi, who had obtained the Guifang war technology, had already caught up with the Shang Dynasty's war technology and wanted to suppress it.
They only rely on absolute numbers, which requires a larger army and more bronze weapons. They snatch enough copper ore from Huaiyi, or force Huaiyi to surrender again and take the initiative to hand over the copper ore.
Shi Resources joined the Shang Dynasty at the same time, just like Zhou State could envoy Zhao Fang to serve him. This is probably the result that the Evil Heaven Emperor and the Shang Kings wanted."
The black robe frowned: "But the Shang Dynasty had conquered Huaiyi before and married them. During the Fu Hao period, Huaiyi was used by the Shang Dynasty and participated in many wars. Why did it happen later?
What about rebellion? Why did Fu Shuo not persist in the correct policy of unity and tolerance of barbarians and the correct policy used by Shang Dynasty? Why could the Shang Dynasty tolerate the rise of the tribes next Zhou, but not the Huaiyi?"
The ancestor sighed and said, "This short-term alliance formed by marriage is unstable and unreliable. To put it bluntly, Huaiyi cannot benefit from war like the Shang Dynasty.
The elite warriors of their tribe, who worked for thousands of miles to go on an expedition, the female leader of the tribe married the Shang king as queen, and later died young. This was inseparable from the injuries suffered on the battlefield, but the reward was extremely rare.
The war between Xiang Shang Dynasty and Gui Fang was a major problem for the Shang Dynasty and avoided the danger of national destruction and genocide. But what are the benefits for Huaiyi? Even if Gui Fang destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it would be just a
Another northern dynasty is nothing bad. Over the past few hundred years, the Shang Dynasty has attacked Huaiyi countless times and plundered their tribes to sacrifice as human sacrifices. That may be more terrifying than Guifang.
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"The most important thing is Wu Ding's son, oh, the son of Wu Ding and Fu Hao. This son is called the little prince because Wu Ding, the Shang king, regarded Fu Hao as the first queen and made the little prince the prince, which is also the same
An important thing about the alliance policy with the Huaiyi tribe, but after Fu Hao's death, Wu Ding gathered aristocratic women from other tribes as queens, and the little prince was finally deposed and died young under thirty years old.
With his death, the last connection between the Shang Dynasty and Huaiyi was gone. The Huaiyi tribes lost their population in the war, but did not get much reward. They could not occupy the territory or get the population.
Even some of the horses and chariots of the Guifang were captured, but they were not suitable for the environment and soon they could not be used. In the end, Wu Ding deposed the prince, which made Huaiyi feel that this was a deception and insult to all the Dongyi tribes, so he rose up in groups.
Instead, he no longer paid tribute to the Shang Dynasty."
Dou Peng murmured, "I can't understand these things. Wu Ding is also a wise lord of a generation. How could he make such a mistake in this matter? Don't he know that this is forcing the rebellion of Huaiyi and breaking his trust in the world?
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The ancestor shook his head and said, "This is probably the influence of the Evil Heaven Emperor, and there is also the responsibility of Fu Shuo. First, in order to protect the Guifang tribe, the Evil Heaven Emperor did not kill all the people, Xiang Wuding suggested not to chase the Guifang tribe and let it go west.
Retreat, and those Beidi tribes who had followed Guifang in the war became trouble. They feared the revenge of the Shang Dynasty, and many of them fled far away to the grassland. In this way, it was impossible to pay tribute to the Shang Dynasty.
The tributes such as war horses, chariots, leather, cattle and sheep produced on the northern grasslands needed by the Shang Dynasty were also affected."
"War is for gaining profits. If you win, it is not as good as before. It is strategically defeated. Fu said that he was born in the Beidi tribe and sacrificed his eldest son in the war to be the chief minister of the Ghost King.
He also suggested to Wu Ding that in order to appease the Beidi tribe, he needed to marry a noble woman from the Beidi tribe as a concubine like he did when he married Fu Hao, and at the same time pardon those Beidi tribes who had followed the Guifang tribe to settle the northern border." (This chapter