Chapter: 46

"Because you cut off the head of the enemy envoy or captive general to sacrifice to heaven, you can send troops to fight!"

"..."

Jiang Xinghuo was silenced by such a straightforward but reasonable answer before speaking.

"What you said makes sense, but it doesn't mean that at all. It's just an appearance."

Jiang Xinghuo closed the folding fan and explained earnestly: "The essence is that the army and wizards, these two classes formed by the professional division of labor, are the ruling class necessary for the formation of a dynasty. One rules the body and the other rules the soul. That’s all. The nobles are actually not necessary, the army and wizards can also assume the ruling function, forming a military state or a religious state.”

Outside the wall, the rosary beads spinning in Dao Yan's hands stopped.

"The important affairs of the country are between the priests and the soldiers... Is that what it means?"

Dao Yan muttered to himself: "It's interesting, this Jiang Xinghuo has such a novel angle of interpretation, but it also directly points to the essence of the problem."

Seeing Dao Yan's reaction, Zhu Di chuckled lightly, feeling a little inexplicably superior.

Surprised by this?

What Zhu Di can be sure of is that according to what he knows about Jiang Xinghuo's habits, a greater shock must be yet to come.

Zhu Di is very much looking forward to what Dao Yan, who has always been proud of his resourcefulness, will be shocked today.

"And the essence of the dynasty comes from these eight characters and its various morphological changes with the development of productive forces."

"First, we're going to talk about the early form of the dynasty—the slavery dynasty."

"You should know that the first dynasties were the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. So what is the first impression of these two dynasties in your mind? When you think of them, what do you blurt out?"

In Zhu Gaoxu's cognition, Xia Jie and Shang Zhou were very cruel. Xia Jie released wild beasts to hunt and kill people for fun, and Shang Zhou invented the punishment of cannon fire.

So without even thinking about it, he directly threw out all his cognition.

"Xia Jie and Shang Zhou, the ancient tyrants."

"You answered very well."

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo didn't continue to ask, Zhu Gaoxu secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and if he continued to ask, he would know nothing.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how many generations the two dynasties had passed on, where the capital was, and what history they had.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't ask these, but asked a question that sounded strange.

"Then why are they so cruel?"

Zhu Gaoxu replied without thinking: "I think they are cruel people by nature, and there is no reason why they are cruel."

"No."

Jiang Xinghuo shook his folding fan: "If you read the Historical Records carefully, you will find that the cruelty of the Xia and Shang dynasties is not the cruelty of the last king, but the cruelty of all the ruling classes."

"During Emperor Zhongkang's time, Xi and He indulged in prostitution, and the time was chaotic. Beng, the younger brother Jiali was established as Emperor Jia, Emperor Jia was promiscuous, and the Yin declined; Since the time of Zhongding, the disciples who were abolished and replaced, and the disciples may compete to succeed each other, which is more chaotic than the ninth generation, so the princes have no dynasty."

Jiang Xinghuo's memory is excellent, and he can almost blurt out the contents of the lectures he used to prepare when he was a lecturer in the university, and only the words are good.

"How cruel is the Xia Shang Dynasty? It is commonplace to select babies and virgins as 'human sacrifices' for living sacrifices. Not to mention massacring slaves on a large scale, and even taking pleasure in cannibalism, such as Zhou The king made Jichang's son Bo Yikao into meatballs..."

"This top-down brutality is even called a dynasty of terror. The root cause is that they are a slavery dynasty, and they don't treat slaves as human beings at all."