Laozi, the Great Supreme Being

Chapter 911 Shang Tang dies and returns to the underworld

Shang Tang, the leader of the Yin and Shang tribes, gathered the power of more than a hundred princes and tribes and made long-term preparations to launch an army to attack the emperor Xia Jie, the leader of the Xia tribe.

The Emperor Xia Jie was defeated in a battle and was eventually exiled to death by Shang Tang because he lost the hearts of the people.

Although Shang Tang raised troops and defeated the tyrannical Human Emperor Xia Jie, he did not dare to blatantly inherit the emperor's position. So he led the victorious army back to the capital.

During this period, the reputation of Shang Tang, the leader of the Yin Shang tribe, had spread to every corner of the human race. Leaders and princes from all sides took the initiative to offer tributes on the way back to the Yin Shang tribe leaders, expressing their goodwill and surrender to the Shang. Soup.

A few months later, Shang Tang met with three thousand princes in the capital and formally established his dominance.

Become the de facto human emperor of the human race.

After nearly twenty years of preparation, Shang Tang destroyed the Xia tribe in one fell swoop. Its power was far beyond the control of the Xia tribe. Moreover, Shang Tang's army to exterminate Xia had a profound impact on the history of the prehistoric times and set the stage for future feudal lords. God measured the calamity, and King Wu laid the foundation for defeating Zhou.

Because before this, people in the human race generally believed that the emperor of the human race could only be given by an immortal. The birth of Shang Tang broke this convention. From then on, the dynasties of the human race began to change quite frequently.

After Shang Tang established the Shang Dynasty, in order to ease the conflicts among the human race, he began to implement the policy of cultivating and reviving crops, encouraging mulberry farming, and building water conservancy projects. This caused the remote tribes that had previously complained about Xia Jie's crusade to join him.

He has been very virtuous throughout his life and devoted himself to the development of the human race. As long as he is a virtuous person, he will always promote and appoint him in an eclectic way.

It is said that Yi Yin, the left prime minister he discovered, was originally a slave. Shang Tang was thirsty for talents and was ready to go to him personally to invite him.

The guards around him were very incomprehensible and thought that the king was giving this humble slave too much grace and it was not worth it.

Shangtang replied.

"If there was a medicine in this world that could make your sense of smell more sensitive, your ears smarter, and your eyes broader in vision, then many people would definitely flock to it."

"Yi Yin is the good medicine for our tribe, but you are blocking the blessings of others. You are not worthy of going with me to invite wise men, so you should go down."

So he drove the person who persuaded him back to the tribe.

One day when Shang Tang was out on a cruise, he saw a human race setting up a net to hunt in a dense jungle, which was located in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.

After waiting for everything to be dealt with, he began to bow to the sky and speak plausibly.

"Asking for the protection of heaven, the big net has been set up. May flying in the sky, crawling on the ground, and birds and beasts from all directions enter my net one after another."

Shang Tang sighed with emotion after hearing this. "Only the human emperor Xia Jie can do such cruel things. If this continues, why don't all the birds and beasts be caught?"

So he issued an order for the bird catchers to move away from three sides, leaving only one side. Shang Tang also knelt down and prayed.

"Those who fly in the sky and those who crawl underground. If you want to go left, fly left. If you want right, fly right. If you don't obey, just crawl into the net."

After finishing speaking, he said to the surrounding attendants and the human race.

"You must be kind to animals. You cannot kill them all. If you don't obey fate, you will be a minority after all. We must arrest those few."

After hearing about this incident, the princes from all over the world praised Shang Tang.

He was considered a promising king. From then on, all the major vassal states followed suit, and the hunting net was bound to be wide open.

Shang Tang stayed in the human race for over a hundred years, and then passed away.

When the people of the human race heard this, they sighed, cried bitterly, and sang songs.

"Shang Tang conquered Xia, and the princes raised their heads and sent out Jie's song. They looked to the south as kings and prayed in the mulberry forest. The disasters were overcome. Yi Yin ruled, and he can be said to be a virtuous prime minister."

After Shang Tang died, his soul could not be transferred to the underworld but wandered around outside the land of the human race, without reincarnating in the underworld.

Shang Tang was very confused. As time went by, it seemed that there was a special mission that had not yet been completed. So he followed this special feeling and walked to the edge of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. In front of him was a road several feet wide. There are three bridges on the Scarlet River, and the vague memories gradually become clear.

"Hahaha, I am the King of Hell of the Ten Palaces of the Underworld. No wonder black and white are impermanent, and bull-headed and horse-faced people dare not go to the underworld to capture my soul."

Shangtang remembered that he was the reincarnation of Gonggong among the ten ancestral witches of the underworld, and also recalled the scenes that had happened to him before, with mixed feelings in his heart.

"Brother, there is no need to sigh again. Why don't you just come with me to get through this troubled water? I have been waiting for you for about fifty years, and I didn't expect you to come back just now."

Just when Gonggong Zuwu was sighing, a very rough voice suddenly came to his ears, speaking with a hint of complaint.

Gonggong turned around and saw the familiar figure who spoke, with an inexplicable smile on his face.

"It turns out to be brother Zhu Rong, long time no see."

(End of this chapter)