Chapter 36 6. Stop messing around

It was Zhou who drove Yin Shang off the stage of history. Zhou people have a completely different temperament. As the Confucianists of later generations said, Zhou people were likely to be "gentle and gentle".Confucius said, "Depressed and literary, I follow Zhou."In comparison, in other words, Xia is simple, Shang is dissolute, and Zhou is elegant.After all, Xia's era was primitive, and it couldn't be more gorgeous than it wanted to be.The ideology is even more immature, so they have to resign themselves to fate, and even babble. What about merchants?Are businessmen really slutty?

debauchery.In other words, love toss. Businessmen do like to toss.Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" said that "the Yin people moved repeatedly, the first eight and the last five", that is, they moved eight times before Shang Tang, and moved their capital five times after Shang Tang.Yes, this ethnic group may have originated in the Yishui River Basin in Hebei, and later migrated to the coast of the Bohai Sea and the Shandong Peninsula.When they came to the Central Plains, they had gone through the Long March just like the Yandi Clan back then.It's just that Emperor Yan is Xirong, and they are Dongyi; Emperor Yan's totem is a beast (ox), and their totem is a bird (black bird).But dare to think and do, the same.

This is a nation full of imagination, creativity, exploration spirit, pioneering spirit and even rebellious spirit.They tried almost all possibilities, and ended up making themselves half like "China" and half like "foreign".For example, theocracy, like Egypt; the concept of hierarchy, like India; the formulation of legal codes, like Babylon; the commodity economy, like Phoenicia; slavery, like Rome. The six hundred years of Yin and Shang condensed the ancient history of the world. But what is most "unlike China" is their industrial and commercial urban economy.The craftsmanship of Yin Shang was extremely high, and the handicraft industry was also quite developed.Even the production of lantanas and fences has special craftsmen, which has completely reached the level of specialization.In addition to satisfying the extravagance and lust of Shang kings and nobles, these products were also bought and sold in the market.When business is at its best, temples turn into markets.More commodities were transported to all parts of the world by hordes of business travelers driving ox carts and riding elephants.In ancient times, only Yin and Shang were the only ones with such a grand occasion, so that later generations would call those who ran around doing business "merchants" in a contemptuous tone.

If it weren't for the sudden emergence of the Zhou people, would the Shang Dynasty have developed into the Roman Empire? Hard to tell. The Yellow River has nine bends and eighteen bends, and so do Chinese roads. However, in the eyes of Zhou people, businessmen are "running the red light".The most serious of these are three.The first is "live with wealth analysis", that is, when the parents are alive, they live in separate households, and the property is fixed to the household, and even the wealth is divided to others.Even women have their own independent land and property.The second is "taking industry as family name", that is, whatever industry you are engaged in, you can have your surname. For example, Dow makes pottery, Soxhlet makes ropes, Shishi makes flags, and Fan weaves fences.The third is "taking the country as the surname".When the feudal princes were entrusted to a certain country, their surnames were certain, and the king of Shang didn't care whether they were his own family or not.Whoever is stronger is the master.

Obviously, this is a betrayal of the family law of the ancestors, a destruction of the family-state system, and a challenge to the Chinese tradition.Think about it!Is there a "father" in the industry as a clan?With the country as the surname, is there still a "jun"?Is there still a "home" to analyze wealth and live in it?The home is gone, is there still a "country"?The family and country, the monarch and ministers, father and son are all gone, is there still a "world"?If they go on like this, turning the totem into an ancestor, wouldn't it be for nothing?

This is much more serious than drinking, picking up girls, holding naked dance parties, playing fishing and hunting, not listening to honest advice, letting women interfere in government affairs, etc. Of course, they can't let them continue to mess around! The rising star week should legislate, establish norms, and establish rules for Chinese civilization. Here comes the Founder.

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