In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang established the first centralized unified dynasty in Chinese history, the Qin Dynasty, and the Great Qin Empire relied on the brave and good black armor legions to expand its territory and spread in all directions. In the heyday of the Qin Dynasty, the territory stretched from Liaodong in the east to the plateau in the west, Lingnan in the south, and The Yin Mountains in the north, and the mighty and martial arts of the Great Qin Empire were unprecedented.
Qin Shi Huang was able to establish such a great feat, it was not his own merit, the Qin State established the highest strategic goal of Wang Tianxia since qin Xiaogong used the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, and the strength of the six generations of hard work accumulated strength, which left Qin Shi Huang with the foundation of world domination, before that, the Qin State was a heretic that all countries in the Central Plains looked down upon. If you go back further, when the ancestors of the Qin Dynasty made their fortunes, they only had a territory of fifty miles.
The ancestors of the Qin Dynasty royal family are descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and it is said that the ancestors of the Qin Dynasty were extremely good at taming animals and driving, and to put it nicely, they were probably wildlife scientists. When it came to a descendant named Feizi, his profession was only a horse master who helped the tianzi King Of Zhou xiao raise horses at that time, because the horses were well-bred, they were recommended by the king of Zhou Xiao, who gave him a piece of land to raise horses, and sealed the territory under the jurisdiction of Fei Zi as the vassal state of Zhou Tianzi:
"Xi Bofeng is the main animal of Shun, and the animals are many, so there is soil, and the surname is given to Yin. Now and in the hereafter they are also horses, and their land is divided into vassals. "Yi Zhi Qin, make the restoration of the Yin Clan Ancestral Hall, known as Qin Ying."
The vassal state does not look at the name of a country, in fact, it is very small and very small, the lord of the vassal state does not have a formal title, the knighthood system at that time was the five levels of duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, and the political status of the vassal state lord was not even as good as the baron, which was equivalent to no aristocratic grade. In addition, according to the law of the time, the territory of the vassal state could not exceed fifty miles, and the vassal state had to submit politically to the main state.
There were many such vassal states under the jurisdiction of the various princely states that Zhou Tianzi had divided, and the vassal state that was not enfeoffed by the son was stronger, and it was nominally a vassal state directly under zhou tianzi and was directly protected by Zhou Tianzi politically and militarily. In any case, the ancestor of the Qin State, who could be called Qin Wei in the future, always had his own territory, and this vassal state with only fifty miles of territory and little autonomy was the place where the Qin State made its fortune.
Qin Wei had the name of the country and the territory, but what could the fifty miles of land do? Or can only honestly raise horses for Zhou Tianzi, and the territory can only be a larger horse farm. The territory was small, there was no army, and after the fifth generation of Qin Ying, the Duke of Qin Zhuang won his victory (the Duke of Qin Zhuang was known as the Duke of Zhuang in later generations, but not a duke, and the monarch of the State of Qin at that time only had the position of a doctor) and was destroyed by Xi Rong, and the Duke of Qin Zhuang later borrowed seven thousand soldiers and horses from Zhou Tianzi to recover the territory:
King Xuan of Zhou summoned five of Zhuang GongKundi and seven thousand soldiers to destroy the Western Rong and break it. Therefore, after restoring qin zhonghou, and his predecessor Da LuoDi Dog Qiu, he was the Western Doctor.
However, the opportunity was always left to those who had a heart, after the death of Duke Zhuang of Qinzhuang, his son Won Kai succeeded him as monarch, and in his seventh year of becoming monarch, the Zhou royal family that commanded the world was devastated, the Zhou Youwang of the "Beacon Theatre Princes" played himself out, the capital Hojing (present-day Xi'an) was attacked by the Inuyasha, the King of Zhou you himself was killed by the Inuyasha, and the Western Zhou was destroyed.
The new Tianzi of the Zhou Dynasty was the King of Zhou Ping, who wanted to move the capital to Luoyi (present-day Luoyang), but the road was far away, and even an escort army could not be found, and the princes of the East did not take Zhou Tianzi seriously after the king of Zhou You was killed, and at the critical moment, Win Kai seized this opportunity, and he led the army of the whole country (the territory was so large that it was estimated that there were not many people) as a vassal of the state.
Of course, the fallen King Of Zhou Ping was moved to tears, and he wanted to reward Qin Xianggong and the State of Qin, but the King of Zhou Ping had nothing at that time, he wanted money and no money, he wanted soldiers and soldiers, what reward did he take to the loyal Qin State that protected the Lord? Fortunately, Zhou Tianzi had the most powerful weapon of fame, and from this time on, he officially crowned the Qin State as a princely state, and Win Kai also became the true Duke of Qin Xiang, with the official title recognized by the people of the world, the Qin State also got rid of the shackles of only having fifty miles of territory.
Of course, the name was given to the territory, and the king of ZhouPing, who had nothing, gave Qin Xianggong and the Qin state a power in the name of Tianzi, that is, the land occupied by the western dog Rong or Xi Rong could be attacked by the Qin state, and the recovered land was all given to the Qin state, at that time, the area covered by this land was probably equivalent to today's Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and other regions, which was quite a large territory, the important thing was that the Qin state could be justified in expansion, and the western land outside Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia could also be fought. As long as the Qin state has the ability to fight down:
King Ping made Xiang Gong a prince and gave him the land west of Qi. "Rong has no way, and if it encroaches on the land of Qi and Feng, Qin can attack and expel Rong, that is, it has its own land." "With the oath, knighted."
From this point on, the State of Qin, from the ancestor feizi who raised horses, was enfeoffed with the territory of fifty miles to become a vassal state of Zhou Tianzi, it was almost six generations, until Qin Xianggong won, and finally had an equal status with the princely states of Shandong. And because of the promise given by Zhou Tianzi that he could expand westward at will, for the sake of territory and wealth, the Qin state screamed and went west to seek revenge, drove away Xi Rong, laid the territory of the Qin state during the Warring States period, and had the capital to compete with the Princely States of Shandong.
When the Countries of Shandong were still engaged in the ceremonial war of the Song Xiang formula, the Qin State was already engaged in a game of life and death with Xi Rong, and the decisive war with foreign races was fought for hundreds of years, and the accumulation of several generations had tempered an army that was tenacious and good at war, so in the Warring States period, the Qin army was the best and the most capable of fighting, which was the courage of the qin xiaogong to the sixth generation of qin shi huang emperor to covet the central plains.
The State of Qin has seized the political status of the princely states from only a horse farm of only a fifty-mile land, after six generations, seized the opportunity to gain the political status of the princely states, and then became a veritable military power through the war with Xi Rong, and then by Qin Xiaogong who aspired to the world, and it was six generations of eastern expeditions to the west, before and after hundreds of years to become the real hegemon of the Central Plains, historical experience in today, may be able to give those impetuous people some enlightenment.
Reference: Chronicle of History