This is the 306th original article of Shi Shuoxing
Speaking of the Jin state in the Spring and Autumn Period, most people will talk about the Spring and Autumn overlord Jin Wengong, after all, he created the century-old hegemony of the Jin state, at least it is a great cause that has never been done before. However, before him, successive Jin emperors encouraged themselves by "following Wen Shaowu", and Wen refers to The Marquis of Jin, after all, he assisted King Ping of Zhou to move east to Luoyi, opening the Spring and Autumn Period, and at the same time leading the Jin State to begin to grow and develop; Wu Ze refers to the Duke of Jin, that is, the grandfather of the Duke Wen of Jin mentioned at the beginning, when he was born, his grandfather Marquis Wen of Jin had just led the rise of the Jin State, but the Marquis Wen of Jin died, and the civil war of the Quwo Dynasty broke out during the Period of Marquis Zhaohou of Jin. Therefore, his growth period actually grew up with the continuous civil wars of the great and small sects.
First, let's briefly describe the civil war between the Great and Small Sects of the Jin Dynasty before he took office. Due to the death of Marquis Wen of Jin, the young eldest son Of Jin Zhaohou took the throne, but Marquis Wen's younger brother Ji Chengshi was particularly strong in politics, and as a last resort, Marquis Zhaohou of Jin gave his uncle Ji Chengshi to the land of Quwo, and Ji Chengshi was also named Quwo Huan. After several years of painstaking management, the land of Quwo gradually developed and grew, even more prosperous than the Jin capital Wing City, becoming the second political center of the Jin Dynasty, and Quwo Huan's ambitions were immediately stimulated. He bribed the chancellor Pan Father, who was close to Marquis Zhaohou of Jin, to successfully assassinate Marquis Zhaohou of Jin, thus opening the prelude to the civil war between the Great and Small Sects.
In 731 BC, Qu Wo Huan's uncle died, and his son Qu Wo Zhuang Bo inherited his father's legacy and continued to fight with Emperor Dazong, first taking advantage of Chi Di to attack Emperor Dazong, and then leading an army to attack Yicheng, killing Emperor Dazong's Marquis Xiao of Jin, and then joining forces with the States of Zheng, xing, and King Huan of Zhou to attack Yicheng again, forcing out Emperor Dazong's Marquis of Jin. However, a conflict arose between Quwo Zhuangbo and King Huan of Zhou, and Emperor Dazong was able to establish another Marquis of Jin, and Zhuang Bo died of depression.
After years of civil war, Emperor Dazong Jinjun was basically a young and foundationless little prince or younger brother who took the throne, and on Xiaozong's side, in addition to the old and heavy uncle Qu Wo huan, Qu Wo Zhuang Bo was also the uncle of Emperor Jinjun, and the successor Qu Wo Wu Duke was only appointed to the throne at the age of 38, and his political experience cannot be described as deep.
It was also because he watched the civil war from a young age, and then a series of battles, he had long been familiar with the great mission of his grandfather and father's Quwo Daiyi, and he had also accumulated rich political experience, which was naturally more than enough to deal with the small prince.
In 709 BC, Wu Gong led an army to attack Yicheng and captured the Marquis of Jin in one fell swoop, intending to force Emperor Dazong to surrender and peacefully achieve the unification of the Jin state. Unexpectedly, Emperor Dazong decisively abandoned the Marquis of Jin and put his son Ji Xiaozi on the throne, that is, the Marquis of Jin, who was later booby-trapped by Duke Wu of Quwo. At this time, Duke Wu had already killed two emperors in a row. His successor was Marquis Of Jin's younger brother Marquis Of Jin, a poor monarch who had only been on the throne for a few months before he was driven out of Yicheng by Duke Wu of Quwo.
However, the power of The Great Sect was not completely eliminated, and the Great Emperor of the State of Jin, represented by the Marquis of Jin, survived for another 26 years, and the Duke of Quwowu actively responded to internal wars and external covetous forces, and finally in 678 BC, he killed the Marquis of Jin and completely unified the entire territory of the Jin State. Then, Duke Wu took the gold and silver treasure to bribe the King of Zhou and asked him to announce to the world that his xiaozong daizong had become the monarch of the Jin state and was listed as a prince, and the Duke of Quwowu was also renamed the Duke of Jinwu.
The 67-year-long civil war in the Jin Dynasty thus ended in the hands of the Duke of Jinwu, but at that time, the Duke of Jinwu was old, and he completed the great mission of Quwo Daiyi at the age of 76, and only one year after he was officially listed as a prince, he died. It was the 39 years of efforts of Duke Wu of Jin that unified the Jin dynasty and laid a solid foundation for Sun Tzu Jin Wen to dominate!
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