On the street, Ji Fa personally led the horse, and Liu Xiu sat on the horse safely without any refusal.
This is not the Ming and Qing Dynasties, where the king could defeat his ministers.
In this era, when kings met their ministers, they were treated with great courtesy.
Liu Xiu did not refuse. He was an outsider who came to Xiqi rashly and joined the Zhou Kingdom without any prestige at all.
And Ji Fa's behavior of leading the horse just enhanced his prestige.
With prestige, everything is easy to say; without prestige, everything is difficult to say.
Soon after, he was worshiped as "Shangfu" and Taishi. Ji Fa, Zhou Gongdan and others successively asked for advice on how to govern the country and how to fight in the army. Liu Xiu responded. Then, he began to farm and build high walls.
If you accumulate food widely, you will not be king.
It develops quietly and in a low-key manner.
At this time, writing was mainly spread among shamans and Zhu Zhu, and most nobles were illiterate. When important events happened, most of them were engraved on tortoise shells, animal bones, or bronze vessels.
Liu Xiu made bamboo slips, made writing brushes, made ink, and started the era of bamboo slips.
Then, he taught the way of farming and fighting.
The Zhou people were in a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral state and were unfamiliar with farming. Liu Xiu taught the Zhou people how to farm and increased grain production.
Affected by the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the Zhou people also popularized human sacrifice and human sacrifice. Human sacrifice and human sacrifice caused the Zhou Kingdom to lose a large number of people. Liu Xiu promulgated a decree prohibiting human sacrifice and human sacrifice, and used pottery figurines instead of human sacrifice. The results were not good.
Even if it succeeds, people will still die, and human sacrifice will exist.
He persuaded Ji Fa many times, and Ji Fa gave many orders, but he still refused to change his evil ways.
Fortunately, with the promulgation of the law, the scale and number of human sacrifices have been decreasing.
It also encourages childbearing and increases population size.
Various policies were implemented to increase Zhou's population and grain production, which was the basis of the war.
They used new forging technology to improve the sharpness of bronze weapons and mass-produced them; they also built chariots to increase the number of Zhou's troops. Policies were being implemented one by one, and Zhou's national strength was recovering. In Licheng,
The population and troops lost in defeat are slowly recovering.
He also bribed the officials of the Shang Dynasty with heavy sums of money and surrendered to King Zhou, so that the Shang Dynasty could relax its vigilance and expand to the east with peace of mind.
After ten years of gatherings and ten years of lessons, the former babies grew up and became soldiers.
In the past, Ji Fa, who was still a young man, turned into a middle-aged man.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the good news has come. Grand Master Bi Gan and Young Master Ji Zi came to our Zhou Kingdom and leaked a lot of information about the Yin and Shang Dynasties!" On this day, Liu Xiu congratulated, "These two people have to rely on our Zhou people.
With the power, destroy Emperor Xin!"
"Bigan and Jizi are both Emperor Xin's uncles. How can they rebel against Shang?"
Ji Fa didn't believe it.
"The Yin and Shang Dynasties experienced the chaos of the Nine Dynasties. Brother-killing, regicide, father-killing, etc. all happened!" Liu Xiudao said: "It is rumored that these two people are in vain and have limited talents. Emperor Xin abandoned them,
The reuse of civilians arouses their dissatisfaction, so they rebel against business!"
Ji Fa still couldn't believe it and went to ask in person.
As a result, Bigan, Jizi and others told Ji Fa all the information about the Shang Dynasty. The continuous battles caused the Shang army to suffer heavy losses.
At this moment, Chaoge is empty. If a single elite soldier is sent to Chaoge, Chaoge will be destroyed.
Bigan said: "Di Xin was cruel and unkind. He despised the clan, was close to women, and despised ancestor sacrifices. Please send troops to the King of Zhou to kill the tyrant Di Xin and restore justice to the Shang Dynasty!"
Jizi also said: "Emperor Xin has no way, please ask the king of Zhou to attack him!"
The two of them continued talking about King Zhou's sins.
After Liu Xiu heard this, he felt a bit like "borrowing teachers to help suppress".
Bigan and Jizi talked a lot, and Liu Xiu understood more and more as he listened.
At this moment, the Shang Dynasty was facing a split. On one side was the King Zhou faction, and on the other side were Bigan, Jizi, Weizi and other factions.
The two major factions were fighting, and it was difficult to say who was right and who was wrong. The result was that Di Xin had the upper hand, while Bigan, Jizi, Weizi and others lost. These people were unwilling to fail, so they went to the West.
Ask Zhou for help and ask for help from his teachers to suppress it.
Relying on the power of the Zhou army, Emperor Xin was driven out, and then Bigan, Jizi and others were appointed to the throne.
After talking for a while, Bigan, Jizi and others left.
"Father Shang, this is an opportunity." Ji Fa said.
"Be careful of fraud. If we fall into a counter-intentional scheme, our Zhou army may be in danger of being destroyed!" Liu Xiu warned.
"But, I am unwilling to accept it!" Ji Fa said.
Liu Xiudao: "It's better to call all the princes to gather in Mengjin and test one or two. If the Shang Dynasty is really weak, you can march to Chaoge; if it's false, you can retreat!"
Ji Fa said: "Father Shang is right!"
The State of Zhou is mobilizing and its armies are gathering, heading east. At the same time, the allies of the State of Zhou are also gathering one after another.
The army was mobilizing, and the Zhou army dispatched 80,000 elite troops, gathering at Mengjin.
Eighty thousand elite soldiers, almost one-tenth of the population of the Zhou Kingdom, and all the men gathered here. Once the army is defeated in this battle, the Zhou Kingdom will fall into disaster and be in danger of subjugation.
Ji Fa felt heavy.
Liu Xiu also felt heavy.
Zhou Jun cannot afford to lose, but this kind of gambling must be carried out.
The Zhou Dynasty was weak, and its national strength, military strength, population, etc. were far inferior to those of the Shang Dynasty. If the weak could defeat the strong, they had to win by surprise, and they were doomed to continue taking risks and gambling.
Soon after, various allies also sent troops one after another to gather in Mengjin.
The princes gathered together and the army numbered 150,000.
Mengjin is less than four hundred miles away from Chaoge.
When the news reached Chaoge, Emperor Xin was shocked. Fortunately, there was evil to guard him.
After Di Xin panicked, he became calm again.
"Someone leaked information about our court!" A cold expression flashed across Di Xin's face and he left to investigate.
Information soon came. Bigan, Jizi and others colluded with the Zhou people and leaked the information, causing the Zhou people to march straight into Mengjin and threaten Chaoge.
Emperor Xin was furious and wanted to kill Bigan and Jizi, but he thought that they were uncles and if he killed them, they would be known as unkind, so he just exiled them.
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Boom, boom, boom!
The war drums sounded, and the coalition army and the merchant army met in Mengjin.
The chariots were roaring, charging towards each other; soldiers waving their long swords and charging towards each other; and high-level generals colliding with each other and fighting together. There was no ostentatious collision of infuriating energy, no astonishing shock waves, but extremely concentrated power.
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The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was Ji Fa, who led an army of 150,000 people; the commander-in-chief of the merchant army was Wei Lai, who led an army of 100,000 people.
The two sides fought hard for more than ten days.
As a result, the Allies were slightly at a disadvantage.
After more than ten years of training, the combat effectiveness of the Zhou army is not inferior to that of the Shang army. However, the combat effectiveness of Zhou Army's allies is far behind.
This battle was unfortunate. The Zhou army not only encountered a god-like opponent, E Lai, but also encountered pig-like allies.
"Your Majesty, withdraw your troops!"
Liu Xiu persuaded: "Some allies of the Shang Dynasty attacked Haojing and threatened the Zhou Dynasty; and there was a merchant general Fei Lian who attacked our army's rear. If we do not retreat, the entire army may be in danger of being destroyed!"
"I can't bear to be alone!"
Ji Fa said unwillingly.
Finally, he evacuated.
If they did not evacuate, the main force of the Zhou army might be completely annihilated. Ji Fa would also be captured by the merchants and sent to the Ancestral Temple to be executed as a sacrifice to the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty.