Recently, the "Rise of the Great Qin Empire" TV series has pushed a person out of the corner of history - Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji.
As a history enthusiast, I am very interested in historical figures and their stories, and I usually like to read such related books. But because of the limited amount of reading and insufficient knowledge reserves, when the TV series was popular, I knew about Yingji for the first time. At the same time, because he was full of interest and questions, he couldn't help but want to read history, see what real people really looked like, and by the way, learn to expand and expand reading.
In terms of historical popularity, he is not as good as Qin Mugong, Qin Xiaogong, Qin Shi Huang and other big names of the Ying clan, not as good as Li Bing, an expert in water conservancy engineering, not as good as Bai Qi, the god of war, Fan Ju, and other figures that we are familiar with and have seen in history books since childhood. However, he is actually somewhat well-known, the well-known allusion of "complete Bi return to Zhao", which sets off the ugly monarch image of the protagonist Lin Xiangru is him, but this is what I really don't know.
On the historical evaluation, I have roughly turned it over, and most people regret ink like gold. Even if there are a few strokes, most of them are belittling him for not having the spirit of a king, the wisdom of the king, and the achievements of the king, and the greatest contribution he has made in his life in his reign is to act as a political puppet of empress dowager Xuan, so that her mother can give full play to her political talents and become the first woman in Chinese history to listen to the government, and was originally called the empress.
He was once so hidden in the long river of history, and has always been easily brushed over or ignored by posterity. I have been wondering why everyone is so reluctant to see him, privately analyzed the following probably from the following points:
First of all, his origins. Although he was the son of Qin Huiwen Wang And Empress Dowager Xuan, the title of her birth mother Mi Yue was only an "eighth son". The title of Eight Sons is mainly the title of concubine of the Qin and Han Emperors. "Book of Han": "Han Xing, because of the title of Qin,..... Concubines are all called ladies, and there are wives, beauties, good people, eight sons, seven sons, long envoys, and young envoys. It can be seen that the status of the eighth son in the harem at that time was several grades worse than that of the queen. In the feudal era, blood and origin were abnormally magnified, and the treatment of concubines and concubines was thousands of miles.
Second, his throne. Even though Eun Seol later ascended to the throne and became king (or even emperor), in the eyes of most people, they did not fully recognize his identity as king, but felt that he was lucky enough to be hit by a pie falling from the sky. His half-brother King Wu of Qin, the concubine of King Huiwen of Qin, who had been ennobled by King Huiwen of Qin, with his innate divine power and aggressiveness, insisted on bringing Yongzhou Ding, one of the nine dings at the gate of the Palace of the Zhou Dynasty, back to the Qin State, but unexpectedly died of weeping blood when he wanted to lift up the great and thousand-gold Ding written by this bronze. King Wu left no heirs, and eventually his younger brother Ying Ji, who was a proton in the Yan kingdom, returned to China with the support of his uncle Wei Ran and became king.
Again, his kingship. Because her birth mother, Empress Xuan, was extremely intelligent and had both political skills and political ambitions, and when Empress Dowager Xuan took the throne, she was only 18 years old and had no experience and ability to handle political affairs. In addition, the four people reused by Empress Xuan: her brothers Mi Rong, Wei Ran, and her sons Gongzi Fu (commonly known as the Four Nobles of the Qin State) all made achievements in their respective political arenas, and they were well-governed, and the Qin State was rich and strong at that time, and the power of the four of them became greater, and then the power of the four of them became greater, and then the dictatorship was strong, and in the Qin State at that time, there was even a saying that "only know that there are four nobles, but do not know that there is a King of Qin".
With the in-depth study and analysis of history, more and more modern scholars have begun to overturn the derogatory evaluation of Yingji by their predecessors and evaluate his life more objectively. I personally agree with them, because in the limited historical materials I have seen, it is revealed:
1. He is a true king.
Although he was not a natural king, after the later political tempering, he gradually showed his royal style. He knew how to make good use of people, sought talents and thirsted for talents, and reused Fan Ju, Bai Qi, Li Bing, and other famous ministers; he had considerable political sensitivity, and switched to the use of strategies such as long-distance close-range attack and close-range attack; he laid a good foundation for the strength of the Qin state and the expansion of its territory.
2. Yingji's lifelong achievements are outstanding.
He succeeded to the throne at the age of 18 and Xue at the age of 73, reigned for 55 years, was the longest reigning king in the history of the Qin State, and even almost became the longest reigning ruler in Chinese history (Qianlong later came to the top). The life of Ying Ji is not a puppet evaluated by predecessors, but a diligent effort to govern, Taoguang and obscure, thick accumulation and thin hair. During these 55 years of reign, he strengthened the centralization of power internally; alienated the six kingdoms from the outside world, allowing them to fight each other and destroy their considerable military strength; in terms of logistical supplies, he consolidated his rule over Bashu, built the Min river water conservancy project, ensured the stability and prosperity of Bashu, and made material reserves for subsequent wars; in terms of national defense, he eliminated the Eastern Zhou and some dissident forces, and built a powerful military unit capable of good warfare, and won a series of victories in battles, especially the Battle of Changping. It directly promoted the demise of the Zhao state.
3. Yingji is the most solid founder of the rise of the Qin State.
At the age of 18, he was in a period of political ignorance, ruled by his mother; with the increase of experience, following the maturity of his mother's experience in handling political affairs, Yingji gradually grew up, and emerged in various fields such as politics, economy, diplomacy, military, and territorial expansion, and the administrative strategy was recognized by practice; in the later period, it was the period of the development of Yingji's political ambitions, he reused Fan Ju and Bai Qi, while regaining power from Sigui and his mother, vigorously exerted his political ambitions and strengthened centralized power.
4, Eun Seol is a living person, but also flawed.
In her later years, Ying Ji was too arbitrary and arbitrary, and also caused great losses to the Qin state. For example, after the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi prepared to take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack the Zhao State with a single blow, but the order from Ying Ji was to retreat. The reason why fan ju issued such an order was because fan ju was out of political selfishness, afraid that Bai Qi's outstanding merits after the Battle of Changping would be unfavorable to his future political path, so he lobbied to Ying Jiqiao. After the Battle of Changping, the State of Zhao not only disobeyed the surrender of the city but also joined forces with the State of Qi to engage in anti-Qin activities, and in the anger of Empress Dowager Ji, she ordered Bai Qi to carry out another crusade. However, Bai Qi thought that he had missed the best fighter after the Battle of Changping and was not suitable for another battle. Eun Seol sees this as a challenge to her own authority and kills Bai Qi. A generation of military wizards did not die on the battlefield, but died in political struggles.
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