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The war between Shang and Shang was brutal and fierce. At that time, the number of people dispatched was not large, generally only a thousand, which was similar to a large-scale armed battle, but according to the records, Wuding's war against the Qiang side had mobilized 13,000 people at a time, and these armies, which accounted for half of the capital, were all commanded by women.

In addition to "cutting down Qiang", there are many records of "obtaining Qiang" and "using Qiang", that is, captives of the Qiang people and sacrifices used as human sacrifices, and the number is staggering. Only a small number of the Qiang people captured by the Shang Dynasty became producers, and the vast majority of the Qiang people, from the Fang Bo to the general Qiang, were sacrificed to the gods in the frequent sacrifices of the Shang kings. However, during the Wuding period, to be exact, the entire Qiang people were not conquered in the end of the Shang dynasty, but there were many who surrendered to the Shang.

In the thirty-fourth year of Wuding, the Qiang countries came to the table to express their submission.

One more special mention is the week. Wu Ding did not expect that this clan, which was conquered by his crusade and could not be on the stage of history at that time, would later overthrow the rule of his descendants in one fell swoop and seize the world of Shang.

The expedition to the east was relatively light, but the divination also mentions the Zhengyi side (a branch of Dongyi in Shandong) and the dragon side (probably in the southeast of Taishan, Shandong, which should be a branch of Dongyi), etc., all of which were victorious and subjugated.

Wu Ding also sent troops to conquer the Bafang and Shu sides in the southwest.

Of course, Wu Ding is not a useless man who will only nest in the palace and ask the sky for his wife who sent troops and horses, and he himself has repeatedly led his troops to expeditions. When attacking the country of Bafang (present-day southwest Hubei), he led the army together with the woman, and divided the labor and cooperated - let the woman set up an ambush in the southwest, and he led the various Hou Bo to launch an offensive from the east, driving the enemy into the iron bucket formation of the woman, and annihilating it with one blow. The southern border was pacified. This is probably the earliest recorded "ambush warfare" in China.

The clans and Fang countries that have been conquered by Wu Ding are far more than those mentioned above, as well as Zhifang (also known as Li, Qi, whose place is called Shangdang, now Changzhi, Shanxi, southwest), string, Qian, Weifang, India, Fang, Ma, Jifang, and exemption, etc., and there are countless others.

Whenever the woman went out alone to fight and triumph, Wu Ding always couldn't suppress his joy and went out of the city to greet him, and once he went out for more than 80 miles. When the couple finally met in the suburbs with their respective subordinates, the excitement of reunion after a long absence made them forget the identity of the king and queen, leaving their subordinates behind, and the two drove side by side, chasing and galloping through the wilderness. And Wu Ding regards his wife as extremely important and even loves and respects, this time the romantic and riding is left in the historical materials, and the love that is not seen in the text is naturally more. The piano is harmonious, and the envy of future generations.

No matter how loyal a courtier is, he is not as reliable as his wife. What's more, a husband and wife are 100 days a day, and traditional Chinese education teaches women to regard their husbands as bigger than the sky. Later emperors locked their wives in the harem, and then were sold as monkeys by their own civil and military generals, which was really asking for trouble. In layman's terms, Wu Ding and Nu Hao, the happiest and most successful couple in the world, worked together to turn the Shang Dynasty into the world's best mom-and-pop shop.

In addition to leading the army into battle, Nuhao also mastered the sacrificial divination of the Shang Dynasty and often presided over such ceremonies. She was a veritable clergyman, the highest priest.

Wu Ding was a very knowledgeable king, and he did not think that just because she was his wife, she should dedicate herself to her country free of charge. After the woman made great achievements, Wu Ding did not forget her when she was rewarded for her merits, and divided her into fiefdoms.

In her fiefdom, she is the master of everything, and she presides over all the affairs of the fiefdom, and has the income from the fields and the slave people. She also paid a certain tribute to her husband Wu Ding, and everything was done according to the etiquette of the king and the princes. We will never abandon the public for private reasons. Nuhao's fief must have been one of the richest places in the Shang Dynasty, because in her fiefdom she had her own independent descendant army of more than 3,000 people—a number that the entire strength of an ordinary small state might not have been able to reach in those days. Due to their economic independence, women were able to cast large-scale bronze products for themselves, and the surviving women's puppet Fang Ding was one of them.

Wu Ding and the woman are not only emotionally coupled, but also career partners. In order to manage their fiefdoms, the women often left the palace and went to live in the fiefdoms (a bit like today's working women who travel on business). Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and although the woman is often separated from Wu Ding because of the conquest and governance, she still repeatedly gives birth to children for him. However, she died at the age of thirty-three. Although her years are not short compared to that era, compared to her husband Wu Ding, who has been in the country for 59 years, it is too short.

What was the reason for her death? Judging from the oracle bones that have been translated, there are several possibilities.

There is such a record in the oracle bone divination: The woman is about to give birth, and it is not good. Thirty days after another, Jiayin day delivery, must not be good. Girl. Did the woman die because of a difficult birth?

There is also a record on an oracle bone: Out of chastity...... King...... Yu Mu Xin...... Baekzai ...... Blood. I can't help but speculate that the woman died because of the battle, at least because of the recurrence of the war wounds,—— the war of that year was actually a large-scale weapon fight, and if you want to live up to the injury, I'm afraid it's impossible. That's why Wu Ding fought for her revenge.

In short, no matter what the reason for the woman's death, her unfortunate death made Wu Ding very sad, and buried her next to the palace where he dealt with military and political affairs, so that he could see his wife at any time and guard her day and night.

Even so, Wu Ding still felt that the power he was guarding was not enough, not enough to reach deep into the Netherworld. So, he led his children and grandchildren to hold large-scale sacrifices for the woman again and again, and held many secret marriages for the woman, and promised her ghost to the three ancestors of the Shang kings: Wu Ding's sixth ancestor B, the eleventh ancestor Taijia, and the thirteenth ancestor Chengtang. After finally marrying the woman into soup, Wu Ding finally relieved his heart, believing that with as many as three great ancestors taking care of her, the woman would be safe and cared for in the netherworld.

The king of Shang conducted a secret marriage for his beloved wife. People can't help but wonder why the women married so many kings, and did the queen of the Shang Dynasty have the right to marry many times?

Zhao Cheng, a veteran expert of Zhonghua Book Company, has been retired for many years, but he is still obsessed with the study of oracle bone inscriptions, and he has his own unique insights on the 2636th edition of the Oracle Bone Inscription Collection: Wu Ding is the longest-reigning king of the Shang dynasty known to date, he died at the age of 59, and his cherished queen wife died before him. The people of the Shang Dynasty were superstitious about ghosts and gods and admired the mandate of heaven. They believe that everything in the world depends on God, gods, and ancestors. Wu Ding's feelings for the woman are very special, maybe he is in love with each other, maybe he respects each other like a guest, he is always difficult to let go of the woman's departure.