Jiang Xinghuo coughed lightly twice and said slowly and clearly.

"The major affairs of the country are in worship and worship. You should have heard these eight words. ”

"Of course, I'm not stupid." Zhu Gaoxu replied as a matter of course.

Jiang Xinghuo nodded with satisfaction, it's good that he is not a fool.

Jiang Xinghuo continued to ask: "Then do you know why 'worship' and 'rong' are the only two major national events? ”

The only two? Zhu Gaoxu felt that this word was extremely inappropriate, but he was embarrassed to point it out, so he ignored the past and thought about the question raised by Jiang Xinghuo.

This time I thought about it, and I really gave him the whole answer.

Zhu Gaoxu said as a matter of course.

"Because if you cut off the head of the enemy's envoy or captive general and sacrifice to the sky, you can send troops to fight!"

“......”

Jiang Xinghuo was silenced for a few breaths by such a straightforward but reasonable answer before speaking.

"What you say makes sense, but that's not what you mean, it's just an appearance."

Jiang Xinghuo closed the folding fan and explained seriously: "The essence is that the army and the wizard, the stratum formed by the two specialized social division of labor, are the ruling stratum necessary for the formation of a dynasty, one rules the body, the other rules the soul, and that's it. The aristocracy was not necessary, and the military and wizards could also assume the ruling function, forming a military state or a clerical state. ”

Outside the wall, the rotating rosary in Dao Yan's hand stopped.

"The major affairs of the country are in worship and worship...... Is that what it means? ”

Dao Yan muttered to himself: "Interesting, this Jiang Xinghuo has such a novel angle and a way of interpreting it that directly points to the essence of the problem." ”

Zhu Di looked at Dao Yan's reaction and chuckled, feeling a little inexplicable superiority.

Is this shocked?

What Zhu Di can be sure of is that according to Jiang Xinghuo's habits that he knows, greater shock must be yet to come.

Zhu Di is very much looking forward to what Dao Yan, who has always been proud of his resourcefulness, will be shocked into today.

"And the essence of the dynasty comes from these eight words, as well as the various forms of changes that occur with the development of the productive forces."

"First of all, we will talk about the early form of the dynasty - the slave dynasty."

"You should know that the first dynasties were the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. So what is the first impression of these two dynasties in your mind? Thinking of them, what is the thing you blurt out? ”

In Zhu Gaoxu's cognition, Xia Wei and Shang Wei were very brutal, Xia Wei released wild beasts to hunt the people for fun, and Shang Wei invented the punishment of cannon branding.

So he didn't think about it, and just threw out all his cognition.

"Xia Wei Shang, the tyrant of the ancients."

"You answered very well."

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo didn't continue to ask, Zhu Gaoxu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and if he continued to ask, he wouldn't know anything.

What two dynasties have been passed down for how many generations and how many years, where the capital is, and what history it has, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't know anything.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't ask this, but asked a strange-sounding question.

"Then why are they so brutal?"

Zhu Gaoxu replied without thinking about it: "I think that they are cruel people by nature, and there is nothing to be cruel about." ”

"Nope."

Jiang Xinghuo shook the folding fan: "If you read the historical records carefully, you will find that the brutality of the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty is not the brutality of the last king, but the cruelty of all the ruling classes. ”

"When Emperor Zhongkang was in the middle of the day, Xi and prostitution were wasted, and the time was chaotic; Emperor Kong Jiali, a good party of ghosts and gods, fornication; Emperor Taijia has been established for three years, unknown, tyrannical, does not follow the soup law, and is disorderly; Emperor Geng collapsed, younger brother ancestor Jiali, is for Emperor Jia, Emperor Jia fornication, Yin Fu declined; Emperor Wu Yi has no way, is a puppet, called the god of heaven, and Bo, let people do it, the god is invincible, but humiliating; Since the Zhongding, the abolition of the appropriate and more set up the disciples, the disciples or vying to stand on their behalf, than the ninth chaos, so the princes of the Mo Dynasty. ”

Jiang Xinghuo's memory is excellent, and the content he prepared when he was a lecturer in college was almost blurted out, and the words were good.

"How brutal is Xia Shang? The selection of babies and virgins, called 'human animals,' for human sacrifice, was commonplace. Not to mention the large-scale slaughter of slaves, and even things that take pleasure in eating people, such as King Xu's making Ji Chang's son Bo Yi Kao into meatballs......"

"This top-down brutality, even called a dynasty of terror, is rooted in the fact that they are a dynasty of slavery, and they don't treat slaves as human beings at all."

"But I want to ask a question."

Jiang Xinghuo looked up at the bearded man.

"So, why didn't the Shang Dynasty, which treated slaves as people, fall and the Zhou Dynasty became the first feudal dynasty, rather than the slave dynasty that continued to be brutal?"

"Is it because King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, and Duke of Zhou are all benevolent by nature? Why did the Duke of Zhou formulate the "Zhou Rites" to protect slaves to some extent? ”

"Master, why is that?"

Next door, Zhu Di turned his head curiously and asked Dao Yan.

Dao Yan's fingers, hidden in the big sleeves of the black robe, pinched the prayer beads and muttered for a moment before he replied uncertainly.

"The Book of Rites: Ming Tang Position" once recorded: In the past, Yin was in turmoil in the world, and the ghost marquis was used to feast on the princes, and the king of Zhou was the king of Wu to cut down the princes. King Wu collapsed, King Cheng was weak and weak, and Duke Zhou practiced the position of the Son of Heaven to rule the world; In the sixth year, the princes of the dynasty were in the Ming Hall, making ceremonies and music, awarding measurements, and the world was in great service. ”

"I think that the rule of Shang was too brutal, which led to the resentment of the people, the rebellion of the princes, and the people of the world doubted the legitimacy of the 'Son of Heaven', so it was necessary to use etiquette and music to clarify the order, and use leniency to govern the world, so the Duke of Zhou formulated the "Zhou Rites", which brought the order back on track."

Zhu Di nodded, what Dao Yan said was very reasonable, just like after the Jingnan Rebellion, he wanted to compile the "Yongle Canon" to show the heart of Wenzhi and let the people of the world settle down.

But Jiang Xinghuo next door gave a significantly different answer.

"From the slave dynasty to the feudal dynasty, it is a gradual evolutionary process, as far as the social and economic system reflected in the "Zhou Li" is concerned, that is, it has the characteristics of the feudal society of the lord, which is obviously in the early stage of feudal society, and there are also remnants of the primitive social system, as well as some remnants of the slave system, but in general, it is dominated by the production relations of feudal ownership."

"The relations of production, you can understand as three aspects, namely, to whom all the means of producing food belong; what is the position of those who produce food and those who own it; To whom the food is ultimately distributed. ”

"The ruler's cruelty to slaves to non-brutality, and the nature of the dynasty from a slave dynasty to a feudal dynasty, both of these issues must be taken as a starting point."