A group of samurai in leather armor with bronze swords in their hands, guarding a middle-aged man in bronze armor, followed by a heroic woman in leather armor, slowly walked towards the mountains, but the road was difficult, full of trees and weeds, and only a gravel path was clearly visible.

"King, it's getting late, and I'm afraid that the beasts in the mountains will disturb the king." A head in bronze armor bowed down and said, but there was a look of adoration in his eyes.

"It doesn't matter, I hunted when I was young, met a teacher in this mountain, and now I have pacified the eight wildernesses, and I have brought the princess here to thank the teacher." The middle-aged man said disapprehantly, "Keep going, walk through the path to reach the top of the mountain, there is an altar on it, don't enter it privately." ”

"Yes, King!" Everyone said.

"Great King, is there really a man of God in the world?" The woman beside the old man who looked like a warrior was better than a princess asked.

"Ai Fei, the master was enlightened to me back then, and now I am over forty years old, and my body is still healthy, I think Ai Fei has a deep understanding." The old man said meaningfully.

"The king, Daji also wants to leave an heir for the king." The princess said with a slightly red face.

"Concubine...... I'm going to ask the master, and I think there should be no problem. The middle-aged man said confidently, he turned his head and looked coldly at the priests who followed behind and said, "Have you prepared the sacrifice text?"

A middle-aged priest stepped forward and bowed down and said, "King, the sacrificial text has been prepared, but the divination result is not in this direction." ”

"Oh, so you know where the teacher is?" The king looked at the priest with a sneer.

"King, we can guide you to Shizun." The priest bowed his head in response.

"The teacher once said that this place is like the bottom of a well, and the sky is the mouth of the well, and we are all frogs at the bottom of the well, only knowing that the sky is as big as a well." The king said meaningfully, and then took Daji directly to the path regardless of the sacrifice.

The sacrificial face was flushed, and his whole body trembled a little, he looked up at the middle-aged man and thought to himself: "Since the king succeeded to the throne, he has crusaded against the ghost Fang in the north, the Qiang in the west, the Jiumiao in the south, and the enemy Dongyi in the south, and won every battle. Today, he is even more bent on going his own way, making a female slave of the Su clan a princess, and bringing him to see that unwarranted teacher, is he planning to make a move against the high priest?" The priest thought about it, and did not dare to interfere too much, so as not to fall into the truth.

At this time, the generals of the army under the mountain were all selected by the king from among the civilians and even slaves, and they were simply monolithic, did not listen to the priest's dispatch, and were loyal to the king, which made the priest even more confused.

"Back then, the turmoil in the royal family could not be completely resolved, and we had to face the challenge of the theocratic religion led by the Great Sacrifice, and the ghosts, Xiqiang, Southern Jiumiao, and the world's enemy Dongyi, who were originally subordinated to the Shang Dynasty, began to continuously invade the territory of our Great Shang. Internal and external troubles, fortunately taught by the teacher, my emperor Xin knew the way forward, strengthened supervision internally, fought several times externally, established immortal achievements, and finally dragged the army out of the quagmire of divine power, at this moment the enemies of the eight wildernesses were surrendered, only these moths need to be cleaned up, but they still have a lot of power in the government, after the end of this return visit to the teacher, they can do it. The middle-aged man's eyes flickered slightly, and he secretly calculated in his heart, but his steps were not slow at all and walked towards the mountain.

The middle-aged man, whose real name is Zishou and now known as Di Xin, was the last king of the Shang Dynasty, the second political power in ancient Chinese history. He has been brilliant since he was a child, and he is both civil and military. There are records of this in the history books: "Xunzi Feixiang Chapter" said that Di Xin "is a giant and beautiful, and the best of the world; The strength is super strong, and the enemy of a hundred people is also. "Historical Records of Yin Benji" also said that "the emperor is quick to distinguish diseases, very sensitive to smell, excellent in materials, and fierce beasts in his hands."

According to historical records, Di Xin, with the assistance of the former kings and ministers, created many firsts in Chinese history:

1. He was the first monarch in Chinese history to choose officials among the commoners. At that time, it was a slave society, although the status of commoners was higher than that of animal slaves, but it was also limited, and the commoners were also poor at that time and were not qualified to be officials, and officials could only be produced from the slave owners and nobles at that time.

2. He was the first monarch in Chinese history to abolish the hereditary system of aristocracy and succeeded. At that time, the slave owners controlled the production resources of the society, held a large number of slaves, and also monopolized the title, once they became princes from generation to generation, leading to the corruption and degeneration of the upper class, and the entire ruling class was stagnant.

3. He was the first monarch in history to completely defeat theocracy. In the Shang Dynasty, divination was required for everything, from the use of troops to foreign countries, and the small to travel had to be done through divination to "ask the gods", so the power of religious groups was great. Religious groups led by the Great Priest often used divination and other means to interfere in the government's affairs, seriously threatening the stability of the royal power. Emperor Xin carried out religious reforms in this regard, punishing a number of religious people who committed crimes, and at the same time clearly establishing the separation of church and state. For more than 2,000 years after that, the status of the divine power of the Chinese land was never higher than that of the royal power.

Fourth, he was the first monarch in history to destroy foreign races many times, consolidating the dominance of the Chinese nation in the Central Plains.

But what is embarrassing is that he should have been the Holy Emperor Xin, and history is recorded like this: Sima Qian wrote in "Historical Records Volume III: Yin Benji III": King Xuan (Di Xin) "knows enough to admonish, and words are enough to decorate right and wrong (right and wrong are not distinguished); Humble people are able to be high, and the world is voiced, thinking that they are all out of their own (arrogant); Good wine and lewd pleasures, love Daji, Daji's words are from, the dance of the north, the pleasure of indulgence (absurdity); The people resented and the princes had a side, so they were severely punished, and there was a method of cannon (mutilating the innocent); And use the fee for government, the fee is good, profitable, and the people are close, and the evil is used. Evil comes to good and slander, and the princes benefit from this (like traitorous ministers). In the face of the tyranny of the king of Zhou, some of his relatives wanted to use the ideas of "benevolence" and "virtue" to persuade him, enlighten him, and influence him.

But in fact, this is not the case, there are many crimes that were added by some people in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the King of Xuan in the Romance of the Gods is a model of evil that has been splashed with dirty water for more than 2,000 years.

What is non-non-distinction? How many slave owners, nobles and sacrifices have been offended by the reform of the emperor, how much their interests have been harmed, how many interests have been harmed, how many mortal interests have been beaten to the earth, they will not be allowed to oppress slaves, the use of human sacrifice will be reduced, and they will be deprived of their inherent privileges, and they will say good things to a king of a dead country, then it is called living hell!

What is hubris? Well, this can also be counted as a crime? Then our mouths should probably be pulled out and killed. What's wrong with arrogance, no matter who it is, pacifying the Quartet and turning the divided empire into a prosperous country, it has arrogant capital, and the most you can say now is that you are too inflated.

What is the debauchery, the wine pond meat forest, naked-run-dance-dance (the dance of the north), the former one he may have done, and the latter one was done by a slave owner at the time, why not spray them? As for the woman (obeying the woman's words), I am speechless, after all, I don't know the current situation of the society at that time, it is not easy to evaluate, and it is estimated that I am too doting on my wife now.

What is mutilation of the innocent? In Di Xin's life, in addition to the foreign races, the most killed were the nobles and sacrificial classes at that time, whenever they rebelled, they attacked them very ruthlessly, which can be said to be a bloody suppression, which also led to the improvement of the social environment of the Shang Dynasty, speechless! The punishment of cannon branding is indeed cruel, but those who have studied the history of criminal law know that the criminal law of the Zhou Dynasty was more ruthless later, but this punishment of cannon branding was used on those nobles, which was heinous. On the contrary, he opposed the use of human sacrifice, even if he was a captive, he could not kill without killing, and he was the most merciful monarch on earth in the same historical period!

It is recorded that many of the traitorous ministers appointed by Emperor Xin were small slave owners who were born in commoners and fled from other nobles, and they either had no slaves, no land, and no power, or they were despised and looked down upon by the universal values of society, and now they have become nobles. Well, this is the logic of this sentence, if you are a king of business, and you have a group of important people under your command, and there are nobles who want power, the key is not that you appointed, but that they are handed down by your ancestors, and you can't move them! It is conceivable that you, the king, are not far from death! But Di Xin didn't, he directly pressed them to the ground and beat them violently, and almost made them sing about conquest.

What does it mean to not listen to the advice of benevolence and virtue? Emperor Xin moved the interests of the nobles and the sacrifices, of course the representatives of those people wanted to persuade them, but you still didn't listen, you should be for us nobles, not for those commoners and slaves, and now you are actually moving our interests for them, do you know that it is terrible for us to launch madness? I don't understand! Dare to use the knife, kid wait until you're finished, we'll drown you with dirty water. In fact, those nobles moved the knife first, but Di Xin was relatively strong and easy to resolve, but it was a pity that he was the king of the country, otherwise how could he also be the evaluation of the lord of Zhongxing.

Where did he die? First, he was indeed excessively greedy for enjoyment in his later period, and his large-scale construction led to the emptiness of the treasury; Second, the excessive waging of wars led to too many prisoners, and there was no reasonable resettlement policy, which bought the groundwork for a defection; The third was the relaxation of supervision of the aristocracy, especially the indulgence of the Western Zhou, which led to the betrayal of the Western Zhou at a critical moment in the foreign war.

Huaxia Taizu once commented on the Shang King (Di Xin): "It is wrong to regard the King of Zhou, Qin Shi Huang, and Cao Cao as bad people, but in fact, the King of Zhou is a very capable and capable person of literature and martial arts." He managed the southeast and consolidated the unification of Dongyi and the Central Plains, which was meritorious in history. Emperor Xin invaded the Yizhi of Xuzhou and won the battle, but the losses were very large, and there were too many prisoners to digest. His captivity policy was not very good, and King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the situation to attack, and a large number of captives defected, resulting in the collapse of the Shang Dynasty. ”

It's a pity that Di Xin trusted the Western Zhou Dynasty to release the imprisoned King Wen of Zhou, and after releasing King Wen, he gave cattle and feasts, and explained the reason for the imprisonment without guilt, and also authorized and sealed the official. After King Wen of Zhou obtained the right to conquer, he defeated the Dog Rong, the Misu, the defeat of the Qi Kingdom, the Han Dynasty, the Chong, and the Emperor Xin did not suspect that he had other plans, and the ministers were dissatisfied with him at that time, but the fact is that King Wen used his trust in himself to complete the strategic encirclement of Shang. Di Xin did not doubt that he had him, and when Dongyi was in turmoil, he sent the strongest troops of the Ge Dynasty to conquer the aliens, and the result was tragic. When the Western Zhou learned that Di Xin's troops were involved and withdrawn to Dongyi, they immediately contacted the princes to counterattack the Ge Dynasty, and finally Di Xin set himself on fire in Lutai.

However, this Emperor Xin is very different from the historical Emperor Xin......