03. Zhao and Han's careful thinking was rejected by Weiss, who advocated the development of national strength first

Jinde Gongji was very angry.

In the past, although these families did not pay attention to the monarch, the process that should be taken had to go a little, and the rules that should be observed would still be obeyed, even if they attacked each other, there was always one party acting in the name of the office. Now it's good, you say fight, after the fight does not even say hello, you will wipe out the whole clan of the people, people's territory you say will be divided, you Zhao, Wei, Han three families in the eyes of me, the monarch?

Therefore, the Duke of Jin sent a letter to borrow troops from Qi and Lu to attack the Zhao, Wei, and Han tribes. But unexpectedly, his soldiers had not yet been borrowed, and these three families counterattacked the capital with the power of great victory, and jin had to flee in a hurry, and finally died of illness on the road.

Although it is said that the Zhou royal family subsequently established Ji Jiao, a son of the duke of Jin, as the Marquis of Jin, it was for the Duke of Jin. However, after the Escape of the Duke of Jin, the rest of the land of the Jin State had been divided equally between the Zhao, Wei, and Han families, leaving him with only the capitals of the state, Daidi and Quwo, allowing him to sacrifice his ancestors, collect taxes, and barely survive the day.

It should be noted here that although at this time the three families of Zhao, Wei, and Han were already called the clan and were actually princes, after all, they had not yet been recognized by the Zhou royal family, so foreign conquest and diplomacy still had to be under the banner of the Jin state, so they were called the Three Jins, which were for Zhao Jin, Wei Jin, and Han Jin.

Now, it is time to take stock of the fruits of victory. Zhao, who contributed the most to the Battle of Zhizhi and certainly profited the most, gained most of the land in the northern part of the Jin Dynasty and crossed the Taihang Mountains to the east to occupy both Handan and Zhongmu, which refers to the area around hebi in present-day Henan, rather than Zhongmu County in Zhengzhou.

The Wei clan was a little embarrassed at this time, it was adjacent to the Yellow River and Qin in the west, pressed against the Zhao clan on the top, adjacent to the Qi clan in the east, and the part below was the Han clan, and the other part crossed the Yellow River to meet the Chu.

The Han clan was the most miserable, occupying only a part of the present-day southern Shanxi and northern Henan, and was also bordered by Zhao Wei to the north, the Qin state to the west, and the Chu state to the south.

From a geographical point of view, the place where the Wei and Han er clans are located is simply the place where soldiers often say that they are dead, and once a war occurs, they have no strategic depth to maneuver in addition to hard gangs—in fact, two hundred years later, in the battle of the Six Kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Han really did not have any decent resistance.

In fact, now the Zhao clan wanted to destroy the Wei clan and the Han clan.

In 425 BC, Zhao Wuxian died, and his nickname was Xiang, so he was called Zhao Xiangzi.

Before his death, Zhao Wuxian became the suzerainty of the Zhao clan because he was a concubine, and he was quite impressed with his brother Zhao Lu, so he wanted to make Zhao Lu's son Zhao Zhou the heir. However, Zhao Zhou died early, so he also established Zhao Zhou's son Zhao Huan as his heir.

But the problem was that he had a son of his own. Therefore, just after his death on the front foot, his son Zhao Jia expelled Zhao Huan and established himself as the suzerainty of the Zhao clan.

But Zhao Jia was also a short-lived ghost, and he died within a year of succeeding to the throne. The People of the Zhao Clan said that Zhao Xiangzi had no intention of establishing Zhao Jia as the monarch, and that the establishment of his son was incompatible with the patriarchy. Therefore, he killed Zhao Jia's son, and welcomed zhao Huan back and became the suzerain.

Zhao Huan also wanted to be a suzerain with achievements, so he first moved the capital of the Zhao clan from Jinyang to Zhongmu, and then lobbied the Wei clan to join forces with Wei to destroy Han, and then divided the Han clan equally.

But at this time, the owner of the Wei family was Weiss.

Wei Si was the grandson of Wei Ju, and his father died early, so he took over the burden of wei's suzerainty from his grandfather twenty years ago, that is, in 445 BC.

In addition, after Zhao Wuxi's death, he also assumed the position of Zhengqing of the Jin State—although this position was no longer meaningful, but at least nominally, he also exercised power on behalf of the Jin State. This was also one of the reasons why Zhao Huan wanted to unite with him to destroy Han.

But coincidentally, at this time, Han Qizhang, the lord of the Han family, also wanted to unite with Wei Si to destroy Zhao, and then divide the Zhao clan equally.

Their offer was very explicitly rejected by Weiss.

He said to Zhao Huan: You don't have the idea of dividing Wei and Han and then breaking each other, because your Zhao Kingdom is too strong, so both of us know very well that cooperating with you is yu Hu's skin. So, I'm not going to help you fight Korea.

He said to Han Qizhang again: "Don't think that we can jointly kill him Zhao Huan, Zhao Guo is too strong, so this idea is unrealistic." If you really want to fight hard, the result can only be a lose-lose situation.

So what can we do without fighting?

Wei Si analyzed with them: The Jin Dynasty was surrounded by mountains and rivers, too closed, and if you wanted to expand, you had to use troops against Qin, Qi, Chu and other countries. But if the three of us fight back and forth and drag each other back, then no one can think about development. Therefore, only when the three of us unite and unite to the outside world can we have a way out.

Zhao Huan and Han Qizhang both felt that this Wei Si was quite reasonable, very sensible, and they were completely convinced. Although the two brothers are still a bit undeciful, they at least give up infighting, work hard in each other, and continue to bravely advance towards the current hegemony of the powerful country.

But only Under the wise leadership of Wei Si, the Wei clan walked in the forefront of the Three Jins through external expansion and internal reform.

In fact, Wei Si had already sent troops to cross the Yellow River in the west a few years after becoming the head of the family, about 440 BC, and built a city in Shaoliang, which is now the southwest of Hancheng in Shaanxi, with the intention of using this city as Wei's military stronghold in Hexi. He then sent Shizi Wei to linjin and Yuanli to build cities.

Linjin here is in the area of dali county in shaanxi province, and Yuanli is in chengcheng county in shaanxi province, and if you open the map, you can see that these two places are close to Weinan in Shaanxi Province. Although it is said that the capital of the Qin state at this time was Yongcheng, which is now the Baoji area, hundreds of kilometers away from the front line, the Hexi region west of the Yellow River and east of the Beiluo River was the richest area in the Guanzhong Plain, and for this place, the Qin and Jin countries had been fighting for more than a hundred years like a tug-of-war.

Now that the Jin state had collapsed, it was even more unlikely that the Qin state would give up the land of Hexi. Therefore, in the face of the invading Wei army, the reigning Duke of Qin, on the one hand, sent an army to meet the enemy, on the other hand, from the southeast of Huayin County, northeast across the Wei River, along the right bank of the Beiluo River to build the Great Wall of Qin, to prevent the Wei army from entering the hinterland of Guanzhong.

After all, the Wei clan was fighting across the river, and although the soldiers were powerful, the Qin army was geographically convenient. Moreover, in order to resist the Wei army, Duke Jian of Qin not only required officials to be equipped with swords, but also allowed civilians to carry swords, which can be said that the whole people were armed, setting off the qin people's martial style. Therefore, the Qin and Wei armies held each other in the land of Hexi for more than ten years, until Zhai Huang, the minister of the Wei state, recommended Wu Qi, a Wei state, to Wei Si as a general.

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