Chapter 245 The Differences between Luo Ling and Xiang Yu
As night fell, several bonfires flickered in the military camp, and rows of soldiers patrolled the camp.
In the central army tent, Xiang Yu sat at the head of the group, holding intelligence from various places. The more he read, the angrier he became. He threw it on the ground and growled, "They are indeed a group of two-faced people who cannot be trusted."
Yu Ji happened to lift the curtain and walked in, and was startled by the sound of the bamboo slips thrown in front of her. She was extremely beautiful, with fair and clear skin. She was born in Jiangdong, and her temperament was as gentle as the slowly flowing water outside the city of Gusu. Seeing her reminded me of the woman praised in "The Book of Songs·Wu Feng".
Yu Ji didn't know why Xiang Yu was angry, and called out with some concern: "My King~"
Xiang Yu looked up when he heard the voice and saw the graceful Yu Ji coming over. The anger in his heart was swept away and he waved his hand and said, "Yu'er, I have a headache. Please massage it for me."
Yu Ji came up and sat down. Xiang Yu closed his eyes, enjoying Yu Ji's slender hands and smelling her sweet fragrance, feeling peaceful in his heart.
"Your Majesty, why did the King of Qi rebel?"
Yu Ji asked with deep concern. Xiang Yu sighed softly. Even though he was an invincible military leader, no one could be strong all the time. In front of Yu Ji, he was finally able to take off his disguise.
"Because I ceded Qi's land to Chu and wanted to suppress him, of course he would rebel."
Xiang Yu said calmly. Yu Ji was stunned for a moment, then said, "My king, you are the hero in my heart. You would not do this for no reason. Would you like to tell me the reason?"
Xiang Yu stretched out his hand and took Yu Ji's soft body into his arms. Recalling the past, a look of disdain gradually appeared on his face, and he said in a deep voice: "To defeat the unjust and punish the tyrannical Qin, the Shandong heroes rose up and eventually destroyed the Qin Dynasty.
But the fact is that these nobles of the six countries are timid towards the Qin army, but greedy and cruel to their own people. Should such allies be trusted?
If it weren't for Uncle He Ji who led the Jiangdong men to the north to destroy Qin, could they have escaped Zhang Han's purge with just that bunch of trash?
If Luo Gongling was in front of me, I would have nothing to say, but the others are just wild dogs following me to eat Qin Chao's corpse.
Is he worthy of being a king?"
Xiang Yu looked down upon the so-called Shandong heroes from the bottom of his heart, thinking that they were nothing more than a bunch of meritocracy who were simply following behind the Luo and Xiang families to take advantage. A different group of people could still do the same.
Yu Ji was surprised and asked: "My king, if that is the case, you gave them land, why don't they repay your kindness, but betray you instead?"
Xiang Yu said coldly: "Yu'er, you don't understand. There are many people in this world who value loyalty over life and death. For example, the tens of thousands of men who followed me out of Jiangdong are willing to die for me.
But this was not the case for most of the nobles. The Xiang family had been prominent in the State of Chu for eight hundred years, and had fought with the nobles of Chu for eight hundred years, and had seen too many dark and dirty things.
I would not be surprised if the nobles did anything treacherous. Even if I gave all of Qi to the King of Qi, he would still rebel in the end.
In this case, it would be better to weaken their strength. When they rebel, I will have a reason to take back those lands.
After I have pacified all the kings, I will abolish the sacrifices to Haotian, Taiyi, Shaohao, etc., and only sacrifice to Suwang.
The Luo family is really too slow. As early as the Bang Zhou period, they should have worshipped King Su as the only supreme god.
The holy kings in the past all received orders from heaven, but I, Xiang Yu, will receive orders from my ancestors."
Seeing Xiang Yu become high-spirited again when he talked about the Su Wang, Yu Ji hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that it was the Luo family that had been offering sacrifices to the Su Wang. Although the clan system has collapsed and there is no distinction between the major clan and the minor clan, won't you anger the Luo family by doing this?"
Xiang Yu was indeed a descendant of King Su, but according to the clan system, the real ancestor of his line was Luo Yan, just like Liu Bei would not call himself a descendant of Emperor Gao, but only a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan.
Xiang Yu smiled and said, "If it was before, it would be natural, but now I am the Son of Heaven, the common ruler of the world, even if according to the clan law, I must regard the Su Wang as my ancestor.
Besides, why would the Luo family be angry? Although the Luo family and the Xiang family are very distantly related, I am elevating the status of my ancestors. Even if Luo Gongling is in front of me, would he be unwilling?
Eight hundred years have passed since Xiang and Luo separated, and the holy scar has been lost for eight hundred years. Xiang has become the emperor and has obtained the supreme status in the world.
The glory of the old days of the Zhou Dynasty will end, and the Su King will rule in heaven, and his descendants will rule under heaven. "
Looking at Xiang Yu's heroic demeanor, Yu Ji felt dazzled. This was the hero she liked.
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Luo Ling sat in Zhaocheng, reading the words cursing the emperor in the history books, and sighed: "He was appointed by heaven and called himself the emperor, but there is no emperor, he is just a mortal.
Only the Luo family can be said to be truly appointed by heaven, but the Luo family cannot be the supreme emperor.
Ancestor, when will the last shackles on your body be removed?
It is so painful to see people living in misery and to do nothing but try to alleviate it.”
After creating Luo Ling, Ji Zhao fell into a deep sleep again. As his family became more and more powerful, Ji Zhao rarely paid attention to the family and had not expressed his wishes to the family for a long, long time.
Although he knew that everything would end in three thousand years at most, and he knew that the imperial system would not be the mainstream in the future, he could not say it, so the children of the Luo family did not know.
These wise young men are preparing for the continuation of the family for ten thousand years. This is because Luo Ling, as the head of the family, clearly knows how strong the family's foundation is, but most of the time he tries his best to save the family's foundation.
Just like the war to destroy Qin at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Luo family invested a lot of resources to ensure that they could safely survive the most chaotic early period after the establishment of the new dynasty. Once order was formed, the Luo family would no longer need to rely on magic weapons with their capabilities.
The family and the Xia people are like a scale, which must be kept in balance at all times. Once the balance is broken, the children will ultimately defend their ideals with their own lives and will not be forced to use the family's foundation.
Luo Ling still had a clear understanding of the situation in the world. He had long anticipated Xiang Yu's behavior, but he no longer cared about this matter. What he cared about was how King Su would appear in the new dynasty.
With so many resources invested, it is enough for the Luo family to gain some ideological discourse power.
In fact, Luo Ling was momentarily moved when Xiang Yu said that he wanted to offer sacrifices to King Su. Using the existence of King Su to limit the power of kings and prevent them from being unscrupulous and becoming tyrants was what Luo Ling had always wanted to do.
After all, the biggest bug of the Luo family is that they can ensure that the talents and morals of their family members are always above the passing line, which makes it perfect for supervising the king.
When the Su Kings were enfeoffed in the past, most of the nobles at that time were descended from the bloodline of the Three Sovereigns of ancient times and were descendants of the Three Kings and Five Emperors.
But after thousands of years of the Zhou Dynasty, most of them were descendants of the Ji clan. In other words, the Three Kings and Five Emperors were all things of the past, and King Su was the super ancestor.
Luo Ling certainly knew that Xiang Yu respected and loved King Su. If King Su were to appear in the world, he could really limit Xiang Yu's power.
But after thinking it over, Luo Ling forced himself to suppress this idea.
First of all, it is impossible for the King of Su to appear in the world because of this.
Secondly, it is not a good thing to directly promote Su Wang to the only supreme god according to Xiang Yu's idea.
King Su said: To bear the disgrace of the country is to be the master of the country; to bear the misfortune of the country is to be the king of the world.
Even the Lord of the Country and the King of the World have to endure so much criticism, what about an ancestor supreme god?
Ji Zhao himself was not willing to become the supreme god worshipped by countless people, and he was not a believer in God.
But he knew that the Luo family was in great need, and these descendants worked hard to maintain the continuation of the family. How could Ji Zhao make their survival more difficult just because of his dislike?
He loved the Luo family members who had fought for his goals and ideals generation after generation.
Luo Ling's biggest concern was that everyone in the world knew that the Xiang family came from the Luo family. After all, there were very few prestigious families whose direct lineage could continue for eight hundred years. You know, even the direct lineage of the Jiang surname Lu family in Qi State had been killed.
Everyone in the world knows that Xiang Yu is a descendant of Su Wang, and the connection between Xiang and Su Wang is too close.
What if one day the Xiang royal family incurs the wrath of heaven and the people's resentment shifts from the Xiang emperor to King Su?
Even if he was not the Emperor of the Xiang family, there were so many people in the world who paid homage to the King of Su. However, the King of Su could only show his divine power intermittently and it was impossible for him to always pay attention to the world. Many people would certainly be disappointed or even curse him. This was very normal.
So it was necessary to find a shield for King Su. Luo Ling researched and researched and found that the previous God was very suitable and his status was high enough to take the blame.
The sky is still the same sky, and Su Wang appears as a kind of sky with fairness and justice. He sometimes sleeps and sometimes wakes up. When he wakes up, he will punish the dynasties and people who are guilty.
As for the time when you are sleeping, God is still there, and it has nothing to do with King Su.
When people pray, they call out to Su Wang. If Su Wang does not respond, they curse God. It is perfect.
This was the most suitable positioning for King Su that Luo Ling came up with. From the moment this idea appeared in his mind, he and Xiang Yu had an essential conflict.
The Su Wang is the most untouchable point of the Luo family.
This is a completely unfair fight. Luo Ling is the one who can truly meet King Su, so how can Xiang Yu fight him?
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The process of King Su becoming the supreme god of the Xia civilization is a miracle in the history of religion. He matured in a very short period of time and influenced people from both the upper and lower classes of the empire at the same time. This is unique among all the polytheistic countries in the world.
I don’t even know if I should use the word religion. He is undoubtedly the supreme god of civilization, but there is no religious group that exists around him, or the emperors and nobles of the Xia Empire are members of this group. ——"The Evolution of Chinese Religion"
Xiang Yu had no intention of replacing Da Zong's position. He simply thought that since he had become the Son of Heaven he should offer sacrifices to the Su Wang. He wanted to make his ancestor into a supreme god, just like those who posthumously conferred titles on their ancestors as emperors in later generations. However, the idea of the short-lived race was different from that of the Luo family who could live for thousands of years. This was the point of disagreement. I should have written it clearly.
(End of this chapter)
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