When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 3 The spillover effects of the Shang Dynasty’s civil strife

The Fang State of the Shang Dynasty was a federation formed by an alliance of blood-related ethnic groups driven by one or more cores.

Compared with the tribal alliance, this kind of party will have a king.

The legal system for the throne was jointly recommended by various tribes, which is the so-called abdication system.

Ax shook his head slightly after listening to his brother's complaints: "That's not true. And even if we want to become Xin Fang, we must have enough clan members. Besides, can the Guzhu clan be stronger than Xuanniao?"

"It's the same thing if you go to mess around with Tufang in the upper reaches of the Sanggan River." Xin Qu curled his lips: "Besides, the Guzhu clan is not like the surrounding Fang countries. Those Fang countries are mostly nomadic, and they are two levels behind the merchants in terms of weapons.

Let's say that.

Shang Wangji was a top-notch warrior, wearing leather armor, bronze helmets, bronze weapons, and a large number of chariots.

Internally, Shang princes and relatives belong to the first-level combat force. They wear leather and wooden armor, wear bronze helmets, and carry bronze weapons and chariots. There are not many.

The external tributary country has a second-level combat power. The closer it is to the internal domain of influence, the stronger the combat power. Most of them have a certain number of leather armors, wooden armors, and imitation helmets. The weapons are bronze, wood, and bone. There were only two chariots, which did not pose a threat to the merchants at all.

Finally, there is the Fang Kingdom. They have a third-level combat power. Those who can fight with us rely on their cattle and horses to nomadically move around. However, there are very few bronzes on their weapons, and it can even be said that there are none.

Because merchants would not sell to them, they could only solve the weapon gap by robbing.

As for the Guzhu clan, they were also relatives of the merchant. Although they were also foreign servants, how much effort did they put into supporting the merchant's move south?
Moreover, they often marry each other, even if they attack each other.

If you have a solid foundation, how much worse can your combat power be?
Furthermore, is it really the intention of Shang Xiaoyi to attack Guzhu?
I am afraid that the merchants and nobles are engaged in a civil war to compete for the throne.

Lone Bamboo may support one of the factions in King Shang. Shang Xiaoyi either wants to seek the position of King Shang himself, or he is helping the candidate for the throne he supports to seize the throne.

All in all, the Shang hinterland in the south was in chaos. "

Xin Qu's past six months were not in vain. He also followed the clan's caravan and inquired about news everywhere.

Gradually, most of the history of the entire Shang Kingdom was pieced together.

The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties are worthy of being the pillar projects of ancient Chinese civilization.

The Shang Dynasty had quite a lot of force, and they began to play the expansion strategy of ancient Rome very early, more than 2000 years in advance!

Businessmen serve the system internally and externally.

The internal clothes are divided into two parts, one is the royal territory, and the other is the fiefdoms of princes and princes with the surname of Zi.

The waifus are generally from vassals with foreign surnames. Some small clans surrendered very early, and some are related by marriage to merchants.

For example, there are the Su family who live on both sides of the Yellow River and belong to the influence of foreign relatives.

But they will also be expelled from their original place of residence.

Because the expansion method of the Shang princes was different from the underlying logic of the Zhou Dynasty.

The Shang princes, with Wang Ji as the center, continued to confer princes on foreign lands that had been reclaimed.

What does that mean?

It's like the Xin family lived in Anyang, and then King Zuyi of Shang gave birth to several sons who became adults and needed territory.

Like the Zhou Dynasty, they would not separate their own territory or distribute wasteland to their heirs.

Instead, he sent troops to say to you, Mr. Xin: "You, change the place. This place belongs to our prince."

Then there are three paths before you: resist and become a slave, move away and re-open the wasteland, or become a slave on the spot.

Merchants will not assimilate your tribe, but will steal your women and give birth to their tribesmen. As for the men, they are slaves, which is the Roman method of colonial conquest.

A family of craftsmen like the Xin family were crushed and plundered by the Shang Dynasty in the face of the rise of bronzes. Their technology could no longer keep up with the iterative progress of the Shang Dynasty's core technologies, so they were constantly expelled and relocated.

Serving as a tributary country, life is no better than that of the nomadic people.

The only advantage is that when merchants sometimes plunder the various parties, you can send troops to assist. Not only can you attack the various parties and expand the living space of your tribe, but you can also get a little bit of water.

For example, merchants reward bronze ware, and merchant men exchange their essence with your tribe's women for offspring, further mitigating the risk of incest.

In addition, the livestock plundered from all sides will be thrown to the accompanying tribes.

After all, the merchants were wealthy and had a lot of local food. They left their livestock to the border tribes and could wait until they needed to conquer various parties and let them pay tribute on the spot. It could be said that it served multiple purposes.

Livestock is only dispensable for merchants, but for border tribes, it is a guarantee of survival.

Every era has its own way of survival.

Although Xinqu doesn't adapt very well, he respects the ways of this era.

However, what he didn't expect was that in just half a year, the businessman would launch a war.

He suddenly became the leader of the clan.It’s really… Ruzhihe.

"ε=(ο｀*)))"

Hearing his elder brother sigh again, Axe, who was looking at the pot, said dissatisfiedly: "Why are you sighing again? You are the leader of the clan!"

"You guys, you young people, can you listen to me?"

"..."

A look that you know.

Xinqu could only shake his head helplessly: "Forget it, is the meal ready? Just give me the whole meal. I have to talk to Wu Xiaoye first."

Wu Xiaoye is Wu's apprentice. Now that Wu has gone out with the army, she has become the new Wu.

"oh oh."

Ax subconsciously scooped up some rice for his brother.

This is a very extravagant behavior, but although my brother is lazy, he is very good at trading. He often makes a lot of money while trading with his tribe and outside tribes. The family has been living a lot better recently because of his trading.

So the rice tasted a lot harder.

Otherwise, in previous years, we would just eat gruel at night, just to satisfy our hunger.

"The crabs I brought back yesterday should have spit out the sand. Cut them in half and throw them in to cook. Then add some ginger. The taste will be much better."

Xin Qu, who had eaten casually, pointed to a small vat in the corner and said.

Ax walked over and opened it, picked out two of them, washed them, cut them in half, threw them into the pottery pot where they were being cooked, and dropped a few slices of ginger.

This way of eating started half a year ago.

You know, they didn't dare to eat crabs before.

He was the one who enjoyed Xinqu the most.

During the spring famine, many people in the clan were hungry. Seeing that crabs were edible, they imitated them.

Over time, Ax got used to this unusual and lazy brother.

After all, others have to worry about moisture protection when sleeping on straw on the floor. His family earns a lot of food by selling its wooden bed manufacturing technology.

"Okay, I'll go find Wu Xiaoye. Just stay open tonight."

He patted his butt, put on his spear, and went out.

Xinqu walked through the residential area and came to the warehouse area, just in time to see a group of Tu Tu and others escorting slaves to the slave shack near the water in the south.

There are slaves in the clan, but not many, only about five hundred, which is incomparable to the merchant society where half of the country is slaves.

The slaves were mainly engaged in dangerous land reclamation tasks under the Xin family. After all, before setting off land and setting fire, an isolation zone needed to be cleared in advance to prevent the fire from spreading.

During the cleaning process, no one knows whether there will be wild beasts or insects and snakes, so this kind of task is done by slaves.

Even if one of them dies, they won't feel bad.

The first month after traveling back in time, when the burning of wasteland began, Xinqu was shocked by the awareness of fire zones in his clan, but he gradually became accustomed to it.

Because the ancients just had limitations, not brain damage.

Burning wasteland will easily burn mountains. This is a result of experience and has been passed down in the tribe.

They naturally understand.

"Clan leader." Tu greeted Xin Qu when he saw him.

"You'd better call me Qu." Xin Qu shook his head, "I can't afford to be a clan leader!"

"No, if you don't become the clan leader, others will be afraid!" Tu laughed and started joking with Xin Qu.

They have a good relationship. After all, when he fell into the mountains, it was Tu who found him and carried him back.

To him, soil is a life-saving grace!
"Okay. You guys are busy, I'll go find the witch." Xinqu waved his hand, and then went to the witch's position at the back of the warehouse.

Tu looked at Xin Qu's back, turned around and said to the people around him: "This is the attitude of the clan leader. Look at Bing Jia and Shi Wu. They get scared when they hear the news of picking up the clan leader. How can it be so natural for Qu!"

"Yes!"

This group of people also lamented that they originally thought that the two with the strongest courage would become the next generation clan leaders.

Unexpectedly, they both gave up first!Not as responsible as a lazy guy!
(End of this chapter)