Read the Chronicle of History (Thirty-Three): Thirty Dynasties, Qi Taigong Family

The ancestor of the State of Qi

Jiang Shang ,ZiYa, ancestral assistant Dayu Zhishui meritorious, Yu Xia was enfeoffed with Lü, so from his surname, Known as Lü Shang.

When Lü Shang was old, he saw King Jichang of Zhou Wen on the north bank of the Weishui River through fishing, and the two of them talked happily and returned in the same car, And Lü Shang was honored by King Wen as a military master, named "Taigong Wang", also known as Taigong.

Taigong assisted King Wen and King Wu, and assisted King Wu in cutting down the silk, claiming the title of king of the world. After King Wu pacified the world, he sealed Taigong in Qiyingqiu, and Taigong devoted himself to cultivating politics and developing the economy in the State of Qi, making the State of Qi gradually become a great power. When Zhou became king, the state of Qi was granted the right to conquest by the Zhou royal family.

A generation of overlords Qi Huangong

1. Civil unrest in Qi

After the death of Taigong, the throne of Qi went through twelve generations to the Duke of Qi, and the younger brother of Gong Gong died, and his son Gongsun Ignorance was deeply loved by Gong Gong, who made Gongsun Ignorant treat him the same as the prince in all aspects.

After duke Gong's death, his son Duke Xiang succeeded to the throne. Xiang Gong's absurdity and immorality laid the foundation for the future: abolishing the preferential treatment of ignorance and making ignorance resentful; committing adultery with his half-sister and the wife of Duke Lu Huan and drunkenly killing Duke Lu Huan; ordering the chancellor Lian Zhi and Guan Zhi's father to garrison KuiQiu, and not sending people to replace them according to the agreed time. Under such circumstances, several younger brothers fled one after another for fear of harming themselves, and the younger brother Gongzi fled to the State of Benlu, with Guan Zhong and Zhao Kuo assisting him; his younger brother Gongzi Xiaobai fled to the Ju Kingdom, assisted by Bao Shuya.

In the twelfth year of The Duke of Xiang, the humiliated minister Lian Zhi and Guan Zhi father joined forces with Gongsun Zhi to rebel, killing Xiang Gong and establishing himself as the Prince of Qi. Soon after, Ignorance was attacked and killed by the Yonglin people.

2. Huan Gong is in place

Ignorance was killed, and the ministers agreed to establish a new monarch. Xiao Bai was friendly with his doctor Gao Dai since childhood, so the two large families of the State of Qi, the Gao Clan and the Guo Clan, took the lead in secretly summoning Xiao Bai, the prince of the State of Ju, to return to China to succeed to the throne; and the State of Lu also sent troops to escort the Prince back to china to succeed to the throne. Guan Zhong also led an army to intercept on the road back to the State of Qi, and an arrow hit Xiao Bai's clothes hook, and Xiao Bai took the opportunity to pretend to be dead. Guan Zhong thought that Xiao Bai was dead and sent someone to report the news to Lu Guo, so the team that Lu Guo sent Gongzi To rectify went even slower. By the time Gongzi arrived in the State of Qi, Gongzi Xiaobai had already been proclaimed a prince by Gao Dai and was the Duke of Huan.

3. A generation of overlords

Duke Huan obeyed Bao Shuya's recommendation, appointed Guan Zhong as a doctor, and worked with Bao Shuya, Kui Peng, Gao Dai, and others to rectify the political affairs of the State of Qi, and to exert efforts to govern the country, and the State of Qi gradually developed. In the early days, Duke Huan was able to ignore his previous suspicions, listen to advice, and establish trust in the princely states.

In the fifth year of the Duke of Huan, the State of Qi attacked the State of Lu, and the State of Lu was defeated, so the Duke of Huan and the Duke of Lu Zhuang met in Kedi. When the covenant was about to be concluded, Cao Mo held the Duke of Qi Huan hostage on the altar with a dagger in his hand, and shouted: "Return the land that has been invaded and occupied by the State of Lu!" Qi Huangong had no choice but to agree. When Cao Mo put down his dagger and retreated to the position of a courtier, Duke Huan regretted it again and wanted not to return the land of the State of Lu and kill Cao Mo. Guan Zhong said: "When he was kidnapped, he had already promised to return, but he repented of his untrustworthiness and killed people, coveting a small pleasure for a while, and if he lost his faith in the princes, he would lose the support of the world. So he returned all the land lost by Cao Mo's three defeats to the State of Lu.

In the twenty-third year of the Duke of Huan, Shanrong attacked the State of Yan, the Duke of Qi Huan came to the rescue, and when BanShi returned to China, the Duke of Yanzhuang sent the Duke of Huan all the way to the territory of the State of Qi. Huan Gong said, "Except for the Heavenly Son, the princes must not go out of the country, and I cannot be disrespectful to the Yan Kingdom." So he dug a ditch on the spot as a boundary, and assigned all the places where Yan Jun walked to the Yan Kingdom.

But after that, with the strength of the State of Qi, Huan Gong also became increasingly arrogant. In the thirty-fifth year of the Duke of Huan, the Duke of Qi Huan met the princes at Kuiqiu, and King Xiang of Zhou sent Zaikong to give the Duke of Qi Huan the sacrificial meat, the scarlet bow and arrow, and the cart of King Wu of Wen, and ordered the Duke of Huan not to perform the ritual of kneeling when receiving the reward. Huan Gong wanted to accept it, Guan Zhong said "no", and Qi Huan Gong then worshiped and accepted the reward of the Son of Heaven according to the number of rituals.

Qi Huangong also wanted to hold a sealing ceremony, and only the emperor was eligible to hold the sealing zen, this matter was described in the sealing zen book, Guan Zhong advised not to listen, had to change the strategy to say that the various precious and rare things used in the sealing zen were not available, and only then dispelled qi Huangong's idea.

4. The evening view is bleak

Forty-one years after Huan Gong, Guan Zhong died of illness. When Guan Zhong was ill, Duke Huan of Qi asked Guan Zhongqun who could be xiang, and several of the candidates he proposed were rejected by Guan Zhong. However, after Guan Zhong's death, Duke Huan of Qi still did not listen to Guan Zhong's advice and let these three people monopolize the power of the State of Qi.

In his later years, Duke Huan not only reused the small group, but also did not properly arrange for his successor. None of Huan's three wives had sons, but the six concubines had six sons each. Duke Huan once entrusted one of his sons, Duke Xiaozhao, to Duke Xiang of Song, making him crown prince, and later promising to make his son Wu wei crown prince. After Guan Zhong's death, all five of his sons sought to be made crown princes.

When Qi Huangong was seriously ill, the five princes each formed a gang and competed to become the prince, and when Duke Huan died in the winter and October, the princes attacked each other, and no one buried Qi Huan's body in a coffin, and Huan Gong's body was parked on the bed for sixty-seven days, and the maggots on the corpse crawled outside the door. In the end, after Gongzi Wuxuan succeeded to the throne, the funeral ceremony of burial and funeral was held in December.

However, the melee did not stop, Song Xianggong led the princes to escort prince Zhao of Qi back to China and attack the state of Qi, who had been on the throne for three months, was killed by the people of qi, and the henchmen of the other four princes attacked the prince, and finally with the support of the state of Song, prince Zhao was proclaimed as a prince for the Duke of Qi.

The political situation was chaotic, and it was not until August that Qi Huan was buried. And the descendants of the Duke of Qi Huan, they were either brothers fighting, or uncles and nephews were killed, or they were killed in absurdity, and a total of five sons were kings.

Cui Zhu Junjun

The last son of Duke Huan of Qi to become a monarch was Duke Hui, and Cui Zhu was favored by Duke Hui. After The death of Duke Hui, his son Gong Qing succeeded to the throne, and the Gao and Guo clans, fearing that they were coerced by him, drove him away, and Cui Zhu fled to Weiguo.

Duke Qi died, and his son Linggong Huan succeeded to the throne, and Linggong Xianli crown prince deposed him. Linggong was seriously ill, and Cui Zhu welcomed back the original crown prince and proclaimed him the monarch of the country, that is, the Duke of Zhuang.

Cui Zhu's wife is very beautiful, and Zhuang Gong has an affair with her, because Cui Zhu killed Zhuang Gong again. Qi Guotaishi wrote: "Cui Zhu killed Duke Zhuang. "Cui Zhu killed him. Taishi's younger brother still wrote this, and Cui Zhu killed his brother again. Taishi's younger brother still wrote this way, and Cui Zhu let him go.

Cui Zhu also supported Duke Zhuang's half-brother Pestle As the monarch, that is, The Duke of Jing, jing gong appointed Cui Zhu as the right phase and Qingfeng as the left phase, the two phases had great power, but they also had a gap with each other, and finally Qingfeng took advantage of the internal contradictions in the Cui zhu family to kill the Cui family, and Cui Zhu was homeless and committed suicide.

Mr. Tashiro

In the life of The Duke of Qi Jing, the Qi royal family was now a sign of defeat, and the famous Minister of the State of Qi, Yan Bao, asserted that the power of the State of Qi would belong to the Tian clan, and although the Tian clan did not have any great merits, it used public power to do private favors, and was kind to the people, and the people supported them. The Tian clan also befriended the traitors of the Jin dynasty to establish a private party to prepare for the throne.

Jing Gong also made the same mistake as Qi Huangong in the matter of establishing the crown prince, and he simply dragged on without hesitation. Until the death of Jing Gong, there was another scuffle, and the Tian clan united with the doctors to defeat the Guo and Gao families and support the Duke of Mourning. Later, Duke Gong of Mourning was killed, and the Qi people also established Duke Jian as Duke Of Mourning's son. Duke Jian reused the chancellor Jian Zhi, who planned to drive away all those in power of the Tian clan, but was preemptively attacked by the Tian clan and killed Jian Zhi and Jian Gong. The Tian clan also supported Duke Jian's younger brother Pinggong and monopolized the power of the State of Qi.

After the death of Duke QiPing, Duke Xuan of Qi and Duke Kang of Qi ascended the throne one after another, and the Tian clan of The Duke of Kang began to be listed as princes, and demoted Duke Kang to the seashore. When Duke Kang died, the Lü clan severed the clan, and the Tian clan finally replaced the Lü clan and ruled the State of Qi.