In fact, in Chen Zhi's own consciousness, he yearned deeply for the legendary ancient Shang Dynasty.
They have experienced so much before, starting from the Tomb of the Sky Fox God, they have been surrounding this ancient dynasty.
Everything, all right and wrong, including the fate Jiang Ziya placed on Chen Zhi, are inextricably linked to this ancient dynasty!!
He had long wanted to take a look at what this era of coexistence of gods and humans would be like, and what the legendary Shang Dynasty monarch looked like...
The Shang Dynasty was a rather mythical dynasty. It existed from about 1600 BC to about 1046 BC. It was the second dynasty in Chinese history and the first dynasty in China to have direct written records.
People call the Shang Dynasty a divine dynasty, and the period before the Shang Dynasty was a mythical period!
During the period of Emperor Shun of the Five Emperors, Qi, the ancestor of the merchants, helped Yu to control floods and was granted the title of Shangyi. The location was Shangqiu, Henan Province today.
Therefore, merchants used "Shang" to refer to their tribes or clans. After the Xia was destroyed in the Battle of Mingtiao, they took "Shang" as their country name and established the Shang Dynasty.
The Shang Dynasty ruled for a very long time and went through three major stages.
The first stage is "Pre-Shang". Because the first generation of kings is so ancient, most of them are not recorded.
The second stage is the "Early Shang"; the third stage is the "Late Shang", which is passed down to 17 generations and 31 kings, lasting more than 500 years.
Now many historians believe that the real time is far longer than this number.
For a long time in the past, many historians in China even doubted the existence of the Shang Dynasty, and expressed extreme doubts about some cultural relics handed down from that time.
They believed that the legends in the Shang Dynasty were a bit too bizarre and contained many exaggerated elements.
The architectural drawings that have been handed down now are incomparably exquisite and ingenious, especially some of the buildings in King Chaoge City, which are difficult to realize even now and far exceeded the restrictions of the dynasty at that time.
Many scholars don't believe that the ancients who drank hair and blood could have such wisdom.
So I suspected that the so-called Shang Dynasty was fabricated by later generations, and those architectural drawings were forged by later generations, which could not be realized at all.
When such views became more and more intense, Yin Xu was suddenly discovered.
Yin Ruins, formerly known as "Northern Mongolia", is the site of the capital city of the late Shang Dynasty in China, located in Anyang City, Henan Province.
In the 14th year of Pan Geng, Pan Geng, the 19th monarch of the Shang Dynasty, moved his capital to Northern Mongolia and changed the name of "Northern Mongolia" to "Yin".
Since then, Yin has been the political, economic, cultural, and military center of China's late Shang Dynasty.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Yin Ruins site was discovered by the world, and many cultural relics from the Shang Dynasty were excavated.
In 1928, the archaeological excavation of the Yin Ruins officially began, and a large number of capital building ruins and rich cultural relics represented by oracle bones and bronzes were unearthed.
Those words and engravings systematically displayed the splendid civilization of China's late Shang Dynasty.
About 150,000 oracle bones with inscriptions have been unearthed. The information recorded in this article advances the credible written history of China to the Shang Dynasty, and also gave rise to a new discipline - oracle bone science.
Some scholars deciphered the oracle bone inscriptions and found that some of the written records were surprisingly similar to the legends of later generations.
These include some myths and legends, as well as the origins of ancient families, making people begin to wonder whether those ancient myths really happened.
Those texts also mentioned some construction and metallurgical technologies that are currently undecipherable, as well as some information on the use of witchcraft and spells.
The content is detailed, complete and highly logical.
This is not comparable to ordinary superstition...
The initial assumptions about gods also started from those discoveries...
Chen Zhi once found records about the social hierarchy of that period in some precious armor tablets in Xiqi.
A slave owner can own multiple slaves, and can do anything with the slaves, including buying and selling, doing hard labor, and even giving them as gifts to others for burial.
The ruling class at that time had very strange descriptions. If you study them in detail, it is obvious that there are more or less traces of gods.
At that time, Chen Zhi thought that if he had the chance, he would really like to see what this civilized era where humans and gods coexisted would be like.
In the team, Ji Ying was the last one to come down, and Ji Ying followed Chen Zhi down.
Unlike others, she did not fall to the ground when she jumped. Her consciousness was very clear from beginning to end.
After she saw the fireballs in front of her, she fell into silence, her eyes swaying with the fireballs, and her mind calculating the time difference.
When everyone was stable, she patted Fat Wei:
"I'll lead the way!
Everyone is following me. I just calculated that there is a two-second gap between these fireballs.
But the speed of these fireballs is too fast, and many trajectories are temporarily changed, so everyone should follow me closely.
You must not let these fires touch you. Their temperature is too high and they will be burned to ashes as soon as you touch them. Don't take any chances."
"Well, okay, I know!",
Fat Wei nodded seriously from behind, and then waved his hand to indicate that everyone agreed to line up.
They lined up in a long queue, with each person putting his arm around the shoulders of the person in front, and followed Ji Ying in a long queue.
In the following time, they ran forward at extremely fast speeds, and at the same time, those hot fireballs roared in their ears like falling stars.
Ji Ying's reaction speed is extremely fast, and she can always find a long gap in the shuttle of fireballs.
Soon, they passed through this long and dangerous fire road and headed straight into the darkness ahead.
The huge Muchen Bead was getting closer and bigger, and the ruins in the darkness were already in front of us.
Finally, when Chen Zhi saw the plaque hanging on Shang Tian's womb, it gradually became clear.
The magnificent mythical royal city gradually appeared in front of them...