"Those who destroy the Six Kingdoms will also be the Six Kingdoms, not Qin. ”
The Six Kingdoms of Shandong were destroyed by Qin, and the Six Kingdoms themselves were also very responsible. During the Warring States Period, none of the 3 people who could prevent Qin from destroying the Six Kingdoms died well.
1. King Zhao Wuling
King Wuling of Zhao, the sixth monarch of Zhao, is the most eloquent, accomplished and contributing monarch and reformer in the history of Zhao.
In 326 BC, after the death of Zhao Suhou, the father of King Wuling of Zhao, the five kingdoms of Wei, Chu, Qin, Yan, and Qi each sent 10,000 soldiers and horses, preparing to take the opportunity to carve up the Zhao State in the name of participating in the funeral. At the moment of crisis, King Wuling of Zhao reached an alliance with Han and Song, and bribed King Wujiang and King Lou Fu with heavy money, allowing them to attack Chu, Yan and Zhongshan, forcing the five countries to give up attacking Zhao and turning Zhao into peace.
During the reign of King Wuling of Zhao, a series of reforms were implemented, especially his Hufu cavalry and archery reform, which qualitatively improved the combat effectiveness of the Zhao army. After that, King Wuling of Zhao attacked the Xiongnu, resisted the Hu people, annexed the Zhongshan Kingdom, subdued the Lin Hu and Lou Fu clans, etc., allowing the Zhao State to expand its territory for thousands of miles, and its strength entered its heyday, and it also made the Zhao State a powerful country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. At the same time, King Wuling of Zhao sent troops to escort King Qin Zhaoxiang back to China and help him seize the throne, and was the benefactor of King Qin Zhaoxiang, so the relationship between Qin and Zhao has always been good.
King Wuling of Zhao had been fighting abroad all the year round and had no time to deal with the affairs of the court and China, so he prepared to pass on his son so that he could concentrate on fighting abroad.
Zhao Zhang, the eldest son of King Wuling of Zhao, was the son of his first wife, Han. After Han's death, King Wuling of Zhao made his beloved Wu Wa his queen. King Wuling of Zhao loved Wu and Wu, and because he favored Wu Wa, he passed the throne to Zhao He, the second son of Wu Wa's son.
After Zhao He (King Zhao Huiwen) succeeded to the throne, Zhao Zhang has been following King Zhao Wuling to fight everywhere and take care of King Zhao Wuling, which made King Zhao Wuling feel indebted to Zhao Zhang, and he proposed to Zhao He to let Zhao He also crown Zhao Zhang as the king and make Daijun Zhao Zhang's fief. This would divide the Zhao State and weaken the strength of the Zhao State, and neither Zhao He nor the ministers of the Zhao State agreed. For this reason, a conflict broke out between the brothers Zhao He and Zhao Zhang. In order to compete for the throne, Zhao Zhang prepared to trick Zhao He into the Dune Palace and then kill Zhao He when Zhao He and King Zhao Wuling traveled to the sand dunes together.
At this time, Zhao He and Zhao Zhang were already tense and incompatible, just in case, Zhao He did not go to the Dune Palace in person, but sent Xiangguo Feiyi to the Dune Palace to find out the news for himself. After Fei Yi arrived at the Dune Palace, he was killed by Zhao Zhang and his henchmen, Zhao He was very angry, sent troops to attack the Dune Palace, killed Zhao Zhang, and besieged King Zhao Wuling in the Dune Palace, starving him to death.
After the tragic death of King Wuling of Zhao, the kindness between King Zhaoxiang of Qin and Zhao was gone, and he began to send troops to attack Zhao. In the Battle of Changping, King Zhaoxiang of Qin sent Bai Qi to defeat the Zhao army, killing 450,000 Zhao soldiers, causing heavy losses to the Zhao State and laying the foundation for the demise of the Zhao State.
Second, Su Qin
Su Qin, a native of Luoyang in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and both he and Zhang Yi were students of Guiguzi.
The Qin State, after the Shang Dynasty reform, had a qualitative improvement in national strength, and gradually surpassed the six countries of Shandong. After the Qin State became strong, it constantly sent troops to attack the six countries of Shandong, which caused the six countries of Shandong to suffer from "Qinphobia". In order to prevent the six states of Shandong from being wiped out by the Qin state one by one, Su Qin put forward the vertical and horizontal theory, and he lobbied the six states of Shandong to join forces to resist Qin, so that the Qin state did not dare to expand eastward. During the glorious period of Su and Qin, he wore the seal of the six countries.
Su Qin's theory of unity and longitudinal could help the six countries to fight against the Qin state and avoid the six countries being destroyed by Qin, which made the Qin state frightened, and began to reuse Zhang Yi, adopting Zhang Yi's Lianheng theory, lobbying the countries to form an alliance with the Qin state, destroying the alliance between the six countries, so that they could not join forces against the Qin state.
Under the sowing of discord by the Qin State, the relationship between the six countries, which was originally full of contradictions and competitors, gradually broke down, and the six countries began to attack each other again. In order to help the Yan Kingdom, Su Qin came to the Qi Kingdom alone and won the favor of the King of Qi. Su Qin persuaded the king of Qi to build a large number of buildings, etc., wanting to use this to consume the national strength of the Qi State, drag down the Qi State, let the Qi State attack the Yan State flawlessly, and ensure the safety of the Yan State.
Su Qin was deeply favored by the King of Qi, which also caused the other doctors to fall out of favor, causing their dissatisfaction, and eventually they sent someone to assassinate Su Qin.
3. Li Mu
Li Mu is the last top player of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong.
After the famous general Lian Po of Zhao was old, King Zhao was reluctant to reuse him, so he sent Le Cheng to replace Lian Po. Lian was dissatisfied and ran away from Lecheng. Afterwards, Lian Po was afraid that King Zhao would punish him, and fled to the state of Wei and later to the state of Chu. Lian Po had been expecting King Zhao to enable him, but King Zhao felt that Lian Po was old and did not use him anymore, resulting in the final desolate death of this veteran who had made great achievements for Zhao Guoguo in the Chu State.
After Lian Po's death, the other generals of Zhao were unable to resist the Qin army, so the king of Zhao could only transfer Li Mu, who guarded the border generals and led troops to defeat the Xiongnu many times, and asked him to lead his troops to resist the Qin army. The strength of the Qin army was above the Zhao army, but Li Mu was a general with outstanding command ability, and he twice defeated the Qin army with less and the stronger with the weak, making it difficult for the Qin State to eliminate the Zhao State. After the famous general of the Qin State Wang Jian was unable to defeat Li Mu on the battlefield, he used the Qin State's usual divisive tactics, and he sent people to bribe Guo Kai, the favorite minister of the King of Zhao, with a large amount of money, so that he could frame Li Mu for rebellion.
King Zhao Mourning Xiang was a dim-witted monarch, he believed it and killed Li Mu. After Li Mu's death, Wang Jian destroyed the Zhao State with a devastating force.
After Li Mu's death, there was no more famous general who could compete with Wang Qian, and the king of Qin sent Wang Jian and Wang Ben father and son to destroy Qi, Chu and other countries for themselves and unify the world.