Professor Qi said that the rise of the Zhou people is a mystery. The rise of pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is too fast, and what happened in the process is actually quite vague.

But there is one thing that is very interesting, and that is the written record in the Zhou Dynasty

Zai is already very complete, but after the overthrow of the Shang Dynasty, many things about the Shang Dynasty are hidden. It is not recorded, but the root cause of the fall of the Shang Dynasty is attributed to the various deaths of the Zhou Emperor Xin, such as the Jiuchi Meat Forest, such as the invention of cannon branding, the construction of large-scale construction, and extravagance.

However, from some discoveries in historical archaeology, historians have already found that pleasure and torture have always run through the entire reign of the Shang Dynasty, which is not a special case of King Su alone. However, on the contrary, as a king, Di Xin was not only heroic and good at war, but also repeatedly opened up territory for the Shang king, fought against Yidi, and consolidated the advantage of the Central Plains civilization over the death Yidi.

Of course, in the records of the Zhou people, this is relatively rare. Similarly, there is a black material that should not be ignored and should be used vigorously by the Zhou people, but it is also not recorded.

Yin Shang was a theocratic state. Monarchs and nobles, in fact, are also wizards. Merchants usually worshiped their ancestors and gods more often than they did on a daily basis. And every solemn sacrifice is made with human sacrifices, that is, with living people. In the case of Yin Shang, after the death of the nobles, the number of slaves who were buried was also very large. Professor Qi has made statistics that the tombs of Yin Shang nobles unearthed over the years have killed as few as a few or dozens of slaves, and as many as hundreds or nearly thousands. Countless animals were used for burial. A funeral of this scale, in that era, if the local subjects or slaves of the Yin Shang were used, it was an extremely consuming thing of national strength, even the entire Yin Shang upper-class nobles who were blinded by the divine power would not do such a thing.

Where did these slaves come from?

When Li You listened to Professor Qi tell these stories, he didn't find this question difficult to answer. The answer, of course, is the prisoner of war, the slave who captives and rules the surrounding tribes and the Fang country.

But although Professor Qi agrees with this answer, he believes that the problem is not so simple. Because this answer involves the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, if it is explained purely from the Yin Shang itself, then the original question cannot be answered.

The strength of the Yin Shang naturally forced the surrounding states to recognize the rights of their suzerain. However, as the suzerain, the rule of the surrounding Fang countries is also particular about methods and bottom lines. Even if Fang Guo paid tribute to slaves every year according to the agreement, it would not be able to withstand the strong consumption capacity of Yin Shang. In that era, labor was originally an extremely scarce thing, and the living environment of slaves was extremely harsh, and they could not live for long at all, which was only one of them, and second, when sacrificing ancestors and gods, they also had to kill some, and the nobles died, and the burial had to consume some purely relying on tribute, which was absolutely not enough.

Then, the surrounding countries must not be oppressed too much, and the demand for slaves exists, so what to do must require a stable source of slave supply.

This is the reason for the rise of the Zhou Dynasty. Professor Qi is not untargeted. In the oracle bone inscription, the word "Zhou" of the Zhou people actually has a certain origin with the word "Qiang" of the Qiang people. Some historians even believe that the Zhou people were actually separated from the Qiang people, but they changed from a nomadic state to semi-cultivated herding.

In the oracle bone font of the word "Zhou", there are meanings of sacrifice and blood. Oracle bone inscriptions are hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs themselves are actually formulated according to the general image of the thing itself. According to this, it can be reversed to a conclusion: in the eyes of the Yin people, the Zhou people were sacrificed.

Of course, of course, if you understand it this way, it must be wrong, sacrifice is to use people, the original tribe of the Zhou people is not strong, if you catch the Zhou people to sacrifice, in the 600-year dynasty period of Yin Shang, even if the Zhou people only appeared in the middle and late periods, they were also captured by the army of Yin Shang to sacrifice clean.

Therefore, from the situation of the Zhou people's sacrifice and rise, only one result can be drawn, that is, the slaves and animals used in the sacrifice of Yin Shang were obtained from the hands of the Zhou people.

Li You was shocked by Professor Qi's answer. However, this conclusion seems to be flawless. The Zhou people are located in the west, which is the place where the Yidiqiang people haunt. Even if Yin Shang wanted to send troops to conscript, he had to pass through the territory of the Zhou people. This is something that the Zhou people never want to see. Who knows if the nobles who led the troops would easily wipe out the tribe of the Zhou people

Therefore, after the Zhou people were attached to the Yin Shang, they began to provide slaves to the Yin Shang. Under the sponsorship and support of the Yin Shang nobles, they plundered the Qiang tribes in the west and continuously provided people and animals for the Yin Shang.

Therefore, it was not until later that the Zhou people replaced the Yin people, and the most inhumane and common human sacrifices and burial methods of the Yin Shang Dynasty were not recorded in the history books. Because in the brutal act of the merchants, the Zhou people actually played a very dishonorable role.

Speaking of which, Professor Qi mentioned the book about Yi again. At that time, Li You was not very interested in this book. But Professor Qi mentions this book to support his arguments.

During the Yin Shang period, divine power was monopolized by the nobility of the Zhou dynasty. And Zhou Wen Wang Jichang is not only proficient in Yi, but also deduces more refined content such as gossip and six yao from Zhou Yi. Among these contents, there are many contents that cannot be guessed by non-heavenly sons, but Ji Chang has already begun to speculate about heavenly opportunities at that time. There is an allusion in history that Ji Chang was imprisoned by King Zhou, perhaps Ji Chang was arrested because the King of Zhou thought he had different intentions.

History says that in the end, King Zhou chopped Ji Chang's son into minced meat and let Ji Chang eat it before releasing him. But if you use a possibility that is more in line with the historical point of view, it is that Ji Chang, in order to win the trust of the king of Zhou, took his son as a sacrifice and paid tribute to the king of Zhou. With such a tragic performance to prove his loyalty to the Yin Shang Dynasty, in the end, hehe.

This kind of thing from archaeological discoveries and oracle bone inscriptions made Li You creepy. This made him fully aware of the dark nature of history. It's just that at that time, Professor Qi seemed to have something more profound to say, but Li You was going to class, and he couldn't listen to his nonsense, and then everyone forgot to mention this stubble, but Li You didn't know, and in the end, Professor Qi had anything else to say about this dynasty, and Li You couldn't understand it anymore.

But what Li You knew was that what Professor Qi wanted to say at that time was by no means the filthy things of the Zhou Dynasty and the Yin Shang Dynasty. It's just a pity that Professor Qi can't be found to answer these questions for him now.

The sudden distraction made Li You find that the sacrifice process of Niguzhai was somewhat similar to that of Yin Shang. It made him feel a little awe-inspiring in his heart, in that distant three generations period, Yin Shang used extremely cruel means to sacrifice ghosts and gods, could they clearly determine that there are gods in the world and the so-called gods that exist will actually be the source creatures like the fierce hooves in front of them

ps: I was stuck by this chapter last night, and Ah Shu thinks that this is very in line with the real history

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