<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > the first major country in the Spring and Autumn Period - the Jin Dynasty</h1>
Which was the largest princely state in the Spring and Autumn Period? There is no doubt that it is the JinGuo. The greatest historical merit of the Jin Dynasty was to protect the flame of Chinese orthodox civilization. Except for The Duke of Qi Huan who briefly picked up the girder, throughout the Spring and Autumn Period, it was almost always the Jin State that single-handedly protected the flames of Chinese civilization and resisted the invasion of Dongyi (Qi)/Xirong (Qin)/Nanman (Chu)/Northern Di (nomadic peoples).
Honor the king and stabilize the world. The territory, population, and productivity of the Jin State almost covered the essence of the Chinese land at that time, and according to today's shanxi, western Hebei, northwestern Henan, eastern Shaanxi and western Shanxi, the national strength was so strong that the three countries after its dissolution (Zhao Weihan) still all ranked among the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States".
The Jin dynasty and other princely states
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > the sixth secretary of the Jin Dynasty</h1>
The reason why Zhou declined was because Zhou Tianzi was vacated by the princes. Similarly, within the powerful Jin state, there was also the problem of the doctor overriding the Jin Marquis.
Jin Wengong, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, fled for nineteen years because of the bloody struggle for power between his relatives. After Duke Wen of Jin ascended the throne, he severely rectified the problem of the struggle for power among nobles with the same surname. Jin Wengong appointed doctors with foreign surnames as consuls, and these doctors with foreign surnames evolved from generation to generation and became an interest group, which was called "Qing".
In the late Spring and Autumn Period, there were six major interest groups within the Jin Dynasty, namely the Zhi clan, the Zhongxing clan, the Fan clan, the Han clan, the Wei clan, and the Zhao clan, and the six families were established side by side, known in history as the "Six Secretaries of the Jin Dynasty".
Jin Wengong and Qing
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > Jinyang Fengyun</h1>
From the Six Secretaries of the Jin Dynasty to the "Three Branches of Jin" as we know it, the Zhijia/Fan family and the Zhongxing family did not hear of the arrival of the Warring States. All this must start with a conspiracy of Zhao Martin, the owner of the Zhao family.
In addition to liuqing at that time, there were also some small forces in the Jin state, such as the later capital of the Zhao state, Handan, which was in the hands of the Handan clan. The Handan clan and the Zhao clan were originally brothers of the same clan, but because one of the Zhao clan was assigned to Handan that year, it was renamed the Handan clan. And the Zhao clan has long coveted Handan.
In order to obtain the territory of Handan, Zhao Martin made a plan. He led his troops to besiege weiguo, and Weiguo sought peace at the cost of five hundred households. Zhao Martin pretended to dump the population of five hundred households to the Handan clan, but after a while, he asked the Handan clan for five hundred households. At this time, the Handan clan refused, thinking that the Handan clan and the Zhao clan were originally the same clan, and the Zhao clan would not be so preoccupied.
On the pretext that the Handan clan was greedy and cheap and did not return the 500-family population, Zhao Martin suddenly imprisoned the patriarch of the Handan clan, Handan Noon, in Jinyang. Handan Wu's son, Handan Ji, decided to rebel and no longer regarded Zhao Martin as the patriarch of the Handan clan.
And this was the result that Zhao Martin wanted, and the Zhao army soon surrounded the city of Handan. In the midst of the crisis, Handan Ji asked for help from his maternal uncle, ZhongxingYin, who was also the patriarch of the Zhonghang clan. Zhongxingyin agreed to Handan Ji, but knew that the Zhongxing clan could not do the Zhao family, so he pulled the Fan family of Liuqingzhong and zhongxing to help.
As a result, the combined forces of the Zhonghang/Paradigm/Handan clan soon defeated the Zhao army. The Zhao army was defeated and fled back to Jinyang City.
Who knows, the Zhonghang clan and the paradigm wanted to take this opportunity to destroy the Zhao clan, so they raised an army to surround Jinyang City.
Zhao Martin originally only wanted to play a conspiracy to merge the Handan clan of the same sect, but unexpectedly was surrounded by the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm, which can be described as stealing chickens and not corroding rice. But Zhao Martin was not a vegetarian either, and he summoned his advisers to analyze the current situation:
The strongest of the six Qings today is the Zhi clan, and the Zhi clan is closest to the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm caiyi, if the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm are destroyed, the zhi clan that benefits the most is the Zhi clan. If the Zhi clan sent troops to rescue the Zhao clan, the Wei clan would inevitably follow the Zhi clan, because the Wei clan already had a vendetta against the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm. And the Korean style has always been the wall head grass to follow the strong, so Zhao Martin is sure that the Zhi clan / Wei shi / Han style will definitely send troops to save each other.
As Zhao Martin expected, the Zhi/Wei/Han clan were willing to send troops to fight against the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm. In order to make the division famous, he also specially went to the Jin Marquis to file a complaint, saying that the Zhonghang clan and the paradigm dared to do the internal affairs of the Zhao clan. The Marquis of Jin knowingly changed the thief's text, so the three families of the Zhi clan/Wei clan and the Han clan Ma Hao marched towards Jinyang.
In the face of this situation, the Zhonghang clan and the paradigm are like being blinded by lard, and choose to be tough with the Zhi/Wei/Han and Zhao siqing armies. The first civil war of the Jin Dynasty thus began. Due to the obvious gap in strength, the Zhonghang clan and the paradigm elite were lost, and they could only flee to their own Caiyi.
The Zhi clan and the Zhao clan did not want to let go of the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm, followed by eight consecutive years of continuous hunting, and finally the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm fled to the State of Qi, and the Handan clan was eventually annexed by the Zhao clan.
Zhao Martin knew the importance of "cutting grass and removing roots", and the next year Chen Bing was on the border of the State of Qi. I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup the Zhongxing clan and the paradigm have poured into the King of Qi, and the State of Qi actually went to war with the Zhao Family, and the result was a great defeat for the State of Qi. The jin state was able to defeat the state of Qi in a big way, which shows how strong the comprehensive strength of the Jin state was at that time.
In 473 BC, Jin Guozhi/Zhao/Han/Wei were divided into Zhongxing/Fan's hometown. At this time, the leader of the Jin Dynasty, Jin Chugong, was dissatisfied and wanted to unite with the State of Qi and the State of Lu to teach the disobedient Siqing a lesson. Unexpectedly, before Qilu could send troops, Siqing sent troops to drive the Jin Dynasty out of the Jin Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty Duke fled to the Qi State on the way to death.
The country could not be without a monarch for a day, so the four secretaries of state established a new monarch, the Duke of Jin. At this time, only the Four Houses of Zhi/Zhao/Han/Wei were left in the Six Qings of the Jin Dynasty.
Zhi Zhao Li Chu
Among the four secretaries of the Jin Dynasty, the strongest was the Zhi clan, followed by the Wei/Zhao clan, and the Han clan was the weakest. The inflection point in the division of the Jin state stemmed from the selection of successors from the Zhi and Zhao clans.
The patriarch of the Zhi clan, Zhi Shen, had two sons, and the eldest son, Zhi Xiao, was an ordinary person, but the clan elders were more optimistic about him. The second son, Zhi Yao, was both literate and martial, and was deeply loved by his father, Zhi Shen. However, Zhi Yao has a well-behaved personality and is self-conscious, so Zhi Shen's brother Zhi Guo has always been very opposed to Zhi Shen Li Zhi Yao as his successor. But Zhishen insisted that Zhiyao become his successor. To this end, Zhiguo did not hesitate to break away from the Zhi family and change his surname to "Fu", which shows how much Zhiguo's grandfather resented Zhi Yao as the successor of the family.
The Zhao clan had two sons, the eldest son Zhao Bolu and the second son Zhao Wushu. Old Master Zhao's method of choosing a successor was very peculiar: one day he downloaded a passage of admonition to a bamboo slip and asked his two sons to remember it. Three years later, Zhao Martin said that his two sons would call and ask them to recite the admonitions on the bamboo stick. Zhao Bolu was dumbfounded on the spot, but Zhao Wuxian was able to carry it out in a dashing manner, and even took out the bamboo from his sleeve. As a result, Zhao Wuxi became the heir of the family. Interestingly, there are historical records that Zhao Wuxi installed spies around his father, and zhao wuxi made preparations in advance before Zhao Wuxian spot checked. The essence of the operation of rights lies in intelligence, and Zhao Wuxian has the essence.
Statue of Zhao Wuxi
Zhi Shen and Zhao Martin died shortly after the front and back feet, Zhi Yao and Zhao Wuxi inherited the family, and the two new helmsmen began a formal contest.
After Zhi Yao took the stage, he began to expand strategically by means of thunder. He cut down Qi to the east, cut Zheng twice to the south, and went north to eliminate the Zhongshan vassal state vendetta. A series of really let Zhishi's territory expand a lot.
However, Zhi Yao's character flaws soon became apparent, and in the process of uniting the other three guards, he and Zhao Wuxi had a stalemate on the battlefield, and after the war, he teased Han Hu, the suzerainty of the Han clan, and Duan Gui, the general manager.
Zhi Yao, who had unlimited scenery, began to think of the other Sanqing territory, and he declared that the Zhi clan would donate a large county of ten thousand households to the Marquis of Jinhou, and successively found the other three and demanded that each family donate a large county of ten thousand households. Han and Wei chose to give in for the time being and waited for the opportunity to rise again. The relationship between Zhao Wuxi and Zhi Yao was already broken, and this time Zhao Wuxi directly refused Zhi Yao's request and prepared to go to war with Zhi Yao. Remembering the teachings of his father Zhao Martingale, Zhao Wuxi chose Jinyang, the blessed land of the family, as the battlefield for the decisive battle, the Second Great War about Jinyang
Ruins of Jinyang Ancient City
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > flooded Jinyang, and Han Wei reversed</h1>
After Zhao Wuxi turned his face, Zhi Yao announced that he had declared war on the Zhao family, and then sent someone to borrow troops from the Han/Wei families. As an old fox, Han Wei Ershi verbally agreed to Zhi Yao's request to borrow soldiers, but shang did not contribute to the work and acted on the camera. When the Zhao clan was defeated, they divided the Zhao clan's Caiyi together, and when the Zhi clan lost, they robbed the Zhi clan.
Three large armies surrounded Jinyang, and Zhi Yao ordered a fierce attack on Jinyang City. However, Jinyang, as the old base of the Zhao clan, witnessed the glorious history of Zhao's annihilation of the Zhonghang/Fan clan, and in this battle, the Jinyang military and civilians worked together to make Zhiyao's army suffer a big loss. In March, Zhi Yao's army suffered heavy losses, while Jinyang City remained strong. Siege is not good, Zhi Yao chose to besiege the city, and it is expected that Jinyang, which has no supplies, will not last long. However, a year later, the soldiers and civilians of Jinyang City still had enough food and grass, and Zhi Yao's plan to besiege the city was also shattered.
At this time, God chose to help Zhi Yao. Heavy rain fell in the sky, the Fenshui outside Jinyang City soared, the terrain of Jinyang was low-lying, Zhiyao dug open the Fenshui, and Jinyang City became a ze country.
The biggest impact of flooding Jinyang on Zhao Wuxianfang was that there was dry firewood to make a fire, the wells were polluted, the grain and grass were moldy, and infectious diseases began to run rampant in the humid environment. Zhao Wuxi faced the great test of no water/no grain/plague.
At this time, Zhi Yao was proud and said, "I know now that water can also make people destroy the country." Han Hu and Wei Ju around them fell into contemplation: Fenshui can also flood Wei's family, and shuishui can also flood Han's. If the Zhao clan is destroyed, according to Zhi Yao's personality, the Han clan and the Wei clan are also doomed.
Zhao Wuxi, who was in a desperate situation, also saw that the last straw that could save him was Han and Wei, so he sent a secret envoy Zhang Mengtan to negotiate with Han Hu/Wei Ju, and Han Shi and Wei Shi agreed to Zhang Mengtan's request and reached a consensus to destroy Zhiyao together.
On the night of the agreement, the Han and Wei families dug up the lake embankment that besieged Jinyang, and the water that had originally flooded Jinyang flooded towards Zhi Yao's army. In the darkness of the night, the water struck, and the Wise Army was in chaos. Subsequently, 50,000 Zhao troops marched out of Jinyang City with thousands of troops stationed in France and pounced on Zhi Yao's camp. Han Wei's army also joined the battle, and Zhi Yao's dream of hegemony was destroyed by the water attack of the three families. The war situation was reversed, and the strongest of the four clans, the Zhi clan, was destroyed in the Battle of Jinyang, and the Zhi clan's Caiyi was divided. It turns out that Jinyang is really the blessed land of the Zhao clan.
Round up and kill the Zhiyao army
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > three branches</h1>
In the spring and autumn, the first great power of the Jin Dynasty, from the initial six secretaries standing side by side to the four secretaries of state confrontation, and then to the final three-legged stand, the two generations of the Zhao zhi clan played an extremely important role. The Two Families of Han and Wei made the best choice in accordance with the trend at the right time, and finally formed a situation in which the three families of Zhao Wei and Han were divided into Jin.
In the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou, in 403 BC, the three clans of Zhao Wei and Han were made marquises by Zhou Tianzi, and since then, the three families of Zhao Wei and Han have been officially divided into Jin, and each flew alone.
The three families of Zhao Wei and Han were divided into Jin
After another ten years, the Qi state's grand master Tian He abolished the Duke of Qi Kang, destroyed the Duke of Qi, and established himself as the monarch of the State of Qi, known in history as "Tian Shi Fa Qi". At this point, there were seven powerful countries in the land of China, Western Qin, Eastern Qi, Northern Yan, and Southern Chu, and the middle Han, Zhao, and Wei.
The Warring States Period officially opened