Chapter 5636 Supporting the nobles and forcing King Zhou
The ancestor smiled and shook his head: "The key to the problem is not above the Zhou Yi, or in other words, it is not that Ji Chang can divine something in the future, but that Ji Chang can learn divination techniques that belong to the Shang Dynasty priests and top-level powerful people, and then wrote the Zhou Yi incident. This shows that someone has deeply united with Ji Chang within the ruling group here of King Zhou. The divination technique of Ji Chang means that if they are extremely dissatisfied with King Zhou, they will not rule out the possibility of uniting foreign countries and foreign races to achieve the change of power."
Dou Peng frowned: "This is a traitor, it is like a rebellion. Can King Zhou endure it? Collude with foreigners and pass on all the core techniques of divination, which is no different from traitorism."
The ancestor sneered, "Who told King Zhou not to sacrifice much? These priests, nobles, and especially the royal princes dared to do this. Behind it is the will of great gods like the Evil Heaven Emperor. Even if you don't use thunder to directly strike King Zhou, you can support outsiders. King Zhou would not dare to kill Ji Chang casually. People have no fault on the surface. They granted Ji Chang the title of Xibo and the official position of priest, so that he could command the princes west of Guanzhong and attack the enemies of the Shang Dynasty. This is also the power granted by the former king and the Evil Heaven Emperor. Even if he fought against several Quanrong tribes and did not report it in time, he would not be punished. If King Zhou killed Ji Chang for no reason, it would be a breach of trust in the world and it was time to establish a new king. In this matter, King Zhou would not dare to challenge the Evil Heaven Emperor directly."
Dou Peng sighed: "After all, these are the will and decisions of the Evil Heaven Emperor and the gods of the Shang Dynasty. King Zhou wanted to rely on the power of the world and the army of the Great Shang Dynasty to conquer all directions and build a great empire that was completely obedient to the Shang Dynasty. However, this is not exactly the same as the Evil Heaven Emperor and the others."
The ancestor nodded: "It is precisely because the Evil Heaven Emperor needs war, and even more so, massacre and sacrifice. Only by pushing these prisoners of war and the people of the enemy country onto the sacrificial platform and allowing their souls to be enjoyed by the gods in heaven is the most concerned about Evil Heaven Emperor. However, King Zhou felt that such killing was too heavy and too bloody. The most important thing is that everyone died, who will work? Kill all the prisoners of the enemy country and the enemy tribe, and who will produce the newly occupied land in the future? If there is only land income and no manpower to produce it in the war, it will be a failure. King Zhou wants a powerful empire, a unified world, rather than a barren land with only death, and sooner or later it will be lost."
Black Robe curled her lips: "So, King Zhou wanted to complete the unification of the world like Qin Shihuang for the sake of an emperor on earth, and to turn all other countries and tribes into his own territory. He first sent the Shang Dynasty to govern his royal family and nobles, and then slowly sent officials of different surnames to manage it. Because, from his actions, it can be seen that he realized that only defeating, or allowing these foreign tribes to submit and pay tribute, would not be able to truly control these places. This is also the reason why from Xia to Shang, he defeated the barbarians in all directions countless times in the past thousand years, but could not truly expand and effectively manage them."
Dou Peng laughed: "This idea is really advanced. It breaks the rules of the tribal model that the eldest son and descendants pass on from generation to generation. King Zhou is really a very smart talent. However, if his power has not been achieved, is it really appropriate to go against the gods led by the Evil Heaven Emperor? You must know that if the gods and ancestors are unhappy, you can drop lightning to death at any time."
Hei Rou shook his head and said seriously: "I'm afraid it's not that easy. King Zhou dared to directly resist the Evil Heaven Emperor because some ancestors stood on his side, such as Cheng Tang, Taiwu, or Yi Yin. Fu said that after these people became gods, they also became his guardian gods. The idea of using human beings to seize the world instead of relying on the power of ancestors and ghosts and gods, and being forced to carry out large-scale sacrifices should be the ones that these ancestors have always recognized. With King Zhou helping them perform what they could not do back then, of course they were happy. Although the Evil Heaven Emperor was powerful, it was impossible to kill the current Shang King will be willful and arbitrarily. Moreover, King Zhou only reduced the scale and number of sacrifices, but it was not said that he completely cut off the sacrifices. He still did the annual high sacrificial sacrifices and did not break the rules."
The ancestor nodded and said, "It is true that as the Black Robe Venerable said, not all gods stand on the side of the Evil Heaven Emperor. Wang Hai has no longer had much feelings for his descendants because of his integration with the ghost gods. However, Cheng Tang and Taiwu are different from the previous kings. They have not completely lost their human nature. Although the Evil Heaven Emperor is nominally one of the oldest ancestors and the gods after Wang Hai's ascension to the immortals, there are even older ancient giant gods like Qi on the Shang Dynasty. The Evil Heaven Emperor cannot act more than these ancient laws of the Shang Dynasty. After all, Wu Yi was struck by lightning that time, there was a handle to conceal and deceive his ancestors. However, King Zhou did not leave an open handle, so the Evil Heaven Emperor could not kill King Zhou directly, so he could only think of other ways."
Black Robe curled the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Is the other way of Emperor Xie Tian is to establish Ji Chang and replace King Zhou with a foreigner? He is not afraid of treating other gods as traitors, so he will be wiped out or expelled?"
The ancestor shook his head: "It's not as serious as you said. The Evil Heaven Emperor implemented this plan through other nobles and brothers of King Zhou. He did not directly think about what truly useful and valuable abilities could allow Ji Chang to get. However, through these nobles, King Zhou understood that if King Zhou offended the ancestors headed by Emperor Xie Tian when sacrificing human animals, even if they didn't use a thunder to kill King Zhou, they could choose a royal family from the priests and Zhenren group to replace King Zhou!"
"Generally speaking, gods will not directly interfere in the replacement of royal power, but the nobles of the Shang Dynasty, especially the royal family members, had their own tribes, tribes and even states. If they could unite several great nobles and even foreign vassal princes in the name of gods, they could bring King Zhou down from the throne. For example, King Zhou's approach, such as favoring foreign beauties, listening to women's words for military and political affairs, appointing villains, civilians, drinking and lustful, and killing them to him, asking him to restore the ancient method, worship more loyal ministers of ancestors, including saying without trust, summoning Ji Chang to imprison, and breaking trust in the world. These are all reasons and excuses for changing the king." (End of this chapter)