After King Yu ruled the water, he divided the world into the land of Kyushu.

Later, King Yu's son Ji Qi defeated Boyi and started the first dynasty since ancient times, Great Xia.

Xia, Yaye, specifically refers to the rites made by the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, which has great etiquette and is called Xia.

Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Henan, Liang, Yong, the world's Kyushu, are all summer soil.

The people of Kyushu all call each other Zhuxia.

When King Yu was there, Kyushu served guests, but all the land of Kyushu was ordered by King Yu.

But after King Yu died, Qi succeeded to his throne and did not have the credit of King Yu. Since there is no merit, it is naturally difficult to be recognized by all the states of Kyushu.

Especially in Kai's later years, life became increasingly corrupt. He likes hunting, singing and dancing, but he is neglected by the government and the people.

Qi died, and his son Taikang succeeded to the throne, but he also indulged in the sound of wine and food, and did not repair political affairs, which prompted the internal struggle to become more and more acute, and the external Siyi betrayed one after another.

Hou Yi, the leader of the poor clan of the Dongyi clan, saw that there were many internal contradictions in the Xia Dynasty, and took the opportunity to seize the power of Xia when Taikang went out hunting for several months and did not return.

After Taikang's death, his younger brother Zhongkang succeeded to the throne, and Zhongkang was weak and became a puppet.

After Zhongkang's death, his son succeeded him. Yi drove the prime minister away and took the throne of the Xia Hou clan himself.

Although decades later, the widow of the prime minister, Ji Shaokang, started from the Yu country with the Yu clan, observed the suffering of the people, publicized the merits of the ancestor Dayu, won the support of the people for his revival of the Xia Hou clan, and summoned the old ministers of the Xia Hou clan to come to meet him, and finally rebuilt the Great Xia.

However, the Xia Hou clan after Shaokang Zhongxing can no longer be compared with the Xia Hou clan at the time of King Yu.

Although the poor clan was expelled, the power of the Dongyi countries did not weaken.

Starting from Shaokang, the successive generations of monarchs of the Xia Hou clan continued to fight against Dongyi, and Yixia began to slowly merge.

But there are still most of the Dongyi clans, which are not included in Zhuxia.

Not only Dongyi, the descendants of the three seedlings in the south re-emerged, Rong Di in the northwest began to conquer the land of Kyushu, and the descendants of the silkworm Cong clan in the southwest and the Bashu where the Yu clan was located, and frequently went east and north.

After Xia De declined and the Mandate of Heaven was no longer there, it became Tang Dai Xia, and only about half of the land of Kyushu remained.

Merchants have been blessed with the Mandate of Heaven for more than 500 years.

However, in the first three hundred years, the royal family was in chaos, and the struggle for the throne was staged from generation to generation, coupled with various river disasters, the capital of merchants was constantly changing.

It wasn't until Pangeng moved to Yin, and internal and external troubles were slightly relieved.

Wu Ding, the Shang Emperor after Pan Geng, can also be regarded as a rare promising king in the Shang royal family.

After Wu Ding ascended the throne, he was conscientious, did not dare to be wasted, worked hard, and was determined to revitalize the great cause. He went out on expeditions in four directions, and conquered the Rongdi countries such as the Ghost Fang, the Earth Fang, the Qiang Fang, the Human Fang, and the Tiger Fang.

Ji Ji led the people to establish a state on the Zhou Yuan, and when Rong Di was a nuisance, he never launched a large-scale war of extermination.

One of the most important reasons is that he is afraid of the big merchants backed by the Zhou State.

A few years ago, they were scared by businessmen.

And this time, the current Shang Emperor Wuyi sent Qiu Sheng to Zhou Yuan, and also sent envoys from all walks of life to other states, with only one purpose.

This high-spirited Shang emperor decided to unite the forces of all the states and solve the biggest problem in the east together.

Dongyi, this ethnic group that has been in constant conflict and war with the Central Plains since the time of the Xia Hou clan.

"I have always admired the ambition of His Majesty Wu Yi, although Zhou is a small state, he is also willing to do his best to help His Majesty crusade against Dongyi. ”

Ji Yan thought of several Shang emperors before Wu Yi and after Wu Ding, and couldn't help but sigh.

After several generations of inaction, there is finally a king with great ambitions like Wu Ding.

"His Majesty Wu Yi said, the people of Zhou Yuan, know etiquette, are good at farming, know morality, the battle of Dongyi, pay equal attention to conquest and pacification, and they need Zhou Gong to send people to help. ”

"Your Majesty looks down on my Ji clan, and my Ji clan should serve my life. ”

Not long after the establishment of the Ji Clan, among the many Fang countries today, the strength is not even average.

However, Yin Shang did not lack a strong army and supreme masters, what they needed was only the specialty of the Zhou people, which was used to teach the Yi people.

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Zhou Yuan's witch temple is almost in the same place as the temple of the Ji family.

Ji Kao has been to the temple and knows that there are the spiritual seats of his ancestors and ancestors, the center is dedicated to the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, the Black Emperor Zhuan Xuan and the Emperor, the left is dedicated to Houji Ji Qi, and the right is dedicated to Ji Liu, who made the Ji family start again.

The witch temple is the first time he has come.

In the quaint and tall witch hall, Ji Kao suddenly had a mysterious feeling of intimidation and solemnity.

The main hall is wide, a stone statue of a god is placed on the top, the carving is negligent, although the facial features are there, the face is a little unclear.

But looking at this stone statue, with a few traces, there is a magnificent atmosphere of the sun and the moon in the arms, vast and noble, and dare not be disrespectful.

The statue of the god was standing, and in front of it, there was a small stone tablet with the word emperor written on it.

And behind this stone statue, there are dozens of stone tablets, each stone tablet, engraved with different lines, which seems to distinguish their respective identities.

These steles are probably the gods under the command of the Emperor of Heaven.

With Zhou Yuan's manpower and material resources, he can't expect to build a finely carved witch temple, which is actually good.

Ji Kao thought this in his heart, he didn't understand why his great-grandfather Ji Ji was seriously ill, he was taken to the witch temple.

Not only him, but all the third and fourth generations of the Ji clan were brought here.

"Father, what are we doing in the Witch Temple?"

Ji Fa on the side, who was also puzzled, asked their father Ji Chang.

Ji Chang shook his head, he didn't understand his grandfather Ji Yan's request very well.

The Ji family, regardless of the descendants or concubines, a total of dozens of people, were all called to the witch temple.

It is obvious that these people are quite distinct from each other.

There is naturally a difference between the concubines, and the status is born different. The concubines gathered together, and the concubines were in groups of three or five, looking at the concubines, with awe and a little unwillingness in their eyes.

The so-called son-in-law is from the wife, and the concubine is not from the wife.

From the Three Emperors Dinglun to the Xia Hou clan ruling the world, there is no distinction between descendants and concubines.

And the Xia Hou clan had a primitive patriarchal system because of the change of the public world into the family world and the replacement of the throne.

After the merchants seized the world, they abandoned the Xia Fa, but because of the competition for the throne of their sons, it led to hundreds of years of chaos.

After Pangeng moved to Yin and Wuding Zhongxing, he began to re-establish the patriarchal law, and the concubine was qualified to inherit the throne, and the status was naturally higher than that of the concubine.

When the Zhou people were in the land of Fengdi, they started in the world of Wuding Zhongxing, and in order to show their reverence for the big merchants, they naturally also learned the patriarchal law of the merchants.

Ji Yan's wife Taijiang has only three sons, Taibo, Zhongyong and Ji Li, and the status of the three of their sons-in-law is naturally higher.

There are not many pure sons-in-law, and they are the ones who greeted Ji Chang at the door.

In the third generation, only Taibo's son Ji Xiuming, Zhong Yong's son Ji Jian and Ji Jujian, Ji Li's sons Ji Chang, Ji Yu Zhong and Ji Yu Shu, a total of six.

And the fourth generation is a little bit more, and Ji Kao has a total of ten cousins, each staying next to their respective fathers.

Clang!

With a loud bang, the door of the Witch Temple was closed, and then the Great Sect Uncle slowly walked in from the door, holding the staff of gold and jade, and the five-colored mask on his face was still the same, and he couldn't see his appearance.

Behind him, there were two young men, a man and a woman, dressed in simple costumes with bright and dazzling colors, which made people see at a glance that they were also witches.

A woman is called a witch and is a witch, and a man can be called a witch or a witch.

The witch man in the back was holding a black stone in his hand, about a foot square, as black as ink, without any ornamental markings.

The Great Sect ordered the man to place the black stone in front of the idol and bowed three times to the idol before turning around.

"Duke Zhou has a request, let me choose someone with witchcraft talent among your clansmen and teach us the witchcraft of this lineage. I also agreed to Zhou Gong's request, so I summoned you all to test your qualifications. ”

As soon as Uncle Dazong finished speaking, everyone's hearts suddenly sank.

As far as they know, the way of witchcraft is the way of divination and sacrifice, which can be figured out with ghosts and gods.

Although they are descendants of the Duke of Zhou, they never thought that they could master witchcraft.

All of a sudden, everyone began to talk about it.

None of them are unknowledgeable people, except for those young children, who have all fought against Rong Di on the battlefield.

I also know that as long as witchcraft is practiced well, it can be ten enemies, a hundred enemies, a thousand enemies, or even ten thousand enemies.

As for a man and a woman behind the great uncle, they had seen with their own eyes that they fought with Rong Di's totem usher, and the power was vast and stretched for hundreds of miles.

Ordinary soldiers were either killed or wounded in the aftermath of their engagement.

The great uncle ignored everyone's thoughts, knocked the stick in his hand to the ground, and the voice of gold and jade sounded, and he continued to say indifferently.

"The so-called sorcerers can reach the heavens at the top and the earth at the bottom, and they are in harmony with the people. You can use the power of ghosts and gods to eliminate disasters and solve problems, or you can pray for blessings and chastity by your own means. ”

"There are many kinds of witches, there are those who borrow the power of God, there are those who pray for blessings and auspiciousness, there are those who seek eternal chastity, there are those who measure the blame, there are those who have Shunfeng New Year, there are those who go against the rain, there are those who calm the wind and drought, there are those who have been plagued by disasters, there are those who have far-reaching sins, and there are people who kill demons, and there are countless people. ”

"This stone, called the Stone of Attracting Spirits, can communicate with the gods of heaven and earth on the one hand, to see if it can correspond to the witch learners, and if the gods correspond, it will become the top of the witch path. On the other hand, it is to test whether you have other witchcraft talents, although you can't communicate with ghosts and gods, you can also learn top-notch witchcraft. ”

After the Great Uncle finished speaking, his right hand waved into the air at will, and suddenly there was a short sword, which was beautifully decorated, and it didn't look like a mortal thing at first glance.

He swiped the short sword into the palm of his left hand, and blood suddenly dripped down on the ink-black spirit stone.

"You wait for the juniors of the concubines, from the oldest to the smallest, and put your hands on this spirit stone in turn. ”

The children of the Ji clan looked at each other, and then Ji Xiuming, who was the eldest grandson of Ji Yan, nodded with all the brothers, and then walked to the side of the spirit stone first, and put one hand on it.