319 Wind and rain
In the face of internal disasters and strong enemies, the Shang State went through several capital moves, and built a large number of temples to worship the Nüwa sage who created the human race and other human sages, hoping to ease relations with the surrounding countries. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After hundreds of years of hard work, the Shang state finally stabilized in general.
However, the stability of the Shang State was not due to how powerful it was, conquering the surrounding countries and resolving the internal contradictions, but after many Fang States found their own religion to protect the country, these sects that were born into the Heavenly Way and did not advocate useless war restrained the attacks of these Fang States against the Shang State.
Moreover, the price of the stability of the Shang State was that the capital was moved several times in the past three hundred years, from Bo to the hustle and bustle, from the hustle and bustle, from the Xiang to Xing, from Xing to the shelter, from the shelter to the dying, until the Shang king Pangeng moved the capital from the dying, to Yindi, and the situation of the Shang State stabilized.
Not to mention the huge manpower and material resources that have been spent, it has also lost a lot of land that had just destroyed the Xia Kingdom and was at its peak!
This is still with the help of many sect disciples, who can lose a lot of territory, otherwise, the Shang State may lose all the occupied Xia Kingdom's homeland!
During the reign of Shang King Pangeng, the national strength of the Shang Kingdom was greatly restored and made great progress. The Shang also rearmament and began to conquer the surrounding states that did not obey the Shang again.
Under the leadership of Pan Geng and the next two monarchs, King Wu Ding of Shang, the Shang state reached its heyday.
The country is stable and the military is strong, and many famous generals have emerged, such as women, Kong Yu, Yu Hua and others. Under the leadership of these famous generals, the merchant army defeated many surrounding Fang countries almost without the strength to fight back, and they surrendered to the Shang countries one after another!
Later, under the auspices of Fu Shuo, the famous minister of the Shang king Wuding, the Shang State combined the surrounding subjugated Fang states into a four-sided Fang State Alliance, with four stronger Fang countries as the alliance leaders, and the lords of these four Fang countries were given the title of marquis, called the Sifang Prince.
They are the Eastern Bohou Jiang State, the Southern Bohou Eguo, the Western Bohou Zhou State, and the Northern Bohou Chongguo.
Among them, Jiang Guo was reorganized by the Jiang tribe from the Terran Emperor Lieshan, and the Zhou State was reorganized by the descendants of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan Ji.
Then the Quartet guards the border of the Quartet for the Shang State and organizes foreign wars, and the Shang State coordinates in the middle.
The Shang State developed steadily for a period of time under the condition that there were famous generals inside to guard the land and four uncles to be pacified outside.
Meantime. The officials within the Shang State also underwent considerable changes: the Shang kings began to call themselves kings, and the Sifang Earls became the four nominal dukes and actual marquis of the Shang State at the same time.
However, after the death of the Shang king Wu Ding, the successor Shang king once again showed a mediocre and incompetent performance, which made the national strength of the Shang state begin to decline!
It's just that because there are four Bohou countries guarding the surrounding area, the Shang country has no more enemies from all sides, and it can still maintain stability. And they can also have the ability to send troops out to fight.
It's just that the more the merchant army conquers, the more unstable the surroundings become!
Moreover, the kings of the Shang State since Wuding were also mediocre, and there were major political mistakes one after another, which made the domestic contradictions intensify again!
The slaves who were captured during the Shang army's expedition to the Four Faces Kingdom became more and more contradictory to the people of the Shang Kingdom because of their cruel labor and different beliefs, and several popular riots broke out one after another!
The merchant army had no choice but to go out again to suppress the rebellion.
And the continuous internal turmoil has caused the national strength of the Shang State to continue to decline!
By the time of Emperor Yi of the Shang Dynasty, there was a large-scale invasion of the Southern Fang Kingdom in the Shang Kingdom!
The army of the southern state that attacked the Shang State reached the scale of hundreds of thousands, and Nan Bohou could not resist it at all, so he hurriedly asked the Shang State for help. It's just that Di Yi is not a brave monarch, and some of the six gods have no master when he suddenly encounters a big enemy!
At the suggestion of Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu and others, who were generals in the army at the time. Shang hurriedly requisitioned the army of Xibohou and went south to cooperate with the campaign.
With the combined efforts of Hubei, Shang, and Wednesday, it was only after a series of battles that the invading armies of the southern countries were defeated.
Although in the southern battlefield, the Shang State won the final victory, and a brave prince and son Shou also emerged, but it also exposed the embarrassment of the Shang State.
Just when Emperor Yi of Shang passed the throne of Shang to Zishou and called Zishou Emperor Xin, the Sifang Kingdom took advantage of the change of kings of Shang and attacked again!
And the new Shang king, Di Xin, is a brave and calm monarch!
decisively sent Xibohou Jichang to lead the army of two hundred large and small Fang countries in the west to crusade against the army of Fang Guo in the northwest; sent Taishi Wen Zhong and general Huang Feihu to join forces with Beibohou Chonghou Hu to lead two hundred large and small Fang countries in the north to crusade against the army of Fang Guo in the northeast; ordered Nan Bohou and Ehou and Ehou Chongyu to lead the two hundred large and small armies in the south that submitted to the Shang State to stabilize the southern situation; He led the army and personally went to join forces with Jiang Huan Chu, the Marquis of Dongbo. Commander in chief of the armies of the two hundred large and small countries in the east, and crusade against the Lai Yi army in the east!
Di Xin had his own considerations for arranging this: many Fang states in the south had just been defeated by the Shang and Zhou armies and the Hu army. This time the attack must be a lack of military strength and a bluff, and the commander-in-chief of Nan Bohou led an army of 200 square countries and could not hold it firmly enough to stabilize the situation in the south.
The Zhou army of Xibohou showed strong combat ability when quelling the war in the south, and the army of 200 large and small countries in the west was enough to deal with the situation in the west.
And in this way, it can also consume some of the national strength of the Zhou State, killing two birds with one stone.
The military ability of the Northern Bohou Chonghou Hu was insufficient, but he sent the Taishi Wen Zhong and the general Huang Feihu, two veteran generals and elite merchant troops who had been fighting for many years. Gather the armies of two hundred large and small Fang countries in the north, and at least they can be evenly matched with the Fang countries that invade from the north.
He personally led the army and Jiang Huanchu, the Eastern Bohou, to lead the army of the two hundred large and small Fang countries in the east, and first defeated the Laiyi army that came from the east with a thunderous force, and then waved the army north, so that he could quickly settle down on both sides.
Just when the Terran region was in turmoil, a major event also happened in Heavenly Court!
Just ten jiazi are about to pass the time. But there was still no news that a suitable person had been found to preside over the gods, and when the two Heavenly Venerables in the Heavenly Court, Haotian and Yaochi, were in a hurry, a black shadow flew outside the Heavenly Court!
A huge black bear with two huge wings flew from the far east to the Nantian Gate and fell into shape, but it turned into a white-headed old man wearing a soapy black robe with kind eyebrows.
The old man shouted loudly at the South Heavenly Gate: "Please report to all the Heavenly Court soldiers, and it is said that the Flying Bear Lu Shang has come to meet the two Heavenly Court Heavenly Venerables on the order of the Eastern Prince!" (To be continued.) )