According to the records of historical materials such as the "Zuo Zhuan", after the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, zhou tianzi was greatly enfeoffed.
Wei Guo, like the States of Lu, Zheng, Jin, Cao, and Yan, were all princely states with the surname Ji. That is, they are all direct lineages.
At that time, the Capital of Wei Guo was a song, and the first monarch was The Ninth Son of King Wen of Zhou, Kang Shufeng.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty and the early Spring and Autumn Period, Weiguo was still a relatively large vassal state. Its peak period was
During the reign of Duke Wu of Wei, when King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi, Duke Wu of Wei sent troops to help Pingrong. Because of the merits of King Qin, he was promoted to the ducal state by Zhou Tianzi.
At that time, the territory was roughly located in Hebi, Anyang, and Puyang in Henan, north of the Yellow River, part of Handan and Xingtai in Hebei, and in the western part of Liaocheng and northern Heze in Shandong.
However, when defending the WuGong, it began to gradually shrink, and after the three families were divided into Jin, they entered the Warring States era, and the Weiguo gradually became uncountable. In fact, in history, Weiguo is really full of talents, and all kinds of historical celebrities before and after include Shang Martin, Wu Qi, Lü Buwei, Madame Xu Mu, and Ghost Guzi, etc. These talents have set off big waves in history, but why did these people not stay in their own motherland to develop?
There are two main reasons, one is civil unrest; the other is that the monarch does not do the right thing, so he cannot retain talents.
Let's talk about its 18th generation monarch Wei Yigong, who after succeeding to the throne, he only knew extravagant sexual pleasures all day long, and had a paranoia about raising cranes, and later gave the crane a knighthood official position, making a fuss and jumping in the hall.
In 660 BC, Chi Di attacked Weiguo. Wei Yigong recruited troops to fight the enemy who had attacked, and the common people replied in unison: Let General Crane go to the front line to block the enemy. In the end, Duke Wei Yi was killed by Chi Di.
Another 300 years passed, and in 324 BC, Wei Sijun succeeded to the throne. At that time, the Wei state was weak and was repeatedly bullied by the big powers, so Wei Sijun took the initiative to demote the principality to a marquis. After five years as a monarch, he was demoted to a monarch. At this time, Wei Sijun only had one place in Puyang.
But the country had already declined to this point, and Wei Sijun still clinged to the old book.
The first thing Wei Sijun did after he ascended the throne was to try his best to capture a fugitive.
This prisoner had committed only ordinary crimes, not serious crimes.
This person was quite knowledgeable in medical skills, and after escaping from prison, he came to the State of Wei and cured the illness of the Queen of Wei, so he became famous.
He escaped from his family's prison and was highly skilled in medicine, curing Wei Guojun's illness. Isn't this like YanZi's theory that tangerines are oranges and oranges are oranges?
This is not clear, that is to say, the defense of the country can not support people, such a superb medical talent, or a criminal. When I get to other countries, I start to shine.
Wei Sijun felt very faceless, so he sent someone to negotiate with Wei Guo to extradite the fugitive, and the condition given was to compensate Wei Guo for fifty gold.
Then the King of Wei listened, what? Want to extradite me to see a doctor? No, no.
Wei Guo saw that this condition was not good, so he added the code and added it to a hundred gold.
But there were five round-trip negotiations, but they didn't work out.
Wei Sijun was now not just a fugitive, he was at odds with The King of Wei. Don't you not give? Well, gritting his teeth, he offered to exchange Zuo Shicheng for the fugitive.
His decision surprised the Defending officials: "Is it worth taking a city and exchanging it for a fugitive?" ”
Wei Sijun, however, said a large set of theories, what country's legal system is greater than everything, no rules and no squares, and so on. The reasons are all grandiose, in fact, the essence is to find face.?
The King of Wei heard that Wei Sijun was so unforgiving in order to get this fugitive, and that he could not really destroy the relationship between the two countries for a criminal, so he sent the prisoner back to Weiguo, nor did he ask Wei Sijun to give him the city in the form of a ransom.
At this moment, Wei Sijun was happy, and his name was found back.
Later, Wei Sijun did many shows, that is, he did enough superficial articles and did not do practical things, and finally caused the country's talents to wither.
After Wei Sijun's death, his son Zi Nan succeeded to the throne as Wei Huaijun.
Originally inherited a mess, Wei Huaijun himself was not able to defend cheng, in 254 BC, was attacked by the State of Wei, and the King of Wei An changed his son-in-law Wei Yuanjun to the monarch.
At this time, strictly speaking, the weiguo has perished.
The reason why the name Weiguo exists is only a vain name.
References: Warring States Policy, Zuo Zhuan