Is this a godsend?

So, within two days, Zishou, who was lamenting when paper and spices were available, saw the "Jiuchi Meat Forest" that later Confucians criticized vigorously. It was really Jiuchi Meat Forest. There is a problem with the branches, these branches do not grow on trees.

They were neatly sliced ​​and inserted into a bronze vessel, with meat skewered on them. From time to time, a big man with a round waist would bring a new beast to slaughter on the spot, and then skewer it.

It does look like a small forest full of meat, but Zi Shou looked familiar to this scene, until a group of slaves struggled to carry a square-shaped bronze vessel out, and then put charcoal fire in it, he understood—— —Like skewers~ Who can not understand.

"Your Majesty, why are you absent from the hunt?" Several nobles were displeased. You are the king of Shang, and you can still be absent from the hunt. If Queen Jiang said that you squatted in the hut for a long time, everyone thought you were doing it for a while. Everyone's demonstrating - of course, the most important thing is that the big guy thought for a long time and couldn't figure out what he did wrong. If the king needs to demonstrate like this, he should really be in the latrine.

"Yesterday's meat was faulty and poisonous"

"Huh? Poisonous!?" Zishou noticed that everyone's eyes became sharper.

"Yes, it's poisonous." I put salt in it when I was half-baked, and I almost collapsed. Thanks to my strong body, otherwise people would be gone. This era is indeed perilous.

"But isn't that the good meat that Yongdi just hunted?"

"That's because the Kui tribe in Yongdi poisoned him." I can't say that I am not used to eating raw meat and have diarrhea, Zi Shou thought.

"You really deserve to be the king." The military nobles left in satisfaction. This is all right. In order to find an excuse to snatch the land of Yong, which is rich in prey and suitable for planting, the king actually made such a sacrifice. He is as wise as Emperor Yi.

There is a meat grove and a wine pool, but it is not a pool dug from the soil, but a wide bronze vessel filled with wine. According to the discussions of the people around, it seems to be used for sacrifices.

Next, he also saw the promiscuousness. Groups of young men and women happily poured in, and then began to hook up in groups of three or four, completely ignoring him and others, as if this was a normal phenomenon.

Although everyone is still dressed neatly now, after all, it is rare to have time to eat meat, and while hooking up, their eyes are still turned to the place where the skewers are grilled. However, Zi Shou believes that when the sky gets dark and the wine is full, the Confucian black It's time for my own "men and women chasing and playing with each other naked", no need to think about it, everyone is LSP, and those young men understand the eyes that go straight to the top and bottom without concealing it.

People in this era don't have so many hypocrisy, "Food and sex" Zi Shou sighed.

"Your Majesty is right." There was an admiration from the side, and Zishou turned his head to look over, and almost blurted out "what is this?" A person who can throw a small or medium-sized bronze tripod that weighs several hundred catties onto a beam.

Of course, I haven't tried it. Bronze ware is quite expensive, and houses are also quite expensive, but it is not a problem for ordinary logs to resist one or two roots, but what is this thing in front of you now?The black bear became a spirit?

He was covered in bear fur, with messy black-brown hair, at least two meters tall, and his bronze-colored muscles looked like something used for barbecue over there—how could such a thing be raised in this era of productivity?

Well, thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. The evaluation these days is "there are few people and many beasts". You may be snatched away by tigers and the like before you even squirt, let alone in the wild.

Living in the city and living in the wild is the biggest difference between Chinese and wild people. Therefore, the chain of mutual disdain between city people and country people seems to have started in Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Chapter 3: Farming First

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"Why is Your Majesty depressed these days?" The big man spoke quite elegantly, but the contrast with his appearance was a bit big. Zi Shou was stunned for a moment, and then fragments of memories about this man flooded out. Come on, son of Fei Lian, The surname Ying, and according to the pronunciation of the Chinese language of this era, it can also be called "Fang Lai".

And people's names in this era rarely have too elegant and difficult meanings. For example, Elai means a kind of beast at that time. Anyway, in Zishou's impression, it is just a legend.

Feilian is an insect that is good at flying and crawling, and Feilian is good at walking. In ancient times, the meaning of walking is not walking, but running. This guy is a long-distance runner, and he is also described as very familiar with the terrain, good Guidance ability to lead the way.

Basically, the father and son are the retainers of the Shang family in the impression of the son. Basically, they have to take them with them when going out. One is his own guard leader, and the other is his important military leader. This is similar to the civil servants in Fengshen Yanyi The poor image is a bit far away.

"Your Majesty has something to do with conquest..." Elai was a little confused. Di Xin was the youngest son of Di Yi. He was known for being smart and strong since he was a child. He was a rare person in the Shang royal family who had both brains and physical fitness online. These days Going out is either a beast or an evil thing. It is really impossible to not be able to fight, but it is a great place to be able to fight and be smart at the same time.

However, such a strong man who usually eats three catties of meat for a meal and can drink two shovels of alcohol, stands here alone on this occasion today, as if he has lost interest in wine and meat, hesitation and worry can be clearly seen on his face The expression on his face is like a philosopher who just had sex with a woman—as if he really had philosophy just now.

Most of the people in this era don’t have too much flirtatiousness, referred to as honesty, um, honesty doesn’t mean kindness, it just means that people in this era are limited in their thinking, so all kinds of conspiracies and deceitful ways are not born, and all kinds of methods to test the city government They are also very primitive, not to say that they are really honest people.

However, the most basic brain is still there. As the head of the guards, of course, it is impossible to be so stupid as to ask you at this time if you are overdoing it with Queen Jiang, and you have entered the time of the sage, so just ask about Su's matter. .

"I'm worried about Xiqi," Zishou said, and he wasn't worried about things like alarming the snake, the city, or being alerted by Xiqi.

Because there is no need to pretend to be trustworthy, everyone in the big business does not know that whether it is Xiqi or the bunch of Fangguo in the south, it is a serious problem, needless to say, everyone understands.

Not to mention, the above-mentioned brothers have already arranged on the timetable of the conquest. It is the basic national policy of the merchants to plunder the population one by one, and to use food and food for the supplier's tribal alliance to grow and grow. On average, every 10 to 15 years A reincarnation to suppress the development of these surrounding tribes and countries, while allowing itself to develop faster.

In this era, slaves and population are the potential for war, and food is wealth. Therefore, the Shang Dynasty cut off the leeks of the princes every year. Naturally, the fighting became stronger, and the years of war also meant that the replacement of military nobles was relatively fast. It is not easy for the military aristocratic stage to decay to the extent of "unknown soldiers".

Still the same sentence, from the founding of the Shang Dynasty to the present, is the direct territory that has increased every year just as a gift?Or were those tribes and Fang Guo conscious of the virtues of business, and actively attached them?

Just kidding, if the virtue you mentioned is the martial arts virtue of "holding cadres and dancing", then everyone should believe it, but if you want to talk about morality and culture, then everyone will not believe a word.

[Dance with relatives: hold an ax and shield and line up in front of your house for a military exercise. The dance here is not a dance—just ask if you are afraid? 】

"Xiqi?" This answer was something that Elai never expected. He thought that the king was worried about the affairs of Yousu, or the Fangguo in the south, and the worst thing was the growing Yifang. How could it be? Xiqi?He thought about the geographical location of Xiqi, and also thought about the continuous cooling and reduction of grain production in the past few years, and wondered if the king was a little too careful.

"Three points in the world, two weeks get the second." Although the three points in the world are quite large, this does not mean national strength, but simply depends on the support of the princes. That is for sure. You can choose one every year like this. The way the lucky one came out of the car, it must be that these sites that have just been laid down by the car are supporting Zhou.

But if you want to talk about national strength, I am afraid it has to be reversed. King Wu of Zhou gathered all the princes he could win, and he could gather a military force similar to that of the merchant army left behind in Modu. Before he set off, he even thought it was unreliable. I want to go back on my word. 【Divination, great evil】

Fortunately, Jiang Shang is a sensible person. He still hesitated with a hammer at this time. If he hesitated any longer, it would be gone. He tore up King Wu's divination booth. Now he still needs a hammer!

The defense of the capital of Shang is empty, the two sons and uncle of the king of Shang are anti-Shang, and the contradiction between the nobles and the priests is deep. If we don’t fight now, after he has dealt with his two sons and uncles, and then uses Daji to suppress the priests, then he will fight again. Hammer, go home and die.

"Ah, then...that's the second thing, right?" Elai couldn't understand Zishou's thinking, he felt that there must be something wrong with the king's thinking, although it's hard to say that Xiqi is not the second, but because Ji Chang's good image has always made most of the foreign princes and Fang Guo support him, and they have deep hatred and hostility towards the big merchants.

However, more than half of the world's wealth, food, and slaves are concentrated in the hands of merchants. They seem to be numerous, but can a group of villains be compared with gentlemen?

[Small man: refers to a person of low status, who may be an ordinary citizen or a promoted slave at that time; gentleman: at that time refers to the children of nobles, especially the children of military nobles, so at that time the family was the country, and there was nothing wrong with it. 】

"Huh? There is another point, but don't underestimate people's hearts, we can't stay at home all the time." After all, Shang is a slavery military empire, coupled with the deterioration of productivity and climate in this era, it must be continuously plundered to maintain The support of the domestic nobles and the stability of the country.

"Although these people are not very good, but the strength they gather can still inflict serious damage on us. Even if it is a villain, when he stands behind you with a knife, what difference does it make?"

"Your Majesty, this..." Elai was stunned. This was indeed something that had been overlooked before. If Xiqi's second-five sons really joined forces when Dashang went all out to attack the South or Yifang one day, These bastards are... tricky indeed.

"However, isn't Your Majesty a little too careful? I'm afraid this matter will not be so easy." Because Shang's surroundings are not without their own subordinates and vassals, and these are all relatives who are related to King Shang.

"What if they start to provoke those Fang countries and princes to start fighting?"

"Impossible, ritual and music conquest, life and death are the authority of my great merchant, how can these villains have the ability to conquer without permission."

"It's hard to say." The conquest here refers to the mobilization of all vassals and forces, while life and death can be understood. It refers to the existence and power of vassal states that can be destroyed, created, transferred, and deprived at will.

Therefore, the rights of King Shang and King Zhou are only limited by these four characters. They can enjoy the honorable status, etiquette and referee status within the rules, and they can also order the vassal states to go to war.

However, the king of Zhou could not interfere in the internal affairs of the vassals, could not revoke the feudal state of a vassal, could not transfer the Song State to the Chu State, and could not nationalize the territory of a certain vassal state.

But the king of Shang can, on the one hand, he is constantly developing territory, and he has land to create new feudal states; secondly, Shang has adopted the method of strong stems and weak branches, constantly spirally harvesting the surrounding princes, and throwing them farther away place.

Therefore, the latter power of revocation, transfer, and nationalization is very important, and it is also the reason why he can continue to expand, and the territory belonging to Shang once expanded to the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Basin.

"If the two countries pay more tribute for this year's Baomao, who will fight for the water in the fields?" In this year, resources are scarce and production is low. It is too crazy to start fighting for these things, and even fight by force. Normal.

What is Fangguo? To put it bluntly, it is a city-state, or the "country" in this era refers to a city, and the tradition of fighting between two cities for irrigation water can continue into modern times, let alone the Shang and Zhou dynasties. , It's so strange not to fight.

"But this can't be cut off." Fighting is very normal, and everyone thinks it is commonplace. Let alone these Fang kingdoms, it is common for the nobles directly under the King of Shang to grab water and distribute slaves. However, they No matter how fierce the fight was, it would be impossible to occupy the opponent's land and city without the permission of the King of Shang, let alone revoke the opponent's noble position.

"However, if Zhou instigated these Fang kingdoms to fight our relatives every day and consume their slaves and warriors, then, in the end, who will defend us?"

"This..." Xilai did not expect Zishou to take such a long-term view. It is true. It is normal to fight once or twice, let alone in this era, it is not new in modern times. However, if these surrounding The feudal vassals were picked up and fought every day, and the slaves and warriors were killed and injured too much, and their energy was exhausted, so do they still have the ability to defend the Shangdu?

"Little Ji Chang, why is he so vicious!?"

"Well, he may not have this plan now, but he has the ability to win over so many princes from the Fang Kingdom."

"Huh? He hasn't started doing it yet?" Elai thought that this guy was already doing it, but his king told him that Ji Chang hadn't started yet.

"The point is not whether he does it or not, it's whether he can do it or not, that's why I'm worried." Elai thought about it and thought it made sense. If he had already started to do something, it would be simple and put it in the court meeting One thing to say, after everyone is not stupid and understands the situation, adjust the strategic plan, first car Xiqi, and then car South Fangguo.

However, if he has not done anything, many nobles will object, because this matter is uncertain, you can plunder Yousu first, and then attack Yifang, leaving Xiqi, a worthless bare bone, behind eat.

That's why the king was worried about this matter, because he could do it but didn't, so he couldn't be sure when he would do it, and he couldn't use this as a reason to persuade the nobles to agree to fight Xiqi first.

So, on this happy day, there was one more person with a worried face, and after looking for his son everywhere to fool around, but Fei Lian, who was on duty, found him, the worried people became three, and finally became one. When a small group of staff loyal to King Shang gathered together and continued to emit low pressure, the cheerful atmosphere of the whole scene disappeared quickly.

However, due to our own interests and a fluke mentality, no one suggested that we go get the Xiqi car first. In the end, Queen Jiang made a very constructive suggestion, "Why don't you ask Ji Chang to meet him, and then imprison him? "

"No, it's useless to imprison him now. On the contrary, imprisoning the princes for no reason..." Everyone opposed this idea. Come to pay tribute.

"However, we have to put the matter of Xiqi on the agenda. Su and Fangguo in the south still need to fight first, but Xiqi must be considered." Finally, Zishou came out to make a decision, and all the nobles thought about it I think, I think this method is good, after all, their interests are still the same as those of King Shang.

However, after conquering Yousu, Daji became the Queen of Shang as a female slave. After all, the Queen of Shang was used to win over the theocratic nobles, and Daji, who was born in the conquered tribe of the Su family in history, was established as Queen. The conflict between the Shang king and the theocratic nobles has tended to be completely intensified.

Afterwards, Daji may have promoted a series of low-status villains such as Fei Zhong to serve as ministers, perhaps to consolidate her own position, or simply to assist the king of Shang in reforming, instead of using those noble children who formed a close alliance because of blood ties , exacerbating the problem.

As a result, when the surrounding princes were cut off before Zhou's attack, the Shang Dynasty did not respond at all. At the same time, in the Battle of Muye, there would be a situation where the forwards turned against each other.

In this era, the longer he stays, the more Zishou realizes that the problem here is really not just a matter of a demon girl wreaking havoc on the country. Those Confucian guys like to write some history, so they like to insert private goods. The key point If you don’t write or talk, you will delete the Confucius thing.

However, wouldn't it be fine if Daji was not made queen?No way, Mrs. Jiang died early, so he must have a Queen of Shang.

At the same time, for the second conquest of Yifang and the construction of Chaoge, it is inevitable that the basic business of Shang will move to the southeast warm zone as a whole-the Little Ice Age is gradually approaching, and migrating to the warm zone is the basic national policy.

Then it is necessary to obtain the human, financial and material support of the Su family. With the Su family producing cattle and horses, in this era, the labor force of large livestock is indispensable. Therefore, it is necessary to absorb the nobles and material resources of the Su family. Then It is an inevitable event for Shang to make Daji a queen.

Zishou scratched his face. Those Confucian guys like to exaggerate those useless things. If you write out the transaction behind it, everyone will understand. Of course, this idea is just to think about it. Speaking of Confucianism, he only needs to think about the things written by the priests in the temple to understand.

Why didn't the imperial examination improve slightly until the mid-Tang Dynasty, and the reason why it was not until the Song Dynasty that the imperial examination was able to send finished officials to the imperial court was here. The transactions, plans, and considerations behind historical events, as well as the principles of state governance.

Simply relying on dead books, only looking at the superficial benevolence and morality... After the Song Dynasty, the rotten Confucians who were fooled in the Ming and Qing dynasties are typical examples. That is what Lu Xun said, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality , between the lines is cannibalism.

Although Zishou is still the same Zishou, everyone thinks it is not surprising that the king is so smart. He has always been so smart that he can not listen to anyone's opinion, and not many people know what he is thinking, but his knowledge and experience are completely different. .

Now it is the spring of Emperor Xin's fourth sacrifice, and the first conquest of Yi is the tenth sacrifice of Emperor Xin. Considering the distance between Yi and Yi, it should be during this period that Emperor Xin's conquest of Yousu should be during this period, and his enthronement is not long, so in dealing with the conflict in Yongdi , so that everyone can feel that following King Shang has a future after seeing it, but the prestige is not too great.

Therefore, Zishou set the time to start his reforms after the first conquest of Yifang, that is, after plundering a large number of slaves and wealth. The authority of the Shang king reached its peak. Even the theocratic nobles who had always had conflicts with the military nobles started Easing the relationship - after all, their contradiction is in the distribution of wealth and slaves. If there is enough foreign wealth, this contradiction can be greatly eased.

However, unlike Zi Shou in history, he plans to focus on technology and technical system reforms this time. Mother), this is much easier than historical political innovation.

The first is agricultural technology. If there is no food, there is no need to talk about anything!

Chapter 4 Patrol

Boredom is the greatest enemy of human beings. In this era, it is impossible to hold court meetings every day. This is very reasonable. After all, even if there are so many things to deal with, there is not so much meat for a vote of noble ministers.

After the mid-Tang Dynasty, in order to save the cost of official meals, there were as few or no meals as possible, or the time for court meetings was shortened, and things were settled before lunch.

This is enough to show that the seriousness of the problem of eating and drinking with public funds has existed since ancient times. Therefore, it was a day of doing nothing. Zishou sat in the palace of the Shang Dynasty, staring at the mud walls, solid wood roof and central firepit in a daze.

As for Jiang Shi, she has more things to do.It will be spring plowing soon, she will go to the temple to pray, and perform a lot of complicated and useless ceremonies, only Zishou is left alone, and it is impossible to even find a wife to pass the time, that is really miserable.

However, considering the need to reform agriculture the day before, now you can observe the situation of planting and agriculture first. Thinking of this, Zishou stood up. The Shang kings of this era did not have the pomp of the emperors of later generations. Of course, there are no rules that do not come out of the palace easily.

Are you kidding me, Modu is only a little big in total, and the so-called Shang Palace is not that big, which made him want to build the spectacle of Lutai now. This low and simple accommodation is simply too bad. Snakes were found under the bed.

"Come on, come with me to see the cultivated land outside"

"Yes" The strong man like a black bear spirit didn't say anything. As a king of Shang, inspecting the territory and farming are basic skills. He didn't know how to persuade the king of Shang, who was lying on the bed like a Ge You all day, that he had enough rest. , It's time to go out and do farming.

Emperor Xin Zishou has always been an intelligent and assertive person. Since he ascended the throne, he has belittled many old ministers and nobles who kept beeping, causing the surrounding defenders to complain. If he hadn't married the Jiang family, With the support of the Lie Shan family, it will be difficult to end this matter.

It didn't take much time to prepare the car and the simple guards, but when Zishou was about to get in the car, he was stopped by Elai, "My lord, where is your saber?"

"Go get it for me"

"Which one?"

"......It's up to you"

"This..." Elai patted his head in trouble, turned around and entered the palace, and then Zishou showed a confused expression. What else is there to say about the saber?Wait, the swords of this era seem to be made of bronze, and it seems that it is really not enough to prepare only one.

If you hit it twice, it will either bend or break, so of course you can't just prepare one, at least three spare ones.

"My lord, your sword." Elai came out holding a long sword wrapped in a white tiger skin. It was really a long sword, about 1.2 meters in length, which seemed to be only 40~ The 50 cm bronze sword has more than doubled in length.

After receiving the long sword, Zishou felt that the weight was not too much. It was much lighter than imagined. Of course, it may be that the strength of this body is much greater. In other words, why is it so long?

He looked at Elai's saber, it was also longer than the guard's, could it be said that the length of the sword is equal to the level of status?

Zishou didn't have the idea of ​​drawing his sword to see. God knows what symbolic meaning it has in this era. If it is like the feather fan in Zhuge's hand, drawing the sword is equivalent to starting a war, then it will be troublesome.

Zishou put the sword across his knees, and by the way, sitting on his knees is really fucking uncomfortable, next time he must prepare a chair or a horse in the car or something like that.

The scabbard is covered with a layer of fluffy tiger-striped fur, which should be tiger skin. Considering the location of the Shang’s tributary territory, it may be the skin of a prisoner in modern times—wild albino South China tiger skin—at least an old man from a reinforced battalion. Uncle will completely surround you.

"Let's go, let's go to the nearby farmland first."

The Shang and Zhou Dynasties used the standard well field system, which divided the land into nine blocks by roads and ditches, surrounded by eight private fields, and in the center was Wang Tian. The eight here do not refer to eight households.

What was "home" in the Shang and Zhou dynasties?It refers to an aristocratic surname who owns the power of private soldiers, towns, generals, retainers, and family officials. Therefore, there is a saying of family, country, and world.

Of course, this can be further subdivided. The specific structure is that the vast territory around Modu belongs to the King of Shang, and it is cultivated by Chinese and noble slaves. Surrounding this huge well-tac-toe square is the so-called "Yi", which is a small town formed by the nobles and the population.

And such a large grid can be divided into countless small grids of well fields. For example, the Wangtian around Modu is cultivated by the eight surrounding lands, each of which is about 100 mu, and the central field is cultivated by the surrounding eight. Households cultivate for free.

And these nine pieces of land actually need to pay tribute, including those entrusted to nobles around them, but the difference lies in the tribute itself.

The people of Wangtian only need to pay the tribute to the king of Shang, while the central public land is all owned by the king of Shang, while the surrounding fiefdoms are different.

The nobles need to pay tribute to the King of Shang according to the size of the fiefdom, and similarly, the savage slaves farming in the locality also need to pay the King of Shang. They have to pay two tributes, one for the King of Shang and one for the nobles. It’s as simple as that—— Generally speaking, the well field system of the Shang Dynasty had such a structure, which was quite different from that of the Zhou Dynasty.

Similarly, Zishou also knows what is called "fiefdom". Around each standard 900-1000 mu well field, an earth wall about half a person's height is built, and there are mounds at the four corners. This thing is called "fief". , to seal the entire land.