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

Chapter 490 Journey to the West ([-])
another year later
The summer of the seventh year of Duke Yan 240 (457 years)
Faced with the revenge of killing his father, Ji Chang couldn't bear it anymore, and decided to launch a rebellion in advance, leading [-] soldiers to declare war on the Yalong Dynasty, and called on the eastern princes to resist together.

However, when Ji Chang's army marched westward, it was blocked by a foreign vassal state "Chongguo" who was still loyal to Zanpu for the time being.

Chongguo was actually a small city. Most of the so-called vassal states in this period actually had only a small city. Some vassal states did not even have a city wall, and they were just a village, but they were also called vassal states.

This is why you can summon eight hundred princes at every turn.

The city of Chongguo happened to be built in a place with high mountains and deep valleys, and the terrain was so dangerous that Zhou's army could not advance westward even if they blocked it from the east.

When the rebellion failed, Ji Chang immediately succumbed and sent double the sacrifices to Zanpu, claiming that he was deceived by the treacherous villains under his command, and the people of Zhou were still loyal to Zanpu.

Ji Chang killed the so-called treacherous villain who was responsible for the blame, and became a dog for the Yalong people again, and begged Zanpu to marry the son of Dabang, his attitude was very humble in an instant, as if the revenge of killing his father no longer existed.

Because there are so many vassal states that want to rebel against the Yalong Dynasty, if it was in the past, the Yalong people would never show mercy to the Zhou people who rebelled and then surrendered, and had to sacrifice the whole country.

However, nowadays, there are too many rebels, there are really too many. If you have time to deal with Dongbo Hou Jichang who has surrendered, it is better to deal with those princes who rebelled and refused to surrender first.

Soon after, the new Zanpu married a son (princess) of a great state in order to unite the front. Ji Chang loved the son of a great state very much, for fear of offending the Yalong people, and let the Yalong people give priority to suppressing their own state of Zhou.

Ji Chang, who became a dog again, did not really give his allegiance to Zanpu, but secretly supported those princes who had rebelled, and married those princes who wanted to rebel but did not dare to rebel, in order to have enough children. To be used as a tool for marriage, Ji Chang was desperate to have children, and even adopted the children of his relatives to himself. Finally, he made up a hundred children, and there were enough marriage tools to draw allies, and then secretly established an alliance against the Yalong people. encirclement net.

In order to gain the goodwill of the princes and to have more allies when he rebelled against the Yalong people for the second time in the future, Ji Chang worked hard to create an image of fairness, justice and benevolence in each princely country, and kept giving the priests of the Yalong dynasty and internal servants The vassals gave gifts to curry favor, and kept observing the internal power struggle of the Yalong people, waiting for the Yalong people to deal a fatal blow when the internal struggle was at its most intense.

It has to be said that for the future of Zhou people, Ji Chang has endured humiliation enough to marry a woman he doesn't love at all, but also pretend to love her, and bow down to her in the face of killing his father and enemy. In order to have enough allies, Treat yourself as a reproductive tool without emotion, don't care about the loss of your body at all, but also hide your inner anger and create an image of benevolence.

Xu Xiake, who had stayed in Zhouyuan for more than a year, was stunned. He couldn't help sighing: "With such a wise monarch, it must be Zhou people who will seize the snow-covered plateau in the future."

A few months later, after Xu Xiake left some agricultural and medical books, he bid farewell to Ji Chang and continued westward.

When he came to Jiqu City, the headquarters of Human Sacrifice, he found that the internal struggle of the ruling class here had become fierce.

Some priests and nobles could not bear the fact that there were fewer and fewer offerings to the natural gods, and openly cursed Zanpu, and then Zanpu cut his heart and lungs and became sacrifices to sacrifice to the ancestor gods.

What is worth mentioning here is that Zanpu did not object to human sacrifice, he just objected to the power of priests to control human sacrifice.

It means: I can sacrifice human beings, but you can’t sacrifice human sacrifices!
This is different from what later generations believed that Zanpu opposed human sacrifice and advocated humane reform.

People have never objected to human sacrifice, but they only object to the power of others to hold human sacrifice.

In essence, it is still a power struggle within the ruling class. In the end, the priests and nobles who failed in the internal struggle chose to collude with foreign enemies to overthrow the kingship that deprived them of power.

"As a king, at the critical moment of internal and external troubles, he doesn't want to unite all the forces that can be united, first repel those external enemies on the surface, but in order to concentrate the king's power, he forcibly fights with the nobles to the death, and loses both. This is a typical stupid king. , There is nothing to say, our King Yan family has produced such a monarch before, that is Wang Ting, in order to centralize power, it led to a civil war in the family."

"The party that loses the internal struggle will often collude with foreign enemies, such as colluding with Sima Zhao, and almost causing the family to be destroyed by Sima Zhao."

For this new Zanpu of the Yalong people, Xu Xiake only had such an evaluation after getting acquainted with it.

Xu Xiake came to Jiqu City as Jichang's younger brother, so he was not embarrassed. After all, Jichang had temporarily reconciled with the Yalong people.

Xu Xiake observed this dynasty that had already sunk into the west, and Xu Xiake observed it for more than a month, leaving only one sentence: the snow-covered plateau had a country called Yalong, and its customs were the same as those of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

The lewd music here does not refer to lewd music, but music that does not conform to the rules, that is, Zanpu likes music that does not conform to the ancestral system, which makes those nobles who abide by the ancestral law very dissatisfied.

Afterwards, Xu Xiake continued westward and came to the "Xiangxiong Kingdom". Xiangxiong is located at the westernmost end of the holy mountain (Himalayas), adjacent to the Western Regions, connected to Shendu in the south, and Guishuang in the west. It has a population of one million. On the plateau, the strength is second only to the Yalong Dynasty.

The Shangshung Kingdom is not a country, but a tribal alliance similar to the Yanhuang tribe, and the co-lords are replaced by different tribes. The co-lords are elected by each tribe, and the civilization is similar to the Yanhuang period in the Central Plains.

Here, Xu Xiake felt the original ecology of ancient Chinese civilization, as if he was in the ancient times described in history books.

Therefore, he left a sentence in "Journey to the West": In the extreme west of the snow-covered plateau, there is a country called Xiangxiong, which is like the customs of ancient Yanhuang.

Afterwards, I wandered around the various tribes of Zhang Zhung for more than a year, and gained their favor by teaching them more advanced farming techniques and textile techniques.

What's more, the co-lord of Xiangxiong Kingdom actually wanted to marry his own daughter to him, just like Shun married Yao's daughter.

Moreover, some tribes built stone statues for him, enshrined him as a god, and regarded him as a god.

Xu Xiake declined the kindness of the co-lord, left the Xiangxiong Kingdom, continued westward, and came to the declining Guishuang Kingdom.

With the rise of the Gupta people, not only the Great Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, but even Guishuang, which was next to the Great Zhou Dynasty, was almost destroyed by the Gupta Dynasty during the rising period of national power.

Guishuang Kingdom used to dominate one side and even dared to attack Banchao, the governor of the Western Regions of the Han court, but now it can only surrender to Persia in the west.

When he came here, Xu Xiake finally found some traces of his ancestor Wang Changye's visit.

In Guishuang Kingdom, there is also such a legend. It is said that hundreds of years ago, a Han from the east came to Guishuang and asked Guishuang to form an alliance with Han to attack the Huns together.

Time has passed, and the Guishuang Kingdom has been ruled by several family dynasties. The Xiongnu have long fled westward, and the Han Dynasty has also perished long ago. Only such legends are still circulating among the people.

(End of this chapter)