After the Battle of Guiling of Qiwei, the Battle of Xiangling and the Battle of Hexi of Qinwei, the world was peaceful for nine years (350-342 BC), and in the pre-Qin era when war was frequent, there were rarely nine years of such peace.
This rare calm, it is difficult to say that there is no credit for Sun Bing's position as a famous general, if there was also a Nobel Peace Prize at that time, he should at least be nominated.
Of course, this calm could not be maintained for a long time, and how could the ambitious King Wei Hui be lonely? In 344 BC, King Hui of Wei gathered twelve small alliances of Song, Wei, and Lu to conspire to attack Qin, hoping to establish a great power in this battle and revitalize the Great Wei Dynasty.
Generally speaking, Huiwang's strategy was still correct, the Qin state was at the critical moment of changing the law, and it seemed that it was about to be completed and upgraded to a strong country, and it was best to fight it at this time, because the change of law was essentially to weaken the monopoly of the aristocratic class on social resources, but in the face of foreign invasion or even the danger of subjugation, the country also needed the loyalty of the aristocratic class to stabilize the political situation, so the change of law naturally had to be aborted; moreover, the Qin state had been isolated from the Shandong countries for a long time since Mu Gong. The annexation of the State of Qin did not provoke much opposition from other great powers. If this is the case, perhaps it will not be Qin who will unify the world in the future. Therefore, after Qin Xiaogong heard about it, he was restless and could not eat well, so he quickly ordered all the warriors in the country to go to the back of the city wall to prepare for battle, and also recruited a group of dead soldiers to be ready to fight at any time!
The more fearful the enemy, the more correct the strategy. What a good move for King Wei Hui, unfortunately, the Qin State Daliang shang martingale would not let him succeed, as a scholar who had been in Da Liang for many years and was eager for fame, Shang Martin knew King Wei Hui too well.
Faced with such a critical situation, Shang Martin could of course also ask Qi Chu to "encircle Wei and save Qin" like Zhao Guo, but even if Qi Chu sent troops, he would inevitably reap the benefits of the fisherman when Wei's soldiers were about to die and Qin was in danger; therefore, Shang Martin thought of a better way, and went directly to Wei Hui, who was good at daxi gong, and said: "The great king's merit is great, so that the deeds of the world are great." However, the twelve princes of the present king's house are all small countries such as Song Wei, which is not enough for the king to be the king of the world. And Wei attacked Qin like slaughtering a chicken with a cattle knife, not famous, not obvious. The great king might as well first serve the king (using the king's honor guard), and then watch the change of Qi Chu, and whoever does not submit to it will be added by soldiers, so that the king can be successful in the sea. ”
King Hui of Wei was very happy to hear this, and Shang Martin said this, which is equivalent to supporting the State of Wei as king on behalf of the State of Qin, and if anyone opposes, Qin must fulfill his obligation to send troops to help the King of Wei dominate the world, which is far more cost-effective than leading a group of small countries to fight the State of Qin! Moreover, the King of Wei was already old, and if he did not call himself a king, he would die of old age, and it was also a beautiful thing to be able to obtain this supreme glory in his lifetime.
Pictured: Mencius once said, "[King Hui of Wei] does not look like a human king."
It's stupid. Everyone knows that at that time, there was only one king in the world, Zhou Tianzi, and the princes of Huaxia were still only titled Hou (in our book, we call King Wei Hui the King of Qiwei the King, which is what they later called the King. In the past, although some barbarians were kings, they were barbarians, and I didn't like to worry about them. But King Hui of Wei was the concubine of Duke Gao of Bi (the fifteenth son of King Wen of Zhou), an authentic Chinese prince, who dared to risk the great discord of the world and be the first to claim the title of king? As the saying goes, "The initiator has no consequences!" "Of course, it's cool to steal the forbidden fruit, but it's actually equivalent to putting yourself on the stove."
However, King Hui of Wei still did not resist the temptation, and decided to abandon the attack on Qin, and on top of the palace of Fantai (present-day Kaifeng Fantai and Yuwangtai) in Fengze (present-day Kaifengnan, Henan), he imitated the Great Yu where the founding kings of the Xia Dynasty were located, called the King of Xia, rode on the Summer Car (the car of the Heavenly Son with colorful carvings), and used the Nine Streamer Dragon Flags of tianzi, wore red dragon robes, and trees the Seven Stars Of The Dragon Banner, and then used this Tianzi ceremony system to lead 12 small states and the princes of Zhao Suhou and the Prince of Qin to see Zhou Tianzi together, which made Zhou Tianzi very embarrassed King Hui of Wei himself was quite arrogant, thinking that he was above the princes of the world, commanding with arrogance and infinite scenery. Since then, King Wei Hui has to get up every morning to wear a royal robe, stand in front of the mirror and say, "Who is the greatest, most handsome, and coolest king in the world?" Is it me or me. ”
Good wind, good style, good noisy head bird, Qi Qinchu three countries then pulled out their own shotgun, coldly watched, and saw how long it was proud?
Facts have proved that Wei Guo was in the Warring States dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival, but it was only to provoke the laughter of the world. The Spring and Autumn Period was typical hegemonic politics, while the Warring States period was typical militaristic politics. Hegemonic politics is actually a kind of aristocratic politics, that is, by Zhou Tianzi's spokesman overlord to maintain the order of the world, the small countries can struggle to survive under the protection of the hegemon, because for the hegemon, the benefits of land and population are not the most important, the face of the hegemon is the most important; and in the Warring States era, all countries are violently changing the law, tragic annexation, and from aristocratic politics to centralized politics, so the major countries do not need the Son of Heaven, nor do they need the hegemon, they just want rich countries, strong soldiers, farming, expansion, annexation, and unification!
Therefore, this king conference of King Wei Hui is destined to be just an embarrassing self-congratulation! The twelve small countries attending the meeting dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out, the prince of qin was deliberately killed and harbored ill intentions, and Zhao Suhou was unstable at home when he had just ascended the throne, and could only be vain and snake. Qi Chuyan didn't come at all, he just wanted to see jokes; and the worst thing was that Wei Guo's number one little brother, Korea, didn't even come to the scene!
According to the Warring States Policy, when Han Zhaohou received an invitation from King Hui of Wei to attend the meeting, he was hesitating, and the Korean minister Fang Xi said: "Don't listen to it, big countries have a son of heaven, and small countries benefit." The king and the great power fu listen, Wei An can and the small country. "It turned out that at this time, South Korea had been practicing the Law of Non-Harm for sixteen years, and its national strength and military strength had greatly increased, and it had been operating in the former Zhengguo area for thirty years, and it was thriving and prosperous with the appearance of a somewhat powerful country, and it was called "Jinhan" by the world, so Han Zhaohou felt quite good about himself: Since my Great Korea has entered the ranks of the world's developed countries, I want the widows to bow down to the Wei state as before, sorry, there is no way!
Moreover, the territory of the Zhou royal family (Heluo region) was in Korea, and South Korea had coveted it for a long time, and had taken advantage of the Central Plains Scuffle to take over several cities of the Zhou royal family (Korea's surrounding countries were not easy to provoke, and if they wanted to expand, they could only attack the Zhou royal family), and now King Wei Hui actually ordered the world to honor Zhou Tianzi, which can be called how Korea will do it in the future?
Therefore, Han Zhaohou decided to accept Fang Xi's suggestion, refused to participate in the Fengze meeting, and vigorously resisted international hegemonism.
King Hui of Wei was furious when he heard the letter, good you Han Hou, the wings just grew hard and dared to betray the boss me, you are looking for death!
At this king conference, the purpose of King Wei Hui is to see who is not convinced of himself, Qi Chu is an old opponent, and it is understandable that he did not come to participate, but South Korea, which has always been very well-behaved, has not even obeyed, it is intolerable! Okay, so let's take a shot at South Korea first! If Qi and Chu intervened, they would fight alongside.
In fact, King Hui of Wei chose to fight Korea is also a good move, although the State of Wei is powerful, but it is very strange geographically, not only is it attacked on all sides, but also the middle is split into east and west parts by the Shangdang County of Korea, and can only communicate with each other through a narrow and long Taihang Mountain Tunnel, which not only greatly affects the economic development of the State of Wei, but also makes the State of Wei often unable to take care of each other and make it very embarrassing, especially the Hexi That has lost Wu Qi's seat, embedded in the territory of the State of Qin like an isolated island, which is simply too difficult to defend.
Therefore, if the State of Wei can annex Korea, then not only will the territory be greatly expanded to be comparable to that of the original Jin State, but also the geopolitical conditions of the State of Wei will be greatly improved, and the national strength and military strength of the Wei Army will be greatly enhanced, becoming a very terrible existence.
As a powerful country, it is necessary to have a clear strategic decision, but wei obviously has no stable strategic plan, nor does it have stable military objectives and diplomatic strategies, one moment to fight Chu (when Wei Wuhou), one moment to fight Zhao, one moment to fight Qin, the other to fight Han, and casually fooled by Shang Martin, lack of independent strategic thinking, in short, it is a mess. And the strategy of the Qin state is very simple and clear: if it is weak, it will return the letter of guarantee to Gu Guan to become stronger, and if it is in the east, it will be han and Wei to attack from afar, which is the king's way to clarify the chaotic situation and unify the world!