This is the 307th original article of Shi Shuoxing
It is said that before Jin Wen openly created the century-old hegemony of the Jin state, there were two monarchs who laid a solid foundation for him, one of which was his grandfather Qu Wowu Duke, that is, the Duke of Jinwu after the unification of the Jin State; the second was his father, The Duke of Jin, whose merits were seventeen and the country was thirty-eight, which was also called a small bully at that time.
PreviousThe author focused on how the Duke of Jinwu fulfilled the great mission of Quwo Daiyi and finally reunified the Jin state that had been divided for 67 years. This article will talk to you about the great achievements of Jin Xiangong and the final rotten project.
Duke Xian of Jin had an interesting name, Ji Wei Zhu, because Duke Wu of Jin had captured Rong Di's leader Wei Zhu alive. Just as his ancestor Muhou of Jin once named his eldest son Ji Qiu (姬仇), later Marquis Wen of Jin, because of his defeat to Tiao Rong, and named his second son Ji Chengshi (姬成師), later Uncle Quwo Huan ,also known as Uncle Quwo Huan (曲沃桓) because of his great victory against Northern Rong. It can be seen that the names of the monarchs of the Jin Dynasty are often so arbitrary.
In 677 BC, Duke Wu of Jin died, and Ji Wei took the throne as the Duke of Jin. However, at this moment, just one year has passed since the reunification of the Jin Dynasty, and the domestic situation is not stable enough. Therefore, at the beginning of the jin dynasty, there was not much outward expansion, but first dealt with the domestic chaos and reformed the military and politics.
First of all, in terms of political reform, his father Duke Wu of Jin destroyed Emperor Dazong with Xiaozong, and after Quwo Daiyi, he beheaded all the descendants of Emperor Dazong to avoid a resurgence. This measure, although too cruel, also effectively curbed the division of the Jin state again. When Jin Xiangong came to power, he was even more extreme, and in order to maintain the unity of the Jin dynasty, he did not hesitate to kill all the "children of the Fu clan and the huanzhuang clan", that is, the collateral descendants left by his grandfather Qu Wo Huan and Qu Wo Zhuang Bo, as long as they still had the possibility of splitting, they must be completely eliminated.
Not only that, he also abolished the gong clan doctor system and completely erased it from the root, after all, traditionally, it was the public office and the public clan's son Ren Qing Dafu. Instead, the post of Qing Dafu was delegated to a group of talents with different surnames, such as Shi Huang, Xun Xi, Rick, Hao Rui, and Guo Yan, and truly realized meritocracy.
Looking at the military aspect, in order to expand the army, he divided the original Jin army into two armies, the upper and lower armies, led by himself and Crown Prince Shensheng. Under the logic of the Spring and Autumn Struggle for Hegemony, a strong army is the bottom guarantee. Then the Jin Dynasty opened his path to annexation.
In 661 BC, Duke Xian of Jin personally led an army, and the crown prince Shen Sheng commanded the army, and successively sent troops to destroy the huo, wei, and Geng states. Then he sent Shen Sheng to attack Dongshan. Of course, there are also the famous false road crusades against the state of Yu and the state of Yu, and successively eliminated the state of Huo and Yang in the north, and the state and tribes of Rui, Wei, Gao, Geng, Ji, Li rong, and Chidi in the south, completely incorporating the middle reaches of the Yellow River into the territory of the Jin State.
As a result, posterity praised his meritorious deeds of "merging the country seventeen times and serving the country thirty-eight", and was separated from the Spring and Autumn hegemony of the Spring and Autumn Period at that time, the State of Chu in the south, and the State of Qin in the west, and the hegemony of the east, west, south, and north, thus opening the prelude to the jin state's struggle for hegemony.
However, in the process of Jin Xiangong's expansion of the territory of the Jin dynasty, he also laid the root of civil strife, and he chose Xi Qi, the son of Li Ji, who was favored by Li Ji, on the issue of choosing an heir, and forced the death of the crown prince Shen Sheng, forcing away the later Jin Wen Gong Zhong'er and Jin Hui Gong Yi wu, triggering the famous Li Ji Rebellion. Of course, this is the topic I'm going to talk to you about in my next article.
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