How could the second-rate princes of the Song Dynasty prevent the two great alliances from going to war? (25)

On the stage of the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a magical second-rate prince, who was not among the princes of the Ji surname, and was a descendant of the enemy state of the Great Zhou, but it had an advanced system, had a brief period of hegemony, and also adopted diplomatic means to make the first-class princes obey his arrangements, and it was also a sage prince of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, and the ideas flourished, and this magical prince was the Song Kingdom.

Before the defeat of the Shang Dynasty that year, The eldest brother of the King of Qi turned to King Wu of Zhou, and the King of Wu was very touched by Wei Zi Qi's actions, and asked Wei Zi Qi if he was moved, and Wei Zi Qi certainly did not dare to move.

Upside down a few generations to say this Song kingdom.

The ministers of the enemy country have surrendered to the past, and whoever has the right to speak, people will give you face when they accept you.

This micron has been an honest person for half a lifetime, that is his duty, he does not dare to queue up, does not dare to charge for gifts, does not dare to draw water in front of him, and does not dare to let the station kneel.

Until the next life of King Wu and the ascension of King Cheng to the throne, when the Duke of Zhou assisted the government, he saw that Wei Ziqi had always been an old and good person, and after defecting to the Zhou Dynasty, it was even more duty-duty, and it was strange to think of it. The people's homeland was not there, the third brother King Sui was killed in battle, and the second brother Wei Ziyan also surrendered together, and the people did not surrender at that time for a peace of mind.

Just at this time, Wu Geng, the son of King Huan, was in rebellion, and Zhou Gongyi thought that the Great Zhou Dynasty was not yet stable, and a descendant of the Shang Dynasty was needed to rectify it, so that everyone could live a good life and stop fighting every day.

Therefore, in order to reflect the generosity of the Zhou Dynasty, and in order to appease the remnants of the Shang Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou gave Wei Ziqi a fiefdom, that is, the State of Song, and not only that, but also gave the State of Song a very high title, that is, a duke.

You know, the Zhou Dynasty is very precious to the title, for example, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, zheng guo was established, and this kind of royal brother feudal state is only a count, and even the marquis has not reached it. At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, it was given to the duke, and it was the highest rank among the dukes, shanggong, whose status was still above the dukes of the State of Lu and the State of Yu.

Therefore, after the demise of the 600-year Shang Dynasty, there was no reason for a large-scale counterattack, and the existence of the Song State played a huge role. Because of the Song Dynasty, the descendants of the Shang Dynasty had their own place to settle down.

We know that the Zhou Dynasty fought the Shang Dynasty in fact, a backward nation conquered the advanced nation, and the previous Shang Dynasty had already implemented a systematic slave social federation system, and the Zhou Dynasty at that time was still a nomadic people in Shaanxi.

Therefore, the Song State retained the advanced ideas and technologies of the previous Shang Dynasty.

The state of Song, which was scattered, was later briefly dominated by a few years during the song xianggong era, that is, when the duke of Qi Huan had just died, and the song state sent troops to help the state of Qi quell the civil unrest.

Some people in the academic circles now believe that the most important reason why the Song Kingdom became the source of thought and the birthplace of the circle of friends of saints in later generations is that the Song Kingdom retained a large number of Shang Dynasty ideas and classics.

In 546 BC, the Song State advocated the "Alliance of Soldiers" in the Central Plains for the second time. The princes of the Song Dynasty always had a higher vision than other princes.

The Song Dynasty was not only the first to implement commercialization, but also in the major trends of the Central Plains, it wanted to be a prince who looked at the overall situation with a cold eye, and came out to help the Central Plains clean up the stalls when necessary.

For example, around the first 580 years of the most lively fight, at that time, the whole Central Plains did not know what to do, only knew that it was right to fight, why to fight, and why to live did not seem to matter. At this time, the Song State stood up and, as a second-rate country, organized all the princes of the Central Plains Alliance and the Jiangnan Alliance to come to the Song Kingdom for tea and reconciliation. That is, the first alliance of soldiers.

However, this time, the alliance lasted only four years, and was destroyed by the Chu state.

Explain the "alliance of soldiers", 弭 is the meaning of elimination, soldiers are soldiers, and soldiers are the meaning of ceasefire.

Standing at the moment of 546 BC, the Central Plains once again started a war, and the melee between the Jin State and the Zheng State, the Lu State, and the State of Qi was pulling the curtain, and it was at this time that the Song State realized that the slave boss headed by the Jin State wanted to point out the crooked social tree, so it rushed out to organize the second alliance of soldiers, and all the princes of all sizes came to the scene and drank tea in the Song Kingdom again, with the purpose of signing a ceasefire agreement together. Even the great princes such as the Jin, Chu, and Qi states had to sign, after all, these first-class princes may be more powerful, but in the understanding of social development, they are slightly inferior to the Song state.

As a merchant's kingdom, the Song kingdom was the least willing to fight.

This was a diplomatic victory for the Song Dynasty.

The lonely and weak Song Kingdom, like a weak scholar, watched the tall and powerful Princes of the Central Plains fight, but they were powerless to pull the frame, and could only borrow diplomatic means to help the East Asian circle solve the current predicament.

The weak Song State, standing between the great powers, borrowed diplomatic means to push left and right, and wanted to resist the giant wheel of historical progress. All the princes were ostensibly discouraged by the strength of the other side, and the other was that the extensive organizational management model of the early days of human organization society was collapsing, which was not something that the Song State alone could resist.

Each prince is facing the pressure of external competition, and the internal troubles are many, and the killing of the monarch is continuous, and the greatest use of the alliance of soldiers is not to stop the fighting between the princes, but to give the princes a chance to rectify the internal breathing.

In the fourth year of the Second Alliance of Soldiers, Tian Gaoluan Bao, the four major families of the State of Qi, quickly dealt with the problems left by Cui Shu and Qingfeng, of which the Cui family was cut off by Qingfeng, and Qingfeng was also picked up by the four major families shortly after.

Speed that's called a marley.

It's just that all the officials have not found that the Guo clan, one of the two giants of the Qi state and one of the Gao clans, has not appeared on the stage of the Spring and Autumn For a long time.

Yes, the Guo clan encountered problems, first, the new family of the Guo clan is a family that does not like to fight very much, and has been engaged in logistics; second, the Guo clan has been hit hard, the new patriarch is not too tough, and has been suppressed; third, the Guo clan is busy with international meetings every day, and the domestic struggle is not involved, of course, it is also a good thing, to avoid being used as the first target during the rise of the Tian clan.

However, the Guoshi family is still one of the largest families.

This internal reorganization of the State of Qi completely allowed a family to stand firm in the State of Qi, that is, the Tian family.

This Tian clan was chen guo's son-in-law who fled to the state of Qi, Qi Huangong felt that this young man was good, one meter eight big stupid, so it referred to the land as a surname, "you will be surnamed Tian in the future", the young man changed his name to surname Tian.

Later generations of the Tian family were not involved in the most chaotic era of the initial State of Qi because of the early stage of development. The Tian family's fiefdom in the Country of Qi has a good reputation, that is, Dongshe cotton, Xia Shedan, opened a porridge factory in February and August, and gave the people tea oil and rice noodles all year round, and the local people were full of praise and vowed to coexist and die with the Tian family.

Is the Tian family really a bodhisattva reincarnation? That is certainly not, in addition to being compassionate to oneself, people are very willing to give up to others. The Tian family is buying people's hearts!

The first to start opposing the Tian family was the famous Yan Baby, who also predicted that "the future Tian Clan will surely take the Qi State and replace it", this kind of thing can only be said by the courtiers, and the big family of the side branch does not dare to say it, because every big family is also a threat to the State of Qi, and to stab the Tian family is to stab themselves, so the Manchu dynasty family is silent, they are not unaware, but they cannot say.

The top brass of the State of Qi was not unaware, but did not feel that it was important until... 170 years later, the Tian clan raised a large knife and changed the surname of the State of Qi.

This is a postscript.

However, at this moment in 540 BC, the diplomacy of the Song State put an end to the fire in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and everyone had time to rectify themselves.

The Song Dynasty could only buy time for the civilization of the Central Plains, but it could not change the final direction.

Just in 544 BC, King Jing of Zhou ascended the throne, the new tianzi new atmosphere; the most prestigious Wuguo Jizha Gongzi of the Jiangnan Alliance began to travel around the world, Confucius in the same period had talked with him, talked very happily, gave a very high evaluation, and the image of Ji Za Gongzi was the image template of the confucian disciples in later generations, gentle and elegant, and easy-going. And Ji Za Gongzi's idea influenced Confucius, and soon after, Confucius will also begin his study tour.

It was also during the same period that the Western world established the Persian Empire, the first great empire in the history of the world to span Europe, Asia and Africa, and Cyrus the Great unified the Arab world, and looked badly to the other side of the Aegean Sea, and the First Greek-Persian War was about to begin.

In the mysterious South Asian subcontinent, a man named Gautama Siddhartha sat down, but his ideas have survived to this day.

The whole world is changing, the blue civilization of Greece seems to be in a very clear direction, they have gone to the path of natural philosophy, fraternity and equal competition; while the Arab world has gone to the path of religion, God has given up his own education; and in the East Asian human circle, it is being gently discussed, they have not found the direction of the future of mankind, Taoists and Confucian ancestors have been born one after another, but in the chaotic times, it seems that this is not enough to save the confused East Asian Homo sapiens population, they are still discussing, still waiting...