At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the central plains overlord Jin State gradually declined, and the six secretaries of the Jin State, Zhao, Han, Wei, Zhi, Fan, and the Bank of China, were eyeing everything that the Princely State had.
Later, the Fan and Zhongxing clans attempted to rebel, and were eventually destroyed. In the end, there were only four left of the six Qing masters, and among the four, the Zhi clan was the strongest, but what was puzzling was that when the Jin Kingdom was finally divided, there were only three families of Zhao, Wei, and Han, and only the formerly powerful Zhi Clan could not get a share of the soup.
Why?
The Six Great Doctors Become the "Five Greats"
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ceremony collapsed and was happy, and although the feudal system was still maintained on the surface, a powerful princely state was often able to "blackmail the son of heaven to order the princes", and the Jin state was such a princely state.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhao family, one of the great masters of the Jin Dynasty, had gone through four dukes, and it had become a monopoly of the family, and the father and son of Zhao Wan, Zhao Dun, and Zhao Dun were even more powerful.
In the sixth year of the Duke of Jin, with the death of the major loyal generals in the Jin state, Zhao Dun found an opportunity, revealed the ambition of the wolf, and began to control the Jin state.
After the death of the Duke of Jinxiang, Zhao Dun supported the Linggong to inherit, but at this time, the Jinling Duke was still young, and Zhao Dun had more reason to grasp the government, and his power was immeasurable.
At this time, Zhao Dun was already under one person and above ten thousand people. However, people's hearts are greedy, once they gain power, they will want to gain inches, Zhao Dun is no longer satisfied with the position of a Qing doctor, what he wants to do is to surpass the "one person" on that head.
Later, Zhao Dun's relative Zhao Pu made this decision for him and secretly killed the Duke of Jinling, but Zhao Dun still did not have the courage to do that position after all, so he supported Cheng Gong to ascend to the throne.
Jin Chenggong was a man who understood what Zhao Dun really wanted, but in the end he couldn't give up his position to him, otherwise what would he do?
Therefore, Cheng Gong ordered Zhao Dun to be given the title of Gong Clan Doctor, although Zhao Dun was still under one person, but nominally, it was really above ten thousand people.
At this time, the five Qing doctors are still a Qing doctor, and several of them are totaled: which is this? We're all colleagues together, and now you've become our boss. That's not okay, you have to find a reason to pull them off the horse.
But what kind of head can be logical--Zhao Pu killed the Jin Linggong.
Among them, Tu Anjia especially wanted to pull the Zhao family off the horse, so he led the soldiers to kill the entire Zhao family in the name of revenge for Linggong, and in misfortune, under the protection of many people, Zhao Wu, the orphan of the Zhao family, was able to save his life, and eventually became an important figure in the development of the Zhao family.
Fan and the Bank of China were destroyed
The mighty Zhao family was destroyed, and only five of the six great qing doctors remained. Smart people know how to lie dormant, but some people want to come out and jump on their own, such as Fan and Zhongxing.
Although the Zhao clan has gone through the previous catastrophe of extinction, it has a certain family size after several generations of humiliation and burden. In 497, Zhao Jianzi wanted the People of Handan to move the 500 households that had paid tribute to the Wei State from Handan to Jinyang.
This Handan Noon is actually a branch of the Zhao clan that moved from Jinyang to Handan, so it is also called Zhao Wu. But Zhao Wu did not want to do it, 500 households, this is not to be underestimated labor force, the development of their own is not good? Why give it to you! So Zhao Wu categorically refused.
This was originally the Zhao family's own family affairs, to put it bluntly, the father wanted to take advantage of his son, and was rejected by the son.
Dad thought, I'm too faceless! Son, I'm going to clean you up!
In this way, Zhao Jianzi killed Handan Noon. At this time, Fan and Zhongxing could not see it anymore, and pursued Zhao Jianzi as an "enthusiastic audience". Where Zhao Jianzi could defeat these two families, he only escaped all the way and hid in his hometown.
At this time, the Zhi, Wei, and Han clans were still fighting for power and profit, and the troubled Zhao Jianzi moved the Zhi clan with interests, etc. At the same time, the Zhao clan obtained the support of the Marquis of Jin on the grounds that the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan interfered in the Zhao family, which made the four joint counterattacks against the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan both decent and disciplined.
Although Fan Shi and others received foreign aid- the help of the State of Qi and the State of Zheng, it was ultimately difficult to save the fire in the distant water, and eventually the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan were destroyed, and the zhi clan and other four Qing masters divided their land in this way.
At this time in the Jin Dynasty, the lord of the country was still young, and the domestic situation was even more chaotic: in the morning, he might still be an ally, and in the evening he would meet in the army. The future situation of the country is also uncertain.
A precursor to the demise of the Chi clan
The four Qing masters divided up the land of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan, and their strength grew again. Among them, the Zhi clan was particularly powerful, but in the end, there was no Zhi clan in dividing the Jin Kingdom, why is this?
In fact, all the reasons are due to the fact that Zhi Xuanzi chose the wrong successor.
Zhi Xuanzi gradually grew old, and it was time to choose a successor, and Zhi Xuanzi took a fancy to his own son Zhi Bo, because he thought that his son Xiao Yong was good at war and Wen Tao, but he ignored the shortcomings of Zhi Bo's eyes and arrogance, even if his own people advised him to choose another heir, Zhi Xuanzi still insisted on going his own way.
After the death of Zhi Xuanzi, Zhi Bo succeeded him to the throne.
After Zhi Bo took the throne, as Zhi Xuanzi hoped, he was brave and good at fighting, expanding his territory, and unstoppable, which also made Zhi Bo more and more eye-catching. Finally, Zhi Bo thought that he had no one to stop, so he asked Han, Wei, and Zhao to "offer" some land to him.
Han and Wei Moushi knew the pros and cons of the owners of the house, and advised: Zhibo is now in the limelight, so we will give him the land first, "many acts of injustice will kill ourselves", and we will naturally not be able to get any good fruit to eat when we are the first to oppose him.
As a result, both the Han and Wei families sacrificed their land. However, the ruler of the Zhao family in this matter was really gang, and said directly to Zhi Bo: The land is the ancestral inheritance inherited by the ancestors, and it is absolutely impossible to lose an inch.
Zhi Bo, who got two lands, did not get the "protection fee" in the Zhao family, thinking: This little brother does not understand the rules. It must be used to "kill chickens and scare monkeys". So he called the Han and Wei families and went to attack the Zhao family together.
The Zhao family can't see it, why do they do it? Escape! After some discussion, Zhao Wuxi finally remembered the advice of his father Zhao Jianzi: His hometown (Jinyang) is a good place! At this point, Zhao Wuxi escaped all the way and really hid back in his hometown. This hiding is for months.
Zhi Bo could not take the attack on Jinyang for a long time, on the one hand, Jinyang occupied the land, on the other hand, the military and civilians in Jinyang City were united and united.
However, Zhi Bo still had some military talent after all, and when he saw that there was a big river outside Jinyang City, he ordered his soldiers to build a dam upstream of the river to store water, divert the river channel into Jinyang City, and when the water was stored to a certain extent, he opened an opening and released water to attack the city.
Although the river did not open the city gate, it caused difficulties in the life of the people in the city, and the grain and grass began to rot.
At this time, Zhi Bo once again fell into his own excellent appreciation, and said to the Lord of the Han and Wei families: You see, I used water as a guide to attack the impregnable Jinyang City, and water is really a good thing! The speaker has no intention, the listener intends.
The Han and Wei families, there is a big river outside the capital, the Zhao family's today, is not the Han and Wei tomorrow?
The three families of Zhao Han and Wei jointly destroyed zhi
At this time, the Han and Wei families had already begun to play their own small calculations in their hearts, at this time, after Zhao Wuxi sent his own military division to explain the current situation, Han, Wei, and Zhao reached an agreement and jointly destroyed the Zhi family.
Han Wei Zhao used his human way to treat his body, changed the course of the river, and rushed into Zhi Bo's military camp, and Zhao Wei Han counterattacked and eventually destroyed the Zhi army. And Han Wei Zhao also reached a consensus, encroaching on the land occupied by the Zhi family.
In 434 BC, the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei divided up the remaining land of the Jin state, leaving only the capital to the Duke of Jin, and the Jin state was already extinct in name.
In 403 BC, Zhou Tianzi made the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei princes, which also marked the advent of the Warring States Era.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" Tanchun once said such a sentence: "If such a large family is killed from the outside, it cannot be killed for a while, and the worms with hundreds of feet are dead and not stiff, only from the inside to rise" The Jin state is such a large family, but the domestic chaos eventually leads to the seven males competing for hegemony, and the Jin state is nameless.
However, it is also this chaos that has contributed to the wonderful history of the Warring States period.