There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5658: A detailed study on the cause of the fall of the Shang Dynasty (I)
Chapter 5658: A detailed study on the cause of the fall of the Shang Dynasty (I)
Heibo sighed: "King Zhou died like a great king in the end, without leaving any chance to humiliate himself. He was betrayed by his nobles of the same clan. It can be said that he was betrayal of his relatives. Even his biological sons and uncles betrayed him because he abandoned the traditions of the Shang Dynasty and gave up the large-scale use of the enemy to capture and worship ancestors with the enemy, cut off the life of the Zhenren nobles in the country, and then reused the newly surrendered Dongyi nobles. If there were no strong enemies like the Western Zhou Dynasty that the Shang Dynasty had not encountered in hundreds of years, he might have been able to continue the reform. However, if the inner ghosts colluded with foreign enemies and attacked together, King Zhou was still defeated. At the end of his juncture, he still believed that these Shang Dynasty nobles would at least help him protect the country and fight against the enemy for the sake of the ancestors."
Dou Peng said calmly: "I think King Zhou's failure is reasonable. Just like the failure of Emperor Evil Heaven, he estimated himself too high and too low, and the enemy's ability. King Zhou could not imagine that Zhou could unite so many princes to rebel, nor could he imagine that the nobles of his country would betray him. He would rather die in the Shang Dynasty than help him resist Zhou as long as he retained his fiefdom and title. This was the path he chose, no one else would blame him."
Hei Pao said dissatisfiedly: "What does this mean? So many princes stand on the side of Zhou. They have been constantly clashing and fighting with various princes for the sake of human and livestock for hundreds of years. They have captured their tribes and people like animals, and then come back to sacrifice their ancestors. In the end, more and more ancestors and gods have become more and more people and animals. The blood feud is getting deeper and deeper. Not only can the territory be expanded, but it has made the whole world enemy. King Zhou wants to change all this, reduce or almost prohibit large-scale and frequent human sacrifices in the country, improve relations with the surrounding four barbarians, especially the Dongyi tribe, so that they can become part of the people of the Shang Dynasty. After solving their worries, they will deal with the great enemy of the West, Zhou, which is different from the Shang king Wu Ding first reconciled and married Huaiyi, and then used Huaiyi troops to deal with the powerful ghost side together?"
The Dou Peng curled his lips and said, "The Guifang is not as powerful as the Zhou Kingdom. Because Guifang is more cruel than the Shang Dynasty, there are not many princes. Except for the Beidi and Xiqiang princes who were forcibly conquered by their force, there are not many princes standing on the side of Guifang. However, Zhou Kingdom is different. Zhou Kingdom is not an alien race, nor is it the barbaric ghost party who slaughtered the world, conquered all countries, and used all the people of the enemy as slaves. Zhou Kingdom is under the banner of benevolence and righteousness, and is different from the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty likes large-scale human sacrifices, so they are under the banner of obeying the heaven and loving the people. The Shang Dynasty regularly captures human lives from the various vassal states and collects tributes. Zhou Kingdom protects and rescues the princes who were forced to destroy the country and die in the hands of the Shang Dynasty, such as Zhao Fang, who helps people to continue their country's destiny, protect their tribes, and even promises to avenge the tribes who died at the hands of the Shang Dynasty in the future."
"In the end, Zhou State successfully described the Shang Dynasty as the source of all evil that would do all evil and cause trouble in the world. It was like a ferocious beast, which constantly devoured the lives of the world. It was the evil world composed of thousands of human-eating beasts. It was a devil in human skin. The Zhou State launched a war, not because of the superiors, and used his ministers to deceive the king, but because of the heavens, he practiced the way for the demons and eliminated demons. It was also to avenge the two ancestors of Zhou who died innocently at the hands of the Shang Dynasty, and even his soul was swallowed by the Evil Heaven Emperor."
"These descriptions have deeply affected the hearts of all the princes. Which of the eight hundred princes in the world has not been bullied by the Shang Dynasty within hundreds of years? Which country has few ancestors and nobles have been sacrificed by the Shang Dynasty as human sacrifices? Almost all of them have deep hatred with the Shang Dynasty. The reason why they have always surrendered on the surface is because the Shang Dynasty has strong military strength. These princes of these countries cannot resist. If they don't want to kill them, they can only continue to pay tribute. But once they do, they can only continue to surrender.
It is believed that the power of the Shang Dynasty declined and there is an opportunity to take revenge. There is a force they trusted to take the lead in organizing everyone to resist together, which will be like that. The King of Zhou could gather 800 princes to fight against Shang together. The princes of the Fang Kingdom standing on the Shang Dynasty were less than half of the Zhou Kingdom. Even the royal nobles of their own country, and even the princes of King Zhou, finally chose to stay away from King Zhou. These were the debts owed by the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty, and finally let King Zhou return them alone."
Hei Rou gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "I have always believed that the Zhou Dynasty Shang Dynasty was the destiny of heaven and the result of the cycle of heaven's way. Cheng Tang's success in attacking Xia Jie was because Cheng Tang was the will of the people at that time, and led the princes of the world to fight against the tyrannical and greedy Xia Jie, so that the people of all countries in the world could live a better life than before. In his time, there were not so many people sacrifices, and there were not so many cruel wars and conflicts launched to capture human lives. It was his descendants who had a desperate desire, one step
He placed the existence of the Shang Dynasty and his own rule on the magic power of gods and ghosts, which made them increasingly use human sacrifices to please evil gods and ancestors. King Zhou saw that this was not a solution, and wanted to make some changes and restore the path of the early Shang Dynasty, and let humans themselves, rather than strange powers and chaotic gods, decide the fate of the people in the world. This is true, the wrong thing is the old nobles who colluded with the evil gods and stopped these reforms for their own selfish interests, and the traitors of the Shang Dynasty."
Dou Peng laughed: "King Zhou was destined to fail in doing these things, because his biggest problem was his throne and the legitimacy of his rule came entirely from his ancestors. All the terrifying and terrifying human sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty were for offering to support the gods and continued to bless the ancestors of all generations who had become gods. The evil gods were ancestors, and human sacrifices were to keep them alive with the essence and spiritual energy in the soul. Can people watch their parents die? Wouldn't they hunt and worship their parents to survive? In the eyes of the Shang Dynasty, catching enemies and worshiping ancestors in blood was the same as hunting and fishing for their parents' survival. Those who were enemies of the Shang Dynasty and killed merchants were the result of sacrifice to their ancestors."
Black Rooster shook his head: "The result of this is to make all the princes in the world be mortal enemies of the Shang Dynasty. Can't livestock, Tao Yong and other things be used to replace living people for sacrifices? In order to continue to exist, to turn living people into dead people and turn more living people into enemies. Is this really worth it? " (End of this chapter)