History, like Schrödinger's poor cat, is forever in a state of plausible superposition in time and space. It is only at the moment when the historian opens the book and begins to study it that the true state of history is finally condensed. But this condensation is not constant and cannot be verified by repeated experiments, as one ancient Greek physicist noted: "One cannot study the same history twice!" ”

Therefore, if the reader mistakenly compares the history, geography, humanities, arts, science, and all other natural and non-natural subjects involved in this article with the time and space in which the reader lives, even if only because they seem so similar, and believes it to be true, the author will never be held responsible for the potentially catastrophic consequences of such an act, nor will he admit that he is wrong. You must know that this article does not have any central idea, nor does it express any ideological content.

- Ma Boyong

The above is the preface that Ma Boyong wrote for his own article, "The History of the Mayan Conquest of the Yin Shang Fleet" is a good book, I am not as talented as his young talents, so I think it is necessary to write a preface for myself.

It is a very cunning thing to choose the history of the Xia Shang Zhou to write, in fact, basically no one can figure out what happened in that era, more than ten years ago, the discipline plan of the Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty Project carried out by our country has solved many of these problems.

But it is still a much-criticized conclusion, and a very torturous conclusion for the Pythagorean stream like us.

The main work completed by this project is the historical chronology, deducing the time of the reign of the monarchs of the Xia, Shang and Zhou, I hastily calculated, if this inference is correct, then King Zhou Li may be in his 40s to give birth to King Zhou Xuan, King Zhou Xuan gave birth to King Zhou You at the age of fifty, and King Zhou You had a prince at the age of seventeen, which is obviously stronger than his fathers.

This order and logical relationship is so abnormal that I believe that until now, no one has really figured out what happened to the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou.

Sima Qian's historical records write this history like a very grand house fight, since the mother of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor gave birth to them, so the whole house fight kicked off, and the entire Chinese civilization was multiplied and developed in this family of people who came and went to fight for power and push each other.

The three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou have unified the entire Central Plains respectively, and coexisted after the three emperors and five emperors. If Sima Qian's analysis of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties is correct, then the civilization of the Three Dynasties, which has occupied thousands of years, will be a competition between several clans of one family.

According to McLuhan, the master of communication studies, we judge the breadth of the world by the speed at which information spreads.

In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, which were extremely underdeveloped in terms of scientific civilization, the speed of information transmission depended on the speed of transportation.

Therefore, for the extremely primitive human beings living in a slave society, the Heluo region as a political and cultural center should be equivalent to their whole world.

The world is so big that it is within the reach of our steps.

The only communication equipment of the Zhou Dynasty was the beacon, which could only indicate whether something happened or not through 1 or 0, which still had considerable limitations.

At that time, the means of transportation were mainly on foot, so it is impossible to know the progress of the Xia, Shang and Zhou civilizations after several hundred years passed since Sima Qian, as a descendant, after Confucius destroyed most of the historical books and re-wrote them.

Don't say it's Sima Qian, even if you go back to Xia Shang Zhou, it's hard to say whether the king who occupied the top of the information at that time could know everything that happened at that time!

So the cunning thing about choosing the history of Xia Shang Zhou to write is that I am right no matter how I say it, because no one can prove that I am wrong.

My good impression of the civilization of the Zhou Dynasty basically comes from, "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; It is the proposition of this concept that, to a certain extent, paved the way for the Qin Dynasty to unify the six countries, and the Qin Dynasty finally realized this concept.

In the same way, my good impression of King Youyou of Zhou also comes from the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the end of the slave society that continued in China for nearly 2,000 years, and began the process of re-interpretation after the collapse of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

The establishment of the Zhou Dynasty continued the slavery system for another 800 years, according to the records of later generations, if there was no rebellion of King Wen of Zhou, it became the largest sect in the Heluo region, and it is likely that with the happy play of the King of Shang, the entire slave society would have ended early, and then fell apart.

According to my analysis, the reason why Heluo became the center of the Xia, Shang and Zhou civilizations should also be because Heluo occupies the hinterland of the Central Plains and has the advantage of being the best mediation point, so the large and small city-states are dependent on each other, and the princes have the shortest total distance from this point.

According to rumors, after the death of the king of Shang, the whole country mourned, and the people were very sad, and the slave owners felt that this was not good, so they fabricated the past about the era of the king of Shang.

There are different opinions about the two histories, but there is no doubt that the first half of the Shang king's life was more meritorious than the fault, as for the second half of his life...... Let him go with the wind!

The whole point of the existence of this article is to try to tell the story of how a restless monarch became the driving force behind the end of slavery in the previous year, and after several attempts, I finally chose the version that I see today, and treat it as I think history is as it is.

The above is the preface to this article.

Next, I'll talk about something else.

The girls who have followed me a few books should know that I particularly hate opinions and suggestions, and I didn't hate them before.

One of my favorite readers' suggestion was that when I was writing about the change of princes and the alternation of dynasties, a reader once suggested to me, "It's time for the heroine to establish her own personal connections, so that she can easily call them in the future, in order to dominate the world." "I thought it was a great suggestion!

Later, the situation changed a little, which always made me think inexplicably, which made my action more and more slow, and often accompanied by the pleasure of flipping the table, so I felt that it was more honest to simply put forward rejection suggestions and opinions.

This kind of persistence is almost stubborn, and it makes me run farther and farther on the road of small belly chicken intestines.

The article is based on the historical deduction of the conspiracy and palace fighting article, and it is actually expected that some people will point out errors and omissions, so I did not emphasize this issue again this time, and I am also curious about what kind of errors there will be in the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

And then......

The most error correction I received was for the beginning of the passage where Bao Xi gave silver to Yu Shifu, some people proposed that the currency of the Western Zhou Dynasty at that time was Bei, and some people proposed that the currency of the Western Zhou Dynasty was a knife...... I think I should understand the political and economic system of the Western Zhou Dynasty before writing an article.

I thought it was a strange question, so strange that I was confused at the time.

I felt that the two people who asked the question themselves answered on their own why I would use silver as a bribe, but with a slight jump in saying this, I decided to explain a little.

Although I did not study the politics and economics of the Western Zhou Dynasty well, I learned the politics and economics of socialism very well, and Marx once said, "Money is naturally not gold and silver, but gold and silver are naturally money." ”

What does this mean?

The meaning of this sentence is that if you use RMB transaction settlement in the Qing Dynasty, you will definitely be convicted of anti-Qing restoration and sentenced to death because of the "Chinese people are very good" printed on the yuan; But you'll be fine with the money.

If you use the silver ticket of the Qing Dynasty to settle the settlement in the Tang Dynasty, you will definitely be dragged out and beaten with a stick, but you will not have any problems with silver.

This is because precious metals such as gold and silver have the property of preserving their value and have become a measure that can be used throughout time. Several historic inflations have led modern people to develop the habit of hoarding gold and silver without using banknotes to preserve their value.

There is also a sentence in the history textbook that says, "The Qin Dynasty unified currency, unified weights and measures, unified writing, and unified currency." ”

The translated meaning of this sentence is that there was no unified currency in the Western Zhou Dynasty before the Qin Dynasty, and the currency systems implemented in various places were different, which meant that the gap between a country and a country would not be greater than the gap between the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Coupled with the fact that the People's Bank of China had not yet thought of building a UnionPay department at that time, it would inevitably bring some obstacles to the exchange of currency. However, the materials of the casting, gold, copper and jade must be unified, which has nothing to do with the place you are in, from the Yangshao culture of the community to the Xia, Shang and Zhou culture of the city-state, the worship of jade is the same, so I think jade should not be in circulation, so it is not appropriate to send jade; Carrying hundreds of pounds of bronzes from today's Shaanxi, to Luoyang, although it is not far, it is also quite difficult; Finally, there is gold, I personally compare * silk, I think gold may be more expensive than silver, and the Bao family may not be able to afford it, so I use silver.

In other words, the silver here was not given as a renminbi, but as a Patek Philippe.

The second question is that someone asked me about the mahogany chair, but the carpenters of the Western Zhou Dynasty have not yet developed to that extent, and they will definitely not be able to make them.

I have a particularly rogue answer to this question, if you don't unearth the cultural relics of the entire Western Zhou Dynasty, I will never admit that your point of view is right.

Of course, I actually think this statement must be true, but in any case, I can't tolerate Ji Gong Yu getting up from the ground when he gets up, because it is easy to fall down and lose some of his share.

This question made me move up a bit, it turns out that the chair was invented in the Han Dynasty!

The next thing is about Bao Xi's surname.

According to Chinese and historical records, Zhu Ju was the offspring of two dragons mated, and was discovered by King Xuan of Zhou that she was floating out of the palace in an improper way, and was adopted by Ju Da when she arrived in Bao Land, so her surname was Ju, and later Zhu Jue was imprisoned, and Zhu Hongde passed through here, felt that Zhu Ju looked good, trained for three years and sent to the palace, seduced King Zhou You, and finally rescued Zhu Ju from prison. Coupled with the confusion of the harem and the alliance with traitorous ministers, the Zhou Dynasty was finally pushed to a dead end.

This history doesn't say that those two dragons are swollen for the time being?

I quote another story to you, after Gou Jian's defeat, the minister Fan Li met Xi Shi and Zheng Dan somewhere, and felt that these two people were good-looking, so they said that Gou Jian trained the two to send them to the palace of the husband, and Xi Shi really got the favor of the husband, and finally successfully mixed up the state of Wu, so that Gou Jian could restore the country. This story has a particularly happy ending, Fan Li felt that he was quite lacking in morality, and finally retired to marry Xi Shi.

This is the famous beauty trick.

The similarity between the two stories made me think that it must be who copied whom.

According to the historical time, it should be Fan Li's imitation of Bao Hongde, but since the past events of the Zhou Dynasty are all written by later generations, in fact, I think it may be that the unreliable prediction of the past by later generations made them copy the beauty plan easily, and then there were two stories that were so similar. Of course, when I wrote the first Bao Xi, I still used this scheme, but the more I wrote it, the more strange it felt, and in the end, I couldn't make up the details myself, so I considered the second theory that circulated in history, that is, Bao Xi was Bao Hongde's sister, and he sacrificed his sister to relieve himself from prison, which is very similar to the reason why Su Daji entered the palace, and I can even imagine that Bao Hongde wanted to persuade Bao Xi to keep it all and used Su Daji's case to teach by word and deed.

Therefore, Bao Xi is surnamed Bao in my text, I don't care about anything else, I am basically a person who is only responsible for my own logic.

Then I suddenly found out that someone said that I used rare words to name the article, which caused the viewability of the article to be very poor.

This one...... You don't know, when I wrote it, I really wanted to strangle these people's mothers to death, and they were really sincere in fixing me.

I have worked hard to get rid of my small belly and narrow-mindedness, but I still welcome all the friends who pass by to put forward their own opinions, correct the mistakes of my author who is as illiterate as history is, and we will learn from each other and make progress together.

My only request is,Can you not come up and tell me arrogantly.,Author, you're illiterate, you don't even know how to be embarrassed to come out and talk to me in this tone.,The minister doesn't read much.,The minister is afraid.,Don't lie to me.。

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have always been my favorite period of history, from 700 BC to 200 BC. It can be said that the Spring and Autumn period culture is as brilliant as a galaxy, constituting a unique and brilliant chapter in the history of our country.

At the same time, the Greek Pythagoras founded philosophy, which was later developed by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, also constituted the first brilliant glory in the history of Western philosophy.

But the splendor was only a flash in the pan, and both China and the West were all on the same page for a long time afterward.

China deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism.

In the West, it is because of sectarian beliefs.

In short, the development of philosophy has been stagnant for a period of time, human beings have always had an almost crazy possessiveness for the right to speak, and people who have the right to speak always want to deprive others of the right to speak, so Confucianism has been in power as the official philosophy of China for more than 2,000 years, and after the death of Lao Tzu, Confucianism has never developed again, and the situation is more embarrassing than that of foreign countries.

This embarrassment has continued until recent years, and Hawking says philosophy is dead.

Chinese philosophy was born earlier than others, and it is really gratifying that it finally died in front of others!