The long river of history is running endlessly, there are calm waves, there are also waves, let Xiaobian take you into history and understand history.
The biggest question: Su Qin wandered away from various countries with his life, saw strong winds and waves, and created big winds and waves, why should he be (foolish) loyal to Yan? First of all, Su Qin used this plan, although he would inevitably die in the end, but decades of glory and wealth were also a great temptation for an ordinary person. Secondly, the relationship between Su Qin and King Yan Zhao may indeed be unusual. My personal speculation is that sima qian may have recorded that he had failed in many persuasions when he was young, so after King Yan Zhao trusted him, he may have really been grateful to Shu Zero and gave his allegiance to death. There are all kinds of people in this world. Think about it, Fang Xiaoru did not hesitate to be accused of the Ten Tribes for the sake of a Jianwen Emperor, and Dao Yan wholeheartedly assisted Zhu Di, that is, for rebellion. Su Qin may be a combination of the two of them, loyal to King Zhao, and named after himself.
Su Qin's ability to go against the heavens wants to obtain glory and wealth, and no matter who he is "loyal" to, I believe he can do it. With a bit of a God perspective. It was a little strange to think that his allegiance to Yan was not aimed at Qin, and coupled with Qin Mugong's paragraph, he thought that he had watched the "Conspiracy of Taigong Yin Fu" and counterattacked Qin Mugong, resulting in various contradictions. Therefore, it is also a tragedy that Su Qin's efforts to finally speed up the process of Qin Que Yan. This seemed to imply that the Sea of Stars was going to kidnap Da, inflate its ambitions, and then plunge the Celestial Dynasty into turmoil. Yesterday, I read the preface to Yang Kuan's Warring States History, saying that Su Qin deceived Qi Fa Song in death and was finally killed. But I think this is very ridiculous, not necessarily true.
Tactical victory, strategic tragedy. There was no way, Yan Guo couldn't see that long. But this annihilation of Qi is still a few years before the Battle of Changping, Qin Shi Huang and his father have not yet developed, and the future events are unimaginable. Moreover, before King Yan Zhao ascended to the throne, the State of Yan had just been destroyed by the State of Qi, which was a blood vendetta. There was no dispute between the qin state and the Yan state. Mainly, there has always been a sense of immediacy of Song Zhujin's destruction of Liao. The point is that his plan does not include how strong Yan is, and breaking Qi itself has no meaning. Even if he doesn't see the future Qin Hui unifying the six kingdoms, his strategic goal should be to improve Yan's situation after the destruction of Qi, and I don't see this at present. The country does not rely on love and hatred, because the past dispute with Qi wants to destroy Qi is not a good strategist.
The key is the follow-up strategic mistake. If King Yan Zhao did not die at that juncture, the successor King Hui of Yan suspected Leyi, and Tian Shan had no chance to restore the country, then it would be difficult to say later. Meng Yujun's back to Qi was the problem, and if he was Qi Xiang, Su Qin's plan might not be successful. It can only be said that personal choices are different, Su Qin is loyal to the King of Yan, and Meng Yijun does not intend to align the king in this way. At that time, tian jia's deeds were chilling. The King of Qi killed the generals of other countries at every turn, and the State of Qi was asked by the Five Kingdoms to withdraw from the Yan State to cede territory, and there were other political requirements, so it should be that the State of Yan was in a very unequal relationship and the King of Qi was brutal and everyone wanted to fight, and it was necessary to break qi for the long term. As for the strategic goal that has not been fully achieved, it can only be regarded as the son of King Yan Zhao, who is a pit father and then unlucky.
Perhaps it was a strategic defeat in victory in the war. History is a coincidence, if Su Qin did not target Qi, perhaps the later unification was Qi; if his lord did not die early, perhaps the Yan state would be stronger. Didn't you say that? Seventy cities, all Yandi. From this point of view, Su Qin was the one who stirred up the world. What if he was the death of the Qin State. However, the Yan kingdom is too weak, surrounded by powerful countries, and what to consider is how to survive, there is no strong foundation at all. Even if Le Yi was not replaced and the State of Qi was destroyed, in the end it was certainly other big countries that benefited more, the State of Yan could only get a small head, the foundation of the State of Yan was too poor, the population and land were not advantageous, the geographical position was not dominant, and it was very normal to be destroyed.
The Yan and Qi dynasties fought each other, causing the strength of the State of Qi to decline greatly, and the State of Yan was not strong because of this. Therefore, in this way, the overall power of the East declined, and on the contrary, the Qin State in the West made a fortune, took the opportunity to become bigger, and finally unified the world. It can be understood that the State of Yan took over the State of Qi for the State of Qin, but it failed to annex the State of Qi itself, so as to make it bigger. Instead, it was a lose-lose situation, cheapening the Qin state in the west and letting the Qin state in the east face only one Zhao state, thus accelerating the process of Qin unification. If the King of Yan at that time did not die and still used Le Yi to completely swallow the State of Qi instead of being counterattacked, it was indeed possible for the State of Yan to become a powerful country second only to Qin and Chu.
Speaking of the ills of the feudal system itself, whether the emperor is wise or not, the length of life, whether the heir can become the king of the shouye, these factors have too great an impact on a country, although The King of Yan Zhao, although he is wise, can only maintain for a while, the Yan state does not have the national fortune of the Qin state, even if the talent of Su Qin Leyi, there is no way to reverse Qiankun. Don't look at history from the perspective of God for posterity, because that will lead to the results of decades later, to force the previous events, resulting in cognitive bias. At the time of the Five Kingdoms' conquest of Qi, the Qin state showed no sign of the six kingdoms swallowing the six kingdoms later.
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