There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5548 Zhou Yuan started his business and fought many battles
Chapter 5548 Zhou Yuan started his business and fought many battles
Doupeng frowned: "That means we want the Zhou tribe to go to war with the Rongdi tribe of Xiqiang and capture their tribesmen as objects of human sacrifice, right?"
The ancestor nodded and said: "Yes, this can be regarded as a method of using barbarians to control barbarians. In the eyes of the Shang Dynasty, although the Zhou tribe surrendered to itself, it was also a tribe that escaped from the defeat of the Xiqiang tribe and was not one of its own people.
, and Dayu came from the Western Qiang. The Shang Dynasty’s destruction of Xia was essentially a battle of replacement between the Dongyi tribe and the Western Qiang tribe. Although in the end Xia Jie and Chunwei moved towards the north and south respectively.
They fled and never returned to the ancestral homeland of the Western Qiang. However, if the Western Qiang could produce a Xia tribe, they could produce other tribes that threatened the Shang Dynasty, because the Qiang people at that time were stronger than the Di people in the north.
, If it were not for the four fortresses in Guanzhong as a barrier, no one knows when these powerful and ferocious Xiqiang tribes would cross the Qinling Mountains, fight their way out of Guanzhong, and come to the hinterland of the Central Plains."
"So, the Shang Dynasty enfeoffed the Zhou tribes and princes with different surnames such as Chongguo to the Guanzhong area as the front line to resist the Western Qiang. On the one hand, they were also from Qiang Di and were familiar with the Qiang tribe.
On the one hand, with this method of using barbarians to control barbarians, even if the Zhou tribe is wiped out again, they will not feel too distressed. After all, those who die are not people of their own tribe and country."
"Of course, when the Zhou tribe came to Zhouyuan, they were still very weak. It was because they could not defeat other Qiang tribe neighbors that they were forced to join the Shang Dynasty. The King of Shang knew this and would not let the Zhou tribe
In addition to the Zhou tribe, the Du Mian Xiqiang tribe and the Xiangying Qin tribe had also been stationed in the western border area for a long time. It can be seen that the Shang Dynasty still sent elite soldiers and generals to the west and north in turn to defend against these powerful foreign barbarians.
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"In general, during the Shang Dynasty, the Qiang people were still scattered. The separate tribes did not form a large tribal alliance, let alone a unified and complete country. In the world at that time, there had been
Tang, Yu, Xia, Shang and so on
Dynasties, although they are just called dynasties, are actually the feudal system of tribal alliances. After all, they can unite the princes, dispatch the Nine Barbarians' divisions, or summon the coalition forces of hundreds of tribes to fight together. This is not what the Western Qiang tribe can do alone.
It’s manageable.”
"The Zhou tribe is not the emperor and cannot summon so many soldiers and horses. However, with the strength of his tribe and the help of other Shang Dynasty princes around him, as long as he has good relations with these Shang Dynasty princes such as Chongguo, he will not be ignored by them.
Attack, but when they were attacked by the Qiang people, they could still come to help. The weak Zhou tribe could survive as the front line of the Qiang people's confrontation without having to be beaten like they had been in the previous hundreds of years.
Wandering around with no fixed place to live.”
"The Zhouyuan area was looked down upon by the nomadic tribes, but it was a God-given treasure land for the Zhou tribes who were good at farming. They reclaimed wasteland and cultivated land here, and built cities and many forts and villages in the mountains to echo the wilderness.
The grasslands can be used for grazing cattle and sheep, and the fertile fields near the water in the basin can be cultivated. Their advantage over the nomadic tribes is that they can cultivate and have a stable life.
Grain output, so that they don't have to be like those Xiqiang tribes who graze in one place for a period of time and have to leave when they have eaten enough grass. If they encounter natural disasters, their strength will be greatly reduced. After the Zhou tribes arrived in Zhouyuan, they
The farming skills inherited from their ancestors have been picked up again, which means that they have a stable and reliable source of food and do not have to be forced to move and live in an unstable place."
"This new production method, which is already relatively common among the Central Plains tribes along the Yellow River, but almost unknown to the Qiang people, immediately attracted widespread attention. Several surrounding Shang Dynasty princes also adopted nomadic production.
way, to show favor to the Zhou tribe, the Zhou tribe
Successive monarchs starting from Gu Gongtanfu generously taught them many farming techniques and provided them with many farming seeds.
As well as food and grass during times of famine to help them tide over the difficulties."
"The prosperity of the Zhou tribe attracted the jealousy of some Xiqiang tribes. They began to attack the Zhou tribe. They wanted to rob the Zhou tribe of food and population by defeating the weak Zhou tribe as before, but they underestimated the Zhou tribe.
With the strength and stable harvest, the Zhou tribe is no longer what it used to be. Not only has the tribe developed over twenty or thirty years, its own population has increased a lot, but it has also taken the initiative to defect to the Zhou tribe.
There are also many Qiang and Di people who are willing to become members of the Zhou tribe. When encountering foreign enemies, they can get assistance from the surrounding Shang vassal states. As a result, the strength of the Zhou tribe has reversed. Not only is the Zhou tribe not as strong as before.
They were defeated and expelled. Instead, they defeated many powerful Qiang tribes one after another, and even took the initiative to expel some surrounding Xiqiang tribes with bad intentions and enemies of the Zhou tribe."
"During this process, the territory of the Zhou tribe was slowly expanding, gradually expanding towards the territories and pastures of the defeated and expelled Xiqiang tribes. In the process, the Zhou tribe was also able to capture a large number of people.
Qiang captives. They dedicated many Qiang captives who were nobles to the distant Shang Dynasty as taxes.
Tribute, at this time, the Zhou people were not very aware of the terrible human sacrifice traditions and rituals of the Shang Dynasty. They thought that this was just an act of the princes offering prisoners to the emperor. They also thought that these captives would be used as slaves and would become slaves of the Shang Dynasty in the future.
The people, just like when my own tribe defected to the Shang Dynasty, were taken in and became vassals, guarding the border for the Shang Dynasty."
The ancestor said so much in one breath, and finally slowed down. There was a joking smile on the corner of his mouth, while the black robe on one side sneered: "The ancients used an idiom to describe it, and it was called helping the tyrants to harm them. I'm afraid, if the Zhou people knew
After what happened to the Qiang people of the same ethnic group he captured, he will regret it endlessly."
Doupeng shook his head: "I think they had no choice. In that era, the fate of slaves was the same as that of cattle and sheep. They were just talking animals. The Shang Dynasty only had a special sacrifice scale and a large number of people.
, other tribes also commonly sacrifice people in this way. Just as our ancestor said when talking about Wang Hai’s past, many of these sacrificial methods were learned from other tribes.”
Speaking of this, Doupeng also sneered: "Didn't the Zhou tribe just sacrifice people to death? Not to mention that at this time they were still barbaric tribes who had just come from the Di District of Qiang. Even after the Zhou Dynasty was established later, they still used people.
Sacrifices were made to the heavens, but the scale was not as large as that of the Shang Dynasty. There was no such thing as aiding the tyranny of the Shang Dynasty. At that time, all the tribes in the world were tyrannical." (End of this chapter)