When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

The old witch sat there with an unchanged expression: "The succession of the Shang kings has always been orderly. Now that the king has been captured, regardless of life or death, if we want to quickly quell the chaos, we have no choice but to elect a new king.

Ru and Prince Lian are not as powerful as Prince Xun.

Moreover, Prince Xun had already conquered Yan Shang, and all of his father's noble family members were in Zixun's hands.

Everything is a foregone conclusion. "

Zisong didn't rush to reply, but jumped down, walked around the fire and said, "You don't need divination? Is it because of Xin Qu's ultimate connection?"

"The beginning of the connection between heaven and earth began with the Xia Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty had the power of a king and seized the power of witches and shamans. Yan Qu was even more extraordinary, practicing mathematics, developing astronomy, and determining geography, and making all changes. The struggle between him and you will be more reflected in the future, not in the present.

Now, what the Shang clan needs to do is to stabilize the situation and prevent the power struggle from falling into chaos.

If you want a peaceful transition, Zixun is your only choice."

The old witch explained calmly.

There were also many people dressed as wizards looking at him on both sides.

At that time, King Shang was seriously injured and his life or death was unknown. After Zisong got the news, he blocked most of the wizards who were accompanying the army in Hebei by the Yellow River, and then took them all away to Anyang for rest.

The purpose is to control public opinion and prevent those nobles from having the ability to "communicate with heaven, earth and God", which would ruin the situation.

But no matter how fast he was, he could not compare to Zixun who sent troops directly from Qi and captured the big city of Yan Shang in three days.

In addition, this time the Tufang took advantage of the chaos to send troops to attack Yousuo and Jiandi, and with the help of Yan State, the Tufang force became somewhat more powerful than in history.

Completely occupied the Shangdang Basin.

The situation is so corrupt that it is appalling.

Zisong asked himself whether this mess was difficult to clean up.

Because there is more than one force behind Tufang, there is also the State of Yan hiding behind Tufang.

If you want to fight against two forces at once, you must gather the forces of the merchant nobles in Henan and Hebei.

The only one who can put it together now is the last one.

That is Zixun.

And he could also appease the State of Yan.

Zisong stared at the old witch for a while and asked, "If I take you back, how many people can you bring from Yan State?"

"I can't take any of them with me." The old witch smiled bitterly without even thinking, "After I took away 800 Xin clan warriors, the current Yan State was developed entirely by Xin Qu himself.

It can even be said that I only hoped that he could preserve the fire in the land, but I didn't expect that he would develop a Yan State.

Youzhou is bitterly cold, with hot summers and floods, and harsh winters and heavy frosts. Thistles grow all the time, which cattle and sheep do not like. The beaches are covered with white salt, and it is difficult to grow millet. The only way to survive is fishing and hunting.

Despite such an environment, he was able to cultivate thousands of acres of fertile land and also harvest rich products from all over the country.

In these years, he destroyed Guzhu, caused chaos in the desert, and the Sushen people in white clothes sent sheep to him; he dug ditches, leveled lakes and swamps, and connected Zhuodi Yongding to the river.

I heard from you that the State of Yan is building the capital of Beijing.

Beiping. The pacified city in the north.

His ambition is clearly written on the surface. But you can't do anything to him, because you don't dare to think and do what he dares to do.

In a land prone to drought and floods, he dared to shout out the words "man can conquer nature".

From the root, he did not believe in ghosts and gods. Under his influence, the new generation of Yan people would certainly not believe in ghosts and gods, but would regard ghosts and gods as sacrifices.

A country that dares to slaughter ghosts and gods will be the enemy of all ghosts and gods.

So I can’t bring anyone back. I can’t bring anyone back.

As I get older, I don’t know how many years it will take for me to meet the ancients.

But Shang did not want to be destroyed by Yan, so it was afraid that it would have to resort to the path of worshipping ghosts and gods.

Qu is right.

God has no relatives; only virtue is his support.

The people are alive and well, and the virtue of heaven is flourishing.

In comparison, who is better, the Emperor of Dayi Shang or the Heavenly Emperor of Yan? Everyone will care about it.

The path he and you are taking leads to the same destination.

It’s just that you are arrogant and he is humble.

The two schools of thought are colliding. The slaves under your command may choose your ideas now, but as the strength of Yan State grows, their confrontation with you will waver over time.

Unless you can destroy the State of Yan.

Otherwise, it would be gradually destroyed by the State of Yan.

Here, slaves, servants, and ministers will never have a chance to rise to prominence. Nobles will always be nobility. Over time, there will always be incompetent people occupying high positions.

As for the Yan State, with its perfect military merit system, I can’t think of a way to destroy it, let alone you young people.” Zisong also sat down helplessly: “Let’s put it this way, what is more about Xin Qu now than in your impression of him?”

“From the time I discovered his talent, I found that he was actually very good at disguising himself and liked to be lazy. At first I thought he just had this attitude because he was smart.

But later I found out that he was not smart, but he seemed to know how to take shortcuts by nature.

And they are more certain than ordinary people about where the road lies.

It is like when you all did not dare to consider giving slaves a promotion channel, he gave it against all odds, and gradually regained a group of slaves. At the same time, he incorporated them into his Heavenly Emperor system, used the dharma position and incense system to merge the numerous ghosts and gods, and also had sacrifices to deify and the last-ranked ones to be eliminated. This is enough to show that his grasp of people's hearts is considerable.

People's fear of ghosts and gods comes from their ignorance of everything in the natural world.

He said that the punishment brought down by ghosts and gods is not to punish people, but to intimidate people. In order to eat the blood of human spirits and thus pollute the bodies of ghosts and gods, it is to prevent the heaven and earth from capturing them and filling them into the positions of gods in the operation of the heaven and earth to perform their respective duties.

Ghosts and gods fled because they were afraid of the repetitive Tao and rules.

After people capture ghosts and gods, offer sacrifices to them, and correct their positions, if there are still ghosts and gods who do not work and continue to resist and bring down disasters, people can recommend their deceased ancestors, who will be granted titles by the king, to take over their positions until a person who will not bring down disasters is chosen.

You see, humans have the ability to become ghosts and gods.

Ghosts and gods who can be worshipped by people all over the world must be heroes.

So how do we evaluate the heroes?
The title of military merit was born.

How do military honors maintain their status? By combining farming with warfare, by governing the local areas, and by demoting the mediocre and promoting the capable.

Then who has the final say and decision-making power?

Only he, Xinqu, has the human body used by the Emperor of Heaven, or in other words, he is the son of the Emperor of Heaven.

Thus, the five elements of heaven, earth, man, gods and ghosts are embodied in Xin Qu alone.

Compared with Dayi Shang, he is more present, clearer, and more systematic. Everything can be traced. As long as the emperor is fair, no one will choose to betray him.

Not to mention that he was born as a wanderer, people are cunning, they balance and calculate, they make friends, who can be his opponent?"

Zisong said nothing.

After listening for a while and thinking about the current situation, he finally sighed and said, "How could a genius like Xin Qu appear? Now that the Tufang has become powerful, he is behind the scenes, building the city of Beiping while watching us and the Tufang consume each other. It's really... annoying.

Old witch, call on all the Wuxian clan members to hold a sacrifice to see which of the three of us will be crowned king in accordance with the emperor's wishes."

"Yes." Old Witch You Xin slowly stood up and discussed the specifications of the sacrifice with the group of witches.

Fifteen days later, earth was piled up on the outskirts of Yin city, and the barbarians were killed as sacrifices.

Outside the earth pile, Zixun and Zilan came in person, along with the envoy of Zhuo clan representing Zixun, as well as the nobles from Henan and Hebei who were unified by the three parties, and the noble representatives who controlled King Shang and the other side of the river, all watched the process of the sacrifice.

One hundred slaves, two hundred slaves...

The killing lasted until nightfall, and they had killed three thousand slaves, plus a royal maiden, seven princes, and fourteen people with many children.

The whole sacrifice is over.

The old witch came down carrying a huge tortoise shell.

He reviewed it with many nobles and said at the same time: "The emperor said: After He dies, Zixun will offer sacrifices of more than 10,000 human sacrifices in the suburbs of Yan. It is acceptable."

After saying this, the old witch carried the tortoise shell to the burial place of the altar and jumped in with it in his arms.

Then he lay down, next to countless bloody corpses.

"Bury!"

At the order of another great witch named Wuxiang, the old witch was buried together with the tortoise shell.

More than 3,000 people sacrificed their lives plus the life of the great witch to pass down the emperor's will, which also represented the result of the sacrifice. Not only did the emperor know about it, but the soul of the great witch who possessed "witchcraft" would always guarantee the result of the sacrifice.

Only after the execution is completed can the Great Witch end.

Then another great witch came with a tortoise shell. The result of his divination was to know who would be the next heir if something happened to Zixun.

The result is: Zisong followed it and it was okay.

The great witch also went down into another pit, sighed, and was buried.

The nobles looked at the pits that were constantly being filled up, without much expression.

The peaceful transition of Shang royal power is more important than anything else.

If the fight really starts, I'm afraid the earthworkers will take the opportunity to break out of the Shangdang Basin, instead of being blocked in the basin and unable to move temporarily.

"You all saw it?" Zisong looked at the nobles and representatives on the other side of the river. "Although He is not dead, he is dying. After returning to Yanshang, all government affairs will be supervised by Xun until He dies and he will take the throne.

The parties would no longer have to fight.

Can?"

"Yes!" (End of this chapter)