Days are everlasting

Although Bigan habitually referred to the country opposite Yue as the Wu country, this small Fang country established by Ji Taibo and developed for only a few decades has not been able to reach that level.

Even the Zhou Department, in the official name of Dashang, is only called "Ministry" instead of "Guo".

Today, the local people refer to the state of Wu as "Ju Wu".

The "ju" in "Juwu" is the same as the "yu" in the local name "Yuyue" of Yue State, which is a meaningless particle in the local language.

Taibo is the eldest son of Gugong Danfu, so naturally there are a group of people who follow him. He and Zhongyong left in order to make room for their younger brother Jili. It is an act of filial piety, and it is most worthy of praise. There are quite a few people following him in the Ministry of Zhou.

Of course, Bigan once conspired that Tai Bo and Zhong Yong gave way to their younger brothers and came to such a remote barbarian place to establish Fang Kingdom. Did they mean to attack the big merchants together with the Zhou people from Zhou Yuan?

Although judging from the current situation, Ju Wu is not close to Da Shang, and they are still far away if they want to attack Da Shang with Zhou Bu.

Of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out.

The population composition of Juwu is very complicated, most of them are local Jingman, Xuyi, and Huaiyi, but if Taibo and Zhongyong simply rely on their own personality charm to make all these people surrender, it will make people I laughed out loud.

A few generations ago, the big merchants who are now in conflict with the various tribes of Dongyi were related to them, because the Shang tribe was also a member of Dongyi.

After the Great Shang replaced the Xia Dynasty in charge of the artifacts, they gradually drifted away from the Dongyi tribes.

The difference between the two lies in etiquette.

Since the beginning of Dashang, the Huaxia people’s clothing tradition of “upper garments and lower garments, with hair tied on the right lapel” began to take shape, and Dashang also had many etiquettes and laws, all of which distinguished Huaxia from the barbarians.

In Huaxia, the beauty of clothing is called Hua, and the great etiquette is called Xia.

Dashang and Dongyi discussed it carefully 500 years ago, maybe they were one family, but now they are in trouble. Taibo and Zhongyong do not rely on force, but simply use their personality charm to convince the local barbarians. Who are the second fools? no?

Therefore, when they left Zhoubu, they must have taken a group of useful people with them.

The relationship between Zhou and Wu is so close, it really makes people have to be vigilant.

And the trouble caused by Ju Wu made Dashang even more wary of them.

The position of Juwu is between Jingman, Huaiyi and Dongyi. Fangguo is the closest to Juwu, Youguo with Youhou's tribe, and Pengguo of Pengzu clan.

The Peng Zu family is a branch of the Da Peng family. They have always served as historians in the court. Because of the rare talents of historians, in Bigan's memory, until the Han Dynasty, the job of historians was passed down from one family to another. He doesn't know the later era, but in the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian, the Taishiling who compiled the "Historical Records", inherited the post of Taishiling from his father Sima Tan. Their family has been a historian since the Qin Dynasty.

Peng State is near You State, slightly closer to the Dashang Wangji area than You State, but not too far from Bianyi.

Youhouxi and Emperor Xin went to conquer Mengfang. Compared with Mengfang, Youguo was far away from the great merchant king Ji.

Youhou is not happy. Although there are people in charge of Youguo, there is no leader among the dragons.

Then Youguo was attacked. They had no choice but to report the problem to Wang Jizhong and let Bigan and others handle it.

Among those who attacked Yau, there were quite a few people from Juwu.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand why. Bigan himself has seen the Ji Li, and it is only a few decades from the Ji Li to the present.

Gu Gong Danfu wanted to set up his father's Ji Li because he loved Ji Chang as a grandson. It would have to wait until Ji Chang showed his intelligence and intelligence, which would not be many years behind the time when Bi Gan first saw Ji Li.

In such a short period of time, it is simply impossible for Tai Bo and others to completely educate the barbarians from scratch.

Not even a generation has passed!

In any case, as Fang Guo, whose surname is Zi, was attacked, besides the Yi people, there was even a tribe of Ju Wu, a tribe composed of people from the Zhou tribe with the surname Ji, who attacked Yau country. their nerves.

Back in the day, when the new emperor of the Shang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, Emperor Yi was caught off guard by Ji Chang of the Zhou Department, and finally had to marry his younger sister and get married in exchange for peace between the two clans, which is simply infuriating.

Now, although it is only a matter between Youguo and Juwu, and it can even be said that this matter has nothing to do with Juwu's upper echelon, it is a matter between the people of Juwu and Youguo, but this cannot but make people think more about the inside story.

For Bigan, it is because the big merchants are now in decline.

There must be natural disasters in the last years of a dynasty. This is the summary of thousands of years of feudal history in China and the blood of several feudal dynasties.

Another important reason for Zhou's destruction of Shang was the coming of the Little Ice Age. The strange weather affected the production of food. In addition, the land was so small that the royal family was the first to bear the brunt of the resentment. It's really you who can't be destroyed!

There are only two options to solve this problem, one is to reduce the population, and the other is to expand the land area.

Dashang chose to expand the area, but it was a pity that the effect was slow, and then Dashang died.

In the process of Zhou Daishang, the first type was unconsciously completed, so Zhou was stable.

Thinking about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with this explanation at all, it makes sense!

Bigan feels that apart from reform, what Dashang needs to do now is to solve this unavoidable problem.

The reform of Emperor Xin in history touched the interests of too many old nobles, so when he was working hard to solve this problem, the backyard caught fire, and his brother became the leading party, leading Zhou Bing all the way to Chaoge.

Bigan believes that Dixin's reform is possible, and this is no problem at all. As for the problems that need to be solved, when external conflicts arise, internal conflicts will naturally be transferred.

When Zhou destroyed Shang, the Little Ice Age had not yet completely passed, but once the system of enfeoffing princes was established, a large number of people spread out, and the pressure was instantly reduced.

Many of Dashang's existing sons with the surname Fang Guo were entrusted by Emperor Tianyi—that is, Tang—and Emperor Wuding, and these two periods were the famous prosperous times of Dashang.

Nowadays, there are not many people directly related to the royal family who establish Fangguo outside. Even if there are feudal cities, they all stay in the capital as internal service officials. This is the case with Bigan, Jizi, Weizi and others.

If they want to carefully discuss the future path of Dashang, I am afraid that Bigan will have to think about it for several months or even years, so now, the first problem they have to solve is Wu Wu, or Zhou.

Zhou's extermination of merchants, this is a typical case of using a small to make a big fortune, but if you think about it carefully, it may not be because they have hidden evil intentions early in the morning, and have been committed to external expansion and strengthening Zhou's strength since the beginning of Ji Li.

Bigan, who knows the history of later generations, will never relax unless the scourge of Zhou Bu is resolved.

Now, you can start from Shou Wu.

Henceforth, the reasonable Wang Shubigan asked Youguo to convey his decision, to the effect that:

Juwu was the Fang Kingdom established by Tai Bo and Zhong Yong, and Zhou Bu was a vassal state of the Great Shang, so the Juwu established by a person surnamed Ji should naturally also be a vassal state of the Great Shang.Although in the past Wu was located in a remote place, the big merchants didn’t care much about them—of course, this is a nice way of saying it. To put it in a bad way, the big merchants didn’t care about this small piece of land in the corner of Wuwu—but now, Juwu's people invaded the country of You, which was a provocation to the big merchants.

Since everyone is from the Huaxia tribe and is different from the barbarians, Dashang will give Ju Wu a chance. If the Lord of Ju Wu comes to make a pilgrimage, the king will let the past go, and the loss of the country will be left to the king. It's all here to make up for it.

This decision seems very reasonable, Bigan originally thought that this strong sense of Hongmen Banquet—although no one knows what Hongmen Banquet is now, the trust between people still exists—would definitely be frightened I said to the people of Wu, but the people in the capital all said that you are so easy to talk, young master, and Bigan suffered internal injuries for a while.

Shang Rong, who was known as the number one genius boy in Anyang, the capital of Yin, could probably guess Bigan's thoughts. After all, stupid people have different ways of being stupid, but smart people are always similar [No! ], but his reaction to this might as well not have been guessed at all!

Shang Rong excitedly expressed that he deserved to be able to piss off his father Shang Ke to death, that his brain was really brilliant, and he had a set of ideas.

Bigan: You might as well not praise me!

He would rather be praised as a fool than being praised by Shang Rong as a wily man!

Bigan: I'm still a cute and pure baby!

Don't talk to him about the issue of trust between people in this era, he doesn't want to hear it!

Because Wangdu appeased Youguo, their emotions were still very stable, but when the news reached Juwu, the then leader had a headache.

Tai Bo had no son, so after his death, his younger brother Zhong Yong succeeded him.

The age difference between Ji Yong and his elder brother was actually not that big, so five years later, he also lost his braids, and passed the throne to his eldest son, that is, Ji Jian, the heir who was adopted by Tai Bo as his heir, who is now the leader of Juwu.

Ji Jian is a good boy. Although he was born after Ji Yong came to Jingman, he was brought up according to the etiquette of the Huaxia clan, which is very different from the barbarians in Jingman.

He has been adhering to the teachings of his uncle and father, and has not contacted Zhou Bu, so as not to make people think that he is going back to fight for power, but in all fairness, he wants to win for his uncle and father.

Both Tai Bo and Zhong Yong abide by the so-called succession by the eldest son. They teach the next generation according to this, and combined with their own experience, it is inevitable that the next generation will be wronged to replace them.

So after Bigan's treatment reached them, Ji Jian happily decided to go to Chaoge for a pilgrimage.

Anyway, he didn't take the initiative to reveal his family background with the surname Ji, and he couldn't afford to rely on the conclusions of Dashang's own investigation o(≧v≦)o.

Zigan diary:

Actually I am a good person. (*￣▽￣)

The author has something to say: Zigan is getting more and more shameless in his diary, and the little angels despise him together [Hey! 】.

It is said that compared with the Wu State, the Yue State has stronger vitality, and its influence continued until the Han Dynasty.

The time of the hereditary monarchy of the Wu Kingdom suddenly felt that something was wrong, because the history of the Yin and Shang dynasties was not completely determined, so the stupid author was embarrassed to find that according to the chronology I am using now, the Wu Kingdom should still be in the Taibo era, which happened to be the last year , and then Zhongyong came to power, five years, the third generation Ji Jian reigned for ten years, the fourth generation reigned for 18 years, and then Di Xin reigned for 30 years according to my calculation, then Ji Fa will not be in power after the destruction of Shang At that time, it was already Wu Jun's Zhou Zhang, so it was very embarrassing...

Moreover, the dates of birth and death of this group of people in the data are still different. According to another calculation, the state of Wu has changed for three or four generations during Emperor Yi's reign. The stupid author decided to blur this time. Orz

It is said that according to the data, Taibo and Zhongyong lived to be more than 90 years old, and Ji Chang also lived to be more than 90 years old. The stupid author said that he did not believe it very much. The average life expectancy in the Yin and Shang Dynasties was not high at all. How could anyone live that long? !

By the way, let’s popularize science, the sentence of Wu Wu is pronounced gou, and the sentence of Yuyue is pronounced wu, but it is generally believed to be "yu" and pronounced yu...