The second crime Ji Fa accused Di Xin of was not practicing sacrifices, not respecting ancestors, and not fearing gods.

In ancient times of ignorance, China had both god worship and ancestor worship.

The people of the Shang Dynasty would sacrifice the prisoners captured in wars to their ancestors and gods on a very large scale, even killing thousands of people at a time.

By the time of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, similar activities became fewer and fewer and their scale became smaller and smaller.

At that time, people believed in destiny, which came from ancestors and gods.

Only by giving enough sacrifices to the gods and ancestors can they protect the people of the dynasty.

Emperor Xin did not worship the gods properly, which angered the theocratic nobles headed by Dong Bohou and Queen Jiang.

The Zhou people took this name in order to encourage merchants and Zhou troops to fight against King Zhou.

Why doesn't Di Xin like sacrifices?

Because of large-scale sacrificial activities all year round, a large amount of high-quality labor is wasted.

Emperor Xin wanted to increase the working population and promote social production by reducing sacrificial practices.

His ideas are extremely progressive, but unfortunately they are not recognized.

The third crime is not appointing relatives and employing people improperly.

Appointing relatives is, in other words, called nepotism.

According to normal people's thinking, it is a crime to appoint relatives.

Representatives of the "relatives" that King Di Xin did not appoint include Jizi, Weizi, Bigan and others.

Wei Ziqi was in conflict with Emperor Xin's political views, so he united with the conservative faction to plot to overthrow Emperor Xin's rule, and even sent people to the Zhou Dynasty to recruit troops.

It is a good thing that both sides have different political views.

After all, if a dynasty has a unified voice from top to bottom, then the dynasty is not far from extinction.

However, because of internal conflicts, Wei Ziqi and others collaborated with foreign enemies, which was an unforgivable act of treason.

The talents employed by Emperor Xin were all from the small and medium aristocracy.

The politics of the Shang and Zhou dynasties were aristocratic politics, and the world was truly private property.

There is a big difference between the officialdom and politics of the Shang and Zhou dynasties and that of the Qin and Han dynasties.

In this environment, people from humble backgrounds will inevitably encounter opposition from the aristocratic class.

A person's talent is not necessarily related to his origin.

Di Xin's approach was somewhat meritocratic.

It is said in "The Oath of Shepherd" that Emperor Xin "brought violence to the people and committed treachery to the merchants."

The common people mentioned here are not the common people as we know them now, but the nobility at that time.

In ancient times, common people were a collective term for nobles.

Di Xin's rejection of the decadent aristocratic class brought him huge criticism, causing him to stand on the opposite side of the entire aristocratic class.

Under the historical conditions at that time, Di Xin's actions caused him to lose his power base.

After Emperor Xin was betrayed by his own people and burned himself, not only himself but also the talents he appointed were stigmatized and called "traitors".

After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, on the one hand, the descendants and relatives were enfeoffed, and on the other hand, the Yin and Shang nobles were enfeoffed.

Among them was Wei Ziqi, who was granted the title of Song Dynasty, which further proves that the demise of the Yin and Shang Dynasties was actually the result of the internal cooperation between the Zhou people and the Yin Shang aristocrats.

The fourth crime is admitting and employing criminals and reusing slaves.

The so-called sinners actually refer to exiled slaves.

During the era of slavery, there were a large number of slaves in various countries.

The fate of slaves was very miserable. Not only did they have to do heavy labor, but they also had to be slaughtered and sacrificed like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep.

Therefore, the phenomenon of slave escape is very common.

During the Emperor Xin period, slaves were relatively tolerant.

He wanted to use the policy of preferential treatment of slaves

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·Policy to attract more escaped slaves to the Shang Dynasty.

This increased the working population of the Shang Dynasty and promoted social production.

Emperor Xin's behavior aroused the anger of other vassal states, and as a result, he gradually developed dissatisfaction with the Shang Dynasty.

At the same time, King Wen of Zhou chose to "read in vain".

The Zhou people hunted down the escaped slaves who had fled to the Zhou Kingdom and returned them to other princes, which increased the princes' favor towards the Zhou people.

This is also the reason why when King Wu attacked Zhou, a large number of princes responded.

Incidents such as King Zhou of Shang's wine pond and meat forest, and the punishment of being burned by cannon are even more nonsense.

At the level of the Shang Dynasty at that time, it was simply impossible to do such a luxurious thing.

In the final analysis, it was Di Xin's series of reform measures that offended the interests of the aristocratic group and was opposed.

At that time, the main force of the Shang Dynasty was fighting in all directions, which gave the Zhou Dynasty an opportunity.

The fall of the Shang Dynasty had many similarities with the fall of the Qin Dynasty. It was the absence of the main force that gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Yu Yi couldn't help but sigh when he thought about the downfall of the Shang Dynasty.

Jiang Yuyao said worriedly: "Brother Yu, what's wrong with you? Did you find any clues?"

"Hmm..." Yu Yi nodded, but he did not inform Jiang Yuyao and the other girls of his inference.

Because Tu Shanxue, Tu Shan Meier and others are still there, it is not appropriate to let them know too much news about the earth.

It's not that Yu Yi doesn't trust Tu Shanxue, but that he doesn't want to reveal that he is from the earth just yet.

After Emperor Zisheng finished lamenting the glorious history of the Zhuxia Empire, the sacrificial ceremony continued.

The royal high priest was still reciting incomprehensible rituals.

The sacrificial inscriptions are not meaningless. Under the complex sacrificial inscriptions, the altar shines brighter and brighter.

The ground of Tianji Square also began to glow.

The Confucian Temple and the Martial Arts Temple were activated.

The Confucian Temple is shrouded in colorful light, which is a mysterious cultural atmosphere.

From the lowest white to the highest gold, they have it all.

The lights of various colors are entangled together, just like a rainbow in the sky.

The sound of reading loudly came from the Confucian Temple, as if a master was teaching students how to read and write.

In the martial arts temple, there was the sound of metal fighting and fighting, as if you were in a distant ancient battlefield.

The martial arts temple is surrounded by three auras: martial arts, murderous aura, and death aura.

Martial luck is golden, murderous energy is blood red, and death energy is black.

Three kinds of light, gold, red and black, wrap around the Wu Temple.

Yu Yi could feel the cold murderous aura and the cold death aura from a long distance away, which was very uncomfortable.

Immediately afterwards, the Confucian Temple and the Martial Arts Temple seemed to be pulled by a mysterious force, rising from the ground and floating into the air.

The cultural atmosphere around the Confucian Temple is even more dazzling, wrapping it all in colorful glow.

The same is true for the Wu Temple.

The ancestral temples of the Xia Empire also flew into the sky.

The Ancestral Temple is in the middle, and the Wenwu Temple is on the left and right.

The three temples are pulling each other, and the breath of different colors flows back and forth between the three temples.

Zisheng held up a scroll and read aloud: "The prosperity of the Xia Empire to this day is all dependent on the blessings of the ancestors and the civil and military ministers of the past dynasties."

"Please ask the ancestors Zi Lu, Zi Shou, Zi Xi to appear and protect the Xia Empire."

boom!

The ancestral temples of the Xia Empire emitted bright golden light, accompanied by majestic pressure.

All the forces around Tianji Square couldn't help but change their expressions.

Three golden shadows stand in the sky above the ancestral temple, like gods descending.

They are the three kings of the Shang Dynasty and the Xia Empire, Zilu, Zishou and Zixi.

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Among them, Zi Lu is on the left, Zi Shou is in the middle, and Zi Xi is on the right, which represents the relationship between the past and the future.

Emperor Xin can be in the middle, and it can be seen that in the hearts of the royal families of the Xia Empire, Emperor Xin's status even surpassed that of Shang Tang, the founder of the Shang Dynasty, and Zixi, the founder of the Xia Empire.
To be continued...