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Since we were young, we know that there is a saying of "Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, Warring States Seven Heroes", the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the use of sub-feudal system, Zhou Tianzi divided more than seventy princely states, each country respected Zhou Tianzi, since the death of King Zhou You, Western Zhou perished, the early establishment of Eastern Zhou, that is, the arrival of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou Dynasty gradually declined.
At this time, the titular Zhou Tianzi was still the co-lord of the world, but it had long since ceased to exist in name only, and all countries had begun to become independent, and at the right time, a hundred schools of thought were contending and culturally rich. With the advent of the Warring States period, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States shined one after another, and Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Han became the most powerful princely states in the world.
The rest of the large and small countries, because of their strength and influence, have been annexed by the Warring States Seven Heroes, and at the end of the Warring States period, the Qin State rose to become the first power, except for the Qin State, the other six countries are east of Kunshan Mountain, so it is called "Shandong Six Kingdoms".
The ancestor of the State of Qi was Jiang Ziya, who was crowned Marquis of Qi for assisting King Wu of Zhou in destroying shang, and the earliest capital was set at Yingqiu (near Zibo, Shandong). During the reign of Duke Hu of Qi, the capital was moved to Bogu (fifty miles northwest of Linzi), and even after Jiang Qi was replaced by Tian Qi, he still used Linzi as the capital until it was called by the State of Qin. All the land in the State of Qi was basically in the area of present-day Zibo, Shandong.
Located in the Yangtze River basin, the State of Chu was a great power during the Warring States period. In the early years, he relied on the continuous annexation of the surrounding small princely states to slowly grow up. When the sphere of influence reached its peak during the Warring States period, the territory of the country stretched from Daba Mountain, Wushan Mountain, and Wuling Mountain in the west, to the sea in the east, nanling in the south, and to the present central Henan, Anhui and northern Jiangsu in the north, southeastern Shaanxi, and the southern part of the mountain.
The State of Yan was not only one of the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, its ancestor was also the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, who in 1044 BC, after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, enfeoffed his brother Ji Yi in Yandi as the Duke of Yan. Although the State of Yan is one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, it is one of the weaker ones. At the beginning, the Yan state was established by expanding to the northern Hebei and western Liaoning regions and annexing the Jiguo state. At the end of the Warring States period, the strength of the Yan state was average, and the famous Jing Ke assassination of the King of Qin in history was sent by the prince of the State of Yan, and the assassination of Jing Ke failed, and the Qin King Ying Zheng sent troops to destroy the Yan State. The territory of the Yan kingdom mainly includes the Present-day Northern Hebei, the Daling River Valley in western Liaoning, and the Beijing area, so Beijing is also known as Yanjing!.
Because Korea is surrounded by the powerful countries of Wei, Qi, Chu and Qin, the development space is naturally very limited, and the land area is also the smallest of the seven countries. The strongest period of national strength was during the reign of Marquis Han Zhaohou, appointing Shen bu to change the law, but because it was located in the Central Plains, surrounded by the State of Wei, the State of Qi, the State of Chu and the State of Qin, there was no room for development at all, and Korea was also the first Shandong Six Kingdoms to be destroyed by the State of Qin! Its territorial scope included Xuchang City, Pingdingshan City, Luohe City, Yuzhou City, Dengfeng City, Changge City and other places in present-day Henan Province.
After Ji Sheng, the second son of Fei Lian, a famous minister of the Shang Dynasty, was the ancestor of the State of Zhao, he was originally enfeoffed with Zhao Cheng for his meritorious conquest of the State of Xu. In 403 BC, the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei were officially divided into Jin, and King Weilie of Zhou ordered Zhao Liehou Zhao to be the Marquis. In the period of King Wuling of Zhao, the practice of Hufu riding and shooting, the State of Zhao gradually became stronger, and could break the wrist with the State of Qin, and the State of Zhao also became king at this time. After this, the powerful Zhao State often broke his wrist with the Qin State, but unfortunately, the calculation was not good, and it did not break the Qin State, and since then it has begun to decline. The territory mainly included most of present-day Hebei Province, most of Shanxi Province, and parts of inner Mongolia to the south of the Yin Mountains.
Wei Huanzi was officially made a prince by King Wei lie of Zhou and established the state of Wei because he participated in and launched the three branches of the Jin Dynasty. By the time the state of Wei reached the third monarch, King Hui of Wei, the state power had already dominated the princes. During the reign of King Hui of Wei, Pang Juan was reused, but he did not know that Pang Juan secretly mutilated Sun Zhi, and later Sun Zhi assisted the State of Qi in defeating the State of Wei, Pang Juan was killed in battle, and the hegemony of the State of Wei was gone. When gong uncle Huan was alive, he repeatedly advised King Hui of Wei to kill Shang Martin, but King Hui of Wei did not listen, and later Shang Martin ran to the Qin State to help the Qin State change the law successfully, and the strength of the country gradually became a great enemy of the State of Wei. The territory mainly includes the present-day southern Shanxi, north-central Henan, eastern Shaanxi, southern Hebei, and northern Jiangsu.
After the ancestor of the king of the State of Qin was the son of Fei Lian, a famous minister of the Shang Dynasty, the early Zhou Dynasty did not divide the State of Qin into princely states, until the time of King Xiao of Zhou, when the chief of the State of Qin, Fei Zi, had meritorious service in raising horses for King Xiao of Zhou, which was given a fief and became a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty, thus establishing the State of Qin. Later, the last king of Western Zhou, King Zhou You, was killed by Rong Di and two other princes, and the State of Qin came to the rescue and successfully escorted the son of King You of Zhou to move east, which was promoted by the Zhou Dynasty to a prince and sat on an equal footing with the rest of the princely powers. The territorial territory mainly included the present-day Shaanxi region, and also included parts of Gansu and Sichuan, with the capital at present-day Xianyang, Shaanxi.
After the Battle of Changping, the six kingdoms were weak and had no strength to resist Qin. The countries only tried to protect themselves, and even attacked each other, and it was difficult to form a force to resist Qin. Qin, on the other hand, adhered to the strategy of attacking from afar and attacking closely, and captured large areas of Land in Han, Wei, and Zhao. By the fifth year of the reign of the Qin Dynasty (242 BC), the territories of Qi and Qin had bordered, blocking the connection between Zhao and Chu and encircling Han and Wei cheng on three sides. The conditions for the annihilation of the Six Kingdoms of Qin were ripe. Qin Wangzheng adopted the minister's suggestion, taking the sabotage of the six kingdoms as the guiding ideology, focusing on attacking Zhao and Chu. In the eleventh to fifteenth years of the reign of the Qin Dynasty, the State of Qin sent troops to attack Zhao four times, kicking off the prelude to the unification war. The Qin army won first, and then was defeated by the Zhao general Li Mu. Qin then turned to weak Korea and destroyed Korea in seventeen years. At this time, the Zhao state was stricken, and the Qin state took the opportunity to implement a counter-plan, got rid of Li Mu, and destroyed the Zhao state in seventeen years. The Prince of Zhao, JiaBendai (in present-day northeastern Wei County, Hebei), established himself as the acting king. Subsequently, the Qin army severely damaged the main force of the Yan army, and Wang Xi of Yan and Wang Jia of Dai retreated to Liaodong County. In 22 years, Qin destroyed Wei with a force, and then from the north to the south, first attacked Chu with 300,000 troops, but unexpectedly returned with a major defeat. Later, he sent the veteran general Wang Qi to lead an army of 600,000 to attack Chu again, and finally destroyed the Chu state. Twenty-five years later, the Qin army swept away the remnants of Yan and Zhao, leaving only one State of Qi. In 26 years, the Qin army avoided the frontal defense of the State of Qi, marched south from Yandi, and captured the capital of Qi in one fell swoop. At this point, the six countries were all peaceful, and finally became the great cause of reunification.