Established a millennium family since King Wu defeated Zhou

Chapter 498
Sima Qian felt the stagnation of the atmosphere.

But he was a little puzzled. Although the Luo family was a great nobleman with the surname of Ji, and even though the Shang Dynasty was destroyed by Bang Zhou himself, even Bang Zhou had been destroyed for more than 100 years. What is there to record the history of the Yin Shang now?

Luo Bai asked in a deep voice: "Tai Shi Gong, how much do you know about the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties?"

Sima Qian served as Taishi Ling for many years, and Sima's family was also the source of family education, so he told the lineages of the ancestors of Yin and Shang one by one, and said that Shang Tang crusade against Xia Jie, and that the Shang Dynasty was revived, and finally that King Zhou was brutal, so he was overthrown by King Wu.

Luo Bai and Luo Qing looked at each other. Sima Qian's narration was very in line with the world's imagination of Yin Shang. After Su Wang trampled on Yin Shang, after thousands of years of development, the world has already believed that the difference between Yin Shang and Bang Zhou is not too big , just changed to a royal family.

But this is not the case!

Luo Bai said in a deep voice: "Tai Shigong, the upheaval of Zhou's death and Qin Xing's upheaval is not far from you, so you can see the drastic changes.

But what you don't know is that Yin and Shang were destroyed, and Zhou was prosperous. "

Sima Qian couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

From the fall of the Zhou Dynasty to the drastic changes between the Qin and Han Dynasties, the old aristocrats were almost destroyed, the feudal system survived in name only, the prefectures and counties were completely spread out, and the kingship became stronger than ever.

Young master 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 deep in history.

Because Emperor Su's trampling on the Yin-Shang and the destruction of the Yin-Shang culture was extremely thorough, the world can only get a glimpse of the face of that era from sporadic news.

He was able to fully describe the lineage of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and he already belonged to the type of person who knows a lot in this era. Without this level, it is impossible for him to start writing history books.

But the only one who really knows the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is the Luo family. With the style of King Su and the Luo family, even if the culture of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is completely destroyed, they will definitely leave some backups.

Luo Bai and Luo Qing looked at each other, and then Luo Bai said: "Tai Shi Gong, please come with me to see the ancient relics left by the Yin Shang Dynasty. They were all left by King Su when he followed King Wu to defeat the Yin Shang Dynasty in the past. object."

Few people know that there is a house in the Luo family, which is specially used to store objects from the Yin and Shang period. In modern terms, it can be said to be the Yin and Shang Culture Museum.

Sima Qian followed Luo Bai and Luo Qing to a dark place in the deepest part of the Luo Palace. As soon as he got here, Sima Qian felt as if he was being watched by wild beasts, and vaguely saw many warriors guarding with swords Looking here, the sharp eyes are like real swords.

Luo Qing reassured: "This is one of the family's forbidden places, and the guards are relatively strict. Don't worry about Tai Shigong."

"Brother!"

The gatekeeper turned out to be a Luo family son!

Luo Bai responded, "A Xi, are you on duty today? Brother, I brought someone over to look at the ancient relics of the Yin and Shang dynasties."

The Luo family's sons took turns guarding the ancient relics site of the Shang Dynasty. Luo Xi opened the door and said, "Brother, please come in."

Luo Bai and the others walked in, and Luo Xi sat in the room again and started reading.

A few people walked within ten meters, and a gust of cold air came out, making people shiver. Wang Wenjun has been here before, and she has a high probability of being the head of the house in the future. She still needs to know something things.

Luo Bai felt that his arms were tightly encircled in an instant, and a soft and delicate body soaked in a faint fragrance was pressed against him. The warm and jade-like body leaned against him. He patted Wang Wenjun's catkin, and said in a low voice: : "Don't be afraid, baby, there is a husband here."

Wang Wenjun looked at Sima Qian who still had a confused face, thinking about the scene he was about to see later, he couldn't help but shudder.

She even felt a little sympathetic to Sima Qian who didn't know anything yet, especially Sima Qian's description of Yin and Shang was quite positive just now. There were sage kings, virtuous ministers, and ZTE lords, and finally died 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 and cold flower of Gaoling, but deep down he is a bit dark-bellied. He wanted others to experience the suffering he had suffered at the beginning.

Then several people walked into it completely.

The first thing that caught Sima Qian's eyes was the rows of bookshelves. Compared with the historical materials of the Bangzhou period, the historical materials here are much, much less, or even at most one percent.

But this was completely beyond Sima Qian's expectations. After all, his family didn't even have a single volume of historical materials about the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He opened his mouth in shock, and couldn't help but murmured: "There are so many."

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

A word flashed through his mind almost instantly - the torture of cannon fire!
Pao Lao is so famous, as one of the symbols of the cruelty of King Shang Zhou, it appears in almost every classics of various schools of thought.

This kind of punishment has even been completely connected with tyrants, and the kings of later generations did not dare to use this kind of punishment at all.

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

"This stone plate once carried an ancestor of our Zhou clan, Boyi Kao!"

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

Zhou family.

It's a name I haven't heard for many years, and it seems to bring people back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in an instant. The two major ethnic groups fought on the land of Zhuxia, and finally the Zhou clan won.

Until now, the Luo clan is probably the last ethnic group that still retains the memory of this Zhou clan, and everyone else has turned into Han Chinese.

Bearing the ancestors of the Zhou clan?

Sima Qian was a little puzzled, but Bo Yikao knew that he was the elder brother of King Wu of Zhou.

"Does Tai Shigong know how Bo Yikao died?"

Tai Shigong pondered: "It is said that he was killed by King Zhou of Shang."

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

It's a sacrifice! "

Since ancient times, there are countless courtiers who have been killed by kings. It is really normal for Bo Yikao to die in the hands of a tyrant like King Zhou of Shang. Sima Qian didn't think about it at all. Just a piece of evidence.

King Zhou of Shang even killed his own uncle Bigan, so what is killing Bo Yi Kao?
But sacrifice?

Sima Qian didn't understand. Bo Yikao was the prince of the Zhou family, and Zhou was a great nobleman in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Who can sacrifice him, and who is qualified to sacrifice him?
Could it be King Zhou of Shang?

Sima Qian knew that during the Yin and Shang Dynasties there was a habit of using people to sacrifice, but using nobles is a bit too sensational, right?

How could the nobles agree to sacrifice a high-ranking nobleman?
Luo Qing reached out to take a book from the shelf next to it, and said in a bitter voice, "Tai Shigong, the human sacrifices of the Yin and Shang must be completely distinguished from the human sacrifices of Bangzhou.

The scale of human sacrifices is very small, and the system is complicated. Except for foreigners like Qin and Chu, all human sacrifices in Ji Jiang must strictly follow the etiquette system.

Due to the complexity of the etiquette system for human sacrifices, the number of human sacrifices has been greatly reduced.

This is not the case with the human sacrifices of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The frequency of the sacrifices of the Shang people is too high, and even the captives captured through wars are not enough.

Then the Shang clan asked all the surrounding countries to offer sacrifices to them.

The Zhou clan was oppressed by the Shang clan before, and the Qiang people were captured from the west to serve as sacrifices. If they could not hand in enough sacrifices, they would be crusaded by the Shang clan.

The Shang family also believed that the more noble the person who sacrificed, the more pious they were, so a large number of Yin and Shang nobles were sacrificed. The prince Bo Yikao of my Zhou family was sent to the palace because of his noble status, which was enough to show the loyalty of the Zhou family to the Shang family. on the altar.

The history books record the process of Bo Yi Kao being sacrificed. After the sacrifice, the merchants cut open the flesh with sharp weapons, and then made sacrifice meals and distributed them to the nobles who participated in the sacrifice.

Merchants believe that participating in food sharing sacrifices will bring good luck and the blessing of their ancestors. Tai Shigong, you know very well that merchants will no longer sacrifice to the natural sky in the later stage, but only sacrifice to their ancestors.

These objects are utensils used by merchants to process sacrifices. "

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

"Tai Shigong, do you know why you are not allowed to read the history books of the Yin and Shang Dynasties?
Why did King Su want to trample on the culture of the Yin and Shang dynasties, confiscate all the materials, and then burn them to make everyone forget them? "

Sima Qian nodded numbly, and let some crimes be sealed in history to prevent them from resurging.

Human sacrifice, which is extremely terrifying, should completely disappear in Zhu Xia's civilization. In order to achieve this goal, even if it destroys some things, it is worthwhile. This was probably King Su's idea back then.

"Then how should Qian record the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties? It is fair to record the history first!"

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The transition from the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty was a great progress in civilization, especially the establishment of the Zhou Rites, which gradually freed the ancestors of the Xia land from bloody and cruel human sacrifices. To be advanced, no matter how strict the etiquette system is, it is more civilized than primitive ghosts and gods.

The greatness of the Zhou Dynasty is comprehensive and unmatched by any other dynasty. Because of the emergence of the Zhou Dynasty, talents were endowed with human meaning, and Zhuxia civilization became a civilization that pursued reality.

The rise of King Su's belief in Shanghuangtian is just the constant pursuit of reality, because this ancestor god who has the characteristics of the natural god Haotian and also integrates the pursuit of the holy king is the source of the complete transformation of all these. The way to the supreme god, everyone is like a god. ——"On the occasion of Shang and Zhou Dynasties: Civilization Set Sail"

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