The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, these famous titles in the pre-Qin period have been handed down to this day.
Whether it is the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States Period, it is actually a part of the Zhou Dynasty period, and the reason why it is divided into two parts is not because this period of history is too long, but because the pattern of the entire country has changed dramatically.
Within the dynasty, from the initial thousands of small states in the Spring and Autumn Period, in the continuous annexation, to the end of the Warring States Period, the pattern of Qi, Chu, Yan, Wei, Zhao, Wei, and Han was formed to compete for hegemony. It took only a few hundred years from the initial gentleness to the final life and death, and the most important catalyst was the breakthrough in iron smelting technology and the improvement of agricultural production.
Therefore, at the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were hundreds of countries that could not fight, not really because the "courtesy" was too much, but because the "profit" was not enough. Without enough food and **, it will be difficult to launch a large-scale decisive battle, and in the end, even if one of them is killed, the people on their side will starve to death, and the gains will outweigh the losses.
However, the development of iron tools and the increase of grain production have perfectly solved everyone's worries, and after laying down the other party's land, more grain can be planted to feed more people, and the whole country can become stronger and stronger, and peaceful coexistence under the drive of this interest has become a luxury from then on.
Nearly 3,000 years have passed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the reason why we look back on this period of history is that in fact, the current world pattern is not a new Spring and Autumn Period, and the whole world may also have a new "Warring States Seven Heroes" in the future.
In the past, the Spring and Autumn Period was limited by ** and food, so it stayed at the level of civilized diplomacy. In addition, wars are also limited by the geographical factors of lofty mountains, and many times wars stop at obtaining the submission of the other side rather than annexation, and the purpose is to become a "hegemon", which is similar to the current pattern.
And the key node from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period is the "Three Families of Jin", the original most powerful Jin State became the Three Kingdoms of Zhao, Han and Wei after the civil strife, separating the Qi State in the east and the Qin State in the west, and then the Qi State in the east followed by the "Tian Dynasty Qi", and since then the pattern of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period has been formed.
And in today's world, there are also powerful hegemons disintegrating**, and it is also a big country in the east and west, with many countries in the middle, and the pattern is so similar, but it has been enlarged from the former Central Plains to the world today.
Moreover, the Qi country by the sea held the lifeblood of salt, and also imposed economic sanctions on the other six countries through salt tax increases.
However, although history has laws, it is not static.
Today's world wars have largely gotten rid of the restrictions of mountains and rivers, and what really restricts the transformation from "Spring and Autumn" to "Warring States" is more science and technology and culture.
Therefore, if one day, new breakthroughs are made in science and technology and energy, and when the Pacific can no longer be an obstacle to the war machine, then the final result of war will have the prerequisites for the transformation from "hegemony" to "unification".
And when the benefits of war are higher than the benefits of maintaining peace, then war will definitely break out, and the culture of modern society will be reshaped in one war after another, repeating the process of ritual collapse and happiness.
Now every powerful country has invested a huge amount of money in national defense, in order to become one of the seven heroes of the Warring States one day in the future, when the science and technology break through to that point, instead of the hundreds of small countries that disappeared.
We were never born in an era of peace, but only in a strong country, and may our country become stronger and stronger.
China will never be the first to draw a sword, this is the gentleman's style of a great country, but when China shows its sword, a sword will chill the seven continents.