Heibo frowned: "But this defense in the north and the south have not been put into practice. After Wu Ding, several Shang kings still fought with the local Rongdi in the Bingzhou area for decades, while Huaiyi side
, there was no strong and large-scale expansion. As for Guanxi, the Zhou tribe became Xibo. No matter how you look at it, it was not like the Shang Dynasty before, and it was so angry that it swept away thousands of miles. As soon as the king's army came out, it swept everything.
It looks like it."
The ancestor said calmly: "The reason I used troops in Bingzhou first is that it is too close to the capital of the Shang Dynasty. Although the Guifang was defeated, the power of Shanrong and Beidi was still quite large, although none of them were
The unified leader, but no one can guarantee that one day a hero will appear on the grassland, who will unify the tribes of the grassland like the Ghost King, and contact the Rongdi of Bingzhou to attack the Shang Dynasty. After all, the Xiqiang tribes in Huaiyi and Guanzhong,
There are also Quanrong and Shangdu are thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. As long as the diaspora of Bingzhou fight to southern Jin, they can directly take Shangdu after crossing the Yellow River. This is a much greater threat."
Black Rou nodded: "One is a scabies, the other is a conviction. It is not an exaggeration to deal with the Shang Dynasty in this way. However, in this way, the Shang Dynasty temporarily gave up on the Huaiyi direction and Guanxi.
Control made the Huaiyi tribe here and the Zhou tribe in Guanzhong begin to grow. The Shang Dynasty wasted too much time in the Battle of Bingzhou, and the effect was not very good. In the final analysis, it was because of the lack of expansion of the merchants.
, the courage and determination to establish cities and implement farming will always lead to the inability to consolidate the results of victory after victory, and in the end, the repeated tug-of-war of me coming to the enemy and I going to the enemy is a pity."
The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "In the past, the Shang army could rely on the high-speed maneuver of the chariots to fight assaults. When the enemy was not in time to organize, they would defeat their tribes and capture a large number of tribe members back. This way, they would be scared without building cities.
Many barbarian tribes are far away, but after hundreds of years, these barbarians have mastered the methods to deal with the Shang Dynasty. If they can't defeat them, they will evacuate first and enter the mountain fortress in the mountains to resist. In such places, the merchant's chariots and
The war horses are not used, and they have to fight with people, which is often not worth the loss. The Shang Dynasty's human sacrifices were too tragic, and many foreign barbarians would rather commit suicide than be captured. This led to the war between the Shang Dynasty and the Bingzhou Zhurong, which has always been very unfair.
It was smooth, and it could even be said that the loss was not worth it. On the contrary, the time in Ji Li was surprisingly effective, which also made the Shang Dynasty fall into reflection later."
"Shang Wang Yi, the Shang King after Wen Ding, began to realize that too many gods and ancestors would occupy too many lives, which made the Shang Dynasty's foreign war capture people like hunting.
Lord, then came back to sacrifice his ancestors, which was too cruel and tyrannical. The domestic priest group, which mainly engaged in sacrifices, was also called the Zhenren group, because the sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty were for divination and to enjoy human sacrifices for the gods and ancestors in heaven.
Souls are for them to answer their descendants’ questions. Divination was called Zhen in the Shang Dynasty. This was recorded in the oracle bones engraved on oracle bones. Therefore, these priests, also called Zhenren Group, should be able to understand the middle.
Anything wrong?"
Dou Peng sneered: "Since ancient times to the present, this kind of monarch who has used gods and ancestors to suppress the living has never stopped. Not to mention after Zhou, after the Battle of the Conquest of Gods, ghosts and gods are not allowed to enter the world in principle.
Even so, those priests and witches who pretend to be a god and ask for the gods to be on the body, whether they are from the Central Plains or from the Four Barbarians, will have a great restriction and threat to the emperors and emperors on earth."
Black Rou sighed: "As far as I know, even in the land of India, the Guifang tribe after entering India and gaining rule, it was a system of four people. The conquered black-skinned natives became Shudra,
It is what we call slaves, who specialize in labor, and among the Guifang tribe, the priests are the first-class, called Brahmins, while the samurai and even kings are the second-class, called Kshatriya, and the ordinary tribes are called Vaishya.
After these ghosts established local rule and regimes, the Brahmins relied on the divine power to suppress Kshatriya, which eventually led to the division and melee of the city-states in India. There, they could not establish a unified empire like the Central Plains.
It is also because the Human Emperor was suppressed by the gods and his words were not kept in mind."
The ancestor nodded: "That's true, the aristocratic group of the Shang Dynasty came from the branch of the royal family of Shang kings in all dynasties, and the other was from this kind of Zhenren group. It was difficult for ordinary aristocratic people to become nobles.
Finally, as more and more ghosts and gods and ancestors were to be worshipped, this Zhenren Group became larger and larger. In the later period, there were even multiple members of the royal family, such as Wang Di and others, who became the leaders of the Zhenren Group.
Using the words of ghosts and gods to interfere in political affairs, or even designate a prince instead of a prince to succeed to the throne. This is also the reason why the Shang Dynasty has always been very chaotic in inheriting the throne, because these priests of the chaste can use their ancestors,
The endorsement of ghosts and gods is to make the inheritance of the throne follow oneself, rather than the will of the king. If the Shang king or the prime minister’s policy makes these chaste people unsatisfied, they can even abolish the king and dismiss the prime minister and directly change the ruler.”
Black Rooster sighed and murmured: "The weakness of any dynasty and the country usually starts from the inside. So, in the middle and late Shang Dynasty, these Zhenren Groups that dominated the sacrifices and divination of the country were the real country.
The rulers and kings could not reverse their will. I think the reason why Wu Ding forced the Huaiyi Group to rebel in the later period and caused the country's movement to decline was probably that the Zhenren Group controlled by the Evil Heaven Emperor and the Evil Heaven Emperor also had a very negative effect.
It works."
The ancestor said seriously: "Yes, after arriving in Wuding, many Zhenren Groups have become spokespersons for all kinds of ghosts and gods in the world. The ghosts and gods I said before are insufficient in magic power but will continue to cause trouble, which will make them Zhen.
People put forward various sacrificial requests, which forced the Shang Dynasty to provide more and more people and animals. After the ghost attack, it was becoming increasingly difficult to catch people and animals like before, and all the barbarians were also
He accumulated rich experience in dealing with the Shang Dynasty's hunting army, and his military level was also improved, which forced the Shang Dynasty to only use troops in one direction, while in other directions, he could only delegate power to appoint princes like Zhou State to carry out the
Manage.”
"After more than a hundred years of war, especially the war against Rong in Bingzhou, whether it was successful or not, at least from the result, Rongdi in Bingzhou either defeated or left, or surrendered to the Shang Dynasty again and paid tribute again
When King Yi of Shang, he was finally freed to launch a full-scale attack on the Huaiyi direction!" (This chapter ended)