Amid the endless debates among students, the ancient Chinese history of Monday finally ushered in.

The students were very interested in this class because in the last class, Teacher Qi promised them to show them a true King Zhou in this class and tell them the rise and fall of the Shang Dynasty. The students in the Li Academy have always been not good at keeping secrets, so in this class, the classroom was almost full of people, and many students from other colleges came.

The young Teacher Qi was not dissatisfied with this situation at all. Instead, she welcomed these students to listen to the class.

Chen Ai has already made sufficient preparations. During these days, due to the dispute in the dormitory, Chen Ai has also collected a lot of information and documents in the library and even various academic websites. Teacher Qi quickly started this course. She first talked about the progress of the Shang Dynasty in all aspects, and the Shang Dynasty made great progress in science and technology, handicrafts, commerce, etc.

As a very primitive slave country, the Shang Dynasty suffered the same internal problems as the Xia Dynasty in its early days, and there were also contradictions within the nobles. However, after Taijia, the rule of the Shang Dynasty was relatively stable, which was different from the Xia Dynasty. Obviously, the tradition of Chinese people learning from their mistakes and wisdom existed at that time.

Perhaps because the turmoil in the early Xia Dynasty left valuable experience for later generations, the Shang Dynasty was much more stable than the Xia Dynasty, and the state machine was obviously strengthened. The Shang Dynasty occupied a crushing force and refused to easily decentralize power, which shocked the external princes.

Teacher Qi talked about a few interesting stories about the Shang Dynasty. At the beginning, because a large number of pottery, jade, vehicles and other objects suddenly appeared during the Shang Dynasty. Compared with the Xia Dynasty, there was a lack of a slow forming process, so many historians believed that the Shang Dynasty was an alien regime... It was only because of the progress of archaeology that they finally found related cultural relics that were unearthed earlier than Shang, and such views began to decrease.

However, it has not completely disappeared, and it will probably take until more archaeological achievements to come to a conclusion.

"Unlike Xia, Shang can find documents... pottery, jade, bronze, oracle bone inscriptions, etc. These are all written by the Shang Dynasty. The oracle bone inscriptions of the late Shang Dynasty are currently the richest. There are more than 100,000 oracle bones with words unearthed in Yin Ruins... There are currently more than 100,000 words that can be interpreted..."

Teacher Qi smiled and said, "Our dean has followed many scholars to specifically interpret oracle bone script... The dean said this is a very mature text."

"This is also the proof of the earliest human civilization we have discovered as the third place after Sumer and Egypt..."

After talking about the development of the Shang Dynasty in various fields, in the second small class, the teacher finally began to talk about the demise of the Shang Dynasty.

"I said in the last class that I would like to take you to discuss the reasons for the demise of the Shang Dynasty and to discuss the king of King Zhou. There are so many classmates here today. It seems that everyone is also very interested in the end of the Shang Dynasty..." Teacher Qi said, then said with a stern face and seriously: "When talking about the demise of the Shang Dynasty, I will tell you some more cruel facts..."

She suddenly looked at Chen Ai and said, "Chen Ai, this time, don't use the method the teacher taught you before..."

Chen Ai was stunned and nodded immediately.

Teacher Qi then said: "The demise of the Shang Dynasty was inevitable... because the Shang Dynasty was based on slavery. The society of the Shang Dynasty was composed of nobles, civilians and slaves... First of all, we should say that the aristocratic class, and the aristocratic class of Shang were composed of Shang kings, ministers, sons, marquises, witches and historians."

"These nobles were called people... The people at that time were different from the people now, and only these nobles were the people..."

"The aristocratic class of the Shang Dynasty was an exploiting class who was separated from production, lived a luxurious life and enjoyed many privileges!"

"Then, there are civilian classes, which belong to the self-supporting working class, with personal freedom, cruel exploitation by the slave owner class, and are obliged to bear military service and corvee service."

"In the end, it's the slave class... The slaves in the Shang Dynasty were very pitiful. They were used as slaves for generations and had to bow to the slave owners and be regarded as cows and horses. The slave class killed them at will... They even had to wear torture instruments, and the three slave pottery figurines unearthed in Yin Ruins all wore torture instruments."

"The next, it is also the cruelest... The Shang Dynasty had very serious human sacrifices and human sacrifices... This is much more serious than the Xia Dynasty... First of all, we must understand that human sacrifices and human sacrifices are different. Human sacrifices refer to burying the dead for burial. Usually, people are chosen to choose the people closest to the deceased, such as his wife, his guards, and slaves... These people were buried with burial in order to continue serving him after the master died."

"In the tombs of the nobles of the Shang Dynasty, there were basically people who died, one or two less, and hundreds more..."

"What is even more cruel is human sacrifice. Human sacrifice is different from human sacrifice... The nobles of the Shang Dynasty attached great importance to sacrifices. When they sacrificed natural gods and ancestor gods, they all had to kill people as sacrifices when building... The merchants called these human sacrifices... From the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions, the number of human sacrifices used by the Shang king after Wu Ding was more than 13,000..."

"In 1976, a sacrificial ground was found on the east side of the tomb of the King Yin in the north of Wuguan Village, Anyang... 1,178 corpses were found... The men's heads were cut off, and women and children were not beheaded, but were buried alive... The youngest child found was only six years old, and his breast teeth were not shed. After the women and children were tied up, they were buried alive..."

"As for the purpose of burying alive, it was because the Shang king built a palace... The Shang king needed to use these people to sacrifice and preserve his luxurious palace..."

"There are many people on the Internet who praise Shang Dynasty and scold the Zhou Dynasty... and have the face to say that the king of Shang Dynasty is the human king? The human king who can kill a six-year-old child should be destroyed in order to build a palace."

"The Zhou Dynasty also had a system of human sacrifice, which is what we call the system of burying the dead for the dead. However, in the middle and late periods of the Zhou Dynasty, the system of human sacrifice was greatly attacked and disappeared... As for human sacrifice, livestock were used for sacrifices during the Zhou Dynasty, and the construction of palaces was no longer used for sacrifices... Only when wars were fought, prisoners of war would be used for sacrifices."

"Although it is also inhumane, it has made great progress compared to the Shang Dynasty."

"So, it is reported online that King Zhou was overthrown by the nobles to abolish the sacrifices of living people. You must know... After King Zhou ascended the throne, he expanded the Yindu and repaired the palace and the palace. Every time he built the land, he was bloody massacre again and again, cutting off the heads of the male servants and burying women, girls and children alive... This is not like opposing sacrifices of living people..."

"The History of the Shang Dynasty, a collection of 13 experts in the history of the Shang Dynasty, talked about the reasons for the demise of the Shang Dynasty. The main reason for the demise of the Shang Dynasty was the oppression of the civilian class and the slave class, as well as the chaos within the ruling class... and the main fuse was the brutal rule of King Zhou of Shang!"

"These experts believe that many of King Zhou of Shang's crimes are exaggerated... But even if there are exaggerations, this king is an absolute tyrant... He cruelly oppressed the civilian class and the slave class, forced them to build palaces for themselves, and killed them as sacrifices."

"The exploitation of them has been continuously strengthened, accumulating a large amount of wealth and living a luxurious life, which has aroused the resistance of the general public."

"At the same time, he abused torture and wanted to massacre, which aroused conflicts within the ruling class... In the end, the Shang Dynasty perished."

"Many scholars such as Gu Jiegang, Fu Lecheng, Guo Moruo once believed that King Zhou's crimes were added to later generations, which was exaggerated... Of course, after the demise of Shang, every generation was adding crimes to King Zhou. This is correct, but even if he put aside the additions of later generations, he was still a great tyrant standing opposite to the people."

"Besides, most of the arguments of these scholars are based on fake books. After many fake books show their prototypes, many arguments have no basis, especially the things that later generations often talk about referring to civilians and opposing human sacrifices... These are all evidences obtained in fake books, so how can they gain a foothold?"

"Let's talk about the Shang Dynasty, after arousing many contradictions, King Zhou decided to launch a war in order to divert the contradictions. However, when all kinds of contradictions reached extreme sharpness, nothing King Zhou did was futile... The Shang Dynasty was destroyed like this."
Chapter completed!