Having said that, Sun Tianqi looked at the crowd and took out a map from his backpack. After unfolding it, the words "Migration Map of Guifang people" on the map were clearly visible.
He picked up the ruler and pointed at the map and said: "This is the map of the Yin and Shang territories that I restored with Western scholars and domestic literati. At that time, beyond the northwest boundary of the Yin and Shang was the Guifang Kingdom. The activity area of their Guifang tribe was probably In today's Shanxi, northeastern Shaanxi, central Mongolia and both sides of the Yellow River, they belong to a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural ethnic group..."
The Guifang Kingdom already existed before Shang Tang destroyed the Xia Dynasty. At that time, most of the Guifang people lived on the grasslands and were nomadic people who lived by the water. Until the end of the Xia Dynasty, the cold in the north intensified and the grasslands became barren. , began to migrate southward, and gradually came to survive on the Shaanxi Plateau.
At that time, the Shaanxi Plateau was not in the barren state of today's loess high slopes. At that time, it had abundant water and grass and dense vegetation. It was an excellent habitat, enough for the Guifang people to survive. If there was anything bad about it, it was It’s just too close to Xia Kingdom.
When they were far north of the Yellow River, they were still a long way from the Xia Kingdom. In addition, they were blocked by the Yellow River, so it was naturally difficult for them to have conflicts. After they moved to the Shaanxi Plateau, they were not far from the Xia Kingdom's border. If there is no buffer, there will be constant conflicts.
Since the Yan and Huang Dynasties, the Xia Kingdom has always regarded occupying the Central Plains terrain as a priority, and calls itself the Central Plains Dynasty. When faced with the people in other regions, it is usually regarded as barbarians. Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong, and Beidi, there is always a derogatory name that can be applied to it.
After the Guifang people approached the border, they became a member of the Xirong. Because the warriors were extremely cruel and wore ghost masks, they were called Guirong people by the Xia Dynasty people. They were the biggest enemy threatening the security of the northwest of the Xia Dynasty.
By the end of the Xia Dynasty, the Ghost Rong had gradually unified the Rong tribes in the northwest and began to covet the land of the Xia Dynasty. Their power once made the Xia Dynasty people fearful, especially the ghost bone discs used by the high priests. Forcibly creating an illusion, the soldiers of the Xia Dynasty were so addicted that they could not get out until they died.
The Xia Dynasty lost nearly 10,000 troops because of this. Until the Xia Dynasty was destroyed by Shang Tang, they still did not solve this northwest threat.
After the Yin and Shang Dynasties destroyed Xia, Shang Tang decisively killed tens of thousands of soldiers and killed all the young people in Guifang, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled to retreat to the grassland. As for the northwest states that were previously ruled by Guifang people, The Ministry was canonized as the Fang Kingdom in the northwest.
On this basis, Shangtang completed the great work of consolidating the territory and brought hundreds of years of peace to the Yin Shang. It also made the Fang Kingdom in the northwest region aware of the power of the Yin Shang and never neglected to pay tribute every year.
At the same time, the Guifang people fled to the grassland and suffered a huge defeat. What awaited them was a bitter cold fantasy and a lack of food and clothing.
They have been away from their homeland for hundreds of years and have long been accustomed to the wealth of the Shaanxi Plateau. Many Guifang people are like foreigners, increasingly unaccustomed to the local environment. In addition, they fled this time because they were completely afraid of the unscrupulous killings of the Yin Shang Dynasty. The resentment of the ethnic group can be imagined, and the idea of wanting to take back the Shaanxi Plateau is becoming more and more popular among the ethnic groups.
They knew that the Guifang Kingdom was no longer strong enough to compete with the rising red sun of the Yin and Shang Dynasty, so they began to recuperate on the grasslands.
More than a hundred years later, King Zhongding of Shang abolished the eldest son inheritance system, which directly led to the Nine Dynasties Rebellion. The tribes of Xirong, which were originally located in the northwest, began to take advantage of this opportunity to refuse to pay tribute or pay tribute. The people of Guifang sensed that the northwest was no longer They were united and began to rectify their troops and move south.
Due to the chaos caused by the struggle for power among the local princes of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the defense of the northwest region was empty. Before the people in the court could react, Guifang Kingdom had already crossed the Yellow River and reached the Shaanxi Plateau again.
This time, they continued to plunder southward. From the grassland to the Qinling Mountains, they were all occupied by Guifang and established the Guifang Kingdom.
Judging from the territory map, the territory of Guifang Kingdom is shaped like a long snake, directly connecting the grassland and the Qinling Mountains, and extending to the Hexi Corridor, almost completely blocking the northwest boundary of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. As long as the Yin and Shang Dynasties want to expand westward, they will Avoid conflicts with them.
The Guifang people had this intention. As long as the Yin merchants wanted to expand their territory, they would take advantage of the Yin merchants' invasion of their territory and send troops towards the Yin merchants' mainland, vowing to reach outside Chaoge City.
At this time, the Yin Shang Dynasty had already weakened due to the Zhongding Rebellion, and was suffering from constant internal and external troubles. They could barely hold on to the southern and western frontiers. As for the expansion of territory outside the court, they had lost half of their strength.
The Yin and Shang royal family knew this very well. No matter how chaotic the dynasty was within the dynasty, they never lost their minds and would never easily start a war on the border. Seeing that they were unmoved, the Guifang people had no choice but to deliberately start a war on the border in order to start the war as soon as possible. They plundered the people, and also united with the Fang Kingdom in the northwest to kill the Shang Dynasty officials, so as to provoke the Yin and Shang Dynasty to take the lead in starting a war.
For decades, Guifang Kingdom has never succeeded. The Yin and Shang royal family has endured the humiliation for decades, and finally waited for the opportunity to be proud and proud!
After Wu Ding succeeded to the throne, he personally led the king's army to the northwest, killing the Guifang people and retreating for dozens of miles. He no longer dared to compete for supremacy. He even did more ruthlessly than his ancestor Shang Tang - Shang Tang just The Guifang people were expelled to the Mobei grassland. He directly used the strategy of differentiation to completely separate the Guifang nobles and the people.
From then on, the Guifang tribe changed from nomadic to settled life, and the Guifang nobles were also canonized as Guihou with the ninth surname by Yin merchants. They were completely assimilated and no longer had the wild nature of their ancestors.
It was not until two hundred years later that the Yin and Shang Kingdom came to an end. In order to avoid the disaster, the nine surnamed Guihou became anonymous and integrated into other tribes in the northwest. Only some Guifang people felt the call of the Guifang ancestors and came to Shennongjia outside the borders of the Yin and Shang countries. From then on, They disappeared and there is no record of them in history.
Yue Guanchao and the others listened to Sun Tianqi's introduction, and it was probably what they guessed. In conjunction with Guifang Kingdom's territorial map of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, they could clearly see the territorial changes of the Guifang people. However, there was one thing they didn't quite understand. .
"How could Guifang people hide in Shennongjia? If some people don't submit to the Yin Shang, shouldn't they return to the Mobei grassland?"
Although they had already guessed that the Guifang people were hiding from the Yin Shang Dynasty, they still felt that hiding in Shennongjia was a bit too deliberate, as if they had deliberately found such a place.
Sun Tianqi coughed a few times: "I think it was because of natural disasters and man-made disasters. At that time, natural disasters probably occurred when the Guifang people went south. After being quelled by Wu Ding, most of the people in Guifang had returned to the Yin Shang Dynasty. Only a small number of people were unwilling to live or die and migrated for a long time. A large number of people are needed to maintain food and grass in the rear, and it is unlikely that these people will be able to return to the grassland. According to Wu Ding's opinion, if they do not recognize the rule of the Yin Shang, they are not the subjects of the Yin Shang and cannot stay in the territory of the Yin Shang."
After that, he pointed to the southwest area on the map: "The hometown of Guifang Kingdom is basically from Shanxi, northeastern Shaanxi, central Mongolia, and both sides of the Yellow River. It is equivalent to the national boundary that directly expanded the territory of the Yin and Shang Dynasties from the northwest. Stop it in the northwest."
"After the people of the Guifang Kingdom surrendered to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, these places became the new territories of the Yin and Shang Kingdom. Some Guifang people who did not want to surrender probably only had three choices, either to continue across the Hexi Corridor to the west, or to return to the northern grasslands. , or go south to find a new land."
Sun Tianqi continued: "Among these three different roads, because there are too few Guifang clan members left, it is basically impossible to return north. If you go west, you can only occupy the Hexi Corridor, and the further distance will become a desert, and it is easy to be If we are trapped in Hexi, then the only feasible option is to go south."
He tapped the ruler in the southwest and his tone became mysterious: "At that time, the southernmost territory of the Yin Shang was near Jianghan. The south and southwest of the wide area were areas covered with smog. The Yin merchants were not willing to go southwest at all. In addition, the Chiyou tribe also fled to the southwest after their defeat, which gave the southwest a terrifying and mysterious color. For Yin merchants, the land of Sichuan and Shu only existed as the ancient Shu kingdom, but because the road to Shu was difficult to reach, it was different from Shu. The local people have little communication, and they are neither too lazy to conquer nor willing to bother."
"There are really very few places that the Guifang people can choose. The only places they can choose are probably the plains near the river, that is, the places in the Jianghan Plain. If they are in the plains, they will easily be noticed by Yin Shang. I guess they entered Shennongjia because they found something in Shennongjia, or they simply didn’t want to expose the group to danger anymore and wanted to rely on the primitive jungle to cover the group’s whereabouts. This can also be explained.”
Yue Guanchao listened to Sun Tianqi's introduction and was sure that he was not lying. They had already heard Sun Daqiao mention a few words about this information, and they probably guessed who the Guifang tribe was. All of this was not so much a clue that he was curious about Sun Tianqi. Rather, he wanted to use Sun Tianqi's clues to see if he was really looking for a way to rescue Ban Nu.
"Then, what is the origin of Guifang Zong?"
Regarding this, Yue Guanchao really didn't know. He could only make a general guess that Guifangzong was a member of the Guifang tribe whose bloodlines were confused. He wanted to enter Shennongjia because he wanted to find the Soul-Capturing Bone.
Sun Tianqi became cautious and continued to explain: "The Guifang clan where Guifangzong is located, after being a noble of Guifang, was one of the nine surnamed Guihou canonized by the Yin and Shang Dynasties. His status was almost the same as that of Xibohou and Ehou, but with the Shang Dynasty, With the decline of the dynasty, their status inevitably declined, and most of them were even hunted down by King Zhou of Shang Dynasty and fled to the northwest."
"When the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the Nine Lords sent troops to help the Zhou people fight against the Shang Dynasty. Later, the Nine Lords were given different surnames to establish the Fang Kingdom. They intermarried and merged with the local big families in the northwest, and became the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty. , these Hou Bofang kingdoms are countless, probably distributed in Bashu, Shaanxi Province today."
"You want to say which branch he comes from, I really can't tell you. After all, even his ancestors have turned into ashes. It is too difficult to find the source of this branch. However, when I investigated him, I found The surname Guifang was changed back during the Republic of China. Before the Republic of China, the original surname of Guifang's family was Wei. In ancient times, Wei Tonghuai was probably a descendant of a certain Guifang branch in the Jianghan Plain."
