Chapter 1059: The Queen of the Concubines

Without further ado, Song Siyuan read these Sogdian classics before and after, and at the same time carefully studied them against the ancient Nizi booklets, and at night, successively deciphered the Sogdian texts on the books.

Judging from the Sogdian text of Gunizi, when he walked with Steinhein's team, he had already discovered that these people did not come to investigate the desert ruins at all, but whenever they entered the desert, they would take out the tools that could detect metal and search the ancient city whenever they went to the ruins of an ancient city.

At first, he thought that it was because Steinhein was making sure that the surroundings were safe and for the safety of the site, but later, as the number of explorations gradually increased, their enthusiasm for the site diminished, which showed that Steinhein was not for the purpose of inspecting the site at all, but for another purpose.

He gradually realized that they did not enter the desert to investigate ancient civilizations, so they were probably here to find something.

With this premise, Guniz knew the right route, but he deliberately led them to the wrong way, and let them go through the quicksand wasteland many times, in order to make Stanhe return in vain and retreat, so as to prevent them from looking for something in the desert.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and when they were hiding from the sandstorm, they accidentally entered the vicinity of Mirland, and Steinhorn directly discovered the ancient city of Mirland in the center of Mirandze through a telescope.

This ancient city of Mirland was a huge surprise for Steinhein, and the many abandoned ancient cities he searched for along the way were either too recent or the city-state was empty, and there was not much left.

Generally speaking, the rammed earth walls of the city bear the wind and sand for many years, which is easy to erode, and if it falls into disrepair, it will continue to corrode and collapse until the city wall is destroyed, and the houses in the city will usher in a large area of wind and sand erosion.

If the city wall is complete, it means that the city wall is strong and durable, in other words, it can also be guessed that most of the buildings in the city have a city wall to resist the wind and sand, even if it is decaying and collapsing, it can also preserve a lot of things.

The ancient city of Mylan that he saw, even the walls were complete, which showed that the buildings in it would not collapse too much, and even, the scale of this ancient city was larger than any ancient city they found, Steinhein was not a blind tomb robber, but a very knowledgeable expert in cultural relics, since he was able to come to find the ancient Shanshan civilization, it means that he had done his homework in advance, at least, he had a thorough understanding of the general situation of the ancient Shanshan civilization.

Combined with the geographical characteristics of Mirland, he could easily determine that this large-scale abandoned ancient city was most likely a trading giant of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom.

With this premise, of course Steinhein will not miss it, and wants Guniz to take them into the ancient city, Guniz also understands that Shar City is a big city-state, if there is really something inside, it will definitely be discovered by Steinhein, he shirked it a few times, and after making sure that he couldn't push these people away, he had to use the mechanism to catch the bloodsucking blanket and take them into Mirlan City.

After entering the city, Steinhein's behavior was indeed undisguised, and he had no interest in the houses and buildings at all, and ran directly to the small town inhabited by the nobles, and without any search, they tacitly came to the temple of prayer, where they found the most beautiful artistic frescoes to date.

At this point, Stan and Yin make no secret of his purpose, showing the fangs under the face of a cultural scholar, wanting to tear down all the murals of cultural value and bring them back.

Under the fierce dispute, the members of the team of Guniz and Steinhein clashed, and when they fought, they discovered the existence of the organ and the underground palace, and Gunyz and them entered the underground palace, where Steinhein found many classics, literary toys, brochures, picture scrolls, and even a lot of Wadang porcelain of the ancient Shanshan civilization, so he was even more reluctant to let go of this underground palace, until the objects with high cultural relics value were looted, and it was over.

After this incident, Steinhein can be regarded as having completed part of the task of stealing treasures, seeing that Guniz does not agree with them very much, and even to the point of using knives and guns, of course, he recognizes Guniz from a friend as an enemy, plus what he did is indeed dishonorable, and his banditry behavior is inevitably leaked, Guniz has already realized that his existence is already a thorn in Stein's eye.

Seeing this, they basically understood the experience of Guniz before his death, and then compared it with what they saw, and they understood that there was nothing wrong with what was recorded in the booklet.

Song Siyuan took a long breath: "We probably all know this, let me tell you something you don't know, Uncle Gunizi has already discovered this as early as the middle of the way, and took the opportunity to record the route along the way, and recorded a lot of words from Steinkhin and the team members." ”

According to the conversation between Steinhein and the team members, combined with the documents of the ancient Shanshan country he saw, he basically knew the origin of Queen Shanshan, and before Queen Shanshan ruled the ancient Shanshan country, she came from the country of Changpo in the Kunlun Mountains.

The country of Chang Po, also called the country of Chang Bo and the country of the mother of Chang, is the mother country of the western king recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and it is also one of the nine kingdoms of the west during the Zhou Dynasty.

According to Steinherin's research, the country of Changpo originated from Nepal in the southwest of the Kunlun Mountains, and is a tribe of Nepalese tribes, the main groups of people are the Tibetan Qiang, Aryans, and some Nepalese, who have come to the Kunlun Mountains in the Xia Shang era, centered on the eastern foothills of Kunlun Mountain, and live here, and the Kunlun Hill on the east side is the tribal capital, where the king of the Changpo country lives.

Until the Shang and Zhou dynasties, this tribe got rid of the slave society and transformed into a feudal society, due to the lack of mountains near the Kunlun Mountains and the bitter cold environment, the Borneo people could not engage in farming, so they could only live on mountain fishing and hunting, giving rise to a mountain civilization with mountain fishing and hunting as the main industry.

But when it comes to mountain fishing and hunting, people have to deal with the harsh environment, fishing and hunting are particularly large losses to the clansmen, every fishing and hunting may cause casualties to the clansmen, in the case of too many deaths of male hunters, although the Bharats have entered the feudal society, but still retain the matriarchal social customs.

It is mainly manifested in the matriarchal power, the recruitment of sons-in-law, and the divine right of God.

Let's start with the matriarchal power.

From the king to the common people, it is always the matrilineal family that is in charge, and if there is the oldest woman in the family, then it must be a grandmother or mother who is in charge, and in the absence of female elders, the brothers of the female elders will take care of the family affairs until a new female head of the family is produced, and these fathers in power will transfer power.

Most of the previous lords of the Fang country were women, and among the many officials in the Fang country, most of them were women, and only in terms of military generals or guard protection, men would be chosen to serve as official envoys.

Under such a system design, even if the king and the prince have male offspring, they will give priority to the succession of the queen daughter, so as to ensure that the supreme power is in the hands of the queen mother-in-law.

Let's talk about recruiting sons-in-law.

If there is a woman of the right age to marry in the family, they will recruit sons-in-law and produce offspring with the women of the family, and then whether they are male or female, they have nothing to do with the man, and the male offspring will belong to the matrilineal family, and the man will also return to his own family to help his family run the house.

The family is the smallest unit of the state, and this marriage system ensures the interests of the matrilineal family, and the society and the country formed by this form of the country of law and the state of course maintain the basis of the queen's rule.

Finally, it is said that the theocracy is granted.

Of course, in the transition from matriarchal society to feudal society, there were indeed many male seizures of power, all of which were solved by the concubine queen, and they were able to grasp power, in addition to the reason for the design of the system, but also because they had mastered the interpretation of the mandate of heaven.

In the belief of the mother country, they are the tribal immigrants of the ancient god Wa, and it was the Wa Emperor who gave the tribal women the power of secular rule, and the people of the mother were educated in this way for nearly a thousand years, and in the Zhou Dynasty, they have fully accepted this idea of divine authority of kingship.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the arrival of King Mu of Zhou brought fish pendants to the Bharati people, this magical stone, with endless divine power, even women can only manipulate this power, the emergence of this situation once again deepened the foundation of the matriarchal system, so that the people of the Bharata country believe that this country should be ruled by the queen, and there will be no more turmoil.

In that year, after the ancient Shanshan country found that the oasis was degraded, it had tried to marry the princess who succeeded to the throne of the mother country, and when she really could not accept the marriage to another country, the Shanshan royal family decided to send the prince who wanted to succeed to the throne into the mother country.

After several generations of running-in, the ancient Shanshan Kingdom and the mother country of the concubine completed the mixing of royal blood, and at the same time, also completed the transfer of secular ruling power, making the ancient Shanshan country transition from patriarchal rule to matriarchal rule.

This kind of top-down system retreat, at first, also caused some contradictory thoughts among the people of Gushanshan, and there were countless civil rebellions, which left a small tail - in the ruling class, it is the matrilineal clan that rules, and among the ordinary people, it is still the patriarchal family.

This situation of complete separation between the ruling class and the popular class is the root cause of several rebellions among the people of Shanshan State, but fortunately, the oasis is about to dry up, and they need to find another place to live, and this contradiction is jointly suppressed by the Shanshan royal family and the royal family of the concubine.

In view of the fact that Yu Pei has a very strong power, everyone has to give way for survival, and the king's position is determined from male succession to female inheritance, Shanshan royal family can only eliminate the change of ruling power as much as possible in order to maintain domestic stability, and begin to deify the power of the queen to rule the world, and the divine power of Yu Pei will always ensure that the throne is in the hands of the king.

It can also be seen from other people's information that the system of female heirs has existed for nearly three hundred years since the era of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, during which the ancient kingdom of Shanshan has also produced nearly twenty-five Shanshan queens, and it is the rule of these Shanshan queens that has allowed the ancient Shanshan country to continue its life for nearly three hundred years, otherwise, I am afraid that the ancient Shanshan country would have disappeared into the desert with the invasion of wind and sand.

Three hundred years is enough to stabilize the queen's rule, and under the idea of deifying the queen, Queen Shanshan has completely become the patron saint of the oasis desert, and she is also the secular ruler of Shanshan country with the blood of the gods.

If you want to count the later information, it is the "Shahai King City Xugong Mural" that they have already seen!