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In 221 B.C., King Yingzheng of Qin claimed to be "the third emperor of virtue and the five emperors" after sweeping the six kingdoms, and called "the first emperor".
It has to be said that in just over ten years, he was able to conquer the Six Kingdoms, and after being crowned emperor, he made drastic reforms: setting up "three princes and nine kings"; unifying weights and measures and writing; attacking the Xiongnu in the north and conquering Baiyue in the south, and other political achievements, the first emperor was worthy of the reputation of "one emperor through the ages".
But if you want to talk about the capital that can support Yingzheng for more than ten years, it has to be the family foundation that was laid down by "Fen VI Yu Lie".
In the "Fen VI Yu Lie", there is an era in which the reign of the longest and the stars of the military generals shine, that is, the period of King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
During his reign of fifty-six years, King Zhaoxiang of Qin ruled for half a century, and the state of Qin grew to the point where it could eat away at the six kingdoms.
Many of the ruthless people we are familiar with have made immortal contributions during the reign of King Qin Zhaoxiang.
One: Mi Bazi "Empress Dowager Xuan"
First of all, we have to talk about the "Empress Dowager Xuan", without the "Empress Dowager Xuan", there would be no King Qin Zhaoxiang, because she is the mother of King Qin Zhaoxiang.
If you are not familiar with the name Mi Bazi, if you understand the name of Mi Yue, the Mi Yue in it is "Empress Dowager Xuan".
"Empress Dowager Xuan" was the first person in mainland history to be called "Empress Dowager".
King Wu of Qin flew up in waves, competing with others to lift himself to death, and there was no heir, and King Qin Zhaoxiang, who had not yet been weaned, was driven to inherit the throne.
When King Qin Zhaoxiang succeeded to the throne, it was too small, and Mi Bazi "hung the curtain to listen to the government", and the earliest version of the Empress Dowager Cixi understood.
"Empress Dowager Xuan" is much more ruthless than Empress Dowager Cixi, otherwise there would be no Great Qin Empire in the future.
During the regency of Empress Dowager Xuan, she reused her relatives to form the "Four Guis" and governed the Qin State by means of the dictatorship of her relatives.
The most ruthless thing is that Empress Dowager Xuan had an affair with King Yiqu, and gave birth to two sons, so she turned around and booby-trapped King Yiqu, and took the opportunity to send troops to destroy Yiqu.
Two: Prime Minister is sick
It is the clan of the Qin State, with the surname and the name of the disease, because it lives in the country, so it is called the disease.
In the era of King Huiwen of Qin, he performed brilliantly, capturing Quwo of Wei, Lin Yi of Zhao and Hanzhong of Chu. During the reign of King Wu of Qin, Gan Mao, who was proficient in Tao strategy, was the prime minister.
As an important minister of the three dynasties of Qin, in foreign wars, he greatly expanded the territory of Qin, and laid a solid foundation for the later Qin State to unify the six countries.
Interestingly, although the results of the march and battle were outstanding, in the Qin State, the disease was famous for being a "wise man", and the Qin people had a proverb: "Strength is contemptible, and wisdom is good." ”
Sima Qian said in his evaluation of the disease: The reason why the Qin State was able to conquer the princes in the east was because of the strategy of the disease and Gan Mao, and it was enough to see the political vision of the disease.
Three: Qin Xiang Wei Ran
Wei Ran is the half-brother of the Empress Dowager Xuan, and he is also the head of the "four nobles" during the regency of the Empress Dowager Xuan.
During the reign of King Qin Hui and King Wu of Qin, Wei Ran held important positions, and it was thanks to Wei Ran's support that the young King Zhaoxiang of Qin was able to succeed to the throne smoothly.
The lord and young ministers are suspected to be the tradition of previous dynasties, and Wei Ran's pressure on the formation made the princes with different intentions dare not raise their heads.
King Qin Zhaoxiang had just succeeded to the throne, and Wei Ran guarded the capital for General Xianyang, the brothers of King Qin Zhaoxiang who intended to compete for the throne were all bloodily suppressed by Wei Ran.
Wei Ran, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, also used the later "God of Killing" Bai Qi, and took the fledgling Bai Qi all the way to the south and the north: the Battle of Yique, beheading 240,000 Han and Wei allied troops, and the Battle of Huayang, beheading 100,000 of the Three Jin Army.
Wei Ran himself led his troops to punch the Chu State and kicked the Wei State, and his achievements were impressive.
Later, Fan Ju gained power and persuaded Wei Ran, the king of Qin Zhaoxiang, to abuse power, so Wei Ran was removed from office and died of grief.
Four: God will rise in vain
The greatest god of war in the Qin State, he made the most prominent military achievements for the Qin State by pulling out Yan Ying in the south, destroying Changping in the north, and then besieging Handan.
Bai Qi started from his own army, served as the chief general of the Qin army for more than 30 years, attacked more than 70 cities, and never lost.
"Two million casualties in the Warring States period and half of them were lost in vain" is not just talking: the Battle of Yique broke the Wei and Han coalition forces and beheaded 240,000 people; in the Battle of Guangwolf City, 30,000 people were beheaded; in the Battle of Yancheng, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Chu State were drowned; in the Battle of Huayang, 130,000 were beheaded; in the Battle of Hancheng, 50,000 were beheaded; and in the Battle of Changping, 450,000 were beheaded and killed.
In terms of military exploits alone, Bai Qi can be said to be unprecedented, not only in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Five: "long-distance and close-range" Fan Ju
As King Qin Zhaoxiang grew up, the "Empress Dowager Xuan" and his relatives "Four Gui", who originally helped him regent, became the constraints of King Qin Zhaoxiang's administration, and at this time Fan Ju, a native of Wei, appeared.
Fan Ju wrote to King Qin Zhaoxiang and proposed a strategic layout of "distant friendship and close attack" for him, so that King Qin Zhaoxiang's vision was put on the whole country from the land of Xirong.
Taking Han and Wei as the main combat targets opened the prelude to Qin's outward annexation and development and encroachment on whale swallowing.
King Qin Zhaoxiang treats Fan Ju as a treasure, as long as it is Fan Ju's plan, King Qin Zhaoxiang rarely disagrees.
It was also at Fan Ju's suggestion that King Qin Zhaoxiang deposed the Empress Dowager Xuan, and drove the Marquis, Gaolingjun, Huayangjun, and Jingyang Jun outside the pass, and the power was highly concentrated in the hands of King Qin Zhaoxiang.
After the Battle of Changping, because of the fear of Bai Qigong's high merit and competition for favor, Zhao was allowed to cut the land and make peace, so that Zhao temporarily escaped the dilemma of destroying the country. After that, he even booby-trapped Bai Qi.
But after Bai Qi's death, the generals recommended by Fan Ju were too inferior to Bai Qi, one failed to besiege Handan, the capital of Zhao, and surrendered, and one fornicating prince was punished by the law.
Fan Ju also had no face to mix in the Qin State, and under the pretext of illness, he resigned and returned to his hometown, and died of illness soon after.
Six: "If you get Shu, you get Chu" Sima is wrong
Sima Cuo was also a meritorious veteran of the three dynasties of King Huiwen of Qin, King Wu of Qin, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
The greatest merit is that in the ninth year of King Qin Huiwen, Sima Coo's efforts were to eliminate Zhang Yi's proposal, and he played the strategic goal of "winning Shu will win Chu, and Chu will die and the world will be united", spanning thousands of miles and destroying Shu.
Sima Cuo's strategic proposition gave the Qin people no longer to attack the Central Plains with Guanzhong as the only breakthrough, but opened up the second front of Shudao and Hanzhong.
In the twenty-seventh year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Sima Cuo mobilized the army of Longxi to attack Chu from Shu, forcing Chu to sacrifice Hanbei and Shangyong regions, proving the strategic vision of "if you get Shu, you will get Chu".
In addition to the above-mentioned people, there were many meritorious military generals during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin: Gan Mao, the right prime minister who was proficient in Tao strategy, Wang Yi who conquered Shangdang, Huayang Jun Qi Rong who attacked Chu State, and Mengwu who later destroyed Chu together, etc., were all famous ministers and good generals who were active in the period of King Qin Zhaoxiang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was when the stars were shining.
In 251 BC, King Qin Zhaoxiang died, the eldest brother reigned for too long, King Qin Xiaowen, who was in his fifties, died just three days after he succeeded to the throne, and the king of Qin Zhuang Xiang, who succeeded later, was also short-lived, and died of illness three years later.
After the death of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, his son Zheng succeeded to the throne, that is, the later first emperor, King Yingzheng of Qin!