Chapter 5241: Sacrifice and Rong, a major national event
Liu Yu shook his head and said: "Actually, everything in the world is not static. We may need to change our ideas. We always talk about ancient times and sages. In fact, the lives of people in ancient times, look at the nomadic barbarians on the grasslands.
You know, you can’t even eat, and you have days where you can’t get enough to eat, and if you say you can have enough food and clothing, it’s like seeing a ghost.”
Liu Jingxuan nodded: "You told me this, and Fatty also said it, saying that these are just made up by Confucian scholars to scare people. No one can go back to ancient times anyway, so let's take care of these ancient kings and saints.
Bragging like a god can also highlight the shortcomings of the current rulers and prevent them from going too far."
Liu Yu said seriously: "There is a certain rationality in using the past to suppress the present. Just like what you said, you should talk about the benefits of the ancients to contrast the shortcomings of today's people, especially in terms of virtue, so as to prevent the current monarchs from getting carried away.
, the common people, to put it bluntly, it is because the emperor and the noble families have so much power that they can decide the life and death of the people in the world, so they have to be suppressed by the ancient saints and kings."
"If the ancient sages and kings cannot suppress or restrain today's tyrants, then we should use the disgraced ancient tyrants Jie and Zhou as a warning to tell them what will happen if they become enemies of the people of the world. This is called giving both kindness and power.
Whether you want to become an ancient sage or a king, or whether you want to end up like Jie and Zhou, it’s up to you."
Liu Jingxuan laughed and said: "Actually, this is not bad. Although Confucianism is often mystical, it still has its own uniqueness in restraining the king's behavior. After all, we can't just be like you and just don't want the king. Yes.
Okay, what does what you are talking about have to do with the military households and the military systems we just discussed?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "I am discussing with you the origin of the systems of military households and soldiers. In ancient times, they were actually the same as the grassland tribes today. People did not know the grains, lived in pursuit of water and grass, and were constantly nomadic.
In the early days of hunting, due to the sparse population, there were not many people in the world. Instead, there were more ferocious beasts and various monsters and ghosts. In order to survive, the ancestors had to live in groups. After all, more people are more powerful than a single person.
We are no match for the tigers, wolves and demons, but if we unite together, with the strength of hundreds or thousands of people, we can defeat the tigers and wolves and survive. This is the origin of the earliest tribes."
Liu Jingxuan nodded: "Yes, just look at the situation on the grassland. A single tent cannot survive. Either it will be killed by other tribes, it will be eaten by tigers and wolves, or it will have no food or water."
We can only starve to death. Even monkeys know that they have to live in groups and choose the strongest one to be the monkey king. This is probably how the ancients came all the way."
Liu Yu sighed: "So after the tribe was formed, every tribesman in the tribe had to shoulder its own responsibilities. Men hunted and women weaver. When they went out to hunt or fight with other tribes, they mainly relied on strong men.
It is a woman’s bounden duty to give birth to children, continue the tribe, and create new tribesmen. Therefore, as the old saying goes, the most important thing for the country is sacrifice and military affairs. This is actually the truth. The word "sacrifice" not only refers to sacrifices to ancestors, but also includes descendants.
Therefore, it is said that men are in charge of military affairs and women are in charge of sacrifices. These are the traditions passed down by our ancestors since ancient times."
Liu Jingxuan laughed and said: "Just look at Murong Lan's tribe and you will know that this is the case. Women's power and status are actually very high. However, we Central Plains Chinese, or Han people, seem to have restricted and restricted women's power starting from Confucianism.
, this filial piety and blood inheritance are basically the affairs of sons and have nothing to do with daughters. It may be what you said before. From the time when the patriarchal world replaced the matrilineal world, Rong became more important than sacrifice, because in daily production and farming,
Of course, this also includes wars and conflicts, where strong men are more important."
Liu Yu continued: "So this kind of tribe has gradually clarified the division of labor since the matrilineal world. Even if you see the tribes on the grasslands today, the vendettas and conflicts between them, for the hostile tribes with blood feuds, it is also
Kill all the men of the other tribe, and rob the women of this tribe, and let these captive women give birth to children of the men of their own tribe. We have also seen this today, when Tuoba Si destroyed Liu Weichen's Tiefu tribe
This was the case at that time. More than 5,000 tribal men, old and young, were all thrown into the Yellow River, while the women were distributed among the troops. In our opinion, this is an extremely cruel and barbaric behavior, but in the tribal era, it was commonplace.
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Liu Jingxuan sighed: "When I first heard about this, even I was scared. I thought that this Tuoba Si is still your Agan, that is, a brother. How could you become sworn sworn friends with such a person? He is simply not a human being.
It's a beast."
Liu Yu curled his lips: "When I became sworn sworn friends with him, he was not like this. I don't know how he became so crazy later. Not only did he massacre the Tiefu tribe like this, but also our Han Qinghe County and Hebei
Many prefectures and counties in the country massacred cities and villages for him. I had to personally seek revenge for this blood feud, but in the end, he was actually killed by his own son and He Lanmin. Hmm, it can be regarded as evil retribution."
At this point, Liu Yu's tone changed: "Let's get back to the topic. Once the division of labor between the tribe's sacrificial and military forces was established, everyone participated. At that time, people did not know how to distinguish grains and did not know how to farm. To survive, they had to
We had to fight, either with beasts or with humans. Gradually, there were more and more people between heaven and earth. The era of beasts and ghosts and gods slowly passed. After the demise of the Shang Dynasty, and the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, they entered the realm of mortals.
In that era, many tribes existed to engage in military conflicts with other tribes. Almost all adult men in the tribe had to shoulder the responsibility of fighting. This is the origin of the earliest warriors, or the Chinese people.
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Liu Jingxuan laughed: "Yes, these are the earliest Chinese people, the origin of the gentry clan. Just like our Huaibei village, the men are not involved in production, but only responsible for fighting. However, later these tribes began to farm and know the grains. Slowly
Then they settled down, and the tribe no longer wandered, but became a farming country. This is what you told me, the transformation from tribe to city."
Liu Yu nodded and said slowly: "Only the victorious tribes can settle and build cities in places with irrigation, water sources, and fertile land. For example, the Zhou tribe, they finally successfully settled in Guanzhong.
, established the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the men of the Zhou tribe became Chinese citizens and warriors!" (End of Chapter)