What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The matter of high merit and vibration of the lord often happened in ancient times and now, under normal circumstances, when people were high in merit and high in the lord, the emperors would find various reasons to kill them, rather than indulge. This may be done out of jealousy or worry. After all, people were a little overwhelmed when they were high in merit, and the emperor was afraid that they would choose to rebel at that time, change from a subject to a lord, and lose their own Jiangshan Sheji. Han Xin is the most typical victim, and a group of people who were killed after a glass of wine and released their military power.
Today we are going to talk about another situation of the Gong Gao Zhen Lord, which is exactly the opposite of what was said earlier. He was the famous Qin general Wang Qi in the late Warring States period, and he had been infinitely powerful and wise since he was a child. When he grew up, he practiced martial arts every day and excelled in martial arts. A moment of fame. When King Yingzheng of Qin was inspecting a certain palace, he overheard this news, so he went to Wang Qi and wanted him to go to the army to lead his troops to fight.
But Wang Qi would march and fight there, except for the martial arts superior. However, he was not good enough to refuse the request of the King of Qin, so he worked hard to study the military book from then on, and soon learned something. After the almost perfect Wang Qi learned the essentials of the military book, he began to lead troops to attack other countries, and successively broke the three kingdoms of Zhao Yanchu without defeat, and achieved great success.
When Ban Shi returned to the dynasty, according to his merits, he would have been promoted to an official and knight, but he voluntarily resigned from all the positions before the reward was awarded, and he was discharged and returned to the field. So why did he do this? It turned out that the State of Qin had implemented the Shang Martingale Transformation Law and implemented the military merit system, so as long as they won the battle and had military merit, no matter who they were, they would be rewarded.
Because of this, the more people who have achieved battle, the more rewards they will receive. And Wang Qi had already paid homage to the great general before he set out on the expedition, and his title was also above ten thousand people under one person. Therefore, the King of Qin basically had no rewards to give him, so he would not let the King of Qin abdicate.
Wang Qi suddenly felt more worried when he thought about this, and thought that instead of letting the king doubt himself, he would do something to himself. It is better to take the initiative to resign, unload the armor and return to the field, live your own happy and leisurely days, and spend your old age in peace. But all this was just Wang Qi's own worries, and Qin Wang Yingzheng had never thought about these things.
Because he has a strong ability to rule, the Qin state is a centralized country, and the army is in his own hands, there is no need to think about these superfluous things. However, his thoughts are also reasonable, people have no far-reaching worries, there must be near-term worries, if the ancient heroes all had such thoughts, they would not all end up like Han Xin.
What was surprising was that the First Emperor refused Wang Qi's resignation and said to him, "You stay, I will not kill you", which shocked everyone as soon as this remark came out. And Wang Qi also escaped the disaster because of it. He also became one of the few people in history who was still alive after the Lord of Meritorious Shock.