Prince Dan of Yan and Yingzheng of Qin originally had an old relationship, and when Prince Dan of Yan and Yingzheng lived together in zhao guo as hostages, the two had a relatively good relationship. After King Yingzheng of Qin became the monarch of the State of Qin, Prince Dan of Yan lived in the State of Qin as a hostage. Win Zheng did not pay much attention to him, and the "Chronicle of History" recorded that Dan died of resentment. After Prince Dan of Yan returned, he wanted to repay the victory, but the weak state of Yan was obviously unrealistic to retaliate head-on, and the seed of the idea of assassinating the King of Qin was formed at this time.
The State of Qin continued to attack the states of Qi, Chu, and Zhao, and the State of Yan felt pressure even though it was outside the affairs, because it would soon be the turn of the State of Yan to see this situation. At this time, the monarchs and subjects of the Yan State were very wandering, which provided a realistic background for Jing Ke to stab Qin.
Prince Dan's teacher Ju Wu planned a long-term strategy, but Prince Dan of Yan felt that it was too slow and found the chivalrous Tian Guang. Tian Guang said that I was too old to be competent, so he recommended Jing Ke. At that time, Prince Dan of Yan said a word: Those who speak, the major affairs of the country, may Mr. Not leak. Tian Guang thought that this was prince Dan of Yan's suspicion of himself, so he persuaded Jing Ke to commit suicide after speaking. Before committing suicide, he said to Jing Ke: You should go to see Prince Yan and tell him that I have committed suicide and will not divulge secrets.
Jing Ke saw Prince Dan of Yan and told him that Tian Guang had committed suicide, and Prince Dan of Yan acted in tears, and he did not know whether he was sincere or false, so Jing Ke went out of the mountain.
One of the purposes that Yan Taidan did not tell Jing Ke to let him assassinate the King of Qin was to take revenge for winning the government's snub of him when he was a hostage in the Qin State, but only told Jing Ke that he had two purposes for assassinating the King of Qin:
Captured alive, like when Cao Mo kidnapped the Duke of Qi Huan, he wanted to return to all the lands occupied by the Qin state in several other countries.
After the successful assassination, the Qin state will definitely be in civil strife, and then several princely states in the east will be able to defeat the qin state by joining forces.
Jing Ke said at first that he did not agree, Prince Dan of Yan did enough to make Jing Ke the secretary of the Yan Kingdom, live in the best house, and enjoy the best treatment, obviously Jing Ke has no way to retreat, in fact, the moment Tian Guang committed suicide, he decided that Jing Ke had no way to retreat.
Later, the State of Qin captured the State of Zhao, and Qin's territory bordered Yan. The whole yan kingdom was even more frightened, and the danger finally came, and Prince Dan of Yan began to urge Jingke.
The assassination work officially began, and the Yan side prepared three aspects:
Lady Xu's dagger, a member of the Zhao state, was filled with poisonous water, and the blood sealed throat was used as an assassination weapon.
The State of Qin gave Fan Yu's head and the map of the State of Yan as a gift.
Qin Wuyang, a warrior who began killing people at the age of 13, was his assistant.
After getting ready, Jing Ke traveled, everyone wore white clothes to send off Jing Ke, Jing Ke's good friend Gao Gradually left to send off, the wind Xiao Xiao was easy to cold, and the strong man would not return once he was gone!. The scene was very tragic, and Jing Ke left without turning his head back, because he had already done a good job of not coming back alive.
Jing Ke went to the Qin Kingdom and bribed Meng Jia, the favorite minister of the winning government, with heavy money, and finally got the opportunity to see the side of the winning government.
Jing Ke held Fan Yuqi's head, Qin Wuyang held the map of the Yan Kingdom to see the King of Qin Win Zheng, and in the process of marching, this warrior, who had begun to kill people at the age of thirteen, suddenly could not stand this pressure and began to tremble. At this time, Jing Ke, who was holding Fan Yu's first rank, used Qin Wuyang to not see the big scene, so he felt afraid to prevaricate the past, and the Qin monarchs did not suspect it.
King Yingzheng of Qin asked Jing Ke to take the map of the Yan Kingdom, and Jing Ke unfolded the map along the way, grabbed King Yingzheng's clothes with his left hand, and stabbed directly with a dagger in his right hand.
Why did this blow fail? Because Prince Dan of Yan gave Jing Ke two instructions, the first instruction was to catch him alive, and if he did not catch him alive, the second instruction was to kill him.
This is also the reason why Jing Ke's first blow was not hit.
Qin Wang's instinctive reaction was to jump away, and the sleeve was broken, out of Jing Ke's control. Win Zheng also wanted to draw the sword, but the sword was too long to be pulled out. So the Qin King's Palace staged such a scene:
Win Zheng ran in the palace, and Jing Ke chased after him.
The ministers standing below were all blindfolded, because Great Qin was invincible in the world of force, how could anyone dare to assassinate in the temple, and these ministers had no weapons in their hands, because the upper hall could not be brought.
It just so happened that the medical officer Xia Wu was in a hurry and hit Jing Ke to give Yingzheng a chance to breathe, at which point Yingzheng finally pulled out his sword and cut Jing ke's left leg.
Jing Ke knew that there were very few chances of him being able to assassinate him, and he took the dagger and threw it at Win Zheng, but the result was not hit. The process of Jing Ke's assassination, which had lost his dagger, was completely over, and all that was left was to be slaughtered.
Although the whole process is quite long, it actually happens and ends in a very short time.
Before Jing Ke died, he said: "Whoever fails to do anything, if he wants to be robbed, will receive a covenant to repay the prince."
He concluded to himself that this time he did not succeed mainly because his first reaction was to try to win the government. The real key to Jing Ke's ultimate senseless death was that something went wrong with the instructions given by Prince Dan of Yan.
After Jing Ke stabbed Qin, the King of Qin was furious and sent troops to attack the State of Yan, and under pressure, King Xi of Yan gave the head of Prince Dan of Yan to the State of Qin, but it was useless, and the State of Yan was destroyed shortly after. As for that Qin Wuyang, there is no explanation of his ending in the "Records of History", and Jing Ke's friend Gao gradually left after Qin unified the world, and assassinated Qin Shi Huang and died in failure.
Gao Wanli's job in the Yan kingdom is to slaughter dogs. The Ming Dynasty poet Cao Xueqi wrote a couplet:
Every time the righteous slaughter the dog generation, the negative heart is mostly a reader
It seems to fit in.