After a few days, the Zhou army captured 10,000 people and returned to Xiqi.

Later, the Zhou army will send out a group of elite soldiers and horses, holding the talismans of King Shang and Marquis Xibo, to escort this group of people to Chaoge City to guard against plundering by blind princes who are short of slaves.

This journey would probably take about five months to travel by foot power alone.

If you use an exotic frame, it can be reduced to one month.

When the Shang envoys came, they brought a fleet of vehicles. Five hundred huge carriages were parked outside Xiqi City, filled with Qiang people, and returned to Chaoge City.

In the days that followed, Ji Chang became extremely anxious.

He couldn't sleep at night, couldn't eat well, and kept looking east toward Song City.

At this time, Li Jidan was still two years old, and he and Si Xin were still in the same room. Of course, even if they were in different rooms, Li Ping'an could still use his celestial sense to capture the conversation between Ji Chang and Si Xin.

"Husband, don't worry. The messenger wanted to die. Everyone who accompanied the messenger has confirmed this. How can King Shang blame him?"

"Alas," Ji Chang sighed, "if the king wants to punish the envoy, even if the messenger hurts a hair, there is still a reason to blame!"

Si Xin sighed: "But things have already happened, so what can you do if you are still worried?"

"What I'm afraid of is not the lives of our family," Ji Chang said. "My ancestors of the Zhou Kingdom have worked hard until now to have this family fortune. If the family fortune does not survive, how can I face my ancestors?"

Si Xin said: "Then it would be better to send an envoy to Chaoge City to inquire about it."

Ji Chang thought for a while, then shook his head: "Your Majesty is extremely alert, and the merchants look down on us border barbarians. No matter how many gifts you give, it will be difficult for them to become our own, and it will make them greedy.

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"What should we do?"

"Wait," Ji Chang sighed, "birds, birds, don't bring disaster."

Li Ping'an was startled when he heard this.

Flying birds?

Isn’t the origin of the Shang Kingdom the allusion of the black bird giving birth to Shang?

Then this flying bird...

Li Ping'an's celestial sense swept through Ji Chang's secret cellar and found the bird symbols that were carefully carved on the shell pieces hanging on the wall.

These symbols all represented some words in Ji Chang's eyes. If they were all through simple pictographic metaphors, then the contents on these shells would not be difficult to explain.

Li Ping'an studied it carefully and soon found familiar symbols on the shell pieces hanging on his back.

Bagua Yaowen.

And it is not the innate Bagua in ancient times, but the superposition of Bagua and Bagua, such as the upper hexagram Qian and the lower hexagram Kun, doubling the complexity.

Sixty-four hexagrams?

What is Ji Chang doing?

Li Ping'an became even more puzzled, and a little more curious in his heart. He began to focus on Ji Chang's actions. Even if his body fell asleep, this ray of soul would be very active.

Two days later, in the dead of night, Ji Chang got up from his house and went to his study, which was guarded by personal guards at all times.

Li Ping'an immediately woke up and stared at Ji Chang's actions.

Ji Chang had a lot of common sense. Although some ventilation holes were built in the cellar, after he opened the entrance to the secret room, he still stayed for a moment to make sure that the inside was fully ventilated, and then he carefully entered with a bronze lamp.

Ji Chang first stood on the wall covered with ancient shell pieces and stopped to think quietly.

He was usually of average height, but now under the dim light, he looked unusually tall.

He kept thinking with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

"It's lucky."

Ji Chang whispered, then turned and walked to the desk, placed the lamp on the corner of the table, skillfully picked up a sharp carving knife, and took out the shell coins wrapped in the cloth bag.

There are several identical symbols written on the shell coins, and those symbols seem to represent the results of divination, which is auspicious.

"Then the envoy died suddenly in our army. How can this be considered auspicious?"

He took two shell coins, placed them in front of him, thought carefully, and slowly carved a line of small pictographic characters.

【Ninety-three: The villain uses strength, the gentleman uses it with abandon. Chasity and sharpness. If a sheep touches the vassal, its horn will be broken.】

Ji Chang sighed: "The capture of the Qiang people went smoothly."

Afterwards, Ji Chang got up, walked to the wall, and hung the shell piece in one of the sixty-four areas. The line in this area was the Dazhuang hexagram.

Li Ping'an thought carefully, and Ji Chang's words "catch the Qiang people" suddenly made him realize.

This sentence doesn't seem to have a very profound meaning, it just means... to capture villains, use strong men to capture them, and to capture Qiang leaders, use a net. Leaders are precious human sacrifices and cannot be injured casually.

That sheep pictogram seems to refer to the Qiang people?

Li Ping'an slowly tilted his head and looked at the second shell coin carved by Ji Chang.

[Sixty-Four: If you are blessed, the blood will go away from where you are jealous, and there will be no blame.]

Ji Chang murmured: "These injured prisoners must be taken good care of, and they cannot be allowed to die on the road... Alas, the Shang kings of all dynasties have offered so many sacrifices to God, and so many Shang kings are the ministers and ministers of God.

Servants, God will definitely protect the Shang Kingdom."

The shell coin was hung in another area of ​​the wall.

Afterwards, Ji Chang looked at the third shell and fell into deep thought, not in a hurry to write anything on it.

Li Ping'an now roughly understood what Ji Chang was doing.

Ji Chang is thinking.

To be precise, Ji Chang was thinking about the working mechanism of divination and hexagrams.

Before doing something, for example, before going out to capture the Qiang people, you should make a divination to determine the bad luck. After you come back, you can summarize the whole process and verify whether the divination is correct. If it is not correct, correct the divination method.

King Wen's performance of the sixty-four hexagrams was not based on calculations or hexagrams.

Instead, we constantly summarize, let the phenomena in reality correspond to the hexagrams, and then gradually master the ability to interpret the hexagrams.

If you can interpret the hexagrams, you can understand God and find a way to get closer to God.

In this somewhat narrow and dark cellar, the middle-aged scribe, who was fearful of the King of Shang's punishment, was actually thinking about one thing.

The right of the Shang king to worship gods.

(End of chapter)
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