"Why, you have done some research on this surname."
Song Siyuan looked at Sun Daqiao. Since the old man mentioned the Ghost Fang clan, he probably had some understanding.
Sun Daqiao waved his hands and declined: "I can't talk about research. I just heard some antique dealers mention it when I was young. There was a sentence recorded on the bronze ware of Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty that said that in the thirty-two years, the ghosts were defeated. In the thirty-fourth year of Yu Jing's reign, Master Wang defeated the ghosts."
When everyone heard the word "gui Fang" in this sentence, they instantly became energetic and urged Sun Daqiao to continue explaining this sentence.
The old man coughed a few times and said in a hoarse smoky voice: "Ahem, I thought about it just now. These ancient texts are related to King Wu Ding of Shang Dynasty. They are bronze inscriptions about his achievements in pacifying Guifang. In this feudal era, emperors had to record their achievements. Most of them were conferred Zen on Mount Tai, sealed Yanran on stone, and sealed wolf to Xu. As everyone knows, in the slave society that was older than the feudal era, the way emperors continued their achievements was different. The main methods were tortoise shells and bronzes."
Let’s not mention the tortoise shell Xugong for the moment, and let’s talk specifically about the bronze Xugong.
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, after Dayu cast the Jiuding, the technology of making bronzes continued to develop, and finally reached its peak in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The bronzes produced were exquisitely crafted and extremely exquisite, and could be regarded as high-end works of art in the slave society.
In addition to being used as ritual weapons, these bronzes were also used as recording media to record the achievements and losses of the Shang kings in the past dynasties, which is called bronze narrative.
The black bird was born and descended to give birth to the Shang Dynasty. Since the ancestor of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Shang Tang, destroyed the Xia Dynasty, the bronzes of the Shang Dynasty recorded the first achievements of the descendants of Shang Tang. Until the era of the 22nd generation Wu Ding, Finally, the most important achievement came again - conquering Guifang and expanding the territory.
Shang King Wu Ding, also known as Yin Wu, was the son of Shang King Xiao Yi and the nephew of Shang King Pan Geng. His father Xiao Yi was not the heir at the beginning, but only the Yin and Shang royal family. Since he was not the heir, Wu Ding lived a very free life in his childhood. He often traveled with his father to observe the people's sentiments, and even farmed and worked with ordinary people, drank and ate together. In the process, he accumulated a lot of understanding of the common people, and at the same time, he also planted in his heart the feeling of observing the people's sentiments. The seeds give rise to care and sympathy for the common people.
The carefreeness in the countryside cannot eliminate the dire straits above the temple!
The throne of the Yin and Shang Dynasties changed frequently. After the struggle, the power of the throne was handed over to Wu Ding. He should have been happy to get the royal power, but Wu Ding was extremely worried because what his uncles left to him was not the Qingming era. But a big mess.
First of all, it is the destruction of the inheritance system!
After King Zhongding of the Shang Dynasty, the inheritance system of the eldest son was destroyed. Ministers began to support princes other than the eldest son to succeed to the throne. Princes competed for power, causing chaos in the nine generations of the Shang Dynasty. Many princes and princes did not come to see the King of Shang. The hearts of all the ministers were dispersed. Shang King Pan Geng had already designated a strategy to revitalize the Yin and Shang Dynasties. However, with his passing, the national policies he formulated were also abandoned, and the Shang Dynasty declined again.
Secondly, there is the covetousness of the barbarians on the border.
The Guifang tribe, which was originally expelled to the Far North by Shang Tang, continued to travel eastward from the Far North until they stopped at the Jingchu Land in Longyou. This position was basically the northwest boundary of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which meant that To the northwest of the Shang Dynasty, they once again faced the threat of Guifang Kingdom.
Foreign enemies were eyeing him, and domestic problems abounded. Not everyone was able to solve the problems Wu Ding faced as soon as he succeeded to the throne.
When he first came to the throne, he also knew that the country was facing too many problems. To solve them, it was inevitable to distinguish between primary and secondary conflicts and priorities. In order to completely sort out the order, he never issued orders within three years of taking the throne, and only handed over government affairs to ministers. He disguised himself and began to observe what the people said, and used three years of "observation of the people's customs" to determine how to govern the country in the future.
After that, he discovered Fu Yue, a builder, as prime minister, reformed the official system, eliminated the interference of nobles in the appointment and removal of officials, and took back the power of appointment and removal of officials. At the same time, he expedition to the Guifang Kingdom in the northwest and opened up the border to Longyou.
From then on, everything from Binhai to the east, Hebei to the north, Jianghan to the south, and Longyou to the west were all ruled by the Yin Shang. During his fifty-eight-year reign, he led the declining Yin Shang to prosperity, and was known as the Wuding Zhongxing in history.
Among his many achievements, conquering the Kingdom of Ghost Fang is legendary and weird, and is also a bizarre record on the Bronze Xu Gongding Tripod.
Ghost side, ghost side, what is ghost side?
The ancients' interpretation of ghosts was different from ordinary people's beasts as ghosts. At the same time, Fang actually means tribe and Fang country. Ghost Fang together means Fang country composed of people who look like beasts.
There were no real orcs in ancient times. The ghosts here refer to aliens who are completely different from the civilization of the Central Plains.
It is rumored that all the warriors of Guifang Kingdom are wearing scary masks. Looking at the phalanx of Guifang warriors on the battlefield, I can see that the soldiers are wearing animal skins and grass armors, and wearing cold and terrifying masks. Even if they do not move, they can It gives people a strong sense of oppression. If paired with ghost weapons, it will defeat the enemy without fighting.
After Wu Ding's ancestor Shang Tang expelled the Guifang Kingdom, the Guifang people had not appeared for hundreds of years. By Wu Ding's time, they knew very little about the Guifang people. The only thing that is certain is that it is recorded in historical books Exceed the terror of ghosts and humans.
They can use the power of ghosts and gods to fight!
This kind of power to attract ghosts and gods is not to allow ghosts and gods to possess them, or to let ghosts and gods help fight, but to use the power of ghosts and gods to create an extremely strange world and pull the enemy into a completely different environment. In this environment, regardless of whether the enemy No matter how powerful they are, they can rely on this environment to defeat them one by one and completely annihilate them.
Shang Tang's so-called victory over the ghost side at that time was actually just to use the lives of a large number of soldiers to attack the ghost side. It was not until the ghost side had too few people that they could no longer use the power of ghosts and gods, and was then expelled to the far north by Shang Tang.
Now, the Guifang clan members are full-fledged and have finally begun to invade southward again.
While Wu Ding still continued Shang Tang's strategy of fending off enemies, he was also actively seeking new solutions. For him, the Guifang people were extremely cunning and could not be completely eliminated. The worst defeat would be nothing more than the Guifang moving north again. , when they recover, they might come back again.
Now, he can drive Guifang to the north, which will only leave a legacy for future generations. It is better to divide the Guifang people and let them help the Yin Shang guard the northwest.
With this thought, he used troops against Guifang many times in three years. After defeating Guifang, he did not expel the Guifang people like his ancestor Shang Tang did. Instead, he made an agreement with the Guifang people and was willing to submit to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Nobles can follow him back to the capital, and from then on be canonized as Nine Lords, and enjoy the courtesy of the Yin and Shang royal family.
If you are not willing to submit to the Yin Shang, you will continue to move northwest with your tribe, and you will not be allowed to step into the Yin Shang. If you violate the agreement, you will be completely killed without mercy.
Under such a strategy, the nobles and civilians of Guifang Kingdom were divided. All the nobles were moved to Guihou City, fifty miles southwest of Chaoge's capital, and were named big and small princes, while the civilians and warriors stayed to garrison in Longyou. On the border, when the Yin merchants built a city here, Guifang Kingdom would become the strongest vassal in the northwest from a serious problem on the border.
After that, the nobles of Guifang in the capital of Yin and Shang Dynasty were gradually assimilated by Yin merchants and abandoned the customs of Guifang, no longer any different from the people of Shang Dynasty. The common people of Guifang in the northwest still retained their customs because they were located on the border and were barbaric by nature. It has some ghost customs.
Only those Guifang people who did not submit to the rule of the Shang Dynasty and moved to the far north completely retained the customs of the Guifang people, and at the same time, they also completely retained the ability to use the power of ghosts and gods.
"This story was also recorded on the bronze artifact of Shang King Wu Ding. At the same time, it also stated the general whereabouts of the Guifang people. It can be said that the Guifang people have been completely assimilated since they accepted the rule and disappeared for three thousand years. .”
They really didn't hear this anecdote, not only because the history of the Guifang people was too unpopular, but the most important point was that the Shang Dynasty was too far away, and there were not many things about it, and the recorded antiquities were all Not much, and they had no way of knowing any news about the ghosts.
"Then according to your opinion, Guifang Zong is actually a descendant of the Guifang clan who has disappeared for three thousand years." Song Siyuan noticed what Sun Daqiao meant and asked tentatively.
Sun Daqiao nodded in approval and said: "Yes, the surname Guifang is so rare that it is not even included in the Hundred Surnames. This shows that his surname is rare."
Having said this, Sun Daqiao continued: "After Wu Ding destroyed the ghost side, some of the ghost nobles accepted the canonization of the Yin Shang and were divided into nine surnamed ghost princes. While accepting the canonization of the Yin Shang, it also represented their willingness to exchange freedom for glory and wealth. From then on, Each generation was monitored by the Yin and Shang royal families until the end of the Shang Dynasty, when the nine surnames of Guihou were expelled by King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty. In order to avoid disaster, they had to alienate their surnames into the surnames Wei and Wei to preserve their bloodline."
"From this point of view, maybe he is not necessarily a true descendant of the Guifang clan, but as long as he uses the surname Guifang, it at least shows that they know what Guifang means, and even deliberately do not use the surnames Wei and Wei. , and restoring Guifang’s original surname, if you think about it, you already know Guifang Zong’s intention.”
What Sun Daqiao said is indeed reasonable. If Guifangzong really didn't know what Guifang stood for, why would he use the surname Guifang? Even if he is not a descendant of the Guifang clan, he must have a special purpose.
Yue Qingshan seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lit up and he said: "Think about it, the power of the ghosts and gods of the Guifang Clan can create a unique world and pull the enemy into this world. If we look at it based on the current situation, will it look like that? The underworld of Gu Luoyin, or the underworld where the Wushan goddess is stationed?"
"Looking at it this way, is it possible that the Guifang Clan is also related to Shennongjia?"
Tan Yanqiu originally wanted to explore the mystery of the albino animals in Shennongjia. Now, even the Guifang tribe and the Luo Shennu are related to Shennongjia. He only feels that the situation has exceeded his expectations and has changed in an unpredictable direction.
Song Siyuan nodded, took a long breath and said: "Now think about it, it is indeed possible that the Luo Shennu they are looking for in every generation will be the Guifang tribe left behind in various places. It is for this reason that Luo Shennu can Contact the underworld of falling gods.”
