Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 238
How can Chinese people call themselves descendants of Yanhuang?

Judging from the relationship between the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, they are actually descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the kind whose roots are straight and Miaohong.

The royal families of Wu State and Yue State also belonged to the descendants of Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi, although one was surnamed Wu and the other was surnamed Si.

However, their common first generation ancestor is Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor!
Because Huangdi grew up in Jishui, he took it as his surname.

In the early years of the Zhou Dynasty in the eleventh century BC, when the princes were enfeoffed, there were more than fifty countries with the surname Ji established.

However, most of the descendants of these countries with the surname Ji changed their country name, feudal name, and grandfather's name to "shi", so everyone can't even reach distant relatives!

"That's right. The ancestor of Dayu was the Yellow Emperor!"

The scholar popularized with great enthusiasm: "Yu, Si's surname is Xiahou's family, his name is Wenming, his style name is Gaomi, and his name is Yu. Later generations honor him as Dayu, the leader of Xiahou's family, he is the great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu, the sixth son of Huangdi Xuanyuan's family. Great-great-grandson."

"So, the royal families of Wu and Yue were not one family more than a thousand years ago?"

Hearing that the royal families of the Wu and Yue countries have such distant relatives, the Li and Shu of the Yue Kingdom who were present couldn't help being dumbfounded.

However, in the past of thousands of years of relationship, dozens of generations, Qingji wants to trace the lineage of his ancestors, and forcibly recognize the Yue Kingdom as a relative, isn't it satisfactory?

Having said that, Yue people can still accept it in their hearts.

In the future, the state of Wu will offer sacrifices to King Yu's Mausoleum to ensure that the incense will continue!

Qingji's sacrifice to King Yu's mausoleum is truly unique.

This means that when the State of Wu destroyed Yue, it did not even keep the ancestral temple sacrifices of its descendants. In the future, the royal family of the State of Wu could also offer sacrifices to Dayu on its behalf!

……

Kuaiji Palace.

When Qingji returned to Kuaiji City after paying homage to King Yu's Mausoleum, he heard Su Wei report that it was Luming, the envoy of Yue Kingdom, who was begging to see him.

Qing Ji was naturally aware of Lu Ming's intentions, but he did not avoid it.

The battle on the front line has reached a stalemate. According to the battle report sent back by Sun Wu, the Yue people resisted tenaciously, relying on the advantages of terrain to resist stubbornly, causing Wu Jun to suffer a lot of casualties.

Although the Wu army has the local Sanyi people as the leading party, they can counterattack the Vietnamese army from time to time and pull out the strongholds of the Vietnamese army, but they can't find the main force of the Vietnamese army. The battle is always deadlocked.

Therefore, Qingji was already hesitating in his heart, whether to let the Yue Kingdom survive?
"Foreign minister Lu Ming, see King Wu! King Wu has lived for thousands of years!"

In the main hall, the dusty Lu Ming bowed to Qing Ji who was sitting on the majesty's platform.

This time Lu Ming's attitude was very humble, he was no longer neither humble nor overbearing as before.

"Luzi doesn't need to be polite."

Qingji smiled indifferently, and said: "Lu Zi is here, I think there must be something important?"

"King Wu, to tell you the truth, the foreign ministers came here by the king's order, and wanted to discuss peace with King Wu and eliminate the soldiers."

Lu Ming lowered his head and said: "Wu and Yue fought against each other. Although our country of Yue was at a disadvantage, relying on the terrain of the mountains and forests, we can still mediate with Wu for many years."

"Although the king of Wu is determined to destroy Yue, can he not care about the price at all?"

"The foreign minister heard that Chu State has sent troops to attack Wu?"

Qing Ji nodded slightly, and said with a smile, "Luzi's news is fairly well-informed. Although Master Chu attacked my country of Wu, it was only a skin and ringworm disease, which is nothing to worry about!"

Qing Ji openly admitted the fact that the Chu army was attacking Wu.

But so what?

He didn't care at all, because Wu Guo could handle it completely!

"King Wu, please forgive the foreign minister for speaking bluntly."

Lu Ming sighed, and said: "Wu Yue is adjacent to each other, and the two countries are countries of marriage. The queen of the king of Wu is my Si Yue, why bother to be so aggressive?"

"Now the old land of my country of Yue is completely lost, only the land of Sanyi in Xinna is left, and I have no strength to compete with the country of Wu. What my king thinks is only to preserve the ancestral temple of the country of Yue, not to be the king of the subjugated country!"

"Could it be that the king of Wu wants to kill them all? No matter how bad my king is, he is also the father-in-law of King Wu. No matter how bad the country of Yue is, it is also the mother country of Princess Ji Kou!"

"King Wu, God is sorry! Why does King Wu insist on destroying Yue?"

Hearing this, Qingji shook his head, and said slowly: "Luzi, it was God who ordered me to destroy Yue. If God doesn't take it, I will be blamed!"

"As for what you said, keep the ancestral temple of the Yue Kingdom for sacrifices. Lu Zi, I heard that you went to Kuaiji yesterday?"

"Exactly."

"That Luzi must have heard about the widow offering sacrifices to King Yu's tomb."

Qing Ji squinted his eyes and said, "I am the son-in-law of the King of Yue. The ancestors of both the Wu and Yue royal families are Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. Isn't it reasonable and reasonable to sacrifice to the Mausoleum of King Yu?"

"This... is indeed reasonable."

Lu Ming bit the bullet and agreed.

As the king of Wu, Qingji had nothing wrong with offering sacrifices to Dayu.

Not to mention celebrating the taboo, the kings of any country in the world can offer sacrifices to Yu the Great to commemorate his merits!

It's just that when Qing Ji brought up such a statement and did such a thing, Lu Ming already secretly thought that something was wrong.

Because Qing Ji is clearly reminding Lu Ming: the existence of the Yue royal family is no longer necessary!
In the future, Wu Guo can completely replace Dayu's sacrifice!

"Then, why bother to let the King of Yue enjoy the country?"

This really stopped Luming!

It became an unwritten rule in the Spring and Autumn Period to destroy the country without destroying the sacrifice.

The ancients believed that gods include gods of nature, gods of heaven, ghosts and gods, ancestors and so on.

After the ancestors died, they turned into ghosts and gods. Respecting the ancestors and offering sacrifices to the ancestors is also a manifestation of respecting the gods.

It is believed that after the ancestors have passed away, their ghosts still need to enjoy sacrifices.

Therefore, in the pre-Qin period, even if the country of the other party was destroyed, it was often "destroyed without destroying the country", and a small piece of land was set aside for them to establish a place to worship their ancestors. However, after the destruction of the doctor's family, they may not be so lucky.

At that time, Ziliang, the younger brother of Yin Ziwen, the order of the state of Chu, gave birth to a son who "looks like a bear and tiger and sounds like a jackal".

Ziwen believes that the one who will destroy Ruo'ao's family in the future must be this Douyuejiao.

So before he died, he cried and said: "Ghosts are still begging for food. If Ao's ghosts are not discouraged?"

It means that the ghosts and gods of Ruo Ao's ancestors will starve because there is no one to worship.

Later, the ruling Lingyin Douyuejiao was defeated by King Chuzhuang because he led a rebellion, and the whole family was wiped out.

However, the ancient sacrificial rites often ended with "Woo hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo out out out".

Being able to sacrifice to ghosts and gods represents the existence of a group, and vice versa.

On this basis, the rule of destroying the country and not destroying the sacrifices was formed.

For example, after Zhou Wu Wang Jifa destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he entrusted Wu Geng, the son of Shang Zhou King, as a vassal, and was responsible for the ancestral temple sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty.

Later, Wu Geng rebelled, which triggered the rebellion of the Three Prisons. The rebellion failed and he was killed.

But even so, the Zhou royal family still did not destroy the ancestral temple sacrifices that formed the Tang lineage.

In addition, they found Wei Ziqi, the elder brother of King Shang Zhou, and sealed him in Song State to take over the responsibility of the sacrifice.

So in the Spring and Autumn Period, although many of them were deadly enemies, they would leave a bloodline of the other party for him to sacrifice to his ancestors.

This shows the importance of offering sacrifices to ancestors!
(End of this chapter)