In 362 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin succeeded to the throne. According to our previous account, when Duke Xiao of Qin succeeded to the throne, the world was seven years after King Xian of Zhou. In this year, the shandong countries and South Korea annexed the Zheng kingdom thirteen years ago, such as Japan and Zhongtian; the State of Wei and The King of Liang Hui have been on the throne for seven years, and the domestic situation has been basically stable; farther east, the State of Qi, is the behavior of this star monarch during the reign of King Qi Wei, which we will highlight later.
It can be said that the current situation in the world, for the Qin State, can be described as a strong enemy. As we mentioned earlier, during the reign of Marquis Wen of Wei, Wu Qi led an army to capture the land west of the Qin State, which opened the northern gate of the Qin State and faced the threat of the Three Jins at any time. Fortunately, the two generations of qin huigong and xiangong presided over the stability of the country, so that the qin state did not suffer from large-scale civil unrest like the zheng state, which also laid a good foundation for the future rise of the qin state.
After Xiao Gong succeeded to the throne, he felt the dilemma facing the current Qin State, so he became angry and strong, intending to restore the hegemony of the Qin Mu Gong period. In 361 B.C., the second year of his reign, Duke Xiao issued a petition to the world, proposing that as long as the Qin state could be strong, the Qin state could "honor the officials and divide the land with them" to give his high-ranking official Chonglu and divide the land with it.
Perhaps the heavens intended to take care of the State of Qin, and in the same year that the Order of Filial Piety for Merit was issued, the Wei State's official position was the most important, and he designed to drive away Wu Qi, and he himself became the Minister of State in the State of Wei, and his uncle died after 26 years. As we mentioned earlier, this uncle can be described as a first-class figure of the gods, and even his final death has steadily pit Wei Guo.
Before his death, under the account of his uncle, there was a talent with extraordinary ability, and this person was Shang Martin. Of course, at that time, he did not call this name, and in order to make it clear, we collectively called him Shang Martingale.
Shang Martin was originally a fallen nobleman of the Wei State, and later defected to the Duke of Wei. We know that as a fallen nobleman, if it were not for the purpose of displaying his talents and making a career, no one would have left his hometown, far away from his homeland, or even given up the treatment of his own nobles and run to another country. Shang Martin's defection to Gong Uncle Acne this time is obviously not to be an idle doorman, but to seek a job and show his skills.
Uncle Acne, he did not reuse the martingale, but hid him in the snow. You know, in the year of his uncle's acne death, Shang Martin was already thirty-five years old, and this age was not a child at that time, even now. At the age of twenty-eight, Wu Qi killed his wife and asked for generals, commanding the Lu army to defeat the State of Qi, and the thirty-five-year-old Shang Martingale obviously would not have been as simple as staying under Gong Shu for a day or two.
Yes, uncle Huan, who was still a wise man, did see that Shang Martin was a talent, but it was because he had the wisdom of a wise man that he was reluctant to recommend Shang Martingale to the Wei monarch when he was alive.
Let's move on. When Uncle Hui of Liang came to visit Uncle Hui when he was dying, to the effect that once you were no longer able to do so, who do you think would inherit your seat? Uncle Huan said that I have a man named Wei Martingale, that is, Shang Martingale, he can, the monarch can make him the minister of state, "the whole country listens to it." When Liang Huiwang heard it, he was confused, "Hey Ran", speechless. Uncle Gong also said that if the monarch did not use him, then kill him and do not let him leave the Qin state.
King Hui of Liang verbally promised his uncle and left. Uncle Gong immediately found Shang Martin and said to him, I told the monarch that if he didn't use you, he would kill you; now it seems that the monarch will not use you, so you should run away. Shang Martin laughed and said, "If the monarch doesn't listen to you to use me, will he listen to you and kill me?"
After leaving, Liang Huiwang also helplessly said to the people around him that uncle acne was really not light, and even let me "listen to the whole country" to Shang Martin, and then let me kill him later, which was really pitiful!
From this, we can analyze the following points, first, why King Hui of Liang was so scornful of Gong Shu's proposal. That's because he doesn't value Wei Martingale at all, so why doesn't he value Wei Martingale? The answer is very simple, because Uncle Gong did not give Shang Martin a chance to show himself at all, nor did he deliberately cultivate him and cultivate him. Therefore, at this time, in the heart of King Hui of Liang, Shang Martingale was just a domestic servant, who would let a domestic servant inherit the high position of Minister of State? Therefore, Shang Martin could not be reused in the Wei kingdom, and it was not entirely possible to blame King Hui of Liang for not knowing people, after all, King Hui of Liang was not the direct leader of Shang Martin, and he had no opportunity or obligation to discover and cultivate him.
Second, after Calling Shang Martingale, uncle GongXuan's first words to him, "I am the first king and then the subject, so first for the king, and then the son" means that I first consider the affairs of the country, and then consider your affairs, so first make suggestions to the monarch, and then tell you about the dangers that may exist, you still have to leave early, save the monarch from killing you. A good "first king and then a subject", let's look at these things that Uncle Gong has done, he has a little bit of "first king" behavior, which is completely selfish. If Uncle Gong could show the martingale to Liang Huiwang early and give him a chance to exercise and show himself, Liang Huiwang would not be shocked, and he would not be so repulsive and disdainful of reusing shangmartin. Later commentators have said that Liang Huiwang is incompetent, in fact, Liang Huiwang is indeed not a british lord, but it is not his fault that he did not find Shang Martingale. The fault of King Hui of Liang was to let the mediocre people occupy a high position, and did not depose Gong Shu, a beam-jumping clown, in time, and finally blinded himself. He did not misuse the martingale, but misused the uncle's acne.
King Hui of Liang said to his entourage that the poor uncle was too sick and had spoken nonsense. The poor one was not Gong Uncle Acne, but Liang Huiwang, or Wei Guo, whose father had been pit once by Gong Uncle Acne, and he himself had been pitted again this time.
The reason why Shang Martin stayed with Uncle Acne must be to wait for Uncle Acne to one day be able to reuse himself, and as a result, he waited until he was 35 years old, and did not wait for this day. But fortunately, he finally boiled his uncle to death, and it was not too late.
Uncle Gong, the jumping beam that stirred up the chaotic world of the Warring States, finally died, and in the first half of his life, he set up a poisonous plan to persecute Wu Qi for personal gain; in the second half of his life, he refused to recommend Shang Martin for his own glory. If you really think about the country, you should kill Shang Martin; if you really cherish Shang Martin, you should give him a way out early. Uncle Gong, this tangled and contradictory collection, with his ridiculous behavior, changed the fate of Wu Qi and Shang Martin, and even changed the final fate of the Wei and Qin states.