When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 365: In ancient times, the eldest son was often sacrificed to blood

"Patriarch! Patriarch!"

Just when Xin Qu and Xianyu Xiaozhu were discussing how to negotiate with Tufang in the future.

A woman hurried in outside the yamen, holding a boy of about one year old in her arms, followed by a boy of seven or eight years old.

They all looked frightened.

"Help! Patriarch, please help!"

They were stopped by Qing Yan, who was in charge of the guard. Just when they were about to ask questions, they heard a roar from outside: "Here! Come on! Catch him!"

"You! What are you doing! This is the Yamen of the Xin family! What do you want to do?!"

Qingyan saw this group of people appearing with picks and hoes, and shouted, "Back off! If you cross the line, you will be killed without mercy!"

Qingyan and the others drew their swords directly, and the crossbowmen on the archery tower cocked their bows one after another.

The faces of the three NO.40 people who were still aggressive at first changed and they stopped quickly.

"What the hell is going on?"

Qingyan saw them stop, then turned around and asked the woman who came to ask for help.

"They...they want to sacrifice my son!"

"Nonsense! What kind of sacrifice! She is obviously crazy! My eldest brother is going to die soon. He likes these two children and wants them to be buried. Why not?"

"No! No! Neither of them are Brother You's children! Brother Chang was born six months after I got married. Although Snake is the second child, you were fighting outside at that time. I..." The woman panicked, He kept shouting, "In short, the patriarch has already abolished sacrifice! You still want to sacrifice my child! I...I will never agree!"

"Don't talk nonsense! What do you mean by me sacrificing? We never sacrifice people! My eldest brother is going to die soon! Why do you like these two children and want them to be buried?
You promised before that these two children are my eldest brother's!Then let them go down and accompany him!

Aren’t you pregnant with one too?When the time comes, let the last child born be the heir!Isn’t it over? "

The group was shouting.

Xin Qu didn't even come out yet, but he had already heard the general idea.

It is estimated that the origin of a woman's children is complicated. Although Xinqu abolished human sacrifice, he did not abolish sacrificial burial. Some tribes still retained this rule.

As for the reason for reservation, Xin Qu knew very well that burial was not useless, because sometimes burial could be of great use, such as killing some ministers who were too big to kill.

More importantly, sacrificial burial can also be used as a deterrent weapon to clean up some entities that could not find an excuse to clean up before.

For example, cleaning up non-parental children to ensure the inheritance of the bloodline.

This is very cruel, especially the nobles, who take very serious care of their own bloodline inheritance.

Originally, Xin Qu had planned to abolish the sacrifice and burial, but in the end he gave up.

Because he couldn't guarantee that his first child was really his.

If he can't do it, don't talk about others.

In the early decades, before the Xin family was divided, each family would sacrifice their first son to the gods.

What does that mean?

The woman born of the eldest son may not necessarily be his, so he might as well use an excuse and sacrifice it.

Later, due to divisions and wars, family genealogy was rewritten, and the population was insufficient, the old witch began to dilute these rules.

Gradually, the new generation no longer retains the relevant rules.

Xinqu even abolished human sacrifice, but kept an ambiguous attitude towards burial. The purpose was also very simple. He did not take the initiative, did not interfere, and was not responsible. What you want to do with it is your business. Slaves are public property anyway. How dare you take public property? If you want to be buried, I will do it to you.

Then the objects of burial will naturally change.

Recently, some tribes have begun to use livestock, and some have begun to abandon sacrificial burials and replace them with burial utensils and jade.Of course, there are also some who have become close friends.

Therefore, a family that can confirm that the eldest son is not the biological child may use this child to be buried and then purify the family's bloodline.

This is a remnant of tribal habits and inertia.

"Patriarch! Even if this child is not of his family's blood, he is still a child of the Xin family!" The woman was pleading, because she saw many people, and she guessed that Xin Qu was coming out soon.

"You have a child of the Xin family? Who knows where your child came from?! Patriarch, don't believe this nonsense! Maybe this woman is raising this child to usurp the future of the Xin family! It's better to be buried as a sacrifice ! The future of our surnamed Yao cannot be harmed by children like this!"

Qingyan looked helpless at the quarrel below.

This group of people has the surname Yao.

Xinqu’s relatives.

Therefore, those with the surname Xin basically still retain the old customs. However, due to recent wars and the interference of the Rong matrilineal clan, these Yao families can only tolerate it.

But now, the Xin family has a power framework with title as its backbone.

The higher the title, the more power one has to speak.

Since the title of nobility is passed down from farming and fighting, it will inevitably lead to men having more qualifications to go to the battlefield, and men will naturally occupy more rights.

Now, the remaining old matrilineal customs of the Yourong clan are beginning to collide fiercely with the new customs of the Youxin clan.

Since human sacrifice cannot be carried out, burial by sacrifice has become one of the best solutions.

No one wants to hand over the profits they have worked for a lifetime to an unrelated person.

It’s not like I can’t give birth.

"Clan leader! You are the clan leader of the Xin family! You are the clan leader of everyone! Save my child!"

The woman was holding her child and crying, and Xin Qu appeared.

"Save? That's bullshit! Who knew that your child was born to a man from the tribe of the Yourong clan! You must have been arranged by the Rong clan to secretly harm our Youxin clan!"

"That's right!"

The men surnamed Yao were shouting. They had long been fed up with the interference of the Yourong family.

These women have broken away from the Yourong clan and are still trying every possible means to control their right to speak. Not only do they not work every day, they are also interfering in the lives of people like them who came off the battlefield and licked blood from their swords.

Can't you see that if you want power, go to the battlefield? If you don't dare to go to the battlefield, don't yell about it here.

They both want and are unwilling to take responsibility, so why should they raise wild species?
If earlier, the tribal public property and the clan commune were still there, the clan owners could still be responsible for it, but now the problem is that the Xin family has completed partial privatization.

The emergence of the family system also means the differentiation of resources.

Resources begin to differentiate, and parents who have the right to speak will begin to think about investing resources in their own blood. At most, they will take in their nephews and half-brothers to raise them.

As for the son, the first child was born seven months after the marriage. Although premature birth is not ruled out, for people of this era, this also means risks.

The second son was born during the war.

The woman herself admitted that this child was not born either, and was probably born to her lover.

I'm afraid only the third one is possible, but no one knows whether it's true or not.

But how to decide, this is Xinqu's decision.

This is related to the inheritance of the Xin family in the future.

"Patriarch, patriarch." The woman saw Xin Qu and begged, "Save them!"

(End of this chapter)