Black Rooster bit his lips tightly, shook his head constantly, and said, "No matter what, people cannot betray their father. This is a ruthless act. Compared with Zhou State, Bo Yikao did not hesitate to pay for his life to save his father, and even the Zhou people understood the truth. How could this dignified Shang Dynasty prince not understand? Besides, King Zhou wanted to stay away from the gods and ancestors, stay away from them, let humans decide their own destiny, and let the Shang Dynasty truly expand and occupy the conquered land from then on, instead of just treating people as sacrifices and prey, and forever make unresolved blood feuds with the surrounding alien races. Isn't this correct?"
The ancestor sighed softly: "Heronor Black Robe, you said it very reasonably, but you ignored one thing, that is, the person Wu Geng was closest to was his teacher, not his father, and this teacher was a famous saint of the Shang Dynasty, Bigan."
Black Rou was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak. After a long time, Dou Peng shook his head and said, "So that's it, then all this is natural. King Zhou wanted to carry out reforms, reforms, and stay away from gods and ancestors. Then he would be strongly rebounded in the country. Bigan was a saint of the Shang Dynasty, which also meant that he was the one who adhered to the ancient methods and ancestral teachings of the Shang Dynasty. Perhaps out of compassion, he agreed to reduce the scale and frequency of sacrifices, but if he completely gave up sacrifices and abandoned the Zhenren and noble groups who made a living by sacrifices, this would be something Bigan would never agree to. The fundamental contradiction between him and King Zhou probably came from this."
Heibo murmured to himself: "That's it. As a saint and minister of the Shang Dynasty, Bi Gan was the most suitable candidate to teach the prince in any aspect. King Zhou fought all year round, and since ancient times there was a saying that the two dragons did not meet each other. This made him become closer and closer to Bi Gan, who was conservative in his ideological traditions and abide by the ancient laws of the Shang Dynasty. The evil emperor was integrated by the gods of the ghosts. Even the nobles of the Shang Dynasty did not know whether he was the original ancestor, Hai. What King Zhou did was to conquer the Dongyi but gave the Dongyi people high-standard treatment and benefits. This practice of alienating relatives, violating the ancient laws, and turning enemies into friends with previous enemies was something that Bi Gan and those nobles of the Shang Dynasty could not accept."
The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "Yes, Bigan is not as compassionate and compassionate as later generations imagined. He is the most traditional Shang Dynasty nobleman. He should be kind to his own people. However, for the enemies of the Shang Dynasty, he advocated killing all of them, not leaving any one. Even if he did not kill for the time being, it was for later sacrifices to his ancestors. In his opinion, the enemies of the Shang Dynasty killed many Shang Dynasty soldiers. Only by killing them all can they atone for the sins. The ancestors and gods bless their descendants and soldiers to achieve victory. The best reward for them is to use the lives of the enemy and their souls to meet the survival needs of their ancestors."
The cloak curled his lips: "So, Bigan firmly opposed King Zhou's practice of abolishing sacrifices? But didn't he know that just launching a war for human sacrifices, he could not manage these newly conquered lands, and he would also have more and more enemies with the four barbarians, and he would have become deeper and deeper. In the end, there will always be enemies in the world and attacked by the crowd?"
The ancestor said seriously: "Bigan's idea is to let his ancestors and gods bless the Shang Dynasty's tribe members, so that they have many children and grandchildren. Only the descendants born by the Shang Dynasty are the true bloodline of the Shang Dynasty. Those foreigners and foreign races will have different hearts and will rebel sooner or later. Even if they surrender for a while, they will rebel over time. Just like Fengyi and Xin Kingdom back then, they were once the most reliable ally of the Shang Dynasty. We have married each other for generations. Didn't we take the opportunity to rebel when we saw the decline of the Shang Dynasty? In the end, it was only through the power of the Shang Dynasty to defend the king. It was like the battle in Huozhou Canyon, although there was a Fu Hao taking Huaiyi with him.
To assist in the war, but the backbone of the real victory was not still relying on the army of the Shang Dynasty, and did there be ancestors like Cheng Tang? What Bigan was really dissatisfied with was King Zhou abandoning the basic structure of the Shang Dynasty and suppressing the nobles of the Shang Dynasty to please the former enemies of the Dongyi tribe. Before his death, he told King Zhou and Wu Geng that Wu Ding had also temporarily formed an alliance with other countries such as Fu Hao Huaiyi and Peng and Wei, but Wu Ding knew in his heart that these were still enemies and would be eliminated after exploitation. Only the people of the Shang Dynasty, especially the nobles, constitute the basic structure of the Shang Dynasty."
Hei Rou nodded: "This Bigan makes sense. Although it is said that expansion still requires population in the end, it is still clear who should be the main body and who should be the core. In ancient times, conflicts between tribes were mostly men who killed each other, leaving women behind, giving birth to children for the tribe, and the people who gave birth to tribes were not regarded as alien bloodlines. Bigan wanted it, probably that's what Bigan wanted."
The cloak curled his lips: "Killing men and keeping women is a common practice. However, the men of the Shang Dynasty have been fighting everywhere. I am afraid there are no gunmen like the ancient tribes. They have been thriving in the country. King Zhou wanted to directly make the Dongyi tribe like Eilai to be loyal to them. From then on, he became a merchant. He took a big step, but the starting point was good. If a country attaches great importance to ancestors and sacrifices than normal agriculture and handicraft production, then there will be big problems sooner or later. As the ancestor said, the longer the time, the more ancestors, the more gods they have to worship. In the end, they can only be unable to afford it."
The ancestor said calmly: "There is no way, because there are more and more descendants of the Shang Dynasty, and the nobles have more and more descendants. They have to arrange their descendants to do things, and do not have to suffer hardships and engage in production labor, nor risk their lives to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. The best way is to be an official, and the other is to be a priest or a zhenren. However, the number of official positions is limited, but the size of the priest can be expanded as the ancestors become more and more. The more frequent sacrifices are, the more you can
The greater the demand for the priests and Zhenren, the greater the demand for it, it would have become a big thing by the time of King Zhou. The huge priests and Zhenren group have become a heavy burden for the country. In order to meet their sacrificial needs, they have been hunting people and enemies with the world. Therefore, King Zhou’s real opponent is no longer the Zhou Kingdom or the Four Barbarians, but the Zhenren nobles in the country. This is also the reason why he finally defeated the world's infamy and even if Zhou Kingdom is let go, he would still kill Bigan."
Hei Pao sighed: "So, King Zhou is still a little too anxious. He killed Bigan and offended the priests and Zhenren nobles across the country. They turned to support Wu Geng to replace King Zhou." (The end of this chapter)