In the process of unifying the world in the Qin kingdom, King Zhaoxiang of Qin was a very important king, which could not be avoided no matter what, and the minister of state who was as important as him was his uncle Wei Ran.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin was able to ascend to the throne, first of all, thanks to King Wuling of Zhao, because King Wuling of Zhao wanted to benefit from the succession of the throne of the Qin State, so he forcefully sent the Proton King Of Qin Zhaoxiang from the Yan Kingdom back to the Qin State.
King Qin Zhaoxiang must thank Wei Ran for being able to sit firmly on the throne, because Wei Ran, with his own military power, not only forcefully suppressed the rebellion of Prince Zhuang, the half-brother of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, but also took the opportunity to kill other half-brothers of King Zhaoxiang of Qin and his disobedient ministers and princes, and consolidated the rule of King Zhaoxiang of Qin. Since then, the State of Qin has entered the era of King Zhaoxiang of Qin for fifty-six years, and Wei Ran has also begun a lifelong path of prominence.
Four Qin Ministers, up to twenty-eight years
In the first seven years of the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the first think tank in Chinese history, Li Lizi, had been serving as Xiangguo; from Lilizi to the twelfth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Meng Yujun and Lou Huan successively served as Xiangguo of Qin, until Zhao Guo sent Qiu Liu to the Qin State to lobby and push Wei Ran to the position of Xiangguo to replace Lou Huan. This was Wei Ran's first term as the Xiangguo of the Qin State (4 years). In the sixteenth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran was dismissed for the first time, but he was reinstated the following year.
Wei Ran's second appointment to Xiangguo lasted until the nineteenth year (3 years) of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, after which he should have experienced a brief dismissal. Soon, Wei Ran served as Xiangguo for the third time, a total of 6 years, and then was dismissed from his post for the third time, this year was the twenty-fourth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, but soon went to the Zhao State to become Xiangguo. In the twenty-sixth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran served as Xiangguo for the fourth time (15 years), until King Zhaoxiang of Qin was driven back to his fiefdom in the forty-first year. It can be said that King Zhaoxiang of Qin reigned for 56 years and was deeply influenced by Wei Ran for 40 years.
Discerning people, personal achievements
The most dazzling achievement of Wei Ran's life should be to excavate Bai Qi, a famous general throughout the ages, and become the most successful Bole at that time. The Chronicle of the Marquis of Yong described the relationship between the two in this way, "The White Rising One, the One Who Served the Marquis of Yong, was kind to each other." Bai Qi fought all his life, crippled Korea, the State of Wei, the State of Chu and the State of Zhao, captured a recorded number of cities and pools of up to a hundred, and the number of enemies he annihilated alone accounted for half of the army of the State of Qin that destroyed the Six Kingdoms.
However, in terms of attacking the city, Wei Ran himself was not inferior. Twenty years after King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran, who had been made the Marquis of Yong, personally served as a general and led an army to attack the State of Wei, first forcing the State of Wei to sacrifice 400 miles of land to the east of the river, and then capturing Hanoi and capturing more than sixty large and small cities. In the thirty-second year of The reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran led an army to attack the State of Wei, repelled Mangjiao, and then besieged the capital of the State of Wei, Daliang, and only withdrew under the persuasion of Xu Jia. In the thirty-third year of Qin Zhaoxiang's reign, Wei Ran led an army to attack the State of Wei, beheading more than 40,000 people, beating away the Wei general Tyrannosaurus, and taking three counties to retreat. In the thirty-fourth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran, Together with Bai Qi and Hu Yang, attacked the State of Zhao, Korea, and the State of Wei, beheaded 100,000 people, and captured the State of Wei's Scrolls, Cai Yang, Changshe, and Guanjin of the State of Zhao; then returned Guanjin to the State of Zhao, increased the strength of the State of Zhao, and demanded that the State of Zhao attack the State of Qi, frightening the King of Qi Xiang to send Su Dai to lobby, and Wei Ran withdrew. In terms of the number of cities captured, Wei Ran's number ranked only after Bai Qi and Meng Xiao.
Weaken the Six Kingdoms and put the Qin State at the top of its hegemony
Wei Ran's greatest contribution to the Qin state was to continuously attack the six kingdoms, and to take the opportunity to cripple the six eastern countries except Zhao, so that the hegemony of the Qin state reached its peak. The Six Eastern Kingdoms became weaker and weaker under the constant blows of the Qin State, leaving only the Zhao Army to compete with the Qin Army. Of course, Yan Jun did not suffer any losses, but it was very fat and could be ignored.
Korea.
In the third year of Wei Ran's tenure as Qin Xiang, he elected Bai Qi as a general and killed 240,000 han and Wei troops in world war I, destroying the last bit of Korean spirit. After that, Korea was beaten casually by the Qin state until its demise.
Wei.
Wei Ran himself paid more attention to the State of Wei, personally leading a large army to fight under the capital of the State of Wei, Daliang, twice: once in the twenty-fourth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran's ears were weak, and he withdrew his army after listening to Xu Jia's persuasion, and returned to lose the position of Xiangguo; the other time was in the thirty-second year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran took three counties of the State of Wei. The King of Wei could only think of bribing the Qin state with land, which gave birth to the famous saying of the Su Dynasty--"And the husband uses the land to do things in Qin, for example, holding the salary to fight the fire, the salary is not exhausted, and the fire is not extinguished." ”
Chu.
Wei Ran's attack on the Chu state was accomplished by Bai Qi. At first, King Xiang of Chu was quite capable of jumping around and making a joint alliance to counter the State of Qin to wash away the shame of his father King Chu Huai's death in the State of Qin, but he was soon educated in vain. But in the end, the State of Chu not only lost soldiers and lost land one after another, but also was laid down by Bai Qi, and burned the tombs of the previous kings of the State of Chu, and suffered greater shame and humiliation.
Qi Guo.
At the beginning of the state of Qi, wei ran plotted a performance to honor King Zhaoxiang of Qin as emperor, and had to pull the state of Qi to alleviate the pressure, so that there was a brief situation of two emperors standing side by side during the Warring States period. However, King Qi Tang dreamed of becoming the Son of Heaven, pulled hatred around, formed an inexplicable death division with the Yan state, and beat up the neighboring countries, and because the Song state and the Qin state formed a grudge. As a result, King Yan Zhao ordered Le Yi to plan revenge, and the State of Qin was also happy to push the boat along the water, and together with the other four countries, they attacked the State of Qi, forming a situation in which the Five Kingdoms were fighting against Qi. The State of Qi almost perished, became extremely conservative after restoring its territory, and watched the State of Qin fight other countries for the last few decades.
Human nature is sick and the hero is over
The taste of power is always intoxicating. Wei Ran had been in power for a long time, and it was naturally difficult to resist this temptation, especially after obtaining a fief and becoming a prince, he often thought of expanding his territory. In the twenty-sixth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, although Wei Ran had already been deposed, the King of Qin still granted amnesty to the sinners to enrich the population of Wei Ran's fiefdom Tao; in the thirty-second year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Wei Ran led his army to the city of Daliang, but xu Jia took the initiative to withdraw his army on the grounds of Tao Di's safety; in the thirty-sixth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the State of Qin sent Ke Qingzao to seize the two places of Gang and Shou of the State of Qi, and gave them to Wei Ran.
Dr. Liang said to Hou Hou, "..... Fu lightly betrayed Chu and Zhao's soldiers, the city of Lingqi, the battle of 300,000 people, and Zhi biju, the subject thought that since the beginning of the division of heaven and earth to the present, there is no one who has not tasted it. If you attack and do not pull out, the Qin soldiers will stop, Tao Yi will die, then the previous achievements will be abandoned... By dividing the Jin state, the Qin soldiers did not attack, and Wei would follow Theo Anyi. And opened two ways for Tao, and after several years of song, Wei bi followed the single father. Qin soldiers can be complete, and the monarchy, why not, what can not be done! Yuan Jun was deliberate and did not act dangerously. Yong Hou said, "Goodness." "It's Liang Wai.
Therefore, Wei Ran not only deviated from the efforts to strengthen the Qin state, but also put his own interests above the entire Qin state, which caused many people to be dissatisfied. In the end, Fan Ju took advantage of the death of King Zhaoxiang of Qin's crown prince in the State of Wei, and on the grounds of the hidden dangers of the inheritance of royal power, he persuaded King Zhaoxiang of Qin to regain power and expel his uncle Wei Ran back to the fiefdom, ending the Wei Ran era.
Conclusion
Wei Ran was not only the first foreign relative of Great Qin, but also the first foreign relative in Chinese history. It was with him that king Zhaoxiang of Qin had a 56-year long standby, and only then did he have the first empress dowager in Chinese history, Empress Xuan (half-brother and sister), who could beat other countries one by one, and also rapidly expand the territory of the Qin state, and finally lay the foundation for the Qin state to fight the Changping decisive battle with the Zhao state.
Although Wei Ran made the Qin state increasingly powerful, he was still a representative of the pursuit of hegemony. Although King Zhaoxiang of Qin's title as emperor was short-lived, it also showed that Wei Ran's heart was still pursuing the hegemony of the Qin state, rather than unifying the world, and his fierce attack on other countries afterwards was only a continuation of this idea. Because of this, because of this, when the Qin state was strong to a certain extent, he ignored the interests of the entire Qin state and turned to pursue his own interests. However, Fan Ju's strategy of "long-distance friendship and close attack" only corrected Wei Ran's mistakes and returned to the track of putting the interests of the Qin state as the first, and was praised by Li Si as "making Qin an emperor".