Last time we said that Shang Martin was killed in the Qin kingdom and was sentenced to the punishment of car splitting after his death.
After shang martingale's death, a small political vacuum appeared in the Qin state, and the high position of the minister of state and the history of Shang martingale were all attracting the world's talents to gather in the Qin state and seek an opportunity to show their grand plans.
At this time, a fallen warrior came to the Qin Kingdom, and like the Shang Martin of that year, he was given the opportunity to meet King Huiwen and proposed his "Development Policy for the Qin State" to King Huiwen, and this person was the protagonist of this article, Su Qin.
After Su Qin met Queen Qin Huiwen, he proposed to him a strategic idea and specific operational rules for unifying the world. From this we can see that the Qin state at this time did already have unified capital, otherwise Su Qin would not have made such bold suggestions.
However, King Huiwen did not take Su Qin's advice, first, he felt that the time was not ripe; second, at this time, the Qin state had just experienced turmoil, and King Huiwen's ass was not yet stable, and there may not be any subjective willingness to make progress.
It is estimated that King Huiwen did not give Su Qin any good looks, so Su Qin, who failed in his job search this time, turned to his bigger plan, which was also a plan to retaliate against Qin State- to join forces and resist Qin. Therefore, the enlightenment given to us is that for talents, if they cannot be used correctly, they must be appeased properly, otherwise they may not be able to give grace and invite disasters.
In 334 BC, four years after the death of Duke Xiao of Qin, King Wei of Qi and King Hui of Wei met in Xuzhou, and the two countries officially recognized each other's titles as kings, known in history as "King Xiang of Xuzhou". Since then, Zhou Tianzi has also nominally lost control of the princes, and the Warring States period has entered a period of more ups and downs. Together with the "King of Xuzhou Xiang", it was Su Qin who opened the curtain of this big drama.
That is, around 334 BC, Su Qin left the Qin state and first arrived at the Yan state. At this time, the main opponent of the State of Yan was the State of Zhao, so Su Qin's lobbying was mainly based on the purpose of resolving the contradiction between the State of Yan and the State of Zhao. Su Qin told the monarch of the State of Yan that the reason why the State of Yan was far away from the war in the Central Plains was because there was a Zhao State in the south who was blocking us; when the State of Zhao fought with us, it was called the "Plague of a Hundred Miles", and the Qin State fought with us, that was called the "Plague of a Thousand Miles". That, of course, is a hundred miles of trouble. Therefore, we must have a good relationship with the Zhao State, and as for the distant Qin State, we can not be so arrogant to greet him. The monarch of the State of Yan thought that what Su Qin said was reasonable, so he gave Su Qin funds for activities and asked him to lobby Zhao Guo again. It can be seen that Su Qin chose Yan Guo to lobby first, mainly because Yan Guo was the weakest, and it was precisely because of this that Yan Guo would take the initiative to give Su Qin funds for activities and let him continue to lobby Zhao Guo.
When Su Qin arrived at the State of Zhao, he proposed his own plan to the King of the State of Zhao and The Emperor of the State of Zhao, which showed that at this time the State of Wei had lost the position of the strongest of the Three Jins and the hegemon of the Central Plains, and in the Three Jins, the strength of the State of Zhao had replaced the State of Wei.
Su Qin said that among the shandong countries now, the State of Zhao is the strongest -- there are exaggerated elements here, but it is basically true -- the State of Qin is most afraid of the State of Zhao; but why does the State of Qin dare not take the initiative to attack the State of Zhao? It was because he was worried that Korea and the State of Wei were sneaking up on him behind his back; now Han and Wei were very weak, and there were no mountains or rivers as a barrier—as we said earlier, at this time, the State of Wei had basically lost its actual control of Hexi and Hedong, and the core of its rule had shrunk in the area of present-day Kaifeng, Henan—once the State of Qin sent troops, it would be able to hit their capital immediately; if Han and Wei faced the disaster of annihilation, then they would definitely surrender to the State of Qin, and at that time, the State of Zhao would be in danger.
He then proposed to King Zhao that the six kingdoms of Shandong "rebel against Qin from pro-Israel, so that the generals of the world will meet on the huanshui and form a qualitative alliance"; that is, the six kingdoms of Shandong will sign an offensive and defensive alliance, with the Zhao state as the leader of the alliance, advancing and retreating together, and jointly opposing the qin state. King Zhao listened to Su Qin's advice and gave Su Qin a lot of money to make him an emissary to negotiate treaties with the other five countries, responsible for lobbying the countries.
At this time, King Huiwen of the Qin state sent a rhinoceros, that is, Gongsun Yanfa Wei. Su Qin was worried that the State of Wei would not be able to resist the attack of the State of Qin, and would submit to the State of Qin, and then attack the Shandong states of Zhao and Han together with the State of Qin, so that the Shandong States would fall into a scuffle and could not achieve the strategic intention of allying against Qin. Therefore, Su Qin wanted his brother Zhang Yi to go to the Qin State and obtain a high position similar to that of the State Minister, and then help him temporarily stabilize the Qin State, so that the Qin State would not be so fierce in its conquest of the Shandong States. However, Su Qin did not tell Zhang Yi of his plan, perhaps because he was worried that Zhang Yi was unwilling to help after knowing his plan; it may also be that Su Qin had a good face and was unwilling to ask Zhang Yi. Therefore, Su Qin thought of a way, that is, to send someone to summon Zhang Yi, who had been unsuccessful in his job search, to Zhao Guo, and then coldly met Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi arrived at Su Qin's territory, and was coldly received by Su Qin, and the self-esteem of the natural readers began to surge up, and like Su Qin, Zhang Yi also thought of revenge, and in the same way, he wanted to retaliate not only su Qin, but also the powerful Zhao Guo behind Su Qin. And who among the princes can subdue the Zhao Kingdom? Naturally it was the Qin State, so Zhang Yi consciously left the Zhao State and arrived in the Qin State.
Zhang Yi, who arrived in the Qin kingdom, must be full of resentment, and he met King Huiwen and told him about the way of conquest he had designed for the qin state. King Huiwen liked Zhang Yi very much, followed his advice, and left him as a close confidant.
If it was only like this, then Su Qin's strategy only added an opponent to himself. Of course, Su Qin would not be so stupid, so he let one of his disciples go to Zhang Yi and tell Zhang Yi the truth of the incident: The Qin State is going to cut down Wei, and we Su Jun are afraid of ruining the good things he has indulged, so we want you to go to the Qin Kingdom and gain the trust of the Qin Emperor; as for snubbing you and humiliating you, it is all because you can do this thing neatly and neatly; we Su Jun, in order for you to be able to move smoothly in the Qin Kingdom, secretly pay a lot of money for you, which is in exchange for your smooth flow in the Qin Kingdom; now, nothing else, I hope that you can take advantage of the condition that the King of Qin trusts you to cover for su jun and complete his old man's home.
Zhang Yi listened and understood that he had been calculated to this extent by Su Qin. Zhang Yi felt that his skills were indeed inferior to Su Qin's, so he said, "I am not enlightened in the art, and I am not as good as Su Junming." For the sake of Su Jun, when Su Jun was in place, Yi He dared to speak! ”
What does Zhang Yi mean? He is saying that as long as Su Qin is here, then I will not shake my wit and be able to do it, I will shut up and not speak, and it will never be a good thing for you. However, it did not say that it was a good thing to complete Su Qin, in fact, judging from the facts of the subsequent developments, Zhang Yi's positive effect on Su Qin at this time was almost zero.
Subsequently, Su Qin went on to lobby the four kingdoms of Han, Wei, Qi, and Chu. Su Qin's rhetoric in lobbying these four countries was obviously different from that of yan and zhao. Moreover, the historical value of Su Qin's lobbying words to the four countries is very high, and a lot of information can be seen from them.
The most obvious and important thing is the information on the land area and national strength of the four countries at that time.
First of all, South Korea, Su Qin gave the evaluation of "nine hundred miles in the square, with 100,000 armor", that is to say, the land area of South Korea is about nine hundred miles in radius, and the total mobilization capacity is 100,000 people.
Then there was the State of Wei, and Su Qin's evaluation was "Fang Qianli, although the place name is small, but the number of tianshe Lulu has not been grazed." The multitude of people, the number of chariots and horses... That is to say, the land area of the State of Wei at this time had shrunk a lot, only a little larger than Korea, but the population density was large and the productivity was high. From the perspective of population, the comprehensive national strength of the State of Wei was roughly equivalent to that of the southern power of the State of Chu.
Then there is the State of Qi, Su Qin's evaluation is "two thousand miles in the place, with hundreds of thousands of armor", which is considered an authentic big country, and we will not explain.
Finally, there is the State of Chu, "a place of six thousand miles, with a million armor.". The State of Chu resembled today's Russia, with a large locality and a relatively sparse population. However, the huge territory is the embodiment of a comprehensive national strength, and as a large country with a place of six thousand miles, the Chu state does have the capital to be proud of the princes.
As for the reasons for su qin's resistance to qin stated to all countries, most of them were similar, and all countries agreed to Su Qin's proposal, so they formed a combination, and Su Qin was also the minister of state of the six countries, which can be described as an extremely temporary position.
However, Su Qin had just promoted the Six Kingdoms Alliance, and in that year, King Qi Wei and Duke Wen of Yan died of illness. A year later, King Huiwen of Qin sent Hisrino to hold Wei and Qi hostage to attack the State of Zhao, and the Six Kingdoms disintegrated. After that, Qin and the Six Kingdoms attacked each other, and it seemed that the conspiracy did not happen at all.
In 333 BC, Su Qin succeeded in his efforts.
In 332 BC, Qi and Wei attacked the State of Zhao in coordination with the Rhinoceros, and the combined forces disintegrated. In the same year, Wei ceded the Hexi zhishou and the last piece of Hexi's land, Yin jin, to the Qin state, officially losing all of Hexi. In the same year, the State of Qi attacked the State of Yan and captured ten cities.
In 330 BC, Qin cut down Wei, and Wei ceded Shaoliang to the Qin state.
In 329 BC, Qin fa Wei. Chu Wei Wang Xue.
In 328 BC, Zhang Yi, who had sworn that as long as Su Qin was still alive, I would not speak, personally went into battle, cut Down Wei, and made Wei cut off fifteen counties in the Qin Kingdom.
Since then, in just a few years, it seems that nothing has happened in the world, nor has there ever been any Su Qin as a person. The fame of the union is just a good story in people's mouths, even a false statement. The warring states of turmoil continue, in a more intense, brutal way. Let's talk next time.