Jing Ke's assassination of Qin was one of the most famous events at the end of the Warring States period, when Dan, the crown prince of Yan, attempted to prevent Qin from sweeping through the Six Kingdoms by assassinating the monarch of Qin, later known as Qin Shi Huang. In the end, this operation ended in failure, and in the records provided by the historical records, Jing Ke's assassination of Qin had a high success rate. It's just a few small mistakes that ultimately lead to the failure of the whole plan.
I don't think much of this story, because I've pointed out in a previous article that there are many unreasonable doubts about this story. So it is possible that it did not happen, but the story that Qin State forged for its own purposes. But since there is this story, you might as well deduce a question based on it. That is, if Jing Ke's assassination of Qin succeeds, what impact will it have on the Qin State?
First of all, the possibility of preventing Qin from annexing the Six Kingdoms by assassinating Qin Shi Huang envisioned by Prince Yan Dan does exist, but it is extremely low. The reason for the extremely low is that if only the Qin State changes its monarch, the national strength of the Qin State will still suppress all the vassal states, and the trend of unifying the world will not change, but will be delayed. Therefore, if this idea is to succeed, it must weaken the national power of the Qin state.
Will the death of Qin Shi Huang weaken the national power of Qin? It is possible, but it is extremely unlikely. Because only the outbreak of a civil war in the Qin State because of the heir to the throne can achieve the goal of weakening the national strength of the Qin State. But considering that Qin Shi Huang already has a male heir, even if the young monarch ascends the throne, it is unlikely that there will be a civil war, at most it will be a regent of the ministers.
The possible result of a regency is that the young monarch becomes an adult who is dissatisfied with the regency and takes back power from the regent. The form in which power can be regained will never be civil war, and the more common means is a palace coup. Since the civil war would not happen, the national strength of the Qin State would not be weakened. In addition to the possibility that Qin's national strength was weakened due to the civil war, what other possibilities are there?
There is probably another possibility, which may be that the Qin State was angry with the Yan State because of this, and launched a war of annihilation against the Yan State, which accelerated the destruction of the Yan State. What changes will this possibility bring? In fact, there was only a change in the order of the country's destruction, and the Qin State originally put the priority of destroying Yan at the back and concentrated all efforts to eliminate the Chu State. Because after all, the State of Chu is stronger than the State of Yan, and it is strategically right to do so.
However, because of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, the Qin State adjusted the order of the attack targets to allow the Chu State to survive for a while longer. And the state of Chu can only survive for a while longer, and it is impossible to use this time to save the situation. After all, there was only one way for the Chu State to reverse the situation, and that was to reduce the gap in national strength between it and the Qin State. There are two ways to reduce the gap in national strength.
One is to weaken the Qin State and strengthen itself. The method was to attack the Qin State, but the Qin State was fully capable of fighting the Chu State while attacking the Yan State. Therefore, it is almost impossible for the Chu State to take advantage of the opportunity of the Qin State to attack the Yan State. If you don't fight Qin, you can only fight other countries. The Three Jin Dynasty were beaten by the Qin State and there was not much territory left, and eating them did not help the Chu State's national strength much.
The only one who helped was the Qi State, but at that point in time, there were doubts about whether the Chu State had the ability to eat the Qi State. Even if he could eat the Qi State, Qin Chu still had a gap in national strength. What do netizens think about this? Everyone is welcome to leave a message in the comment area and communicate with me.