Chapter 5475 Zhou dies and Qin rises to unification
Having said this, the ancestor paused and continued in a deep voice: "In the past eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty, the world's population has increased more than a hundred times, and the various nomadic tribes and barbarians who used to wander around Middle-earth have
, they were either expelled or left to assimilate and become farmers.
Gradually, the differences between the peoples of the Central Plains and the grasslands became more and more obvious. The formulation of Zhou Rites was the first complete separation of values between farming and nomadic life, and the human beings in the world were also divided into Zhuxia.
With Seyi. And this is also the result that our Tiandao Alliance wants."
The black-robed man sighed: "Actually, according to your statement, the dynasties of Middle-earth are based on farming, have a large population, and have an emperor who can nominally command the four directions. It is said to be more in line with our Tiandao Alliance and evil ways.
The appetite of the gods, and the righteous Taoist immortals still serve as the nomadic tribes
Protective gods, totems and other roles. In this way, although the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty and was the mortal enemy of our Tiandao Alliance, the eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty made the Central Plains gradually become agricultural, settled, and expelled
The various nomadic tribes and barbarian princes in the Central Plains should be beneficial to the evil gods."
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, in fact, during the Shang Dynasty, they were already establishing the Central Plains Dynasty in the Middle-earth world through farming and settlement, to expel and suppress the barbarians from all directions. For the Eastern Yi and Western Qiang, they established the Six Kingdoms
They have been waging wars for hundreds of years, and even in the last generation of King Zhou of Shang, they were fighting on a large scale against the Dongyi tribes, and achieved considerable victory."
Doupeng frowned: "What about the Guifang in the north? They are nomadic tribes from the grasslands, and they are also the enemies of the settled dynasties in the Central Plains. They have been invading the Central Plains continuously for thousands of years, and the Shang Dynasty followed them too.
They are fighting, and they want to invade the Central Plains. These are foreigners from the northwest, many of whom are white-skinned. The war they fought with the Shang Dynasty was the most intense."
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, these tribes come from the distant land in the river and the grasslands outside the territory. Their guardian gods are not the good and evil gods of Middle-earth, but foreign gods. They also have very powerful and evil spells."
, especially the ghost tribes they shelter, have very powerful war weapons, and chariots are provided by gods like them.
With the technology of their own people in the world, they relied on this to conquer many different countries and regions. Only in the world of Middle-earth did they finally fail under the full resistance of the gods of Middle-earth and the Shang Dynasty. It is precisely because of this
, chariots, and mechanism skills were learned for the first time by our Central Plains dynasty, and from then on chariots became the standard weapon in wars around the world."
The black robe smiled and said: "So, our war with foreign gods also depends on the gods. Then they don't have a battle between gods?"
The ancestor said calmly: "No, as far as I know, they are a tribe that manipulates the human world. The army conducts wars, and there is no direct confrontation between gods. King Shang sent Queen Fuhao and led the army across the country to fight with them.
After decades of hard fighting, they continued to learn and improve during the war. By the time of the final victory, the Shang Dynasty also completely mastered the technology of chariots, which allowed the Shang army to
In turn, it had a great military advantage over the Dongyi and Western Qiang tribes, which also made the Shang Dynasty too arrogant. From then on, major matters such as capturing prisoners of war for human sacrifice were left to the Zhou tribes and other Fangbo princes from all over the world.
This gradually made other princes stronger and stronger, and learned more and more military techniques, which in turn posed a huge threat to the Shang Dynasty."
Doupeng's brows furrowed: "Then why did the Shang Dynasty have been fighting wars themselves, but they still had to rely on others to carry out wars? It is said that they lived in the world, and although they were also in a state of nomadic farming, they still had the largest population and territory.
The largest country. After the Guifang were repelled, they had no strong enemies in the north. Why did they support other tribes and countries with hatred like the Zhou tribe in the west?"
The ancestor sighed: "Because the Shang Dynasty was getting bigger and bigger, and the population was getting larger and larger, the amount of magic power that the ancestors and gods needed to get was also getting bigger and bigger. In the past, dozens of people sacrificed and died.
, could no longer meet the needs of the Shang aristocrats, and once a person became powerful and wealthy, he would
However, they were greedy for life and afraid of death. The Shang king and queen may have dared to go to the battlefield because of their divine power, but ordinary nobles and people who did not have so many protections became more and more resistant to going into battle in person because they died in large numbers.
There is a demand for more sacrificial sacrifices. On the one hand, more and more troops can be dispatched.
The fewer the number, the more the Shang Dynasty can only rely on the princes from all directions to fight the war. Those princes that the Shang Dynasty considers to be obedient will fight first. Whoever is disobedient will be attacked first. In the end, the war waged by the Shang Dynasty against its own princes will even exceed
The number and scale of wars waged by the Shang Dynasty against other barbarian tribes was the most
Later, he forced the other princes and tribes in the world to rebel, and together with the Zhou tribe, they destroyed the Shang Dynasty. The reason why King Zhou wanted to suspend or reduce the scale of human sacrifice was actually because he realized that this could not be maintained for a long time. However, he
It was too radical and angered the Evil Emperor and the ancestors, but it was counterproductive."
The black robe said in a deep voice: "We know the truth about the demise of the Shang Dynasty, but in the later Zhou Dynasty, the world continued to annex and war, and finally the Qin Dynasty unified the world, and Qin Shihuang wanted to strengthen the central power, which was completely
The land abolished the previous princes and enfeoffed the powerful emperors of this system. What kind of compromise was made by the gods of good and evil?"
The ancestor said calmly: "There is no compromise. As I said, most of the righteous Taoist immortals are actually practicing in seclusion to restore their vitality, while the evil gods can only hide their whereabouts and rely on the wars during the Warring States Period.
Jingguan, and other secret sacrifices
rituals to maintain their own mana. Of course, the successor sect since the Shang Dynasty is our Tiandao League, but other evil gods also have their own organizations and sects to maintain their existence. It does not mean that the evil gods are the only one.
Faction."
"These factions have led to constant wars in the world for eight hundred years, with increasing intensity and scale. By the Warring States Period, the scale of wars could reach hundreds of thousands of people. A single battle could even kill hundreds of thousands of lives. This was far more than
Compared with the scale of wars before the Shang Dynasty, we, the Tiandao Alliance, are afraid that if this situation continues, the Taoist immortals will become aware of the existence of other organizations, and then take action against our evil gods and human agents again." (End of Chapter)