During the Spring and Autumn Period, the rise and fall of the State of Qi ran through the entire general trend, among which many kings of the State of Qi were the most famous Duke of Qi Huan, and "Honoring the King and Destroying Yi" made him the first hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period.
However, Qi Huan Gong's family is very strange, holding a high position without ethics, and how chaotic and chaotic the family relationship is, comparable to modern ethical dramas. So, what's the story? Let's talk about it today.
The head of the five hegemons of Spring and Autumn
The desolation of Qi Huan Gong's brother Qi Xianggong caused the Qi state to be very dissatisfied, and the surrounding countries took advantage of the chaos of the Qi state to attack it, and Qi Xianggong's two younger brothers Gongzi Zhuo and Xiaobai escaped from the Qi state overnight.
Gongzi Zhuo returned to the Kingdom of Lu, where his mother was, while Gongzi Xiaobai fled to the Kingdom of Ju. King Xiang of Qi was killed, and Gongsun became the monarch of the state of Qi, but was also killed a few days later.
The State of Qi suddenly fell into the embarrassing situation of not having a monarch, and the fleeing Gongzi Zhuo and Gongzi Xiaobai agreed that whoever returned first would be the monarch, and in the end, Gongzi Xiaobai went through all kinds of hardships to grab the position of monarch, and was called the Duke of Qi Huan.
The fact that Qi Guo was able to quickly end the chaos and gradually become stronger was inseparable from one person, and that person was Guan Zhong.
When the Duke of Qi Huan was blinded when he governed the country, Guan Zhong proposed the strategy of "respecting the king and destroying the country", and he followed Guan Zhong's advice to carry out a strategic attack on the Di people in the north, and after several wars, the reputation of the Qi state was skyrocketing.
Rectifying the army and administrative organs were also the two most important things that Guan Zhong did at that time, proposing to set up local administrative organs into townships, companies, li, etc., and divide the army into three armies: left, center, and right, with the strongest central army directly commanded by Qi Huan Gong, and the left army and right army commanded by generals or marshals respectively.
The development of a country is also inseparable from the economy, Guan Zhong unified the currency of the Qi state, stabilized prices, and encouraged iron mining, and under various efforts, the Qi state also achieved large-scale seawater salt boiling.
From ancient times to the present, salt is inseparable from people's lives, and during the Spring and Autumn Period, many princely states were not in salt-producing areas or did not have the technology to refine salt, so they could only buy from the State of Qi, and selling salt also created a lot of foreign exchange for the State of Qi.
With a series of reforms by Guan Zhong, the State of Qi became stronger and stronger, and the economy and diplomacy of the State of Qi reached an unprecedented peak, and as the fifteenth monarch of the State of Qi, it became the strongest hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Era.
In the history textbooks, the image of Qi Huangong is still very positive, and he is wise and martial, knows people well, and appoints Guan Zhong to achieve the hegemony of the Qi state.
However, the ethical relationship of Qi Huan's family is very strange, with no bottom line and no ethics in private life, which is bloodier than various modern family ethics dramas.
Sibling incest
Duke Huan of Qi's brother Duke Xiang of Qi belongs to the representative of incest in the State of Qi, and the general monarch's absurdity is mainly reflected in the countless beauties in the harem, and his absurdity is mainly reflected in incest with his sister Wen Jiang.
Duke Xianggong of Qi is the eldest son of Duke Xianggong of Qi, and Wen Jiang, known as one of the "Four Beauties of Spring and Autumn", is the half-sister of Duke Xianggong of Qi, and the two are half related.
According to historical records, Wen Jiang once married the monarch of the State of Lu, Duke Lu Huan, and before that, he had maintained a very improper relationship with the Duke of Qi Xiang, and the unsavory relationship between the two did not last long, but the fact that there was a husband and wife between brothers and sisters was enough to be jaw-dropping.
Wen Jiang married into the Kingdom of Lu and was made his wife by Lu Huan Gong, and her luck was also very good, and she gave birth to a son for Lu Huan Gong. The son happened to have the same birthday as his father, so Lu Huangong was very happy and very fond of this son.
Five or six years after Wen Jiang married into the State of Lu, Duke Lu Huan took her on an envoy to the State of Qi, and at this time the scandal between Wen Jiang and Duke Xiang of Qi was exposed, and the reason was the revival of old feelings.
When Lu Huangong and Qi Xianggong were holding talks on the border between the two countries, a minister of Lu State saw that there seemed to be a relationship between Wen Jiang and the latter, and advised Lu Huangong, but he did not pay attention to it, thinking that Wen Jiang could not do something ugly with his brother.
What are the facts? Wen Jiang saw Qi Xianggong again and the two rekindled their old relationship and secretly fornicated, and in the end the matter was known by Lu Huangong. He couldn't afford to provoke Qi Guo, so he could only scold Wen Jiang angrily, and Wen Jiang turned around and told Qi Xianggong about his scolding.
The brother decided to vent his sister and sent someone to take advantage of Lu Huan Gong's carriage back to the post station to rest, and broke his ribs and died. In this way, Lu Huangong was not only cuckolded but also killed.
The news of Lu Huan Gong's death spread back to Lu Kingdom, and Jiang Pengsheng, who injured people, took all the responsibility, and Qi Xianggong retreated with his whole body. This incestuous drama between Qi Xianggong and Wen Jiang is enough to make people's jaws drop, but this family has more bloody dramas.
Cause war for beautiful women
The elder brother has no bottom line, the younger brother Qi Huangong is not clean in his private life, and the head of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons has also done the thing of "going out for love".
Cai Muhou had a younger sister Cai Ji who was also very beautiful, and after Qi Huan Gong became the hegemon, Cai Muhou sent Cai Ji to the State of Qi in order to curry favor with him.
Once Qi Huangong took Cai Ji to row on the lake, the latter was very excited to shake the boat on the lake, Qi Huangong was very angry about this behavior, so he ordered people to return Cai Ji to Cai Guo.
Qi Huangong still liked Cai Ji very much, and the meaning of sending her back to China was also to make the latter reflect, but Cai Ji and Cai Muhou misunderstood each other's meaning.
Cai Ji felt that the mistake she made was not big, but as a result, she was dismissed and her face was dull, and Cai Muhou also felt that Qi Huangong made a fuss, and let her sister marry someone else in a fit of anger.
Upon learning of this news, Duke Huan of Qi joined forces with seven other princely states to form a Spring and Autumn version of the "Eight-Nation Alliance" to attack Cai Guo, and in the end, Cai Guo failed.
When the Duke of Qi Huan died and his son succeeded to the throne, that is, the Duke of Qi Yi in history, his father and uncle lived very chaotically, and he naturally would not be bad.
Qi Yigong had a retinue named Yan Zheng by his side, and Yan Zhi's wife was very beautiful, and after hearing about this, he forcibly incorporated his wife into the harem. Yan Zhi dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but he did not expect that Qi Yigong would be even more excessive later.
Once Yan Zhi helped Qi Yigong drive with him, but Qi Yigong took his wife to play in the carriage, and Yan Zhi became more and more dissatisfied with what Qi Yigonggong was doing, and together with another minister of the Qi state, he killed him.
It is a shame for the king of a country to take the wife of his minister because he has no bottom line because of his beauty, and he was killed because of this matter.
In general, Qi Huan Gong's family is in a high position, but the things they do are more bottomless than the other, and these immoral incestuous lives may not be filmed in TV series. It is precisely because of this addiction of future kings that Jiang Qi was replaced by Tian Qi.
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