In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States without women

After Tian Shu's explanation, and after soaking in the Pingyin Mansion's library, Xia Yu has a deep understanding of this world, which can be described as a shocking education.

The weirdo from the Committee for the Protection of Weak Civilizations in the Universe once said that because this planet was polluted by biochemical genetic weapons, no human females could survive on this planet for the next 5000 years. Continuing, the Committee for the Protection of Weak Civilizations in the Universe has planted a genetic plant in every place on this planet where human beings can live. The fruit of this genetic plant can transform the male body and give the male the ability to conceive offspring.

And this kind of gene tree that can bear fruit for men to conceive and bear children is called the ancestral tree by the people of this era. Every aristocratic family will plant the ancestral tree in the ancestral temple where the ancestors worship, and sacrifice together while worshiping the ancestors. An ancestral tree that can continue the lineage expresses the same respect as the ancestors.

There was no library in this era, and the collection of books was generally passed down through the private collections of royal princes or aristocratic families. Fortunately, Tian Zhi was a book collector. For a long time, the collection of books was quite abundant. Xia Yu soaked in this pile of books, and for the first time, she had an intuitive impression of how a civilization without women works.

This planet has been without women for too long, so that there is no trace of any women in the culture. The most direct manifestation is that the names of relatives have changed a lot.

There is no word "mother" in this time and space. The child calls the person who conceived and gave birth to him not "mother" or "mother", but—inner father, to put it bluntly, it means the father who takes care of the house at home; there is no " "Aunt", "aunt", "mother" and other relatives, people call the brothers on the father's side uncle and uncle, which is the same as Chen Cheng's time and space, and calling "mother" means the brother on the father's side is the outsider. Uncle, Uncle.

In this era, only the spouse of the Son of Heaven is specially called "Hou", that is, "Queen", and the spouse of Fengjun Guogong is called "俌". The spouses of the monarchs of the country are called "Qi Guozhu";

The weirdo from the Cosmic Weak Civilization Protection Committee once said that the civilization of this time and space is progressing slowly, and he also said that there was once a civilization promoter in the Huaxia region of this time and space, who successfully greatly promoted the civilization process of the Huaxia region. The weirdo did not reveal that The specific identity of the promoter.After soaking in this pair of books for a long time, Xia Yu felt that it was very possible that "Duke Zhou" was the civilization promoter in the Huaxia region who was blamed for the population.

The development trajectory of the Chinese civilization in this parallel time and space is roughly the same as that of Xia Yu's time and space. Before the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, there was Xia, Shang and Zhou, but each dynasty in this time and space has a much longer lifespan than the dynasties in Xia Yu's space.

For example, in the time and space where Xia Yu lives, the Shang Dynasty is said to have ruled the Central Plains for 800 years, but in this time and space, according to these books, the Shang Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for nearly 1000 years before the Zhou Dynasty destroyed Shang.

The reason why Xia Yu thinks that "Duke Zhou" is the promoter of civilization is that many achievements of "Duke Zhou" in this time and space have epoch-making effects.

The weirdo said that the problem of who goes up and who goes down has caused the slow progress of civilization on this planet, and it is not aimless.

In this era, although there is an ancestral tree to prevent human beings from perishing, it is different from the natural laws of other planets where men are men and women are women. It took nearly a year to conceive children in the body and be unable to move.If it is more straightforward to say who is above and who is below, this is a big problem, because all male bones are conquering species, and there is no woman on this planet who can exist as a swap, and no one is willing to be conquered .

Especially among the slave-owner nobles of this era, the contradictions caused by this problem are even more serious.

During the Shang Dynasty, the slave-owners and nobles considered that the spouses of the family heirs must also be of noble origin, so as a family that contributed sons, their own sons were oppressed by the sons of other families to conceive and bear children for the sons of other families. It is an extremely humiliating act, so usually only nobles who have been defeated and conquered in wars, or nobles who have failed in political struggles, will be forced to donate their sons to the victors, and let their sons breed offspring for other families , is the most humiliating symbol of being conquered and defeated.

This indirectly led to increasingly fierce conflicts among slave owners and nobles. The most tragic example is that according to legend, one of the very important reasons why Shang Zhou subjugated the country was that too many heirs of great nobles were brought in for his own lust, making these The nobles couldn't bear it anymore, so they defected to Zhou when the war between Shang and Zhou began.

And the contribution of this Duke of Zhou across the ages is to solve this seemingly unsolvable problem of who goes up and who goes down—the so-called Zhou Gong system of ritual and music is that "Zhou Gong" produced the "Duke of Zhou" when King Cheng was young and served as the regent. Zhou Li, a classic book, stipulates the ritual and music system of "the eldest son inherits, the second son is released, and the bastard is not."

The so-called righteous son is the legitimate son. In the vernacular of Xia Yu's time and space, it is the eldest son born to the wife of a big family who inherits the family business. The family is separated, and the bastards born to other wives are used to "marry". Every family, including Zhou Tianzi, follows this rule, and there is no need to make a mess about having children because of this. fight.

It is also because of this ritual and music system that "the eldest son inherits, the second son is released, and the concubine does not obey", it opened up a new pattern of the entire Chinese civilization in this time and space: the Zhou Dynasty originally ruled only in the time and space country where Xia Yu was located. The size of a Shaanxi province, because "the second son came out of the fiefdom" is also feudalism, that is, the country was established by feudal soil.

"When the emperor of Zhou enfeoffed the country, he would cut off a branch of the ancestral tree from the Taimiao and give it to the ruler. The ruler would bring it to the fief, build the clan and set up a temple, and plant this branch as the ancestral tree. This is a gift of entrustment." Tian Shu explained to Xia Yu in this way Enclosure etiquette.

The Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed thousands of countries outside the size of Shaanxi Province within the scope of Wangji, making the entire Chinese civilization rule from the original size of Shaanxi Province to enfeoffment of Qi State to the east, extending its power to the East China Sea and northward. Enfeoffment of the State of Yan initially touched the northeast, enfeoffment of the State of Chu to the south, controlling the Yangtze River Basin, enfeoffment of the State of Qin to the west, and initially ruled the northwest frontier.

This is what Tian Shu explained, "The Duke of Zhou is responsible for the king to listen to the government. It is the system of rituals and music. Only then can there be ethics, feudalism and founding the country. Today, the princes are under the lords. It is the sage of Duke Zhou who is called a sage in the world." Because Duke Zhou solved who The problem of who is superior and who is subordinate has solved the problem of who has children, and at the same time applied these to the national system, which made the Zhou Dynasty extremely strong, the scope of rule expanded rapidly, and the scope of influence of Chinese civilization also rapidly expanded.

"It turns out that in the spring and autumn of this time and space, the foundation can be stirred so well!" After reading the last volume of "Zhou Li", Xia Yu put the bamboo slips on the case table, Xia Yu felt a lot of emotion.

At this moment, a soldier from outside the library ran in panting, shouting as he ran, "Report! Report! Report! The Jin army is marching! The Jin army is marching!"

The author has something to say: This chapter is almost an account of the background setting, it may be a bit boring