Weiguo is a little-known small country in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is also the princely state surnamed Ji of the Zhou Dynasty, its first generation of monarchs is the ninth son of King Wen of Zhou, Kang Shufeng, before and after its establishment of more than 900 years, it is the longest existence of all the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, until 209 years before the park, Weijunjiao was abolished by Qin II as a concubine, and Weiguo was completely destroyed.
Although Weiguo is a small vassal state, but its domestic civil strife is frequent, and there are also talents, but these talents do not make a difference in their own country, the reason for this is because Weiguo is not only a domestic shock, but also the behavior of the monarch is also very despised, of course, it is such a small country where emperors keep killing each other, and there has been a brotherhood that has moved people for thousands of years.
[1] The origin of patriotism
After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, he was named a meritorious hero, but because the ninth brother Ji Feng and the tenth brother Ji Zai were young, they were not sealed. After the death of King Wu of Zhou, the regent of Zhou Gongdan triggered the rebellion of Guan Shuxian and Cai Shudu's father who held Wu Genglu's father hostage, and after the rebellion was put down, the Zhou Dynasty felt that the remnants of the Shang Dynasty needed to be governed in a new way, so they divided the territory originally given to Wu Genglu's father into two parts.
Part of it was given to Wei Ziqi, a member of the Shang Dynasty royal family, who was the elder brother of King Xu, and because he was a concubine, he had no right to inherit the throne, and it was King Xu, who was a concubine, who inherited the throne at that time. There is a certain reason for the Zhou Dynasty to govern the remnants of the Shang Dynasty by Wei Ziqi, and the fief obtained by Wei Ziqi was in the Song Dynasty, so the name of the vassal states that Wei Ziqi received was called the Song State.
The other part was given to Ji Feng, because Ji Feng had grown up at this time, and as a newly adult member of the Zhou royal family who had not yet been fiefdomed, Ji Feng was the most suitable candidate. After Ji Feng was sealed, the area where this part of the Shang Dynasty remnants was located was called Weiguo, and after Ji Feng died, he was called Uncle Kang, so he was called Uncle Wei Kang.
[2] The inheritance of patriotism
After Uncle Wei Kang's death, he passed the throne to his son Kangbo, and Wei Guo started the hereditary replacement mode. Counting from Uncle Wei Kang, there are a total of 38 monarchs who have inherited the country, and if you count the monarchs who did not have a nickname during the civil strife, it is 42.
Unlike other vassal states, the Wei Kingdom is characterized by the promotion and demotion of titles. For example, during the period of Wei Qinghou, the 8th monarch of the Wei Kingdom, he was promoted from Bo to Hou. By the time of the 11th monarch Wei Wugong, he was promoted from Hou to Gong. However, during the period of the 33rd monarch Wei Chenghou, the title was reduced from duke to marquis. By the time of the 35th monarch Wei Heigong, the title was reduced from marquis to king.
[3] Wei Xuangong's shamelessness
When Wei Xuangong was a son, he was uninhibited, seduced his father Wei Zhuanggong's concubine Yi Jiang, and gave birth to a son, named Ling, commonly known as the urgent son. After Wei Xuangong ascended the throne, he was named the crown prince, and when he was sixteen years old, he married Xuan Jiang, the eldest daughter of Qi Xu, who had two daughters, the eldest daughter Xuan Jiang and the second daughter Wen Jiang, both of whom were very beautiful.
Wei Xuangong heard that the envoy said that the Qi girl had a peerless appearance, so he became lustful and ordered the minister to build a new platform on the road that must be passed to welcome relatives. When welcoming relatives, Wei Xuangong deliberately ordered the urgent son to send an envoy to Qi State, and he actually went to Xintai to marry Xuanjiang.
"The Book of Poetry: Xintai" is a satire on Wei Xuangong's violation of heaven, casting a new platform on the edge of the Yellow River, and intercepting his daughter-in-law. Since marrying Xuanjiang, Wei Xuangong has put Yi Jiang aside, and Ouyang Xiu's "Poetry Benyi" describes it as: "Lewdness does not avoid people, like birds and beasts' ears."
In three years, Xuanjiang gave birth to two sons in a row, the long life and the second Shuo. Although they were born to the same mother, their morals are very different, and Gongzi Shou was born with kindness, and he loved each other like compatriots. And Gongzi Shuo is naturally cunning, ruthless and vicious. Wei Xuangong favored Xuanjiang, and soon transferred his former love for the anxious son to Gongzishou and Gongzishuo.
[4] Brothers who are the first to die
Yi Jiang, who fell out of favor, hanged himself, Xuan Jiang and Gongzi Shuo kept slandering the prince, so Wei Xuangong sent the prince to envoy to the state of Qi, and instructed the robbers to stop at the border of the country and wait, Wei Xuan bus to the prince Ling's white festival, and told the robber to kill him when he saw the person with the white festival in his hand.
Gongzi Shou knew that Wei Xuangong wanted to kill the anxious son, so he told the prince Ling and asked him to flee quickly, but the prince disagreed, thinking that he could not disobey his father's order and survive. Gongzishou had no choice but to use a trick to get Gongziling drunk, and then stole the white festival of the prince, Gongzishou came to Xindi with the white festival, but was killed by robbers.
After Gongzishou died, the prince also arrived, and he said to the robbers, "It is me who should be killed, what is his crime? Of course, the robbers wouldn't let him go, so they also killed Gongziling. In this way, the goal of Gongzi Shuo was achieved, killing two birds with one stone, and then Wei Xuangong's Gongzi Shuo was the crown prince, which was Wei Huigong.
There is a poem called "Two Sons on a Boat" in "The Book of Songs: Shao Feng", after the people of the country learned of the death of the two brothers, they all felt sad for them, and the people of the country felt their spirit, so they wrote this poem:
The two sons took a boat, and the scenery was widespread,
May words and thoughts be raised, and the center will be raised!
The two sons took a boat and passed away,
May words and thoughts not be harmful!
These two sons refer to the two sons of the prince of Weiguo, Jin and Shou, who fought for their brotherhood to die first. Later generations commented: Renlun has been wiped out when he arrives at Wei Xuangong, marrying his mother, occupying his daughter-in-law, killing his parents and sons, so disregarding etiquette, righteousness and shame, regardless of human morality, he actually raised two good sons, Wei Xuangong's partiality and preference, and finally ruined the lives of his two sons with his own hands.