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What is in front of Ji Yan is not only the repayment of debts, but also the revenge from the Qin State. You old boy dare to play joint anti-Qin, then don't blame me for being ruthless. King Qin Zhaoxiang was a violent temper, and soon sent a large army to the royal city.
A generation of kings, how aggrieved and scumbersome can they be?
He, named Ji Yan, was the longest-reigning monarch of the Zhou Dynasty and the last monarch of the Zhou Dynasty.
He reigned for fifty-nine years and lived to be ninety years old, the most of the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty.
However, for Ji Yan, longevity is not a good thing, because the longer he lives, the more grievances and grievances he will suffer.
And in him, there is also an idiom called high debt.
In 315 BC, Ji Yan succeeded to the throne, and Ji Yan, who had just succeeded to the throne, was in an extremely embarrassing situation.
Because he is an aggrieved Zhou Tianzi who has no land and only the title of king.
Ji Yan's position as the Son of Heaven is really boring, and he is not even as good as an ordinary prince.
"Historical Records of Zhou Benji" recorded: "King Shenliang was established for six years, collapsed, and Ziyun Wang Yanli. During the reign of Wang Xun, the Eastern and Western Zhou were divided. Wang Xun migrated to the Western Zhou Dynasty. ”
In other words, Ji Yangang had no land as soon as he succeeded to the throne, so he had to live in the Eastern Zhou Principality, and was later driven out of the Eastern Zhou Principality by the Qin State, and then lived in the Western Zhou Principality.
As the Son of Heaven, why is he so aggrieved and cowardly?
In 770 BC, Ji Yijiu, the king of Zhou Ping, moved the capital to the east, opening the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. From this time on, the appeal and influence of the Zhou royal family were much less than before.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes of the world began to compete for hegemony, and Zhou Tianzi was an ornament, but the princes of the world were hindered by Zhou Tianzi's courtiers, so they still had to give a little face. At this time, Zhou Tianzi was like an uncle who guarded the door, everyone went in and out of respect on the surface, and they would smile and nod to say hello.
In the Warring States Period, the strength of the princes was unprecedentedly strong, and everyone in and out felt that this janitor was a bit of an eyesore and wanted him to retire.
By the time of Ji Yan's grandfather, King Zhou Xian, the Western Zhou Kingdom was divided into an Eastern Zhou Kingdom, and these two guys were not fuel-efficient lamps, they fought with each other all the year round, and encroached on Zhou Tianzi's territory.
Gradually, Zhou Tianzi became worse and worse, and in the end, only the isolated city of Cheng Zhou remained, and even supporting himself became a problem, and he could only rely on the two Zhou countries in the east and west for support.
When it came to Ji Yan, the king of Zhou, it was really a place where there was no tile on the top and no cone on the bottom. Hang a gourd around your waist, only know the principle of yin and yang, this is really a nest.
At this time, there was a fierce monarch in the Qin State, that is, King Yingdang of Qin.
He is known for his great strength, and he also sent people to find Ji Yan, the king of Zhou, saying that he wanted to lift the Jiuding left over from the Yu period.
"Warring States Policy: Eastern Zhou Policy" recorded: "Qin Xingshi came to Zhou and sought Jiuding, and Zhou Jun suffered from it, so as to tell the face rate." ”
You must know that this legendary Jiuding was a heavy weapon of the town at that time, although Ji Yan did not have any strength, he still had the backbone as Zhou Tianzi, so he refused.
This is a hurry, and at this time, Dong Zhou said that he would no longer continue to bear Zhou Tianzi's expenses, and was bullied by the house slave who used to raise horses for his own family, which is probably not very pleasant.
So Ji Yan moved and moved to the Western Zhou Kingdom.
After Ji Yan moved to the Western Zhou Kingdom, the Western Zhou Dynasty immediately took over the capital city of Chengzhou, which was left by Ji Yan, and in this way, the strength of the Western Zhou Dynasty strengthened a lot.
At this time, the Duke of the Western Zhou felt more like the Zhou Tianzi back then, and the current Zhou Yun Wang Ji Yan was not even a prince, but like a diner raised by himself.
And for Ji Yan, this is just the beginning of grievances.
At that time, the Western Zhou State was weak and weak, and it was sandwiched between the vassal states of Qin, Chu, Han, and Zhao. These vassal states, Ji Yan can't afford to provoke any of them, which is equivalent to a grasshopper dancing on four hot pots, and from time to time he will be involved in the war of these vassal states, and he will be frightened.
In order to be able to protect himself, Ji Yan had to let go of his identity as Zhou Tianzi and curry favor with the surrounding princes.
In this way, Zhou Yun Wang Jiyan persevered for more than 50 years in fear and flattery, and it can be said that he was wronged at home.
But this can't be blamed on Ji Yan, he can't help it, after all, his strength is too weak.
In this era of decay of etiquette, fists are the last word, and the law of survival is the law of survival.
In fact, Ji Yan still has some ambitions.
In 256 BC, as his reign became longer and longer, Ji Yan, who was in his 80s at the time, felt that his life was too much of a nest, and he had to take a strong stand, maybe he could revive the former glory of his ancestors.
It just so happened that at this time, the Chu State in the south, in order to curb the development of the Qin State, took the initiative to move closer to Zhou Tianzi.
Ji Yan, the king of Zhou, decided to stand up and order the princes to attack Qin, and several vassal states agreed to send troops.
Although Ji Yan is not young, his heart is surging, he asked the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty to gather an army of five or six thousand people to act as a "** army", but the problem is, there is no army and no weapons and food, what to do?
So Ji Yan borrowed money from wealthy people in the Western Zhou Dynasty to prepare military funds.
At that time, Ji Yan was full of confidence, and he thought that he could defeat the Qin army and thus obtain the spoils of war to pay off his debts.
But at the agreed time and place, only the State of Chu and the State of Yan symbolically sent out some troops, and the main force was actually the five or six thousand people who he asked the Duke of the Western Zhou to get together
They waited for three whole months, and the vassal states that they had promised to send troops still did not send troops, and then everyone disbanded, and each went back to his own house and found his own mother.
Although the battle did not start, the money that should be spent was not less, and when Ji Yan returned to the Western Zhou Kingdom, those rich people came to Ji Yan with vouchers to repay the money, but Ji Yan had no money to repay, so he hid on a high platform in the palace, but he refused to come forward, this is the story of high debts.
As the king of a country, with the identity of the Son of Heaven, in the end, he relied on borrowing money to fight, and he was forced to run away by creditors, which is also enough to be a nest.
What is in front of Ji Yan is not only the repayment of debts, but also the revenge from the Qin State.
You old boy dare to play joint anti-Qin, then don't blame me for being ruthless.
King Qin Zhaoxiang was a violent temper, and soon sent a large army to the royal city.
"Historical Records" recorded: "King Qin Zhao was angry and made the general attack the Western Zhou Dynasty." The king of the Western Zhou Dynasty was punished, and he sacrificed 36 of his towns and 30,000 mouths. Qin received his dedication and returned to his monarch in Zhou. ”
The Duke of Western Zhou went to Qin to apologize and surrender, and gave up all the land and population, King Zhaoxiang of Qin let the Duke of Western Zhou and Ji Yan return to the country, the two failed to join forces, and the debts could not be returned, coupled with the destruction of the country by the Qin State, a series of blows made the two depressed and sick, and both died of illness that year.
The people of the Western Zhou Dynasty fled eastward, and the Qin State took Jiuding.
Seven years later, during the reign of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, Lü Buwei destroyed the Eastern Zhou Kingdom.
The Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty were successively incorporated into Qin, and since then, the Zhou royal family has no Son of Heaven, and the Zhou Dynasty of Guozuo has been in existence for nearly 800 years.
And for Zhou Yun Wang Jiyan, this may not be a relief.
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