Qin Shi Huang unified the world, although it has been six generations, but the real founder is his great-grandfather Qin Zhaoxiang. One of the most crucial steps was that the Qin army commanded by Wu Anjun Bai Qi defeated the powerful Zhao army at Changping, annihilating 400,000 of its elite soldiers.
So soon after the war, the meritorious Wu Anjun Bai Qi not only did not reward him according to his merits, but was finally forced to commit suicide by King Qin Zhaoxiang because of his careless words and passive sabotage. The reason is not only the ruthlessness of the king, but also the selfishness of sleek politicians, but the most important reason is still in vain.
Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, Qin established a system of military merit promotion. This gave Bai Qi, a descendant of the Chu king, the opportunity to display his talents, because he was a natural military wizard, and since he was born, the generals of various countries of the same era have been eclipsed in front of him. Bai Qi personally led the Qin soldiers to defeat the Chu army and break through the capital of his homeland, Ying, forcing the king of Chu to move the capital to avoid his front. Especially Zhao Kuo, who won the battle of Changping on paper, and at the same time killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers, making the Zhao family hang flags and the whole country is vegetarian. The news spread, and the people of the Six Kingdoms called Bai Qi "the god of killing".
Just when Bai Qi wanted to take the opportunity to destroy Zhao in one go, Fan Sui, who was then the prime minister of Qin, persuaded King Qin Zhaoxiang with his clever words under the persuasion of outsiders.
When the king ordered it, he threw his knife into the ground and sighed, and he couldn't understand why the king would abandon this opportunity to destroy Zhao. Bai Qiyi, who returned to Xianyang, inquired, it turned out that all this was done by Prime Minister Fan Sui, and this guy was afraid that his own merits would be too great to take his place. Bai Qi, who was born in the military, was impatient and rude, and he did not have all the schemings of politicians, so he complained to the King of Qin in a fit of anger and resigned, and sulked behind closed doors.
Because of the withdrawal of the Qin State at the beginning, the King of Zhao had promised to cede the land for compensation, but as soon as the Qin soldiers withdrew, the King of Zhao turned his face and did not admit the land cutting at all. The deceived King of Qin was furious, and immediately ordered someone to summon Bai Qi to look at the matter again, and prepared to send troops to question Zhao Guo. However, Bai Qi analyzed the situation and believed that the Qin army of Zhao State might not be able to take advantage of the additional troops at this time, so he said that he was not sick.
King Qin thought to himself, Qin is full of talents, I don't believe it can't be done without you. So he successively sent two generals to attack Handan for nearly two years, but not only did not take any advantage, but was defeated by the coalition forces of various countries. King Qin was annoyed by this, but Bai Qi, who was not interested, said again, "Qin doesn't listen to the ministers, what will happen now".
Despite this, Bai Qi was a useful person in the Qin State after all, and King Qin Zhaoxiang sent Prime Minister Fan Sui to invite Bai Qi out of the mountain with his own handwritten letter. You see, can sending him to ask for Bai Qi not be counterproductive? As a result, Fan Sui went to Baifu twice, but was scolded by Bai Qi and came back. Fan Sui is a vertical and horizontal family, what he says is the wrong thing and the head is the way, eloquent, such a person comes back to report to the king of Qin, and a few words of adding branches and leaves are enough to make King Qin Zhaoxiang's dialogue start to kill.
After listening to Fan Sui's report, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, who was furious, ordered Bai Qi to be demoted to a soldier and expelled from Xianyang. Not long after Bai Qi left, Fan Sui's words that if Bai Qi voted for another country, he would become Qin's great enemy, completely made King Qin murderous. So he made people cling to his sword, caught up with Bai Qi, and forced him to commit suicide.
Bai Qi, the biggest "killing god" in the Warring States Period, realized until his death that his fate today was really caused by his own heavy karma.