"By Order of the Human Sovereign!"
Wen Zhong was the first to respond.
The other civil and military officials also knelt in homage, loudly proclaiming, "The Great King is benevolent and virtuous."
This old stick-in-the-mud, Shang Rong, had quite a few objections to abolishing human sacrifice.
He felt it was far too frivolous.
How could sacrifices that had lasted for thousands of years simply be abolished at a word?
But the Great King clearly would not listen to an old fossil like him.
To avoid bringing trouble upon his family, Shang Rong chose to keep his mouth shut.
Shang Rong was not the only one.
There were many old fossils in court.
Yet all of them were cowed by Di Xin's imperial might and did not dare step forward.
And so, the two edicts of the Human Sovereign left Chaoge.
With Chaoge as their center, they spread throughout every corner of Great Shang!
One stone stirred up a thousand waves!
Naturally, the common people of Great Shang supported their Great King.
Moreover, abolishing human sacrifice and no longer using people as sacrificial offerings was obviously a good thing.
Those who supported using people as sacrificial offerings—could they guarantee that their families would never decline, that they or their descendants would never become one of those offerings?
For their own sake and for the sake of their descendants, this cruel practice of human sacrifice was better off abolished.
But beyond Great Shang,
the reactions varied.
Some ignorant folk were incited to protest, claiming that the central court should not disrespect Heaven and should not abolish human sacrifice.
Whether out of ignorance or manipulation by those with ulterior motives, there were even more voices slandering and cursing Di Xin.
Di Xin did not care in the slightest.
A True Dragon would not