Short video: Shocking the world

【“They said I built a wine pool and a meat forest.”】

【“But the crime the Zhou people wrote against me only said that I drank alcohol.”】

【“Why didn’t they say I built a wine pool?”】

【“Because wine is made from grain, and there was not enough grain at the time, drinking alcohol was a luxury, not to mention building a wine pool. Do you think everyone is a fool?”】

【“I didn’t take over a prosperous era. It was a chaotic nine-generation era. The country was torn apart, the ministers were alienated, the princes were unwilling to pay tribute, and the tribes outside the Central Plains were eyeing it covetously.”】

【“So I have been reforming, consolidating the stability of the border, and expanding the territory.”】

【“But years of war and the loss of national strength made the Zhou people exploit ”]

【“This is their third time to start a rebellion, and they finally succeeded.”]

“King Zhou is the most slandered among all the emperors, right?!”

“Things that he didn’t do are being pushed onto him.”

“From the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, and then to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Emperor Xin was the most capable of the last emperors.”

“Yes, the last emperors of other dynasties were either puppets or incompetent. Yang Guang, who caused a good dynasty to perish in the second generation, was a special case, and none of them could compare to Emperor Xin.”

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[Emperor Xin was not called by the merchants. The merchants called him Yin Shou. He was called Emperor Xin only after he died. But when he died, the Shang Dynasty was gone, so how could there be any merchants? They were all Zhou people.]

[They were all misled by the Investiture of the Gods.]

Author of the Investiture of the Gods: You can’t blame me. I also borrowed from history books.

[Not only the Investiture of the Gods, but historians in all dynasties have been accusing Emperor Xin of crimes. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang's New Preface recorded that Lutai was three miles long and a thousand feet high, which means that it was a pavilion 1,500 meters long and more than 200 meters high. Although the height is not as exaggerated as the 1,600 meters mentioned in the Jin Dynasty, it is wide. ]

"If future generations don't tell us, we won't think about it carefully. Such a tall and large pavilion, let alone the Shang Dynasty, we can't build it now. This historical material is wilder than unofficial history, and it's fake at first glance."

"Why didn't I see it before?"

[At that time, meat would go bad in two days, and wine would become sour within seven days. ]

[As a king, eating meat and drinking wine is also a sin? ]

[If you want to accuse someone of a crime, you can always find a pretext. ]

[Look at the last person in the Western Zhou Dynasty, what he did was also outrageous. ]

"Who was the last emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty?"

"It was King You of Zhou."

"King You of Zhou and Bao Si, the one who played tricks on the princes by lighting beacons?"

"Is it true that they played tricks on the princes by lighting beacons? Isn't that also a smear?"

"Then you have to ask future generations, they can legally rob tombs... No, it should be called archaeology, they may know the answer."

[Emperor Xin was born at the wrong time, if he had been two or three generations earlier, the Shang Dynasty would not have reached the point where it could not be saved. ]

[It is impossible, Emperor Xin also has shortcomings. ]

[No one is perfect, he worked hard to govern, but unfortunately the Shang Dynasty was already riddled with holes, and patching it up still failed to stop it. ]

[Yes, Emperor Xin was also very powerful, patching it up for so long. ]

[Emperor Xin's reform against human sacrifice touched the cake of Xibo Hou Jichang. ]

"In fact, Emperor Xin not only touched Ji Chang's cake, but also touched the cake of all the noble slave owners."

"The most amazing thing about Emperor Xin is that he did not use living people to sacrifice to the gods, but he still sacrificed to his ancestors, but he did not use slaves, but nobles."

[The period of Emperor Xin was actually the time when the Shang Dynasty was the strongest, but at that time Emperor Xin sent all his troops to the border, and Chaoge was empty and stolen. ]

[Why is it not written like this in junior high school history books? ]

[Because history books are written by the victors. The real history books are buried underground, in oracle bones. ]

[It is said that King Zhou of Shang, Emperor Xin, was extremely licentious, so what about Ji Chang? According to historical records, Emperor Xin Wu Geng had only three sons, including Yin Jiao and Yin Hong in myths and legends. Ji Chang had 19 sons in official history, and hundreds of sons in myths and legends. ]

"Many sons mean many women. I never thought that King Zhou only had one son!"

"The more I see, the more I feel that King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, is hypocritical."

[The only thing Daji could do in that year was probably to eat a full meal for a year. ]

[Are men and women equal in the Shang Dynasty? ]

[There were many female tribal leaders at that time. ]

[Don't you know Fu Hao? The female war god of the Shang Dynasty, or the queen, personally led the army to fight. ]

[In the later feudal dynasties, it is true that the Shang Dynasty had the highest status for women, but the reason was not gender equality. The Shang Dynasty was transformed from a matriarchal society, and the system at that time was imperfect, so women had a high status. ]

"When women are in charge, the house will fall down."

"You can't say that. You are not an emperor. There is nothing at home. What's wrong with women being in charge?"

"If you are an emperor, you have to be careful., if they met women like Wu Zetian and Cixi, the country would change hands and the country would be ruined. ”

[Bullying Emperor Xin because he was old. If he was still young, who would dare to fight?]

“The rest may be fabricated. In terms of military strength, Emperor Xin was really powerful.”

“Historical records say that Emperor Xin could pull nine oxen backwards, fight tigers and other wild beasts with his bare hands, and fight as fiercely as Xiang Yu.”

“The history of the Shang Dynasty is too long, and the historians of the later dynasties kept smearing Emperor Xin. The official history, unofficial history, myths and legends are all mixed together. Some things are difficult to verify and must be exaggerated. ”

[Qin Shi Huang: We are in the same boat, but at least you are better than me. You have Daji to share the firepower with you. I am the only one who is scolded. I did not kill the meritorious officials, nor did I massacre the nobles, but I was scolded as a tyrant for two thousand years.]

The descendants of the six kingdoms: Ying Zheng is a tyrant. No matter who comes, we will not change our words.

[The two are in different situations.]

[The great leader has evaluated many ancient emperors, including Emperor Xin and Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng. He said this: In fact, King Zhou is a very capable person, both civil and military.]

[When King Zhou fought against the Dongyi in Xuzhou, although he won the battle, he suffered too much loss and too many captives to digest. King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the opportunity and a large number of captives defected, so the Shang Dynasty was destroyed. King Zhou was in history He was meritorious. He managed the southeast and consolidated the unity of Dongyi and the Central Plains. But King Wu of Zhou spoke very badly of King Zhou. ]

King Wu of Zhou: -_-#

[Regarding his evaluation of Qin Shihuang, he said: The one who really did something in history was Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang was much greater than Confucius, but he was scolded for thousands of years. I advise you to stop scolding Qin Shihuang. Confucius represented the slave-owning aristocracy and could only talk nonsense. ]

Seeing this comment, Ying Zheng's emotions changed from surprise, astonishment to touching.

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that in the era of resisting feudal dynasties, anti-imperialism and anti-feudal people in the future, that person actually evaluated him like this!

People in the martial arts plane, officials in the court and scholars in the folk, those supporters of Confucius, all looked unhappy.