The ancestor smiled slightly: "You can see this, yes, yes, indeed, in ancient times, most tribes were matrilineal, and children were often born without knowing their father, but mothers love their children is the nature of all animals, not just humans.
The reason why many women were forced to surrender after the tribe was destroyed
The tribes that surrendered to the enemy gave birth to children. In addition to their own desire to have children, a big reason was also that the young sons were killed. If the adult sons were killed, middle-aged and elderly women who had passed the childbearing age were often not kept.
, kill him directly so that he will not stay and seek revenge after the pain of losing his son."
The black robe nodded and said: "Yes, the revenge of killing a husband can sometimes be forgotten, but the revenge of killing a son is irreconcilable and must be avenged. This is due to nature. In this way, the hatred between hostile tribes
Even if you want to keep a woman, you have to keep a young one, at least the child is young. On the one hand, it is because she still has the ability to bear children, and on the other hand, she is also required to take on the responsibility of raising young children."
Doupeng sneered and said: "It's the same practice on the grasslands now. They kill their husbands and keep their wives, and kill their fathers and keep their children. If these women want to survive in the tribe, they have to make their children forget their past hatred. They have to
Just think of yourself as a member of the new tribe."
The ancestor sighed: "We have already entered the period of the patrilineal tribe. In the previous period of the matrilineal tribe, to be honest, even women would not know very well who their children were. Maybe every adult man in the tribe would be the same."
The child's father, and later after entering the patrilineal tribe, it was clear that only Xiaojia,
It's a small account. A woman's feelings for her husband and a child's recognition of their father are different. Therefore, at this time, many tribes no longer kill each other, but even keep the male prisoners, at least as slaves.
Use it, this is also a way to reduce the hatred of the other party, especially to stabilize women and children."
Speaking of this, the ancestor's eyes flashed coldly: "However, the Guifang tribe still has the tradition of killing each other to death and using the wheel as the standard. At least this was the case in the Shang Dynasty. Some Guifang tribes were still matrilineal.
In the tribal model, even the tribal leaders are women. Of course, these women can ride horses and shoot arrows.
Swift and ferocious, they are completely different from the Central Plains women we have in mind. The method of wheel killing is out of terror and to deter hostile tribes, so that they will not dare to be enemies with these ghost tribes in the future. To measure with the wheel, it is also
It means that the Guifang tribe has a large number of vehicles that can be converted into chariots for use in battles."
Duopeng, who had not spoken for a long time, frowned: "This chariot is the biggest weapon of the Guifang tribe. In the Shang Dynasty, even the Shang Dynasty could only dispatch seventy chariots during the war to destroy Xia. This shows how precious it is, and the Guifang tribe
The Fang tribe could put the entire tribe on a chariot. If there were tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people marching eastward together, the number of chariots could be hundreds or even thousands. This was undoubtedly a great advantage for China at that time.
An almost invincible enemy."
The ancestor smiled slightly and said: "Although these Guifang tribes indeed have hundreds of chariots, it does not mean that they cannot be defeated, because the Shang Dynasty also had hundreds or thousands of chariots, and they were constantly attacking the outside world.
The war also led to them having specialized Chinese people
, the warrior class can send out tens of thousands of troops at one time. In addition, the Shang Dynasty can drive the Zhou tribe and the servant princes such as Chongguo to send troops together. Their strength is still very powerful. On the other hand, the Guifang tribe in the north, they have
From the land of the river, it took dozens of
For hundreds of years, they came from afar, trying to conquer other nomadic tribes and control their water sources and pastures. Many tribes even started fighting among themselves, and many tribes even started to fight after leaving for a while.
I don't want to continue heading east, but stay here
In the original place, they intermarried and merged with the local indigenous tribes and became a new ethnic group. The Guifang tribe and tribesmen who really kept marching eastward became fewer and fewer. By the time they really appeared on the grasslands north of the Western Region, they had already
It’s less than one-third of what it was when we set out.”
"But even this one-third of the Guifang tribe still has more than 100,000 tribesmen and thousands of chariots. Such strength is undoubtedly an overwhelming advantage for those city-states in the Western Region that are part-farming and part-grazing.
, in just over ten years, almost the entire Western Region was conquered and destroyed by them, but the Western Region
The region still had few oases and many deserts, which was not the ideal territory for the Guifang tribe. Therefore, they did not stay too long in the Western Region and continued eastward. Under the guidance of the Yi tribe, they arrived at Longyou, Hexi Province.
land, and here, the opponents they have to deal with are the Qiang people."
The black robe sighed: "These Guifang tribes are really fighting and killing all the way. I guess they are spending a lot of time fighting whoever they see. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many tribes that haven't kept up. After all,
Traveling thousands of miles eastward from the land in the river, we haven't seen a large area suitable for farming and settlement. Once we leave the grasslands, there are grasslands again. I'm afraid many tribes will doubt whether the Yi family has deliberately led them on the wrong path."
The ancestor nodded: "The Yi tribe has actually become a Guifang tribe in this process. Their behavior style is the same as that of the Guifang tribe. While they learned the skills of chariots, they also inherited the cruelty of the Guifang tribe.
And warlike, even during the Wang Hai period, the Yi tribe had the tradition of cutting people into pieces for sacrifice. This is in line with the barbaric and cruel Guifang tribe. Perhaps relying on the guidance of He Bo, they arrived
On the territory of the Qiang people."
"Here, they did not exterminate their tribes like other tribes along the way, but temporarily reached a certain situation of friendly coexistence with the Qiang people, because they had a common enemy, that is, the Shang Dynasty, and soon
, slaughtered by the Shang Dynasty,
The captured Qiang tribes became the guides and vanguards of these Guifang tribes. Together with the Yi tribe, they led the Guifang army towards the westernmost tribes of the Shang Dynasty, such as Ying Qin, Jizhou, and Chongguo, and Fang.
The country launched a powerful attack."
"The other part of the Guifang tribe marched northeast from the Western Regions, passed through the Moxi Grassland, and arrived at the Hetao Land. Beyond the mountains, they also met with some local Di tribes.
They made allies and taught them some techniques of horse-drawn and ox-drawn carts. At the same time, they also got their supplies and pasture water resources to borrow. From this direction, they could go south to Guanzhong and even
As for the Bingzhou area, a full-scale attack was launched towards the northern border of the Shang Dynasty. Within a few years, the western and northern princes of the Shang Dynasty suffered a powerful blow, which forced Shang King Wuding to withdraw to conquer Huaiyi.
The army even took the initiative to marry Hao Hao, the princess of the Huaiyi tribe, so that Hao Hao, as the queen, would once again dispatch the Nine Yi troops to cooperate with the Shang army in combat." (End of this chapter)