"Why, you've studied this surname."

Song Siyuan looked at Sun Daqiao, since this old man proposed the Ghost Fang Clan, he probably had some understanding.

Sun Daqiao waved his hand and excused himself: "I can't talk about research, but I heard some antique dealers mention it when I was young, and there was such a sentence recorded on the bronze ware of Wu Ding Xugong in the Shang Dynasty - thirty-two years, the ghost fang, second to Jing, thirty-four years, Wang Shike ghost fang." ”

When everyone heard the word "ghost party" in this sentence, they instantly came to their senses, urging Sun Daqiao to continue to explain this sentence.

The old man coughed a few times, and said in a hoarse voice: "Ahem, I also thought about it just now, these ancient texts are related to the Shang King Wuding, and they are about the bronze inscriptions of his Xugong to pacify the ghost side, and the emperors of the feudal era want to record their exploits, mostly for Mount Tai Feng Chan, Le Shi Yanran, and Feng Wolf Juxu, but as everyone knows, in the slave society that is older than the feudal era, the way the emperor continues to make merits is different, mainly for tortoiseshell and bronze Xugong. ”

Let's not mention the tortoiseshell narrative for the time being, but specifically talk about this bronze narrative.

In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, since the Dayu cast Jiuding, the technology of making bronzes continued to develop, and finally reached its peak in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

In addition to being used as ritual weapons and weapons, the rest of these bronzes are used as a recording medium to record the achievements and losses of the Shang kings of the past dynasties, which is called bronze narration.

Since the Yin Shang ancestor Shang Tang destroyed the Xia Dynasty, the bronzes of the Shang Dynasty recorded the merits of the first Shang Tang descendants, until the era of the twenty-second generation of Wu Ding, and finally ushered in the most important merit - conquering the ghost party and expanding the territory.

Shang King Wu Ding, also known as Yin Wu, is the son of Shang King Xiaoyi, Shang King Pangeng's nephew, his father Xiao Yi was not the heir at the beginning, but the Yin Shang royal family, because he was not the heir to the throne, Wu Ding's childhood life was very free, often followed his father to visit the outside to observe the people's feelings, and even, can also be ordinary people to farm and work together, drink and eat together, in this process, he has accumulated a lot of understanding of the common people, at the same time, he also planted the seeds of understanding the people's feelings in his heart, and gave birth to the care and sympathy for the people of Li.

The carefree under the countryside can't eliminate the dire situation above the temple!

The throne of Yin Shang changed frequently, and under the struggle, the power of the throne was handed over to Wu Ding, who should have been happy to get the throne, but Wu Ding was extremely worried, because what his uncles left him was not a Qingming era, but a big mess.

First of all, there is the destruction of the inheritance system!

Since the Shang King Zhongding, the primogeniture inheritance system was destroyed, the ministers began to support the succession of princes other than the eldest son, the princes fought for power, resulting in the chaos of the Shang Dynasty for nine generations, the princes did not come to the court to see the Shang king, the hearts of the ministers at home were scattered, the Shang king Pan Geng had already designated the policy of Yin Shang Zhongxing, but, with his death, the national policy he formulated was also abandoned, and the Shang Dynasty declined again.

Secondly, there is the covetousness of the border barbarians.

The Ghost Fang tribe that was originally expelled by Shang Tang to the Far North continued to travel eastward from the Far North until the land of Longyou Jingchu stopped, which was basically the northwest border of Yin Shang, which meant that the northwest of the Shang Dynasty was once again facing the threat of the Ghost Fang Kingdom.

Foreign enemies are eyeing each other, internal affairs are full of evils, and not everyone is able to solve the problems that Wu Ding faced as soon as he succeeded to the throne.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he also knew that the country was facing too many problems, and it was inevitable to distinguish between the main and secondary contradictions, and the priorities in order to thoroughly sort out the order, he never gave orders within three years of his succession, and only handed over the administrative affairs to the ministers.

After that, he excavated the plate builder Fu Shuo as the prime minister, reformed the official system, eliminated the interference of the nobles in the appointment and dismissal of officials, and withdrew the right to appoint and dismiss officials.

Since then, east to Binhai, north to Hebei, south to Jianghan, west to Longyou, all under the rule of Yin Shang, reigned for 58 years, led the decline of Yin Shang to prosperity, known as Wuding Zhongxing in history.

Among his many achievements, conquering the country of ghosts is legendary and weird, and it is also a more bizarre record on the bronze narrative of achievements.

Ghost side, ghost side, what is ghost side?

The ancients' interpretation of ghosts was different from that of ordinary orcs and ghosts, and at the same time, the meaning of Fang was actually the tribe and the Fang country, and the combined meaning of the ghost party was the Fang country composed of people who looked like beasts.

There were no real orcs in ancient times, and the ghost side here refers to alien people who are completely different from the Central Plains civilization.

It is rumored that all the soldiers of the Ghost Fang Country are wearing horror masks, and looking at the Ghost Fang warrior phalanx on the battlefield, I saw that the soldiers were wearing animal fur and grass armor, wearing cold and terrifying masks, even if there was no action, it could give people a strong sense of oppression.

After Wu Ding's ancestor Shang Tang expelled the Ghost Fang Kingdom, the Ghost Fang people had not appeared for hundreds of years, and in Wu Ding's era, they knew very little about the people of the Ghost Fang, and the only thing that was certain was that the horror of the Ghost Fang people had been recorded in the historical classics.

They can use the power of ghosts and gods to fight!

This kind of power to attract ghosts and gods is not to let ghosts and gods possess them, or to let ghosts and gods help them fight, but to use the power of ghosts and gods to create an extremely strange world, pulling the enemy into a completely different environment, in this environment, no matter how powerful the enemy is, they can rely on this environment to break through one by one and completely annihilate.

Shang Tang's so-called victory over the ghost side back then was actually just using the lives of a large number of soldiers to attack the ghost side, until the number of ghost parties was too small and they could no longer use the power of ghosts and gods, and then they were expelled by Shang Tang to the extreme north.

Now, the Ghost Fang people are full-fledged, and they have finally begun to invade the south again.

Wu Ding still continued Shang Tang's strategy of defending against the enemy, and at the same time, he was also actively seeking a new solution, for him, the ghost side people were extremely cunning, and they could not be completely eliminated at all, and the worst fight was nothing more than the ghost side moving north again, and when they would recuperate, maybe when they would make a comeback.

Now, he can beat the ghost side to the north, which is nothing more than leaving a legacy for future generations, it is better to divide the ghost side people and let them help Yin Shang to guard the northwest.

Under this thought, he used troops against the ghost side many times in three years, and after the defeat of the ghost party, he did not expel the ghost people like his ancestor Shang Tang, but made an agreement with the ghost people, and the nobles who were willing to submit to the Yin Shang could follow him back to the capital, and from then on he was canonized as the Nine Marquis and enjoyed the courtesy of the Yin Shang royal family.

If you are unwilling to submit to the Yin Shang, you will continue to move to the northwest with the clansmen, and you will not be allowed to step into the Yin Shang, and if you violate the agreement, you will not be merciful and completely annihilated.

Under such a strategy, the nobles and commoners of the Ghost Fang Kingdom were divided, and all the nobles were moved to the Ghost Marquis City, fifty miles southwest of the capital of Chaoge, and were named the Great and Small Marquis, while the commoners and warriors stayed in the Longyou Land to garrison the border, and when the Yin merchants built a city here, the Ghost Fang Kingdom became the strongest feudal screen in the northwest from the border disaster.

Since then, the ghost nobles in the capital of the Yin Shang Dynasty have gradually been assimilated by the Yin merchants, abandoning the ghost customs, and there is no difference between them and the Shang Dynasty people.

Only those ghost people who did not accept the rule of the Shang Dynasty and moved to the extreme north have completely retained the customs of the ghost people, and at the same time, they have also completely retained the ability to use the power of ghosts and gods.

"This story is also recorded on the bronze vessel of the Shang King Wuding, and at the same time, the general whereabouts of the Guifang people are also written, so it can be said that they have been completely assimilated and disappeared for three thousand years since the Guifang people accepted the rule."

They really didn't hear this anecdote, not only because the history of the ghost people was too unpopular, but the most important point was that the Shang Dynasty era was too far away, there were not many things, and there were not many antiquities recorded, so they had no way of knowing any news about the ghost people.

"Then according to your meaning, the Ghost Fang Sect is actually a descendant of the Ghost Fang Clan who has disappeared for three thousand years." Song Siyuan sensed what Sun Daqiao meant, and asked tentatively.

Sun Daqiao nodded approvingly: "Yes, the surname Ghost Fang is too rare, and it is not even included in the hundred family names, which shows that its surname is rare." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Daqiao continued: "After Wu Ding destroyed the ghost party, some of the ghost nobles accepted the canonization of Yin Shang, divided into nine surnamed ghost marquis, while accepting the canonization of Yin Shang, it also means that they are willing to exchange freedom for glory and wealth, and every generation since then has been monitored by the Yin Shang royal family, until the end of the Shang Dynasty, the nine surnames of the ghost marquis were expelled by the king of Shang, in order to avoid trouble, they had to alienate their surnames into Kui surnames and concubine surnames to preserve the bloodline. ”

"From this point of view, maybe he may not be the real descendant of the Ghost Fang Clan, but as long as the surname Ghost Fang is used, at least it shows that they know what Ghost Fang means, and even, they deliberately do not use the surname Kui and the surname Yuan, but restore the original surname of Ghost Fang, thinking about it, is it already clear about the intention of the Ghost Fang Sect."

What Sun Daqiao said is indeed reasonable, if the Ghost Fang Sect really doesn't know what the Ghost Fang represents, how can he use the surname Ghost Fang, even if he is not a descendant of the Ghost Fang Clan, he must have a special purpose.

Yue Qingshan seemed to think of something, and his eyes lit up and said: "Think about it, the power of the ghosts and gods of the Ghost Fang Clan can create a unique world and pull the enemy into this world. ”

"Looking at it this way, could it be that the Ghost Fang Clan and Shennongjia are also related?"

Tan Yanqiu was originally exploring the mystery of Shennongjia's albino animals, and now, even the Ghost Fang Clan and the Falling Goddess were involved with Shennongjia, he only felt that the situation had exceeded his expectations and changed in an unpredictable direction.

Song Siyuan nodded, exhaled a long breath and said: "Now that I think about it, there is indeed this possibility, will the Falling Goddess they are looking for in each generation be the Ghost Fang Clan people left in various places, and it is precisely because of this that the Falling Goddess can contact the Falling God Netherworld." ”