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On the earth, Shang Tang conquered Xia, overthrew Xia Jie and established the Shang Dynasty. After 17 generations and 30 emperors, it was passed on to Emperor Xin.

Di Xin was a talented and bold emperor who sent Youhouxi to conquer Dongyi.

He attacked Jiumiao in the south by himself, extending the sphere of influence of the Shang Dynasty to the East China Sea and the Yangtze River Basin.

Internally, he opposed theocracy, advocated meritocracy, opposed slavery, and suppressed the theocracy faction headed by Dong Bohou and Queen Jiang.

His violent methods aroused strong opposition from conservative factions in the country.

Wu Wang Jifa took advantage of the Shang Dynasty's conquest of the Quartet and the emptiness of the country, and took advantage of the situation to raise troops.

There were not enough elite soldiers in Chaoge City to defeat the enemy, so Di Xin had to arm a large number of slaves and prisoners of war, together with the army guarding Chaoge City, to go to Muye to fight.

Zhou's army went out to defeat the slave army, and used tricks to make the slave army turn against them.

The victory in the Battle of Muye could not completely shake the rule of the Shang Dynasty.

Because Di Xin was able to rely on the high walls of Chaoge City and the remaining imperial guards to hold on, waiting for the 15 troops who conquered Dongyi to come back for help.

However, the enemies that Di Xin had to face were not only the Zhou army and various princes, but also the nobles in Chaoge City.

There are more conservatives in Chaoge City than he imagined.

According to the official history revised by the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Xin had only one son named Wu Geng.

However, according to unofficial records, Emperor Xin had three sons, namely Wu Geng, Zijiao, and Zihong.

Wu Geng was born to Daji.

Zijiao and Zihong were born of Empress Jiang and belonged to the old school.

Yu Yi was also speechless when he thought of this.

Emperor Xin was named Zixin, and one of his sons was named Zihong.

In the Zhuxia Empire, Zixin and Zihong became half brothers, which is somewhat funny.

He pulled his thoughts back and continued to recall and infer the things about the Shang Dynasty.

In the history books of the Zhou Dynasty and later, Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou, was a noble character, known as the ancient sage, but he gave birth to hundreds of sons!

There are also 17 historically proven ones!

It is enough to prove how many concubines King Wen of Zhou had.

Di Xin had only three sons in his life, but he was left in the dark, desolate and immoral, which is really ridiculous.

Could it be that Di Xin took in countless concubines because he had no children?

Where did his three sons come from?

Therefore, history is a little girl who can be dressed up.

It is a well-known thing that the court from the back is in the dark to the court from the front.

King Zhou Wu won the throne incorrectly, so he would inevitably smuggle the Shang Dynasty in the dark to show his legal status.

After Zhou Jun won the Battle of Muye, he came to Chaoge City.

Dixin's two princes, Zijiao and Zihong, were not reconciled to the suppression of their mother clan, and did not want to lose the support of theocracy.

The two secretly joined forces with Wei Ziqi, Wei Zhongyan and other conservatives to quietly open the city gate and let Zhou Jun into the city.

When Di Xin saw that his closest relatives had been betrayed, he was in despair. Knowing that the situation was over, he boarded the Lutai despondently, "covered his clothes with his pearls and jade, and burned himself to death in the fire".

The Shang Dynasty officially collapsed.

The 15 expeditionary army led by Zixi returned non-stop to help, but when they were halfway there, they were shocked to hear that Chaoge City had been destroyed, and Emperor Xin set himself on fire.

Youhouxi knew that the situation was over, and now letting the expeditionary force rush to Chaoge City would be tantamount to throwing oneself into a trap.

After a brief decision, he decided to lead the expeditionary force northward.

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, Moving forward along the bitter cold zone in the north.

Zixi's original purpose was to search for a new continent, find a new habitat, develop together, and wait until he had accumulated enough strength to counterattack the Zhou Dynasty and regain the Shang Dynasty.

However, when Zixi and his expeditionary army were marching on the vast ice field, they accidentally encountered some kind of time-space dislocation phenomenon and fell to the Tianyuan Continent.

Zixi and his expeditionary army, because of the strong vitality of the Tianyuan Continent, activated their cultivation talents and began their struggle for hegemony in the Tianyuan Continent.

Not long after, evil gods invaded the mainland, and all races were in danger.

Zixi led the expeditionary force and participated in the war against evil gods.

The evil gods invaded, maiming and destroying the old human empire in the Tianyuan Continent.

Zixi took advantage of the situation to rise and grow stronger, and established the Zhuxia Empire.

He made brilliant achievements in Tianyuan Continent and became the founding emperor of the Zhuxia Empire.

Unfortunately, the fate of his old leader, Di Xin, was not so good.

Di Xin's reform failed, and he was crazily smeared by the Zhou Dynasty.

It has also been enriched by scholars of successive dynasties.

A talented and bold emperor almost became a ruthless and faint king than Xia Jie, and was scolded for thousands of years.

The slander of Emperor Xin by the Zhou Dynasty can be inferred from the "Oath of Mu" proclamation.

"Oath of Mu" said: "Now the king of Shang accepts it, but the woman's words are used, and she faints and abandons her sacrifices, so don't answer;

Faint and abandoned, leaving behind the king's parents and brothers, but the sins of the four quarters fled,

It is admiration and leadership, trustworthiness and emissary, and it is regarded as a big official and a gentleman, so as to tyranny the people and rape the merchants. "

The several crimes listed in the "Oath of Shepherd" are all ridiculous.

In order to prove the legitimacy of his crusade against King Zhou of Shang, King Wu of Zhou listed several crimes committed by Emperor Xin:

[-]. The rooster makes the morning, and the woman takes care of the government.

Second, do not practice sacrifices, do not respect ancestors, and do not fear gods.

[-]. Don't appoint relatives, and employ people improperly.

[-]. Receive and appoint sinners, reuse slaves.

Let me talk about the first crime first, the rooster rules the morning, and the woman meddles in politics.

In the era of patriarchy, women's status was low and they could not participate in politics, which was the tradition of feudal dynasties.

Although there have been many political strong women in the past dynasties, after all, it is an isolated case, and it is difficult to get a "rectification".

But the problem is that the patrilineal society is based on the matrilineal clan.

The ancient times in which the Shang and Zhou dynasties lived was the end of the matrilineal clan society.

At this time, it was only the initial stage of patriarchal society. Although the status of women was not as good as that of men, it was still relatively high.

Fu Hao, a well-known Yin Shang general, was the wife of Shang Wang Wu Ding. She was not only able to lead soldiers to fight, but also a priest.

In a slavery country that attaches great importance to religious sacrifices, a woman holds the power of the army and sacrifices at the same time, which in itself shows that the Shang Dynasty did not despise women.

In addition, there is the famous "Simuwu Ding", which is a food vessel and a ritual vessel, which has important symbolic meaning.

In order to commemorate a woman, the national power was spent to cast a huge vessel, which also shows the important position of women in the Shang Dynasty.

The ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty was the famous "God of Agriculture Houji".

The Zhou people themselves are farming people, so their patriarchal power is strengthened, and they are very disgusted with women's meddling in politics.

The difference between Zhou and Shang in the distribution of gender power is determined by the different social division of labor under the two social models, which cannot be regarded as a fault in itself.

However, King Wu of Zhou forced himself into the dark because he wanted to get Di Xin down.

He can even find excuses for the rooster to watch the morning and for women to intervene in politics. They really use everything.

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Chapter 322 Wen Sheng and Wu Sheng

Ji Fa accused Di Xin of committing the second crime of not cultivating sacrifices, not respecting ancestors, and not fearing gods.

In the age of ignorance in ancient times, China had both god worship and ancestor worship.

The people of the Shang Dynasty would sacrifice the prisoners captured in the war to their ancestors and gods. The scale was very large, and they even killed thousands of people at a time.

In the era of King Shang Zhou, similar activities became less and less, and the scale became smaller and smaller.

At that time, people believed in the destiny, and the destiny came from the ancestors and gods.

Only by giving enough sacrifices to the gods and ancestors can they protect the people of the dynasty.

Di Xin's failure to sacrifice to the gods angered the theocratic nobles headed by Dong Bohou and Queen Jiang.

Zhou people used this name to encourage merchants and Zhou Jun to oppose King Zhou together.

Why doesn't Di Xin like offering sacrifices?

Because of the large-scale sacrificial activities throughout the year, a large amount of high-quality labor was wasted.

Di Xin wanted to increase the working population and promote social production by reducing sacrificial acts.

His thought was extremely progressive, but unfortunately it was not recognized.

The third crime is not appointing relatives and improper employment.

Appointing relatives, in other words, nepotism.

According to the thinking of normal people, it is a crime to appoint relatives.

Representatives of the "relatives" that Emperor Xin didn't use were Jizi, Weizi, Bigan and others.

Wei Ziqi was opposed to Di Xin's political views, so he joined forces with the conservative faction to conspire to overthrow Di Xin's rule, and even sent people to the Zhou Dynasty to invite troops.

It is a good thing that the two sides have different political views.

After all, if a dynasty has a unified voice from top to bottom, then this dynasty is not far from extinction.

However, because of internal conflicts, Wei Ziqi and others secretly colluded with foreign enemies, which is an unforgivable act of treason.

The talents that Di Xin reused were all from the middle and small aristocratic class.

The politics of the Shang and Zhou dynasties were aristocratic politics, and the world was real private property.

There is a big difference between the bureaucrats, bureaucrats, politics, and governance after the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and the Qin and Han Dynasties.

In this environment, those who came from a humble background would inevitably receive opposition from the aristocratic class.

A person's talent is not necessarily related to his birth.

Di Xin's approach, on the contrary, is a bit of a meritocracy.

In the "Oath of Mu", it is said that Emperor Xin: "To be tyrannical to the common people, and to rape the merchants."

The people mentioned here are not the common people known now, but the nobles at that time.

In ancient times, common people were a collective term for nobles.

Di Xin's rejection of the decadent aristocratic class brought him huge criticism, causing him to stand against the entire aristocratic class.

Under the historical conditions at that time, Di Xin's actions made him lose his power base.

Di Xin was betrayed by his own people. After self-immolation, not only himself, but also the talents he hired were stigmatized and called "traitors".

After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, on the one hand, the relatives of the children were enfeoffed, and on the other hand, the Yin and Shang nobles were enfeoffed.

Among them, Wei Ziqi, who was enshrined in the Song Dynasty, proved that the demise of the Yin Shang was actually the result of cooperation between the Zhou people and the Yin Shang nobles.

The fourth crime is to house and appoint criminals and reuse slaves.

The so-called sinners are actually exiled slaves.

In the era of slavery, there were a large number of slaves in various countries.

The fate of slaves is very tragic. Not only do they have to do heavy labor, they also have to be slaughtered and sacrificed like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep.

Therefore, the phenomenon of slaves fleeing was very common.