Qin Shi Huang Was the first emperor in the history of our country and the founder of the first unified dynasty "Qin", and his merits are in the annals of history. Inherited from the hands of Yingzheng, it is the Jiangshan created by the painstaking efforts of several generations of Qin people, and Yingzheng has taken such a powerful country to the peak, from "Qin State" to "Qin Dynasty".
"And to the First Emperor, Yu Lie of the Sixth Emperor, Zhen Chang Ce and Yu Yu Nei, swallow the princes of the second week and die, perform the supreme and make the Liuhe, and lash out at the world, and the four seas of Wei Zhen."
The other six of the Seven Warring States were destroyed one after another, namely Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi, as we know them. The State of Qin, which began in the seventeenth year of the reign of the King of Qin (230 BC), spent a total of ten years until the final annihilation of Qi, and completed the great cause of unification after the southern conquest of Baiyue in the third year of the First Emperor (219 BC).
So, where did the monarchs of the six countries that were destroyed by the Qin state go? Let's look at them one by one in the order of extinction.
The first is South Korea.
When the last monarch, Han Wang'an, took over, Korea was already the weakest of the Seven Warring States and was on the verge of extinction. Not to mention that Nanyang was later sacrificed, resulting in a situation that was even less optimistic. Han Wang'an had been pinning his hopes on Zhao Guo, hoping that Zhao Guo could block the iron hooves of the Qin army, but his hopes were disappointed. It is recorded in the Chronicle of History,
"In the seventeenth year, Nei Shi Teng attacked Han, and won the Han King An, and took all his land, and used his land as a county, and ordered yingchuan.
That is to say, in the seventeenth year of the reign of the King of Qin (230 BC), Nei Shi Teng, on the orders of the King of Qin, crossed the Yellow River, drove all the way to the south, and annexed Korea, while Han Wang An was captured.
However, being captured was not the final outcome of Han Wang'an, and in the twenty-first year of the Qin Dynasty (226 BC), the former Korean nobles rebelled in Xinzheng, and after the rebellion was put down, in order to eradicate the scourge, Han Wang'an was executed under house arrest.
After Korea, it was the Zhao state that perished.
Although the State of Zhao was eventually destroyed, it did resist the pace of the Qin army. The generals Li Mu and Sima Shang caused great obstacles to the unification of the Qin state, but due to the dissension of the Qin state and the incompetence of King Qian of Zhao, who listened to rumors and actually killed Li Mu and deposed Sima Shang, the State of Zhao no longer had the strength to resist.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Zheng of Qin (229 BC), the Qin general Wang Qi (王翦) broke the Zhao army, and king Zhao became a prisoner, after which Yin Zheng exiled him to the mountains and forests of Fangling, where he eventually starved to death.
After he was captured, his brother Gongzi Jia
"Lead the generation of hundreds of people of his sect to establish himself as the acting king, join forces with Yan in the east, and march up the valley." But the government-in-exile was also destroyed six years later, and Zhao Jia was captured.
The third to perish was the State of Wei.
In the 22nd year of the reign of King Zheng of Qin (225 BC), the Qin general Wang Ben attacked the State of Wei and besieged the capital of the State of Wei, Daliang. After that, the yellow river water was poured into the city, and three months later, the city of Daliang was destroyed, which is the famous "flooded city of Daliang", and the State of Wei had no power to fight back under the erosion of the Yellow River.
The King of Wei falsely took the initiative to go out of the city and surrender, becoming a prisoner.
This was followed by the fall of the Chu state in the same year.
In fact, the strength of the Chu state at that time in the remaining six countries was relatively strong, and it could even organize an effective counterattack and defeat the Qin army. The State of Qin also spent a lot of time in the process of attacking the State of Chu, sending several well-known generals, such as Li Xin and Meng Wu. In the end, Wang Qi personally took command and led an army of 600,000 to go out on a campaign to destroy Chu Jun and force xiang Yan, a general of the Chu state, to commit suicide. Xiang Yan was Xiang Yu's grandfather, and it was also he who shouted out before he died: "Although Chu has three households, Qin will be Chu when he dies!" After Xiang Yan's death, the Qin army invaded the capital of the Chu state, and the king of Chu was taken prisoner.
Much like the State of Zhao, King Qi of Chu's younger brother Qi Qi established a government-in-exile in Lanling in an attempt to claim the throne, but soon afterwards it also perished. The fate of the negative sword is unknown, and Qi Qi committed suicide after the defeat of the army.
The fifth to perish was the Yan Kingdom.
Before the yan kingdom was destroyed, there was an immature rebellion, but this rebellion left a story of anger and intestines, a heroic figure that could be sung and wept, that is, Jing Ke. Jing Ke failed to stab Qin, and Yingzheng was furious, speeding up the pace of annexing the Yan state. in
In the 26th year of the reign of King Zheng of Qin (221 BC), Wang Ben was sent to attack the Liaodong region of Yan, capturing Wang Xi of Yan and destroying the State of Yan.
The last one is the State of Qi.
During the more than 40 years that King Qi, the king of the fallen state of Qi, reigned, the state of Qi did not suffer the scourge of war. He appointed his uncle Hou Sheng as Xiangguo, that is, this Xiangguo accepted bribes from the State of Qin and sent guests to the State of Qin, who in turn gave these guests a lot of money, and when the guests returned, they persuaded the King of Qi not to be enemies of the State of Qin. Therefore, in the process of Qin's annihilation of the first five kingdoms, the State of Qi has always been blind. The Warring States Policy records that:
"Qin made Chen Chi seduce the king of Qi, about five hundred miles away. The King of Qi did not listen to Dr. Jimo but to Chen Chi, so he entered Qin, and died of starvation among the gongsongbai. ”
Qi Wangjian credulously trusted others at important junctures and voluntarily surrendered, but in the end he was exiled to the mountains and forests and starved to death. Although the death of Qi Wang Jian was miserable, it has to be said that the people of the State of Qi were not greatly affected by the war, which has to be said to be a good thing.
None of the six kings of the fallen kingdom died well, and they were captured, killed, and exiled, and the fate was miserable. Yin Zheng led the Qin state to complete the great cause of reunification, and it has an incomparable height in history. And these six kings of the fallen country have become people who have been swept away by the torrent of history.