In today's Hebi City, Henan Province, there once stood a thousand-foot-tall building full of treasures from all over the world. In terms of scale at the time, the height of Lutai was close to that of the pyramids of Egypt.
The high platform is named Lutai, and the place where it is located was called Chaoge in ancient times, the capital of the last Shang.
Tall buildings are often used to fictionalize the divinity of mortals. Three thousand years ago, the owner of this god and ghost capital, King Gong, was the god of the world.
Before being destroyed by thousands of years and becoming the first evil man in China. Sima Qian gave a positive description of the King of Shang in the "Records of History", and through the "Records of History" we know that the King of Shang was not only a wine pond meat forest. He originally had excellent imperial assets.
Emperor Yizi discerned the disease and smelled it very sensitively. Superior material, hand beast.
--Sima Qian, "History of Yin Benji"
He is gifted, eloquent, deaf, physically strong, and able to wield beasts of prey.
But a person's superior wisdom is often also the cause of his demise.
Knowing is enough to distance oneself from advice, words are enough to admonish right and wrong; the people are subordinate to the ability, and the world is high to the voice, thinking that they are all under themselves.
Because he was too good to listen to anyone's advice. Because of his eloquence, he was able to cover up all his faults with words. He boasted before his ministers with his talents, and exalted himself everywhere with his prestige, believing that no one in this world could overcome him.
Such a king is undoubtedly lonely.
Lonely people cannot control the world.
Whenever the King of Lu stood on the towering deer platform, he looked down at the singing and dancing Shangdu in front of him, and looked at the boundless river valley under his name. He felt more than just contentment.
These endless fortunes also brought him inexplicable uneasiness.
He had sensed the undercurrent of tranquility, the waste of prosperity.
Threats come from around.
The King of Shang remembered his uncle: Bigan.
Bigan said: "Those who are subjects have to fight to the death." "It is a strong counselor.
As the uncle of the King of Shang, Bigan became a model of loyal subjects, and posterity called them ancient loyalists. Whenever the King of Shang yi deviated, Bi Gan could always make suggestions. The King of Shang, on the other hand, was a king who "knew enough to be far away", and his talent made him proud enough to refuse any advice and to go in the direction he had identified.
What is bigan to dissuade, what is the Shang King insisting on doing?
Good wine and lascivious pleasure, and a woman. Love yourself, and follow your own words. So he made Shi Juan make a new obscene sound, a dance in the north, and a beautiful pleasure. The thick tax is based on the money of the real deer platform, and the millet of the Yingju Bridge. Harvest dog marquee, fill the palace room. Yiguang Sand Dune Garden, take more wild beasts and birds in it. Slower than the ghost gods. The great man plays in the sand dunes, with wine as the pool and the county meat as the forest, so that men and women are chased each other for the drink of the long night.
--Sima Qian, "History of Yin Benji"
Sima Qian vigorously described the impoverished and extravagant desires of the King of Shang, and eventually these things condensed into four shocking words: Jiuchi Meat Forest.
This is the daily life of the King of Shang. But this is also the daily life of any generation of Shang kings. The king who owns the world and the pure heart are originally a pair of contradictory words, and we can also know from history that those emperors with the holy name of benevolence are also slaves to desire.
Although what Bigan advised was all true, it was in the eyes of king Huan. It doesn't matter what it says, it's more important than what it is.
Bigan was the uncle of King Huan.
The custom of the Shang Dynasty, brother to brother and brother. When the last Shang emperor Yi died, the throne did not pass to Bigan, and he was succeeded by Emperor Yi's son, King Yi.
Is he really for my own good, or does he want to see me ugly and take the throne back from my hands?
Is he a saint, or a careerist in disguise?
If only I could dig out his heart and have a look.
A few years later, when King Wu of Zhou, the son of Zhou Chang, made a mobilization order, the Pastoral Oath, which revealed the predicament of the Shang Dynasty before its collapse.
Now the king of Yin is only used for women's words, and he faints and abandons the emperor's parents and brothers, not Di. But the many sins of the four sides fled, whether they were revered or long, who believed in the messenger, who thought they were masters and secretaries; who tyrannically abused thousands of people, and who committed adultery with the merchants.
The Pastoral Oath does not lie, every of its accusations is empirical, it only understands one key: to criticize a person, it is more intelligent than lying to have the power to interpret.
But the words of the woman are used.
According to legend, the King of Shang favored a woman named Daji, who has been depicted as a fox spirit in the novel "Fengshen Yanyi", probably the Shang Dynasty did not establish the cultivation law that animals cannot become sperm after the founding of the country.
But the Shang Dynasty was originally a dynasty in which women participated in politics. In the Yin Ruins, many tombs of female nobles were unearthed. They were either female generals or female officers. There are also many female records in the oracle bone. The most typical is the good woman.
Only women's words are used, but only in a patriarchal society will they be considered wrong. The Pastoral Oath does not specify what advice the woman has made, and it seems that it has been tacitly accepted that it is wrong to listen to the woman.
Isn't that another mistake?
Fainting, Ferns.
The King of Shang ignored the sacrifices of his ancestors. Again, there is nothing wrong with that. According to the excavated oracle bones, we find that by the time of the Shang Dynasty, human sacrifices became less and less frequent, and the large-scale sacrifices that used hundreds of Qiang at a time were almost extinct.
The era of the Shang Dynasty was not an era without slaves. The King of Shang used troops frequently, and it is recorded in the historical records that he used an army of 700,000 slaves in the Battle of Makino.
Why did he no longer use these slaves to sacrifice the patriarchs?
The parents and brothers of the king who fainted out, not Di, but the many sins of the four sides fled, whether they were revered or long, who believed that they were messengers, and who thought that they were doctors and secretaries.
The King of Shang abandoned his blood brothers and instead appointed sinners who fled from all directions.
This is not wrong. According to historical records, the King of Shang did alienate his brother.
The micro-son did not listen to the advice, but conspired with the master and the young master, and went away. --Sima Qian, "History of Yin Benji"
WeiZi was the elder brother of king Shang, and for some reason he was unable to inherit the throne. Sima Qian believed that the neutrino might be Shu Chu. The micro-son made a suggestion to the King of Shang, but after not being accepted, he patted his ass and left.
Where did it go?
Later historians, Sima Guang, said it bluntly.
Xi Zhou had to have a micro-son and a revolutionary business order, Qin had to dominate Xi Rong from Yu, Wu had a member of the Wu and Ke Qiang Chu, Han had Chen Ping and Xue Xiang, and Wei had Xu You and broke Yuan Shao. ——Sima Guang, Zizhi Tongjian
It turned out to be Zhou Zhao'an. Perhaps, in Zhou Chang's gossip deduction, there are instructions about the nutrino.
It is not that the brother does not want to use it, but he does not dare to use it. People in the center of power naturally reject competitors, and they tend to promote people of inferior status, because these people will really become their confidants.
This is another interpretation of the shang king's crime. Which interpretation is correct? The answer depends on which angle you stand from.
But this article exposes the plight of the King of Shang.
In the winter of 1045 BC, a large army led by King Wu of Zhou set out. In fact, this was not his first expedition, but last year, he installed a doll in his car that imitated the appearance of King Wen and led the alliance of princes to the east.
Behind King Wu of Zhou were eight hundred princes, all of whom had once been a source of sacrifice for merchants.
"Now we can cut the timber." The princes asked for orders. King Wu of Zhou stopped, looked to the east, and said his decision: "You don't know the east yet, and you can't do it now." ”
After speaking, King Wu of Zhou led the army back.
What made King Wu of Zhou abandon this march? He was not afraid of leaking the news and attracting a thunderous blow from the Shang King?
The history books cannot explain such anomalies as King Wu of Zhou. Some people believe that the wise men are still in business and are not attackable. Some people said that this meeting was an exercise of a major offensive.
At this moment, the King of Shang was using troops against Dongyi in the east. King Wu of Zhou's sudden march may have been intended to contain the King of Shang and give his allies in the east a distant echo.
The following year, King Wu of Zhou could no longer wait. The King of Shang had already pacified Dongyi, and the army was returning to Chaoge, where the Shang Dynasty would be a formidable enemy that Zhou could not deal with.
Finally, I don't have to wait any longer. Bi Gan died and Ji Zi was imprisoned, and Tai Shi And Shao Shi Qiang fled to the Zhou Kingdom with their musical instruments.
The great affairs of the country are only worshipful and military.
The theocratic class of the Shang Kingdom had abandoned the Shang King, and the Shang Dynasty's army was still in the East.
Mian Zi Master, no more, no more!
Our fate will be determined by this moment. There is no second time, no third time.
King Wu of Zhou's army gathered, the land in the west shook, and the soldiers, accompanying family members, and the chaotic pigs, cattle, and livestock, mixed together, marched east in the winter mist.
Jupiter glides over the Quail Fire Palace, the moon hangs in the constellation Scorpio, and the sun is above the ecliptic. The army marched for two days, the moon and the sun met in the Dou su, and Mercury appeared in the Celestial Aquarius Heavenly Area. The Sun and Moon Mercury have arrived in the Northern Seven Houses.
The King of Wu's Curse of The King, on the day of his deeds, is jealous of the soldiers, and the east is greeted by the age of the Tai, to the general and the general, to the nostalgic and bad, to the common head and the mountain tunnel. Uncle Huo was afraid: "Three days and five disasters, is it impossible?" ”
--"Xunzi Confucian Effect"
The stars are out of the East, not lucky! Winter rain, not auspicious! Flooding, not auspicious! Bad water, bad luck! Rock cracks, not lucky!
Within three days of leaving the school, five unsatisfactory visions occurred. The princes began to fear. Should we continue to march?
At the critical moment, Zhou Gongdan, the spiritual leader of the zhai shang, stepped forward.
Zhou Gongyue: "Qiao Bi Is dry and imprisoned, fei lian, evil comes to know the government, and the husband is evil and cannot be done!" "Then he chose a horse to go forward, and he ate in qi, stayed in the hundred springs, and was tired of the wilderness of the pasture."
Don't be afraid, these anomalies are heralding the fall of the Shang King. Go ahead, you can definitely succeed.
It was the middle of winter, frost was knotted on the warrior's armor, and the snow beneath his feet was more than a foot deep. Soon after five cars and two horses passed, the ruts disappeared and became invisible. The princes came to king Wu's camp of Zhou Wu one after another to seek unusual answers.
As a result, Zhou Gongdan appeared again.
"This must be the god of the five parties who came to help The Great Zhou."
It is impossible to know whether the princes accepted such an explanation. But for now, there is no way back.
According to the information revealed from the merchants, the King of Shang has returned to Chaoge. His army was also not far from Chaoge, and as long as the Shang King and his army converged in Chaoge, this group of rabble-rousers would collapse in an instant.
King Wu of Zhou left behind eight hundred princes, selected three hundred chariots, three thousand tigers, and marched at a speed of fifty miles a day toward the route where the King of Shang had once hunted.
Finally, thirty days after leaving Fengyi, this army of merchants in simple clothing arrived on the outskirts of Chaoge: Makino.
This day is the day specially chosen by Zhou Gongdan: Jiazi.
From this day on, Jiazi became the most commonly chosen time point in China's three-thousand-year change.
When the winter morning sun rose weakly from the east, King Wu of Zhou issued an order to line up, and this selected army of merchants laid out the formation according to the appearance of the exercise.
The formation had not yet been formed, and it was raining.
Heaven seems to have once again shown a tired mood. God, who has enjoyed the blood sacrifice of the Great Merchant for six hundred years, still refuses to abandon his pious secular agent?
Agitation began to appear in the camp. Lu Shang was in front of the front and back of the car line, calming people's hearts. King Wu of Zhou clutched the long sword in his hand, a famous sword that was called Qinglu by posterity. This is not the weapon of the Central Plains. Historians believe that this is a weapon that Zhou borrowed from the grassland culture.
The army settled down slightly. Everyone held their breath, holding weapons of different forms in their hands, and staring at the east with their eyes wide open.
Gradually, from the east came a noisy sound, which became louder and louder, like the waves of the sea, and soon turned into a thunderclap hanging over the heads of the people around them. Everyone's palms began to sweat, their eyes timid, and they crowded each other, their weapons colliding with each other making a clanging sound, as if they wanted to get some courage from their companions.
Lü Shang had to set up a carriage and patrol the front of the battle over and over again, drinking slogans and inspiring the non-commissioned officers from all over the country. But he saw terror in the eyes of the soldiers.
The shang dynasty's army appeared. According to historical records, the King of Shang gathered an army of 700,000. This is obviously not a real data, but even if there is one in ten, it is an extremely terrifying number for the three hundred chariots and the three thousand Zhou Army of the Tiger Ben.
Yin Shang's journey, which will be like a forest, targeted at Makino
--"Poetry Classic, Daya Daming"
The merchant's army was like a flood, the towering spear tip was as dense as the jungle, and under the spear was the terrifying face of the merchant soldier. It was a face made of bronze faux. It has been the god and nightmare of this land for six hundred years.
Countless times, as long as such a Shang Dynasty army appeared, the other side would not be able to withstand the pressure and flee.
The army of loggers was tense. King Wu of Zhou stepped forward from the queue, he knew that the most critical moment had been reached, and the tribe's hundred-year plan would be answered in his hands at this moment.
Today's matter, but six steps and seven steps, is to stop at the same time, the Master is bare! But in the four cuts, five cuts, six cuts, seven cuts, but stop Qi Yan, Mian Zhaofuzi!
- "Pastoral Oath"
Today's events are only six steps and seven steps, and you remember our exercises, and after the seven cuts, we will organize our steps. We will definitely be able to win the final victory.
After the mobilization of King Wu of Zhou ended. Lu Shang challenged the other side. If the historical records are correct, Lü Shang was nearly ninety years old this year, and he had always appeared in front of everyone as a resourceful figure. However, at this moment, he suddenly transformed into a samurai and rushed to the front with a sharp armor, so that posterity suspected that Lü Shang might not be as old as in the historical records.
Wei Shi Shang Father, Shi Wei Ying Yang. King Piwu of Zhuo, a great merchant, will go to the Qingming Dynasty.
- "Poetry Classic, Daya Daming"
This descendant of the Qiang people, the ancestor of military learning in later generations, after exhausting all his strategies, poured everything on courage. On this day, Lü Shang was not the old man who fished in the Wei River, nor was he the one who lurked in the secret of Chao Ge. On this day, Lu Shang was a true fighter, an eagle soaring over Makino.
All the footnotes on this war fall on the defection.
The Zhou people seem to have already planted spies in the Shang Dynasty army. And these Shang Dynasty armies such as forests were not the great army of the Shang King who swept the world, but the temporary cobbled together slave army. These people were the slaves that the King of Shang had just captured from the eastern battlefield.
In China's pre-Qin era, like the Roman Empire, it was often not slaves or savages who lived outside the city who could participate in the war, but the citizens in the city, who were real nobles. Because it is believed that soldiers with civil rights tend to be more effective.
The Battle of Makino confirmed this theory, and under the impact of the Zhou Dynasty army, the Shang Dynasty army collapsed smoothly.
There is no enemy against our division, the former disciples turn against us, attack the north of the rear, and the blood drifts with pestles.
--Shang Shu Wucheng
Under the defection, the Shang Dynasty soldiers were not killed by the Zhou people, but the former disciples defected and attacked the back, and died under the goe of their own people in the chaos.
Blood flowed into a river, and pestles made of wood floated on the surface of the river, and the frost on the grass tips was dyed red.
The war ended in one day. The Tianyi merchants who ruled the world for six hundred years are coming to an end today.
The desperate King of Shangyi walked toward Lutai, and he looked down on the place under the heavens. He personally opened this big gamble and finally lost a step. The king of the hundred grams lost all his chips in a single day's defeat. Until many years later, when Miko saw the ruins of Asaka, she couldn't help but burst into tears. How did the proud businessman ruin all this?
On the deer platform, the King of Shang Finished Draping the Magnificent Treasure Jade and ended his unfinished business with a fire.
In the merchant world, jade is the bridge between the celestial realms. Di Xin, the last king of the Shang, may wish he could be on the side of God after death, just like his ancestors.
Three years after the completion of the destruction of the Shang, King Wu of Zhou died. The Zhou royal family seems to have the gene for longevity. But the burden of the merchant destroyed the body of King Wu of Zhou, and he did not get rid of the nightmare at the last moment of his life.
What he left for the world was still a dream.
However, there are only ten two ancestors, the April King's Confession of Dreams, the Prophe, the Golden Branch, the Suburb treasure, the Kaihe Detailed Book, the Decree of Zhou Gongdan to establish the heir, belonging to the child recitation and treasure book.
--Yi Zhou Shu Wu Shu Xie
On this day, King Wu of Zhou woke up from the nightmare again, and he summoned his younger brother Zhou Gongdan, took the bronze treasure representing Sheji, and asked his son to recite it over and over again.
At this moment, Zhou Gongdan, who was good at interpreting dreams, did not need to interpret dreams anymore, and already understood his brother's last wish.
Zhou's world was in Zhou Gongdan's hands.
The world is still not at peace, and the nobles of the Shang are not willing to fail, plotting unknown conspiracies in the shadows.
To solve these problems, force is needed, but not just force. Zhou Gongdan, who was proficient in explaining everything with dreams, found a solution.
In the center of the Iloilo Basin, Zhou Gong began to build a new capital city, he personally divination, planning the city, a new city rose in the fresh and clean land, to replace the blood-soaked city of Chaoge as the center of the East. Dayi merchants officially transitioned to Dayi Zhou.
In this new center, Zhou Gongdan announced a new order, endless blood sacrifices will become the past, whether to have the world's standard is no longer the number of sacrifices, but whether to restrain their desires, the will of heaven is no longer unique, it is more important to the virtues of the king.
Heaven cannot be trusted, I have only the virtue of the king of Ning.
--Shang Shu Junyi
Dream interpreters are also good at storytelling. He preached that the reason why the merchants lost the world was because their shang kings had lost their virtue.
No one gets one.
Zhou Gongdan piled up all the evils of the merchants on the body of the King of Shang, so that the descendants of the merchants, Zigong, could not help but wonder: Di Xin was not good, it was better than even. It is the evil of a gentleman who is inferior, and the evil of the world is returned.
This is an explanation that is acceptable to all. Including merchants.
Zhou Gongdan simply moved the merchants away from the yin capital, where there was a god they had dedicated for six hundred years. Leaving them where they are can only make them nostalgic for the feeling of having the world.
In the end, the King of Shang suffered all the evils of Shang. The merchant must have let down his guard and can start a new life under the new order.
Wei Zi succeeded the heirs of the Yin Dynasty and established a state in the Song Dynasty.
Yin's remnants were left to King Wu's younger brother Feng and established a state in Weiguo.
In order to control the huge territory, Zhou Gongdan divided the world one by one, and Lü Shang, an ally who had been cutting together, sealed it in Qi. Of course, it was more of a Zhou royal family.
One by one, the princely states appeared around Zhou, and they paid tribute to the suzerain Zhou Jin and obeyed the dispatch of troops. And they themselves also carried out re-sealing within their own territory, thus forming a system of zhou sealing. The nobility was clearly divided into heavenly sons, princes, secretaries, and scholars.
The world was gradually divided from a piece of chaos. Until they were mixed up again.
After the Zhou Gong, the sacrifice of human sacrifices to human beings slowly became history, and history gradually blurred, and everyone has forgotten that we once had an era of human killing. Even if those who are full of learning have seen the truth of history, they are willing to believe what Zhou Gong said.
It's not that they don't want to admit the truth, it's just that they, like Zhou Gong, also believe that in some cases, lies may be better for the world.
Let the King of Shangyi bear all the evil, let the evil people in the world wake up, and let the Duke of Zhou take over all the praise and become a model for gentlemen.
As a result, the world began to have two extremes, the Shang King who had accumulated for a thousand years, and the Zhou Gong who had accumulated reputation for a thousand years.
Only the loess buried the truth.
This is the story of the King of Shang.