The Seven Heroes of the Warring States period were collectively known as the seven most powerful princely states in the Warring States period, and after hundreds of years of hegemonic wars in the Spring and Autumn Period, the number of princely states sealed by Zhou Tianzi was greatly reduced. Zhou Tianzi is nominally the co-lord of the world, but he has long since died in name. The princely states attacked each other, and the wars continued, and eventually they were all destroyed by the Seven Heroes. After the three families were divided into Jin, the Zhao, Wei, and Korea became among the great powers, and there was the Tian Dynasty Qi, and the pattern of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States was formally formed, namely: the Qin State, the Chu State, the Qi State, the Yan State, the Zhao State, the Wei State, and the Korean State.
The ancestor of the Wei clan was Bi Wan, a descendant of Bi Gonggao, the fifteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, who was highly valued by the Duke of Jin, promoted to the rank of Doctor, destroyed the ji surname of Wei Guo, and was given the title of Wei Land, thus obtaining the surname. After Bi Wan, Wei Yi followed The Duke wen of Jin and gradually prospered. During the Battle of Jinyang, the Wei and Han clans defected, and together with the Zhao clan, they destroyed Zhibo, and the three Secretaries dominated alone, dividing up the land of the Jin state. Finally, in 403 BC, Marquis Wenhou of Wei separated from the Three Families of Han and Zhao to establish the State of Wei.
Marquis Wen of Wei (472 BC – 396 BC)
Reigned from 446 BC to 396 BC, surnamed Ji, Wei, Mingsi, grandson of Wei Huanzi, founding monarch of the State of Wei, founder of the century-old hegemony of the State of Wei, and the earliest monarch of the Warring States to implement the change of law and strive to be strong.
Main life: In 403 BC, the three families were divided into Jin, and King Weilie of Zhou recognized the status of the princes of the three kingdoms of Wei, Han, and Zhao, and formally established the state; using Li Wu and Zhai Huang as ministers to reform the maladministration; using Le Yang and Wu Qi as generals to attack the city and become invincible; li Wu taught the Fa Jing, ruled the country according to law, selected the best and the able, internally repaired Wende, and ruled the military equipment; and Zhao Lianhan, gave up infighting, expanded against Qin, occupied Xihe and Shangjun, and greatly weakened the Qin state; guided the Xihe school and turned the Wei state into the cultural center of the Central Plains countries; occupied Zhongshan, and the Three Jin Dynasties, Attacking the State of Chu and sabotaging the strategy of the State of Zhao to enter the Central Plains in the south, and the strategy of the State of Zhao to enter the Central Plains in the south, completely established a foothold in the Central Plains, making the State of Wei leap into the hegemony of the Central Plains.
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Marquis Wu of Wei (?) - 371 BC)
Reigned from 396 BC to 370 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name Mingjing, son of Marquis Wen of Wei.
Main life: When he was the crown prince, he accompanied the army to the state of Zhongshan, annexed the entire territory of the state of Zhongshan, sat in Zhongshan, and acted alone; after taking the throne, he marched south and fought a northern war, with fruitful results, the Three Jin Alliance defeated the Chu army and captured Daliang, the Battle of Yin and Jin defeated the Qin army and swept through Hexi, advancing into the hinterland of the Qin state, waging wars against Zhao and Qiduo, winning repeatedly, pushing the century-old hegemony of the State of Wei to the peak again, but also making enemies everywhere, and the strategic vision was not as clear as his father.
Wen Shi Jianhou, Wu Shi Yisheng.
King Hui of Wei (400 BC – 319 BC)
Reigned from 370 BC to 319 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name, son of Marquis Wu of Wei.
Main life: Moving the capital to Daliang, digging a chasm, building water conservancy and developing production, building the Great Wall in the west, and creating a system of selecting and promoting warriors; reusing Pang Juan, greatly increasing military strength, and restoring the hegemonic status of Wei Wenhou and Wu Hou; the battles of Guiling and Maling were twice defeated by the State of Qi, and although militarily they still maintained a strong momentum, the national power declined from then on; King Xiang of Xuzhou became the first prince to call himself king among the six kingdoms outside Chu, but marked the loss of the hegemonic status of the State of Wei; in his later years, he was repeatedly attacked by the State of Qin, and successively lost Hexi and Shangjun. Military power has completely declined.
Mencius said to him, "The king is warlike, please use the metaphor of war." Filled with drums, the blades of the soldiers were picked up, and the armor was abandoned and the soldiers were dragged away. Or a hundred steps and then stop, or fifty steps and then stop. What if you laugh at a hundred steps with fifty steps? ”
King Xiang of Wei (?) - 296 BC)
Reigned from 319 BC to 296 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name He, son of King Hui of Wei.
Main life: jointly attacking Qin and returning without restraint; using diplomacy, making it difficult for the Qin state to go east, basically preserving the homeland of the three families when they were divided into Jin dynasties and expanding the land to the south, struggling to maintain the mess left by his father, and the comparison between Qi and Qin was more than enough.
It is not like a man, and it is not seen and feared.
King Zhao of Wei (?) - 277 BC)
Reigned from 296 BC to 277 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name 遫, son of King Xiang of Wei.
Main life: Appointed Meng Yijun as a minister, defeated by the State of Qin many times, lost the city in succession, there was no room for counterattack, the 240,000 troops in the Battle of Yique were completely annihilated by Bai Qi, cut the land and sought peace, ceded all the homeland of Hedong, and the State of Wei declined even more; the Five Kingdoms cut down qi and destroyed the State of Qi several times.
Mango is deceitful.
King Of Wei (?) - 243 BC)
Reigned from 277 BC to 243 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name 圉, son of King Zhao of Wei and brother of Wei Wujie.
Main life: He made his younger brother Xin Lingjun (信陵君); he made a north-south alliance with the State of Qi, was attacked by the State of Qin one after another, was defeated in successive battles, killed 130,000 people at the Battle of Huayang, and ceded Nanyang; after the Battle of Changping, his younger brother Xin Lingjun stole a charm to save Zhao da defeated the Qin army, threatened the Six Kingdoms, and was feared by the King of An Ling for ten years and did not dare to return to China; Meng Xiao invaded the State of Wei and reconciled with his younger brother, Xin Lingjun led the five-nation alliance to resist Qin and defeated Mengxiao, the Chinese Qin people rebelled, seized the power of the Xinling Jun, and the pillar stone of the Wei state collapsed violently, and died of illness in the same year as Xin Lingjun.
The soldiers were scattered in the world, and the mighty was in the country of the crown belt; the king of An Gong died and Wei Yi died. Mango is deceitful.
King Jingxiang of Wei (?) - 228 BC)
Reigned from 243 BC to 228 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name Zeng , was a wu ( noon ) , son of King An of Wei .
Main life: The Five Kingdoms Alliance attacked Qin and captured Qin Shouling; actively resisted Qin, but the State of Wei was difficult to return, and the general trend of the State of Qin had become a success, and it was attacked by the State of Qin for many years, and it had no power to fight back, and died young after resisting the State of Qin for fifteen years.
Therefore, it is not as if Gui Zeng joined Wei, so as to doubt Qi and Han.
Wei Wang fake (?) - 225 BC)
Reigned from 228 BC to 225 BC, surnamed Ji (姬), of the Wei clan (魏氏), courtesy name Fei, son of King Jingxiang of Wei.
Main life: When he was on the throne, the State of Qin had begun to unify the great cause, after the destruction of Handan, the Qin general Wang Ben led an army of 200,000 to attack Wei, which could not be attacked for a long time, and led the Yellow River and the chasm to irrigate the city of Daliang, killing and wounding countless people in the city, the King of Wei surrendered, and the State of Wei perished.
Wang Fei weakened and fell under the Qin government.
The State of Wei was formally established in 403 BC, which lasted 178 years, and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States first implemented the change of law, becoming the most powerful country in the early Warring States period, dominating the Central Plains for a hundred years, turning from prosperity to decline, defeating Qi in the east, mourning qin for more than 700 miles in the west, humiliating Chu in the south, constantly cutting land for peace, and finally being destroyed by the Qin state.