When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Half a month later, Lu's father led his men to Ruyang area along the mountains and rivers and attacked the Hufang people.

He wiped out seventeen clans in one breath. His moves were so ruthless that even Zi Ping, who came with him, was shocked.

Of course, of these clan people, Lu's father only kept a group of them as human sacrifices, and sold the rest to travelers from the State of Yan.

With the connection of the people from Yan State, even if Liang Xiao and Zi Ping suppressed it together, it was impossible for them to completely break off relations with Yan State at this critical juncture.

On the other side, Zixun, who rushed back to Shangqiu, changed into a robe and looked coldly at the various noble warriors standing in front of the great hall.

These warriors held short spears and shields in their hands and stared at him unfriendlyly.

But they didn't dare to make any unusual moves.

After all, Zixun is the next leader of Dayi Shang, and he has the support of the other two princes. The supporters behind him have become the Hebei forces and the Heluo forces.

Of course, more important is the Dongyi forces in Qi.

The Henan faction was either taken to Heluo or followed Zigeng to Huaidi. The remaining Henan forces that had the desire to resist were all here.

If the relationship breaks down completely, the war will begin.

But the problem is that the Henan royal family and the Duozi family are still hesitating.

Because of their own interests and the Huaiyi forces in the south, they did not get involved.

In the battle of Liyang, both sides suffered heavy losses, and Huaiyi also became cowardly.

Under their gazes, he walked up the rammed earth platform step by step to the Shangqiu Palace.

Shangqiu is the old capital of Dayi Shang, but it is relatively early, so the palace is generally a rammed earth frame. However, the bricks and tiles on top can still show the construction achievements of Dayi Shang's core control area at this time.

There are similar palace structures everywhere, and only the city of Beiping, where the Yan State is currently struggling, has this specification; the rest are slightly inferior.

Moreover, there are large rivers around Shangqiu, and the water level of the Yellow River was still not higher than that on land at that time, so the Huanghuai water system was clearly divided.

Therefore, after the demise of the ancient Liangzhu Kingdom, people who went north would inevitably flock to the Central Plains from Shangqiu to seek development.

In this way, some unique cultures of Liangzhu will also be brought in.

Zixun walked to the front of the palace gate. Several warriors cleared the way for him and snatched the jade axes from the hands of several wizards.

These wizards did not dare to resist. After being taken away, they lowered their heads and retreated to both sides.

Zixun glanced at the jade axe and said nothing.

After a trip to the northern State of Yan, he knew very well that if power became tangible, it meant that power could be seized.

What is truly terrifying is that it is invisible and intangible, and it is the subtle influence that is highly bound to the system.

Xin Qu used the so-called military merit system to quickly frame the power structure. Regardless of cheating, intimidation by force, or personal charm, what was ultimately presented was desire and wish.

The unity of desire and wish is the unity of reality and ideal.

This is: family, country and the world.

In such a competitive environment in the Central Plains, whoever can first clear the obstacles to the iteration of the framework of family, country and the world will be the master of the Central Plains.

Be it hegemony or unification, no matter what the structure is, it is inevitable that a state form will emerge when the productivity of the Central Plains develops to a certain level.

Just like now, he imitated Xinqu, although he did not learn it very well, but the simple expansion and feudalism still brought a certain degree of aristocratic support.

His name is Zixun.

He is the next monarch that will inevitably emerge after all the business nobles in the big cities compete with each other.

It's not only because of his identity and bloodline, but more importantly, he has the ability to end the chaos of nine generations and to bring stability to the four directions.

Today, the Western Qiang are divided internally.

Ji Zhou's surrender meant that his political mission of conquering the west had been initially completed.

The follow-up is to consolidate the development of Heluo and completely take control of Heluo, which was lost due to the Nine Generations' Rebellion.

Further expand Dayi Shang’s control scope.

Whether it is internal and external submission or feudalism among princes, there is only one final result, which is the continuation of the great city of Shang.

His prestige has reached its highest point in the past nine generations. Zi Xun looked around, and everyone he saw bowed their heads.

Then he walked into the hall.

It was still a group of noble warriors, but unlike the warriors outside, when this group of warriors saw him coming in, they were filled with fear.

Being able to come in means that their relatives and subjects have abandoned them.

No one stopped Zixun.

"We will have divination tomorrow." Zixun glanced at them calmly, "From now on, weekly sacrifices will become the norm. You should be honored to become servants of the Emperor."

After these words were spoken, these nobles finally couldn't help trembling and fell to the ground, covering their mouths. Even though tears were streaming from their eyes and they were in excruciating pain, they wanted to cry out loud, but they stopped themselves.

Can't cry out loud.

Because this is faith, this is honor.

The Shang king was an emperor after his death and a great wizard before his death. This Shang king was no longer capable of ruling the world.

Therefore, no one could object to Zixun's offer of sacrifice.

They can only accept it passively.

If he cried out or cursed now, the torture he would endure would be a thousand times more miserable than he was now, and even his wife and children would not survive.

Seeing this, Zixun smiled with satisfaction: "After this, your children and grandchildren will have fiefs in the four directions. The premise is that you must serve the emperor gloriously and offer your loyalty."

"Yes Yes……"

The nobles prostrated themselves on the ground.

The sound is distorted and deformed.

This is business.

For them, sacrificing hostile nobles is a piece of cake.

Then, go up left and right and pull them away.

Zixun then walked to the bed, looked at Zihe who was watching everything with empty eyes, and couldn't help but sighed and said: "Now, the situation is stable."

"Well... find a way to trick the King of Yan here." Zihe showed a rare calm expression, "The envoys from Youxu and Jiandi came to me and cried for seven days. We must give them an explanation."

Zixun frowned slightly when he heard this, and then stood up and said, "It's difficult. Xin Qu is more cautious than anyone else. Before we really fight him, he will only give us enough face. Therefore, he will not be fooled by the previous method of deceiving the nobles to offer sacrifices."

The Shang Dynasty had many different ways of offering sacrifices to hostile nobles, the most common of which was to force you to pay tribute and then kill you.

Or use the country or tribe that forced you to redeem you.

Xin Qu had studied this series of methods carefully. He had previously arranged for representatives to come, as he himself could not defeat them all.

"There must be protons."

Zixun shook his head slightly at Zihe's words: "You don't understand, if Xinqu is pushed into a corner, he will really rebel, and he will definitely send troops to attack with great force.

Now that the western part has been resolved, the earthwork in the north needs to be solved.

Only after solving the Tufang problem can we reach the next State of Yan.

He is more cunning than you think, and he has made more preparations than you think."

Zihe opened his mouth and watched his suggestions and requests being rejected one by one by his brothers. He knew that he had completely lost his voice.

After a moment of silence, he slowly lay down: "Then you arrange it. Get ready for me, I'm going back to Yanshang."

"Yes. King."

Zixun bowed, then turned and left.

The door of the hall was shut tightly, blocking both the inside and the outside. There was even the sound of a bolt being slammed shut from outside.

Zihe smiled bitterly, he was under house arrest.

Life and death are all under Zixun's control: "Really, he has completely matured! Whatever. Whatever." (End of this chapter)