Many people believe that the unification of the qin state is inevitable, and the crooked history believes that there is no only and only in this world. All by accident. For example, the Taoist priests of alchemy inadvertently created gunpowder. All necessities are a series of accidental collisions that are taken for granted as necessities. As Lu Xun said, there was no road in this world, and the more people walked, the more people there were, so there was a road.
Since the emergence of the self-proclaimed human class, mergers have followed all the way, since the Beginning of the Xia Shang Zhou, mergers have been carried out all the time, tribes and cultures are dead and alive, after the emergence of absolute central royal power, mergers will change with the rise and fall of dynastic royal power, and when the dynastic power is strong and can maintain order, there is no annexation or very little. But when the dynasty was in decline, there were all kinds of princes who fought for each other, without exception.
When the King of Zhou Ping moved the capital, the five hegemons followed, the Zhou royal family declined step by step, and hundreds of countries were finally annexed to more than a dozen, the princely states claimed the throne, and nominally like Zhou Tianzi, the Spring and Autumn Period officially ended the world and entered the Warring States Era, but the combination did not stop, but continued, and the fist-sized ring match entered the white-hot. After that, the remaining zhongshan states, Song states, Yue states, Lu states and other after all large countries were successively attacked and destroyed by the Zhao, Qi, and Chu states.
Now take stock of the strength and opportunities of the country at that time.
At that time, the great states under the heavens were Qin, Chu, Qi, Zhao, and Wei, five countries with strength and ambition. The Yan Kingdom and Korea, one in the northeast, have been playing soy sauce since the Spring and Autumn Period.
Korea
South Korea is the most miserable, surrounded by enemies on all sides can not afford to provoke, from the beginning to the end there is no opportunity to develop. Although South Korea adopted the Shen Non-Harmful Change Method in the era of law change and achieved certain results, in the end, it was limited to geographically unable to cross the thunder pond one step. The first to be excluded from the list of unified worlds.
Yan Guo
Compared with Korea, the Yan kingdom suffered losses geographically, and the strong enemies of the Zhongshan state in the early stage, and later the Zhao state and the qi state rushed to the doorstep. The successive Yan kings did not have any ambitions, and the Yan Liao in that era was not yet developed, and the population was not large. Almost all of them are left alone. As the king of Zhou, the initial fiefdom lasted until the end, which can also be said that the kingdom was long.
In the later period, the war of the Five Kingdoms was led by the State of Yan, and it was King Zhao of Yan who, in order to avenge the invasion of the State of Yan by the State of Qi, painstakingly operated for 28 years and then worked hard to almost destroy the State of Qi, but unfortunately it was a failure in the end. It can be seen that even the weak and small State of Yan can make great achievements after making preparations, and it should be known that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi has been entangled with the State of Jin and the State of Chu since the Duke of Qi Huan, although it does not have an advantage, but the disadvantage is not obvious. However, in the past few hundred years, only one King Yan Zhao has done a little. The rest are unknown. There is no chance.
Wei
At the beginning of the Warring States, it was thriving, fighting on all sides, and did not fall behind, and as a result, it committed public anger, and later it was trespassed, and the Northern Qi State was crippled. After the rise of the Zhao state, Han and Wei became enemies on all sides. But the foundation of the beginning can also persist for many years. Under the circumstances, the situation was getting worse, but it was still able to survive. But ZTE is not possible. The surrounding strength is too strong.
Zhao Guo
The State of Zhao can be said to be the last to come, as one of the Three Jins, after the founding of the country, it was as strong as the enemy, but the kings of all generations were not faint, and later the King of Zhao Wuling broke the enemy with one move. Reach the top four. For half a century, the Zhao army rode out of dust, and the Qin people ate a lot of turtles in front of the Zhao army. After King Wuling of Zhao, it was almost the State of Zhao and the Qin army that were resisting hard, and other countries such as the State of Wei and the State of Yan and the State of Qi were all planning to fish in muddy waters to gain some benefits from the State of Zhao.
Unfortunately, in the face of the qin army's all-round superiority, the advantage of the Zhao army slowly lost its shine, and finally the battle of Changping lost the advantage since Hu Fu rode and shot. When unifying the world, Zhao Guo had ambitions, strength, and opportunities, but then he was bad.
Qi Guo
The State of Qi was originally a fiefdom of Jiang Ziya, since the Rise of the Duke of Qi Huan, the coastal area relies on the advantage of the sea, there is no strong enemy in the north, there is no opponent in the south, and it has been developing to the west, but bad luck, the early Jin State and the Chu State Did not let the Qi people make any achievements. After the Tian clan dai Qi, other countries were changing the law and trying to become stronger, and the State of Qi almost failed to catch the last train. Relying on the hegemony of the country has always maintained the status of a great power, but when he encountered King Yan Zhao, he was almost crippled and destroyed, but fortunately, King Yan Zhao's early death was saved from destroying the country.
The remaining State of Qi also had no strength to strive for dominance, and was again drawn to the East and West as emperors by the State of Qin. When unifying the world, the State of Qi had ambitions, possibilities, and certain strength, but was crippled by himself.
Chu
This country that has been fighting for hegemony with the Jin State for hundreds of years, to the Warring States period and the twilight of the chu tiankuo at that time the whole of Jiangnan was his, the strength is strong, from the founding of the country to the hegemony of the successive monarchs are not too bad, and because of this, and the Qi state, the Jin state and so on for hundreds of years did not lose, but when entering the Warring States period, the generation of kings is not as good as a generation.
In addition, subject to the influence of barbarians, like the Qin state, almost all of them are enemies of the Central Plains countries, culturally estranged, in order to fight against the Jin state, Qin-Chu relations are also very good, so almost all Qin Chu tied to a chariot, which also became his cover door, unable to gain the trust of other countries. Putting aside the Qin state, the chu state has the strongest comprehensive strength, but unfortunately the kings are short-sighted, and all of them covet the immediate interests, so they are pitted by the Qin state, and finally cut off thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. When the Chu state unified the world, it had the opportunity, strength, and ambition, but it had no foresight, and it was all obscured by the immediate interests, and finally the immediate interests were not obtained. The opportunity passed before his eyes but was not seized.
The State of Qin
The rise of the Qin state was after the King of Zhou Ping gradually occupied Guanzhong after moving east, and only after he gained a firm foothold, relying on the natural barrier in Guanzhong, the earlier hundred years of the Qin state has been fighting with Xi Rong, and is also considered to be barbarian in Kwantung, because of the existence of the Jin state, the Qin forces have never broken through Guanzhong. After the division of the Three Jins, the western side of the Qin state defeated the Western Rong, and the southern side united with the Chu state at this time to have the ambition to compete for the world.
Since Qin Xiaogong appointed the Shang martingale to change the law, the policy of combining soldiers and farmers tied the Qin state to the chariot, and later used the Shu chaos to annex Bashu as a rear, providing the possibility for the Qin state to annex the world.
But in the same zhao kingdom also rose at this time. Militarily, the State of Qin had been defeated by the State of Zhao many times without superiority, and later Su Qin raised the hezhong and suppressed the State of Qin in Guanzhong, and after Zhang Yi appeared, it was dismantled and changed to Lianheng, and the Qin State had the opportunity to annex the world.
During the reign of King Qin Zhao, the emperor who had been waiting for a long time and Empress Xuan's reign for half a century stabilized the political situation in the Qin State, and Empress Xuan personally went on the scene to booby-trap the King of Yiqu to solve the major problems in the north. Fan Ju's policy was adopted to cripple Han Wei and provide admission to the merger world. The Battle of Changping at the end of King Zhao kicked Zhao Guo out of the game. Since then, the Six Kingdoms of Shandong have never turned over again.