The State of Song was founded by the descendants of the Shang Dynasty royal family, with the title of Duke, and in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, The Duke of Zhou was given the title of Prince of Shang's eldest brother Wei Ziqi in Shangqiu, and the State of Song was officially established. The Zhou Dynasty specially allowed the Song Dynasty to use tianzi to worship the Shang Dynasty and be a guest with Zhou; the Song Dynasty had a special status and was revered by Zhou Tianzi as one of the "Three Ke". The Song Dynasty covers an area of about 100,000 square kilometers, all of which are anointed lands. The economy of the Song Dynasty was developed, and the Song people were good at business, and they made indispensable contributions to inheriting and developing the Yin Shang culture, especially the commercial culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong and King Cheng of Chu fought for hegemony, and the State of Song was violently beaten by the State of Chu, and from then on the State of Song collapsed and became a vassal state of the State of Qi or the State of Jin.
Prince Zifu of Song Xiang
During the Warring States period, the Song state was decadent, but it was still not majestic, and it was known as the eighth warring state. The Song State was at the heart of the Central Plains, with a developed economy and a large population, and any powerful country wanted to annex the Song State. The State of Qi, the State of Wei, and the State of Chu all had the ambition to destroy the Song Dynasty, but due to mutual containment, the State of Song was not only not destroyed, but had the potential to rise. The State of Song was a buffer zone of the three major forces of Qi, Wei, and Chu, and any country that destroyed the Song alone would border the other two countries, so the State of Song lived a tasteful life among the three great powers.
In the pre-Qin era, there was only one king in the world, the son of heaven was called the king, and the princes were called gong, hou, bo, son, and male. Later, the State of Chu was encroached upon as king, the Zhou royal family was conquered, and the State of Chu went to the king's name; later, the State of Xu was called king, the Zhou royal family was conquered, and the State of Xu went to the king to claim the title of son. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu reigned supreme and restored the title of King; the Kingdom of Wu and the State of Yue also successively claimed the title of King. In 334 BC, King Hui of Wei and King Wei of Qi met in Xuzhou and recognized each other as kings, and the history was called "King Xiang of Xuzhou". In this way, there were four kings in the world, namely the King of Zhou, the King of Chu, the King of Wei, and the King of Qi.
The Song Dynasty of the Warring States Period
In 318 BC, the gentleman of the State of Song was called King, and the history was called King Kang of Song. Zi Yan is an ambitious monarch who is bent on restoring the great cause of Yin Shang. As a descendant of the Yin merchants and nobles, the State of Qin has now vaguely become the largest country in the world, and King Song Kang closely followed the steps of Great Qin and became the spokesperson of the State of Qin in the East. In 325 BC, the king of the State of Qin was called King, and the title of King of Qin meant that the State of Qin had the ambition to unify the world. The powerful State of Song became the spokesperson of the State of Qin in the East, and King Kang of Song fought three battles in a row, winning all three battles, and there was no support from the State of Qin behind it.
Prince Song Kang
Historia. The Song Weizi family was eleven years old and established himself as king. Defeat Qi in the east and take the five cities; Defeat chu in the south and take three hundred miles of land; When the Wei army was defeated in the west, it was an enemy state with Qi and Wei. The blood is shot in the wei sac, and the county shoots it, and the fate is called "shooting the sky". Adulterous to the alcoholic woman. The courtiers shoot at it. Therefore, all the princes were known as "Jie Song".
King Song Kang wanted to achieve hegemony as soon as possible, and he planned a shocking move to shoot the world. King Song Kang had the bag filled with blood, and he shot his bow through the bag, and the blood flowed, and King Song Kang said to his subjects: The gods have been killed by me. King Song Kang whipped the ground three hundred more times with a leather whip, and when he was finished he said to his subjects: The earth has been conquered by me. As soon as the shocking act of shooting the heavens and the earth came out, the whole world was in an uproar, and the princes all called King Song Kang "Song Song", because he did not respect heaven and earth and did not respect ghosts and gods.
King Song Kang shot the sky
In 318 BC, Gongsun Yan, the chancellor of the State of Wei, launched a joint attack on Qin by the five kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, Han, Yan, and Chu, and elected King Huai of Chu as his commander. The Qin army fought at Hangu Pass, defeated the Five Kingdoms Alliance, and killed and wounded countless Soldiers of the Five Kingdoms. The State of Wei suffered the heaviest losses, so it consulted with the State of Chu, and the two countries made peace with the State of Qin. At that time, the State of Yiqu took advantage of the main force of the Qin army to meet the Five Kingdoms Alliance, attacked the State of Qin from behind, and defeated the Defenders of the State of Qin at Li Bai. In order to solve the worries of the future, the State of Qin made peace with the five countries and returned to the army to clean up the Yiqu State.
While the Five Kingdoms Alliance was fighting qin, King Kang of Song sent troops to the east to defeat the State of Qi and seize five cities; defeated the State of Chu to the south and seized three hundred miles of land; defeated the Wei army to the west and took the second city; and attacked the State of Teng, taking all its land. Suddenly, the Song Dynasty was greatly strengthened, known as the "Five Thousand Multiplied Song", which was even more powerful and domineering than South Korea, one of the Seven Heroes. King Kang of Song believed that in order to restore the great cause of the Shang Dynasty, it was necessary to first set a small goal, such as becoming the eighth male of the Warring States!
Tank soldiers
Wei, Qi, and Chu were all great powers, and the three kingdoms jointly attacked Qin, and Song took advantage of its gap to defeat its army and seize its land, which made the three kingdoms very jealous. Any country had the strength to destroy the Song alone, but it was a rat trap, so the three kingdoms did not send troops to attack the Song, and at the same time they had to guard against the attack of the Qin state. Because the Qin state will always take advantage of the main army of the central plains to attack from the outside, for example, when the Chu state destroyed the Yue state, the Qin state secretly attacked the Chu state from behind and seized the Chu state for six hundred miles.
In 316 BC, the State of Yan was in rebellion, and the State of Qi paid close attention to the movements of the State of Yan, and eventually sent troops to occupy all of the State of Yan. The State of Qi sent troops to interfere in the internal affairs of Yan, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from the State of Zhao, the State of Qin, and the State of Wei, and soon the three kingdoms formed a coalition army into the territory of the State of Yan to assist the Prince of Yan, Ji Zhiwang, and drove the Qi army out of the territory of the State of Yan. The civil unrest in the Yan state gave the Song state the opportunity to digest the occupied land.
It is better to get the Land of Baili Yan than to get the Land of Ten Li of Song, the State of Qi has been plotting to attack the State of Song alone, if the State of Qi annexes the State of Song, then the strength of the State of Qi will be greatly increased. Of course, the State of Qin did not want the State of Song to be destroyed by the State of Qi, so the State of Qin sent troops to Taoyi and turned Taoyi into a fief of Wei Ran, the chancellor of the State of Qin. Meng TianWen had been plotting the State of Song for many years when he was the Prime Minister of the State of Qi, and the State of Qi attacked Qin and tossed it for nearly ten years, in order to exhaust Qin and lack Chu, so that they could not interfere with the State of Qi and the Song Dynasty; they did their best to ally with Han and Wei, and spared no effort to curry favor with the emerging State of Zhao, in order not to let them hinder their own pursuit of the State of Song.
After King Qin Zhao ascended the throne, the government was decided by Empress Xuan, and the State of Song took the initiative to ally with the State of Qin in order to save itself, and the condition of the State of Qin was that the State of Song cede the richest TaoYi to the State of Qin. King Song Kang knew that his own country was not enough to resist the thunderous blow of the State of Qi, but the State of Qin had the strength to fight with one enemy and six, so King Kang of Song gave Tao Yi to the State of Qin. After the Song state had garrisoned the Qin state, it was more confident and no longer feared the State of Qi sending troops to destroy the country.
Empress Dowager Qin
In order to eliminate the purpose of the State of Qi sending troops to destroy the Song Dynasty, the State of Qin secretly supported the State of Zhao and agreed to send troops to assist the Zhao army in attacking Qi. There were two factions in Zhao's country, one faction advocating the joint Qin and the other advocating the joint Qin and the other, and the two factions quarreled continuously, and there was no conclusion for several months. Soon, Qin and Qi reached a new agreement, that is, the two countries recognized each other as an empire, Qin as the Western Emperor, and Qi as the Eastern Emperor, and the two countries jointly divided the world, and the first goal was that Qin Qi would join forces to attack Zhao.
Su Qin, as a spy on three sides, intended to subvert the regime of the State of Qi in revenge for the Tu Yan and yan plundering of the State of Qi. Su Qin came to the State of Qi to see King Min of Qi, and persuaded the State of Qi to cancel the title of Eastern Emperor, unite with the heavenly states to attack Qin, and then send a partial division to destroy the Song alone. King Qi Min had long coveted the Song Kingdom, and the title of an Eastern Emperor was naturally not as affordable as a Song State. Therefore, King Min of Qi came forward to form a six-nation alliance to attack Qin again, and this time the State of Qi, for the sake of combined columns, sent 300,000 troops to attack Qin.
Qi Min Wang Field
The Three Jins each sent 80,000 troops, the Chu State sent 100,000 troops, the Yan State sent 20,000 troops, and the State of Qi sent 300,000 troops, a total of 660,000 troops to attack Qin. The Qin general Bai Qi led the Qin army to the east to meet the Six Kingdoms Alliance, defeating the Six Kingdoms army in one fell swoop, the State of Qi saw that the situation was not right, and withdrew from the battlefield in time, and the Three Jins were severely damaged by the Qin Army. When the Six Kingdoms combined forces were fighting against Qin, King Qi Min sent another 300,000 troops to destroy the Song in the First World War, which made the Three Jins and the Chu State greatly dissatisfied with the State of Qi, but the strength was not allowed, so the State of Qi could only swallow the State of Song alone.
The first and last king of the Song dynasty, King Kang of Song, fled to Wenyi in the State of Wei after the State of Qi captured the State of Song, but was still caught and tortured to death by the Qi army. A few years later, the State of Yan rose and united the Three Jins and the State of Qin to join forces with the State of Qi, which was nominally an ally of the State of Qi, but in fact intended to capture the land of Huaibei after the defeat of the State of Qi. King Min of Qi fled in defeat, was captured by the Chu general Huanya, and was eventually killed by the exiles of the State of Qi.
It is ironic that king Song Kang and king Qi Min, two heroic tyrants, eventually died at the hands of civilians.