Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 477

One month later

The summer of the second year of Duke Yan 220 (432)
Jin Guo
not its city

The Sima family rebuilt the Great Jin Dynasty in Buqi County, using Buqi City as the temporary capital.

"Didn't your country of Yan agree to help Zhen restore the country? Why did you suddenly negotiate peace with Liu's traitors? You want to withdraw your troops back to Liaodong?"

Sima Dewen, the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, saw that the army of Yan State was preparing to return to Liaodong by boat, and he was very anxious, especially when he saw that Yan State had also taken away [-] of his [-] troops.

"It's fine if you don't help me restore the country, but take away my army. What's the point?"

However, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom ignored the roaring Emperor Sima Dewen at all, and moved all the population and materials of Buqicheng on their own.

During these days, they plundered a lot of population wealth in Qingzhou, and piled it up in Buqi City. Now that Yan and Song Dynasties are negotiating peace, these population and materials will naturally be brought back to the Liaodong mainland.

Only three thousand slave soldiers with very low combat effectiveness remained in Buqi City, and tens of thousands of old and weak women and children.

This is the full strength of Da Jin.

Moreover, the [-] slave soldiers were still commanded by the nobles of the Yan Kingdom. The main purpose of retaining the puppet regime of the Jin Dynasty was to use the little remaining appeal of the Jin Dynasty to attract soldiers with strong orthodox ideas. People came to seek refuge, and then brought them back to the country of Yan as teachers to improve the literacy rate and cultural level of the people of the country of Yan.

When Yan State was packing up and returning to Liaodong, Wei State finally completely wiped out the remaining resistance forces of the Xiongnu Xia State and occupied the entire Guanzhong. Liu Song also began to recuperate, develop the people's livelihood economy, and make preparations for the second Northern Expedition in the future. get ready.

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When the eastern land is vying for the throne, on the distant snow-covered plateau.

Zhou Yuan
A simple stone city was built, with more than 1 residents living in the city and more than [-] slaves living outside the city.

The city was named Haojing, the snow-capped mountain next to the city was named Qishan, and the snow eagle that lived on the snow-covered plateau was named Phoenix.

On this day, Ji Dan, who was over 60 years old, was critically ill. He called his second son, Ji Li, and told him: "We Zhou people are weak, so we must do our best to serve Zanpu, and respect the needs of human sacrifices on the ground." Sacrifice, before the wings are full, you can't act rashly."

"Conquer the Bowo people to the east and make them our slaves, conquer the Luoyu people to the south and make them our barriers, conquer the Qiang people to the north and integrate them into us, and do these things well, the strength of our Zhou people will grow.”

"My son understands, father don't worry!" Ji Li replied respectfully, and then went to Jiqu City (Lhasa) with fifty slaves who were too old to farm.

Although they had to offer human sacrifices, the Zhou people were still reluctant to offer up strong slaves. They wanted to save them for farming, and those who offered offerings were those who were sick or too old.

This is called waste utilization and flexible sacrifice.

A month later, Ji Li came to Jiqu City with fifty sacrifices.

Yalong people like to wear white clothes and don't tie their hair. They worship the sun and black birds.

"I am a prince from Zhouyuan, and I come to offer sacrifices." Ji Li said respectfully to the soldiers guarding the gate of Jiqu City.

The Yalong Dynasty divided the princes into internal princes and external princes. The princes of the same clan were the internal princes, and the foreign princes were the foreign princes, and the Zhou people belonged to the foreign princes.

Zanpu is the representative of the gods in the world, assisting the gods in managing the lambs in the world. In addition, there is a priest class responsible for communicating with the gods, and a warrior class responsible for fighting and killing. Under the warrior class, there are countless slaves .

After each zanpu dies, he will turn into a new god, also known as the ancestor god, which is different from the natural god.

The main contradiction between Zanpu and the priest class is that the priest class is more inclined to sacrifice to the gods of nature, because the gods of nature have no blood relationship with the real monarch, and only by worshiping the gods of nature can they control the right to communicate with the gods for a long time.

Zanpu, on the other hand, is more inclined to worship the ancestor gods, and wants to use the blood relationship between the ancestor gods and himself to strengthen his power in the world.

Generations of Zanpu have been reducing the scale of human sacrifices to natural gods, and at the same time increasing the scale of human sacrifices to ancestor gods, so as to weaken the priests' right to communicate with the gods, which made the priests more and more dissatisfied. The Yalong Dynasty The internal contradictions became more and more intense, which is also an important reason why Zhou people dared to secretly accumulate power to seize power.

Ji Li delivered the sacrifice and stood aside, accepting the baptism by the priests of the Yalong Dynasty.

I saw that pure priestess, she stabbed a slave's chest with a bronze dagger, then made a cut, took out a living heart, held it on top of Ji Li's head, and pierced the heart with the dagger.

laugh--

The bright red blood fell on the top of Ji Li's head, then flowed on his face, and finally dripped to the ground.

"The supreme God Nuwa, she will bless you, a guest from Zhouyuan."

The priestess spoke Jiqu language, and Nuwa was just Zhou people's translation of Yalong's creation goddess.

In the myths of the Yalong people, a creation goddess created human beings [-] million years ago.

The Yalong people did not name the goddess of creation, but respected her as the "Supreme God".

There are many similar myths all over the world, so after learning the language of the Yalong people and knowing that there is also a creation goddess like Nuwa in Yalong’s myths, the Zhou people simply translated the creation goddess of the Yalong people into "Nuwa". ".

This is like translating the "Lord" of Christianity into God. You just find a similar god's title in your own fairy tales and put it on the other side.

After the baptism, Ji Li saw many shocking sacrificial scenes.

A slave was tied to a copper pillar, and the copper pillar was burned red by the fire. The slave was almost roasted, which is called "paoluo".

There is also a slave whose chest was split open, and the dried body was hung on a tree, and there was a pond full of blood next to it, which was called "the forest of wine and meat".

There is also a young girl whose skin is peeled off and made into a drum.

All of the above are not because these slaves have committed a crime, nor are they being punished, but are normal sacrificial activities. Whenever they pray for good weather, make wishes to the gods, or have major festivals, such human sacrifices will be celebrated.

No one thinks such behavior is cruel, they just think it is a normal thing, killing sacrifices and then offering sacrifices, isn't this normal?

"Great God Nuwa, the lamb prays to you, please bless us with prosperity this year, bless us with good weather, and bless us with victories in every battle!"

A high and powerful high priest is kneeling at the foot of the stone god statue, prostrate and humbly praying to the god. There are more than a dozen sacrifices beside him, all of which are slaves who have just been killed, including some men, and some Several girls.

The rest of the priests also prayed devoutly to the Goddess of Creation. In order to express their piety, it was not enough to just kill a slave. They also killed a nobleman and used the nobleman as a human sacrifice. Only in this way can they be sincere. There is a greater possibility of moving the supreme goddess of creation.

After the sacrifice, everyone happily shared the offerings, and the scene was full of joy. Even Ji Li got a piece of fresh meat, which was the meat from a girl's pubic bone.

After the sacrifice is over, eat the sacrifices by the way and don't waste them. This is a good virtue of diligence and thrift.

(End of this chapter)