The Collection of The End

——Feng Shen——

Looking south to Buzhou, Shang State.

The Shang Kingdom had a radius of seventy miles, and there was only one city called "Shangqiu". Shangqiu also had a radius of seventy miles, so the capital of the country was the territory, and the city wall was the border.

It was not that the Shang State was "unwilling" to expand, but it was actually "unnecessary" and "unable" to expand.

Within the city walls of Shangqiu, there are various trading houses, warehouses, escort agencies, horse and carriage shops, inns, markets and workshops, as well as other industries that are beneficial to "commerce".

Outside the city wall, there are solid roads radiating away in all directions. The road surface is composed of gravel and stone slabs, or at least it is a compacted dirt road. Flag-waving motorcades, pedestrians, cattle, horses and livestock are constantly coming and going, and even more inside the city wall. There was a roar of people.

And where these roads gradually became sparse and the terrain began to undulate, Zhao Gongming was standing on the top of a short mountain with the Golden Lady, one behind the other.

The Holy Mother of Golden Light touched her lips with her hand and watched a "long dragon" consisting of dozens of carriages drive out of the city. Then she smiled and said: "Tsk, tsk, if I were King Xia, after seeing this scene, I would also We will severely raise taxes on them.”

"Oh?" Zhao Gongming turned back and looked at her: "So you also think that Shang Guo will definitely suffer this humiliating loss?"

"What else?" Our Lady of Golden Light raised her hand and swept towards the huge city: "If you want to overthrow a dynasty, you must either develop your power widely and reach a level close to that of the other party in terms of territory and population. The same conditions, and then engage in a head-on confrontation, or gather a few warriors with superior strength to show that even if Shangqiu is occupied, they are strong enough to overturn Zhenxi, so that they have to compromise, but now Shangqiu Although the country is [called] a country, it has nothing but money. Even though it is very prosperous now, once the Xia [King] army comes to the city, these people will probably escape completely."

"Oh?" Zhao Gongming felt as if he was hallucinating, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't, so he put it behind him and asked instead: "So, you have rich experience in 'overthrowing the dynasty'? "

"Hey... no, this is just a theoretical analysis." Our Lady of Golden Light was in a daze, and she didn't seem to understand how she could analyze such a long list.

"Oh, the theory is very good." Zhao Gongming stopped asking and glanced at the "line" connecting her to himself.

Obviously, this sister has overthrown, or tried to overthrow, at least two dynasties in the previous "world", and she is very skilled in it. The Master of Tongtian Sect does not accept her into the inner sect, but throws her into the outer sect like himself. It must be the same. Because I saw something. Of course, the apparent reason of "better assisting the Shang Kingdom" is absolutely correct.

Previously, Taiyi, the Eastern Emperor, worshiped the Chan Cult and was named "Taiyi Zhenren". At about the same time, Emperor Kong Jia of the Xia Dynasty announced that he would no longer worship Nuwa and Fuxi, but instead "obey the Emperor of Heaven".

Although this behavior... is obviously ungrateful, it is difficult to find fault with it, because many demons and ghosts that can easily kill a large number of humans have already been in Nanzhan Department under the intervention of Nuwa and other "sisters" who like to save mortal lives. The continent was almost extinct, so throughout the duration of the Xia Dynasty, most of the threats to human life and property came from fellow tribesmen.

Just like during the Lich War, Nuwa was completely unable to interfere in the fight between her creations. In the end, she could only deal with it according to the method of her other incarnation "Houtu Empress", that is, to judge the crime after death. In this case, the human race will It is not surprising that Nuwa's faith gradually disappeared.

On the side of the Emperor of Heaven, it is completely different. As "witches", the immortal officials of the Heavenly Court are originally "human beings". For similar things, they can make judgments as soon as they see them, so their interference in the human world is very clean and neat: the murderer dies. , injury and theft are not guilty.

——It is the job of the King of Hell to judge whether you are guilty or not. We are only responsible for sending you to see the King of Hell.

Although the number of immortal officials is limited and they are very busy, they cannot really interfere in every incident when they are being ordered around by Wu Yunxian.

But he is still widely admired by ordinary people, and he often shouts "God has eyes" when encountering problems.

But "God" seems to really have "eyes", and was fooled by Nuwa... This is very embarrassing.

In the end, as the two sides went back and forth, the incident of "Lingzhu falling into the sea" completely detonated this hidden danger. Although everyone present knew that Nuwa was busy returning to heaven to deal with matters related to the Lingzhu. After all, "an innate creature acquires spiritual intelligence. The priority of "may even become a saint in the future" is naturally very high, but for the residents of the human world, they only saw that "Nuwa did not take action when they encountered a tsunami that was not internal strife, but instead the immortal officials from heaven provided assistance in many ways." ".

At that time, Kong Jia happened to be planning to attack the rebellious tribe "Jiu Wan", so he took the opportunity to announce that he would no longer worship Nuwa and instead obey the Emperor of Heaven. This attracted many tribes "Wei", "Gu" and "Kunwu" who had a good impression of Heaven. Waiting, the unlucky Jiuwan tribe was outnumbered and was directly destroyed.

By this time, King Sigui of Xia had almost no temples or ancestral halls for Nuwa in Zhenwu and the surrounding countries. However, Chan taught that "all things are divided into three, six or nine grades", "each grade should have its own treatment", and "royal power". Sayings such as "God's teaching" have been widely circulated.

However, because of these concepts of distinguishing superiority and inferiority, Yuanshi Tianzun refused to accept disciples and preach in the human world. He only used the Emperor of Heaven and the Xia Dynasty who were respectful to the Emperor to spread the teachings of the religion. As a result, this rather stylish behavior made people More and more people in the human race accept the teachings of Chanjiao.

During this period, the two Western leaders who "almost became saints" often came to Nanzhan Buzhou to preach. After all, in explaining the teachings of "three, six or nine grades", the lowest ones, such as slaves, , it is completely impossible to get ahead, so the Western teaching of "cultivating the afterlife" has a huge market among these human races.

After all, a long time ago, the human race was reincarnated with memories. Although it was banned at this time, the legends and stories and the occasional fish that slipped through the net in the six reincarnations have allowed Western religion to spread to a small extent.

As for Taishang Laojun's "inaction" and Jiejiao's "interception of a glimmer of life" and other concepts... because the human race can't understand the mystery, there is almost no audience:

"Doing nothing? Doesn't that mean you will starve to death?"

"Intercepting life? Are you talking about stealing? Your legs will be broken by the immortal official!"

……That's it.

In this case, the Master of Tongtian Sect sent himself, the "God of Wealth", and two other outer disciples to help "Yi Yin" and "Mei Xi" return to the Shang Kingdom. Could it be that this small country with nothing but money could Can't you compete with such a big force?