The king of the Zhou people is here.

Along with this king of Zhou, there were more than 160 princes and tribal leaders. They had come to attend the king's pro-government ceremony.

The gates of the city were slowly opened, and a group of soldiers in cowhide armor rushed in, holding long ge, urging horses, and the banner was clear.

The recalcitrant merchants who crowded the inner city were terrified, hiding behind the tall buildings and looking around.

The Zhou soldiers seemed to turn a blind eye to these merchants, and entered the predetermined position without squinting, not moving at all.

Immediately afterwards, a more majestic guard of honor, all dressed in cowhide armor, dressed in scarlet robes, drove into the royal city with the sound of hooves.

Then, the civil and military officials of the Zhou people walked into the royal city with solemn expressions, and came to the tall altar in the inner city, divided into two columns without squinting, waiting for their king.

King Zhou Cheng entered the city.

He rode slowly in a four-horse chariot. The four red horses snorted as they walked, looking left and right, looking energetic.

King Zhou Cheng was followed by those princes and tribal leaders.

When these people saw the devastated new city, they were stunned.

The unfinished complex has been demolished, and the wide streets are littered with piles of bones, human and animal droppings, bronze blades, and dried corpses crawling with flies.

The entire Xinwang City stinks and is a mess.

Just when everyone was frowning and covering their noses, someone found those recalcitrant people who were probing their brains. They had been tormented by hunger and fear, and they were glazed-eyed, scrawny, and alive like a flock of plucked crows.

Those former nobles had long lost the courage to fight, and in the face of the young king of the Zhou people and the more than 160 princes and tribal leaders, their eyes were evasive, helpless, and seemed a little shy.

More than half of the 100,000 recalcitrant merchants were killed by their own people, and the remaining less than 20,000 were crowded into the inner city, surrounded by the Zhou people's soldiers, like lambs driven into the sheepfold.

King Zhou Cheng raised his arm slightly, and the chariot stopped.

The young king looked at the strange scene in front of him with some confusion, frowned slightly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Someone next to him immediately stepped forward quickly, bowed down and replied: "The royal city is newly built, and it has not yet been opened, and it can only be completed after the grand ceremony of worshipping heaven and earth and the temple of the prince's government." Unexpectedly, the recalcitrant people of Shang actually infiltrated the royal city, wreaked havoc, and even prepared blades in an attempt to assassinate the king and all the princes and leaders. It's an unforgivable sin! ”

King Zhou Cheng half-squinted, glanced at those recalcitrant merchants, and was speechless for a long time.

"These descendants of merchants are so hateful, not only do they have bad intentions, but they also damage the altar and the temple, they should be sacrificed alive!"

"Yes, the living sacrifice!"

"Cheng Wang Mingrui, Zhou Gong is benevolent, but these remnants of the Shang Dynasty can be spoiled, and it is most appropriate to use the blood of these evil people to make living sacrifices!"

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The accompanying princes and tribal leaders were filled with righteous indignation, and they were eager to go up and skin these relict people with their own hands.

King Zhou Cheng's eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Among the civil and military officials, there was an old man with gray hair, the regent Zhou Gongdan. With a gloomy face, he slowly walked up to an earthen platform and looked coldly at those recalcitrant merchants.

"You, recalcitrant people! The ancestors of your merchants, looking up to the body of the Xuanniao, looking down on the difficulties of all things and people, establishing a country in commerce and trade, rich all over the world, powerful in all directions, creating a great business for hundreds of years. ”

This regent is full of energy, and his voice has spread for miles, and he is extremely powerful.

"Stay in the tyranny, the wine pond and the meat forest, appoint traitors, listen to women's words, do absurd things, brutalize the loyal and good, reckless soldiers, worship ghosts and witches, sacrifice and martyrdom, extremely cruel, and greatly hurt the way of heaven!"

"You and other recalcitrant people, participating in the three prisons, causing chaos. I, Wang Delong, give you land and continue the ancestral worship. You are unkind, don't think about your own faults, covet pleasure, drunk and dream of death. Harboring evil intentions, destroying my royal city, and defiling my altar, the sin deserves to be punished! ”

Zhou Gongdan finished speaking with a solemn expression and heartache, closed his eyes tightly, looked up to the sky, and burst into tears.

The royal city was silent, and the people were silent.

Even those recalcitrant people who shy back from business, under Zhou Gongdan's heart-wrenching and severe reprimand, hung their heads silently, and some even cried with sobs.

Zhou Gongdan turned around, bowed to King Cheng, and said in a deep voice: "The Great King City, which has not yet been opened, has been destroyed by these recalcitrant people who are inferior to pigs and dogs. This is the fault of the minister, pray for the king to punish the crime! ”

King Zhou Cheng stood in the car, and there was a hint of anger on his young face. His fists clenched in his sleeves, and his joints turned a little white.

However, the king of the Zhou people endured his inexplicable anger and looked at the new royal city that had been made beyond recognition by the recalcitrant people of the merchants.

He suddenly smiled, turned his head to the regent Zhou Gongdan, and asked Wen Yan, "Then in your opinion, what should you do?" ”

Zhou Gongdan stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "I, Wang Rende, do not want to hurt the way of heaven with my killing. But these depraved and unscrupulous people are no different from the barbarians, and since they have defiled my king's new city, they must cleanse them of filth with their blood. ”

King Cheng nodded slightly and said, "According to the meaning of Duke Zhou?" ”

"Living sacrifice!"

As soon as Zhou Gongdan's words came out, not only the recalcitrant people of the merchant relics showed despair, but even the more than 160 princes and tribal leaders who came to congratulate were also stunned.

Since King Wen, the Zhou people have been committed to preaching the way of heaven and abolished dozens of "bad habits" such as living sacrifices and burials, so they have attracted the princes of the world to return. At this moment, in the face of the recalcitrant people of the merchants, Zhou Gongdan brought up the matter of living sacrifice again, and it is no wonder that everyone looked sideways.

King Cheng smiled imperceptibly and said, "It is rare that the descendants of the King of Shang appear in front of the people of the world in this way and participate in my pro-government ceremony. Don't mention the matter of the living sacrifice again. Just kill those who are the most evildoers, and as for the others, when the pro-government ceremony is over, it is better to send them back to Luoyi. After this, they will come to their senses and no longer rise in evil. ”

King Cheng's young and gentle face, illuminated by the early morning sun, showed a touch of solemnity and solemnity, which impressed everyone.

Zhou Gongdan was slightly stunned, then knelt on the ground, seemed to cry with joy, and said loudly: "I, Wang Rende, can forgive these shameless people, it is really the blessing of the people in the world, the blessing of all the people in the ten directions!" Brilliant Great Zhou, Dominate Heaven and Earth. Wenwu becomes the king, the world Xianning! ”

With Zhou Gongdan's praise, the princes, tribal leaders, civil and military officials, and tens of thousands of soldiers knelt down in the dust one after another, and shouted three times: The civil and military become kings, and the world is Xianning!

Even those recalcitrant people who lost their souls and fell to their knees, muttering to themselves: "The civil and military are kings, and the world is ...... Xianning"