In the recent hit historical drama "Great Qin Fu", the State of Qin forced the Zhou royal family to sacrifice thirty-six cities, including Luoyi, and also stole the Jiuding of the Zhou royal family, and the King of Zhou zhao scolded the State of Qin as "you, the house slave who raises horses".
This sentence is not excessive, because the ancestors of the Qin state were indeed domestic slaves who raised horses for the Zhou royal family.
To explain this problem, we must start from the source of the Qin people.
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Qin people, like the Zhou royal family, were also descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The ancestor of the Qin people, Boyi, was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and the gaoyang clan, and was given the surname Win for helping Da Shun to control the water, and tamed birds and beasts for Shun.
Bo Yisheng had two sons, Da Lian and Wakaki. By the time of Xia Jie, Fei Chang could not stand the brutal rule of Xia Jie after Wakaki, so he defected to Shang Tang and became Shang Tang's driver. He also assisted Shang Tang in destroying Xia Jianshang and became a national hero of the Shang Dynasty. Zhongyan, a descendant of Da Lian, also became Tai Peng's chauffeur during the Tai Peng period of the Shang Dynasty, and Tai Peng also married his daughter to him.
That is to say, the ancestors of the Qin people mixed quite well during the Shang Dynasty.
This Zhongyan had a grandson named Zhongxiao, and had two grandsons, namely Evil Lai and Ji Sheng. Among them, Evil Lai was a brave general at the end of the Shang Dynasty, and after Zhou destroyed the Shang, he was executed by Ji Fa along with his father Fei Lian.
Incidentally, later, Wu Geng, the son of King Huan, together with Ji Fa's three younger brothers, launched the Three Prisons Rebellion, in which the Win tribe was also involved, and was finally quelled by zhou Gongdan's army.
However, Ji Sheng, the younger brother of Evil Lai, did not participate in the rebellion, and his son Meng Zeng was favored by King Cheng of Zhou, and his grandson Zhao Father drove for King Mu of Zhou, and made great contributions when King Mu of Zhou quelled the rebellion of King Xu Yan of xu, and was sealed by King Mu of Zhou in Zhao Cheng, thus becoming the Zhao clan and the ancestor of the Zhao state.
During the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, Da Luo, the nephew of the founding father, lived in Inuqiu. The second son, FeiZi, reigned for fifty years. It was placed between The Feng and Wei to manage the horses for the Zhou royal family. Later, because of his merits in raising horses, this Feizi was divided into Qindi (present-day Tianshui, Gansu) by King Xiao of Zhou, and Feizi took the fief as his clan, with the title of "Qin Ying", and became the emperor of the surname of Ying.
But the pit is that this Qin land is adjacent to Xi Rong, so in fact, the Ying family not only has to raise horses for the royal family, but also helps others to resist Xi Rong. But at that time, Xi Rong was very powerful, beating the old winner breathlessly, and even Qin Feizi's great-grandson Yingzhong died at the hands of Xi Rong.
However, Win Zhong's son, Duke Zhuang of Qinzhuang, was still angry, and asked the Zhou royal family to send 7,000 people to conquer Xirong, and returned with a great victory. At that time, King Xuan of Zhou was also quite interesting, and he was made a doctor of the Western Dynasty and gave him a lot of territory. Since then, Yin Qin has become a royal courtier.
After a hundred years of dismal operation, the Qin people gradually adapted to the harsh environment of the Western Province, and their strength increased day by day. Later, king Of Zhou You, together with Wei Guo, Zheng Guo, and Jin Guo, established the late crown prince Yi Usu as the Son of Heaven and escorted him east to Luoyi, so he was officially made a prince and gave him the land west of Qishan. Since then, the Win clan has completely broken away from the vassal status of the royal family and become a legitimate princely state.
The children of poor families have long been in charge, and the Qin kingdom is poor, so after the founding of the country, it has made great efforts to govern and constantly expand its territory, and by the time of Qin Mugong, it has successively destroyed the 12 countries built by Xi rong, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and dominated Xi Rong.
By the way, it was with the help of Duke Mu of Qin that He became the monarch of the Jin Dynasty.
Later, the qin state had been trying to kill the Jin state for several generations, and then enter the Central Plains, but there was nothing to gain except for the loss of the laborers. The most tragic thing was that after the three families were divided into Jin, the State of Wei changed the law and tried to become stronger, with Wu Qi as a general, and attacked the entire territory of Hexi in one fell swoop. When he returned to Qin Huigong Anding, he led an army of 500,000 to fight the Wei army in Yin and Jin, only to be defeated by Wu Qi with 50,000 elite soldiers, and from then on he had to be in the western corner of the Anluo River.
The real strength of the Qin state did not begin after qin xiaogong shang martingale transformation, but from qin xiaogong's father, Qin Xiangong.
After the death of Duke Hui of Qin, his son Yingchang took the throne, but this Yingchang was only two years old at this time, and he could not even speak unfavorably, so he could only be presided over by his mother. This commits two major ways of taking chaos that have often been mentioned in the dynasties and dynasties: the Lord is less suspicious of the country, and the chicken sichen is the same.
For the State of Qin, this chaos originated from Yin Chang's grandfather, that is, The Duke of Qin.
At that time, after the death of Qin Linggong, it was supposed to be the son of the Li family, Yin Lian, who was in charge of the government, but Qin Jiangong said, this child is too young, I am his uncle, just work hard, for him to be the lord of our Qin kingdom.
At that time, Yin Lian, who was only ten years old, had to fight for his uncle and grandfather, so he had to flee to the State of Wei. Wei Wen waited for Wei Si to see that the prince of the enemy country had come, and felt that it was strange to live in, so he left him behind, ready to use it at the right time.
However, the State of Wei was too strong and had been suppressing the State of Qin, so the political value of Yinlian had not been shown, and he continued to stay idle in the State of Wei, and this stay was more than ten years, until the death of Duke Huigong of Qin, and his son Yinchang took the throne.
At this time, the State of Wei was already in the reign of Wei Wu marquis Wei Qi. Wei Zhen felt that although the Qin state had been beaten to a ball, if there was another puppet in the past, it would be more perfect. So, he told Yin Lian, go home, as long as you go back, I will help you seize the throne.
Of course, this Yin Lian was not stupid, he knew very well what Wei Wuhou meant, and said that I definitely had to go back, but I didn't want your escort, nor did I want your reward, I would go by myself.
He first sent people back to lobby the nobles and ministers who were dissatisfied with Yingchang's mother and son, and also spread the news that he was coming back to implement the new policy, and then secretly won the support of the generals in the army.
Because the throne of Duke Jian of Qin did not come properly, coupled with the fact that during the reign of his father and son of Duke Hui of Qin, he was defeated by Wei in succession and lost his teachers and land; the internal government was corrupt and the national strength was weak. In addition, the current Yinchang is too young, and the empress dowager's ruling is too unreliable. Several grievances added up, and Yinglian's lobbying became the last straw that crushed the camel.
A year later, Yin Lian felt that the time was ripe and set off to prepare to go back. After saying goodbye to Wei Zhen, he said a sentence very angrily:
In order to thank the State of Wei for its hospitality over the past thirty years, I swear that if you succeed in regaining the throne, the State of Qin will guarantee that it will not attack you while you are alive.
The meaning of this sentence is very simple: After you kill Wei, I will definitely have to attack Wei Guo.
It's so arrogant! It's so arrogant! When Chong'er left the Chu State, he only said that when your Chu State came to attack the Jin State, I retreated. Now that your Qin state is being suppressed and beaten by the State of Wei, and you dare to say that you are an enemy of the State of Wei, this is too much to take the State of Wei seriously.
But it turned out that letting Yin Lian return to China was the second strategic mistake made by Wei Wuhou—his first mistake was to send Wu Qi away two years ago.
In 385 BC, a chief of the State of Qin (a Qin official, equivalent to Qing) was enthroned as emperor in Hexi. When Yin Chang's mother learned about it, she sent an army to fight it. However, the generals of this army had already been bribed by Yin lian, and only halfway there was a mutiny, directly following Yin Lian back to the capital of the Qin state of Yongcheng (present-day Baoji City, Shaanxi Province), killing Yin Chang and his mother and sinking into the water, and regaining the throne.
There seems to be a bit of Napoleon's sense of returning to Paris.
Yin Lian deserved to have stayed in the world's top 500, and he learned Li Wu's set thoroughly. So after taking the throne, he did a few drastic things:
First of all, the system of burial of living people was abolished, which won the hearts of the people.
Then land reform was carried out, and private land was recognized, which won the hearts and minds of the people.
In the end, he allowed the peasants to join the army in exchange for military merit in exchange for knighthoods, which won the hearts of the people.
The popular Yinglian looked at the rising east, and he muttered to himself: Wei Zhen, when will you die? I'm already impatient to wait!
In 371, Marquis Wu of Wei died.
In 366 BC, Wei and Han jointly went to Luoyang to bully the Zhou royal family, and Yin Lian immediately led an army to Qin Wang. Defeated the combined forces of Wei and Han at Luoyang.
In 364 BC, the State of Qin again defeated the State of Wei in the land of Hexi, and attacked all the way to Hedong, as deep as the Shimen (Yuncheng, Shanxi) of the State of Wei. Because of this victory, King Xianwang of Zhou also gave Yin Lian a dress (the general book says that it is a dress, which should refer to the title).
In 362 BC, the State of Qin defeated the Wei army at Shaoliang (Hancheng, Shaanxi, a base of the State of Wei in Hexi) and captured the Wei general Gong Shu .com.
In the same year, Yinglian died, and Yingqu Liang took the throne as the Duke of Qin.