Why was Qi Wangjian starved to death by Ying Zheng? Because he refused to give in, he did not get the respect he deserved
Wang Jian died, and the pines and cypresses withered. "(Tang) Sima Zhen, "Historical Travels".
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, etiquette and music declined, and wars were frequent.
After King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi, the Zhou Dynasty was politically stable"Rites"It lost its deterrent effect on the princes, and was initially used to consolidate the ** centralization of power within the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, which eventually led to the demise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Historically, the Zhou Dynasty was divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, and the dividing line was the eastward migration of King Ping of Zhou. The first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is known as the Spring and Autumn Period, and the second half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is known as the Warring States Period; Both the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period actually refer to the Zhou Dynasty, but during this period the Zhou royal family was severely weakened and could only nominally retain the title of Emperor of Zhou.
When the boss's power and reputation cannot be challenged, the original slaves consider taking his place again.
The same is true of the powerful vassal states of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they occasionally want to experience what it is like to be the master, the most prominent of which are the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.
First of all, putting aside the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, if we talk about the Seven Heroes of the Warring States - Han, Zhao, Wei, and the Three Famous Jin Divisions, the hegemonic pattern formed by the Seven Heroes of the Warring States is the greatest threat to the Qin State, not because the Qin State is close to the Qin State because of the Zhou royal family, but because it already has the national strength of the overlord of the world.
Eventually, the Zhou royal family was destroyed by the Qin state.
However, to the relief of the Zhou royal family, shortly after his death, the six counties of Shandong were destroyed by the Qin state one after another.
When the princes of Shandong fell one by one, what did the Qi State do? Instead of uniting to resist, he sent messengers to the Qin State to congratulate him.
The State of Qi surrendered without resistance, and Ying Zheng should have taken special care of Tian Jian, the king of Qi, so why starved him to death? Because he surrendered without any gesture and without the respect he deserved. Tian Jian's story starts with his mother.
The hatred of kings and queens.
Tian Jian was the son of King Xiang of Qi and King Qi Shu. King Qi insisted on destroying the Song Dynasty, triggering the Five Kingdoms to invade Qi, and the Qi State was almost destroyed. If it weren't for the Niu Ren Tian Dan, the Qi State might have become the first vassal state to be removed from the list among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.
After King Qi was killed, his son Tian Fazhang changed his name and surname and worked as a servant in Tai Shi Ci's family. Tai Shici's daughter fell in love with Tian Fazhang at first sight, and made popcorn out of raw rice regardless of 3721. Later, in order to revive the Qi Kingdom, Tian ** pretended to be a servant, found Tian Fazhang, and let him ascend the throne of King Qi, and Tai Shici's daughter became Queen of Qi, known as Queen in history.
The queen saw that King Qi Xiang was by no means an ordinary person. In fact, she has always hated iron and steel. Before dying, the queen told Qi Wang Tian Jian that there were several ministers in the palace who could be reused. Tian Jian said that he couldn't remember, so he hurriedly brought a pen and paper to write it down.
The results came out, and then he asked who the king and queen were, and the king and queen gritted their teeth and said forget it, and then he died, and it was true to think about it, as a head of state, he couldn't even remember his own courtiers, such a king was really a bunch of mud, and the "Warring States Policy" originally wrote such a paragraph: And the king and queen died of illness, and he gave the following order downstairs"The ministers waited for so-and-so's dispatch"。Lou said:"Please write"。The queen said:"Good. "The queen took the pen and took the words and said:"The old woman died (forgot). "
King Qi Jian sent an envoy to the Qin State to celebrate the fall of the Qin State.
In 230 BC, the Qin War broke out, and Korea was the first to be destroyed. Logically, seeing that Qin launched a war of annihilation, the Shandong princes must have realized that their lips were cold and their teeth were cold, but the ruling ministers of the Six Kingdoms at that time would only talk about joint resistance to Qin if Qin's money played an important role.
There is also a powerful minister who accepted bribes from Qin, this person is called Hou Sheng, it is said that Wang Jian is the uncle of Wang Jian in Qi, and after the death of the queen, he was appointed by Tian as the prime minister of Qi, but this person is greedy for money, because he ascended the throne, a large number of gold, silver and jewelry from Qin State were continuously sent to Hou Sheng's mansion.
When people have short mouths, Hou Sheng is no exception, he always said to Qi Wang Tianjian that Qin and Qi have been friends for generations, and hope that they will build a harmonious society and so on. This kind of Tian Ji without subjective assumptions makes Tian Ji very popular, and he can enjoy peace without going to the battlefield, such a good day, the predecessors couldn't ask for it, but it fell on his head, and Qi Wang Tian Ji was overjoyed.
Therefore, under the false olive branch of Qin, when the court of Qi called on Qin to swallow the remaining five kingdoms one by one, Qin did not act (history books point out that because Qin did not help the five kingdoms to attack Qin, they had to destroy the five kingdoms); On the contrary, when Qin destroyed the rest of the vassal states, King Qi Jian also sent envoys to congratulate Qin, which shows the depth of his stupidity.
The indomitable Qi Wangjian lost his last dignity.
By 221 BCE, Qin had destroyed five of Shandong's six vassal states, leaving only Qi still under Qin's control. This made Qin Wangzheng very difficult, so he ordered Wang Ben to attack Qi from Yan. The people of Qi, of course, including Tian Jian, the king of Qi, did not dare to resist.
But if it can't defeat the Qi State, the Qi State will definitely not be reckless. The Qin Wangzheng sent Chen Chi to find Qi Wangjian, and Chen Chi said that as long as the Qi State surrendered, he would give the Qi King a fief of 500 li, and at the same time, Hou Sheng, who was pro-Qin, stood up and persuaded Tian Jian not to resist.
Then what else is there to say, because everyone said that surrender is good, and Tian also thinks it is good, after all, Tian thinks everyone is good, it is really good, and those who surrender can also get five hundred miles of austerity, and their own small life is still too fierce, and then he ordered the army not to resist, the whole country surrendered, and since then the Qi country has perished.
After the fall of the Qi State, Tian Ji, the king of Qi, did not forget the five hundred li fief promised to him by the king of Qin, but when he went to ask for the fief, the king of Qin gave him a remote and barren land"Male"Land, let alone five hundred miles, did not even have a decent place to live, his residence was a thatched house between two trees. What's even more odious is that King Qin didn't give Tian Ji any food, so that Tian Ji finally starved to death and died without dignity.
The princes of Shandong were destroyed one by one, what should the Qi State do? The state of Qi refused to resist and instead sent envoys to the state of Qin to congratulate him. For thirty or forty years, the state of Qi led by Tian Ji did not participate in the wars between the vassal states, which complemented the long-distance and close attacks of the Qin state.
Why did Ying Zheng starve King Qi Jiang to death? Surrender without a statement is not duly respected. Looking at the kings of the vassal states that were defeated, the only one who was humiliated by Yingzheng was Tian Ji, and the Qin State easily defeated Korea, but the reason why Korea was able to defeat the Qin State was because it did not have the strength like the Qi State, and it still had the strength to fight.
Everyone will respect, their own strength will be on par with the opponent, even if they can't beat, clench their fists, find a way to say that they have been defeated by others, they are still a warrior, even if they are regarded as fools, they can also gain the respect of the enemy, they have no strength, but they are spineless, just look down on them, and the king of luck is the most important representative.
This bloody practice of destroying the Six Nations from the beginning could not make the Six Nations unite to resist Qin, so after the defeat, they could only desperately exchange land for peace, and even if they achieved a temporary peace, they directly buried their own lives.
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