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The beginning of Qin Benji was an important marriage: Zu Boyi of the Qin people accepted the blessing of Emperor Shun, married a woman of Emperor Shun's family, gave him the surname Ofe, and stepped onto the stage of history. The following Sinology Talk Xiaobian will bring you a detailed introduction, let's take a look at it!
It seems that when the Bo Yi clan had a bright future, Dayu replaced Shun as the lord of the world, and soon, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Dayu's son Qi established the Xia Dynasty, and Boyi, who was originally the heir of Dayu, was killed.
Due to their feud with the Xia, the Qin people were either in China or in Yidi, until the rise of Yin Shang, and the Qin people participated in the war against the Xia. Later, he married the princess of Yin Shang and became a prince.
In the last year of Yin Shang, the Qin people made a strange choice - to choose their father-in-law. Fei Lian was the general of the King of Shang, the pride of the Qin people, and his grandfather, but married the daughter of Xi Rong, the impact of this incident was not obvious at the time, but the dialogue between Xi Rong and the King of Zhou many years later was enough to prove that the Qin people were already vigilant against the rise of The Western Zhou at that time, and made their own decision: Although Fei Lian fought for Yin Shang, their grandfather married the Zhou people early, laying a solid foundation for the future Qin people to turn over again:
This year was during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, and Marquis Shen of Xirong said the following words to the King of Zhou:
In the past, I was the daughter of Li Shan, the wife of Rong Xuxuan (Fei Lian's great-grandfather), born zhongzhuo (Fei Lian's grandfather), returned to Zhou with her relatives, Bao Xi Tri, and Xi Chui was harmonious with his old cause.
Later, Western Zhou was able to smoothly advance eastward without worrying about the west, and the marriage between the Qin and XiRong played a key role, and the Qin people, who became the son-in-law of Xirong, sided with the Zhou people for a long time, ensuring the success of the Western Zhou dynasty.
Now, Shen Guo of Xirong once again reiterated this matter in order to remind the King of Zhou of the importance of Xi rong and the Qin people to Western Zhou. In fact, the final destruction of Western Zhou was that King You of Zhou deposed the son of Princess Xi rong and made the son of Xi Rong the prince, resulting in a rebellion in Xi Rong and the destruction of Guanzhong.
In fact, during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, the contradiction between Xi Rong and Western Zhou was highlighted by the Qin, and the reason why Marquis Shen reiterated to King Xiao of Zhou the importance of Xi Rong to Western Zhou was because King Xiao of Zhou tried to win over non-sons of the Qin people who were good at raising horses to replace the inheritance status of his eldest brother, and his eldest brother's mother was precisely the princess of Shen Guo. After this attempt was foiled by Marquis Shen, King Xiao of Zhou sinisterly divided Feizi as a vassal, and this fief was called Qin, and Made Feizi inherit the glorious surname of Ying.
This incident was undoubtedly a poisonous plan by the King of Zhou to try to divide the Qin camp and make them fall to Western Zhou.
I don't know how the Qin people made decisions at that time, but I can only say that sandwiched between Xi Rong and Western Zhou, none of them could afford to offend, and they could only support bitterly and reluctantly accept it.
Then, Xi Rong's revenge came quickly. During the reign of King Li of Zhou, Xi Rong rebelled, and the eldest brother of Fei Zi was slaughtered, and the remaining Fei Zi Yi Pulse had to completely fall to Western Zhou, accept the orders of king Zhou, and start a bloody battle with Xi Rong.
King Xuan of Zhou ascended the throne, with Qin Zhong as his doctor and Xi Rong. Xi Rong killed Qin Zhong.
Qin Zhongli died in Rong for twenty-three years. There were five sons, and their elder was known as the Duke of Zhuang. King Xuan of Zhou summoned five of Zhuang GongKundi and seven thousand soldiers to destroy the Western Rong and break it.
Duke Zhuang lived in his hometown of Inuyasha, had three sons, and his eldest son was his father. Father Shi said, "If I kill my eldest father Zhong, I will not dare to enter the throne unless I kill the king." ”
It can be imagined that the fierceness of the war that year, and the sorrow and helplessness of the Qin people sandwiched between the two powers. Fortunately, history always blessed the brave, and after a long war with Xi Rong, the Qin people, as the son-in-law of Wannian, finally turned themselves into masters:
In the year of Xiang's reign, he took his younger brother Miao Wei as the wife of King Feng.
From Emperor Shun's son-in-law to the barbarian father-in-law, this step, the Qin people have gone thousands of years. This was the beginning of the Qin people who no longer looked up to people's sniffles and decided to win the victory with swords and flames, and this starting point was not worth mentioning.
You can imagine the complicated feelings of Qin Xianggong when he finally became a father-in-law: in the pre-Qin Dynasty, being able to marry the princess to another place means that the people in this place have finally begun to show awe to you.
And this reverence was bought with blood, a path that struggled through the bitterness of Xi Rong and the sinister schemes of the King of Zhou.
The Western Zhou Dynasty had entered the twilight years, and there was a sinister tacit understanding between xi rong who had broken through the pass and the princes who had come to the "rescue", and the Qin people watched the destruction and war in the annals of history, and looked farther afield, the last period of the three ancient dynasties was coming to an end, and the future history was destined to be created by people struggling in a pool of blood.
Qin Xianggong saved the army from Zhou, fought very hard, and had meritorious service.
King Ping made Xiang Duke a prince.
The era of Great Qin began from this year.
Qin's political marriage with other nations
1, Qin Jinzhi's "good"
Obtaining the status of princes is only an adult ceremony of the Qin State. The long war with Sidon after this was a difficult time after the rite of passage.
At the same time, the Jin state on the other side of the Yellow River had annexed the nations and expanded rapidly. In order to win the friendship of the Jin state, Qin Mugong married the daughter of the Jin Gong and became a son-in-law.
However, the stability of the Jin state was not long-lasting, after the death of The Duke of Jin, the State of Jin was in chaos, the State of Qin was able to have the opportunity to interfere in the internal affairs of the Jin Dynasty, and when the future Spring and Autumn Overlord Jin Wengong took refuge outside, the Duke of Qin Mu generously married his daughter to him, and then married the daughter of his other three clans.
The old father-in-law who became the future overlord and the international status of the Qin state was enhanced.
However, Duke Wen of Jin was not only this father-in-law, he also married the daughter of Duke Huan of Qi, after which there was still a marriage between the State of Qi and the State of Jin, and the marriage between the State of Qin and the State of Jin ended here, reflecting the dilemma of the State of Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period when the State of Qin faced the State of Jin.
2, Qin-Chu marriage
When Jin Wen was hegemonic, the Qin people noticed the strength of the Chu people and married King Cheng of Chu, which was the first political marriage of Qin and Chu.
By the time of Qin Jinggong (that is, the Qin Jinggong who openly used the funeral rites of tianzi), he married his sister to the king of Chu Gong, and at this time the State of Chu had completed its hegemony and achieved equilibrium with the State of Jin.
At the time of the Duke of Qin, a Qin woman who married abroad to the State of Chu indirectly caused great turmoil in the State of Chu.
King Chuping betrothed a marriage to the prince of Qin, and when the princess of Qin was still on the road, someone told King Chuping that she was very beautiful. King Chuping openly took it for himself and killed the crown prince Fu Wuhao. This Wu Hao was not an ordinary person, but it was precisely the father of Wu Zixu, who later threatened the world.
You see, the beauty of the princess of the Qin Kingdom became the first domino, he inspired the ambition of the villain Fei Wujie, this is the second piece, Fei Wujie's ambition was passed to the heart of the King of Chuping, this is the third piece, after this, it stimulated Wu Zixu's will for revenge, this is the fourth piece, Wu Zixu, who vowed to take revenge, left the State of Wu, and united with sun Wu, a soldier who went south, and finally stepped on the Chu State, this is the fifth piece, and this domino will eventually return to the Qin State- King Chu Zhao, who was beaten by Wu Zixu, was born to a princess of the State of Qin, and the State of Qin finally sent troops to save King Chu Zhao, who almost destroyed the country.
You see, an irregular circle appeared in this way, starting from the carriage and horse of the Qin women who married the Chu state far away, and ending with the sword soldiers of the Qin army entering Chu. In the intervening period, the Spring and Autumn Struggle for Hegemony had come to an end, with King Chu Zhaoxing the Chu state in the gap between Wu Yue's grievances, and the Qin people also noticing the balance of power in the south and marrying the princess to the Yue people to balance the Chu people's expansion to the east.
After that, Qin and Chu frequently married, and by the time we know Empress Xuan, the Chu foreign relatives group had already gained a foothold in the Qin state. The Chu people became the mother of King Qin Zhao, became the daughter-in-law of King Qin Zhao, and most importantly, the grandmother of Qin Shi Huang. Most of these women who married into the Qin state were the daughters of the Chu state, and they were not the wives of the Qin king at first, but with their own wrists and luck, they eventually mastered the harem of the Qin state. So another consequence is that those Chu princes who were hostages in the Qin State in the later period also received the protection of this layer of relationship, and were able to marry qin princesses, and even lived in the Qin state, such as Chang Wenjun and Changping Jun in the Qin Dynasty, these two Chu princes ranked after Lü Buwei, and made great contributions in consolidating the status of the Qin King and passing through the chu state's homeland, but interestingly, when the Chu state was about to perish, changping jun of them openly rebelled behind Li Xin's army and colluded with Xiang Yu's grandfather. It also caused the last setback of the Qin army on the eve of the destruction of Chu.
The so-called love and killing, but so.
And that's not even the most peculiar story.
3, Qin Yan marriage
After Qin Xiaogong changed the law, although the Qin state began to become rich and strong, it was still far from annexing the world, and the eastern power of qi was the most important obstacle to the ambitions of the Qin people, and the key step in destroying the state of Qi may actually be a marriage to the state of Yan when King Huiwen of Qin Huiwen - The marriage of Qin Yan, which is recorded only once in the history books, and this strange story also involves another famous ancient person - Su Qin.
In 334 BC, King Huiwen's daughter married The State of Yan and became Queen Yi of Yan.
Before and after this incident, Su Qinxi entered the Qin State and began his own lobbying career, in this famous speech, Su Qin mentioned a very interesting thing, that is, Qin had Bashu, the country of Heaven. In fact, the qin state destroyed Bashu in the late huiwen period, so the time for Su Qin to enter Qin may be delayed a little.
After this delay, a lot of things have changed. We know that after Su Qin said that Qin had failed, he went east to Yan Zhao and instigated a combination of alliances. However, judging from the entire process of integration, the only one who suffered losses was actually the State of Qi, which cannot but make people think deeply.
The historical record says: Su Qin wanted to break Qi and become Yan, so he lobbied the King of Qi to build more palaces and ponds. As soon as Su Qin arrived in the State of Qi, he used the marriage of Qin and Yan as a threat to force the State of Qi to return the land that had been encroached upon by the State of Yan.
Not only that, in the unearthed Warring States Zhongheng family books, there are also a large number of secret letters written by Su Qin to King Yan Zhao, who wants to weaken the State of Qi with the help of the power of the State of Qin, and King Yan Zhao is the grandson of King Huiwen of Qin.
When Su Qin died in the State of Qi, the joint column of the nations against the State of Qi had been completed, which was also a joint column in which the State of Qin participated, and under the command of Le Yi, completely destroyed the status of the State of Qi as a great power.
And the origin of all this is nothing more than a distant marriage when King Huiwen of Qin was married. Whether it was a idle chess piece that set off a storm or a deliberate strategy, this cannot be proved, but this marriage is the beginning of a storm, which has achieved the brilliant life of Su Qin, the Zongheng family, and finally destroyed the most powerful opponent on the road to the unification of the Qin State, but there is no doubt.
Clan marriages in the aristocratic era were often the most important part of diplomatic life. Marriage meant the integration of the aristocratic classes, and also corroborated the era when the nation was moving towards great unification, in fact, fourteen years after the Qin King destroyed the Six Kingdoms, aristocratic politics came to an end completely. The blurring of the distinction between noble and inferior allowed all the Chinese to acquire their own surnames, and the prince summoned Xiang Ning to give birth to the first commoner Tianzi. The red faces of the aristocratic era have since become legends forever.
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