“Hmm…”
Yan Jiaoran raised her head slightly, staring with her big watery eyes, and asked:
"Why don't you continue?"
Qin Yuan pinched Ming Zhanxue's snowballs and scolded her with a smile, "Call me husband!"
"Ah!" Yan Jiaoran cried out softly, her face flushed.
Her beautiful eyes widened as she glared at Qin Yuan fiercely, saying viciously, "No!"
Qin Yuan patted her butt and said leisurely: "Ah——"
"I am sleepy, please wait for the next chapter."
Yan Jiaoran was listening with great interest, how could she wait until seven days later!
Biting her rosy lips, she hurriedly whispered, "Husband...husband..."
"What? I can't hear you. What did you say?" Qin Yuan pretended to lie down and go to sleep.
"Husband..." Yan Jiaoran lay on Qin Yuan's body and said in a sweet voice.
"Beg me!" Qin Yuan became more and more demanding.
Yan Jiaoran gnashed her teeth and said bitterly, "Husband... please, please continue..."
She forced a sweet smile on her face.
"That's more like it."
Qin Yuan pinched her snow-white hair again and continued, "In fact, the essence of the dynasty stems from these eight words."
"With the development of productivity, that is, the improvement of the ability to grow food, various forms of change will occur around these eight words."
"Next, we will talk about the early form of the dynasty - the slave dynasty."
Yan Jiaoran murmured, "Slavery?"
"Yes." Qin Yuan nodded and said with a smile, "My lady, after what I have explained before, you should know that the first dynasty was the Xia Dynasty, and the next dynasty was the Shang Dynasty, right?"
"Yes, I know." Yan Jiaoran replied.
"Okay then." Qin Yuan smiled and asked, "Madam, what is your first impression of these two dynasties?"
"Or, when you mention these two dynasties, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?"
In Yan Jiaoran's opinion, King Jie of Xia and King Zhou of Shang were extremely cruel.
King Jie of Xia released wild beasts to hunt the people for fun.
King Zhou of Shang invented horrific punishments such as burning people alive with fire.
So she blurted out without thinking: "Xia Jie and Shang Zhou were tyrants in ancient times."
"You answered very well."
Seeing that Qin Yuan did not continue asking, Yan Jiaoran secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought this bastard would ask:
How many generations did these two dynasties last?
Where is the capital and what is its significance and value?
If she couldn't go back and look up the book, she wouldn't be able to remember these questions.
Fortunately!
Qin Yuan did not ask these questions, but asked a question that sounded strange.
"Then my lady, have you ever thought about why they are so cruel?"
Yan Jiaoran frowned slightly and asked uncertainly, "Is it because they are cruel by nature..."
"No."
Qin Yuan used a little more force, spanked Ming Zhanxue's butt, and scolded: "Wife!"
"It's obvious you haven't read history books carefully."
"Otherwise, you will definitely find that it wasn't just the last ruler of these two dynasties who was cruel, but the entire ruling class was cruel!"
"During the reign of Emperor Zhongkang, Xi and He indulged in licentiousness, wasting time and causing chaos."
"Emperor Kongjia ascended the throne, and he was fond of ghosts and gods, and engaged in promiscuity."
"Emperor Taijia reigned for three years, but he was ignorant, tyrannical, and did not follow the laws of Tang, and he disrupted morality."
"When Emperor Zu Geng died, his younger brother Zu Jia ascended to the throne, becoming Emperor Jia. Emperor Jia was promiscuous, and the Yin Dynasty declined again."
"Emperor Wu Yi was a wicked man. He made a puppet, calling it a celestial being, and played with it, asking people to do the moves. The celestial being was defeated, so he killed it and humiliated it."
"Since the reign of Zhong Ding, the heir apparent has been deposed and replaced by his disciples. Disciples have vied with each other for the throne, leading to chaos for more than nine generations. Consequently, the princes have stopped attending court."
Qin Yuan has been a human for two lifetimes, and for some reason, his memory has become extremely good and he can remember everything he sees.
I finally know what it felt like to be the academic genius in my previous life.
He immediately told everyone what was in the history books.
Then he said:
"How brutal were the Xia and Shang dynasties?"
"The selection of infants and virgins for human sacrifice was called 'human sacrifice' and was a common practice."
"Not to mention the large-scale slaughter of slaves and even cannibalism, such as King Zhou making meatballs out of Ji Chang's son Bo Yikao..."
"This top-down brutality, even called the Reign of Terror, stems from the fact that they were a slave-owning dynasty, and they didn't even treat slaves as human beings."
"Ma'am, do you understand?"
Yan Jiaoran nodded woodenly.
"Well, ma'am, I want to ask you a question."
Qin Yuan looked at his wife and asked another test question.
"Then my lady, have you ever thought about it?"
"Why did the Zhou Dynasty, after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, which didn't treat slaves as human beings, not continue its brutal slave rule but instead became a feudal dynasty?"
"Is it because King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, and Duke of Zhou were all kind-hearted by nature that they didn't do that?"
"Why did the Duke of Zhou create the Rites of Zhou, which to some extent protected slaves?"
Yan Jiaoran was stunned by the question.
How would she know that!
Who would read these history books so seriously!
At this moment, she really wanted to ask, Yanran, what do you think?
She remembered something that seemed to be recorded in the Book of Rites...
Feeling Qin Yuan's burning gaze, in order not to be looked down upon by this bastard.
Yan Jiaoran gritted her teeth and replied, "It must be because King Zhou of Shang's rule was too brutal, causing widespread resentment among the people and causing the princes to become disloyal and betray him."
"With war reignited throughout the world, people are beginning to doubt the status of the 'Son of Heaven'. Therefore, the need for rituals and laws to establish order is not there?"
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