A TV series "Qiao Family Compound" gives us a taste of the shrewdness and strongness of Jinshang (Shanxi businessman), the true color of the businessman is exquisite, weighing the balance between the interests of all parties, and then maximizing the interests. Some people once joked that let us not overlook a problem, during the Warring States period, Zhang Yi was a native of an yi in the old capital of the State of Wei (the State of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was later divided into Zhao, Wei, and Han), not from Henan but from Shanxi, because Anyi corresponded to the area near today's Xia County, Shanxi, and the specific location of Zhang Yi's hometown was believed to be in Wanrong County, Shanxi. In that turbulent Spring and Autumn Era, how would the ancestors of the Shanxi people, the Jinguo people, interpret their shrewdness?
The shrewdness of the Jin people can be recorded in the annals of history, thanks to two countries- the State of Lu and the State of Chu. What's going on here? Let us push the wheel of history back to 634 BC, when in the autumn of that year, Duke Lu, fearful of the powerful State of Qi in the north, formed an alliance with the Wei state in the west and the Ju state in the east at the place of Tao to form an "anti-Qi alliance". In the winter of that year, the monarchs and ministers of the three kingdoms again formed an alliance in this place. At this time, Qi Xiaogong, the monarch of the State of Qi, thought to himself: This old boy of Lu Gong is too capable of getting a chance, do you think that if you engage in the Three Kingdoms Alliance, I will not dare to beat you? The Wei kingdom is in henan, the ju country is a small country, and the king of his own country still beats you.
In 633 BC, the State of Qi sent troops to attack the State of Lu, the first defeat, and the second time the State of Qi attacked the State of Lu. At this time, Duke Lu hurriedly brought foreign aid from the State of Chu and sent emissaries to tell King Cheng of Chu that the State of Qi and the State of Song would not pay tribute to you and disrespect you, and that King Cheng of Chu was worried that there was no legitimate reason to meddle in the affairs of the Central Plains, so he gladly agreed. Faced with the pressure of the Chu army, the State of Song sent Sima Gongsun Gu to the State of Jin for help. Jin Wengong, one of the Five Lords of the Spring and Autumn Period, appeared brilliantly, but as a "king of debt", thinking about how to repay the human debt he owed when he was in exile.
In winter, Chu Zi and the princes besieged the Song Dynasty. Song Gongsun was in a hurry. XianXun said: "Repay the rescue of the sick, take the power of the hegemony, so it is in the end." Fox Yan said: "Chu began to get Cao and the new faint in Wei, if Cao and Wei were to be saved by Chu, then Qi and Song would be spared." ”
——Excerpt from "The Left Biography"
The Grand Master of the Jin Dynasty, Xianxun, said to Jin Wengong: "Through this battle, you can rescue the troubled Song Kingdom, and also repay the kindness that Song Xianggong gave you in those years, which not only established prestige, but also may also lay the foundation of hegemony." It turned out that when Duke Wen of Jin was exiled to the Song Kingdom, Song Xianggong was recently defeated by King Chu Cheng at Hongshui, and in this decline, Song Xianggong still treated Jin Wengong with courtesy and gave him 80 horses and 20 trailers. Such a generous favor to Duke Wen of Jin must also be repaid, through this battle to achieve hegemony, but also to circle a large wave of fans for duke Wen of Jin at home, to redeem the unfavorable wind evaluation of him, because the prince of Jin was taken from his nephew Duke Huai of Jin. Duke Wen of Jin asked Gongsun Gu, the Grand Sima of the State of Song, to wait for the results of the deliberations of the Jin monarchs and courtiers a moment later. The problem is that the State of Song was the great benefactor of the Duke wen of Jin, and the State of Chu was also the benefactor of the Duke of Jin, and the King of Chu Cheng was also a good drink and good dish for him. He could never offend the two benefactors at once, and helping Song Guo would definitely help, and as for how to help the law, it must be considered in the long run.
Duke Wen of Jin's uncle Hu Yan said: "Wei Guo and Cao Guo are the new favorites of the chu vassal states, Cao Guo has just been attached to him, Wei Guo and he have just married, beating this two countries Chu Guo will never sit idly by, so that the siege of the Song State and the State of Qi can be suspended." When Duke Wen of Jin went into exile in the Cao Kingdom, the bad guy cao Gonggong, the ruler of the Cao Kingdom, was naked and crazy, and it was disrespectful to him to peek into his bath, and peeped into his private parts. The reason for beating Cao Guo was legitimate, but the Jin State and the Cao State did not border each other, and there was a Wei State in between. Wei Guo was not courteous enough to treat him at that time, and used Wei Guo to beat Cao Guo, so that Chu Guo would inevitably beat up Jin Guo first, and then Jin Guo would fulfill the promise of Jin Wengong and Chu Chengwang to retreat (retreat 90 miles), and he also returned song Xianggong's favor. This time, the commander of the three armies of the Jin Dynasty (that is, the general of the Chinese army, the three armies, that is, the upper, middle, and lower armies) was recommended by Zhao Wan, and the first was the commander of the lower army. In February 632 BC, He died in the battle, and Xianxun succeeded him as a general in the Chinese army.
The specific details of the Jin dynasty's attack on Cao are omitted here, and will be detailed in other chapters. It is necessary to hand over the service in this process, the cao state monarch Cao Gonggong was captured by the Jin army. Later, the State of Jin made a small plan to let Qin Mugong mediate the contradictions between the warring states, but was categorically rejected by King Chu cheng, who believed that King Chu Cheng did not give him face and brought a large-scale Qin army to the Qin-Chu border, and King Chu Cheng dispatched the main force of the Chu army to defend against the qin state's sneak attack. The State of Chu could not fight on two fronts, and the State of Chu, stationed on the border of the State of Song, ordered Yin Ziyu to send Wanchun to the Jin Dynasty for peace talks, and the State of Chu was ready to withdraw its troops from the State of Song, and you restored the "original seats" of Cao and Wei. Jin Wengong was ready to agree, but Fox Yan stood up and advocated "fighting", because the Chu state was not sincere, and the Chu state negotiated the minister, but the Jin state negotiated the monarch, just like Li Yunlong in the TV series "Bright Sword" said that the unequal ranks of the two were a reason. In addition, in this way, the State of Chu took all the benefits, and the three kingdoms of Cao, Wei, and Song all thanked the State of Chu, and there was nothing to do with the Jin Wengong.
At this moment, a man more shrewd than fox yan appeared, and he opposed the "beating" advocated by fox yan. This person was the commander of the three armies of the Jin state at this time (the general of the Chinese army), Xianxun, who advocated that Wanchun be imprisoned, let the Jin Wengong privately negotiate with the kings of Cao and Wei, and ordered the two countries to send emissaries to break diplomatic relations with the State of Chu and establish diplomatic relations with the State of Jin. From Cao and Wei, each of them gave a piece of land to the State of Song, so that the three kingdoms of Cao, Wei, and Song were all grateful to Duke Wen of Jin, and all the benefits had nothing to do with the State of Chu. The Chu state was already very passive, but Yin Ziyu was unwilling in his heart, thinking that our Chu army had trekked thousands of miles to slip around?
King Cheng of Chu had seen the situation clearly, and ordered Ziyu to meet the Chu army stationed in the state of Qi and immediately withdraw his troops back to China. Zi Yu ignored King Chu Cheng's repeated stares and twisted and twisted again. The Battle of Chengpu between the Jin and Qi armies (at this time the monarch of the State of Qi had changed from the Duke of Qi Xiao to the Duke of Qi Zhao) and the Chu army was about to break out, which changed the historical pattern of the Spring and Autumn Period. The State of Jin was led by the monarch, and the State of Chu was led by the minister, and the soldiers of the State of Jin felt that the emperor of the country was disgraced to avoid the ministers of other countries. Fox Yan said that we belong to the nameless side of the division, when the king of Chu Cheng was kind to our monarch, our monarch did this to give the other side, maybe the Soldiers of the Jin Dynasty felt that the monarch even offered Lizi.
With the Great War imminent, Jin Wengong began to worry about the unknown of the war. In 656 BC, Duke Huan of Qi led the Eight Kingdoms Alliance to Hanshui and did not dare to let go of the battle with King Cheng of Chu, and finally returned without success. In 638 BC, Song Xianggong did not measure up to his own strength, and the Battle of Hongshui was defeated by King Cheng of Chu. On the first day of April in 632 BC, Duke Wen of Jin had a dream in which he was lying on the ground and King Chu Cheng was chewing on his brain. Let's see how Fox Yan interprets the dream: the monarch lies on the ground facing the sky, and gets everything above the heavens, and King Chu Cheng picks at you, indicating that he can only get the earth. Nibble on your brain, and the brain represents the face, proving that you have given enough face to King Chu Cheng. Fox Yan was giving Jin Wengong a reassuring pill - beating. I really want to know how the Zhou Guild interprets this dream?
On the fourth day of April in 632 BC, the fierce Battle of Chengpu ended in only 2 hours. There is a sentence in the "Thousand Character Text" that "False Way to Destroy the Qi, Practice the Soil Alliance", which occurred after the Battle of Chengpu and laid the hegemony of the Jin Wengong. The State of Zheng abandoned the State of Chu and became a vassal state of the State of Jin, and in 627 BC the State of Chu was angry and sent troops to attack Zheng. At this time, the monarch of the State of Jin had changed from duke Wen of Jin to Duke Xiang of Jin, and the State of Jin still followed the old method and sent troops to attack the vassal state of Cai Guo (cai guo, who had a capricious attitude and had participated in the jiantu alliance) to ease the siege of the state of Zheng. Chu Guo led the team by Ling Yin Doubo, and Jin Guo led the team by Yang Chu, the teacher of Jin Xianggong. The two sides confronted each other across the river in the Area of Zhishui in Lushanye County, and Father Yang said that we could not continue to stalemate on the people's territory, either I would retreat and you would come to beat me, or you would retreat and I would attack you.
Dou Bo learned the lesson of Zi Yu, did not dare to trust the shrewd Jin people, and finally decided to retreat the Chu army, letting Yang's father beat him in the past, and Yang's father could not play any tricks. Dou Bowan could not have imagined that his decision would kill him quickly, and When Yang's father saw Dou Bo retreating, he led the Jin army home. As long as Dou Bo did not fight Zheng Guo, the siege of Zheng Guo would be solved, and Yang Fu Father would even complete the task. Father Yang went around preaching that Dou Bo had lost the battle, and that the Jin state would win the battle without a single soldier, and the Chu state would be defeated undefeated. Dou Bo returned to the Chu state after the plan, and was killed by his old enemy Shang Chen (the eldest son of King Cheng of Chu and later King Mu of Chu). Dou Bo, because of his involvement in the selection of King Cheng's successor, told King Chu Cheng that shangchen was of poor character and had formed a grudge with shangchen) falsely accused him that he must have taken the money of the Jin state and would retreat without fighting. King Chu Cheng, in anger, ordered people to kill Dou Bo, and after Dou Bo's death, the aftermath of the Incident of the Jin Dynasty's Yang Father also caused greater hidden dangers to King Chu Cheng himself, which will be described in detail later in this series "Hubei Chapter".
Note: The "Regional Characteristics Of Spring and Autumn" series has been updated successively, including "Shanxi Chapter", "Shandong Chapter", "Shaanxi Chapter", "Henan Chapter" and "Hubei Chapter". Welcome everyone to pay attention to - Han Soul Tang Feng.