Sima Qian felt the stagnation of the atmosphere.

But he was a little puzzled, although the Luo family is a big nobleman surnamed Ji, although Yin Shang was destroyed by Bang Zhou himself, but even Bang Zhou has been destroyed for more than a hundred years, what is the history of Yin Shang recorded now?

Luo Bai asked in a deep voice, "Taishi Gong, how much do you know about the history of Yin Shang?" ”

Sima Qian served as Taishi Ling for many years, and Sima was also a family scholar, so he told the lineage of the ancestors of Yin Shang one by one, and said that Shang Tang crusaded against Xia Wei, and said that the Shang Dynasty was prosperous, and finally said that King Su was brutal, so he was overthrown by King Wu.

Luo Bai and Luo Qing glanced at each other, Sima Qian's remarks were very in line with the world's imagination of Yin Shang, after King Su trampled on Yin Shang, after thousands of years of development, the world already thought that the difference between Yin Shang and Bang Zhou was not too big, but it was just a change of royal family.

But that's not the case!

Luo Bai said in a deep voice: "Taishi Gong, the upheaval of Zhou and Qin Xing is not far away from you, so you can see the drastic changes in it.

But you didn't know that Yin Shang was destroyed, Bang Zhou prospered, and the drastic changes during this period were far more than the death of Zhou and Qin Xing! ”

Sima Qian's whole body couldn't help but tingle his scalp.

The drastic changes between the fall of the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin and Han dynasties, the old aristocracy was almost destroyed, the feudal system existed in name only, the counties were completely spread out, the royal power was unprecedentedly strong, and the changes were almost innumerable.

Gongzi Bai actually said that the changes between Shang and Zhou were even greater!

Sima Qian felt that he might be about to learn a secret buried in the depths of history.

Because Emperor Suwang's trampling on Yin Shang and the destruction of Yin Shang culture were extremely complete, the world could only get a glimpse of the face of that era from the sporadic news.

He can completely tell the Yin Shang lineage, and in this era, he already belongs to the category of people who know a lot, and without this level, it is impossible for him to start writing history books.

But only the Luo clan really knows the history of the Yin Shang period, and with the style of King Su and the Luo clan, even if the culture of the Yin Shang is completely destroyed, there will definitely be some backups.

Luo Bai and Luo Qing glanced at each other, and then Luo Bai said: "Taishi Gong, please come with me, go and see the antiquities left by Yin Shang, they are all the objects left by King Su when he followed King Wu to defeat Yin Shang in the past." ”

Only a few people know that there is a house in Luo's that is dedicated to the storage of objects from the Yin Shang period, which can be said to be the Yin Shang Cultural Museum in modern terms.

Sima Qian followed Luo Bai and Luo Qing to a dark place in the deepest part of the Luo Palace, as soon as he walked here, Sima Qian felt as if he was being targeted by a wild beast, and vaguely saw many warriors guarding this place with sharp swords, their eyes sharp like real swords.

Luo Qing soothed: "This is one of the forbidden places of the family, and the guards are relatively strict, so don't worry about Taishi Gong." ”

"Brother!"

The gatekeeper turned out to be a Luo's son!

Luo Bai responded: "Ah Xi, are you on duty today?" Bring someone over for my brother to take a look at the Yin Shang antiquities. ”

The land of Yin Shang Antiquities was guarded by Luo's sons in turn, and Luo Xi opened the door and said, "Brother, please come in." ”

Luo Bai and a few people walked in, and Luo Xi sat in the room again and read a book.

A few people walked into it less than ten meters, and a cold breath came out, which made people shudder, Wang Wenjun has been here, she will most likely be the housewife in the future, and she still has to know something.

Luo Bai felt that his arms were tightly wrapped in an instant, and a soft and delicate body soaked in a faint fragrance came up, and his body as warm as jade leaned on him, he patted Wang Wenjun's soft cheeks, and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, sister-in-law, there is a husband." ”

Wang Wenjun looked at Sima Qian, who was still confused on his face, and couldn't help but shudder a little when he thought about the scene he was going to see later.

She even sympathized with Sima Qian, who still didn't know anything, especially just now Sima Qian's account of Yin Shang was quite positive, there were holy kings, virtuous ministers, and the lord of Zhongxing, and finally perished because of a tyrant.

I don't know what will happen to Sima Qian after seeing the real Yin Shang?

Wang Wenjun looks like a cold kaolin flower, but deep down he is a little black-bellied, and he wants others to taste the suffering he suffered at the beginning.

Then a few people walked into it completely.

The first thing that caught Sima Qian's eye was the rows of bookshelves, compared with the historical materials of the Bang Zhou period just now, the historical materials here are many, much less, and even at most one percent.

But this was completely beyond Sima Qian's expectations, after all, there was not even a single book on the historical materials about Yin Shang in his family, he opened his mouth wide in shock, and couldn't help but murmur: "There are so many." ”

Then Sima Qian saw that behind the bookshelf, there seemed to be a lot of metal faintly, and it seemed to be bronze, Luo Bai and the others walked straight forward, Sima Qian followed, and then directly saw a cylindrical bronze.

Almost instantly, one word flashed through his mind - cannon burning!

The cannon brand is so famous that as one of the symbols of the cruelty of the Shang king, it appears in almost every classic of the hundred schools of thought.

This kind of punishment has even been completely associated with tyrants, and later kings have not dared to use this kind of punishment at all.

Then Sima Qian saw all kinds of objects that he had never heard of or seen at all.

"This stone plate once carried an ancestor of my Zhou clan, Bo Yi Kao!"

Luo Bai pointed to a stone plate, Sima Qian looked over, it was a stone plate, and next to it was a bronze thing used to pound medicine.

Zhou people.

I haven't heard the title for many years, as if it instantly pulled people back to the Shang and Zhou periods, the two major ethnic groups fought on the land of Zhuxia, and finally the Zhou people won the victory.

Until now, the Luo clan is probably the last ethnic group to retain the memory of the Zhou clan, and everyone else has turned into Han Chinese.

Carrying the ancestors of the Zhou people?

Sima Qian was a little puzzled, but Bo Yi knew about it, and it was said that it was the brother of King Wu of Zhou.

"Does Taishi Gong know how Bo Yi Kao died?"

Taishi Gong groaned: "It is said that he was killed by the King of Shang. ”

Luo Qing gritted his teeth and said: "He was killed by the king of Shang, but the way of killing is completely different, this is not a story of a courtier being killed by the king."

It's a sacrifice! ”

Since ancient times, there have been countless courtiers killed by the king, and it is too normal for Bo Yi to die at the hands of a tyrant like King Shang, Sima Qian didn't think much about it at all, this is just an unpopular adjuvant of King Shang.

The king of Shang even killed his own uncle, what is it to kill a Bo Yi exam?

But sacrifice?

Sima Qian didn't understand a little, Bo Yi Kao was the crown prince of the Zhou family, and the Zhou State was a great nobleman in the Yin Shang period, who could sacrifice him, and who was qualified to sacrifice him?

Could it be that he is the king of business?

Sima Qian knew that there was a habit of using people to sacrifice during the Yin Shang period, but it was too sensational to use nobles, right?

How could the nobles agree to sacrifice a high-ranking nobleman?

Luo Qing stretched out his hand and took down a book from the bookshelf next to him, and said hatefully: "Taishi Gong, the human sacrifice of Yin Shang must be completely different from the martyrdom of Bang Zhou.

The scale of human martyrdom is very small, and the system is complicated, except for foreign states like Qin Chu, the martyrdom of people in Ji Jiang must strictly follow the etiquette system.

Due to the complexity of the ritual system of human martyrdom, the number of human martyrs has been greatly reduced.

This was not the case with the human sacrifices of the Yin Shang, whose sacrifices were so frequent that even the captives captured through war alone were not enough.

Then the Shang clan asked the surrounding Fang countries to contribute sacrifices to them.

The Zhou people were oppressed by the Shang people before, and they captured the Qiang people from the west to serve as sacrifices, and if they couldn't hand in enough sacrifices, they would be attacked by the Shang people.

The Shang people also believed that the nobler the status of the sacrificer, the more pious, so a large number of Yin Shang nobles were sacrificed, and the prince of my Zhou clan, Bo Yikao, was sent to the altar because of his noble status, which was enough to show the loyalty of the Zhou people to the Shang people.

Historical records record the process of the sacrifice of Bo Yi Kao, after the sacrifice was over, the merchants cut the skin and flesh of the sharp weapons, and then made a sacrificial meal to distribute to the nobles who participated in the sacrifice.

Merchants think that participating in the food sacrifice will get good luck and the blessing of the ancestors, Taishi Gong, you know very well that the merchants no longer worship the natural heavens in the later period, but only worship their own ancestors.

These were the utensils used by the merchants to handle the sacrifices. ”

After listening to Luo Qing's narration and looking at these objects again, Sima Qian couldn't help but shudder, and a feeling of nausea and nausea instantly rushed to his throat, and almost all of these artifacts in front of him were soaked in flesh and blood.

"Taishi Gong, do you know why you don't let you read Yin Shang's history books?

Why did King Su trample on the culture of Yin Shang, confiscate all the information, and then burn it to the ground, so that everyone would forget about it? ”

Sima Qian nodded a little numbly, and some sins were sealed in history to prevent it from recurring.

The terrifying human sacrifice should completely disappear into the civilization of Zhuxia, in order to achieve this purpose, even if it is worth destroying something, this is probably what King Su thought back then.

"Then how should Qian record the history of Yin Shang? Remembering history is justice! ”

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The transition from the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty was a great progress in civilization, especially the formulation of the Zhou rites, which gradually freed the ancestors on the land of Zhuxia from the bloody and cruel human sacrifice.

The greatness of the Zhou Dynasty is all-round, which is incomparable to any dynasty, because of the emergence of the Zhou Dynasty, talents were endowed with human meaning, and the Zhuxia civilization completely became a civilization that pursued reality.

The rise of the belief in the Emperor Heaven of King Su is the constant pursuit of reality, because this ancestral god, who has the characteristics of the nature god Haotian and integrates the pursuit of the holy king, is the source of the complete transformation of all this, following the path of this supreme god, everyone is like a god. —— "On the occasion of the Shang Zhou: Civilization Sets Sail"

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