To understand this story, you must first understand the historical background of the time.
Zhou Tianzi of Eastern Zhou was nominally the supreme leader, but the princely states under Zhou Tianzi's jurisdiction became increasingly powerful, emptying his power. Zhou Tianzi has no real name, just an empty shelf. Power fell into the hands of the scholars of several vassal states.
One of the princely states was called the Jin State, which for a time dominated the princes and became the most powerful princely state. However, the feng shui took turns, and when the Jin Dynasty arrived at the Jin Dynasty, the power of the monarch was increasingly transferred to the hands of the Qing masters. It was mainly the Zhi family, the Zhao family, the Han family and the Wei family that controlled the jin dynasty.
By the time of the Jin Dynasty, history had entered the Warring States period. At this time, the four Qing masters who held the real power of the Jin state were Zhao Xiangzi, Han Kangzi, Wei Huanzi and Zhi Bo. Jin out of the public saw that the power of the four secretaries was too great, and he became their puppet, and he was very reluctant in his heart, so he secretly sent people to borrow troops from Qi and Lu to eliminate the four secretaries. Knowing that Qi and Lu betrayed him, instead of borrowing troops, they told Zhi Bo the news.
Zhi Bo and the other three secretaries sent troops to drive out the duke, and appointed the great-grandson of the Duke of Jin Zhao as the monarch, which was the Duke of Jin. Zhi Bo took the lead and drove away the Gong, and Jing Gong was completely in his hands. As a result, his ambitions grew larger and greater, and he wanted to monopolize the entire Jin Dynasty.
One day, Zhibo summoned his cronies to discuss the matter in secret. The counselor said, "In order to achieve the goal, we must first weaken the strength of the three families."
"How about a cut?" Zhibo asked.
The counselor said, "Now the Vietnamese forces in the southeast are getting bigger and bigger. We falsely passed on the order of the Gong Gong, saying that it was to compete with the Vietnamese for hegemony, and let each of the three families sacrifice a hundred miles of land for military pay. If they agree, we shall be three hundred miles of land; If any one does not agree, it will send troops to attack which one. ”
Zhi Bo felt that this method was good, so he asked his brother Zhi Kai to notify the three families to cut the land. Han Kangzi listened, and his heart was very annoyed, obviously it was you Zhibo, the old fox, who was openly blackmailing and blackmailing, and he also wanted to play the brand of respecting the public! He was about to send an army to fight when he was persuaded by his advisers.
Han Kangzi's adviser said: "It is not worth it for us to fight with him hard, so it is better to give him land first, and then wait for him to go to Zhao." The Wei family wanted it. They will not be happy, fight with Zhibo, and we will reap the benefits of the fisherman. Han Kangzi listened to Duan Zhi's advice and ceded the land of one hundred miles to Zhi Bo.
Another Wei Huanzi saw that Han Kangzi did not resist, and also pretended to be stupid and sold his own hundred miles of land.
Only Zhao Xiangzi refused to cut the land. He said: "The land was handed down from the ancestors, how can it be ceded at will?" Let Han and Wei please Zhibo!" Zhibo was furious, so he asked Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi to send troops with him to fight against Zhao Xiangzi, and agreed with the two families that after destroying Zhao, the land of the Zhao clan would be divided equally between the three of them.
Zhao Xiangzi saw that the three families were numerous, so he followed the advice of the courtiers and withdrew to Jinyang to defend.
Jinyang was a fief of the Zhao clan, and the city was built by the Zhao clan for generations, and it was very strong, and the grain and grass reserves were also abundant. More importantly, the morale of the people in the city to resist the invasion and defend their homeland was high.
The military and the people had been defending with one heart for more than a year, but Zhi Bo and the other three families still could not break through Jinyang City. Zhi Bo saw that he had been unable to stand each other, so he came up with a poisonous plan: cut off the Jinshui river ten miles away from the city, build an embankment to store water, and then when the rainy season arrived, he began to release water to flood Jinyang.
Sure enough, a month later, the rainy season came, the Jinshui water soared, and it was intercepted by the embankment, and the water level suddenly greatly exceeded jinyang city. At the order of Zhi Bo, he dug the embankment, and the water slammed into the city. Although the walls of Jinyang are strong and have not yet been washed away, the houses of the common people have collapsed after being soaked in water, and even the pots and stoves for cooking rice have nowhere to be installed. People had to hide in high ground.
Jinyang City was in danger. Zhao Xiangzi was anxious like an ant on a hot pot. Zhang Mengtan, a strategist, asked Xiangzi to quickly build a raft and prepare for a battle on the water, while sneaking out of the East Gate until he went to see Han Kangzi in the Han army camp.
Zhang Mengtan said to him, "We are all Qing Doctors of the Jin Dynasty. Zhi Bo's fountain of ambition is going to swallow up the entire Jin Kingdom, the lips are cold, and when our Zhao clan is destroyed, it will be your turn.
Han Kangzi was hit in the heart, thought for a while, and asked Zhang Mengtan: "Then what are you going to do?" Zhang Mengtan said: "According to Xiao Chen's foolish opinion, it is better for our three families to unite and attack the Zhi clan to eliminate the troubles." From now on, our three wives will live in peace. ”
Han Kangzi couldn't make up his mind for a moment, so he asked Zhang Mengtan to stay in the camp and decided to discuss it with Wei Huanzi, who was surrounding the south gate, the next day.
Just the next day, Zhi Bo invited Han and Wei Erjia to Longshan to inspect the water conditions while drinking. After drinking to Xing's head, Zhi Bo triumphantly pointed at Jinyang City and said, "I know now that water can also destroy a country." As he spoke, he looked at Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi and said, "I'm afraid your Fenshui and Daishui will not be able to protect An Yi and Pingyang, right?" (This Zhibo is also too brainless to say this)
An Yi and Ping Yang were the cities of the han and Wei fiefdoms, respectively, and Zhi Bo's wolf ambitions were clearly revealed. Han Kangzi touched Wei Huanzi with his elbow, and Wei Huanzi stepped on Han Kangzi with his foot, and both of them dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. After the seats dispersed, Han Kangzi invited Wei Huanzi to his camp and invited Zhang Mengtan out. The three of them immediately hit it off, and in Han Kangzi's camp, Zhao Xiangzi made an alliance of blood and agreed to jointly attack Zhibo.
In the middle of the next night, Han and Wei sent troops to kill Zhibo's soldiers guarding the dam, and dug the embankment blocking jinshui from the west, resulting in the flood rushing against Zhibo's military camp. There was chaos in Zhi Bo's army. When Zhibo woke up from his sleep, the water had flooded to his side, and several cronies hurried to help him to the raft. Zhi Bo looked back at his battalion, where grain, grass, and weapons were floating away, and the sergeants in the battalion were struggling and floating in the rolling waves.
Zhi Bo had not yet woken up, only to hear the drums vibrating loudly, and the two armies of Han and Wei took advantage of the water to kill from the small boat. Unable to resist, Zhi Bo hurriedly led a few retinues to flee behind Longshan in a small boat. Just after turning out of the mountain pass, Zhao Xiangzi and Zhang Meng talked about leading the Zhao family's army to suddenly come out from behind the mountain. Zhao Xiangzi didn't have much effort to capture Zhi Bo alive.
By the next day, tomorrow, Zhibo's army was completely destroyed. Zhao Xiangzi beheaded Zhi Bo, and led an army back to the Jin capital of Daicheng with Han and Wei, and beheaded Zhi Bo man at the gate of rebellion. The land of the Zhi clan is divided equally between the three families.
By 403 BC, the heirs of the Han, Zhao, and Wei families of the Jin dynasty, Han Qian, Zhao Yuan, and Wei Si, sent emissaries to request an independent title from King Weilie of Zhou. Zhou Tianzi had no real power in his hands, so he had to be crowned as the Marquis of Han, the Marquis of Zhao, and the Marquis of Wei according to the wishes of the three families.
Therefore, the three families were established separately, and the Jin state did not exist ever since. These three families were the Korea, Zhao and Wei states that were later known as the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States".
Final summary: The story is called "Three Houses And Three Jin". In fact, the "three families divided into Jin" was a long-term "infighting" within the Jin state under zhou tianzi's jurisdiction, and the jin state, which once dominated the Central Plains, was split into three countries by several of its own courtiers.