Ji Jing, the king of Zhou Xuan, worked hard when he was young, and he was able to follow the advice of his wife Jiang Hou to stay away from wine, thus realizing the ZTE of Western Zhou. However, in his later years, King Xuan became no longer obedient to people's advice, and also listened to the false accusations of his favorite concubine, The Dove, and killed the chancellor Du Bo. Before his death, Du Bo also made a poisonous oath, which was finally fulfilled, allowing King Xuan to die tragically in the hunting car.
Zhou Xuanwang Ji Jing
With the assassination and death of King Xuan, the story of this period is also nearing the end, but as I said last time, there are still some stories that are not mentioned in the "main plot". And most of these "side plot" stories are related to some important princely states, so from today's several articles, we have to tell the "historical story" of the princely states. So, since we have to talk about "historical words" again, who should start with? The author wants to start with the Jin Kingdom, because Du Bo's son Uncle Kui hid in the Jin Kingdom after his father's death, but we are not telling the story of Uncle Kui today, but only following his footsteps to the Jin Kingdom.
So what happened to the story of Jin Guo at this time? This has to be continued from the previous "History of the Jin Dynasty", which was mentioned by the Marquis of Jin named Situ. In the fourth year of King Xuan's reign, that is, in the eighteenth year of the Marquis of Jin, Ji Situ died and was succeeded by his son Ji Ji, known as the Marquis of Jin. Everyone needs to pay attention here that at this time, the monarch who succeeded to the throne of the Jin State was "Xianhou" rather than "Xiangong", but don't be confused, because after the JinGuo, there were indeed monarchs who were called "Xiangong".
Tomb of marquis Xian of Jin
Although the Marquis of Jin xian was not as famous as the later Duke Xian, he was also a relatively promising monarch. During his reign, he was dispatched by King Xuan to follow Wang Shi (then known as the "Su Wei Army") in conquest of Suiyi in present-day Shandong, and achieved a great victory. After the victory, the Xianhou Banshi returned to China, and the Son of Heaven also sent down his blessings, rewarding Jin Guo with fine wine, horses, and countless equipment. After receiving the reward from King Xuan, Xianhou was also very happy, and the special appointees cast two sets of 16 chimes to commemorate the event.
Unfortunately, Marquis Xianhou of Jin died in a hurry shortly after achieving such a feat, reigning for only eleven years in total. However, when he was dying, he could not forget these two sets of chimes, and let his descendants seal them in the tomb as his own funerary products. Until the early 1990s, the tomb of marquis Xian of Jin was stolen and excavated, of which 14 chimes were lost overseas, and the other 2 fell in the tomb, and was later discovered by the archaeological team. Later, the Shanghai Museum rescued the lost chimes from the Hong Kong antique shop, which allowed the 16 "Jinhou Su Bells" (also known as "Wang Zhi Su Bells") to reunite in the embrace of the motherland.
"Marquis Su Zhong of Jin" recovered by Shanghai Museum
Having talked about "Marquis Su Zhong of Jin", we have to continue to talk about it, because this is what we want to focus on today. After the death of Marquis Xianhou, his successor was his son Muhou Jifei Wang, and it was interesting to see if the name was very domineering. In real life, King Ji Fei was also like his name, a more domineering and very interesting Jin monarch.
Saying that Jin Muhou was domineering was mainly reflected in his very ability to fight in battle. According to various historical records, during His reign, Mu Hou successively participated in the Battle of Tiaorong, the Battle of Qianmu, and the Battle of Beirong yu Fen. Although it is not a hundred battles and a hundred victories, at least there are few defeats, or only draws, no defeats. Especially in the Battles of Zhengtiaorong and Qianmu, King Xuan's wang divisions were all defeated, while Mu Hou's Jin army did not suffer a major defeat once, and actually made a great contribution on the other occasion. It can be seen from this that The Marquis of Jin was very good at fighting, and the Jin state at that time had already begun to show its sharp edge.
The Marquis of Jin went out on a campaign
After talking about domineering, let's talk about the fun of Jin Muhou, which is also related to the big battles he participated in. However, his amusement is not that he did something in the war, but that after the two major wars in which he participated, he actually had a son born, which was really a coincidence. What is even more interesting is that King Ji Fei is really brain-opening, and he is stunned to use the results of this battle before each childbirth to name his two sons separately. This can't help but remind the author of the sketch of "SuperNatural Guerrilla" on the spring night, and the corners of my mouth rise when I think about it.
A supernatural guerrilla that has a similarity to That of Jin Muhou
So how did The Marquis of Jin name the two young princes? This first son, named Ji Qiu, was born after the Battle of Tiaorong. From this name, it can also be seen that the Jin state at that time did not win, and it was considered to have a vendetta against the Rong Di gang of Tiao Rong. His second son, named Ji Chengshi, was born after the Battle of Qianmu. Because the main army led by King Xuan at that time was defeated and fled, the Jin state won a partial battle and became the only "successful division". The name of the son born under such a dominant victory also contains joy.
Seeing the names of Mu Hou's two sons, didn't everyone also think it was interesting? However, this fun is only more interesting to us outsiders, and Jin Guo's own people are not happy. For example, it is recorded in the "History of the Jin Dynasty" that at that time, there was a doctor named Shifu in the Jin Dynasty, who expressed his views on the names of the two princes.
ShiFu thought that the names that Mu Hou gave to the two princes were really too strange and too inconsistent with the development of things. Because, in the theory of Shifu, the name of a person is related to the fate of a person, so as the grand duke who will become the Marquis of Jin in the future, there should be a loud and beautiful name. But now the name of the grand duke is named after the word "hate" of hatred, and the name of the little prince actually indicates the achievement of "becoming a teacher", which is not the inversion of the cart before the horse, indicating that the Jin kingdom is going to be in chaos?
In the "Chronicle of History", Shifu predicted that the Jin state would be in chaos
The result of the fact really made Shifu guess correctly, and the fate of ji qiu, the grand duke, did encounter ups and downs. When Ji Qiu's father Mu Hou died, due to his own lack of strength, coupled with his uncle's long-term concern for the position of king of the Jin state, Ji Qiu was forced to flee, and his uncle established himself as the Marquis of Jin, known as Uncle Jin. Ji Qiu, like his own name, married his uncle and wrote down this hatred.
So in the next few years, Ji Qiu secretly accumulated strength and always observed Uncle Yan's movements. Finally, in the fourth year of Jin's uncle, Ji Qiu found a rare opportunity to lead his henchmen to sneak attack successfully, killed his uncle and regained the position of monarch who belonged to him, known as Marquis Wen of Jin.
Everyone sees this and thinks that Ji Qiu's ups and downs are over, right? In this way, it seems that the prophecy of the master's service is not too much of a disaster. But you don't know, in fact, the disaster that Shifu was worried about has not yet arrived, and the events that really made the two bloodlines of Ji Qiu and Ji Chengshi produce earth-shaking changes are still to come. However, this disaster that was really convinced by the teacher will not gradually begin until after the Zhou royal family moves east, we will not have too many spoilers today, and when the story is told at that time, the author will talk about it again.
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