Heibo said coldly: "I think the Evil Heaven Emperor said this, but it may not be like this. He should just want to enjoy more people's lives, and he doesn't want to use the same tribes as his ghost parties in the West and the North. So
The Shang king asked the King of Shang to launch a war against Dongyi, eliminate the Dongyi tribe, and capture a large number of Dongyi people to sacrifice to him as human sacrifices. At the same time, he took the territory of Dongyi under the rule of the Shang Dynasty and eliminated the guardian god of Dongyi.
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Dou Peng nodded: "I agree with the Black Robe Venerable. If this evil emperor really thought about the Shang Dynasty, he would not have killed the Shang king Wu Yi who wanted to destroy the Quanrong and expand the West. The selfish intention of this evil god
Too heavy, he did not regard the Shang Dynasty as his only descendants and tribes. He also regarded the Quanrong and Beidi tribes as his own people. He did not want them to be attacked by the Shang Dynasty, so he would rather indulge the Zhou Dynasty to be powerful. He enjoyed the Zhou Dynasty's Ji Calendar.
If the soul becomes stronger, it will not stop the development and expansion of the Zhou Dynasty and have lost its qualification to be a protector of the Shang Dynasty."
The corner of the ancestor's mouth curled: "What exactly is the Evil Heaven Emperor thinking? We don't know now. After all, after the Battle of the Gods, he was also destroyed. If you want to say that he did not care about the future of the Shang Dynasty, he would not
Sure, maybe, in his heart, Zhou State was like Peng State back then, and could be used to eliminate and destroy the swords of various Western tribes. After the Western Zhou Dynasty unified the west and offended many princes of the square states, the Shang Dynasty
You can destroy the Zhou Kingdom at any time like Wu Ding destroyed Peng. Perhaps, he thought that the Shang Dynasty would first solve the enemy of Dongyi for hundreds of years, completely without any worries in the east, and then concentrate troops to sweep the west and north.
, but no matter what, he asked the Shang emperor Xin, who had just succeeded to the throne, to use troops to the east, and this was exactly what King Zhou wanted, and the two hit it off."
"This King Zhou was among the most talented and capable kings in the Shang Dynasty, at least, one of the strongest. He could refuse advice from his literary style, and could kill generals by his military force. He ascended the throne at the age of more than ten, and was in power for dozens of times.
In 2019, he personally launched an army to fight the east, defeated countless tribes of Dongyi, defeated the Yangyi tribes in southern Qingzhou, and sent troops deep into the Jianghuai area, sweeping the Huaiyi countries all the way. Over the past few hundred years
, No, it should be said that the Dongyi tribe that existed before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty for thousands of years was all under the military front of King Zhou.
In the future, hundreds of thousands of Dongyi soldiers and tribe members were reduced to prisoners of war and were plundered by the Shang Dynasty to various cities, engaging in hard labor. However, the original territory of Huaiyi and Yangyi was
The number of Shang Dynasty nobles and hundreds of Shang soldiers was occupied by them, which was different from the previous battles of the Shang Dynasty. In these wars, where did the Shang army fight, the villages and cities of the Shang people.
When it was built there, the Shang Dynasty really wanted to rule for a long time in these places and occupied it forever."
Hei Pao sighed: "This King Zhou is indeed wise and capable, and continues to use troops to the Dongyi, occupy its land, capture its people, and destroy its clan. Although in this way, these places can be occupied and the Shang Dynasty people can occupy it.
But it is not necessarily too cruel to sacrifice and kill hundreds of thousands of creatures as human animals."
The ancestor shook his head and said seriously: "Honor Black Robe, you probably misunderstood. I didn't say that these hundreds of thousands of prisoners were sacrificed. The biggest difference between King Zhou of Shang and King Zhou of Shang before,
It was that he greatly reduced the scale of sacrifices, especially for the Evil Heaven Emperor. He did not sacrifice to the Evil Heaven Emperor for more than ten years. Even a few sacrifices were the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty, such as Cheng Tang, Tai
Wu, Wu Ding, and the Evil Heaven Emperor, as the main god of Wang Hai, was not worshipped by King Zhou before the establishment of the Shang Dynasty.”
Dou Peng opened his eyes widened: "Why don't you worship the Evil Heaven Emperor? He was the number one god in the Shang Dynasty at this time. Wu Yi, who had offended him before, directly struck the Evil Heaven Emperor to death with lightning, so King Zhou would not absorb it.
Have you taught me a lesson? Sacrifices were originally one of the most basic national policies of the Shang Dynasty. Did King Zhou really say that he would abolish it?”
The ancestor said calmly: "Because King Zhou also claimed that he had obtained the oracles of the ancient saints of Cheng Tang and Yi Yin, and told him that the fate of the Shang Dynasty should be created by the descendants and the living people.
Since the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, those who really fought on the battlefield and built the country for the Shang Dynasty were not ancestors and ghosts, but their own tribe members. The Shang Dynasty was able to grow and grow, and seize the world from a small tribe in Hebei.
It is also because at the beginning of the founding of the country, he could pacify all the people and treat those tribes who were defeated and conquered by the Shang Dynasty equally. Just like the later wise prime minister Fu said that if the later practices of the Shang Dynasty, all the captured enemy tribes were treated as human beings.
How could the sacrifice be the glory of the Wu Ding era? It’s like Yi Yin, who is also a slave. If he sacrificed his sacrifice early, how could the Shang Dynasty be established?”
Black Rou laughed: "It's so good. In the early Shang Dynasty, although there were sacrifices, it was not as exaggerated and crazy as it was later, nor did it have so many ancestors and gods to worship. King Zhou was also capable and could
Carry out a few ancient kings and the main gods to fight against the sacrifices of various evil gods requested by the evil emperors. In this way, hundreds of thousands of prisoners from Dongyi became slaves of the Shang Dynasty and were engaged in various production and transportation.
It's done."
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, King Zhou raised these prisoners, and he did not let them eat for free. Although he was exempted from death, he was unable to live. He wanted them to build cities and roads, build weapons, and build palaces.
Although these people survived, they were not very good. This also laid a hidden danger for the subsequent Battle of Muye, that is, King Zhou thought he had a life of life to these people, and they should
I am grateful to myself, but how could these people who were captured by the Shang army and captured as slaves really be grateful to the Shang Dynasty? They were cows and horses, and their lives were not as good as death, and the seeds of hatred and anger,
Burying in their hearts, one day, we will find an opportunity to retaliate ten times and a hundred times."
Dou Peng sighed: "It's like Qin destroyed the six kingdoms in later generations. Qin Shihuang thought he gave the people of these six kingdoms the same treatment as the people of Qin, but he was kind to them, but he didn't know that the people of the six kingdoms could not bear the heavy Qin State.
The tax system did not think it was a favor to them at all. Whenever there was a chance, it would still be a rebellion of Qin. This was the same as these Dongyi slaves. King Zhou did not let them be the same as the Shang Dynasty's own people. After all,
There is no question of integration, and the Zhou Dynasty's practice of surrendering is the people, and resistance is ruthlessly slaughtering is the true benevolence and righteousness of this era, which is to impress people." (End of this chapter)