After walking out of this slender door, the world seems to have become slender.
Far above you can't see the top, you can only see misty white clouds, one after another, which makes people wonder whether their geographical location is in the sky or underground?
In a space where no height can be seen, people's attention will naturally focus on the front.
Ahead is a long and thin corridor, with gray and black relief patterns on both sides. Every doorway you see is a branch intersection.
From a structural point of view, this is a typical straight staircase building.
Chen Zhi has seen many ancient architectural drawings, and their design structures and concepts are very exquisite, especially some ancient architectural design drawings left over from the Shang Dynasty.
It's so subtle that one wonders whether it can really be achieved.
Among them, this tube-shaped building is a relatively typical one.
This kind of building is usually a monarch's mansion or a residential structure for princes and nobles.
The first floor is all open to the outside, like an exhibition hall.
Jewelry, exotic animals, valuable utensils, etc. are stored inside.
The host would meet with distinguished guests or friends here, or discuss matters, which is what we now call the hall.
The next floor basically belongs to the owner's private space. It contains the owner's bedroom, and the owner's family members all live there.
From the king's perspective, the king's wife, the queen, and the harem concubines will live there, which is the so-called harem.
This corridor is very private.
Princes, ministers, relatives, friends, and friends will all stop when they get here and dare not take a step beyond.
So the king himself usually walks here...
Chen Zhi still remembers what was recorded on those ancient architectural drawings.
The Shang Dynasty was a dynasty that attached great importance to the divine power of heaven. At that time, the five elements and eight trigrams and other secrets of heaven and earth were well preserved.
There are many gods and men in the world, and many people have the ability to spy on the secrets of heaven. Their astronomical skills are extremely developed, and they are called ancient rituals.
The ancient kings and nobles attached great importance to ancient ethics, and there was an important temple at the end of each floor, where an astrologer would live.
After the astrologer enters the house, he will never come out, divining the celestial phenomena for his master and controlling the good and bad luck of the family.
In order to prevent others from disturbing them, these gods often set up a maze outside their palaces.
This maze can block thousands of troops, and no one can enter except the owner.
So the astrologer at the entrance of the stairs is actually the gatekeeper of the harem.
This corridor is narrow and long...
As they walked forward, they felt like they were in a trance.
The long and quiet road can make people think wildly, and before they know it, everyone becomes very anxious.
There is even an intuition that once you enter here, you will never be able to return to the human world again.
Perhaps because of what Blue Ghost said before he died, Chen Zhi's heart has always been blocked.
He felt that maybe this time it was really the end.
Everything in the past few years, all the fate, including everything this bloodline has brought to him, will come to an end here!!
They moved forward steadily on this long road without encountering any dangers along the way.
But murals began to appear on the walls on both sides...
Those are some murals carved directly on gray stone flakes.
It is not exquisite workmanship, nor is it inlaid with precious stones. It is completely different from the luxurious and luxurious style of the Fox tribe!
But it is simple, simple, solemn and concise.
Perhaps this was the artistic style of human monarchs during the Shang Dynasty.
These murals are full of figures, flowers, birds, rare animals, and floating clouds, all recording the affairs of the royal family during the Shang Dynasty.
What is different from what is imagined is that there is nothing about gods in these murals, there is no shadow of the queen or the fox clan, and there is not even a woman.
Everything here is entirely about the human kings of the Shang Dynasty.
What is engraved on the front are the political achievements and meritorious deeds of the kings of the Shang Dynasty. Some are mentioned in legends, and some are unknown to later generations.
There is a large section of records later on, which are all about the political achievements of Emperor Xin, the king of Shang Zhou.
These reliefs are mainly pictures, with some words mixed in, and these words are all written in divine script!
Because of the spread of novels such as Fengshen Yanyi in the human world, the king Di Xin has been completely demonized.
Therefore, people have deep-rooted impressions of Emperor Xin, believing that he was greedy for money, lustful, murderous, fond of extravagant and extravagant life, and had no ability to govern the country.
When looking at the emperor Di Xin from these ancient murals, there will be a strong contrast, making people feel that everything they knew before has been completely subverted.
The murals began to record the time when Di Xin was born.
Describes the status of his parents at that time.
Di is the youngest son of Di Yi, who was favored by his father and made him his heir.
Emperor Yi loved this son very much, calling him "the son of capable virtue" and thinking that he was the hope of the Shang Dynasty.
Di Xin lived up to his father's expectations. When he grew up, he was talented, eloquent, quick in action, and powerful.
At a young age, he was able to fight with ferocious beasts with his bare hands, and his wisdom was enough to put adults to shame...
When Emperor Yi died, Xin succeeded to the throne, and everyone in the world called him "Zhou".
From then on, there was King Zhou of Shang.
What was later recorded were the contributions of the young Di Xin in the political, military, economic and other fields.
In that era, military was the most important thing.
Two years after Emperor Xin ascended the throne, he began to prepare for the conquest.
He first made allies, ordered Bi Qi to go to the territory of Yuen to issue political decrees, hunt in the fields of Yongdi, and presented a pair of animal skins to the chief of the territory of Yuen.
In the tenth year of Emperor Xin's campaign against the Yi Fang, the merchant army entered the country of You in the Huaihe River Basin, and joined forces with You Hou Xi of the country to attack and defeat the Yi Fang army.
In the fifteenth year of Emperor Xin's reign, Emperor Xin resumed his campaign against the Yi Fang, which lasted nearly a year until the world was finally settled.
In terms of economy, Emperor Xin focused on agriculture and commerce.
At the same time, business development and business selection began.
He advised the nobles to be simple and precious in food, and as an example, he often lived in simple food and clothing, and gave good clothes and food to his subjects.
In terms of politics, Emperor Xin weakened the divine power and opposed the bad habit of human sacrifice.
The "Xiaochen" group was reused and promoted a group of people who were not from the official family. Some of their names can still be seen in historical records.
For example, Fei Lian, E Lai, Fei Zhong, You Hun, Zuo Jiang, etc.
It's just that these familiar names have become traitorous officials in the legends of later generations.
Di Xin was not a reckless man, he realized the importance of the law.
Promote legal reforms, while respecting theocratic authority, and use legal punishment to free the internal and external populations of all ethnic groups from theocratic control and bring them under their direct control.
At the same time, severe punishments were used to suppress nobles' rebellion and private power accumulation.
Finally, he strictly implemented the weekly sacrifice system, fixed and narrowed the scope of sacrifices to gods, and gradually took control of the spirit into his own hands.
Walking along this corridor, Chen Zhi really didn't see any of the legendary tyrants who were lustful, violent, and obsessed with women.
On the contrary, he saw a very wise ancient monarch!
Chen Zhi knew that in that era when humans and gods lived together, the rights of the gods were supreme.
At that time, the human monarch was like an existence caught in the cracks. There was very little he could do and very little power he could control.
From what Di Xin did, we can see that Di Xin was very politically wise.
He was relaxed and relaxed, and did not offend the authority of the gods. He tried his best to rule within the scope of his own activities.
From this perspective, he is definitely an excellent monarch...