The King of Wei wanted to get close to the State of Qin and attack Korea. Xin Lingjun Wei Wu Jie advised

Because the State of Qin had rescued him, the King of Wei wanted to get close to the State of Qin and attack Korea in order to reclaim his original land. Xin Lingjun said to the King of Wei:

The Customs of the Qin people and Di Rong are the same, with the heart of a tiger and a wolf, greedy and fierce, profitable but not trustworthy, and do not understand etiquette and morality. If it is advantageous, even relatives and brothers do not care, like beasts, this is known to all the people of the world, they have not given generous grace, accumulated great virtue. Therefore, the empress dowager was originally the mother of the King of Qin, but she died of sorrow, and The Marquis of Qin was the uncle of the King of Qin, and the merit was no greater than his, but he was expelled; the two younger brothers of the King of Qin were not guilty, but they were repeatedly stripped of their fiefs. This is true for relatives, let alone for the enemy country? Now that the great king and the Qin state jointly attacked Korea, they would be closer to the scourge of the Qin state, and the minister was particularly confused. If the king does not understand this reason, he is not clear, and if the king does not come to you to hear this truth, he is unfaithful.

Now that Korea relies on a woman to assist a weak monarch, there is great chaos at home, and there is a strong army of Qin wei outside, does the king think that it will not die? After the fall of Korea, the State of Qin will occupy the land of the original State of Zheng, adjacent to Da Liang, and the King thinks that he can be at peace? If the great king wants to get the original land, he must rely on the closeness to Qiang Qin, does the great king think that this will be beneficial?

The State of Qin is not a peaceful country, and after the fall of Korea, there will be another incident, another incident must be found to be easy and favorable, and the easy and favorable target must not be found in the Chu state and the Zhao state. Why? If the greater mountains cross the Yellow River and cross the Shangdang of Korea to attack the powerful Zhao State, this is a repetition of the defeat of fu and that battle, and the Qin state will certainly not be like this. If you take Hanoi, turn your back on Yecheng and Chaoge, cross Zhangshui and Fushui, and fight a decisive battle with the Zhao army on the outskirts of Handan, you will encounter a disaster like Zhibo, and the Qin state will not dare to do this. To attack the Chu state, it is necessary to take the road to shiitake the valley, march three thousand miles, and attack the Dark Pass, the road is too far, the place of attack is too difficult, and the Qin state will not do this. If you take the road outside the river, with your back to Anyangyi, and on the right are Shangcai and Zhaoling, and fight a decisive battle with the Chu army on the outskirts of Chencheng, the Qin state does not dare. Therefore, the State of Qin will certainly not attack the State of Chu and the State of Zhao, let alone the State of Wei and the State of Qi.

After the fall of Korea, when the State of Qin sent troops, there was nothing to attack except the State of Wei. The State of Qin already possessed Huaiyi, Maoyi, and Xingqiu, and if it were to build a city in Yaojin and approach Hanoi, the Gongcheng and Jiyi in Hanoi would certainly be in danger; the Qin State had the former land of Zheng Guo, obtained the City of Yuanyong, decided to open the Yingze, flooded the girder, and the girder was bound to fall. It had become a mistake for the envoys of the Great King to go to Qin, and they had slandered the AnLing clan in the Qin State, and the Qin State had long wanted to destroy it. Yeyang and Kunyang of the State of Qin were adjacent to the Wuyang of the State of Wei, and if the envoys were allowed to slander the Anling clan and allow the Anling clan to be destroyed, the Qin army would bypass the north of Wuyang and approach Xu Guo's homeland from the east, so that the south must be in danger, would this be harmless to the State of Wei?

It is okay to hate Korea and not like the Anling clan, but it is wrong not to worry that the Qin state does not love the south. Once upon a time, the State of Qin was in the homeland of the Jin Dynasty in Hexi, three thousand miles away from Da liang, blocked by the Yellow River and high mountains, and separated by Zhou and Han. Since the Battle of Linxiang to the present, the State of Qin has attacked the State of Wei seven times, five times into the Siege, the border cities have been captured, wentai has been destroyed, all the hangings have been burned, the trees have been cut down, the elk have been hunted, and the capital of the country has been besieged. The Qin army drove north of Da Liang, to the outskirts of Tao and Wei in the east, and to Pingjian in the north. Lost to the Qin state, there are shannanshan north, hewai Hanoi, dozens of large counties, hundreds of names. The State of Qin was still in the homeland of the Jin Dynasty in Hexi, and when it was three thousand miles away from Da Liang, the disaster was already like this. Moreover, let the Qin state destroy Korea, according to the homeland of zheng guo, there is no Yellow River mountain to stop it, there is no Zhou and Han to separate it, only a hundred miles away from Da Liang, seven hundred miles away from AnyangYi, and the catastrophe must have begun.

In the past, the success of the alliance was due to mutual suspicion between Chu and Wei, and Korea could not participate in the covenant. Now that Korea has been suffering from the scourge of war for three years, the Qin state has made it submit to it and make peace with it, and Korea knows that it is going to die, but it refuses to obey, but instead sends hostages to the Zhao state, expressing its willingness to be the vanguard of the princes of the world and fight with the Qin state to the death. The State of Chu and the State of Zhao must gather an army, and they all know that the greed of the State of Qin is infinite, and it will never stop unless the princely states under the heavens are completely destroyed and the people of the sea are subject to the State of Qin. Therefore, the subject was willing to repay the king with the idea of concordance, and the king should accept the covenant between the Chu and Zhao states as soon as possible, take the hostages of Korea to save Korea, and then ask for a land, and Korea will definitely return it. In this way, the military and the people can return to the old land without hardship, and their efficacy is more than to attack Korea with the Qin state, and there is no scourge of being a neighbor to the strong Qin.

Saving Korea and stabilizing the Wei kingdom is also a good opportunity given by God to the great king. Opening the road from Gongcheng and Ningyi to the Korean Shangdang, so that this road passes through Ancheng, and the merchants who enter and leave must pay taxes, which is equivalent to the Wei State using the Korean Shangdang as collateral. If these taxes are in place, it will be enough to enrich the country. Han and Zhao must be grateful to the State of Wei, love the State of Wei, respect the State of Wei, respect the State of Wei, and fear the State of Wei, and Korea must not dare to rebel against the State of Wei, so that Han Zhao will become a county of the State of Wei. The State of Wei received Han Zhao as a county, and Wei, Daliang, Hewai, and Anyang were bound to be stable. If Korea is not preserved, the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties and Anling will certainly be dangerous, and after the great defeat of the Chu and Zhao states, the Wei and Qi states will be very afraid, and the princes of the world will rush west to the Qin state to worship and claim their subjects.

This article is adapted from the translation of the history of the Wei family