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After the death of King Qin Zhao in the seventh year, the State of Qin began a new round of selection work. Meng Yujun, Lou Huan..., the Qin State's Chancellor changed like a marquee, why was it this person who finally helped King Qin Zhao to create the foundation of Great Qin's imperial industry?
By the seventh year of King Qin Zhao, that is, in 300 BC, Heli died.
However, Wei Ran still failed to take over as chancellor, and a politician from the east was invited to Qin because of the force of King Qin Zhao, and he was the famous Prince of Qi, Meng Yijun
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Why did King Qin Zhao, who gave up the near and far, and traveled thousands of miles to invite Meng Tianjun to come? To understand King Qin Zhao's grievances, we have to look back a little at the changes in the foreign policy of the Qin state during the first seven years of his reign.
At the beginning of King Zhao's succession, because his mother Empress Xuan was from the Chu clan with the surname of Qi, under her control, the diplomacy of the Qin state was actively friendly with Chu, and the relationship between the two countries quickly warmed up. Lin Jianming's "Draft History of Qin" said:
In 305 BC, King Qin Zhao married King Huai of Chu (see Chronology of the Six Kingdoms). The following year (304 BC, the third year of King Zhao of Qin), King Zhao of Qin and King Huai of Chu allied with King Huai of Chu at Yellow Thorn (northeast of Xinye, Henan), and Qin returned Shangyong (near Zhushan, Hubei) to Chu, which had occupied the Chu state. In the next three years, Qin and Chu maintained friendly relations.
- Draft History of Qin
However, this honeymoon diplomacy of Qin and Chu in the early reign of King Zhao did not last long. In 302 BC, the Prince Heng of the State of Chu (later King Xiang of Qing), who had been taken hostage to Qin, had a private battle with a Qin master, killed him, and fled back to the State of Chu. This sudden case of evil deeds led to the rapid rupture of relations between Qin and Chu.
After the breakup, King Zhao of Qin immediately sent his brother Jingyang Jun to the State of Qi as a hostage and formed an alliance with the State of Qi.
In the following year, in 301 BC, Qin and Qi joined forces with Han and Wei to attack Chu, and the following year, they broke the Chu army at Chongqiu and killed the Chu general Tang Ming. It was at this time that the Qin state minister Li Li died.
In view of the fact that the previous alliance between the State of Qi and Han and Wei was promoted by the great zongheng family Meng Tianjun, and this time the Great Victory of Chu Chu, Meng Tianjun was also the greatest. King Qin Zhao then moved his mind to invite Meng Yujun to join Qin as a government.
King Qin Zhao's wishful thinking was: Once Meng Yijun left the State of Qi, then the main backbone of the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Han, and Wei would be torn down, and the State of Qin would harvest another powerful talent after the disease. But in the end, Meng Tianjun's trip to the Qin Kingdom became an experience that made him and Qin Zhaofang unhappy.
After only a year of worship, Meng Yijun fled the Qin State in a hurry with the help of the Chicken Singing Dog Thief, and the position of Qin Xiang he left behind was filled by Lou Huan of the Zhao State.
Meng Tianjun's lower field, analyzed from the external causes, was because he did Qin Xiang and stabbed Zhao Guo's nerves.
The alliance between Qin and Qi was bound to cause great resistance to King Wuling's plan to annex Zhongshan, so King Wuling had to use his old friendship of sending King Qin Zhao to return to the country and take the throne, and send Jin Fu and Lou to slow down the operation of Qin and pull Meng Yujun down.
However, in addition to the Zhao Guo factor, this matter recorded in the "History of Meng Yujun Lie" is also worth playing
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Twenty-five years after the death of King Qi, he sent Meng Yujun into Qin, and King Zhao took Meng Yujun as the Qin phase. People may say that The King of Qin Zhao said: "Meng tasted junxian, and the Qi clan also, now Xiang Qin, must first Qi and then Qin, Qin Qi is in danger." So King Qin Zhao stopped. The prisoner Meng tasted the king and plotted to kill him.
- "The Biography of the Chronicle of The Chronicle of Meng Yujun"
Who was this "someone" who slandered Meng Yujun in front of King Qin Zhao?
I think it's very unlikely that it's a gold or a slower building. Because the people who entered the rumor said that Meng Yujun was a Qi person, he would definitely damage Qin Feiqi. But Jin Shou and Lou Huan were also outsiders, and if the two of them were so pouring dirty water on Meng, wouldn't they be afraid that King Qin Zhao would suspect that they would harm Qin and Zhao?
In other words, to say this rumor from the mouths of the two of them would be unconvincing. The fact that Meng Tianjun was a Qi person, long before inviting him to join the Qin government, King Qin Zhao had certainly understood it, but why did he invite Meng Tianjun, and King Zhao was suspicious?
Extrapolating from the position of the person who entered the rumors, he was mostly a self-respecting person around King Qin Zhao, otherwise he could not arouse the xenophobia of King Zhao with such clichés. Fan Ju once said that Wei Ran had a strong hostility toward the Kwantung Youshi and denounced them as people of chaos.
This can't help but make people wonder: Will it be King Zhao's uncle Wei Ran who slandered Meng Zhaojun in front of King Qin Zhao?
If this speculation was true, it fully demonstrated Wei Ran's lack of power in impacting Qin Xiang's position
——The front foot took away Meng Tianjun, and the back foot came to a slow down. In the end, his uncle's kinship and merit in supporting the establishment of the new monarch were still invincible to the diplomatic influence of the two powers of Qi and Zhao.
The dawn that fate opened for Wei Ran appeared in the twelfth year of King Qin Zhao's reign (295 BC). A year earlier, King Wuling of Zhao, who had supported Lou's entry into Qin's government, had unfortunately died in a sand dune coup, and the military and political power of the State of Zhao had fallen into the hands of the pro-Qi politician Li Dui. After Li Dui ascended to the throne, Zhao Guo's foreign policy shifted rapidly, from balancing Qin and Qi yi to joining forces with Qi, and the direction of expansion returned from the north to the south.
So a new emissary, Qiu Liu, was sent to the Qin kingdom. Soon after, under his operation, Lou Slowly faded into the wilderness, and Wei Ran became the new chancellor of the Qin state
During the 56-year reign of King Qin Zhao, 295 BC was a landmark year.
Prior to this, although the national strength of the Qin state was superior to that of the Six Kingdoms, its diplomatic influence seemed to be inferior to that of the Zhao State under King Wuling of Zhao.
However, after King Wuling of Zhao starved to death in the sand dunes in 295 BC, the strong advances of the Zhao state due to the hufu riding and shooting came to an abrupt end, and the Qin state began the process of conquest of the Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains.
In 293 BC, the Qin general Bai Qi fought a major battle with the combined forces of Han and Wei, beheading 240,000 people, breaking the encirclement of the Qin state by Qi, Han, Wei and other Kwantung princes since 296 BC, forcing Han and Wei to re-submit to the iron hooves of the Qin army.
For the State of Qi, which led the coalition to attack Hangu Pass, in 284 BC, the State of Qin took advantage of the annexation of Yin Song by the King of Qi, arousing a good opportunity to unite with the four kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, and Yan, with Le Yi as a general, to break the main force of the Qi army in Jixi, And Le Yi personally led the Yan army to the east to go east to more than seventy cities in Qi, while the Qin army took advantage of the chaos to take the richest commercial metropolis in the Central Plains, Dingtao.
The State of Qi was in ruins, the King of Qi was dead, and the State of Qin had originally planned to annex the State of Wei in one fell swoop and cut off the waists of the princes of Shandong, but the Eastern Expeditionary Army of BaiQi fell into a bitter battle in Northern Forest because of the assistance of Yan and Zhao, and failed to achieve its wishes. Seeing that the destruction of Wei was fruitless, the State of Qin adjusted the main direction of attack at the right time, temporarily transferred the main force away from the Central Plains Battlefield, and launched a large-scale attack on the State of Chu from 279 BC.
Only a year later, Bai Qi led the Qin army to capture the capital of Yingdu, and King Xiang of Chu was forced to move east to Chen County, thus greatly reducing the flanking threat of the Qin army entering the hinterland of the Central Plains. After the destruction of Chu, the main force of the Qin army returned to the battlefield of the Central Plains and refocused its spearhead on the State of Wei. In 273 BC, the year that Fan Ju entered Qin, Bai Qi broke the combined forces of Zhao and Wei under Huayang, and the former shame of the siege of The Northern Forest was bloodied.
The State of Wei, the State of Chu, the State of Qi, seeing the rivals of the Kwantung fall one after another, the State of Qin seemed to be getting closer and closer to the ultimate goal of unifying the world.
Although on the surface, the high song of the Qin state is due to the invincibility of Wu Anjun Baiqi. But in fact, Bai Qi is just a sword in the hands of others. The great strategist who really made those conquest plans for the Qin state was Wei Ran
。 In this regard, Sima Qian commented in the "Biography of Marquis Yong of Shi Ji":
Marquis Of Yong, Prince Zhao's uncle also. And Qin so Dong Yidi, weak princes, taste the emperor in the world, the world is the head of the Xixiang Inspector, the merits of the Marquis of Yong also!
- "The Chronicle of the Marquis of Yong"
In 273 BC, Bai Qi won the Great Victory of Huayang, and the merit and prestige of Wei Ran of Xiangguo also reached its peak. It was at this time that Fan Ju, who was "ignorant of current affairs", made a statement to King Qin Zhao, saying that the Qin state was already in danger, and the culprit of the crisis was Wei Ran!
Of course, King Qin Zhao would not believe the alarmist remarks of a Kwantung wanderer at this time, but after just three years, Fan Ju's prediction seemed to come true. Marquis Wei Ran not only faded the magic of continuing to lead the Qin State, but also revealed a daunting fangs and claws.
As a result, Fan Ju, who had been hung out by King Qin Zhao, was invited back into the Xianyang Palace by him...
bibliography:
Fan Xiangyong's "Warring States Policy Notes";
Takikawa Ziyan "Notes on the History of the Society";
Lin Jianming's Draft History of Qin;
Yang Kuan's Chronicle of the Warring States Historical Materials
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