Taking the land of Baiyue in the south, thinking that guilin and Xiang County, the king of Baiyue bowed his head and tied his neck, and entrusted his subordinates. ——Jia Yi, "On Passing the Qin"
At the beginning of the founding of Zhou Chao, King Wu of Zhou adopted the method of dividing the princes and kings to guard the frontier to administer the country. Then the distribution of power throughout the Zhou Dynasty was like a cake, and nearly eight hundred years later, the Cake of the Zhou Dynasty had already been divided up by the princes, and the Zhou royal family had no spare strength to balance the princes and kings whose power was increasingly expanding, and Zhou Tianzi also became a puppet king without real power. Since then, China has entered the era of chaotic wars in the Spring and Autumn Warring States, which lasted for 549 years until Qin Shi Huang unified the world.
Qin Shi Huang was able to unify the six kingdoms was not actually his own merit, not only the time and place, but also the cooperation of successive monarchs and famous subjects before the Qin state. Compared with the other six countries, the State of Qin was relatively remote and initially only a small and unremarkable princely state, but when the other countries fought for the land in the Central Plains, the State of Qin silently and vigorously developed its national strength.
Because the State of Qin was in a remote area of Xirong, close to the nomadic Qiang, but the Qiang were not as brutal as the Xiongnu and Hu people in the north, they could train cavalry for the Qin State without causing too much loss (like the Yan State, it would use a large number of troops to defend the northern frontier against the Xiongnu). Coupled with the fertile fields, rich people, and fertile wilderness in the Guanzhong region, the Qin state quietly developed into one of the most powerful countries.
Then there is renren, Qin Xiaogong and Shang Martingale are the key turning points in the beginning of the prosperity of the Qin State, Shang Martin reformed some deficiencies in the qin state in the household registration and army, and implemented strict laws, Qin Xiaogong trusted Shang Martingale very much during his reign, and vigorously supported the Shang Martingale innovation, is a pair of veritable Ming Junxian courtiers. Unfortunately, after the death of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Martin was divided into five horses.
In addition to shang martingale, there were many famous generals in the Qin state, the most famous of which were Bai Qi, the god of killing during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and the father and son of Wang Qi during the Reign of Yingzheng. Bai Qi was listed as the head of the Warring States Warriors, and Bai Qi killed about 1.75 million enemy troops in his more than 30 years of military career, almost destroying the Wei and Korean states and crippling the Zhao state. Wang Qi, on the other hand, destroyed the Yan states of Zhao and Chu, and his son Wang Ben also destroyed the States of Wei and Qi, and sent Yingzheng to the imperial throne. At that time, the people had endured more than 500 years of war and were already exhausted. It is said that after the great chaos, it is necessary to rule greatly, but unfortunately, the government that laid down the country does not seem to understand this truth. After he became the first emperor of Qin, he still has been conquering the world, that is, the land of Baiyue written by Jia Yi in the "Theory of Passing Qin", compared to today, that is, from the Yangtze River Delta region to the Liangguang region.
According to historical records, Qin Shi Huang began to plan military operations against the land of Baiyue in the second year after the unification of the Central Plains, although the civilian generals were obstructing Qin Shi Huang's decision, but Qin Shi Huang was still stubborn, and in the same year he gathered 500,000 troops to march south (Wei Tu Ju fa 500,000 for the fifth army) The first military operation of the Qin Dynasty against Baiyue was a fiasco, with 500,000 people returning less than 200,000. Qin Shi Huang did not hit the southern wall and did not turn back, and five years later he gathered 300,000 soldiers again, and finally included Baiyue in the territory of the Qin Dynasty. According to the view of Baiyue at that time, it was really dispensable, but this was also the first time that China controlled the Baiyue region, which can be described as a thousand years, and now we can know the greatness of Qin Shi Huang.