#历史故事 #
After solving the Wu problem, King Chu Kang could finally concentrate his energy on dealing with the Jin state. How to deal with this Jin state, which claims to be the hegemon of the Central Plains? King Chu Kang thought a lot, and he hoped that the Jin kingdom would be a little more chaotic, a little more chaotic.
What happened to Jin Guo at this time?
The power of the Jin dynasty fell sharply after the Jin Dynasty, and the power basically fell into the hands of Liu Qing. In 648 BC, Zhao Wu, an orphan of the Zhao clan, served as the commander of the Zhongjun army, and the Jin state was controlled by the six major families of Zhao, Xun, Han, Wei, Zhongxing, and Zhi.
Zhao Wu was a moderate, and although he was known as Wu, he did not want to fight in his heart. It was just that the State of Qi had recently been very dishonest and had provoked wars many times, so Zhao Wu summoned the princes to send out a soldier and taught the State of Qi a lesson.
For the State of Chu, the State of Jin under Zhao Wu was well aware that this was not a great power that could be subdued by fighting a few battles. Of course, in the eyes of the Chu state under the leadership of King Chu Kang, the Jin state was even more difficult to shake.
Both Jin and Chu are very clear that the result of the struggle for supremacy between Jin and Chu is that both sides lose, no, it should be said that it is the wound of the entire Spring and Autumn River and Lake. The Jin state needed more energy to deal with internal affairs, because after the rebellion of the Luan family, which was the world's largest family, the power of the Jin state needed to be redistributed.
The State of Chu also needed peace, the threat of the State of Wu was temporarily eliminated, and the political struggle within the State of Chu also needed to be coordinated by King Chu Kang. After the Battle of Qi caused by the Rebellion of the State of Qi against the Jin Dynasty, the State of Qi quickly became civilly revolted, and later, the monarch was also killed.
As for the other princely states of Zheng, Song, Wei, Cao, and so on, in the Spring and Autumn Period, when they reached this period, they were tired of playing this and that with the Jin State for a while.
The most seriously injured of these princes, Zheng Guo and Song Guo, finally issued a cry that the world needed peace.
As last time, this time it was Song Guo, who was a guest of honor of the Zhou Dynasty, to come forward, and the last time, it was Hua Yuan, the right master of the Song Dynasty, whose contribution to world peace was remembered by history.
This time, it was a Song Guo doctor named Xiang Shu who actively ran to jin and Chu, and finally persuaded jin and Chu to sit on the negotiating table. This was the second time in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period that Jin and Chu would meet with the army.
The meaning of the soldiers is to lay down the sword, no longer fight, and everyone lives a peaceful life to achieve world harmony. To put it bluntly, the Alliance is a diplomatic activity.
In 579 BC, the Song people dominated the first alliance of soldiers, but because there was no substantive content, everyone swore an oath, saying that what not to fight each other, who raised the sword and soldiers, everyone went to crusade against whom, and so on, which was destined to be just a game and a dream, and the result was only to last for three years before declaring bankruptcy.
At the turn of the spring and summer of 546 BC, May, it was indeed a good day for negotiations. According to the elaborate plan prepared by the Song state, both the Jin and Chu countries agreed to negotiate at the Song capital Suiyang (睢阳, in modern Shangqiu, Henan Province). The subject of the negotiations is world peace.
People all over the world are expecting this negotiation to bring real peace to the world. A total of 14 princely states, including the Jin, Chu, Qi, Qin, Lu, Wei, Chen, Cai, Zheng, Xu, Song, Yi, and Teng, sent a luxurious diplomatic team to the meeting.
Any international conference is divided into two parts, content and form, do not think that the content is the first, sometimes the form is also very important, because this involves the face of the big country and the issue of international etiquette.
Let's start with the content. The content is very real and concrete, there are mainly the following:
First, war between nations should cease and all international disputes should be settled through peaceful negotiations.
Second, the princely states of the whole world respected the Jin and Chu states as common rulers of the jianghu alliance.
Third, determine the payment of protection fees. After many rounds of negotiations, the final decision was as follows: The vassal states of the Jin state should also pay tribute to the Chu state, and likewise, the vassal states of the Chu state should pay tribute to the Jin state.
However, the Qi people did not do it, they were originally a big country, never paid any protection fees, and only collected protection fees from others in the Qi Huangong era. Moreover, the State of Qi was indeed a powerful country in the East, so the People of Qi were exempted from this obligation through reasoning.
What about the State of Qin, a Western power? The State of Qin did not attend the meeting, but the State of Qin was an ally of the State of Chu, and the State of Chu had to say a few words for the State of Qin. In the end, the status of the State of Qin was the same as that of the State of Qi, and it was exempted from the obligation to surrender protection fees.
The State of Qi also won a privilege, that is, although the State of Qi also participated in the meeting, the State of Qi was a vassal state of the State of Qi, so the State of Qi only needed to pay the protection fee to the State of Qi, and did not need to give it to the Two States of Chu and Jin.
As the host, the Song people naturally had certain advantages, so the Song people also won their own interests, and the vassal state of the Song state, Teng Guo, only needed to be responsible for the Song state, and did not need to pay another protection fee to the Jin state and the Chu state.
As for the other princes, the premiums have since doubled. "Of the 14 participating countries, the State of Qi, as an ally of the Jin, was equal in strength to the State of Chu, and worshiped the State of Jin rather than the State of Chu; The state of Qi was a vassal of the State of Qi, and the State of Teng was a vassal of the State of Song and did not participate in the League. The State of Qin, as the hegemon of the side that monopolized Xi Rong, was an ally of the State of Chu and did not worship the Jin State.
Fourth, whoever dares to break the covenant, the people of the whole world unite to fight together.
The core content is these four points, except for the first point, the other three points are really too real, especially for the Jin and Chu states. This meant that the vassal states, which had previously paid only one protection fee, now had to pay two. But everyone seems to be willing to accept it, because it is still quite cost-effective to spend some money to eliminate the military disaster.
Both the Jin and Chu states were satisfied, because the interests of the Jin state were not lost, and the Chu state was finally recognized by the princes of the Central Plains: sitting on an equal footing with the Jin state, jointly becoming the lord of the Central Plains alliance, and enjoying the tribute of the princely states.
In this way, the world was divided into four worlds: the First World, the Chu state and the Jin kingdom, both allies, enjoying the tribute of the various princely states. In the second world, the Qin and Qi states did not need to pay protection fees, but only enjoyed the tribute of their vassal states. In the third world, the kingdoms of Wei, Zheng, Song, Cao, Chen, and Cai had to pay tribute to both the Chu state and the Jin state. The Fourth World, the vassal states of their own, continued to pay tribute to their suzerainty.