The State of Jin, as one of the four powerful states of the Spring and Autumn Period, has dominated for nearly a hundred years, even the first State of Qi to dominate can not compete with it, the State of Qin is even more unable to advance eastward, only the State of Chu is hard to fight with the State of Jin, but most of them are not opponents of the State of Jin at all, but it is such a strong princely state, but it was divided into three in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin was divided by the three families of Han Zhao and Wei and vanished, so there were three princely states of Han Zhao and Wei in the Warring States period, and it has to be said that the history of the State of Jin is quite ups and downs. It was a princely state that best embodied the four words of libong and le bad during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period.
The State of Jin was a vassal state divided in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and its first monarch was Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou, whose name was because the State of Jin was originally actually the State of Tang, and did not change its name to Jin until Tang Shuyu's son succeeded to the throne. The Jin state was initially silent for many years, during which there was a long period of chaos, especially in the early Spring and Autumn Period, when the internal turmoil in Jin was serious, and a coup d'état of Quwo Daiyi, in which Xiaozong and Emperor Dazong competed for the throne of the country.
Quwo Daiyi lasted for more than half a century, and finally Quwo Wugong replaced Marquis Of Jin as the monarch of the Jin State, for the Duke of Jinwu, followed by the Duke of Jin, who made outstanding contributions to the expansion of the territory of the Jin State, he "merged the country seventeen, served the country thirty-eight".
But at this time, the turmoil did not stop completely, on the contrary, in order to prevent the recurrence of Quwo's wing, Jin Xiangong not only killed the Prince of Jin, but also made a rebellion in his later years, in order to let Li Ji's son take the throne, Jin Xiangong hunted down shensheng, Yiwu and Zhong'er, Shensheng committed suicide, and Yiwu and Zhong'er began to wander among the nations.
This unrest lasted for twenty years, until Zhong'er was sent back to the Jin dynasty by Duke Mu of Qin to take the throne, that is, the Duke Wen of Jin. His 19-year wandering career was of great benefit to Duke Wen of Jin's political career, so soon after he ascended the throne, he found the opportunity to become a prince who dominated the Central Plains after Duke Huan of Qi. When the Duke of Qi Huan first claimed hegemony, the Jin state had just completed the Quwo Dynasty wing, and it was when the Jin Gong was expanding its territory, and there was no spare strength to dominate, so the Duke of Qi Huan was able to become the first hegemon.
And after the Jin WenGong succeeded to the throne, the time for the Jin state to dominate has arrived, and since the Jin Wen gong, the position of the hegemon of the Central Plains is basically in the hands of the Jin state, whether it is the Qin state in the west or the Qi state in the east can not shake the hegemonic position of the Jin state, when the southern Chu state drank the Yellow River, and the Jin state launched a century-long hegemonic war, occasionally had the opportunity to take the hegemonic seat to sit.
In addition, the central plains hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period were almost monopolized by the Jin State, and some scholars even believed that the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons should be "Qi Yi and Jin Si", that is, Jin Wen Gong, Jin Xiang Gong, Jin Jing Gong, and Jin Mourning Gong. This may not be accurate, but it can be seen from it that the Jin state was indeed a strong existence in the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was such a strong existence that it was gradually divided up by the Qing clan in the late Spring and Autumn Period, so that the three families of Han Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin, and in the Warring States period, there were three kingdoms of Han Zhao and Wei and no Jin.
Speaking of which, the four great powers of the Spring and Autumn Period, the strongest of the Jin state, but only the Jin state fell apart, although the State of Qi appeared tian shi dai Qi, but the good villain is still the state of Qi, the state of Qin and the state of Chu have not changed, only the state of Jin is divided into three, becoming the situation of Han Zhao Wei and Qin Qi Chu Yan becoming the seven heroes of the Warring States.
The reason why the Jin Kingdom appeared three branches of Jin can be traced back to the Quwo Dai Wing period, Quwo Dai Wing, Xiaozong defeated Emperor Dazong, jin Xiangong in order to prevent such incidents from happening again, so he killed the prince of the Jin state, and since then the Jin state has no public family.
The Qing clan of the Jin State is no longer from the Jinguo Gong clan, and there are all surnames, which makes those followers of the Jin Wen Gong during the wandering period take advantage of the big advantage, after the Jin Wen Gong succeeds to the throne, there are three armies and six secretaries, one army has two secretaries, and the Chinese army will be the ruling secretary, the six secretaries are hereditary, and the ruling secretary is the six secretaries in turn, so that after a long time, the six secretaries will hold the military and political power of the Jin state.
We know that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ceremonies collapsed and collapsed, the Zhou Tianzi was weakened, the princes were powerful, and the Zhou Tianzi not only could not dominate the princes, but even had to rely on the princes and be led by the princes' noses, and in the princes' countries, there was also a collapse of ceremonies, and the Qing clan gradually became powerful, threatening the power of the monarch.
This was the case in the Jin Dynasty, where the power of the Six Qing gradually grew, and by the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the Jin monarch gradually declined, and in its place, the Six Qing controlled the government. They constantly acquired land in external and internal wars, and there were also struggles between the six Qings, they fell and annexed each other, and as the struggle escalated, the Fan and Zhongxing clans gradually withdrew from the stage of history, the land was divided among other Qing clans, and the jin clans were headed by the Zhi clan, the Han clan, the Zhao clan and the Wei clan, and the Zhi clan was the most powerful.
Of course, the fierce struggle between the Qing clans in the Jin state, resulting in the Jin state's external hegemony appears to be inadequate, so the southern Yue king Gou Jian has become a hegemon, in order to restore the former glory of the Jin state, the ruling Secretary Zhibo asked the four families to dedicate a ten thousand household fief to enhance the jin state's national strength, of course, he himself proposed, naturally to set an example, so he himself first took out a ten thousand household fief.
Although the three families of Han Zhao and Wei were unwilling to hand over, they could not unite as one, so the two families of Han and Wei reluctantly handed it over, and the Zhao family was a hard bone, that is, they refused to hand it over. Zhi Bo led the Han and Wei families to attack the Zhao family, and besieged the Zhao family in Jinyang.
There was no suspense in this battle, but the two families of Han and Wei actually had their own little nine nines, afraid that in the future Zhibo would also attack them, and there were emissaries sent by the Zhao family to lobby, so the three families of Han Zhao and Wei joined together, in turn, attacked Zhibo, the Zhijia withdrew from the stage of history, and the great family property of the Zhijia was divided up by the three families of Han Zhao and Wei, which is the famous incident of the three families destroying wisdom.
The three families extinguished wisdom and made the Jin Dynasty Gong very angry, but the Jin Dynasty Duke was unable to clean up these three families, and had to turn to the State of Qi and the State of Lu, hoping that the two countries would send troops to attack the Three Families of Han Zhao and Wei, and as a result, the three families of Han Zhao and Wei united to attack the Duke of Jin, and the Duke of Jin fled and died on the road. As soon as he died, the Duke of Jin was supported as the monarch of the Jin State, at this time there was not much land that really belonged to the Jin State, starting from the Duke of Jin, the Monarch of the Jin State was actually just a puppet, and the land was divided up little by little by the three families of Han Zhao and Wei.
After the death of the Duke of Jin and the ascension of his son Duke You of Jin, the land that really belonged to the Duke of Jin you was only Dai and Qu Wo, the monarch of the Tangtang Jin State, and the Duke of Jin You actually had to meet the owners of the three families of Han Zhao and Wei, and was later stolen and killed while he was out.
After the death of Duke You of Jin, his son Duke Of Jin took the throne, during the period of duke of Jin Lie, the three families of Han Zhao and Wei had made full preparations, and finally in 403 BC, they were recognized by Zhou Tianzi, and the three families of Han Zhao and Wei became the three princely states of Han Zhao and Wei, and the Jin state basically existed in name only, and in fact had lost its qualifications as a princely state.
After the death of Duke Lie of Jin, his son Duke Xiao of Jin took the throne, and Duke Xiao of Jin was more depressed than his father, but he was helpless about his situation, but he was still alive and well after all, and when his son Duke Jing of Jin succeeded to the throne, his form was even more unfavorable to the Jin army. In the second year after Duke Jing of Jin succeeded to the throne, the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei directly divided up the land of the State of Jin, dividing up both Dai and Qu wo, and even deposed the Duke of Jin Jing as a Shuren and moved him to Tunliu, and the State of Jin ceased to exist at all.
Later, the Duke of Jin Jing and the members of the office were moved to the Duan clan, but they did not stay long in the Duan clan, and in 349 BC, the Marquis of Zhao Su took the Duan clan as his own and moved the Duke of Jin Jing to Tunliu again. In this way, the Duke of Jin Jing was moved back and forth, with no fixed place to live, and also in 349 BC, Han Zhaohou sent Han Xuan to kill the Duke of Jin Jing, and the last monarch of the Jin State also became a thing of the past.