The Mingyu of Prehistoric Times

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Chapter 373 Grand Master Wen Zhong

Kong Xuan only stayed in Yujing Mountain for more than ten days. After explaining to the Qing Taoists that the mountain gate would be closed and no outsiders were seen during the Great Tribulation, he left Yujing Mountain. Originally, he wanted to visit Kunwu and other three junior brothers, but he didn't expect that when he came to Yujing Mountain, he got Shang Yang's jade talisman, saying that the Changyang Mountain Cave was closed and would only be opened after the catastrophe. Kong Xuan then It's not good to bother me anymore.

After leaving Yujing Mountain, Kong Xuan drove straight into the clouds to Dongsheng Shenzhou. Among the four major continents in the world, the Dongsheng Shenzhou is called the Human Realm by the monks. There are not many human inhabitants in the remaining three major continents. Most of them are occupied by major monks who have established sects and call them the Earthly Immortal Realm. These four continents are separated by a vast sea, which is difficult for ordinary people to cross. Since a Jiuding warrior wants to cross the sea to go to other continents, he will have a narrow escape, which is even more difficult. Therefore, the human race does not know that there are other continents besides Dongsheng Divine Continent. It is only assumed that all monks live in the famous mountains and rivers of Dongsheng Shenzhou, which is also the reason why many seekers of immortality have difficulty in finding truly enlightened monks.

Although Kong Xuan was determined to participate in the great catastrophe, he wanted to hone his Taoist heart, and wanted to go further in his Taoism, in order to kill a corpse and achieve transcendence. Not only Kong Xuan had this intention, Yun Zhongzi also wanted to take this opportunity to kill the corpse of thoughts.

Under Mingyu's sect, they are the only three brothers who are expected to reach the realm of corpse killing in the near future. These three people have made great progress since they started practicing with Mingyu. Unfortunately, due to Mingyu's love and care, they did not suffer any major disasters. Without the training of tribulations, the path will not be perfect. It has been many years since the Lich War, and the three of them have already reached the peak of enlightenment. They have not made any progress in their Taoism for so many years. Although there are many dangers this time, it is also their opportunity. It was precisely for this reason that Mingyu allowed them to join the world and participate in the great catastrophe.

As soon as Kong Xuan entered Dongsheng Shenzhou, he felt that the fate of the world was declining and was no longer the same as it was hundreds of years ago, and he couldn't help but be shocked. Find a mountain with spiritual veins and live there first, observing the world and practicing at the same time. With the arrival of this human catastrophe, the fortunes of the human race have declined, and as the saying goes, "After a great decline, there must be a great rise," Kong Xuan understands that the human race has finally accumulated a lot, and once this human catastrophe is over, not even the magical powers of saints can stop it. The era of great prosperity.

At this time, Kong Xuan lived near the human race. In his spare time, he went into the secular world and became a doctor, treating the mountain people's injuries and illnesses. Over the past ten years, his reputation gradually spread. People hundreds of miles away know that there is a Taoist priest living in the mountain. He is quite spiritual and kind-hearted. He often treats people's illnesses and charges little money for treatment. Many families in need don't ask for their medical fees to treat their illnesses. Instead, they use a lot of medicinal herbs themselves.

Not to mention that Kong Xuan was observing the world in the human world and preparing to get involved in the catastrophe.

The Shang Dynasty was established when Chengtang destroyed Xia, with Yi Yin as prime minister and the capital at Xishao. Later Pan Geng moved the capital to Yin, so it was also called Yin Shang. Legend has it that the Shang royal family is the descendant of Zhi, the son of Emperor Ku, the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor. He was granted the title of Marquis of Shang by Shun because of his contribution to helping Yu control floods.

Chengtang had great ambitions. After destroying the Xia Dynasty, he conquered the south and the north, moved the residents on both sides of the Yellow River to build cities eastward, and married the ancestors along the East China Sea. Decades later, the humans who moved eastward merged with these ancestors and were called It is called Dongyi. Then Dong Bohou suppressed it, doubling the territory of the Shang Dynasty.

Seeing that the east was their home, the Shang royal family grew stronger. In order to avoid being too powerful and being looked down upon by future generations, the Shang royal family moved the residents of the east to the south and made Nanhou control them. Cheng Tang settled the world and cultivated the people's livelihood. Within a few decades of the Yin capital, the population increased greatly and the fields gradually decreased. The royal family heard that Xi Bohou was virtuous and moved the people to the west.

These three large-scale relocations of residents lasted for more than 80 years, involving nearly 10 million people. Therefore it is called Xian Shang.

After the rise of Shang Tang, he took Xia as a warning and paid great attention to gaining the support and support of the people. For his benevolent government and tolerant to the people, all the sages called Shang "Tang governed the people with benevolence and eliminated evil". It is said that the Shang Tang Dynasty envoys "worked hard and slept nightly to achieve their duties. They paid light taxes and paid little taxes to pacify the people. They gave charity to revive the poor. They hanged people and asked about their illnesses to support orphans and widows. The people were attached to them, and the decrees were popular. ".

Chengtang's diligent administration, careful consideration of people's sentiments and other measures played a very significant role in winning over people's hearts, consolidating his rule, and accumulating the power to extinguish Xia. His behavior not only won the support of his own people, but also made the Xia people and other Fang people yearn for him. Therefore, there was a so-called situation where "Tang cultivated virtue and all princes returned to business". The people who died after the Shang Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty, so that after the destruction of the Xia Dynasty, the world was quickly cultivated, and it only took 20 or 30 years to reach the peak period of the Xia Dynasty.

During the early Shang Dynasty, Shang's agriculture, animal husbandry, and breeding industries developed rapidly, especially the handicraft industry. The smelting and manufacturing of bronzes were quite mature, and various commonly used utensils, ritual vessels, and wine vessels were very exquisite. The famous Simuwu square tripod weighing one thousand kilograms is an outstanding representative among them. This kind of thousand-jin tripod is also called the national tripod, which is specially used for sacrificial rituals. This tripod is also used as the standard for the rank of warriors in the country. Those who can lift a thousand-jin tripod are called first-class warriors.

After the death of Shang Tang, his son Taiding died early, and Taiding's younger brother Waibing succeeded to the throne. After Waibing died, his brother Zhongren succeeded to the throne. After Zhongren died, Taiding's son Taijia succeeded to the throne. Taijia was the Shang Dynasty. Tang's eldest grandson.

Legend has it that Emperor Taijia, who had been in power for three years, was unclear about his politics, sexually violent, did not follow the laws of Tang Dynasty, and had bad moral conduct, so Yi Yin banished him to Tong Palace. Taijia lived in Tonggong for three years and repented and blamed himself. When Yi Yin saw this, he welcomed him back to Taijia and gave him the government. From then on, Taijia practiced virtue and obeyed the law, the princes surrendered, and the people's lives became more peaceful. After Taijia, the Shang Dynasty was also called the former Shang.

After the rule of the former Shang Dynasty, the sphere of influence of the Shang Dynasty also greatly exceeded that of the Xia Dynasty. Because the territory exceeded the Xia Dynasty by dozens of times, for the convenience of governance, the Shang royal family issued a decree that all people in the world could learn literature. In order to enlighten the people's wisdom and recruit talents, the Shang royal family ordered countless talented people to rewrite the characters and change them to those used by the previous dynasty. of runes, oracle bone inscriptions were invented, but within twenty years, writing became widely used and replaced runes.

At this time, since the Yellow Emperor unified the human race and Cangguo created characters, writing has gone through countless developments, and the human race has long lost the divine seal script. By the Xia Dynasty, runes had been developed and writing was inconvenient. The Shang Dynasty repaired them again and replaced them with oracle bone inscriptions.

Wu Ding was the son of Pan Geng's younger brother Xiao Yi, that is, Pan Geng's nephew. When he was young, Xiao Yi let him live among the people for a period of time, and he was well aware of the hardships of people's lives. After he came to the throne, he worked conscientiously, did not dare to waste time, worked hard to govern, and was determined to revitalize the great cause. He went out on four expeditions to conquer the Guifang, Tufang, Qiang, Renfang, Hufang and other kingdoms. The scale of the war was not small, and tens of thousands of troops were often used, all composed of warriors. The largest one sent out troops was 203,000 people.

During these campaigns, the Shang king conquered many small countries, expanded his territory, and captured a large number of prisoners. The cultural etiquette of the Wuding period was quite rich, and palaces, tombs, and workshops began to appear. The bronze industry, which represented the development level of human society at that time, has made breakthrough progress, such as the emergence of ternary alloys of copper, lead, and tin; split casting technology has been widely used; the number of bronzes produced has increased greatly, and the Simuwu Dafang Ding has appeared , Oupang Yi, Sanlian and other important weapons. This also led to a great improvement in military equipment. Elite soldiers abandoned animal armor and wore armor made of light copper, which greatly increased the Shang Dynasty's combat power. Every time they used external troops, they were victorious.

The achievements made in the bronze industry during the reign of Wu Ding represented that the Shang Dynasty truly entered a period of prosperity. In addition, considerable achievements have been made in textiles, medicine, astronomy, etc. The prosperous situation created by Wu Ding laid a good foundation for the development of social production in the late Shang Dynasty and even the subsequent prosperity of the human race.

The period before Wu Ding and after Taijia is called the Pre-Shang Dynasty, which represents the heyday of the Shang Dynasty. After Wu Ding's death, the peaceful and prosperous era he created did not last long.

In the kings after Zu Geng and Zu Jia, especially in the period of Emperor Yi and Emperor Xin, the royal family was fond of luxury, leisure and hard work, which made domestic conflicts very acute. The princes in the southeast were dissatisfied with the royal family's virtues and all rebelled.

When Emperor Yi died and Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne, the world was no longer peaceful. Faced with this situation, Emperor Xin sent his subordinates to conquer the Lai Yi eastward and attacked Jiu Miao in the south himself, which truly extended Shang's power to the East China Sea and the Yangtze River Basin for the first time. However, his successive campaigns greatly consumed the national power. This further intensified domestic conflicts and left the country empty of military strength, greatly reducing its control over the world and causing internal troubles.

Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne very early and became the king at a young age. He was very happy with his achievements and often used troops. Fortunately, there are many talented and virtuous people in the court to assist them, and there are also many great sages to suppress the government. Although the princes had two minds, they did not dare to resist the royal family, so the internal troubles in the Shang Dynasty did not break out.

From the establishment of the Tang Dynasty to the reign of Emperor Xin, the Shang Dynasty experienced three phases, the early and late periods, and lasted for six hundred years. At this time, the country's dynasty was in decline and its strength was almost exhausted. Due to the approaching catastrophe of the human race, the battle to confer gods will begin, and gods from all walks of life will enter the world and join the tents of various princes. Due to the luck of the Shang Dynasty, Jie Jiao had many of his disciples who entered the dynasty and became officials and generals. Among them, the most distinguished one was Wen Zhong, his disciple of the third generation.

Wen Zhong was a minister of Emperor Yi Tuogu, the father of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty. Emperor Yi died after reigning for thirty years. Tuogu and Taishi Wen Zhong followed him and established King Shou as the emperor, named Emperor Xin, and Du Chaoge. Emperor Xin regarded him as his grand master and showed great respect to him. Wen Zhongfu, the monarchs of the two dynasties, worked hard, conquered the east and west, controlled the country and stabilized the Shang Dynasty. He was an upright man, very prestigious, and loyal to the Shang Dynasty. He had the golden whip given by the previous king to beat the king unconscious. King Zhou also respected the traitorous ministers. The "Wen" in the proverb "Wen is enough to stabilize a country, and force is enough to rule a country" refers to Wen Zhong.

Wen Zhong once entered a famous mountain and realized the path of cultivation. Although he heard about the fruit of the Chaoyuan Dynasty, he did not realize the truth of Oneness. As luck would have it, he was chaste but noble. After the Battle of the Conferring Gods, he became the Universal Thunder God of the Nine Heavens and led the twenty-four righteous gods of the Thunder Department. Good and evil are caused by misfortunes and blessings.

Wen Zhong is a disciple of Jin Ling Sheng Shen under Jie Jiao. He has no chance of being a heavenly immortal due to the worldly condition. He is a first-class earthly immortal. He is proficient in the transformation of metal, wood, water, fire and earth. He has a black unicorn that can travel thousands of miles in a blink of an eye. He holds a male and female whip. He has three eyes at the head and the middle eye. Possessing supernatural powers, he can emit several inches of white light and can distinguish between evil and loyalty, and the right and wrong of people's hearts.