In 643 BC, Duke Huan of Qi left tragically, and the state of Qi fell into chaos, like a headless fly. For about half a century, his five sons were all scrambling to succeed to the throne, and all wanted to be emperors, so all five sons were vying for the throne, and during the period of competition for the throne, the State of Qi soon lost its right to hegemony.
Why the State of Qi was able to lose the right to hegemony stemmed from the departure of Qi Henggong, which had a lot to do with Qi Huan Himself.
Why a country degenerates depends on what the emperor was doing before he was alive.
When Qi Henggong became the first overlord of the Central Plains, he constantly managed and expanded the State of Qi, but when he reached middle age, he thought that he had taken good care of the State of Qi and began to relax. As the overlord, duke Qi Huan must have some inconsistent people around him, and qi Huan dukes have made mistakes that emperors have made. And Qi Huangong's favorite is still these three, known as "three nobles".
The first easy tooth. This is a very great cook Qi Huangong's favorite person before he was born, without this Qi Huangong can not eat. It is precisely because of this that Qi Huangong is also talking more and more without a bottom line, one day Qi Huangong had a sudden thought, he asked Yi Ya: "After living so long all day is to eat these livestock meat are tired of eating me, want to eat human flesh do not know whether human flesh is good or not," Yi Ya is also a person who loves to listen to Qi Huan's public words, but Yi Ya is even more cruel to kill his own children, this is simply not that people have nothing to do with animals.
And Yi Ya did not care about the existence of his wife, and his wife was also very sad after seeing it, but everything she did was not in Yi Ya's eyes, and Yi Ya managed to let him pay attention to himself in front of Qi Huangong. When the dish was brought to the table, Qi Huangong not only did not ask Yi Ya whether this was human flesh, but also happily ate it and praised Yi Ya for doing a good job. Qi Huangong also felt that Yi Ya cared more about him than his five sons.
The second vertical. This man was a poor boy when he was a child, when he was a child, he often stole the things of those rich and noble families, and he was also beaten a lot, and the vertical diao not only did not correct it but also intensified, the Duke of Qi Huan wanted to summon servants in the palace, at this time, he wanted to be a rich and noble man's vertical Diao saw it and used opportunistic methods to blend into the palace, after entering the palace, the vertical diao was even more eye-opening, and the vertical diao also deliberately dressed himself up when he saw the Duke of Qi Huan, just to attract the attention of the Duke of Qi Huan.
When he served Qi Huangong for a period of time, he was recognized by Qi Huangong, and his approach was even more unexpected, in order to get more glory and wealth, Shu Diao castrated himself, so that Qi Huangong felt how loyal he was to him.
There is also an open one. He was born into an aristocratic family, or a prince of the Wei Kingdom. And later? What reason did he take the initiative to defect to Qi Huangong and then open up and has always been by Qi Huangong's side, and he has been inseparable from this for fifteen years all day. Every year when the festival is open, he does not go home every time he writes a letter at home and only does not look back, Qi Huangong knows that after he knows it, he likes to be open even more open, thinking that open love for himself exceeds this realm of his love for his family and family.
Guan Zhong, a general by the side of Duke Huan of Qi, fell seriously ill, and when Duke Huan of Qi learned of this, he went to visit Guan Zhong, and when he arrived at Guan Zhong's residence, qi Huan's first words in public were, "Whoever can succeed to the State of Qi in the future, Duke Qi Huan wants Guan Zhong to elect Bao Shuya" Guan Zhong, as a military and political man, immediately said that Bao Shuya was not good, he loved zeng clearly and was not suitable. Duke Huan of Qi also recommended Gongsun Kuipeng to Guan Zhong, and Guan Zhong said, "When he is older, he estimates that time will not be much. Subsequently, Qi Huangong said whether he could let the "three nobles" come to be xiangguo, and Guan Zhong immediately warned Qi Huangong after hearing this, these three people originally had no humanity, you should keep a distance from them now, and not see each other in the future. In the end, Qi Huangong went home and made thoughts and drove the three people away.
Finally, after Guan Zhong left, Gongsun Kuipeng became a thinker, and then he died before he could sit on the hot seat. Qi Huangong saw the ministers around him leaving one by one, and there was really no way to let Bao Shuya take the picture. At that time, after listening to Guan Zhong's words and driving the "Three Guis" away, the current Qi Huangong could not eat, drink, drink, or sleep, so he ordered the "Three Guis" to be summoned back. After the recall, Qi Huangong was even more unscrupulous, until the late years of Qi Huangong was still "idle" all day long, not doing the right thing, seeing the ministers around him leaving one by one, and the "three nobles" left by his side At this time, Qi Huangong did not know how to be good.
The fate of the State of Qi can also be imagined.
First of all, there was a contradiction in the heir of the Duke of Qi Huan, and the Duke of Qi Huan was not good, and there were problems in the first round of elections, which also led to the dissatisfaction of the people of the State of Qi and the riot.
Duke Huan of Qi had six sons, all of whom were born to six different wives. According to ancient political strategy, the eldest son should have inherited this position, but the Duke of Qi Huan did something heinous to make the third prince crown prince, and afterwards promised the prince that he would succeed him deservedly. Qi Huangong thought that he would be able to rest assured, however, this planted a deep seed of evil for himself.
When Yi Ya, Shu Diao, and Kai Kai learned the news that Qi Huan was seriously ill, the three of them began to riot in the palace as Guan Zhong expected. Qi Huan was also put in the small black room without asking questions, and the three of them then began to kill, and also dumbly and seamlessly supported the prince to be the king. In this way, Qi Huangong was dying of thirst in the small black room. According to records, before Qi Huangong died, he covered his face with his sleeve and said, "I don't have this face to go down to see Guan Zhong."
After the death of Duke Qi Huan, the evil fruit he buried began to sprout, and his sons attacked each other without any unity, and in order to compete for the throne, they all had to take care of collecting the corpse of Duke Qi Huan. Sixty-seven days after the death of Duke Qi Huan, the prince successfully competed for the throne, and when he came to Qi Huan's room, he saw that the room was full of corpse worms, and the corpses began to decay. Duke Huan of Qi was buried three months after his death. A generation of mighty overlords died so tragically.
Afterwards, his five sons successively competed for the throne for more than forty years, which also caused chaos in the State of Qi for more than forty years.
After the success of the seizure of the throne, the prince did not immediately inherit the throne, because there were other elements in the palace at this time, coupled with his lack of manpower and serious injuries, he stumbled and fled to the Song Kingdom. With the help of Song Xianggong, Gongzi led the Song army to fight the State of Qi. However, it was unexpected that gao shi actually killed the prince without loss, and the next monarch was born, which was Qi Xiaogong.
The state of Qi, as the overlord, fell in this way, which was actually the fault of Qi Huangong, who in his middle age not only did not think about problems for his sons, but also did not teach them anything. Not obeying Guan Zhong's words, not being able to communicate with the "Three Nobles" all day long because of the government's thoughts, resulted in his failure to be peaceful after his death.