Spring and Autumn 295 (11) The State of Qin appeared to destroy Rui Chen Huan killed his nephew and established himself

In the next year, in 708 BC, the Qin state appeared. In the autumn of that year, the State of Qin invaded the State of Rui, which was a small state surnamed Ji within the Zhou Dynasty, and the State of Qin easily defeated it.

The State of Qin was a state with the surname Ying, which began during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, the eighth generation of the Zhou Dynasty. At that time, King Xiao of Zhou was a descendant of the ancient emperor Emperor Huan, Bo Yi's descendant FeiZi, who was a vassal, and the land he was enfeoffed was Qin. When it came to the sixth monarch of the Qin state, Qin Xianggong (嬴開), because of his meritorious crusade against Xi Rong, King Ping of Zhou gave the land of Qi and Feng to Qin Xianggong, and the Qin state was only listed as a princely state. Therefore, the State of Qin is different from the Princely States of Zheng, Jin, Wei, and Chen, which we mentioned earlier, it is a post-feudal princely state, and it is more distant than the relationship between the Central Plains Princely States and the Zhou Dynasty. Since then, the capital of the State of Qin has been moved repeatedly, and in the ninth year of the Duke of Luyin, it was moved to Pingyang, which was in the second year of the ninth monarch of the State of Qin. The year in which the State of Qin invaded the State of Rui was the eighth year of Qin Ning's reign.

It is said that the State of Qin was only a small princely state at this time, but it had already dared to invade the State of Rui within the King of Zhou Tianzi, which once again showed the decline of Zhou Tianzi and the gradual rise of the State of Qin.

Of course, the reason why the State of Rui was easily defeated by the State of Qin was, on the one hand, that the military strength of the State of Qin was higher than that of the State of Rui, but on the other hand, it was inseparable from the problems of the State of Rui itself. Although the State of Rui was a small country, it was a country that Zhou Tianzi relied on very much during the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, King Wu of Zhou, also known as King Cheng of Zhou, sealed rui boliang, a disciple of the same surname, the secretary of state, in Rui and defended the Zhou royal family, and since then, the king of the state of Rui has been concurrently serving as the qing doctor in the Zhou royal family. This can be seen from the death of King Zhou Cheng, when Rui Bo was ordered to become one of the six ministers. After the fall of Western Zhou, the Zhou royal family moved east to Luoyi, and although the State of Rui survived the turmoil of the regime, the Zhou royal family declined, and it was still difficult for Zhou Tianzi to protect itself, and there was no ability to protect a small country like the State of Rui. Therefore, Qin Ninggong sent an army to attack the State of Rui, and the State of Rui only had to be beaten.

The most important thing is that the times have changed, the Son of Heaven is in decline, the princes are in strife, in such a turbulent era, always keeping a vigilant eye, may not be able to maintain the national society, but the Rui state in the cracks between the big powers has no sense of crisis. At this time, the monarch of the Rui kingdom was Rui Bowan, who did not exert himself to govern, and tried to save the society in the chaotic world, and all his thoughts were used on women.

Rui Bowan was a very person, and there were many women in the palace. To what extent is Rebevam? To the extent that his mother, Rui Jiang, couldn't look up to him. Even because of Rui Bowan's lust, his mother Rui Jiang blasted Rui Bowan out of the capital of Rui Last year. At that time, Rui Bowan, who was driven out of the country by his mother-in-law, had no choice but to go to Weidi to live for a while. Therefore, when the Qin army came to attack the State of Rui, the State of Rui was in a state where the monarch was not at home and the dragons were leaderless, could it not be easily defeated by the State of Qin?

What is even more fatal is that the Duke of Qin Ning sent troops to destroy the State of Rui within the Zhou King, occupying the territory of the State of Rui, and king Huan of Zhou not only did not condemn the Duke of Qin Ning, but in the winter of the year in which the State of Qin defeated the State of Rui, together with the Duke of Qin Ning, he sent troops to surround the Wei land where Rui Bowan was living, and captured Rui Bowan. What is it? This is the leading big brother you have been following, and it does not cover you anymore, what do you do? Dumbfounded!

In the second year of Qin's destruction of Rui, in the first month of 707 BC, Chen Guo changed the heavens, because Chen Huan's Duke Xue died.

Regarding the death of Chen Huangong, it is said that although he was the monarch of a country, he actually suffered from mental illness, and he died of an onset of illness. Although Chen Huangong may be suffering from mental illness, I think it should not be serious. Because he had reigned for 37 years before and after, if a person was really very ill and had great mental problems, it would be impossible for him to stay in this position for so long, that is, he himself thought that the doctors of his country, including those ambitious sons and grandsons, would certainly not agree. Another point is that after Wei Guozhou called for the killing of Wei Huan Gong, The Wei Guo Doctor Shi Wei asked Chen Huangong to help kill Zhou Wu and quell the Wei Guo rebellion. A monarch who can govern the country for 37 years internally and can help other countries quell rebellions externally shows that even if there is a problem with his body, the problem will never be too big - Chen Huangong has always been chen guo's dinghai god needle.

Because of this, as soon as Duke Huan of Chen died, Chen Guo immediately went into chaos--his younger brother Gongzi Tuo, the mother country was Cai Guo, as soon as Chen Huangong died, Cai Guo killed the fifth father and the son of Chen Huangong for Gongzi Tuo, and then established Gongzi Tuo as the prince of Chen Guojun, for Chen Ligong.

The history of China is full of killings between brothers and nephews. This is determined by system and blood. After the family world, the basic logic of succession is "father dies and son succeeds, brother dies brother and brother". The succession of the father and the son is orthodox, and the death of the brother and the brother are complementary.

When this system of succession was first formulated, it may have been based on the fact that when there were no sons who could inherit the throne, they would be brotherly, thus ensuring the continuation of power and blood. However, in practice, brothers die and brothers change their taste.

Sometimes, the previous generation of monarchs did not have no sons, but out of the idea of passing on the throne and passing on the throne to the son, they crossed the "father and the son" and directly entered the "brother dies and the brother". For example, it was for this reason that Song Xuangong passed the throne of the Song State to his younger brother Song Mugong before his death.

Sometimes, although the previous generation of monarchs passed on to their sons, their sons were all brothers and brothers, and you pushed me to let me, and no one refused to be the master of the house, and finally let go, and no one sat in this seat, or finally the younger brother sat on the throne; the former such as Bo Yi and Shu Qi, the two sons of Gu Zhujun in the last years of Yin Shang, and the latter, such as Muyi and HeZifu (Zifu, the later Song Xianggong), the two sons of the Duke huan of Song that we will talk about later.

History was so mixed up that it began to fork. If the brother himself has a son but has to pass the throne to the younger brother, the son may be upset and then come out to fight with the uncle for the world. The nephew sits in the world, but the uncle, who is also the son of the previous generation of monarchs, thinks that he has not been able to "succeed the father and the son", and he cannot "die brother and brother", and may also come out to fight with the nephew for the world. It is a normal father who dies and succeeds his son, and it is difficult to be satisfied with the status quo when he encounters a younger brother who has ambitions, and Zheng Guo's co-uncle Duan belongs to this kind.

Chen Guo's son Tuo (Chen Ligong), on the other hand, belonged to his uncle and killed his nephew, stood on his own, and used blood and force to sabotage the "father dies and son succession" that Chen Huangong has arranged, in order to achieve the actual "brother dies brother and brother". Unfortunately, Chen Ligong did not have strong reinforcements, and Chen Huangong had another son in addition to the prince. Therefore, after Chen Ligong killed the crown prince to avoid self-reliance, one of Chen Huan's sons, Gongzi Yue, with the help of his mother's uncle's family, killed Chen Guo six years later and killed his uncle Chen Ligong.

What's going on here? It turned out that Chen Ligong was married to Cai Nu, but his wife had committed adultery with Cai Huan Gong, and Chen Li Gong had also gone to Cai Guo many times to declare adultery. This incident probably annoyed Cai Huangong, who instead supported Gongzi Yue, the younger brother of Prince Huan of Chen, who was also cai out. In the seventh year of Chen Ligong, Gongzi Yue, together with his two younger brothers Gongzi Lin and Gongzi Jiuusu, jointly persuaded Cai Huangong, and then Cai Huangong used the state-owned beauty as bait to deceive Chen Ligong to Cai Guo, and then killed Chen Ligong, and then ligong Zi jumped to the position of Chen Guojun, for Chen Ligong. However, this Duke Of Chen Li had a very short life, and died in May of that year, and then his younger brother Gongzi Lin took the throne as the Duke of Chen Zhuang.