Are Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi not sincere about their husbands? Angry and fearful, the world is extinguished. —— Jing Chun (disciple of Mencius)
In 338 BC, the reform-minded Duke Xiao of Qin died, and the nineteen-year-old crown prince Si took the throne as King Huiwen of Qin. At the beginning of the reign of King Huiwen of Qin, due to the death of Qin Xiaogong, who advocated reform, the conservative nobles who had been suppressed for more than ten years were relieved and made a comeback.
Unlike previous attacks on the new law regulations, this time they directly pointed the finger at the martingale who presided over the reform. Previously, because King Huiwen of Qin had violated the new law before he ascended the throne, Shang Martin punished two of King Huiwen's teachers, and at this time, Shang Martin was highly respected in the Qin State and loved by the people, posing a threat to King Huiwen of Qin, who had just ascended the throne.
In this way, King Huiwen of Qin, with the help of the hands of the conservative nobles, confirmed the charge of "conspiracy" of Shangmartin, and then sent troops to attack Shangmartin and exterminate his clan.
Subsequently, King Huiwen of Qin, who had not yet been crowned, chose to lie dormant and slowly consolidate his power, while the conservative nobles and the reformists after the loss of the Shang martingale were at loggerheads over the issue of the abolition of the new law. Just after the struggle between the two factions entered a white-hot stage, King Huiwen of Qin vigorously purged the old nobles on the grounds that "although the Shang Jun is dead, the new law will not be abolished", so that they can no longer resist the new law. At this point, the achievements of the Shang martingale transformation method were able to continue in the Qin Kingdom.
With the death and death of the older generation of qin xiaogong's ministers, the king of Qin Huiwen, who was determined to go east, urgently needed the assistance of a strategist with a world pattern. At this time, Gongsun Yan, the depressed head of the State of Wei, entered Qin, was treated with courtesy by King Huiwen of Qin, and was directly worshipped as the second Great Liangzao of the Qin State after Shang Martin.
It should be known that at this time, King Huiwen of Qin did not begin the reform of the separation of titles in the Qin State, nor did he gradually form the twentieth rank knighthood system, that is to say, at this time, the Great Liangzhuo of the Qin State was not only the highest title in the seventeenth grade of the knighthood system, but also the important position of the Qin State General Consul, and his authority was equivalent to that of the founding chancellor of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong.
Gongsun Yan had just arrived in the Qin Kingdom and was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by King Huiwen of Qin, and this rhinoceros who was depressed in the State of Wei was naturally grateful to King Huiwen of Qin, and always wanted to do something great to repay The Kindness of King Huiwen of Qin. Therefore, Gongsun Yan set his sights on the place that made countless Qin people dream and carried the national shame of the Qin state for a hundred years--the land of Hexi.
The land of Hexi was pocketed by the Qin state as early as the Qin Mugong period and became a place where the Qin people multiplied and lived. After entering the Warring States period, due to the continuous coups d'état of the Qin state and the abuse of power by the nobles, the Qin state entered a chaotic situation of "four generations of chaotic government", while the emerging State of Wei in the east carried out reforms and changes under the leadership of Wei Wenhou, and the national strength increased greatly.
Subsequently, Wei Wenhou repeatedly used troops against the Qin state, and then set the land of Hexi as the Xihe County of the State of Wei, and then used the famous general Wu Qi as the defender of Xihe County, and captured the entire territory of the land west of the Qin state. After Qin Xiangong ascended the throne, he used troops against the land of Hexi several times in the Qin State, but the results were not great, and although there were Shang Martingales in the Qin Xiaogong period who plotted to annihilate the Wei army, they did not recover the land of Hexi.
Therefore, after Gongsun Yan became the Great Liangzhu of the Qin State, he actively prepared to use troops against the State of Wei and prepared to recover the land of Hexi in one fell swoop, and shame the Qin people.
In 332 BC, after making preparations, Gongsun Yan led the new army of the Qin state out of the east and directly attacked the land of Hexi, and King Hui of Wei sent the Wei general Long Jia to lead an army to garrison Xihe County. Gongsun Yan led the Qin army and the Wei army to a fierce battle at Jiaoyin, and after more than two years of great war, Gongsun Yan completely annihilated the Wei state hexi garrison in 330 BC, captured the Wei general Long Jia, and recovered the land of Hexi in one fell swoop.
A hundred years of national shame, once washed away!
When the news came, countless Qin people covered their faces and wept, and when Gongsun Yanbanshi returned to the dynasty, Prince Huiwen of Qin led his subjects out of the city to greet them as a sign of favor.
However, this "Battle of Carved Yin" not only made Gongsun Yan famous move the world, but also laid the groundwork for him to embark on a completely different path in the second half of his life - anti-Qin.
After the Battle of Diaoyin, when King Huiwen of Qin and Gongsun Yan discussed the next strategic goal of the Qin state, Gongsun Yan proposed a puzzling strategic direction - abandoning the continued attack on the State of Wei and instead conquering the Yiqu Canal. When Asked by King Huiwen of Qin, Gongsun Yan repeatedly attacked the borders of the State of Qin with the State of Yiqu, and the State of Qin was unable to go all out to conquer the countries. However, the Qin State and the Yiqu campaigned for hundreds of years, and the Qin State did not destroy it, so how much success could the conquest of the Yiqu achieve at this time?
At this moment, an unexpected person came to the Qin Kingdom, which was the famous "power disciple" Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi pointed out to the point that Gongsun Yan's strategy was wrong, although the State of Wei at this time had been attacked by the three kingdoms of Qi, Chu, and Qin successively, but the camels that were thin and dead were bigger than Horses, the hegemony of the State of Wei had not yet been completely destroyed, and the State of Wei was still likely to make a comeback, and at this time it was necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue and continue to attack the State of Wei.
King Huiwen of Qin, as a male lord of a generation, was naturally not a person who was easily fooled, he carefully considered the completely different strategic directions of Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi, and then combined with the situation in the world at this time, he could naturally judge which plan was more favorable to the Qin state.
As a result, King Huiwen of Qin adopted Zhang Yi's plan and worshipped him as a guest secretary, gradually alienating Gongsun Yan. In 328 BC, Zhang Yi, relying on his three inches of incorruptible tongue, obtained from King Hui of Wei the household registration atlas of the land of Hexi and the fifteen counties of Puyang and Shangjun, completely solving the problems left over after the "Battle of Diaoyin", and was worshipped by King Huiwen of Qin as Xiangguo and became the kaifu chancellor of the Qin state.
However, because Gongsun Yan was alienated by King Huiwen of Qin, he resigned from the post of Great Liangzao of the State of Qin, ran away in a negative mood, and returned to the State of Wei, preparing to take revenge on King Huiwen of Qin. Then there was the famous "Five Kingdoms Xiang Wang" in history and the Battle of Xiuyu, which opened the prelude to the joint anti-Qin struggle, which hindered the Qin State at every turn and became a lifelong enemy of King Huiwen of Qin.
From the "model monarch" who walked hand in hand to the "lifelong enemy" who was tit-for-tat, what happened between King Huiwen of Qin and Gongsun Yan is difficult to know due to the lack of historical data. At present, there are two main ways to say it:
Gongsun Yan accepted bribes from the State of Wei. Some people believe that Gongsun Yan's proposal to mislead King Huiwen of Qin was because he accepted a bribe from King Hui of Wei, and zhang Yi entered Qin, and with three inches of incorruptible tongue, he worshiped Xiangguo and took away the power in his hands, and Gongsun Yan was dissatisfied and left the Qin state.
Gongsun Yan was sad. Some people also believe that Gongsun Yan annihilated 80,000 Wei troops in the Battle of Diaoyin, and these 80,000 Wei troops were all compatriots in his own home country, and after this battle, Gongsun Yan could not bear to use troops against his mother country, which led to the suggestion that misled King Huiwen of Qin. Then Zhang Yi entered Qin and saw through his own plans, and Gongsun Yan returned to his mother country to serve and began to resist the strong Qin.
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