Chapter 5639 King Zhou Chen Ci inspires Emperor Tian
Hei Rou said seriously: "We are willing to dedicate all the souls of Jingguan sacrificed to our ancestors after the Heavenly Dao Alliance. We have known so much about the history of the Shang Dynasty, which has opened our eyes and know that the ancestors in heaven may not necessarily protect their descendants with all their strength as they had imagined. Sometimes, they are also useless gods who only ask for help from the descendants of the world but do not substantially help them. They may even punish their descendants because they cannot eat their souls. If they don't want such gods, they will appear in person today for the ancestors to teach us disciples in this way, and we should also do our best to help you."
Dou Peng smiled slightly and said, "But the ancestor has not finally told us how King Zhou failed, and what happened to the failure and demise of the Da Shang Dynasty in the Battle of Muye."
The ancestor nodded, his expression became solemn, and he said, "Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou, cooperated with Wei Ziqi here and learned divination skills. This was also the warning of the Evil Heaven Emperor to King Zhou, which made him understand who his real master was. So King Zhou was shocked and began to pray to the Evil Heaven Emperor again through Wei Ziqi, and confessed that he had always respected his ancestors. The annual sacrifices had never been absent. However, now the Shang Shang needs to occupy land, and these conquered territory need people to manage and farm. If all the prisoners and the people of the enemy country were used for sacrifices, the Shang Dynasty would never expand and could not occupy these four areas. It would never continue to fight the barbarians on the border, and would consume the magic power of the ancestors and gods again and again."
Black Robe curled her lips and said, "But aren't the Evil Emperor and the others just going to such endless conflicts and wars? Only in this way can they regularly plunder and plunder people and animals be able to have endless souls. If these places are occupied forever, will they no longer be able to provide enough souls to their ancestors and gods to eat?"
The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "The Evil Emperor did question this way. It is said that maintaining the conflict and war between the four barbarians is the basic national policy of the Shang Dynasty. Only by war can one legally plunder the enemy as human animals. If these places occupy their own territory, there is no reason to turn the people of the Shang Dynasty into human animals for sacrifice."
"But King Zhou is worthy of being a great king who is polite and talented enough to refuse advice. He told the Evil Heaven that the situation in the world is different from the past. Among the four barbarians, they are not as scattered as hundreds of years ago, and they are both independent and backward in technology. The big merchants can easily defeat them. It is not so much a war, but now the military level and technology of the four barbarians have been rapidly improved with hundreds of years of exchanges with the big merchants. Especially the invasion of the ghost side, the Northern Di and Western Qiang are no longer inferior to the Shang Dynasty. The Huaiyi in the east is no longer a backward race that would not even have bronze back then. The barbarians in the south guard a large amount of copper ore and control the economic lifeline of the Shang Dynasty. The four barbarians have been united and organized to form a country, not an enemy that could be easily defeated in the past."
"Especially, the Zhou State has almost unified the West in just a hundred years. The west of Guanzhong is full of its territory, and even its power has penetrated into Bingzhou. This is the real enemy. Last time, the Evil Heaven Emperor ate Ji Li's soul, which made the Shang Dynasty and Zhou State have formed blood feud. Now, Ji Chang has taken the lead in decades based on Ji Li, almost unifying the western frontier, and his strength is almost catching up with the Shang Dynasty. If the Shang Dynasty had not been to free up his hands to solve the Dongyi first and then fight with Zhou State with all his strength, I am afraid that the war with Zhou State has begun now. This is the cause of the Evil Heaven Emperor. How can I not admit the enemies I have made?"
"The Evil Emperor said angrily at that time that as long as he is here, he will have endless magic power, and are you still afraid of a small Zhou State? Ji Li dared not resist and killed him directly. Even so, Zhou State did not dare to rebel. He asked Ji Chang to come and die, and he came. He was much more obedient than King Zhou himself. Sometimes he really couldn't figure out whether the Zhou people were his descendants or King Zhou."
"So King Zhou was very aggrieved, saying that Zhou State and Shang Dynasty had such blood feud, but they were still obedient because they were tolerant and able to pretend, and they were definitely not without blood. I thought that during the Zhou tribe, they could not defeat the Quanrong tribes and forced them to escape to Zhouyuan. However, with the support of the Shang Dynasty and gaining a foothold, they in turn eliminated the Quanrong tribes that had bullied them and had blood feuds one by one. The entire Guanxi became their possession. The Zhou State, which was so tolerant and only took revenge after having the strength, was the most terrible enemy. If the Evil Heaven Emperor really regarded the people of the Shang Dynasty as his descendants, he should be helping Shang to destroy Zhou. If he stood on the side of Zhou State and wanted to destroy the Shang Dynasty, then King Zhou could commit suicide now and let Ji Chang ascend to the position of Shang King. In the future, the Zhou State group will replace the Shang Dynasty with the surname Zi and change the dynasty."
"The King Zhou's statement inspired Emperor Xie Tian to say on the spot that King Shang is his descendant, and he has no idea of standing on the side of the Zhou Dynasty. If he takes ten thousand steps back, he will use Wei Ziqi, who is also a member of the Shang Dynasty royal family, or other priests and Zhenren, instead of Ji Chang."
"That's what King Zhou wants, so he said that now he destroyed the Dongyi first and occupied the Dongyi land, and then he needed the Dongyi tribesmen to surrender to the Shang Dynasty and farmed on these newly occupied lands. With the output, the Shang Dynasty had more resources to deal with the Zhou State. If the massacre was too fierce and the remnants of the Dongyi tribe fled into the mountains and forests, then when fighting against the Zhou State, these people would stab the knife in the back. After their country was destroyed, their families were destroyed, and they were slaves. As long as they were slaves, they could sacrifice to the Evil Heaven Emperor as human animals at any time, and they did not have to fight."
Hei Rou smiled slightly: "This reason is really good. As a slave, he specializes in war. Once he has made mistakes, he can be used as a human being. Then, killing men and keeping women, and slowly integrating the mixed blood. After hundreds of years, the patriarchal blood ties of these slave races were basically cut off, leaving only the descendants of the Shang Dynasty. Only then will these places be completely controlled."
Dou Peng raised his eyebrows: "The place is big, but it has become a citizen of the Shang Dynasty. It is unlikely that he will sacrifice casually as a slave. This is still a problem."
The ancestor laughed and waved his hand: "These are not worth worrying. If it really comes to this point, we can continue to expand outward. Besides, even the Shang Dynasty people have become slaves for various reasons. What's more, if the guardian god of the Dongyi tribe disappears, the incense he originally supplied to him can also be converted to the Evil Heavenly Emperor." (End of this chapter)