Xun Xi was a jack-of-all-trades in the Jin Dynasty, and he knew the politics and situation of the Jin Dynasty very well, even if he was very aware of the personalities and hobbies of the surrounding princes. This figure played an important role in the entire jin dynasty's outward expansion, especially on the issue of false road cutting and killing of the gong clan. That is to say, he is a conspirator and a strategist, he is better at psychological analysis, and more importantly, he is particularly loyal to the monarch, which can be described as a model among the powerful courtiers. So, who is he? It was this courtier Xun Xie who was at the side of the Duke of Jin. Xun Xi was a doctor during the Reign of Duke Wu of Jin, and after more than thirty years of assisting Duke Xian of Jin, Xun Xi became a powerful courtier in the Jin Dynasty, perhaps even earlier than the birth time of Duke Wen of Jin.
This Xun Xi was originally surnamed Yuan, named Yuan Dian, and was a descendant of the Yuan clan. Speaking of the Hara clan, it's a pretty different family. The original clan came from the Ji surname, and the sixteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, Uncle Yuan, was enfeoffed to the same place and became the original uncle. Uncle Yuan established a fiefdom in situ, but after the Duke of Jinwu destroyed the wing, the original state was already a vassal of the Jin state, and most of the best of the sons of the original clan became the assistant ministers of the Jinguo clan, and this yuan huang debuted relatively early, when the Jin Wu duke attacked the xun state in the campaign, as a doctor, Yuan Huang made a meritorious contribution, and the land of the Xun kingdom was rewarded by the Jin Xiangong to Yuan Huang, and the original surname Yuan Huang had the surname Xun. Since then, the original clan has taken Xun as a surname, and the history is called XunXi.
At that time, the pattern of the West was more complicated, and since the Hokyo Rebellion, the entire western region was inhabited by various Rongdi tribes, who occupied the mountain as king in the former Qishan homeland and frequently fought with the Ji feudal states that still remained here. At this time, the Jin state was already a relatively powerful state in the region, and most of the surrounding small princely states or Rong Di feudal states were vassals of the Jin state. There are also two very important Ji Zhou feudal states here, namely the Yu Kingdom and the Yu Kingdom, these two fiefdoms were still the four principalities of Ji Zhou, the status is particularly important, and the position it occupies is also quite important, just between zhou Tianzi's Luoyi and Haojing, when the pickaxe capital is broken, Tianzi migrates to the east, and the Yu state becomes an important defense line against the western Rongdi.
The State of Yu was not only an important defensive line against the Western Rong Di, but also blocked the road of the Jin State to the East into the Central Plains, which was extremely unfavorable to the development plan of the Jin State. When the aspiring Duke Xian of Jin ascended the throne, he began a war of annihilation against Yu Yu. At this time, the State of Yu was not self-aware, and often harassed the borders of the State of Jin with a large army, which made the Duke of Jin even more determined to destroy the State of Jin. Xun Xi offered a plan: "Cut down the thorns with a false path", this strategy can be described as vicious, that is, to annex the two countries with the "bi of the weeping thorns", but it is a very cheap deal. Therefore, the courtiers of the Jin Dynasty all believed that Yu Guo would not agree, but Xun Xi believed that Yu Guojun was greedy and would sacrifice big profits for small wealth. This shows that Xun Xi knows a lot about the Yu state.
Yu Guogong's Qi and Baili Xi said, "No." Lips dead and teeth cold... Today's Jin dynasty will destroy the yu, tomorrow Yu will die with it", which is also a prescient figure. It is only the loyal servant who meets the emperor, which is the greatest misfortune in the world. In order to obtain the "weeping thorns", Yu Guojun actually agreed to the Jin State to borrow the Yu Kingdom, and his own land was ceded to the armies of other countries, which was simply a huge threat, but yu Guojun did not have this understanding, no matter how he yu guo was, I could earn my own treasure. Later, Xun Xi had people send beautiful women and fine wine to the monarch of the State of Yu, and Gong Ugly also thought that the State of Jin was afraid of the military strength of the State of Yu, and after receiving the beautiful wine, he signed an alliance with the State of Jin for peaceful diplomacy. Where to know that Xun Xi is also bribing Li Rong while sending beautiful women wine, this tribe will lead a large army to harass the border of the Yu country. A few years later, when everything was ready, Xun Xi led a large army to cut down the road and annex the two countries.
Xun Xi was later valued by the Duke of Jin. In that year, the Duke of Jinwu attacked Emperor Dazong with the clan of Xiaozong, stayed in Yicheng, and became the monarch of the Jin State, so the Duke of Jinwu and the Duke of Jinxian were quite afraid of the clan princes, which was why Xun Xi and others later came up with advice, migrated many clan princes who were not from the Jin Xiangong sect to a city, and completely destroyed the other clans by means of siege and annihilation. It was just that such a strategy was too vicious, and the later princes shensheng, heavy ear, and Yiwu could not be associated with Xun Xi, and Xun Xi even broke with many Jin courtiers, which was also the reason why Xun Xi could only be loyal to the Jin Dynasty. Later, before the death of Duke Xian of Jin, he made Xun Xi a minister of gu orders, but only to take care of the young Xi Qi and support him to become the monarch of the Jin state. However, xi qi had no other political background except for his mother empress Dowager Li, so the courtiers of the Jin state took their own positions, and the battle for the prince of the Jin state to seize the throne began here.