Chapter 896: Yin Shangzi was the Empress Dowager (2)

"From this point of view, the most urgent thing to solve is to increase the strength of Yin Shang and deal with Zhou Xibo's forces.

Zhou Xibo Ji Chang, the son of Ji Jili......

Shang and Zhou can also be regarded as a feud.

It's really a tiger that the predecessors raised! ”

Through the memory of the original body, Qiao Mu easily sorted out the grievance relationship between Yin Shang and Zhou.

In the beginning, Shang and Zhou were parallel tribes.

That is, they don't have anyone in command of whom.

They are equal to each other.

However, after the merchants mastered the bronze technology, they began to conquer the surrounding tribes, and the Zhou tribe, which was founded by the descendants of Houji, who started as farmers, was indeed more proficient in agriculture itself, rather than conquest and smelting bronze, so it was quickly defeated by the merchants.

Become a vassal of the Shang tribe.

And it was used by the Shang tribe, charging into battle for the Shang tribe and attacking other tribes, because of this, the Zhou tribe quickly gained the trust of the Shang tribe, obtained part of the smelting knowledge, and also got the protection and sealing of the Shang tribe.

After the Shang tribe recovered or wiped out other large and small tribes around it, the Zhou tribe, as one of the heroes, not only got a lot of benefits and some fiefs, but also expanded the scope of its own tribe a lot, and at the same time, in the following time, it developed for a long time under the protection of the Shang tribe.

After Ji Jili succeeded to the throne, he developed agriculture and promoted benevolence and righteousness, which made the Zhou tribe he ruled more and more powerful, and many princes in the west were subordinated to him, and at the same time he also married the nobles of the Shang tribe and married Tairen as his wife, absorbing the knowledge and culture of the Shang tribe and increasing his strength.

As for where does the intellectual culture come from?

Of course, it was Tai Ren who brought it over.

As a female nobleman, Tairen may be slightly inferior to male nobles in some aspects, but in terms of intellectual volume, female nobles in charge of sacrifices are more than men who are not very studious.

In addition to these, Ji Jili also made a big move against the surrounding Rongdi tribes, constantly expanding his military strength, and by the time the leader of the Shang tribe found out that something was wrong, he had basically wiped out the Rongdi tribes around the Zhou tribe, and his strength had soared.

What is the saying?

The power is high and the master is covered.

As a younger brother, the credit is even more bullish than the boss, and the military strength is about to catch up with the boss, how can the boss not worry, then you have to pick the bones in the egg, find a way to pick the thorns, even if you really can't pick the thorns, then you have to create some problems out of nothing to pick, suppress and suppress them.

So, Di Wending took the opportunity of a tribute to find a reason to imprison Ji Jili and slander him for killing his father.

That is to say, he killed the first emperor Wu Yi.

Wu Yi is Wen Ding's father.

Di Yi's grandfather, Zishou's grandfather.

Legend has it that he shot the sky with arrows.

Killed by lightning.

But in fact, he was murdered by the theocratic sacrificial group, because during his reign, he had been trying his best to weaken the sacrificial divine power and strengthen the royal power.

And a big step forward was successfully taken.

The sacrificial group couldn't stand it anymore, so they killed him, and by the way, his death re-established their theocracy.

Wen Ding is powerless to take revenge on the sacrificial group.

Therefore, he simply used his father's death to imprison Ji Jili, who might threaten Shang's future dominance, in Yindu, and made him die of hunger strike.

As for whether they went on a hunger strike or starved to death.

That's not easy to say.

Anyway, the official face is a hunger strike and death.

Not long after Ji Li's death, Wen Ding also died, and at the same time, there was a once-in-a-century disaster near Yindu, and his strength was greatly damaged, and there was a rebellion in the east at the same time, but at this time, Zhou's strength was not much lost, Di Yi was worried that the east and west sides would be enemy, and finally he could only pinch his nose and admit that Ji Jili's death was his father's fault, and marry his father's youngest daughter to Ji Chang to alleviate the conflict.

This is Zhou Yili's Di Yi Gui Mei.

At the same time, it was also recorded in the "Book of Songs, Daya, Daming", and the word "match made in heaven" was coined: "The heavenly prison is below, and there is a collection of fate."

King Wen is the first load, a match made in heaven.

In Qiazhiyang, in Weizhixiang.

……”

However, this is just a political marriage.

Di Yi needs to temporarily stabilize the Zhou tribe.

Ji Chang was also not sure to destroy the Shang tribe because of his lack of strength, so he could only show goodwill.

I hope to gather strength and wait for the future.

The revenge of killing his father is not so easy to settle.

This is also the source of grievances of the Shang and Zhou tribes.

Qiao Mu knew very well at this time that this kind of grievance could not be resolved at all, and the people who persuaded others to let go of their grievances and grievances were all people who had not experienced it personally, and they were all empty words.

Such people must stay away from them.

What they're saying right now.

But if you kill their whole family.

He was the only one.

Then he will definitely not be able to do it, so it is better to let it go.

Maybe he can pick up a knife and cut you.

Maybe a bite can bite you to death.

The people who say these words are completely standing and talking without pain in their waists, and it is stupid to listen to them.

Therefore, Qiao Mu knows very well that the relationship between Shang and Zhou now is completely a life-and-death relationship, either Yin Shang is destroyed, or Ji Zhou is dead.

There is no other possibility.

And Qiao Mu's current identity obviously determines her position, and she must stand on the side of Shang.

Because she is not only the emperor and queen of Shang.

He was also the high priest of the temple of Shang.

Have you ever seen the second-in-command of any country helping the enemy?

After figuring out the general direction of development in the future, Qiao Mu began to think carefully about what direction to start from and slowly increase the strength of Yin Shang.

and how to deal with the internal contradictions of Yin Shang.

In fact, the reason for the fall of the Shang Dynasty is not necessarily how mediocre the emperor was, the real reason for the demise is that the reform of the emperor affected the interests of too many nobles and princes, not to mention the rest, just appointing foreigners as officials, that is, appointing outsiders such as Fei Zhong and Evil Lai as officials, as well as emancipating slaves and banning human sacrifice, which offended all the high-level officials within the Yin Shang.

For example, the appointment of foreigners as officials.

At this time, many official positions were actually inherited from father to son, and the emperor's appointment of foreigners as officials was to squeeze the position of ordinary officials, and might even make them lose their hereditary official positions.

Doesn't this offend most officials.

Another example is the emancipation of slaves.

Who does the princes rely on to cultivate so many fields, it is impossible to rely on civilians to cultivate, most of them are still slaves, and there are many slaves in the army, once the slaves are freed, then not only the financial resources of the princes are cut, but also the military strength of the princes.

This offended most of the princes.

As for the final ban on human sacrifice.

The sacrifices mainly relied on murder sacrifices to maintain their theocracy and ensure mystery, killing was a deterrent and a powerful means for them to deal with their enemies.

The emperor was moved by this rule.

Is it not a matter of course to offend the priest?

Back then, his grandfather was killed by the sacrificial group in the name of martial arts, not to mention him.