Speaking of this, the ancestor's expression became solemn and he slowly said: "But in order to quell the rebellion, the Shang Dynasty also contracted completely in the south, and its forces completely evacuated the Nanyang Basin, not to mention Panlong City, these places were
Give up directly, become an empty city and an empty city, and the Jindao xixing also changed from sending troops to mine ore to buying through trade means. In general, from Taiwu to Wuding period, the Shang Dynasty was in Jing south of Nanyang.
The land of Chu has become blank."
Black Robe sighed and murmured: "Shang Dynasty has really started wars from all directions since its founding, and has been constantly trapped in wars. In fact, if it is only concentrated in one direction to expand, especially for Qingzhou and Jianghuai, or for them
When the land of Jizhou, Hebei Province started, there is a place that can be stable and become its own reliable city and rear, and it will not fight here a little bit, retreating there a little bit, and finally there is no stable call in all directions."
Dou Peng nodded and said, "Everything in the Central Plains, whether it was Shang or the Wei Kingdom in later generations during the Warring States Period, all faced such problems. The land of four wars was attacked everywhere, and it seemed that it could expand everywhere, but it often occupied it.
But in the future, I couldn't stabilize it, and finally I was under pressure from a strong enemy in another direction, so I could only retreat and hand over all the territory that I had finally expanded before. From this point of view, it was like playing Go, and I came up directly
It may not be a good thing to occupy the land of your heart."
The ancestor nodded: "That's true. The forces that have won the world in the past dynasties often grow and grow from the edges and corners, because the rear is stable. The most typical example is Qin. He started from Guanxi and finally destroyed the six kingdoms of Guandong and seized them.
The Zhou Kingdom was similar. It started in the Guanzhong area in Gifu, and finally expanded eastward and finally won the world. Liu Bang's Western Han Dynasty was similar, and he captured the world with the Qin area in Guanzhong. Even the Later Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, raised troops from Hebei and wiped out the world.
The only exception in the world may be Cao Wei and Western Jin. They went south to destroy Shu, Wu and the last unification, but before destroying Shu, Wu and Wu, Wei and Jin also unified the entire north, and the grassland nomadic forces were not threatened.
, and the land of Ganliang in Guanxi was taken into account by Wei early, and only needs to do their best to deal with the two countries in the south, and they cannot be considered as being attacked from all sides."
"When Cao Cao was conquering the world, he also used the power of Shu and Wu to fail to pose a substantial threat to him. He fought in Xuzhou and destroyed Lu Bu in the east, went north to eliminate Yuan Shao and pacify the north, and then went to the grasslands to defeat the Wuhuan power. From then on, the north was defeated.
There was no more Cao Cao's opponent, so he went south to start dealing with the Sun and Liu coalition forces. Although the Red Cliff was defeated, it did not affect Cao Cao's unification of the north and had more than half of the land and population in the world. He did not need to face the Shang Dynasty or the Wei Dynasty during the Warring States Period.
The passive situation of a country where strong enemies are everywhere."
Heibo said seriously: "Yes, when Cao Cao dealt with Yuan Shao, he would never easily fall into a long-term war with Liu Biao, nor would he devote his precious main force to the battle in Jingzhou. This is exactly what
What the Shang Dynasty lacked was that for the sake of a small profit in front of them and just to obtain copper mines, they sent large troops to go deep into Jingchu, which resulted in the inability to pacify Qingzhou, Guanzhong, and Bingzhou, which were closer to them.
The more threatening areas of the core ruling areas of the Shang Dynasty were in the end, and they were forced to give up the Jingchu land that had been operating for hundreds of years and spit out the meat they had in their mouths again. It was a pity."
The ancestor curled his lips and said, "In fact, this is not entirely the short-sightedness of the Shang Dynasty. To a large extent, in that era, bronze was not only to be made into ritual vessels, and sacrifices and divination to ancestors and gods.
, it is also a spearhead for building weapons for the army. The armor on the body can be said to be the sacrifice and Rong in major national affairs. Both of them are inseparable from copper mines, but there are not too many copper mines in the Central Plains, which cannot satisfy the merchants.
After the power and population increased, the demand for bronze was for bronze. Therefore, the expansion of the Shang Dynasty was for sacrifices, and the second was to find copper ore, and in the south, Jianghan
There are also Jiangzhou and south of Huainan, there are a large number of copper mines. When the Shang Dynasty discovered this, it was impossible to control the urge to expand to the south."
Dou Peng sneered: "To obtain copper ore, you can use trade and trade methods. Why do you have to send troops to rob and occupy land? The Shang Dynasty wanted too many things, sea salt and jade in the east, and western
People and horses, cattle, sheep and chariots on the northern grasslands, fur, copper ore, tin ore, and lead ore in the south, these are all what the Shang Dynasty wanted. Because they wanted, they had to use troops everywhere and occupy people.
Territory, captives of humans bring blood and terror everywhere, and death. Business is about harmony and wealth. Before the Shang Dynasty seized the world, although it did not occupy these places, the business world was not short of these.
Why did the East and West occupy the Central Plains and establish a dynasty? This was missing, and that was not enough?"
The ancestor smiled slightly: "The fundamental reason is two points. One is that the Shang Dynasty seized the world and occupied the Central Plains. There were many people who merged into the Shang Dynasty, including those remnants of the Xia Dynasty, as well as other tribes,
They were all annexed by the Shang Dynasty and became Shang people. The Shang Dynasty had the obligation to support these people. The resources needed, whether they were food or minerals, were much more than before, just like salt. In the past, the Shang Dynasty relied on
It was possible to meet the needs of the Qingzhou Dongyi tribes in the east, such as Fengyi, Xinyi and Laiyi, to establish a good relationship between tribute and trade. However, as the population of the Shang Dynasty increased, the business could not meet its needs by relying solely on trade.
Only by seizing the salt field by the sea and all suppliers eat it to their own people can this problem be solved. This is the fundamental reason why the Shang Dynasty later turned against the war with its allies in the Dongyi."
Heibo frowned: "So, the Shang Dynasty had to occupy the seaside land east of Qingzhou for the sake of salt and jade, so it had a conflict with Laiyi?"
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, to fight in Qingzhou, we have to go all the way from the Central Plains to advance along the Yellow River and the Ji River to Qingzhou. On the way, we must pass through our former allies, Fengyi, and the Xin family in eastern Henan.
The countries in the western Qingzhou, these countries were once the most determined ally of the Shang Dynasty when the Xia Dynasty was destroyed, but no matter how good the ally was, they could not allow the Shang army to build fortresses and granaries through their own territory without any hello.
In addition, the Shang king once had an unfavorable war against Dongyi and was even defeated by Laiyi. In addition, the nine-generation rebellion occurred at this time, and the power of the upper throne of the Shang Dynasty was unstable, so Fengyi and Xinyi, including Xuzhou in the southeast.
Pi Yi, together with Lai Yi, joined forces to rebel.” (This chapter ends)