The American psychologist Marlos once proposed that people have a need to be respected. And we also know that to gain the respect of others, we also need to respect ourselves first.
More than two thousand years ago, a large family over-consumed its own reputation and carried out a well-known bloodless coup with incredible means.
First, the "good deception" of the Oriental famous door
The Spring and Autumn Warring States period is an era of open thinking, which is a reality recognized by everyone in ancient and modern China and abroad. In terms of strategic culture, the various countries have also recognized the ability of the great eastern power Qi State. In the State of Qi, the Tian family, which implemented the "Tian Clan Dai Qi", really "played" the strategy to the fullest.
The ancestor of the Qi guotian clan was tian guan, a nobleman of the Chen state who was exiled here in the fourteenth year of the Duke of Qi Huan (672 BC). At that time, duke Huan of Qi was very appreciative of Tian Wan's talent and wanted to grant him a knighthood, but Tian Wanwan declined: "The minister of the detention brigade, fortunately if you are blessed... How much has been gained, and has he been insulted by high positions and slandered by the speed official? Therefore, after that, Tian Quan only held a position of gongzheng in the state of Qi to manage hundreds of workers. However, his modest advances and retreats, as well as the nickname of "Jingzhong", set the tone for the development of the Tian clan in the State of Qi.
As a great power in the East, the State of Qi has long been very powerful, and its political struggles have been equally fierce. However, in the twenty-fifth year of Lu Xianggong (548 BC), when the powerful minister of the State of Qi, Cui Zhu, killed the Duke of Qi Zhuang and established the Duke of Qi Jing with another powerful minister, Qingfeng, the weak Tian Su had no choice but to resolutely pack his bags and go to other countries to avoid chaos.
However, after hiding abroad for seventeen years, Tian Su wu suddenly returned to China. The following year, he united with the Luan, Gao, and Bao clans to defeat the Qing clan, which had been in power for many years, and led the family to become the Qi state hao clan in one fell swoop. It was also in this incident that the Tian clan showed the world the family's unparalleled strategic ability.
The incident was originally a struggle between the Gao, Luan and Qing clans, but Tian Suwu and his son Tian Wuyu immediately hit it off and decided to sit as a fisherman and touch the fish in muddy waters. In October of that year, Tian Wuyu pretended to be under the control of Qingfeng, the lord of the Qing family, but planned to flee back to his father after maintaining Qingfeng's trust in him. The following month, the Tian father and son also took advantage of qingshi's trust in themselves, using the strategy of turning the tiger away from the mountain to defuse Qingshi's defenses, and beheaded Qingfeng's son, forcing Qingfeng to flee from other countries.
Second, the political exploitation of immorality
If Tian Su's fatherless and fierce strategy has been breathtaking, then Tian Beg and Tian Chang can be said to be for political interests and simply do not care about the national economy and people's livelihood, ethics and morality.
In the thirteenth year of the Duke of Luding (497 BC), civil unrest broke out in the Jin state, and the Fan and Zhongxing clans asked the State of Qi for help. The State of Qi did not want to intervene in other civil unrest, but Tian Beg, who "wanted to cause chaos", used public interests to persuade Qi Jinggong to turn the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan of the Jin state into his own supporters.
In the fifth year of the reign of Duke Lu Ai (490 BC), Duke Jing of Qi died, and Tian Beg, disguised himself, provoked a conflict between the Guo clan and the Gao clan and other scholars. After the two sides lost both battles, Tian Beg supported Gongzi Yangsheng to take the throne in order to mourn the Duke of Qi. In the eleventh year of the Duke of Lu 'ai ( 484 BC ) , in order to eliminate dissidents , Tian Beg also instigated the Duke of Qi jian to fight Lu , eventually causing the State of Qi to confront the combined forces of the State of Lu and the State of Wu. Most of the generals on the battlefield were Tian Beg's political enemies.
The great battle that took place in Eling ended in a crushing defeat for the State of Qi. But for Tian Beg, he actually earns "a lot of money". Because Tian's political enemies Gao and Guoshi all lost their sons in the war, even the Qi royal family also sacrificed a lot. The great State of Qi suddenly "cleared out many vacant seats for" the Tian clan.
And Tian Chang, in order to maintain the family's control over the State of Qi, even took the initiative to wear a "green hat" for himself: "Tian Chang nai chose the women in the Country of Qi to be more than seven feet long as the harem, and the harem is in the hundreds, and the guests who enter and leave the harem can't help it." To put it bluntly, Tian Chang bribed politicians with his own concubines, and used this to train the non-Tian children born of the concubines to become the minions of the Tian clan.
Third, insidious bribery of people's hearts
Not only did he have a hand on himself, Tian Chang also let the family take the initiative to do a loss-making business. At that time, the State of Qi had already implemented a unified unit of measurement. However, whenever there were natural and man-made disasters and food shortages, the Tian clan opened the door to be a "boy who scattered wealth", using the large "family volume" of privately created to lend out the grain, and then using a small "public quantity" to take back the grain.
Although from the perspective of the borrowing people, Tian's move is a good deed for the sake of the people. But for a country with laws and regulations, the Tian clan is completely exchanging the development of the country for private interests. Moreover, the measures that Tian Qi had made to use the national war to eradicate dissidents were also borrowed by Tian's descendants many times later. The Tian clan profited greatly from it, but the State of Qi paid a heavy price for the Tian clan.
In the thirtieth year of The Duke of Lumu (386 BC), Tian He exiled the Duke of Qi Kang and was approved by Zhou Tianzi. After moving in from Tian Wan, after nearly three hundred years of blue wisps on the road, the Tian clan finally realized the value of the family in the Country of Qi. And their unscrupulous means to seek benefits, such as: Yang feng yin violation, stirring up dissension, touching fish in muddy waters, wanting to catch the old, practicing yin virtue, pulling one by one, cutting out political enemies through foreign wars, etc., are also tied to their achievements of "Tian Shi Daiqi" and have been passed down to this day. At such a price, it is worth pondering.