Is this a godsend?

The first day of coming to the Shang Dynasty was to sacrifice, the second day was to rest and endure bouts of dizziness and sudden memory fragments, and the third day was the official court meeting. Of course, in fact, this era does not have such a saying.

From the memory fragments, Zishou found that although the King of Shang himself was nominally and theoretically the next emperor of the two-emperor system of the Shang Dynasty, that is, the spokesperson of the gods or the will of heaven in the world, he could also be called the Son of Heaven.

It is really the son of heaven, because God is really his father, and when his father dies, he is God. Similarly, when he dies, his son is the next next emperor, but in fact this is a mythical situation.

To put it bluntly, he is the leader of the tribe of Yin in the country of Shang, and the country of Yin and Shang is composed of many tribes or clans. After the capital was moved to Yin, according to the customs at this time, he was the son of the Yin family. This family can also be said to be the head of the tribe and the co-owner of the clan alliance.

And the co-owner of this clan alliance is also the boss of the entire Central Plains tribal alliance. In other words, he can completely control only the people of the two clans. Manpower and material resources belong to him, and the execution of the previous king of Shang is also a strategy to strengthen the power of this clan, because only these are his foundation.

At the same time, he is also the co-owner of the clan alliance of Yin and Shang. This co-owner comes from marriage. For example, Lie Shan's Jiang surname is his descendant. When he was about to meet Su Daji at the beginning, he found that there was no such person, and he was disappointed. After a while, it was embarrassing to discover that Daji was not a person's name—it was the title of Queen Shang, as if his name was not Di Xin.

Ji is the date, one of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, representing the queen's ranking in the whole family, Da is the queen's title, just like the emperor is his title.

The titles of the Queen of Shang are generally in this order, and as the King of Shang who ascended the throne, his current queen is the Lieshan Jiang family, the boss of the theocracy system, and the high priest of the Shang Dynasty.

Originally, the emperor, empress, and secretary were the three powers of the Shang Dynasty. However, through the efforts of several generations of Shang kings, a part of the money, food, logistics and military rights that were originally in charge of the queen were successfully transferred to the Shang king. The future will be integrated with the company.

After all, the theocratic power of the Shang Dynasty once expanded to such an extent that the founding king could be thrown on the altar as a sacrifice. The later Shang kings tried their best to fight against this inflated behemoth. became the present situation.

However, the nobles and priests at this time, who did not know the later development, did not think that Zishou was sitting on a charcoal basin. In their eyes, his wife was the high priest, and he was the king, and the previous parades and conquests were successful. Using a few small tribes as stepping stones to establish prestige is the time when a generation of Shang kings were full of vigor and power without any constraints.

Therefore, when they participated in this meeting, they were actually very serious. However, in the eyes of the traveler Zishou, they still carried the looseness of the primitive society, which was different from the court hall he saw on TV. too big.

Although it is spring, under the Little Ice Age that gradually came over time, the Modu Palace is still a bit cold, so a huge firepit was dug in the earthen lobby, where meat was roasted and wine was simmering by the fire. A group of tall and thick men dressed in animal skins or rough fabrics sat by the firepit, looking at King Shang eagerly.

At this moment, Zishou really wants to say, are you here for a buffet or a meeting? However, this is what they look like in a meeting. In this era, the power to divide meat belongs to people with high status, and there is no meat to eat in meetings. It's only a ghost - humans in this era are generally forced to be realistic, and those who are unrealistic are killed by nature.

According to common sense, this power belongs to priests. However, considering that the current high priest is the Jiang family, and she is the Queen of Shang, so she cannot be in charge of this power, which is tantamount to transferring the right to divide the flesh to the King of Shang in disguise.

In the eyes of modern people, it is not the same thing as who will cut the meat, but at that time, this meaning was very important. The so-called "slaughter" was the one who did this job, and what was divided was not only the roast meat on the fire, but also Representing status, interests, who distributes power, and even the number, size, and parts of the meat are strictly paid attention to.

But who is Zishou? He is from 3000 years later. He knows a hammer!

"Hmm~" He could only give a dignified look to Jiang who was sitting beside him, and the latter returned a look of "Are you serious?"

Although she is a member of the theocratic aristocracy and the most honorable high priest, you must know that the queen of Shang and the concubines of later generations are two different things. She has real power. Once married, she must stand with her husband even for her own benefit. a front.

After confirming that Zishou really planned to let her share, Jiang showed a somewhat confused expression. Could it be that the king was killed by God (his father, Emperor Yi) for drinking the shovel wine that should be enshrined during the sacrifice the day before yesterday? Are you blindfolded?

However, since the king has already signaled this way, he naturally has his considerations, Jiang sighed slightly, picked up the bronze knife from the lacquered plate, and the maid put the half-baked meat of an unknown animal on the lacquered plate .

As the high priest of Shang and also the queen, she expertly disassembled the meat. Besides the meat, there were also internal organs. Among them, the heart and the largest piece of tender meat were placed in front of King Shang, and the lungs and the second-class meat were placed in front of the king. In front of those obviously priests and nobles, the strong thighs were placed in front of those military nobles. As for the remaining small pieces of meat, they were divided according to blood, relatives, and official positions.

"Ah~" Zishou saw that everyone had eaten it, and he had no interest in the half-baked and unsalted stuff in front of him. He wanted to say something, for example, what are we going to do next? Shouldn't it be that there is a book to start playing, and there is no book to retreat?What do you mean when you come here for work meals?

Don't get me wrong, he just has little experience. This kind of behavior of rushing to work meals continued until the middle of Tang Dynasty. Due to financial difficulties, the standard of work meals dropped greatly, so everyone had dinner to discuss business.

Of course, in this ancient era, inviting a leader to dinner is also an act of kindness and majesty, which can clearly establish for you the matter of whose rice you are. Therefore, after the demise of Yin Shang, many Yin merchants Insist on not eating Zhou millet—the labor and management did not eat your rice, so it is normal and legal to start the rebellion of the three prisons afterwards.

"What shall we do next?"

"My lord, you..." All the subordinates stopped eating meat, and looked at Zishou with puzzled expressions full of question marks, "What else can you do? You have Su!" Now it's Zishou's turn. Confused, how do you know that I want to be with Su Shi (Daji)?Is she famous now?

"Why?" Since there are not so many rules in court meetings in this era, he stopped pretending and asked directly like a company meeting.

"Ah? Your Majesty, didn't you decide this? If you have Su, you have wood!" The original meaning of Su is branches and straw, so the meaning of Su is...

"There is still rice, why don't you do it?" Everyone thought that Prince Shang did something like that during the sacrifice, so he was bewitched. Didn't he decide this matter before?

The weather is getting colder every day. This is the case near the big river, and it is even colder in Jidi, which is further north.

As for Yousu, if he was asked to move here, he would not move [nonsense, it will be gone if you move here], so didn’t the king say that instead of them being taken away by the "white ghost" (blizzard), food, cattle and horses would be cheaper? Fang's two-legged animals, why don't we help them?

Zishou was silent for a while, agreeing with what you said, and after such a reminder, memory fragments surfaced, indeed, the population of Shang increased sharply, and a large number of slaves and subordinate tribes made the original Modu and directly-administered territories He was simply overwhelmed, so he needed to build a new city called Chaoge on the basis of Modu.

And a large population increase will consume a lot of food and land. Needless to say, the productivity of this year, just look at the corn cakes and half-baked meat in front of me, and the weather is getting colder every day. , and the climate is also a bit abnormal, and the priests can't get any enlightenment by divination with a big turtle.

Of course, this is also the duty and responsibility of the king of this year. After thinking about it, he is closer to Yifang. There are richer people like the Su family who are his targets. He was asked to hand over his daughter before and then move out. He doesn't want to live near Chaoge, so don't wait, just go get it manually.

In this era, this is a standard act of handing over protons, and then handing over most of the autonomy, population, and wealth in exchange for a small share of the company of a wealthy businessman.

Obviously, Su Shi is not stupid, so he will not do it, and he firmly believes that Shabi in the south is richer, and the king of Shang will obviously choose to hammer Yifang and Shabi in the lower reaches of the river first.

However, the previous Prince Shou of Shang was not stupid. Can a person who knows enough to refuse admonition be a fool?That's right, Yifang is rich, and relatives and friends in the lower reaches of the river and in the south are having a difficult life, and they need to help them reduce their burdens, but they can fight.

If there is money, there will be food, and if there is food, there will be people. Feeding more people is Nima's combat effectiveness in this era. Just look at the poor ghosts in Xiqi.

As a time traveler, he is also very curious why Xibohou has been preparing to become a second-five son, but King Shang Zhou didn't react at all, and he understood it within a day after he came here--only Xiqi's "road does not pick up things" ( There is nothing to pick up)" and "Do not close the house at night (too poor to have no way)" are basically the last few in his conquest list.

To put it simply, the Shang army can’t turn to him even if it’s the turn of X, and he still has to line up for several years. All the courtiers of the court would jump up to stop him - the king can't do it, what's the use of beating Xiqi, even Queen Jiang, who has always been dignified and virtuous, would try her best to prevent him from committing such stupid things.

So after thinking about it, Zishou could only nod his head, "Okay, let's go and do Yousu."

The most satisfying part of this era is here. Everyone doesn’t have much flirtatiousness, and it’s impossible to have it. The vocabulary of the Chinese language at this time is not enough to express a fierce verbal battle, let alone words. art too.

"Is it true that there are beauties from Su?" This is also the most concerned thing as a time traveler. People in this era look... hard to describe.

It’s not that it’s ugly, but the food, living environment, and decorations of this era—in the memory of the original owner, Jiang’s is already considered the most beautiful—but it’s not an egg, in his eyes, it’s just... .He has a handsome face.

The biggest bonus is the face and body of a junior high school student. He didn't even dare to ask Jiang how old he was, for fear of feeling guilty when he slept together at night.

What is even more guilt-ridden is that Jiang seems to be pregnant, so let's just treat her as a legal loli. In this era, I am afraid that if you care about age, you will be a bachelor for the rest of your life, and you can live until you are like Mr. Bigan. Bai's fifties are already a miracle.

As for the concubines in the harem, stop making trouble. With the productivity of this era, a king of Shang can afford to support a few people. Therefore, Zishou discovered that the "excessively lewd" self in history really only had one wife. Adding the daughter of Huang Feihu who will be fabricated in the future, and adding up the three sisters of Daji, there are only five—at best, it is a five-equal marriage.

What's more, three of the quintiles of flower marriages are all fabricated by Romance. He only has two wives, and now he only has one. I dare not say that you are too young to feel guilty. I'm afraid that the King of Shang will soon end his reign the next day.

Lieshan Jiang family~ Zishou sighed.

And even without the family background bonus, is the Queen of Shang one of those vases of later generations?If he hadn't discovered that this body was extremely tough and had huge arms, he would have suspected that the original modern social animal's body, Jiang could hit eight with one hand--felt it at night and found that she even had abdominal muscles.

That's right, unhealthy and strong women have long since disappeared in this era, let alone the Jiang family who is a high priest or a witch. Those who want to dance and fight in armor are quite well-proportioned and healthy.

"It seems to be true, the women in their family are whiter." In this era, there is no later Confucian ethics, and everyone is very straightforward LSP.

And what would a group of men do together?Of course they are talking about politics and women, what's so strange about that, besides, aren't they just talking about political women now?

"Caucasian?"

"It's much whiter. However, there are no white people in the north. Those people are as white as ghosts. Everyone thinks they are evil under the hands of the white ghosts, and there is a certain intermarriage between the Su family and them." Queen Jiang whispered It is said that plundering women is a kind of political correctness in this era, because women represent population and fertility, and are the foundation of countries and tribes.

"Oh, so, it's right to have Su." Zishou said that I understand, hook up with white people, have good-looking women, and have food and fuel, and I can't fight well-then... ...just do it and you're done, no more excuses.

"My lord, when will the reorganization start?" Everyone was very eager to try. Since Di Xin took over the throne, he hadn't fought any battles. Before that, he wanted to keep things safe and don't make troubles when he was sorting out government affairs. Pi expresses goodwill, how can this look like a king of Shang.jpg.

What is the real King of Shang like? 365 days out of 290 days a year are either in the chariot, or on the road of chariot, driving the entire Yellow River Basin and half of the Yangtze River Basin to and from the car—otherwise, you think it will be a week Is such a large land that was used to subdivide it given away as a telephone fee?

As a classical slave military state, the daily life of Shang is to fight, capture slaves, sacrifice slaves for blessings, continue to fight, more and more slaves and land, more and more manpower and guards are occupied, and more troops More food and money are needed, and more wars and slaves and lands are needed-this is a vicious circle.

Of course, at this time, the land of Huaxia still had plenty of places waiting for it to develop. Therefore, it took until the Eastern Zhou Dynasty for this cycle to become involuntary because the development ability was basically at its limit, and eventually evolved into a chaos of princes fighting for hegemony.

【Science Popularization 1】

The meaning of the vegetarian meal in the corpse position is that it came here, sitting there like a corpse, and came here to eat white rice—so, some people even satirized "that gentleman is not a vegetarian meal" (You are a decent person anyway, show some face, don't go straight to eat free food every day Come)

[Popular Science 2] The territory of Shang was expanded several times in the hands of King Zhou, and the increase was nearly 4 times. It was really pushed to death.

[Popular Science 3] At that time, wealthy merchants in the Central Plains and white people had car exchanges, and the latter generally couldn't ride.

Chapter 2 The Oldest Fat Tiger

After deciding what to do with Su, everyone has nothing to discuss, tactics and strategy?These days there is a hammer tactic and strategy. The nobles take the lead and swarm up. If the equipment is good, the Astartes will hammer the big head. If the equipment is not good, the big head will hit Chaos.

Of course, the formation is still necessary, but that kind of thing belongs to the thing that can be discussed on the battlefield. Shang has accumulated a lot of wealth. Look at it.

As for the various troublesome things about the operation of the army, it seems that there is no difficulty in the eyes of Zishou and the nobles at that time, because there are only so few people. Look at the King of Zhou, who invited almost all the princes to meet in Mengjin, and finally got together. More than 3000 armored soldiers (samurai with armor), hundreds of chariots, plus more than 4 peasant soldiers, this is already the power of the country.

Of course, in Europe, you can gather 300 knights, thousands of armored soldiers and tens of thousands of peasant soldiers. Although this is a coalition army, to put it bluntly: King Wu of Zhou himself has no confidence in winning. Gou two years.

Then I was persuaded by Jiang Shang, and if we continue, Yousu will be our example.

However, when the Shang army dispatched the hammer, a small vassal state like Su would naturally not dispatch the entire army. In fact, most of the manpower and material supplies for this expedition were squeezed from those vassal states. The essence is to use other people's money to get your own cubs, and the more you fight, the richer you will be, and you will be happy.

Of course, he was happy, and the princes couldn't be happier anymore, but the "hundred grams" (never lost) record of the Shang army was so appalling that no one dared to rebel, only Xiqi's strange behavior dared to think This kind of thing, of course, is also normal - there is nothing to be afraid of a person who is so poor that he has nowhere to go.

If he doesn’t lose in business, he wins. If he wins in business, he loses. Who the hell wants to go to Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi during the Little Ice Age? It’s the last word to go south, not to mention being so poor.

The king of Zhou was so poor that when he saw that he had won the battle, he lost his hometown without saying a word, and let the horse breeder take care of it. Otherwise, where did Qin come from!

What can a group of men do when there is nothing to discuss?Jiang said she felt sick to her stomach, so she left, and Zishou didn't stop her. After all, the queen is equivalent to the vice-lord, and she is her deputy, not a subordinate or appendage.

And in the absence of women, what can a group of well-fed men do together? Don't think about it. After politics and talking, it's time to talk about women. Praise the Chinese people's thinking in this regard is always leap forward rapidly.

In the end, the topic quickly changed from women to politics, "Your Majesty, it's almost spring, shouldn't we open the palace? Just before we go to Yousu."

"Ah?" Zishou was stunned for a few seconds. He wanted to ask why he opened the palace. Is his palace a tourist place?It has to be open every year. Is there any ticket money?As a result, I quickly remembered that there is indeed this tradition, and it is opened at least once a year, and at most four times.

"Okay, let's fix it." Anyway, he has seen it now. In this damn era, no matter what the later generations say about the Emperor or something, he is just a tribal leader. Don't think too much. Think about it today. Eat anything, anything at night - what the hell is this diet!

And going to the toilet is even more torture. Fortunately, the greenery is good, and you can find comfortable young leaves, but what should I do when winter comes?

Then did you get out the papermaking technique? The papermaking technique in the Eastern Han Dynasty was made of rags, hemp skins, etc. After thinking about it, the current productivity, I’m sorry, is presumptuous. These raw materials are Nima’s strategic resources. .

It is too difficult to make paper from wood pulp, so how about bamboo paper?When it comes to bamboo paper, you must have bamboo, and the place where bamboo grows is especially suitable for papermaking......

"Let's go to the south later. There is a tall green plant over there, which is very useful."

"In the south, the green plants are very useful?" The nobles and priests all showed puzzled expressions, "I have never heard of it, my lord, what are the uses of the plants?"

"It can be made..." Zishou got stuck, there is no word for paper now, "a very thin, white, cloth"

"What's the use of thin cloth?" Everyone was even more confused. Isn't this thing used to keep out the cold?It's thin enough to hold a ball.

"Looking good" is all Zishou can say, otherwise, how about explaining to them what is writing, what is culture, and what is a book?Don't talk nonsense, they don't even deserve bamboo slips!

Those present, including the priests in charge of culture, do not know more than 300 characters, and they are mainly contributed by theocratic nobles. Among those military leaders, being able to write their own names well is already very powerful.

"Does it look good?" Everyone thought about it, and then looked at King Shang again, thinking that you have to describe how beautiful it is.

"It's like the clouds in the sky, and it can also divination like a tortoise shell." People don't understand writing, but everyone understands divination.

"My lord, let's go to the south first, and then go to Yousubai, since it is so useful." This is the speech of the sacrificial class who are not involved in production.

"If you fight first, you have su, and if you have su, you will have food. If you don't have food, everyone will be hungry, and God will also be hungry." This is the pragmatist's speech.

"Let's fight together, are the two of them strong together?" This is the in-law noble who pretended to be dead.

"No, if you fight on both sides, it's hard to distinguish between people." This is an experienced, old-fashioned and prudent faction.

"Then fight Yousu first, then come back and kill the captives to sacrifice to the temple. After the sacrifice, we will go directly to the south to continue." This is a purely military aristocrat.

"It makes sense, I think it's a good thing to do this way." The court hall was suddenly bustling.

Let Zishou feel that he is actually holding a class meeting instead of dealing with state affairs. After thinking about it, it seems that there is no difference-to put it bluntly, this is a family alliance, and everyone sitting here is a member of a family. Parents—what the fuck is different from calling a parent's club fart.

"You can exorcise evil spirits by throwing it into the fire, that thing," Zi Shou muttered, and then the audience fell silent, and everyone looked at him, "What's wrong?"

"Then let's go to the south first. How can those barbarians deserve to have good things for exorcising evil spirits? Of course they belong to our big merchants. Shouldn't all the beautiful things in the world belong to our big merchants?" Zi Shou looked at this big and round man. Man, I feel that his image is beginning to overlap with a certain animation character. Could this be the oldest fat tiger?

And the others also nodded one after another, as if this was something unquestionable. In this ancient era, everyone firmly believed in the "destiny black bird descended to give birth to merchants", or it was this primitive belief that arose. Cohesion allowed Homo sapiens to defeat all human subspecies and become the only one in the human family.

"No, fight Yousu first." Zishou thought for a while and felt that he had to make up his own mind. Of course, his main purpose was to be greedy for other people's cattle, and the second was to see if the real Su Daji was a beauty or just an ordinary woman. Women in this era—of course, the key is whether she is a white-haired big fox—have no such thing as Nuwa temple mentioning poems, and this matter is probably pending.

"Don't talk about evil if you don't have food, beat Yousu first," Zishou said, and the others agreed after a moment of silence. He felt that these ancient people were not as difficult as they remembered. It's easy to talk, let alone those military leaders.

What he didn't know was that they were easy to talk at this time. This question was like a group of thieves who found a fat sheep and were ready to go out to open a business.What contradiction can there be?

The cannon fodder is provided by the feudal lords, Fang Guo, and the supplies are also given by them, and they have to give them if they don’t. As long as there is no issue of who pays for the expansion of business, everything can be very harmonious.

Of course, the other princes Fangguo hated it to the bone. Unfortunately, Shang "Baike" (never lost), even the car lost three of the four ancient civilizations. With [-] brains, the Dashang monarchs and ministers were very calm, especially when they made up their minds that no matter what, they must hand over Ji Chang to Zishou whose car was gone after the car was completed.

After a deep understanding of the wealth and power of the two sides, he is not so easy, unless he really comes out with all the strange powers of the Twelve Golden Immortals, he will easily pass you by.

In fact, the original version of Di Xin did this, and indeed captured Xibohou and imprisoned him in the prison. He planned to take over all his manpower and wealth, and use it as a model for Fang Guo, who flirted with Xibohou. ——Who knew that his uncle Bigan was the biggest boy and let him go.

And his wife, Daji, also reacted very quickly, and directly asked Bigan, "I heard that a saint has seven orifices in his heart (you are the only one with so many eyes), is it true?" Then he cut it out for him to worship the god.

By the way, this is indeed one of the living sacrifice ceremonies of the Shang Dynasty, and the more noble the person, the better the effect. As the empress of Shang, who is the high priest by default, she is very righteous in doing this.

However, it doesn’t frighten Wei Zi and the other two children, and they think that Daji’s background is only a female slave of the Su tribe, and she is not qualified to be a queen at all. In dealing with Jiang's legacy, including his two sons.

However, as a time traveler, he still kept his eyes open and asked in advance if there was a guy named Jiang Shang eating under his staff recently. For the sake of safety, find out...

Well, it might not be possible to kill him directly. His surname is Jiang, and he is probably from the Lie Shan family—but I heard that Jiang Shang’s status was actually very low at the beginning, so it should be okay to sacrifice him alive.

Speaking of which, the Jiang family is also pregnant. If the first child dies, she will be confident enough to let him be buried with the prince, and the Lieshan Jiang family will not say a word, and give it to her grandson, the descendant of the high priest, and Prince Shang. Isn't it an honor to be buried? How can you be a Jiang Shang?

However, everyone's answer is that they have never heard of this person, even Jiang's parents said they have never heard of this person, but if this person is very capable, they can help find him-why not?His surname is Jiang.

"That's right, Jiang Shang didn't become an official until he was 70 years old." Zi Shou nodded and said it was normal.

At this time, in Ludi, an old man named Lu Shang was wandering around looking for an opportunity to become an official. Although his ancestor was a member of the Jiang family of Lieshan, he had been sealed in Ludi since the time of Emperor Shun. According to the title of this era, He should be called "Jiang's Lu surname", so he should be called Lu Shang.

Next, everyone discussed some things casually, and then went back to the previous matter of opening the palace garden, proving that the crooked building is a tradition in China since ancient times, and there is nothing to discuss about this matter. It is basically confirmed that the date will not change, or After the old place and the old time, everyone dispersed.