In the main hall of Chaoge Palace in Shangdu, there was silence and silence.
The news that Li Kingdom was massacred by Zhou Fang had come.
When Fei Lian rushed to the capital of Li Kingdom, it was already in ruins.
In the looted palace of Li State, Fei Lian found the bodies of dozens of members of the Li State Palace, including the daughter of Emperor Xin who was married to the eldest son of the monarch of Li State.
Di Xin felt like he was cooking in oil at this time, but on the surface he still had to pretend to be calm and composed in front of the ministers.
"Wei Zi is here," Di Xin said, breaking the calm.
Wei Zi, who had been shrinking his head, had no choice but to step out and said, "I'm here."
"Brother Wang, don't you keep saying that Zhou Fang is a loyal vassal state of my Dayi Shang?
You claim to be the king without permission, and you continuously attack and destroy our two major foreign kingdoms.
Your troops reach two hundred miles away from my capital, Wang Ji, and you even kill my own daughter. .
This is what you call loyalty to the country."
Di Xin's tone was calm at first, but he roared out the last few words.
Wei Zi was so frightened that he quickly said: "Your Majesty, please calm down.
Your Majesty, please calm down.
I am short-sighted."
"My decision has been made, and I have decided to prepare to use all the strength of the country to attack Zhou Fang from now on.
Do you have anything else to say?"
"Your Majesty wants to withdraw the Zhengdong Camp's garrison in the east.
If this happens, all the efforts of our great merchant in the past few years will be in vain, and all the previous achievements will be wasted.
Your Majesty must not act on impulse," Fei Zhong quickly advised.
Bigan and Jizi also came forward to second the proposal, and it was rare that they agreed with Fei Zhong in the court.
However, Wei Zi no longer dared to speak at this time.
At this time, a young courtier hurriedly came forward and reported to Emperor Xin: "Your Majesty, urgent military information on the Eastern Expedition front line has been transmitted to the palace."
"Read directly" "Hey, the Huaiyi people are rebelling again and attacking my country with many Dongfangzi surnames."
"Okay" Di Xin interrupted him.
"Can't this great hatred be avenged by one person?"
Di Xin said angrily, knocking on the table in front of the throne.
Another young courtier happily came forward and reported: "Your Majesty, the palace received a report from the southern Weiyi, saying that Xia Nanbo's army captured Zhou Fang's thief chiefs Ji Chang and Boyikao alive, and now they have been handed over to us.
Being escorted to Chaoge."
Di Xing jumped up from the throne, fearing that he heard wrongly, and shouted: "Say it again" "Ji Chang, the Zhou Fang thief chieftain, and his son Boyikao were captured by the Xia Fang army and were taken to Chaoge by our local guardsmen."
Everyone in the hall immediately whispered to each other and sighed.
Bigan and Jizi looked at each other and frowned.
Wei Zi became even more silent at this time.
Ji Chang, who was shackled, knelt down in the hall with a bang and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, I am so ashamed of you.
It is only because I was bewitched by others that I did this unethical act of becoming king."
"Old man, you are not only guilty of claiming to be a king, you are also deceived by others when you attack Chong Tu Li.
You are also deceived by others when you kill my beloved daughter.
Who did you deceive?"
Emperor Xin scolded angrily.
"Your Majesty, I really didn't know that Your Highness the Queen is marrying the Young Master of Li State.
All the old ministers have accepted it."
Ji Chang swept his eyes around Bigan, Jizi and others.
When his eyes swept over Wei At this time, Weizi's heart sank.
"It's because he wanted to be a prince because he was bewitched by this rebellious son, so he encouraged the old minister to become king."
Ji Chang suddenly pointed at Boyikao next to him and said.
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Di Xin was stunned for a moment, then said with a ferocious smile: "Okay, then I will cook your traitor today and give it to you, and you eat it.
I will believe your words."
At this time, Boyikao looked at his father in fear, tears welling up in his eyes.
He only said the word "father" and was choked with tears.
Ji Chang's expression was indifferent, and he didn't even look at Boyikao.
He had nearly a hundred sons, and he didn't care about this one.
He said to Emperor Xin: "Your Majesty, please be kind and cook him into meat soup.
I have no teeth.
I can't do anything except soup."
Swallow."
"Okay.
Come here, pull down the Boyi koala and make it into meat soup for this old man to eat."
Two warriors came up and beat Boyikao down.
Soon, someone brought a basin of meat soup and placed it in front of Lao Jichang.
Lao Jichang picked up the spoon and began to eat it one bite at a time.
As he ate, he said, "You are the traitor who tricked me into betraying your Majesty, which is a great mistake for the ages.
Even if I eat your meat, I won't be able to forgive my hatred."
Here Bigan has already stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Uncle Xi has come to his senses this week.
I think I can avoid his death.
Just imprison him in Youli."
"It's a joke.
How can such a serious crime avoid death?
Can my daughter die in vain?"
Di Xin said with a cold snort.
"Your Majesty, the emperor's words can't be trivial.
Now that Zhou Xibo has cooked food for his mastermind, his majesty should abide by his promise."
Jizi shook his head at this moment.
Di Xin laughed angrily and said to Jizi, "Uncle Wang should tell me what my previous promise is."
Jizi said: "Your Majesty said."
He was speechless and then he remembered that Di Xin only said that if Ji Chang cooked his son, he would only believe what Ji Chang said.
"Isn't it true that some of the ministers blame Yu Yi for disrespecting the ghosts and gods?
They say that Yu Yi is stingy and does not allocate people, livestock and money to witches and herders to sacrifice to ghosts, gods and ancestors.
Tomorrow, all the ministers can go and watch the large-scale sacrificial ceremony."
The ancestral temple sacrificial site of the Yin Shang Dynasty is located beside the royal tomb.
After Di Xin glanced at the ministers present, he asked: "Everyone is here."
"Your Majesty, all the ministers are here," the young courtier reported back.
"Then let's start the sacrifice."
First, the more than 300 Zhou army prisoners of war were escorted up, and their heads were beheaded one by one.
The bodies were pushed into the pit, and the heads were placed in the large copper jar and placed in front of the altar.
In the more than two hundred years since the Yin Shang Dynasty moved to Yin, more than 10,000 human sacrifices and sacrifices were made, and Zhou Fang was once a subordinate state responsible for providing human sacrifices to the Shang Dynasty.
This time is no exception.
Finally, Lao Jichang was brought up.
This time it was not beheading, but a sacrifice.
Several executioners came forward and placed the ashen-faced and stripped old Jichang on the altar.
They used several special knives and axes to cut the old Jichang into two pieces, then pickled him with coarse salt and hung them on the altar.
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Before the altar.
In the main hall of Huayi, Hua Zheng and several Huben generals discussed the matter of conquering the Xie Kingdom in the Nanxiang Basin.
Because the Zhou Dynasty tried to extend its power southward to Jianghan through the Bayong Kingdom, and connected with the Huaiyi Hufang, it formed a strategic encirclement of the Xia Kingdom.
Therefore, Hua was determined to conquer the Nanxiang Plain, that is, the Nanxiang Basin, in order to suppress Circumferential expansion to the southeast.
A palace official came in hurriedly and reported to Hua that an envoy from the Shang Dynasty had arrived and wanted to summon Yu Hua.
When the envoy saw Hua, he quickly explained his purpose of coming, and wanted to spread the "specimens" of Ji Changmao's sacrifice to all the princes in the world.
After saying that, he was about to open the wooden box and take out something half a piece of human hair.
From the half of the head, it was no longer possible to tell that it was Ji Chang.
Hua Qiang resisted vomiting.
After sending the messenger away, Hua thought about the world he came from.
Historical data said that Ji Chang was released by Emperor Xin and died a good death.
However, some people in the field of modern history believe that it was a lie fabricated by the later Zhou Dynasty and Confucian literati in various periods in order to prevent the Venerable from dying unexpectedly.
The plot is not consistent with common sense at all.
Ji Chang was probably captured and killed by Emperor Xin after he proclaimed himself king and conquered Li.
The most important basis is that King Wu expressed his intention to avenge his father's murder in his oath.
"The real era of great conflict is coming," Hua said to himself
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