Statue of Marquis Wei Wen
Wei Wenhou was born in 472 BC. 韩、赵、魏灭亡智氏时，他十九岁，那时魏氏当家的是他的祖父魏桓子。
In 446 BC, when Wei Wenhou was twenty-six years old, Wei Huanzi died, and Wei Wenhou succeeded him as the head of the family and became a secretary of the Jin state.
In 425 BC, Zhao Xiangzi, the ruler of the Jin state, died, and Marquis Wen of Wei succeeded him as the last ruler of the Jin state at the age of forty-seven.
In 403 BC, when the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei were officially crowned princes by King Weilie of Zhou, Wei Wenhou was already sixty-nine years old, only seven years after Wei Wenhou's death in 396 BC.
Although it has only been seven years since it really became the king of a country, the State of Wei during the Reign of Marquis Wen of Wei was the hegemon of the Central Plains, and if it is said at that time that there is a country that will eventually end the chaos in the world, everyone will definitely think that it is the State of Wei.
Because the other big countries have all been cleaned up by the State of Wei one by one.
First of all, let's talk about the State of Qin, the great power that will unify the world in later generations, has been the most seriously packed.
From 419 BC to 408 BC, after twelve years of arduous war, Wei Wenhou took a large area of territory such as the West River of the Qin State, completely drove the Qin State back to the Luoshui coast, and was unable to enter the Central Plains again.
The second is the State of Chu, when the Jin and Chu dynasties were fighting for hegemony, the State of Chu was not an opponent, and now the State of Jin is divided into three, but it is still united when dealing with the State of Chu, and the State of Chu is of course invincible.
From 422 BC to 396 BC, Wei Wenhou joined forces with Han and Zhao to fight against Chu, defeating chu in seven major wars, and the three kingdoms took a large part of chu territory to the south.
Finally, there is the State of Qi, the Three Jins can be officially canonized, and the State of Qi has a great relationship,
In 405 BC, when The State of Qi's grand master Tian Mozi died and civil unrest broke out in the State of Qi, Tian Bu killed Gongsun Sun, and Tian Hui rebelled at Liaoqiu (廪丘, in present-day Juancheng County, Shandong) and defected to the State of Zhao. Tian Bu sent troops to surround Liaoqiu, and Tian Hui sent people to ask the Three Jins for help, so the Three Jins jointly sent troops to rescue them.
The Three Jins, with the Wei army as the main force, and the Wei general Zhai Jiao as the main commander, fought a major battle against the Qi army that surrounded Liaoqiu. With scattered and flexible infantry, the coalition forces surrounded and attacked the Qi army arranged in dense vehicle formations, and the Qi army was defeated, losing 2,000 vehicles and 30,000 troops, and the coalition army piled the corpses into two high hills.
Tian Bu fought again with the allied forces at Longze, but was defeated again, and the coalition forces took advantage of the victory to drive straight into pursuit, besieging Guansai Pingyin (present-day Pingyin County, Shandong) west of the State of Qi, and attacking the Great Wall of Qi, forcing the rulers of the State of Qi to submit
The two-year war ended with the capture of the allied forces by the combined forces of Kang Gong, the last ruler of the State of Qi.
The Duke of Qi Kang and the Princes of the Three Jin Dynasties went to Chengzhou to formally request the canonization of the Three Kingdoms, and the Three Jins officially became princes.
Han, Zhao, and Wei were officially listed as princes
The State of Wei under the leadership of Marquis Wenhou of Wei not only pursued the Jin State by force and dominated the world, but also made cultural achievements, and the Xihe School established under his support successfully became the cultural center at that time.
West River School
Wei Wenhou reused the famous Confucian Xia at that time, worshiped Zixia as a teacher, and taught in Xihe, from more than 300 scholars, of whom talented people.
Zixia (507 BC – 400 BC), courtesy name Bu ( Bu ) , courtesy name Shang , zixia , was a Wen of the Jin Dynasty (present-day Wen County, Henan) at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period , a famous disciple of Confucius , one of the "Ten Philosophers of Confucius".
During the establishment of the Xihe Sect, many of Zixia's disciples were very famous figures, including Li Wu, the founder of the Three Jin Dynasty Dharma Thought, Wu Qi, a famous general of the Warring States, Duan Ganmu, the Minister of Wei, Tian Zifang, a Taoist scholar, and Ram Gao, the author of the Spring and Autumn "Biography of the Ram".
The Xihe School attracted and trained a large number of officials for the State of Wei.
Wei Wenhou's success was inseparable from his correct strategy, which in a nutshell was four points: meritocracy, westward expansion, uniting the Three Jins, and defending Qi Chu.
Unfortunately, after Wei Wenhou's death, none of his descendants obeyed it.
Domestic employment began to value mendi, resulting in a large number of losses of personnel cultivated by the Xihe School, and even the famous general Wu Qi was forced to the Chu state.
The Three Jins split, and at the same time fought against Qi and Chu, making enemies on all sides.
Relaxing the scramble for the west, the State of Qin and the State of Wei fell into the Great War of the Central Plains, constantly launched wars, and finally after the setback at the Battle of Maling of the State of Wei in 332 BC, it took back the West River in one fell swoop.
"Wen Dao Xihe jiu obeyed, Tao Chengguo ruled in a gentle style.
The political relationship is different from that of the Qunhou. ”
This is a poem by Xu Jun, a southern Song Dynasty, which is extremely concise and concise, but it is a good summary of Wei Wenhou's life's Wenzhi martial arts.