Chapter 5546: Bartering with others is the first evil
The black robe gently shook his head: "To be honest, before my disciple officially joined the Tiandao Alliance and became an apostle, I didn't really believe in this theory of ghosts and gods. As a young man who has been reading poetry since childhood,
When I saw this, I was not only filled with admiration, but I even believed that this was a cover-up set by Yi Yin.
His deceptions deceived everyone's eyes, such as shooting an arrow through a water bag. But then I thought about it, with tens of thousands of eyes staring at it and a sea of people tens of miles around, how could these deceptions be used?
?Later I joined the Tiandao League and learned that there really are ghosts and gods in this world, so I stopped thinking like this."
The ancestor said calmly: "I can answer your question now. It was indeed raining heavily at that time, and Cheng Tang was saved from the fire. But the people who saved him were not the ancestors and ghosts of the Shang tribe. They were
If you want to eat your soul into soup, make
As a king, one person can defeat ten thousand people, but Yi Yin used the magic power of the righteous Taoist immortals to provide them with incense and let Xia Jie and Chunwei live.
Yu saved Chengtang."
The faces of the black robe and the cloak changed at the same time: "Is there such a thing? Won't the ancestors and gods of the Shang Dynasty become even more angry and cause more disasters?"
The ancestor shook his head: "That's not true, because this severe drought was not actually done by the ancestors of the Shang tribe, but by the Immortals of the Righteous Path, because Shang and Tang Dynasties killed many people in the war.
, and also wiped out many princes and kingdoms. Most of these princes were righteous Taoist immortals, and they suddenly lost their incense.
So they were very angry. Taking advantage of the evil gods of the Shang tribe who spent a lot of mana in the war to win the war, the righteous gods simply caused a drought for several years after the war, and there were floods and earthquakes in various places.
They wanted to force the merchants to sacrifice Chengtang himself to express their anger."
"But they didn't expect that Cheng Tang was actually willing to sacrifice himself for the people of the world to offer sacrifices on their behalf. After communicating with them, Yi Yin also promised that he would offer sacrifices to these righteous immortals every year in the form of ahimsa.
Enough incense and spiritual power also gave Xia Jie and his son a way out, thus calming the anger of these righteous immortals and acquiescing to the fait accompli that Shang Tang replaced Xia. From then on, the world officially entered the Shang Dynasty."
The black-robed chief sighed: "It turns out that the truth of history is like this. In this way, although the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty wiped out many tribes and offended many righteous Taoist immortals, they also brought the world from chaos to order. As for the righteous Taoist immortals,
It may not be unacceptable, but this is the reason why there was no all-out war between righteous and evil factions like the Battle of the Gods during the relationship between Xia and Shang."
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, although the Shang tribe replaced the Xia tribe and became the common master of the world, Yi Yin also promised the righteous gods that they would not form a powerful and unified empire like the human empire before the ancient times.
In the country, the Shang Dynasty will still retain the tribal princes and serve as the leader of the alliance. Moreover, it will supply all the tribes in the world in the form of commerce and trade, so that the number of people in the world will increase, and the China in the Central Plains will be further united.
Give birth to more new gods and immortals."
"This idea of being content with the situation and governing by doing nothing is actually in line with the interests of Taoism and the upright cultivators that were gradually formed at that time. As we have said before, a unified, centralized and powerful regime that forcibly rules the world, like Xia
People like Jie are evil gods.
What they like and what the righteous Taoist immortals cannot tolerate, in order to establish the power of king and hegemony, Xia Jie went to war everywhere and forcibly eliminated many princes. Instead, he seemed to be taking the road of unification and centralization. So in the end, both good and evil sides
After accepting this reality, peace will return to the world."
"It's just that after the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the internal nobles accepted the practices of their ancestors and still agreed that human sacrifice was the tradition of the dynasty. Moreover, after experiencing the forced extermination of Xia and the replacement of self-reliance, the Shang Dynasty also
Having tasted the benefits of military conquest, and at the same time seeing the lesson that the Xia Dynasty had to rely on the Nine Barbarians' divisions to fight wars due to the lack of central military strength, the country was eventually destroyed. Therefore, although the Shang Dynasty lived in heaven,
Although the Shang Dynasty had ancestral precepts from Chengtang to Yiyin, it could not arbitrarily wage war on the princes and destroy the country. It could not be as cruel as Xia Jie, even after Chengtang
His successor, King Shang, was imprisoned by Yi Yin because he disobeyed the ancestral precepts. This is the famous story of Yi Yin letting Taijia live in Tong Palace and finally returning the throne. The two of you should be aware of this."
Black Robe and Doupeng looked at each other and nodded. Doupeng said: "This Taijia probably wanted to resume the original large-scale human sacrifice, but in order to obtain slaves, he wanted to start a war, but Yi Yin stopped him.
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The ancestor nodded: "Yes, Yi Yin knows that there are not only evil gods and ancestors in this world, but also the upright Taoist immortals are still powerful. If sacrifices are made for the sake of sacrifices, wars are made for the sake of sacrifices, and people are hurt, then the ancestors will be in the war.
mana consumed
, I'm afraid these human sacrifices are not enough to make up for it. On the contrary, if the righteous Taoist immortals unite the tribes that were attacked and fight back collectively, then I am afraid that the world of the Shang Dynasty will be like Hou Yi and Han Zhuo of the Youqiong tribe in the past.
It will die soon."
"So Yiyin imprisoned Taijia, executed many nobles who supported the war, and forcibly suppressed the domestic war faction. As for the slaves used in sacrifices, he used domestic criminals and escaped slaves to conduct a smaller scale
human sacrifices, on the other hand, are also offered to some of the surrounding
Tribes used commodity trade to purchase slaves they captured during conflicts with other tribes, and this became the human sacrifice system of the Shang Dynasty. It expanded more and more, and finally became a terrible human sacrifice empire.
The beginning of this is something Yi Yin never dreamed of."
The black robe sighed: "The so-called wise man thinks a lot, but there is a flaw. It lies in this. In ancient times, the connection between humans and gods was too close. The gods could directly interfere with human affairs, from climate change to grain abundance.
A good harvest, then flocks of cattle and sheep, then war
All ghost soldiers can be directly controlled. It is no wonder that humans are so respectful to ghosts and gods. Yi Yin should be unwilling to sacrifice humans to heaven from the bottom of his heart, but facing the powerful gods and ancestors at that time, he had to do it.
But he just wants to control the scale."
"However, once the precedent of bartering people and buying people with cattle, sheep, cloth and silk was established, all the tribes in the world, after tasting the benefits, would start wars, plunder and traffic people as their main way of survival, and the Shang Dynasty
The era of feasting between gods and ancestors has arrived." (End of this chapter)