There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5551: Driving tigers and devouring wolves into trouble
Chapter 5551: Driving tigers and devouring wolves into trouble
Doupeng gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "These various methods of calming souls and exorcising ghosts can only be further developed as the sacrifices deepen and continue, and as the priests and wizards who practice them become more and more experienced.
Yes, just like Buddhism, the land of Tianzhu where they are located has been in constant war since ancient times, and massacres of cities and countries are commonplace.
It is said that there is a caste system with four classes of people. The nomadic tribes from the north can kill all the black-skinned people who originally lived there or make them slaves. Before the Buddha appeared, there was no concept of benevolence and righteousness.
Only the bottomless cruelty of the grassland tribes, because there were too many dead people and evil ghosts and monsters everywhere, led to the Buddha."
"The emergence of Buddhism is, to put it bluntly, to deal with the lonely souls and ghosts that the ancestors and gods of heaven cannot subdue. If the great merchants had not died too early and allowed them to continue to offer sacrifices like this for hundreds or thousands of years, it would have been possible.
If you can find all kinds of ways to exorcise ghosts, how can you let this foreign Buddhism steal this job?"
The black robe wanted to open his mouth to argue again, but the ancestor waved his hand: "Okay, two venerables, there is no need to have a clear discussion at this time. This kind of doctrinal dispute is unavoidable for any sect. The Zhou Dynasty
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, human sacrifices were slowly replaced by Tao Yong, but this also required a lot of incantations to replace the pure Tao Yong sacrifices with other methods. This is a story for later, and it is not part of our Tiandao Alliance.
I won’t talk about the law.”
"The frequent capital moves of the Shang Dynasty that you mentioned just now were indeed due to the inability to fully deal with the ghosts in the capital at that time. However, another reason is that there were no very successful water conservancy projects in the Yellow River area at that time.
The Yellow River often bursts, facing the Yellow River
The neighboring capital city of the Shang Dynasty was destructively flooded, and the area around Shang Capital was haunted by evil spirits. Even decades later, the sky would be filled with evil ghosts and resentful spirits. Without seeing the light of day, the residents of Shang Capital would also be haunted from time to time.
Being hit by a disaster or getting sick seriously affects the quality of life."
"So, before and after the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the capital was moved many times. In addition to the reasons of evil ghosts and floods, there was also the need to send troops to fight. For example, after the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, the Dongyi tribe still continued to rebel. Xia Jie fled to Chaohu
He died there, and his people were unwilling to lose their country and secretly
He taught various local Huaiyi tribes the war technologies from the Central Plains and the North that were rarely seen before, especially chariots and bronze weapons. These made the Huaiyi tribe, which was backward at that time, advance by leaps and bounds in military level. More than a hundred years later,
, we can in turn invade the eastern territories of the Shang Dynasty and pose a threat to it."
"As for Chunwei, the son of Xia Jie who went north, the Xiongnu tribe was only initially formed on the grassland at this time. It was not very powerful and could not pose any threat to the Shang Dynasty. However, to the north and west, two tribes quickly appeared in the north and west.
A new and powerful threat has emerged, so much so that the entire Shang generation has to fight against these two threats."
Doupeng frowned: "The threats mentioned by the ancestor are the two foreign enemies, Xiqiang and Guifang?"
The ancestor looked solemn and nodded: "Exactly, this Western Qiang tribe is where the Xia tribe lived before Dayu. Although the Xia Dynasty became the ruler of the world for four to five hundred years and had already moved into the Central Plains,
After all, it was the origin of the Xia tribe. When Shang Tang destroyed Xia, in order to cut off the possible aid of these Western Qiang tribes to the Xia Dynasty, they deliberately made a big detour and crossed the Yellow River eastward from Guanzhong to attack Anyi.
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"But during the battle to destroy Xia, many of the Xia Dynasty's defenders and tribesmen in the north of Anyi fell in Anyi. When the merchant army pursued Xia Jie eastward, they crossed the Yellow River to the west and fled into the Guanzhong.
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, and then went further west and entered the land of Longyou in Guanxi. In the last years of Xia Jie, after attacking the Youmin tribe, the Youmin family also moved westward, leaving many people behind along the way.
road sign
They even left traces of some tribesmen who could not continue to travel further and settled in some places where there were still water and grass. These gave the survivors of the Xia Dynasty the direction. They walked along these places all the way to the west of the Longyou River.
Where the Qiang people live together, most of them stayed here, intermarried with the local Qiang people, and slowly integrated into these Qiang tribes, which can be regarded as acknowledging their ancestors."
"But the Shang Dynasty didn't think so. They didn't know that Chunwei went north, and they thought Chunwei and other princes of the Xia Dynasty moved westward to the Qiang people with their tribesmen. The Xia Dynasty had experienced
After Taikang lost the country and perished, and later after three generations of Zhongkang, Xiang, and Shaokang succeeded in restoring the country, the Shang Dynasty was deeply afraid of it. It was worried about the whereabouts of these fallen princes and survivors.
Even more than Xia Jie himself, because Xia Jie lost the world and lost the hearts of the people, and fled to the Jianghuai land that was controlled by the Shang Dynasty. He could not cause any trouble, but this land of Western Qiang was originally the land of Xia Dynasty's Longxing
, and it is beyond the power of the Shang Dynasty. If something goes wrong and Shao Fuxian comes to the country again, then the Shang Dynasty will be like the Youqiong family back then, and they will kill them all and cut off their descendants!"
"So since the death of Chengtang, the Shang Dynasty has continuously sent envoys and caravans to the Xiqiang to coerce and induce them to hand over Chunwei and other tribesmen. However, the local Qiang people did not have Chunwei and others on hand.
Out of sympathy for fellow tribesmen in distress
There was a moral need to rescue the people, and there was no reason to hand over the survivors of the Xia Dynasty. This was a matter of morality and dignity, so the Qiang people were officially and comprehensively attacked by the Shang Dynasty. In the end, the Shang Dynasty, this war against the Western Qiang,
It just never stopped.”
Doupeng said solemnly: "Although the Qiang people are warlike and ferocious, their military level and organizational capabilities are still far behind the battle-hardened army of the Shang Dynasty, especially since they do not have a strong chariot force.
, so when they fought, they often returned defeated, or even the entire clan was wiped out. Many divination texts of the Shang Dynasty recorded that after the war, thousands of Qiang people were captured and thousands captured.
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After all, the center of the Shang Dynasty's rule was in the Central Plains. In the east, the suppression of Huaiyi was the first priority. Although the king's army came out, they had to withdraw quickly after the attack. The land of Guanxi slowly only
Only by supporting Chongguo and Zhou could foreign princes like Zhou be controlled. Of course, the price of supporting these princes is that they have to constantly wage war against the Qiang people and continue to hand over Qiang prisoners as tribute."
The black robe sneered: "This is where Dashang made the most miscalculation. He drove away tigers and devoured wolves and used barbarians to control barbarians. In the end, he fostered more terrifying and powerful enemies. The Qiang people in the past were just scattered small tribes.
But Chongguo and Zhouguo are thousands of miles away, and their strength is equivalent to the alliance of hundreds and hundreds of Western Qiang tribes. This kind of foreign princes is truly terrifying." (End of this chapter)