During the reign of Duke Xuan of Qin for twelve years, there are few records in the history books, only a few words, and only two major events are recorded, the first major event occurred in the year of Xuangong's ascension to the throne, that is, in 676 BC, when he encountered the "rebellion of the prince's decadence". "In the year of Xuan A.D., Wei and Yan fell into the Zhou Dynasty, and the Prince of Hui and lied up as princes. Three years later, Zheng Bo and Uncle Yu killed the prince and entered the Hui King. ”
King Hui of Zhou was the fifth king of Eastern Zhou, the first King ping of Zhou died and passed the throne to his grandson King Heng of Zhou (the prince died early), followed by King Zhuang of Zhou, who passed the throne to King Huan of Zhou (同釐 xi), and King Huan passed the throne to King Hui of Zhou. King Hui succeeded to the throne in 676 BC and began to do things as soon as he ascended the throne. First of all, he confiscated the garden of his uncle Prince Decadent Teacher Fangguo, which was a piece of land enclosed by a fence and planted vegetables, and now King Hui of Zhou changed this vegetable garden into a garden, which is the Wang family ranch. Who is the prince," he is the son of King Zhuang of Zhou, King Zhuang of Zhou likes him very much, King Zhuang of Zhou does not like the eldest son, but the system of succession to the throne of the Zhou Dynasty is the "system of succession of concubines", after the death of King Zhuang, the eldest son of King Zhou Zhuang succeeds to the throne, and the king of Zhou reigns for five years. King Huan of Zhou passed the throne to his son King Hui of Zhou, so Prince Hui was the uncle of King Hui of Zhou.
It was not enough to take the minister's vegetable garden, and King Hui of Zhou did not know which tendon was wrong, and continued to provoke trouble. The palace of the doctor Bianbo (the doctor's residence can also be called the palace), next to the palace, king Hui of Zhou forcibly occupied it, which was the second doctor who offended. In this way, King Hui of Zhou seized the fields of two great masters, Bird Zhu Kneeling and Zhan Father, which were the third and fourth to offend.
This was not the end of it, and King Hui of Zhou stopped the salary of the doctor's cook Shi Suo, who was the official name and the chief of the Tianzi family. Occupying the minister's fields and houses, stopping the minister's salary, you said that this week King Hui came up like a "bandit", how can the throne sit still?
Sure enough, the five masters conspired to rebel with another minister, Su Shi, who had been seized twelve pieces of land by King Huan of Zhou (King Zhuang of Zhou's father).
In 676 BC, that is, in the autumn of the first year of King Hui of Zhou, The State of Pu, Bian Bo, Shi Su, Zhan Father, and Zi Yan Zhu joined forces with the Su clan to launch a rebellion, and the five doctors supported Zi Decadence and attacked King Hui, but did not succeed and fled to Wen. Wen was the first fief of the Su clan, so Su Zi was also called Wen, and then he was driven to Weiguo.
Several doctors and princes said that they would defend the country and the Yan kingdom to cut down the Zhou. Why did Wei Guo and Yan Guo take this trip to muddy waters? Wei Guo was also a prince surnamed Ji, a fief of King Wu of Zhou's younger brother Uncle Kang, who became the chief of the princes during the Western Zhou Dynasty and occupied a leading position in the princely states for a long time, and although the Wei state declined in the Eastern Zhou Period, the skinny camel Bima was still a strong country. However, Duke Hui of Wei was also a monarch who experienced ups and downs, and in his early years as the eldest son of a concubine, he became the Marquis of Wei, but was soon ousted by his elder brother Gongzi Qianmu, and it was only ten years later that Duke Hui of Wei regained his throne, but Gongzi Qianmu ran to the King of Zhou, was taken in, and became the son-in-law of the King of Zhou. The State of Yan here is not the State of Yan with the surname Ji but the State of Ancient Yan, historically known as the State of Southern Yan, because it was once the head of the princes of Western Zhou, it has always been mixed with the State of Wei. The Wei Yan coalition army was still very strong, or since King Zhou You had completely destroyed the elite of the Zhou Chamber's Heavenly Son's Army, the Zhou Chamber had been in civil strife one after another, and militarily it was a weak chicken. King Hui of Zhou was defeated and ran to the State of Zheng, and in the winter of that year, prince Li became the King of Zhou. In fact, in the early Spring and Autumn Period, the Weiguo Zheng State was regarded as a strong country.
It was such a thing that spread to the Qin State, and the Qin State was discussed. Many ministers said that we were going to help King Hui of Zhou, and once, we helped King Ping of Zhou and obtained the title of founding the country, and this time there must be greater gains. Some ministers said that we were once the little brother of the King of Zhou, and the eldest brother had difficulties, and the younger brother must come out of the horse. Some ministers believe that our Qin state has always adhered to the "eastward strategy", which is a good opportunity.
King Xuan of Qin did not think so. First of all, King Hui of Zhou took the things of his courtiers, and his fault was first. Secondly, the rebellion of the princes was essentially a family affair of the King of Zhou, and foreign princes such as the State of Qin were not well involved, and Wei, and later the State of Zheng and the State of Yu were all princes surnamed Ji. Third, the most important point is that our Qin state has only recently arrived in the Guanzhong Plain, its foundation is unstable, its strength is not strong, and it is forced to participate in it, and even if it wins, it will not be able to hold the fruits of victory. Fourth, a powerful country like the Jin Dynasty has not moved. The last point Qin Xuangong did not say, Xuangong only ascended the throne, first of all to stabilize the interior.
Everyone felt that what Qin Xuangong said was very reasonable. He did not participate in the rebellion of the prince.
Later, Zheng Ligong, the ruler of the state of Zheng, joined forces with the state of Yu to support King Hui of Zhou, first attacking the state of Southern Yan, capturing the king of Southern Yan, and then attacking the prince, and winning a great victory, and King Hui of Zhou returned to the throne. The "Rebellion of the Princes" ends.
The State of Qin did not participate in this war, but instead cultivated obscurity and accumulated strength. At this time, the eastern neighbor Jin civil unrest ended, Quwo Daiyi, destroyed Emperor Dazong, the Duke of Jinwu died, the Jin Xiangong ascended the throne, reformed the powerful country, and began to attack on all sides.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the geographical location of the divided Jin state was the northern gate of the Zhou, blocking the invasion of the northern nomads, and the Jin state had been fighting against the Northern Di in time, opening up territory and opening up territory, which was fruitful. However, to its east is the powerful country Qi, to the south is Zhou Zheng, who is also surnamed Ji, and only the west of the Yellow River in the west is bordered by the Qin state, which has always been relatively backward and barbaric in the eyes of the eastern countries. Therefore, after the integration of the Jin State, it decided to develop westward, constantly testing the bottom line of the Qin State and encroaching on the territory of the Qin State. In 672 BC, in the face of several invasions by the powerful Jin state, Xuangong Zhumiqi sacrificed the Qing Emperor (why pay tribute to the Qing Emperor?). ), and finally went to war against the Jin Dynasty. This was the first large-scale battle of qin and Jin, and the state of Qin, after careful deployment, still defeated the state of Jin in a weak situation. Since then, wars between Qin and Jin have become commonplace, and the Qin people's eastward strategy has encountered an iron plate.
Qin Xuangong's strategy of raising obscurity further consolidated the Qin state internally, accumulated strength, and prepared for the later outbreak of the Qin state.
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