During the Spring and Autumn Period, the lofty virtues of Qi Xi of the Jin Dynasty who did not shy away from relatives internally and did not abandon their hatred externally were constantly respected and worshipped by later generations, because this act was not done by few people today, not to mention that 2000 still belonged to the Spring and Autumn Period of the slave era. Do you know what kind of helplessness and loneliness old doctor Qi Xi has behind this nobility?
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Jin mourned to consult with the doctor Qi Xi because of personnel problems, and Qi Xi respectively recommended the enemy and his own son, not only to obtain suitable talents for the country, but also to establish a glorious image for himself, because no one would be such a grand duke selfless and single-minded for the country, so Qi Xi's actions were particularly prominent, but Qi Xi's country was probably a little different from the concept we thought, and the country to which Qi Xi was loyal was actually the Jinguo Gongfu with the clan clan as the core.
Because at this time, the Jin State had begun a bloody game of power struggle. The dozens of gongqing that began with the Jin Wengong have been eliminated to only seven. Each round of competition is weakening the influence of the Jinguo Gongfu, and most of the replaced Shiqing families are public families with the same bloodline as the clan, in the face of such a cruel reality, as the few remaining Ji gong clan doctors, Qi Xi can only reserve as much hope for the country as possible, so there is Qi Xi's selfless dedication to the country, just to retain a support point for the survival of the Jinguo gong clan in the future political struggle.
The Jin state avoided roommates and ensured the stability of the regime. From the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the political tradition of staying away from the clan and accepting foreign tribes led to the fact that in the Spring and Autumn Period, only the Jin state did not have a huge clan power, although the system of external managers allowed the Jin state to hang other princes all the way and become the super hegemon of the princes of the nations for hundreds of years.
However, in the development of hundreds of years, the continuous division of seals caused the rise of the Qing Dafu group and began to counter the Jinguo Gongfu. Of course, the excessive concentration of power and competition will also be inevitable, starting from the Jin Wengong, the Famous Shuai Xianxun Family, the Guo Uncle Fox Family, and the Zhao Family have all been overthrown in the competition, but each round of merger has strengthened the strength and influence of the winning side, and the JinGuo Gongfu has become the last bystander.
The last Ming emperor of the Jin Dynasty, the Duke of Jin, was able to serve as the monarch. It is only the only choice made under the balance reached under the cruel competition of the Shiqing Group. With his own ability, the Duke of Jin mourned and reversed the situation of the weak branch of the main trunk, but the road of hundreds of years has become like this, and there is no way to turn back, only to strengthen the strength of the office as much as possible, at least so that the clan family is no longer weakened, in this context, as the only influential gong clan doctor left, Qi Xi's behavior is easier to understand.
In the name of the monarch, he recommended good talents for the country, increased the prestige of the monarch, and strengthened the strength of the gong clan. Because behind each official position, there are the fiery eyes of the Shiqing Group, so the talents recommended by Qi Xi are incompetent, which will not only affect the majesty of the monarch, but also further strengthen the strength of the Shiqing Group. In this case, the officials appointed by the monarch were suppressed by the powerful Shiqing, and in exchange for their own people recommended by the Shiqing, so Qi Xi could only do this, the purpose was very pure, and he was bent on working for his own country.
We cannot criticize Qi Xi's narrow-mindedness from a modern perspective, because at that time, the six official positions representing the highest power in the political arena of the Jin state had been controlled by the family clan, and it was a hereditary inheritance of fathers and sons. The only influential gong clans in the second-rate family are the Qi Xi family and the Yang Tongue clan represented by Shu Xiang. The Yang tongue clan is the Yang clan, that is, the Hongnong Yang clan that produced Yang Xiu including Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty, and these two families were looked at by the Shiqing family and were also on the cusp of the storm, including the later destruction of the Luan family, and the winning family deliberately implicated the ShuXiang family.
Why is it that only Qi Xi can save Shu Xiang? Why didn't Shu thank Qi Xi for being rescued? And Qi Xitou did not return to the fiefdom, the reason is very simple, only Qi Xi has sufficient reasons to persuade the Duke of Jinping to rescue the Yang Tongue Family. The two did not thank each other, and did not meet is only a show of weakness to the Shiqing family to show their single-mindedness and will not collude. The purpose is not only to save the Yang Tongue family, but also to retain an influential public family.
But the final result is a pity, although Qi Xi and Shu Xiang deliberately kept a distance, but their descendants because of the relationship with the same clan, so inevitably came together, and finally died of the deliberate involvement of the Shiqing family, in 514 BC, the military commander of the Jin State, Zhi Zhi exposed the collusion between the Qi clan and the Yang Tongue Clan, the Duke of Jin ordered the Qi clan to be exterminated, and the Yang Tongue Clan was exterminated, but at this time there was only more than 50 years left before the three families of Han Zhao Wei were divided into Jin.