In 375 BC, Korea destroyed the State of Zheng and moved its capital to Xinzheng, the capital of the State of Zheng. Zheng Guo belongs to the "Kingdom of a Thousand Multipliers", and Zheng Zhuanggong is one of the "Three Little Bullies of Spring and Autumn" alongside the Duke of Qi and the King of Chuwu. Zheng Guoguo was actually destroyed by the cutting-edge Korea, and the intensity of the "great power annexation" in the Warring States period can be seen.
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In 806 BC, King Ji Jing of Zhou xuan made his half-brother Wang You an earl, with a fief in Zhengdi (present-day eastern Hua County, Shaanxi), known historically as Zheng Boyou, also known as Duke Huan of Zheng. Zheng Guo's first fiefdom was near the Capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Hojing, and Zheng Huan was also the younger brother of Zhou Tianzi, so he undertook the important task of "arching and defending Gyeonggi", and Zheng Huan repeatedly led his army to defeat the northern tribes that invaded the border of the Zhou Dynasty.
In 782 BC, King Xuan of Zhou died of illness and was succeeded by his son Ji Gongtang the Prince of Zhouyou. In 774 BC, King You of Zhou appointed his uncle Zheng Huan (郑桓公) as the Situ of the Zhou royal family, in charge of the country's land and household registration. Seeing that King You of Zhou favored Andi ignored the government, Zheng Huangong also wanted to flee the land of disaster. It seems that Duke Huan of Zheng was far less loyal to his nephew King You of Zhou than to his brother King Xuan of Zhou.
Zheng Huangong asked Tai Shi Bo, who was in charge of the royal scriptures, how he should take refuge. Taishibo suggested that he move to the area east of the Luo River, south of the Yellow River and Jishui, which was adjacent to the eastern states of Xingyang (東虢阳, in present-day xingyang, Henan) and the state of Hao (present-day southeast of Xinmi, Henan), where the monarchs of the two kingdoms were greedy and profitable, and the people were not close to them. Taishibo also believed that the uncle of Zhou Tianzi and the Zhou Dynasty Situ of the Zhenghuan Provincial Committee loved him, and if he asked to live there, the monarchs of the Eastern And Northern States and the Kingdom of Qi would certainly agree to give the land when they saw that you were in power. If Zheng Guo moved there, the bullied people of the Eastern Yu Kingdom and the Xi Kingdom would inevitably be close to Zheng Huan.
In 773 BC, Duke Huan of Zheng requested that his people be relocated eastward to the east of Luoyi (雒邑, in modern Luoyang, Henan), with the permission of his nephew King You of Zhou. Duke Huan of Zheng also sent Shizi Ji to bring rich gifts and borrow land from the Erjun of the Eastern Kingdom and the State of Qi. The State of Dong was a fiefdom of King Wen of Zhou's younger brother Yu Zhong ,虢仲, whose capital was at Zhiyi (制邑; present-day Xingyang, Henan). The state of Qi was a common worker, and during the Emperor's reign, it was destroyed, and during the Shang Dynasty, Lu Zhong's fourth son Huiren (Qiuyan) was enfeoffed in Yu. Later, Zhou annihilated the Shang and recognized the state of Xi, with the capital at present-day northwestern Xinzheng and southeastern Xinmi, Henan.
Because Zheng Huan was the emperor of the dynasty and the uncle of Tianzi, he was highly powerful and coveted rich gifts, so he each donated five cities to Zheng Huan to "relocate" and move in. Soon Zheng Huan ordered the residents of the original fief to move east, and according to Tai Shi Bo's suggestion, he also placed his family and important property in the capital between Yu and Xi (present-day Jingxiangcheng, Xingyang, Henan), which was historically called "虢郐寄孥" or "Huan Gong Zhi Wei". After the "Yu Hao Sent", Zheng Huan Duke continued to stay in The Ho Capital to assist the government, and Shizi Ji Ditu was responsible for the military and political affairs of the residents of the Zheng State who moved east to the capital.
In 774 BC, King You of Zhou deposed Marquis Shen's daughter Shen Hou and grandson Ji Yiusu the Crown Prince, and instead made his favorite Ji Yifu the crown prince, with His son Ji Bofu as crown prince, causing extreme dissatisfaction among Marquis Shen.
In 771 BC, Shen Hou joined forces with the State of Jiao and Xiyi Tou Rong to attack King You of Zhou. Soon After, Inuyasha attacked Hojing, killed King You of Zhou and the crown prince Ji Bofu under Lishan Mountain, and abducted Hime. Duke Zheng Huan of the Zhou Dynasty also died in the war, and Duke Huan's eldest son Ji Tutu succeeded to the throne, known in history as Duke Wu of Zheng. The deposed crown prince Ji Yiusu succeeded to the throne with the support of Marquis Shen and others, and was known as the King of Zhouping.
At that time, the capital city of Hojing and other places were destroyed by many attacks by Inuyasha, and instead of uniting with various princes to jointly expel Inuyasha to recover the lost land, king of Zhou Ping decided to abandon the fertile land of Thousand Mile Wild and move the capital to the eastern capital Luoyi (present-day Luoyang, Henan). Zheng Wugong was appointed situ by King Ping of Zhou, and together with Marquis Wen of Jin, Duke Xiang of Qin, Duke Wu of Wei, and other princes, helped King Ping of Zhou "move" from Hojing (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi) to the eastern capital of Luoyi. The strange thing is that King Ping of Zhou did not "move" with the common people like Zheng Huangong "moved", which led to a sharp decline in the population of the "Wang Qi" directly under zhou tianzi, and the vitality of the Zhou royal family was seriously injured, and its strength was even inferior to that of ordinary princes.
The State of Dong and the State of Qi agreed to Zheng Huangong's "borrowing land" to move east, but ignored the "enduo into a vendetta". The favor of "borrowing land" to Zheng Guo was not exchanged for Zheng Guo's gratitude, but the catastrophe of being "destroyed" by Zheng Guo. In 769 BC, Zheng Wugong occupied the capital of the state of Yi (岩邑, in present-day Dafanzhuang, Liang Township, Xinmiqu, Henan) and destroyed the state of Wu. In 767 BC, Duke Wu of Zheng occupied the capital of the State of Dongyu (present-day Guangwu Pingcheng, Xingyang, Henan), destroyed the State of Dongyu, and the surrounding yan, shadow, supplement, dan, yi, han, li, and Xin bayi were also taken by zheng wu as their own.
Zheng Guojiu occupied the magpie's nest and moved the capital to the old capital of the State of Qi, still named "Zheng", and the history was called "New Zheng". Zheng Guoguo attacked the princes of Zhou Tianzi, and instead of immediately sending troops to restore the state of Eastern Qi and punish Duke Wu of Zheng, he had no choice but to take the descendants of the prince of the State of Eastern Qi to Xiayang (present-day Pinglu County, Shanxi) to establish the State of Northern Qi. In 658 BC, the northern kingdom of Beiyu was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty gong using the strategy of "false road cutting" by the counselor Xun Xi, and still could not escape the fate of being destroyed by the powerful country.
In 744 BC, Duke Wu of Zheng's Ji Huansheng was succeeded by Duke Zheng Zhuang, and the State of Zheng entered its heyday.
Zheng Zhuang successively defeated the Wei, Southern Yan, Song, and Chen States, presided over the alliance many times, and guided the Duke of Qi to pay homage to Zhou Tianzi, and the State of Qi also requested Zheng Guo to send troops to help fight against Northern Rong. What is even more shocking is that in 707 BC, Zhou Tianzi led an army to attack Zheng Zhuanggong, who actually confronted Zhou Tianzi at Qiangge (繻葛; northeast of present-day Changge, Henan Province), and Zheng Guo's general Zhu Tan also shot King Huan of Zhou in the shoulder, causing Zhou Tianzi to be swept away.
Zheng Zhuanggong, Duke Qi, and King Wu of Chu were listed together as the "Three Little Overlords of Spring and Autumn", but unfortunately, Zheng Zhuanggong, the "Little Overlord", liked too many female sons, and Shizi Ji's position was unstable, which led to the struggle for the throne after the death of Zheng Zhuanggong in 701 AD. Zheng Zhuanggong's sons Ji Kuo, Ji Tu, Ji Zi Qi, and Ji Bao successively served as monarchs, and even Ji Ku and Ji Tu were restored successively, and Zheng Guoyuan was seriously injured. Zheng Guo's political situation was not easy to stabilize during the reign of Zheng Zhuanggong's grandson Zheng Wengong, and after the death of Zheng Wengong's son Zheng Mugong in 606 BC, he once again fell into civil strife in which his sons competed for the throne.
Zheng Guo was sandwiched between super-first-class powers such as the Jin state and the Chu state, and there were first-class powers such as the State of Qi and quasi-first-class powers such as the Song State, and zheng guo could not survive independently and could only rely on the chu state or the Jin state. However, zheng guo was dependent on the state of Chu and was crusaded by the state of Jin; the state of Zheng was crusaded by the state of Chu, becoming the hardest hit area for the hegemony of the great powers.
After that, the only bright spot of the Zheng state was the destruction of the Xu state in 504 BC, but the strength of the Zheng state was still at a significant disadvantage compared with the neighboring States of Jin, Chu, Qi, and Song. In 453 BC, the Jin state survived in name only after the "Three Qing Divisions of Jin", but Zheng Guo soon ushered in an even more terrible opponent, that is, Korea, the weakest of the "Three Jins". Although South Korea is the weakest country in the "Three Jins", it is after all one of the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States", and it is still in a clear advantage over the weaker Zheng Guo.
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In 679 BC, Duke Wu of Qu wo killed Marquis Wu of Jin and established himself as the Marquis of Jin, the Duke of Jinwu, and sealed Ji Wan in Hanyuan, and later Ji Wan's descendants took Han as their surname. Ji Wan's grandson Han Jue served as the Zhengqing of the Jin Dynasty (a General of the Chinese Army) in 573 BC, and Han Jue's 5th grandson Han Kangzi Han Hu defeated Zhi Boyao's "Three Qing Divisions of Jin" in 453 BC, together with Zhao Xiangzi's sons Zhao Wuyi and Wei Huanzi Wei Ju, and Korea had actually opened the country.
At the time of the "Division of the Three Secretaries of State", the territory of Korea was mainly in southern Shanxi and northern Henan. To the north of Korea is the powerful State of Wei, which inherits the main part of the Jin State, to the south is the State of Chu, the "superpower" chu state that originally competed with the State of Jin for hegemony over the Central Plains, to the west is the State of Qin, which is inferior to the State of Wei and the State of Chu but crushes Korea, and to the east is the State of Zheng, which has been "abused" by the State of Chu and the State of Jin many times. South Korea's strength base is far inferior to that of Zhao Guo, and its development is not as good as that of Wei Guo, so South Korea has always been in the position of "playing soy sauce" in the "Three Jins".
Since its national strength was not enough, Korea did not dare to provoke the powerful states of Wei, Chu, and Qin around it, so it had to point the spearhead of expansion at the decaying Zheng state. At this time, the State of Zheng continued to be in civil strife, and in 424 BC, Duke Zheng Ai was killed by his ministers, and in 423 BC, Han Kangzi's son Han Wuzi Han Qizhang sent an army to attack Korea and beheaded the newly succeeded Zheng Yougong. After Zheng Yougong's younger brother Zheng Yougong Ji (郑繻公姬骀) ascended the throne, he tried to reform and develop in an attempt to save himself.
In 408 BC, han Wuzi's son Han Qian (Han Qian) stepped up his attack on Korea and captured The Yongqiu (雍丘, in modern Qi County, Henan Province) of the State of Zheng that year. Zheng Gonggong was forced to move the capital to the capital, and at the same time used civilian and financial resources to strengthen the Great Wall From Wang Zongdian in present-day CuiMiao Township, Xingyang to Tea Castration in Xinmi City, a total length of 4320 meters. After consolidating the western border, Zheng Gong sent troops to join forces with Qi Wei and captured the main city of Wei (毋丘, in present-day Cao County, Shandong), and obtained a lot of booty. In 407 BC, Zheng Gonggong again led an army to attack and capture The Korean Bearer (in the territory of present-day Dengfeng), which showed that Zheng Guo still had the strength to fight a war.
In 403 BC, Han Qian, along with Wei Si and Zhao Yuan, was crowned as a prince by Zhou Tianzi, and Han Qian became the Marquis of Han Jing. In 400 BC, Marquis Wenhou of Wei joined forces with Marquis Liehou of Zhao and Marquis Jinghou of Han to attack the State of Chu. Taking advantage of the main force of the Korean army, Zheng Gong unexpectedly sent troops to besiege the Korean capital Yang Zhai (陽翟, in modern Yuzhou, Henan), and Zheng Guo showed signs of revival.
Zheng Gong did not know which tendon was sobbing, and he was actually involved in the rebellion of the Prince of Chu during the war between the Chu state and the "Three Jins", which led to the succession of the King of Chu in 401 BC, after thwarting the "Three Jin" attack, quickly sent troops to attack the State of Zheng. King Chu mourned also lacked strategic vision, knowing that "the enemy of the enemy is a friend", the State of Chu should unite with zheng guo to counter Korea and other "three Jin", at this time there are a thousand reasons to weaken Zheng Guo, do not know that weakening Zheng Guo is "enemy" Korea?
In 398 BC, the State of Chu sent troops to capture the important position of the State of Zheng (大梁, in present-day Kaifeng, Henan), which led to the decline of the State of Zheng again, and the Duke of Zheng was even forced to kill the chancellor Who advocated a resolute resistance to the State of Chu. In 396 BC, Zheng Yougong's last Ming emperor, Zheng Gong ,zheng (郑繻公), was killed by The Duke of Zheng and succeeded by Zheng Yougong's younger brother Zheng Kang (郑康公姬乙), and the demise of Zheng Guo entered the "countdown".
In 394 BC, a rebellion broke out in the negative area occupied by the Zheng state, and the negative army returned to Korea. In 385 BC, Marquis Wenhou of Han sent an army against the State of Zheng and captured Yangcheng (陽城, in modern Dengfeng, Henan). Zheng Guo suffered multiple invasions by the "Three Jin" forces and the Chu army, and lost most of its territory.
In 376 BC, Marquis Wen of Han's son Marquis Han succeeded to the throne. Although Korea was the weakest among the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States" and the "Three Jins", the expansion ambitions of the Han Dynasty were not weak. In the year of succession, The Marquis of Han, together with Marquis Jinghou of Zhao and Marquis Wu of Wei, deposed the Duke of Jing of Jin as a commoner, and divided up the Jin gongfu and only the two yi of Qi and Quwo, and the Jin state was finally destroyed after 77 years after the "three secretaries divided the Jin".
In 375 BC, The Marquis of Han sent troops to destroy the State of Zheng and moved the capital of Korea to the capital of the State of Zheng, Xinzheng. From 423 BC to 375 BC, Korea lasted 48 years and finally destroyed the Zheng kingdom. A "thousand-by-a-thousand-year-old power" survived the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony, but did not survive the annexation of the Warring States.