During the Warring States Period, Guiguzi was a great figure, and he accepted four proud protégés: Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin and Pang Juan. Among them, only Su Qin and Zhang Yi left a record of worshipping Guiguzi as a teacher in history, and Sun Bin and Pang Juan were recorded as Guiguzi in the "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" and other historical **, but they were not confirmed by the official history.
Su Qin and Zhang Yi studied under Guiguzi at the same time, but the relationship between the two was not close, just like the relationship between Sun Bin and Pang Juan later. After Su Qin completed his studies, he bid farewell to his mentor and began a long career of travel, during which he experienced many difficulties.
Under the double blow of material life and mental pressure, he had to return to his hometown. However, instead of being understood and accepted by the villagers, he was ridiculed and ridiculed, believing that he was not doing his job properly and achieving nothing.
Faced with this, Su Qin felt hopeless, so he chose to close his door and become an otaku. However, he found that reading a lot of books didn't change his life, which left him confused and disappointed.
Su Qin locked himself at home for a copy of "Zhou Gongyin Fu" and studied it without sleep or food. This book is said to have been written by the Yellow Emperor and is a book of ancient wonders. After a long period of hard study, Su Qin finally comprehended the technique of combining vertical and horizontal.
This set of techniques is very important for lobbying the kings of various countries, and Su Qin is convinced that he has mastered the essence, so he leaves his hometown and begins his lobbying career.
He first came to King Xian of Zhou in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. King Zhou Xian showed a strong interest in Su Qin, but his ministers looked down on Su Qin because of his poor background and united to drive Su Qin away.
This undoubtedly made Su Qin deeply disappointed, but he was not discouraged. Next, Su Qin came to the Qin Kingdom, hoping to find an opportunity to display his talents here.
However, King Qin Hui had just executed Shang Ying, and the Qin State, who was sensitive to lobbyists, did not have a good impression of Su Qin, and he was not reused. Su Qin did not give up because of this, and he went to Zhao to seek opportunities.
However, Zhao Suhou of Zhao was quite friendly to Su Qin, but his younger brother Zhao Cheng served as the state minister and was very disgusted with Su Qin. Despite suffering one failure after another, Su Qin did not give up, and he firmly believed that his failures were not all caused by the environment, but his own problems.
In this process, Su Qin constantly reflected on himself and learned self-reflection. However, sometimes, people and things are so annoying, they just make you incomprehensible, they just want to disgust you.
Therefore, there is no need to over-reflect on yourself and learn to accept those things that cannot be changed.
Su Qin was in a difficult situation, but he never gave up. The development in Yan Country was not smooth, but he still persevered, and waited for a long time to meet Yan Wenhou, the monarch of Yan Kingdom.
He pointed out that Yan should be worried about the Zhao State next to it, not the Qin State in the distance, and suggested that Yan and Zhao State form an alliance against Qin State. Yan Wenhou deeply agreed, gave Su Qin a heavy responsibility, and funded him to negotiate on behalf of Yan Guo.
Su Qin returned to Zhao and succeeded in convincing Zhao Suhou, the monarch of Zhao, that Zhao should unite with the other six kingdoms to attack Qin. Zhao Suhou was shocked by Su Qin's idea and deeply admired the young man's intelligence and ambition.
Su Qin's talent was recognized by Zhao Suhou, who decided to fully support Su Qin. In the process of Su Qin's lobbying of the monarchs of various countries, his wisdom and erudition were appreciated and recognized by the monarchs of various countries.
King Xuan of Han expressed his support for Su Qin's wise idea; King Xiang of Wei and King Xuan of Qi expressed their willingness to listen to Su Qin's teachings and follow the state; King Chu Wei expressed his willingness to obey Su Qin's dispatch with the strength of the whole country, in order to fight against the Qin state, for the people and the common people.
Su Qin succeeded in convincing the Six Nations to cooperate and was appointed as the head of the Six Nations Alliance.
The "Vertical Plan" is about to be launched, Su Qin needs a helper who can stabilize the Qin State, and Zhang Yi is a good candidate in his eyes. He warmly invited Zhang Yi to come to Zhao State, promising that he would be supported and cared for by Su Qin.
However, after Zhang Yi came to Zhao State, he found that he was left out in the cold, had poor food and housing conditions, had no opportunity to show his talents, and was criticized by Su Qin in public many times. This made Zhang Yi very disappointed, and his trust in Su Qin gradually collapsed.
Zhang Yi angrily left Zhao and entered Qin. Actually, this was Su Qin's plan. He hoped that Zhang Yi could go to Qin to help him monitor Qin, because Qin was the most powerful, and Zhang Yi was talented, so he could develop there.
However, Su Qin's way of executing the plan was wrong, and he ordered Zhang Yi to leave Zhao by squeezing out and suppressing him. Zhang Yi had a strong sense of self-esteem, and he realized that this was an opportunity, and after receiving Qin's support, he lobbied the Six Nations to sabotage the cooperative relationship between them in order to avenge Su Qin's humiliation of him.
Zhang Yi became a prime minister, received funding, and sent an envoy to the Six Nations. He wants to be the first saboteur of Su Qin's great cause.
Zhang Yi is a real talent, and his lobbying skills are almost on par with Su Qin, or even surpass. According to the Historical Records, he succeeded in persuading King Huai of Chu to withdraw from the Six-Power Alliance and become close to the Qin State.
He then persuaded Han, Qi, Zhao, and Yan, all of whom chose to make friends with Qin and abandon the Six-Power Alliance. In the process, Su Qin's great cause of cooperation was seriously damaged.
In the end, Zhang Yi served as the prime minister in the Wei state, while Su Qin returned to the Yan state, and his fate was more tortuous than Zhang Yi's. Although he served as the prime minister of Qi State, he was actually also a spy of Yan State, and wreaked havoc in Qi for the benefit of Yan State, resulting in internal and external difficulties and rapid decline of Qi Land.
Su Qin's career ended in tragedy. His act of serving the Yan State was detected by the Qi State, and the Qi State was furious, which eventually led to Su Qin being torn apart. Su Qin's death gave the Yan State an opportunity to launch an attack on the weakening Qi State, capturing more than seventy cities and almost destroying them.
Although the nationality of Su Qin is unknown in the history books, he is certainly not from the Yan Kingdom. However, why would he dedicate his life's wisdom to the Yan Kingdom? The answer is simple, because Yanguo is where his dream began.
Without the appreciation of King Yan, there would be no later Six Kingdoms Xiangyin Su Qin. For Su Qin, his career began in the Yan Kingdom and must end with the Yan Kingdom.