Chapter 8 Chapter 7 Mandate of Heaven

The overpowering of yin and yang leads to disorder in the four seasons, abnormal weather, unripe crops, and widespread famine.Not only did the famine fail to arouse people's sufficient vigilance, but it intensified the competition among countries.In other words, it's not that they don't know the reason, but all nations are competing together, and if they don't advance, they will retreat.The situation at that time was like being in a big ship that was about to sink. Everyone was not thinking about how to work together to fill in the gaps and help each other in the same boat, but scrambling to get rid of the ship's planks, so as to gain a chance of survival after the ship sank.

From here, thousands of miles further north, is the northernmost tip of the world.It was an unimaginably cold place.There, there is no human voice, no sign of life, only the perennial snow and the mysterious ice formed by layers of snow accumulated for thousands of years. Under the ice and snow, there is eternal frozen soil and cold ocean. .In a year, half of the year is dark night, and half of the year is pure yang.However, it is precisely this cold and eerie place that has become the target of great powers' struggle thousands of years later. We always thought that the sky was round.But in the future, people will discover that the earth is actually as round as a hen's egg.As a result, this extreme north has become the most convenient passage to the east and west.Whoever occupies this place is tantamount to controlling the back door of other countries.Earlier it was blocked by severe cold and could not be used.And when the climate warms in the future, the sea ice thaws, and the waterways open up, the extremely cold and absolute territory that has no possibility of survival will suddenly become a battleground for military strategists.In addition, in the extreme north, there is a large amount of light and heat-producing substances buried under it, which are the most important treasures that drive the operation of future civilizations.As a result, on the permafrost and even the ice caps of the ocean, various countries competed to build bases and platforms, in the name of surveying, and carve up in reality.

Later, war broke out between the two most powerful countries over a disputed area. This war is the battle of the Heavenly Court sung in Hu Wu.The gods of the east and the gods of the north compete for the ice sky of the extreme north.The loser in the competition, the God of the North, is actually a great northern country.Some extreme people in the country were not willing to fail, and even used the most powerful weapon of that era, which is the legendary fire of death that "comes out in ten days"! In fact, more than ten days!In that situation, it was as if thousands of suns were shining on the ocean at the same time!In an instant, the ice melted and the ocean transpired.The unparalleled force pushed the raging waves to spread in all directions, and the tsunami swept across the world from north to south in a very short period of time.There were hundreds of millions of dead and countless wounded.

The disaster did not stop there. The sky fire ignited the huge amount of combustible substances in the ground, and the raging fire unstoppably formed a prairie fire. The coldest place in the world turned into a purgatory of fire.The permafrost turned into swamps, and then burned into scorched earth.More snow and ice continue to melt, pouring into the ocean.The overwhelming water vapor turned into a torrential rain again, pouring down.The sea level rose, flash floods broke out, and the floods flooded. Countless coastal river islands and fertile lands suddenly melted into the ocean. And the sky is full of dust formed by the flames of death.The sky and the earth are dark, the sun and the moon are dark, the temperature plummets, and the vegetation is gradually dying in the cold and darkness.The north is icy and snowy, and the south is flooded.

When the fire of death broke out, many creatures were affected, and those who survived became strange in shape and fierce in temperament. This is the origin of monsters such as snake cultivators and Feng Xiong. In order to disperse the haze in the sky, human beings spread a large amount of a substance that can settle dust into the sky, and finally they were able to see the sun again.However, this intensified the torrential rain and floods, and more areas were trapped in the rolling waves and turned into a swamp country. Between ten and a month, more than half of the world died.Among the various disasters caused by the Great War, the most deadly was the flood, not only because it took away a large number of people's lives at the moment of the flood peak, but also because it took away most of the richest land on which human beings depended for survival.There is the densest population, the most prosperous city, and the most developed civilization.

The survivors lived on the iceberg plateau, and the edible food was quickly eaten up, and then there were scavengers, drinking ice and snow, and even eating each other.Every day, a large number of people die of hunger, plague and cannibalism. Humanity is on the verge of extinction. In such a desperate situation, people ventured to use the technology that was just mastered in that era to create an unfathomable cave in the rolling waves, and guide the flood to a strange space for storage. That cave is the legendary "Guixu".Guixu is not a deep hole in the general sense, in fact, it is just a big space trap, it can accommodate endless matter and never overflow, it can swallow all the matter around it, including light.So, it's not even something that can be seen with the naked eye.

It is really a helpless way to use Guixu to release the flood in an emergency.Some scholars even suspect that activating Return to the Ruins may destroy the entire world at once.However, if the flood does not recede, human beings will also perish. Returning to the Ruins really had a miraculous effect, the flood quickly receded, human beings were finally able to return to the land, and the imminent disaster passed. However, there was a mistake in the operation of Guixu, and the space trap became extremely unstable.It is impossible to calculate where it directed those floods. This plunged mankind into yet another panic.

Nature needs those water sources!If this water never returns, it will be a disaster for the warming world! Returning to the Ruins is not a field that human beings can set foot in. It is the most strange and deep place that can only be created by the heavens. Nothing cannot be created, and what exists cannot be reduced to nothing.What is annihilated here must be reproduced there, and it is for this reason that the universe remains in balance.Life and death exist and perish, back and forth endlessly. People who act hastily rely on their wits to surpass the limits of the world. They don't know that this bottomless trap can not only carve out space, but also time!

At the other end of the distant time, their ancestors - the ancestors who had just stepped into civilization, fell into a catastrophe! The floods came overwhelmingly. After the first round of death peak, the ancestors competed to migrate to higher places, and built embankments with simple Leisi stone tools to fight the floods.It's a pity that the fragile earthwork dams are simply not enough to withstand the impact of rising floods. One piece of highland fell, and more and more ethnic groups died. That is not an ordinary natural disaster that can be resisted by manpower. Why is it said that in the time of Yao, water was retrograde?Because that water is not rainwater from the sky, but nameless water poured up from the sea!

When the flood subsided and the water level stopped rising, the survivors living on the high four peaks began to discuss how to bring the flood back down. They elected Gun. Gun was a rare and extremely intelligent person in that era. He was a leader of Fangguo who made his living by fishing—this can be seen from his name.With years of experience in dealing with rivers, lakes and seas, he even vaguely guessed the source of the flood.Entrusted by Tianxia Kingdom, he led the best water-savvy clansmen in the clan, and spent several years tracking down to the East China Sea.Finally, a peculiar object was found on a small island.

At that time, the object was like a ring, floating in the air, emitting a strange light, in the center of it, mud and sand were sprayed out continuously, and fell onto the small island.Judging from the soil quality of the small island, this small island is formed by the accumulation of soil sprayed out by that strange thing! Gun immediately thought of the usefulness of this strange object - water control! Gun believed that the reason why human beings could not contend with the flood was that the speed of building embankments could not keep up with the growth of the flood.And this strange thing can continuously create soil, which is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.Using this treasure, you can build the highest dam and stop the flood. Gun sacrificed hundreds of lives to capture this strange thing.In fact, it was only because the energy of that strange object was in the process of gradually decaying, otherwise, with the ability of human beings at that time, it would never have been possible to obtain this strange object. That is the exit of Guixu. They did not see the most magnificent scene of flood discharge in Guixu, and it is impossible to see it.What they saw at that time was that after the flood poured out, the remaining power of Guixu was operating, sucking the underwater earth and rocks of that world to this end. Gun brought this thing back to the plateau inhabited by humans, and he called it "Xi Soil". He believed that it was the soil that could calm the flood and was the most precious treasure that could save the world. However, when Gun used this method to control the water, he found that it had no effect. Xiran completely stopped functioning. Everyone accused Gun of sacrificing a large number of lives in exchange for a waste, and some even suspected that he was fabricating lies to deceive the people. Gun tried everything, but he couldn't restart Xiyang. He can't justify the accusations of the world.He was sentenced to exile by the tribe. On an isolated island in the North Sea, Gun faced alone the Xi Soil he had brought back after so much painstaking efforts, the halo floating in the magnet pit.He has seen with his own eyes how this strange thing that does not belong to the human world exerts amazing functions, but he does not understand what power makes it open, and he does not understand what power makes it close. In desperation, Gun tried to dismantle Xi Rang, and he wanted to solve the mystery of this strange thing by means of destruction.Of course, as you may have guessed, he was killed by the huge energy suddenly emitted by the object.Judging from the death form, his limbs are intact, with only a few burn marks.Therefore, people say that he was executed by the fire god Zhu Rong sent by the Emperor of Heaven.They said he was condemned by God for stealing treasures from Heaven. Gun's body was thrown into the North Sea together with the ominous Xiyang. Gun was the best and brightest person in that barbarous era, but he ended up in misfortune because he tried to steal the deepest secrets of the universe that far surpassed his era. What he did, no one understood until his death.But his destructive dismantling of Xi Yang sent a signal to the other end of the dark passage. People in the future understand that Guixu led the flood to a place where life exists!This is a terrible mistake.In order to correct this mistake, they decided to take another risk and activate Return to the Market. This time, what they want to guide is not a flood, but a guide! They couldn't determine what kind of place was at the other end of this dark space-time trap.Guixu can only transmit inanimate matter, and life itself cannot withstand the huge pressure in the process of transmission.Therefore, they carefully constructed an egg-shaped object containing a large amount of information, and made a big black bird with the most solid material at that time, and carried the "bird egg" through Guixu and came to the past. The shape of a bird's egg is the most pressure-resistant in nature, and the swallow's body shape is just right to minimize the resistance generated when flying across. The big black bird carried this "bird egg" and broke through the barriers of time and space to come to this world. It didn't fall from the sky, but washed out from the bottom of the sea. Because the passage it came from was Xi Rang who was buried under the sea with Gun! The astonishing scene of the black bird flying from the bottom of the sea is recorded in some legends of ghosts, which is the scene of the kun turning into a Peng written by Zhuang Zhou later. Xuanniao immediately found the inheritor, a woman who was bathing by the water. It chose Jian Di, not because of Jian Di's beauty or any special status, but because it sensed that Jian Di was pregnant! At that time, Jian Di and her female companion were stunned when they saw the giant bird flying out of the vast expanse of blue waves.The giant black bird hovered above them, and the blurred five-color halo surrounded Jian Di, spinning endlessly. Jian Di raised her head and looked at the giant bird.The abdominal cavity of the giant bird opened, and a white thing that looked like a bird's egg slowly fell, as if it was put down by an invisible hand.When the "bird egg" fell in front of Jian Di, Jian Di, who was controlled by the fantasy halo, opened her mouth involuntarily and swallowed the "bird egg". Jian Di's companions watched this scene in amazement.They suspected that Jian Di would die, but she didn't.For a long time, Jian Di was fine until she was found pregnant.From then on, people suspected that the child in her womb belonged to the divine bird, but in fact, the child belonged to Gao Xin.During that special flood period, many Chinese families who had taken refuge in the north intermarried with the northern Rongdi.The child in Jian Di's womb is the product of such an intermarriage. The function of the black bird egg is to affect the embryo in the recipient's belly and create a future water-controller.That child will be born with all the information about the flood engraved in his mind.At the same time, he will also possess extraordinary physical fitness and strength, so as not to die easily in an unfamiliar environment. When she was about to give birth, Jian Di saw something that others couldn't see.At this time, Jian Di and the child with supernatural powers in her womb are connected by blood, so she also obtained some supernatural powers.She saw the war in the future, saw the ruins, saw the creation of the mysterious bird, and saw the birth of a child leading to her own death.She felt great fear.But she had no choice, she knew that what she was about to give birth to was a life that could save the world. When Jian Di gave birth, she experienced tremendous pain. When she was on the verge of death, she had her abdomen cut open and saved the child's life with her own life. When he was dying, someone asked about the child's origin.Jian Di doesn't speak the Central Plains dialect, she can use hand gestures to draw the shape of the black bird, but she can't draw the origin of the black bird.With the last strength in her life, she pointed to Sirius. Astrology, from the Central Plains to Beidi, has the same meaning.Sirius, a symbol of war!What she wants to say is that Xuanniao comes from an era full of war. This child who came with the flames of war in his previous life and the death of his mother was Qi. Qi's mission is to open the channel for the flood to return and guide the flood to where it should go.So when he grew up, he began to participate in the water control work at that time. He can control the black bird, he can use the breath soil, he obtained some extremely precious materials from the body cavity of the black bird, and used it to make the transmission pipe network for the flood.But he needs the help of secular power. Qi found Dayu who was in charge of water control at that time, gave him a map, and told him that as long as the flood was diverted to the place marked on the map, the flood would recede.Official Yu lived in Sikong and was a deacon for many years. He had also heard of this strange man with a strange background, so he half-believed Qi's words. But practice has proved that Qi's instructions are correct.As long as the flood is guided to the place designated by Qi, the flood will suddenly swirl down in a huge vortex and never come out again. Yu immediately devoted himself to water control work with all his strength, and quickly became a hero in people's minds.From people's point of view, what he did was amazing. He held some things called dragon map jade plates, traveled all over the world, surveyed the terrain, measured distances, and opened channels to drain water.And the terrible flood, as if at his command, retreated tamely. No one knew where the water went. They thought Yu knew, but in fact, Yu didn't know anything either. Yu began to have doubts about Qi.He traced to Beihai, Qi's ancestral home, where he saw something unimaginable. From tens of miles away, he could hear continuous loud sounds like thunder and drums. The closer he got, the louder the sound became. When he passed through a narrow canyon and stepped into an open space, there was a booming sound The sound of the water suddenly increased several times, and his ears almost lost their hearing.But in front of the eyes is a mist, through the white mist, you can vaguely see the "waterfall" pouring down from the sky in the distance. He stared blankly at the waterfall. There was no one to rely on, no mountains, rivers and hills, and it rushed down directly from the sky. The width was unimaginable. Yu looked at all this in horror. He suspected that the giant dragon in the sky was spraying water.Through the vast water mist, he looked towards the sky, but the water splashed by the huge waterfall kept falling from the sky like a torrential rain, blocking his sight.At this time, a giant black bird with a smooth body appeared in his vision through the thick water mist. The giant black bird landed beside him, and Qi walked out of the black bird. He didn't seem surprised at Yu's arrival, and frankly invited Yu to board the black bird. Qi drove the divine bird back to the sky, and Yu was condescending, and only then did he see the whole astonishing and spectacular scene: around the North Sea, there are huge floods continuously emerging out of nowhere, rushing down like a waterfall, and the deepest part of the seabed is A huge depression that blew thousands of miles away was like a magic hole with huge suction, absorbing the flood from all over the world. That earth-shattering vision still leaves remnants in Beihai to this day.For example, there are many strange aquatic species in the sea, which come from distant rivers and lakes; for example, many lands by the sea seem to have been washed away by violent floods, leaving only barren sand, and within three miles there is no grass, and only some of the most tenacious pine trees can take root. Survive…… Qi, through the mysterious bird, skillfully controls the rest of the seabed, and operates non-stop for a moment, absorbing all the floods from the flood channels all over the world, and transporting them to another distant space. Everything in front of him was far beyond Yu's cognitive ability. His face was ashen. Yu was originally an ambitious person. He worked hard to control the water for more than ten years, and he never entered the house three times. It is not that he has no plans.However, at this time, facing this huge inhuman power, all his ambitions and ambitions were wiped out. As if he could read his mind, Qi told him frankly that he was not interested in power.After the flood subsides, he will retire. Yu didn't know that there was a price to be paid for Qie's omniscience and omnipotence. Jian Di died because the child's head, which contained a huge amount of information, was far beyond the mother's ability to bear!After Qi, many Xuanniao people came to the world with their mother's blood and death.The so-called pre-Shang relocations, from Qi to Tang, fourteen generations, eight migrations, just because they could not live in one place for more than two generations. For two consecutive generations, the mothers died of dystocia during birth, which will arouse the vigilance of the local tribesmen, and it is impossible to find a woman who is willing to marry them. Wei Lu, this is the truth about the gods you believe can save the world. The price for this god clan to have supernatural powers is that they were born with the crime of matricide! The greatest regret in your life is the untimely death of Mrs. Li.But do you know why Mrs. Li died of dystocia?She is Di, and also has some potential weak Xuanniao blood, and the dancer's slender body makes the production process extremely difficult.Even if, like my mother, she is proficient in medicine and has made enough preparations in advance, she cannot avoid the terrible torture. Ever since I entered the grassland, I have always fallen into the same nightmare. In the dream, there is always an invisible pressure oppressing me to the point of suffocation. When I wake up from the nightmare, I often feel scared. I don’t know why I keep repeating this. Dream.When I woke up from death, I realized that after stepping on the land where my mother used to live, the first memory about my mother was revived—it was the memory of me struggling to survive in the birth canal of my mother! My birth nearly killed my mother, and I myself fell into a coma with bruises after birth.This tragic scene also made my father never forget it.Later, all my brothers died before me, and he decided that I was born to bring bad luck to death. When I understood everything, I no longer hurt myself because of my father's hatred of me since I was a child.This is the price that one must bear for one's original sin as a Xuanniao clan. The so-called abilities of the Xuanniao clan are mainly foreknowledge. Shang Tang dared to bet his own life and set himself on fire to pray for rain because he predicted that it would rain at that time.With this cruel and shocking method, he easily won the trust of all people in the world and consolidated his rule. The fascination of the Shang kings in the past dynasties with witch divination made it incomprehensible to later generations. How did people know that the Shang Dynasty was originally a dynasty ruled by the power of foresight. Before many Shang kings died, they would designate some close ministers and cronies to be buried. This cruel system was once criticized by later generations, but in fact, it was because the Shang king predicted that these seemingly loyal and cautious courtiers would die. Later, he took the power to create chaos, so the source of the chaos was eradicated before the disaster happened.This custom later spread to Guifang as the royal family ran northward after the fall of the Shang Dynasty. Wei Lu, two years ago Mito Dawu ordered Li Guangli's head to be sacrificed to the gods on the grounds that Xian Shanyu was angry.In you, you just want to avenge Mrs. Li and yourself.But have you ever thought about why Dawu accepted your request?Why can this absurd way of killing be easily accepted by the Huns, and there is no doubt about him? Li Guangli is indeed not a kind person. If he does not die, he will eventually bring disaster to the Huns.The Urgen family has the privilege to designate who must sacrifice to the gods, even if that person has no objection.Every time Shan Yu died, according to the secret agreement of Wizard Urgen, a group of near-lucky ministers and concubines would be determined to be buried, sometimes as many as hundreds or even thousands of people. This cruel custom despised by the Central Plains comes from the Xuanniao clan you are pursuing wholeheartedly. Back then, the king of Shang not only killed people according to predictions, but also employed people according to predictions.In the eyes of later generations who do not know the inside story, it is also inexplicable.For example, Wu Ding promoted Fu Shuo as Prime Minister from among the prisoners, without any reason, just because of a dream.But this prime minister who got it from a dream really brought order to the world. There was no feudal separatism, no important ministers to exercise power, no generals to plot rebellion, and the Shang Dynasty enjoyed six hundred years, far exceeding Xia and Western Zhou.During this long period of time, few things worth mentioning happened, so that the history books of the Shang Dynasty only remained simple and boring such as "Woding collapsed, his younger brother Taigeng was established. Emperor Taigeng collapsed, and Zi Xiaojia was established". records of succession to the throne. The Shang royal family, who has insight into everything, can eliminate any rebellion and rebellion invisible.But they have a fatal problem, that is, their abilities come from the blood of their ancestors, and every intermarriage with mortals in this world means the attenuation of their abilities.To slow down the loss of abilities, we can only adopt intermarriage within the clan. However, if a man and a woman have the same surname, they will not be able to reproduce. This is a law that is valid for all life, not to mention that the reproduction of their offspring is often accompanied by the sacrifice of their mothers. It's a dilemma.The Xuanniao family has been oscillating between maintaining the ability and expanding the contradiction of the group.In the early days, the Xuanniao tribe multiplied slowly, and it took fourteen generations to win the world.When the Shang Dynasty was established, in order to delay the attenuation of supernatural powers and reduce the loss of precious Xuanniao bloodlines, they adopted the system of brotherhood and brotherhood, that is, the oldest person in the royal family was selected to inherit the throne.When the elder brother dies, the younger brother inherits, and when the younger brother dies, the younger brother inherits. After all the younger brothers die, the eldest brother's son inherits. However, with the passage of time, more and more alien bloodlines have accumulated in the royal family. With the decline of supernatural powers, the weakness of human nature has gradually surpassed the innate rationality and calmness of the Xuanniao clan.The eldest brother was worried about the credit of his younger brothers, and the younger brother was unwilling to pass the throne to his nephew instead of his own son after his death. The death of the father and the succession of the son to the younger brother has become a problem that has plagued the Shang royal family for a long time, and finally led to the only event in the history of the Shang Dynasty that lasted a very long time-the Rebellion of the Ninth Generation. An ethnic group with predictive power is almost invincible in this world, and the only ones who can really threaten their rule are the members of the royal family themselves! This civil strife seriously hurt the vitality of the Shang Dynasty. It was not until Pan Geng moved to Yin and raised the banner of Chengtang again that he united the royal family again... Oh, I know, you want to say King Wu of Zhou. Yes, the Shang Dynasty was later destroyed by Zhou.People in later generations only remembered King Wu's defeat of Zhou, but few people noticed that King Wen and King Wu were originally descendants of the Shang Dynasty! This is also an important reason why they were able to destroy the business in the end. In the era of Gu Gong and Dan Fu, Zhou was just a small country in the remote west, and he always held a mentality of awe and covetousness towards the high-ranking "Dayi merchants". Gugong Tanfu had three sons, the eldest son Taibo, the second son Zhongyong, and the youngest son Jili.The change of Xiaobangzhou's fate happened precisely in this youngest son.Once, Ji Li was ordered by his father to pay tribute to the capital of Shang. A woman from the Shang royal family fell in love with him. For love, the woman married Zhou's family in spite of the opposition of her clan. The woman's name was Tairen, and she later gave birth to a son. Gugong Danfu saw the hope of the Zhou family's prosperity from this noble grandson, and named the child "Chang"—yes, that child is Ji Chang , the future King Wen of Zhou. In order to pass on the throne to Jichang, Gugong Danfu had to pass on the throne to Jili first, which made his eldest son and second son redundant.Taibo and Zhongyong were forced to flee to Jingman, which is called "Taibo flees to Wu" in the history books.Later generations are taboo for the venerable, saying that the Zhou family abolished the elders and established the young in order to seek a great cause, saying that Wen Wang Jichang had a "sacred Rui" when he was young. The sacrifices of Taibo and Zhongyong were not in vain.After Ji Chang grew up and ascended the throne, because of his special relationship with the merchants of Dayi, he promoted Zhou's status among the princes. More importantly, he married Shang again and married an extremely noble woman——Taisi .She is the princess of the Shang Dynasty, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yi!This marriage further strengthened the Zhou family's Xuanniao bloodline.In the end, the Zhou family had the strength and prestige to destroy business. Therefore, although the Zhou family has been trying their best to belittle and vilify the Shang Dynasty after they won the world, Tai Ren and Tai Si have a lofty status in the Zhou royal family.Because it was because of their marriage that they introduced the precious blood of the Xuanniao family to the Zhou family, so that Zhou could finally replace Shang. These things are also recorded in the book. "Zhi Zhong's Ren, from the Yin and Shang Dynasty, came to marry in Zhou Dynasty", which records the historical fact of the combination of Tai Ren and Ji Li. "There is a son in the big state, the younger sister of Tiantian. Wending Juexiang, and personally welcoming Yu Wei", describes the grand scene of Tai Si and Ji Chang's marriage. Although Zhou tried his best to play down the influence of Shang after he won the world, they could not tamper with the provenance of their concubines. "Daya" is the music that sings about the ancestors. Even if you want to deceive the people of the world, you can't deceive your ancestors.When Confucius edited, he cleverly preserved the truth in these evidences that the Zhou royal family could not erase. The Shang royal family was not ignorant of Zhou's ambitions. Even though the lineage has been weakened for dozens of generations, until the generation of King Shang Zhou, the supernatural powers of the Xuanniao clan still partially existed.During a divination, King Zhou had a vague premonition of Ji Chang's danger.For this reason, he summoned Ji Chang, imprisoned him in Yuli, and tested him in various ways.Ji Chang successfully concealed his ability, and even pretended to be ignorant and ate the eldest son's meat soup in front of the messenger.Even so, Zhou still imprisoned Ji Chang for seven years, and he did not release him until he was convinced that such an old man who was about to go to earth could not pose a fatal threat to the Shang Dynasty. How did King Zhou know that Ji Chang was extremely intelligent. When he was imprisoned in Yuli, he combined the wisdom of mortals with the supernatural powers from his mother clan and invented a method that could more effectively exert the foresight of the Xuanniao clan. Methods.Compared with the mysterious and difficult to grasp oracle bone divination of the Shang royal family, this method is more direct and simple, hence the name: "Yi". Since then, the gap in foresight among the royal families of the Shang and Zhou dynasties has narrowed and narrowed. Ji Chang did not raise the banner of anti-business until his death, but King Zhou's prediction was not wrong.More than ten years later, when King Wu defeated Zhou, King Wen's spiritual tablet was enshrined in the tent of the Chinese army, because King Wen was the grandson and son-in-law of Shang, and had double appeal. At the Mengjin meeting, eight hundred princes came unexpectedly.What the eight hundred princes valued and trusted was not the fame and military power of the Zhou family, but the fate.The Zhou family has a bloodline comparable to the Shang royal family, which is an undoubted symbol of destiny! King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was not a senseless and foolish king as in general legends.He tried his best to postpone the day when the Shang Dynasty fell.He has known for a long time that the root of the problem lies in the decline of the royal family's foresight, which has caused the princes to covet power.In order to save the dying Shang regime, he searched everywhere for distant relatives of the Xuanniao clan.He wants to find a woman, a woman who carries the lost part of the power of the Shang royal family, marry with her, and give birth to a child with the complete power of the Xuanniao family, so as to regain the destiny of ruling the world. After a long and arduous search, he finally found the woman.She comes from an ancient tribe, that tribe is famous for having the ability to bring people back to life, so this tribe is called "Yousu Clan". Like the Shang royal family, people in this tribe are also accustomed to naming after ten heavenly stems. This woman is named "Ji". where she was facing; she could read the marrow of a human tibia—and more importantly, she was beautiful.King Zhou fell madly in love with this woman. Zhou also predicted the threat of this woman, so Zhou's secret agents spread rumors everywhere, saying that this woman was abnormally beautiful and was transformed by a nine-tailed fox; The government, instigated the king to kill Zhongliang... Zhou's rumors successfully provoked a strife within the royal family. Everyone from the crown prince to the prince to the noble clan was extremely dissatisfied with this woman.Because of her appearance, the succession order of the royal family was disrupted.Facing the real temptation of power and position, the royal family split.Prince, Weizi, Jizi, Bigan... Those who were killed were killed, those who were exiled were exiled, and those who pretended to be crazy pretended to be crazy. King Wu defeated Zhou, publicized the crimes of King Zhou, did not use clan relatives, and did not worship ancestors, all of which were provoking internal conflicts in the Xuanniao clan. From beginning to end, King Wu was using the power of the Shang royal family to destroy and disintegrate the dynasty.He did it very successfully, the military conquest, accompanied by the instigation of the people's hearts, the Shang Dynasty was finally destroyed. This unprecedentedly powerful dynasty was actually destroyed by his own people. After the destruction of Shang, King Wu met Jizi with courtesy, worshiped Bigan, entrusted Wu Geng, and pulled these Yin and Shang royal families into his camp to show the world that his victory was not a change of dynasty, but a victory within the sacred Xuanniao family. A power adjustment. After all, the 600-year-old Shang royal family has a deep foundation, and the existence of a large number of Yin and Shang adherents is, after all, a major concern of Zhou.King Wu of Zhou granted two younger brothers Yu Guan and Cai Lai to assist Prince Wu Geng.Guan Shuxian, Cai Shudu, and Prince Wu Geng, known as the "Three Supervisors", are responsible for supervising the Yin adherents.In fact, the real watchers are Guan and Cai, who have been given the mission to monitor Prince Wu Geng, a potential threat. The problem is that, as the sons of Tai Si, Uncle Guan and Uncle Cai are descendants of the Xuanniao clan, they have a special respect and a sense of closeness to the direct line Prince Wu Geng.They did not perform their duty as watchers very well. The watcher made friends with the prisoners, which made the imperial court panic. The Duke of Zhou, who was in power, smelled the danger, so he falsely claimed that Guan and Cai joined Wu Geng in rebellion, sent troops to kill Wu Geng and Guan Shu, and exiled them. Uncle Cai. After the Sanjian Rebellion, Wei Ziqi, the concubine brother of King Zhou, was entrusted to the Song Dynasty and inherited the descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Wei Zi is a prince born to a concubine. Compared with the princes born to the noble women of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, his blood of the Xuanniao clan is much weaker, and he is much less of a threat to Zhou.Zhou's canonization of him was just a symbolic move. During this chaotic period, the legend of the "appointed man" spread among the survivors of the Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou royal family was also very nervous. King Wu of Zhou, do you know why his posthumous title is "King Wu"? Ji Fa's posthumous title was assigned by him during his lifetime. Because he also heard the phrase "Who is ordered, Zhongzi Wuwang", and he happened to be the second son, and he called himself Wuwang just to hint to the Shang survivors that the destiny had been transferred to the Zhou family. Many years later, when the mighty Western Zhou Dynasty came to an end and entered the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the royal family declined and feudal lords competed for hegemony, a strange man appeared among Song Weizi's descendants, that is Confucius. Confucius discovered the secret of his ethnicity from the ancient bamboo slips kept by the royal family of Zhou. Among the pre-Qin scholars, Confucius' thoughts have always been regarded as pedantic. At this time of strife among heroes and contention among a hundred schools of thought, regarding the ownership of the world, some call for those who are virtuous to live in it, and some people preach that those who are powerful will get it. Only Confucius, who does not talk about the confirmation of ability or the judgment of morality, just emphasizes compliance over and over again. Those ancient orders, such as the superiority and inferiority of the descendants, the order of the elders and the younger, are so unrealistic! Confucius was underappreciated all his life.Because all his claims are based on an unspoken point of view: the unified, powerful, and stable rule of ancient times relied on the bloodlines from the gods! From the king of Zhou to the clan princes, they all more or less carried the blood from Tai Ren and Tai Si.However, with the passage of time, it became more and more difficult to maintain this bloodline. Because of the instinct of greed for beauty, the kings arbitrarily elevated the status of non-Xuanniao concubines, and things often happened. The sacred in the mud, and the usurped in the temple, this is the root of the world's unrest and years of wars. Confucius anxiously called for the restoration of the old order, opposed the abolition of the elders and the establishment of the younger ones, the abolition of the sons and daughters and the establishment of the concubine, and the inferiors violated the superiors, just to continue the power and authority of the Xuanniao clan as much as possible. When Confucius found that all his efforts were in vain, he devoted all his energy to "Book of Changes". "Book of Changes" is an outstanding work, because of it, the Xuanniao tribe was able to continue their rule for more than two hundred years in the Western Zhou Dynasty when their bloodlines had weakened.However, no matter how excellent the tool that can exert the predictive ability of the Xuanniao tribe, its effectiveness still depends on the blood of the Xuanniao tribe itself.Time is the greatest enemy of the Xuanniao clan, and the loss and decline of the Xuanniao clan's lineage is an irreversible and inevitable thing. The only hope is that in the future, or among the descendants of the Xuanniao clan scattered among thousands of people, there is a pair of men and women who happen to have the blood of the Xuanniao clan lost by the other, and they happen to meet and combine,或能重新创造出血统纯净、拥有玄鸟族祖先那样强大的异能的孩子。就像当年纣王企图做的那样。 那孩子就是“受命者”。 当孔子通过易理明白了这一点，他在晚年做了几件事：他把从王室藏书中得到的那些古老的简牍进行了删减整理，三千首诗删到三百，就是现在我们所看到的。 这些貌似歌咏礼乐和古文化的诗文，隐晦地透露了玄鸟族的由来和历史，更危险和敏感的内容，则被封存了起来，藏进了孔府的夹墙中。 那不是一个适合公布真相的时代。 但即使是如此隐晦曲折地透露，依然引起了后世统治者的警惕。 嬴氏，一个与商有着千丝万缕的联系的家族。在殷商时期，他们做过商王的御者，娶过商的公主，直到商灭亡时，嬴氏的飞廉、恶来父子还效力于殷纣。恶来在武王伐纣时被杀，飞廉因为正在北方为纣王办事而逃过此难。他的后人在西戎逐渐发展壮大，建立了秦国。 因为这段特殊的过去，秦的祖先传说和商惊人地相似。他们宣称他们的祖先是女修吞玄鸟卵而生的。 和商一样，秦也有从死的风俗。各诸侯国中，秦殉葬人数是最多的，甚至不惜以重臣良将殉葬。秦穆公死，以子车氏三子殉葬。三人都是以一敌百的勇士，秦人谓之“三良”，惋惜不已，乃作《黄鸟》一诗。这种看似不可理喻的暴行，恰恰是秦得以强大称霸的奥秘。春秋五霸，战国七雄，大都衰于内耗，唯有秦没有这一麻烦，为什么？因为秦的国君能预知到那些在未来可能会危害国政的臣僚，并以殉葬这种非常手段防患于未然！ 可惜的是，这种能力在秦始皇的时候就彻底消失了。他不具有这种能力——因为他是吕不韦的孩子！ 所以，即使一些秦王室秘书中传下来的谶语向他暗示“亡秦者胡”，他也不知道那是指胡亥，竟然还以为是匈奴，特地命蒙恬率大军北击匈奴。 也许正因为自知并非真正的玄鸟族之后，内心深处的自卑加上戒备，使秦始皇不计一切代价，也要毁灭这个神秘而高贵的家族曾经存在过的一切史实。史实几乎都保存在儒家经典中，所以，便有了野蛮的“焚书坑儒”。 史载秦始皇为了方士的欺骗一怒之下焚书坑儒，却没有说清楚，为什么欺骗他的是方士，却要连带儒生也坑杀。其实，秦始皇就是在毁灭真相！ 秦始皇命李斯在玉玺上刻下“受命于天，既寿永昌”，为什么？ 四处巡行，祭天封禅，为什么？ 难道他对上天有着独特的虔诚吗？ 不，他只是恐惧。 越是自知不获天命，越是要证明天命攸归。 同样，陛下今日种种令人不解的行为，也是在证明自己拥有天命。和秦始皇不同的是，他相信天命本来就属于自己。他在辽东设高庙，不是在伪造天命，他打心底相信自己本来就是真命天子。如果“受命者”起源东北，那么他的祖上必然与东北有某种渊源！他要杀董仲舒，不是因为董仲舒语涉不敬，而是因为董仲舒企图破坏他这完美的幻觉。 其实，伪造天命的秦始皇错了；制造幻觉的陛下错了；自以为“知天命”的孔子也错了；乃至你，卫律；你，李陵；还有孔安国、董仲舒……都错了。 真正的“受命者”，对现世的权力并没有兴趣。 不错，“受命者”可以预知战事胜负、朝局变幻；可以预知风吹云动、雨雪雷霆；可以预知对手下一步将走出怎样的棋局；可以预知谁会成为未来的劲敌。然而，他不会利用这些去设伏构陷、攻城略地、图谋天下。 他做得到，但他不会。 因为他深知，任何对既定规律的改变，都会遭到一种更为强大的力量的报复。那就是真正的“天命”。 这个世界的权力，本就并不属于玄鸟族。 你们知道玄鸟族的预知异能是怎么回事吗？ 在奔腾不息的时间长河里，身处其中的大多数芸芸众生，随波逐流，他们目力所及，只能看见自己所来自的河段，未来会流向哪里，就非他们所知了。而在玄鸟族眼里，这长河几曲几弯，或急或缓，一览无余。因为玄鸟本就是从“河”的那一头到这一头来的，在跨越时间的过程中，玄鸟意外地获得了这时间段里的全部信息。所以，玄鸟族有一种独特的观测时间的视角。他们看历史的长河，有如身处高山之巅，俯瞰大地江河。 看得多远，取决于他们站得多高，或者说，取决于体内玄鸟异能的多寡。 契是有史以来拥有最完整、最强大的异能的玄鸟族人，在他的视角维度，能看得到从上古的大洪水，到未来冰天之战之间这一整段的历史。这数千年的时间长河里的每一点波动、每一丝涟漪，他都历历能数，了然于心。 如果他要改变这“河流”的其中一段，比如流速，比如流向，使这“河流”变得有利于自己，他都做得到。但他没有。因为他看得很清楚，滔滔洪流，浩浩荡荡，不管是人还是神，都无法改变它最终的流向，任何阻遏和扭曲都是危险的。他的异能使他动念之间，便可预料到干预历史之河的恶果。 玄鸟族对这个世界的干预，开始于成汤时代。不是因为那时的玄鸟族的异能格外强大，恰恰相反，是因为他们已经没有他们的祖先那种一毫举而知事之大动的能力，潜藏在脑海深处的信息已经被血管里累积的凡人的血液模糊了，有时，他们必须借助一些工具——比如甲骨、贝壳，乃至周文王发明的蓍草，将这些内容“外化”，才能回忆得出来。 凡人只看到他们占卜精准，百发百中，钦佩万分，却不知从未卜先知，到卜而后知，已经是预知力的严重退化。 王族用天干地支给自己命名，也是为了找到一个时间河中的支点，便于推算出自己命运的走势。即使如此，他们的推算也只能及身而止，不复能知遥远的未来。 无知给了他们胆量。他们凭借着预知的异能，一次次轻易击败敌人，赢得战争，夺取天下，却不知道，被矫改过的历史自有一种力量，要恢复原来的趋势。矫改得越多，那种恢复的力量便蓄积得越大，有如筑堤百尺，蓄势千钧，一旦决口，大水轰然而下，必然冲毁一切曾阻碍它的事物。 商纣王，就是那个溃堤之时的受害者。 你们知道商纣王是怎么死的吗？ 他极其痛苦地死于烈火之中。 他预测到了自己的结局，只是不知道那死亡会在什么时候、以何种方式到来，但他确知，这一切必然会发生！ 如果你们早就知道自己有朝一日会以最痛苦的方式死去，并且没有任何办法逃避，你会怎么做？ 他酒池肉林，醉生梦死，用淫乐来麻醉自己，暂时忘却内心深处的最大恐惧。他炮烙臣下，挖心断足，用他人的痛苦来消解自己对末日的恐惧。他拼命搜刮天下财富，以四千庶玉、五枚天智玉琰做成一件清凉沁骨的玉衣，以图在末日来临之时保护自己少受痛苦。 惩罚终于还是到来了。周军入朝歌之时，内应引燃大火，躲在鹿台上的纣王无处可逃。由于有了玉衣的保护，他的死反而变得格外漫长而痛苦——他是被缓慢地炙烤而死的。当武王发现他的遗体时，四千庶玉尽毁，保护五处要害的天智玉琰依然完好无损。 当成汤将柴草堆在自己脚下，用自焚祈雨欺骗天下视听，赢得本不该属于他的权威时，就注定了他的子孙有朝一日会真正罹受他许诺过的牺牲。一代代商王用预知力推迟报应来临的做法，都是在一次次加强那最后的惩罚。 他们倚仗异能，压制叛乱，看似暂时获得了天下太平，然而，叛乱、谋逆、暗杀，这种种行为，是天下万民蓄积了极大愤怒之后才会爆发的最终行动。 堵死火山的喷发口，难道地底的烈焰便会因此熄灭吗？削去冰山顶尖的一角，难道下面的山体便会因此消融吗？凭着预知力提前擒杀起事的领袖，难道愤怒和怨恨便会因此消失吗？ 天命，不是一两个异人掌控的神秘命数，而是这世间亿万生灵呼吸、饮食、悲欢、喜怒、生死……这无穷细微状态造成的大趋势。这种趋势，不是区区一支势单力薄的玄鸟族能改变的。 商朝灭亡后，我们族裔飘零沦落、只能从事四业之末而饱受歧视，难道是偶然的吗？今天那些民间的术士相师非孤即残、子息薄弱，难道是偶然的吗？我母亲婚姻不幸、诞育艰难，难道是偶然的吗？我九死一生，被你放逐到这荒原上放羊，难道是偶然的吗？ 你一直奇怪，我何以身具异能仍默然忍受种种折辱。那只是因为，我自知所遭受的一切，是“天命”对我们族裔的惩罚，是对成汤后代的追惩。我的祖先用异能攫取了不该属于自己的利益，后世子孙必然为此付出代价。 多少玄鸟族后人，虽能断人休咎祸福，教人趋吉避凶，自身却瞽目跛足，潦倒困顿，一生不得志。有人说，这是泄露了天机的惩罚。其实，这是违背了天命的代价。 你看那民间巫卜之流，越是灵验的，往往多有残疾，尤以目盲者居多。“珊蛮”一词，就来源于“商矇”。长期的王族内婚，使玄鸟族的体质比常人更容易产生缺陷，而这缺陷最容易发生在眼睛。 所有玄鸟族人中，“受命者”有着最接近于祖先的预知异能，因此也命定要承受最多的苦难。他从出生那一刻就要承受死亡的折磨，他注定不能得到父母之爱、兄弟之情。他一生不能有所爱者，因为有了也早晚会失去。他会远困异国，妻子改嫁，儿女离散。他的绝世异能，不能给他带来名望和幸福，只会带来痛苦和绝望。 他深深地羡慕那些对未来一无所知的凡夫俗子，哪怕注定困顿终生，哪怕注定遭遇不幸，不到最后一刻，总还有着一点指望。 卫律，你怨恨命运不公，你拼命追寻拥有异能的玄鸟族。你可曾想到，这异能带来的是什么？如果你早知挚爱终将失去，你还能在诏狱中经受住那漫长的苦刑吗？如果你确知未来只是一片黑暗，你还会甘心忍受宵小的侮辱、权贵的欺凌、生存的磨难吗？ 人世皆因希望的存在，才使最悲惨的命运也有一丝期盼的价值。 而我，“受命者”，却与生俱来被剥夺了这世上最珍贵的东西——希望。 我早就知道命运的每一处转折变化，知道灾难会在何处降临，知道死亡会在何时来到，知道我所爱的人会怎样死去，我生活的每一时刻，都是在向那最恐惧的一刻接近。世上还有比这更残忍的折磨吗？ 今天，我告诉你这些，不是想博取你的同情，或为自己对你的愿望无能为力而作辩解。我只是希望你明白，这世上，未必只有你是最不幸的。