Everyone knows that Qin Shi Huang swept the world, wiped out the other six of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and established a strong and unified Qin Dynasty. However, when I opened the history books, I found an interesting event, there was a very weak vassal state, which seemed to have been deliberately forgotten by the monarchs and ministers of Qin, and it continued until the death of the first emperor and the succession of Qin II Hu Hai to erase it. This weak patriotic country is only three years away from surviving the Qin Dynasty and has reached a new era.
Patriotic map
So why? What is the origin of this patriotic country, let's talk about it together.
The origin and state of existence of the country
Weiguo is a vassal state surnamed Ji divided by the Zhou Dynasty, and the first monarch is Kang Shufeng, the ninth brother of King Wu of Zhou, also called Ji Feng. The 41st generation of monarchs of Weiguo, which lasted for 907 years, was the longest-surviving vassal state and the last prince surnamed Ji to perish.
In the eleventh year of King You of Zhou (771 BC), there was a famous incident of the princes of the Beacon Opera, and the dog Rong invaded Haojing and killed King You of Zhou. The emperor of the imperial court asked the princes for help in this matter was the Marquis of Weiwu, who led a powerful patriotic army, united the princes to repel the dog Rong, defended the succession of King Zhou Ping, and moved the capital to Luoyang, which was promoted to duke by King Zhou Ping. At this time, Wei Guo was a very powerful prince in the early Spring and Autumn Period.
Beacon Theatre Princes
However, since then, the successive monarchs have been very mediocre, and civil strife continues, resulting in the gradual decline of the country, a large loss of talents, Li Kui, who pioneered the reform of the law, Wu Qi of the military family Yasheng, Wei Ying who changed the law of Shang, Jing Ke who assassinated the king of Qin, and Lü Buwei, the middle father of Qin Shi Huang, are all patriots.
In the early Warring States period, when Wei was hegemonic, the monarch of Wei degraded himself and demoted himself from a marquis to a monarch, and since then, Wei Guo is no longer regarded as an independent prince, but has become a vassal of Wei and exists in name only. At the beginning of Qin Shi Huang's succession, Qin attacked Wei and moved Wei Yuanjun to Yewang County, and Wei became a vassal of Qin.
In 221 BC, the Qin State destroyed the last obstacle of the Qi State and unified the world, and strangely, in the process of annexing the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang did not destroy the Wei State by the way. According to the "Historical Records", until 209 BC, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng died, and Qin II Hu Hai deposed Wei Junjiao as a concubine.
For a long time, Qin Shi Huang unified the world, but deliberately ignored the reasons for defending the country, and there were different opinions, and various opinions and interpretations emerged one after another. Combined with historical data, my analysis is as follows:
Qin Shi Huang believed that there was no longer any threat to the defense of the country, and there was no need
Qin Shi Huang believed that there was no threat to the defense of the country, and there was no need or energy to care about such a trivial matter. After entering the Warring States, the Patriotic State had existed in name only, and the monarch of the Patriotic State had a humble and humble attitude towards all the great powers, and there was no record of the use of force against foreign countries. This attitude made the princes willing to see a mascot-like existence of the country, so that the country was protected by the countries and survived the cruel Warring States period.
The historical facts that support this reason are that Wei Guo was also briefly wiped out by Rong Di and Wei in history, but Wei Guo was soon restored with the help of the princes. This also shows from the side that the princes recognize the value and significance of the existence of the country, and respect the bloodline and influence of the country, after all, this is the prince surnamed Ji, the relatives of the Son of Heaven.
The monarchs of the patriotic dynasties were wiser and recognized the situation
Weak and arrogant countries existed during the Warring States Period, such as Zhongshan State provoked Zhao State and Yan State in various ways, trying to divide Zhao State into two; Song State challenged Qi Chu Wei in three directions, and also won a short victory, and by the way, also destroyed the State of Di; Yue State challenged the most powerful King Xuan of Qi and King Chu Wei, and started a war on two fronts...
Although the monarch of the country was relatively wise and pragmatic, although the early Spring and Autumn Period was very powerful, and even did the "chief of the princes", but with the change of the situation, the strength of the country gradually declined, and he was reduced to the last prince. Under such circumstances, Wei Guo avoided conflicts with other princes and maintained humility and obedience by degrading himself to his title and status.
In this case, if there are princes who try to destroy the country, it will attract the interference of other princes, and the country is too weak, even if it is destroyed, it may not be able to gain any benefits, and under the trade-off, there will be no other princes to annex the country.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he established China's feudal system for thousands of years, which was very busy, establishing the official currency system, weights and measures, building the Great Wall, establishing Chidao, conquering Lingnan, and all kinds of major events were overwhelming.
The talents who defended the country made great contributions to the rise and unification of the Qin state, and Qin Shi Huang may have been grateful for their merits and opened up to the defense of the country
The talents who defended the country played an important role in the rise of the Qin state, the most famous of which were Shang Ying and Lü Buwei.
Speaking of Shang Ying, everyone's impression may be that the white-clothed scholar in "The Great Qin Empire", in fact, Shang Ying was originally called Wei Ying, also called Gongsun Ying, and was the descendant of the concubine of the monarch of the Wei Kingdom. After Wei Guo became a vassal state of Wei, Wei Ying, who had no inheritance rights and no property, left his homeland and came to Wei and became a guest of Wei Guo's prime minister's uncle. Later, there was a will that "if you don't reuse him, you will kill him", King Wei didn't care about such a small person at all, in fact, it also showed from another side that Wei Ying was not reused at that time. After Wei Ying entered Qin, after three interviews, he was entrusted by Qin Xiaogong to abandon the well field, award military merits, and emphasize farming, and a complete set of changes, the Qin State was reborn and became the overlord, laying the foundation for Qin Shi Huang to unify the world.
Shang Ying stills
The story of Lü Buwei is more familiar to everyone, he put an unappreciated hostage in the position of king, captured a large amount of land of the Sanjin and Zhou royal families during his reign, and assisted the young Yingzheng to thwart the Chengjiao rebellion and the Changyu rebellion, which can be regarded as a high degree of hard work. Although he didn't die well in the end, Ying Zheng still has feelings for him, after all, he has been his guardian for so many years.
Lü Buwei stills
Therefore, it is also possible that Qin Shi Huang was grateful for the great contribution of the defenders in the Qin State, opened the net, and let the defenders linger.
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