The great cause of the hegemony of the State of Qi came to an abrupt end with the death of Duke Huan of Qi, and the dream of Song Xianggong's quest for hegemony was also annihilated in the Battle of Hongshui, but the princes of the Central Plains would not be leaderless for a long time, and a newly rising princely state- the Jin State played an important role in the historical stage. The Jin Dynasty originated from Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou.
The "Chronicle of History" records that King Wu of Zhou dreamed one day that the Emperor of Heaven would give him a son named Yu. The "Zuo Biography" records: "Uncle Yi Jiang Fang. According to the records of various generations, Yi Jiang was the daughter of Lü Shang, the Prince of Jiang, and later a concubine of King Wu of Zhou, who one day dreamed of heaven saying to himself: "Yu Life girl son, name Yu, Yu and Tang." Soon after, he gave birth to a son with the word "Yu" on his hand, which was later Tang Shuyu. After the death of King Wu of Zhou, the young King Cheng succeeded to the throne, and one day, King Cheng and Yu played, tearing a sycamore leaf into the shape of a jade gui and handing it to Yu, jokingly saying that he would be crowned the monarch of the Tang Kingdom, at this time, the historians around King Cheng immediately asked Yu to prepare a carriage and horse to take office in the Tang Kingdom on the grounds that There was no joke about it, which is the origin of Tang Shuyu. Tang Shuyu's son Marquis Xie of Jin moved to Jinshui and renamed the State of Tang the State of Jin. In the era of marquis Jing of Jin after the fifth dynasty, the history of the Jin state began to be accurately recorded. At this time, the world was in turmoil, the people of the country were rioting, the world was quite unstable, and the Jin state began to rise in this era.
Marquis Muhou of Jin, the great-grandson of marquis Jing of Jin, had a son, the eldest son, The Enemy, and the youngest son, Shifu, was rumored to have predicted that the names of the two sons would be reversed, indicating that there would be a turmoil in the Jin kingdom. After the death of Marquis Mu of Jin, his brother Uncle Yan established himself as a prince, and the crown prince fled in vengeance, and civil unrest began. Qiu was the later Marquis Wen of Jin. At this time, the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by the Inuyasha, and Chinese history officially entered the Spring and Autumn Period. The "Chronicle of History" records: "At the time of King Ping, the Zhou Dynasty declined, the princes were strong and punished, eastern Chu, Qin, and Jin were great, and the government was controlled by Fang Bo. It can be seen that the Jin state has grown in the early Spring and Autumn Period. After Hou Qiu's death, he ascended the throne to Marquis Zhao, and shortly after his uncle was sent to Quwo City, turmoil broke out in puguo, Marquis Zhaohou of Jin was killed, and Gongzi Chengshi deliberately seized power, but without success.
After Gongzi became a master, his grandson Duke Wu of Qu began to continue to compete with the king of the State of Jin for the throne, "Duke Wu of Qu mai cut down the Marquis of Jin, destroyed it, and offered it to the King of Zhou with his treasures." The King of Qi ordered Qu Wowu to be the Prince of Jin, and he was listed as a prince, so he did everything in his power and merged with the Jin Dynasty." In the second year of the Duke of Lu Huan (710 BC), Duke Wu of Quwo led an army to penetrate the People's Court, united with the Court of Jing to confront the State of Jin, and captured the Marquis of Jin the following year. However, due to the lack of formal recognition from the Zhou royal family, although the power of Duke Wu of Quwo had already surpassed that of the Jin state at this time, The Duke of Wu was still unable to ascend to the position of monarch of the Jin state. In the same year, King Heng of Zhou ordered Yu Zhong to attack Qu wo Wu Gong, and Wu Gong defeated Qu Wo and retreated. After 28 years of savings, Duke Wu of Quwo finally launched another war against the Jin state, and finally captured the capital of the Jin state, Yicheng, and killed the Marquis of Jin. Duke Wu of Quwo offered all the captured Jin national treasures to the King of Zhou in order to obtain the legitimacy of the inheritance. Zhou Tianzi, who had accepted bribes from Duke Wu, then conferred on him the title of monarch of the Jin dynasty, the Duke of Jinwu. It was also the efforts of the Duke Wu of Jin that greatly enhanced the strength of the Jin state and laid the foundation for a favorable position in the later Spring and Autumn struggle for hegemony.
After the death of Duke Wu, his son Duke Xian of Jin ascended the throne. At this time, in the east of the Jin Dynasty, the Qi Huan Gong's forces were already quite strong. Under his leadership, the Jin dynasty opened up territory and destroyed Huo, Wei (this Wei was not the state of Wei in the Warring States, but the land of its dragon xing), Geng and other princely states. "In the west there is Hexi, bordering Qin, Zhai in the north, and Hanoi in the east."
The Most well-known of the Jin Dynasty is that during his crusade against Li Rong, he married the beautiful li ji and his sister. Li Ji later had a son, and the crown prince at the time was Shen Sheng, and Li Ji tried to make the Prince of Jin depose the prince and make his own son the prince. In addition to Prince Shensheng, Gongzi Zhong'er and Gongzi Yiwu were both sons of Gonggong, and they had good character and ability, which were deeply liked by the world. Li Ji managed to transfer Crown Prince Shensheng out of the capital first, and then designed a gap between Jin Xiangong and Prince Shensheng, and ShenSheng eventually committed suicide. Li Ji was also afraid that Zhong'er and Yiwu would pose a threat to her son, so she asked Jin Xiangong to kill her second son for the crime of "Gongzi Zhong'er and Gongzi Yiwu and Prince Yiwu conspiring with the prince". Gongzi Zhong'er and Yiwu fled successively to avoid disasters. Soon, Jin Xian's strategy of using false means to destroy the Yu state and the capital state in the south was destroyed, laying the foundation for the Jin state to become a great power in the Spring and Autumn Period. After The Death of Duke Xian, Xi Qi, the son of Li Ji, took the throne and was immediately killed by the chancellor Rick. Eventually, Yiwu returned to the Jin dynasty with the help of Duke Mu of Qin and became the Duke of Jin. Jin Huigong then executed Rick and killed many doctors in the country, losing the hearts of the people.
After The Duke hui of Jin ascended the throne, in the year of famine, the State of Qin helped with rice, and the following year, the State of Qin was famine, but the State of Jin repaid the virtue with resentment, took the opportunity to attack the State of Qin, and returned with a great defeat, and the Duke of Jin Huigong was arrested. Duke Mu of Qin's wife was the sister of Duke Hui of Jin, and after some intercession, the State of Qin released Duke Hui of Jin and made him a proton. Hou Yu fled back to the Jin Dynasty without permission. Duke Hui of Jin, Prince Yuanli, was the Duke of Jin. At this time, The son of Duke Xian of Jin, Zhong'er, was still on the run. During the escape, Zhong'er passed through Weiguo, hungry and cold, begging a farmer, the farmer gave him a piece of yellow soil, Heavy Ear was very angry that the farmer was teasing himself, and his entourage Fox Yan said: "This is the land that Heaven wants to give us!" It shows that we are in sight to restore our country. Then he took the soil from the farmer's hand and continued to move on. Finally, the emperor did not pay off, and in the twenty-fourth year of the Duke of Lu (636 BC), Zhong'er received help from the State of Qin, and Duke Mu of Qin appointed Gongsun Zhi to lead three thousand Qin troops to protect Chong'er and return to the Jin State. Because Zhong'er had long been famous and there were many supporters in The Country, Heavy Ear killed the Duke huai of Jin, and took the throne, for the sake of Duke Wen of Jin.
According to the "Chinese", after the Jin Wengong ascended the throne, he worked hard to govern, Ren Yongxian was able to do so, cultivated government affairs, and distinguished rewards and punishments, and was recognized as a good monarch. He adopted a series of reform measures, "arranging hundreds of officials, giving credit to them, abandoning responsibilities and giving away the widows." The rescue is sluggish, and the poor are not available. Easy to pass, trade and wide agriculture. The government and the people are rich, and the money is not scarce." The Duke wen of Jin played a crucial role in the rise of the Jin state. After the death of Duke Wen of Jin, his son Duke Xiang of Jin succeeded to the throne. Subsequently, the friendly relations between Qin and Jin were shattered. After the death of Duke Xiang of Jin, the young and ignorant Duke Ling of Jin took the throne. At this time, the strength of the Jin state began to decline.
Subsequently, the Duke of Jincheng and the Duke of Jinjing took the throne. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Chu zhuang became the overlord at that time, and the state of Qi constantly provoked the state of Jin, and then the two armies fought a decisive battle in the saddle, and the state of Jin defeated the state of Qi and organized the three armies into six armies, and the leaders of these armies became the six secretaries of the dictatorship in the jin state, which was the three armies and six secretaries. In 403 BC, Zhou Tianzi enfeoffed Han, Zhao, and Wei as princes, and at the beginning of the Warring States Period, the Jin state existed in name only, and in 349 BC, Han and Zhao killed the Jin dynasty and died.