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Chapter 196 Qin Xiaogong

Su Yue looked at the comment area and said: "Then let's stop talking about the story of the Spring and Autumn Period. Let's take a look at the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period! But the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period are seven fixed people!"

The Warring States Period was a turbulent era in Chinese history with numerous heroes.

During this period, seven outstanding kings stood out. With their outstanding political wisdom and military strategies, they led their respective countries to stand out in the troubled times where the princes were divided.

These seven kings are the overlords of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

The seven overlords of the Warring States Period were Duke Xiao of Qin, Marquis Wen of Wei, King Han Li, King Wuling of Zhao, King Xuan of Chu, King Yi of Yan, and King Xuan of Qi.

The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period are the collective name for the seven most powerful vassal states during the Warring States Period. After the protracted wars for hegemony during the Spring and Autumn Period, the number of vassal states within the Zhou Dynasty was greatly reduced. The Zhou royal family was nominally the co-lord of the world, but in fact it was virtually destroyed. The princely states attacked each other and wars continued.

After the three kingdoms were divided into the Jin Dynasty, Zhao, Wei, and Han were among the powerful states, and the Tian family replaced Qi. The pattern of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period was formally formed. The seven kingdoms are: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei. country, Qin country.

I send my thoughts to the bright moon: Hahahahaha! But to be honest, although the level of these seven people is uneven. But the country can

I can’t sleep at night (Guan): I totally agree!
The pig came to the bowl quickly: Hey, let’s continue quickly!
Su Yue looked at the comment area and said, "Then let's first take a look at Qin Xiaogong in Qingshan Pines and Cypresses!"

Qin Xiaogong (381 BC to 338 BC), whose surname was Ying and Quliang, was also called King Ping of Qin.

The son of Duke Xiang of Qin and the father of King Qin Huiwen.

The twenty-fifth king of Qin during the Warring States Period.

When Qin Xiaogong came to the throne at the age of twenty-one, he issued the "Order to Seek Talents" to attract talents from all over the world, and recruited great talents such as Shang Yang. Qin Xiaogong actively supported Shang Yang's reforms. Through Shang Yang's reform measures, Qin State became rich and powerful. The road of military service paved the way for the subsequent unification of the six countries.

In 346 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin established the feudal system in Qin.

In 341 BC, the Qin army attacked Xibi, the state of Wei.

The following year, Qin Xiaogong planned to attack Wei again under Shang Yang's plan. He wanted to seize the rivers and mountains and move eastward to control the princes and become an emperor.

In 338 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin passed away and was buried in Diyu.

Qin Xiaogong relatively thoroughly completed the reform and improvement of the feudal system of Qin State, promoted economic development, strengthened the centralization of the emerging landlord class, and laid a solid foundation for his descendants, Qin Shihuang, to win the unification of the government. Promoted the progress of Chinese civilization.

My charming and short-lived ancestor: Ahhhhh! That is to say, I am crazily calling for Qin.
Wuduyu: Yes! Qin is awesome!

Who in the clouds sent a brocade book: Again, as soon as Qin comes out, I know the winner will be out!

My dear, don’t leave: I can’t help it, my surname is Ying!
Su Yue looked at the comments and said, "Okay, let's take a look at Qin Xiaogong's deeds!"

Seek talents
When Qin Xiaogong succeeded to the throne, he stood side by side with King Wei of Qi, King Xuan of Chu, King Hui of Wei, Duke Wen of Yan, Han Zhaohou, and Zhao Chenghou.

At that time, the Six Warring States Countries east of the Yellow River and Mount Wei had already formed, and there were more than a dozen small countries between the Huaihe River and Sishui River. The power of the Zhou royal family declined, and the princes used force to conquer and annex each other.

Among the six heroes of the Warring States Period, Chu, Wei and Qin bordered each other.

The Wei State occupied the Hexi area that originally belonged to the Qin State, and built the Great Wall northward from Zheng County (today's Hua County, SX Province) along the Luo River.

From Hanzhong County to the south, Chu State occupied Wu County and Qianzhong County. The Qin State was located in the remote Yongzhou and did not participate in the alliance of the princes of the Central Plains countries. It was alienated by the princes and treated them like the barbarians.

After Qin Xiaogong succeeded to the throne, he took it as his own duty to restore Qin's hegemony during the period of Qin Mu Gong. He extended kindness to the orphans and widows, recruited soldiers, clearly stated the law of rewards based on merit, and promulgated the famous order of seeking talents in the country, ordering the people and ministers to offer wealth and strengthen the country. Military strategy. In the same year, Qin Xiaogong sent troops in two directions, besieging Shaanxi City in the east (today's Hancheng City, SX Province), and attacking Xirong in the west, killing King Xirong.

Zhao and Han also took advantage of Qin Xiaogong's unstable succession to lead their armies to attack Qin.

In the second year of Qin Xiaogong (360 BC), King Xian of Zhou sent envoys to bring sacrificial meat.

Battle of Hexi
It was the wish of Qin Xiangong and Qin Xiaogong to regain the lost land in Hexi and restore the hegemony during the Qin Mugong period.

As early as the period of Qin Xiangong, Qin and Wei fought many wars over the Hexi area. Among them, Qin fought in Luoyin (southwest of Dali County, SX Province today), Shimen Mountain (southwest of YC City, SX Province today), Shaoliang (southwest of today's YC City, SX Province) Today's SX Province, southwest of Hancheng City) won three battles.

After Shang Yang's two reforms, the Qin State became powerful and had the ability to regain the Hexi region.

In the eighth year of Qin Xiaogong (354 BC), Zhao invaded Wei's ally Weiguo and captured Qi and Fuqiu (both in today's Changyuan County, HEN Province).

This move led to the intervention of Wei State, who sent troops to assist the defense and surrounded Handan, the capital of Zhao (today's Handan City, HEB Province).

Qin Xiaogong took advantage of the opportunity for the main force of the Wei army to attack, and sent troops to sneak attack the Wei state. They attacked Yuanli (south of today's Chengcheng County, SX Province), an important stronghold of Wei's Great Wall west of the river. He defeated the Wei army, annihilated 7,000 defenders, and occupied Shaoliang.

In the same year, Qin Xiaogong ordered Gongsun Zhuang to lead an army to attack South Korea and surrounded Jiaocheng (today's west of Sanmenxia City, HEN Province), but failed to capture it. He occupied Shangzhi, Anling (to the north of today's Yanling County, HEN Province), and Shanshi (today's Xinzheng, HEN Province). Northeast of the city) and built a city, inserting it into the border area of ​​Wei and Han.

Situation of the Warring States Period
In the ninth year of Qin Xiaogong (353 BC), the Qi army joined forces led by Jing Enemy of Song State and Gongsun Cang of Wei State to besiege Xiangling of Wei State (today's Sui County, HEN Province).

At this time, the main force of the Wei army had conquered Handan, the capital of Zhao State, but was defeated by the Qi army that came to rescue Zhao State in the Battle of Guiling. King Xuan of Chu also sent General Jingshe to lead his troops to rescue Zhao State and captured Wei State's Suishui and Haishui Rivers. land in between.

Taking advantage of the emptiness in Wei, Duke Xiao of Qin appointed Shang Yang as Daliang Zao in the tenth year of Duke Xiao of Qin (352 BC). He led his troops to march in, surrounded Wei and occupied Anyi, the old capital of Wei (today's northwest of Xia County, SX Province). .

King Wei Hui hurriedly sent troops to build the Great Wall of Laoshan (starting from Laoshan in the southeast and reaching the Yellow River in the northwest) east of Guyang (i.e. Dingyang, east of today's YA City, SX Province), the important place in Shangjun, to prevent the Qin army from attacking.

In the eleventh year of Qin Xiaogong (351 BC), Shang Yang led his troops to surround and occupy Guyang.

Qin and Wei made peace
In the 352th year of Qin Xiaogong ( BC), King Wei Hui mobilized Korean troops to defeat the Qi, Song, and Wei coalition forces surrounding Xiangling. Qi was forced to ask General Jing She of Chu to mediate, and all countries ceased war.

In the eleventh year of Qin Xiaogong (351 BC), King Hui of Wei and Marquis Cheng of Zhao formed an alliance by the Zhang River and withdrew from Handan, the capital of Zhao.

After the Wei State successively negotiated peace with various countries, it concentrated its forces to counterattack westward, recaptured Anyi and surrounded Guyang.

In order to buy time to carry out the second reform in the country, Qin Xiaogong established an alliance with King Hui of Wei in Tongdi (southwest of Huaxian County, SX Province) in 350 BC, which eased the tense relationship between the two countries.

In the name of meeting the Emperor of Zhou, King Hui of Wei summoned the twelve princes of Sishang to hold an alliance and planned to attack Qin.

Qin Xiaogong ordered to strengthen defense and adopted Shang Yang's strategy of "respecting Wei as king" to change Wei's intention to attack Qin.

In the 344th year of Qin Xiaogong ( BC), Duke Xiao of Qin sent Shang Yang to lobby King Hui of Wei, persuading him that in addition to ordering the twelve small countries of Song, Wei, Zou, and Lu, he should also unite with Yan State to the north and attack eastward. Qi State, forcing Zhao State to surrender; uniting Qin State to the west, attacking Chu State to the south, forcing South Korea to surrender, this way hegemony can be achieved.

Shang Yang also suggested that King Hui of Wei should obey the aspirations of the world and become king first, and then strive for hegemony.

King Hui of Wei listened to Shang Yang's lobbying and began to proclaim himself king. He built a palace according to the emperor's specifications, made red clothes and nine Shi and seven-star flags, and called all small countries to participate in the Fengze (today's KF City, HEN Province) alliance. Qin Gongzi Shao Officials and Zhao Suhou were also invited to attend. After the princes gathered together, they went to see the Emperor of Zhou.

King Hui of Wei's act of violating etiquette aroused the anger of Qi, Chu and other countries, and the princes turned to Qi one after another.