Sunset The road to the endgame of the last monarch of the Six Kingdoms of the Warring States

Mondo History Updated on 2024-03-04

Li Bai said: "King Qin swept Liuhe, and looked at He Xiong!" It is said that Qin Shi Huang swept away the six countries and unified the world, and his momentum was unstoppable. So, Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, what was the end of the life of the last monarch of these Six Kingdoms? Let's take a look.

Life Ending: Died in exile.

Life profile: Qi Wang Jian (280 BC-221 BC, 60 years old), Wang Mang was posthumously honored as the king of Qi Jing and the new ancestor, and was the deceased monarch of Tian Qi in the Warring States Period. He reigned from 264 to 221 BC, a period of 44 years.

During the reign of Qi Wangjian, the State of Qi was stabilized by the support of the Empress Dowager, and on the other hand, because of the strategy of distant friendship and close attack of the Qin State, the State of Qi was encircled, and the three Jin Dynasty such as Han, Wei, and Zhao were given priority to attack, so that the State of Qi was able to enjoy peace.

After the death of the queen, the queen's brother Hou Sheng reigned. Hou Sheng is a **, under the continuous bribery of the Qin State, the Qi State stood by and watched the other five countries, and finally after the destruction of the Five Kingdoms, Tian Qi was also destroyed by the Qin State. Qi Wang Jian also died in exile.

The king of Qi built Sun Tian'an, who was named the king of Jibei at the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties. His descendant Wang Mang added the name of King Qi as "Jing".

Life ending: The Qin army attacked the city and was defeated and died.

Life profile: Changping Jun Xiong Qi (271 BC - 223 BC), surnamed Mi, Xiong, Mingqi, the son of King Chu Kaolie, and his mother was the daughter of King Zhaoxiang of Qin. At the end of the Warring States Period, he was the prime minister of Qin, the cousin of Qin Shi Huang, and the last king of Chu.

Xiong Qiyuan was the prince of Chu at the end of the Warring States Period, and was named the Prince of Changping, who was in Qin, and was the minister of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang and Qin Shi Huang. In 238 BC, he was ordered to quell the rebellion of Chang Yu with Lü Buwei and Chang Wenjun, and was appointed as Xiangbang, and was later sent to Yingchen by Qin Shi Huang to pacify the Chu people.

In the twenty-second year of the reign of King Qin (225 B.C.), Changping Jun rebelled against Qin and Yingchen, and then fought unfavorably and retreated to Huainan. In the fifth year of the reign of the king of Chu (223 BC), the Qin army captured the Chu capital Shouchun and was captured. Changping Jun was embraced as the king of Chu by the Chu general Xiang Yan (Xiang Yu's grandfather) and continued to rebel against the Qin state in the Huainan area. Wang Jian and Meng Wu led the Qin army to attack, Changping Jun was defeated and died, Xiang Yan committed suicide, and the state of Chu was destroyed.

Life ending: The country was captured alive by the Qin army.

Life profile: Yan Wangxi (year of birth and death unknown), whose real name is Ji Xi, is the son of King Yan Xiao, and is the last monarch of Yan during the Warring States Period.

In the third year of King Yan Xiao (255 BC), King Yan Xiao died, so he inherited the throne of Yan State, and was known as Yan Wang Xi in history.

In the twenty-eighth year of Yan Wangxi (227 BC), the Qin State attacked Yan and marched to Yishui (Yi County, Hebei). Yan Prince Dan sent Jing Ke, Qin Wuyang and others to assassinate Qin Wangzheng in the name of offering the map of Governor Kang and the name of Qin General Fan Yu in the first rank. Prince Dan of Yan fled to Liaodong (now Liaoyang City, Liaoning), and on behalf of Wang Jia, he instigated King Yan to kill his son and sacrifice his head to relieve the anger of King Qin. In the twenty-ninth year of Yan Wangxi (226 years ago), the Qin king sent Wang Jian to lead the army to attack Yan, and in October of the same year, he broke the Yan capital Jicheng.

In the thirty-third year of Yan Wangxi (222 BC), Wang Ben broke Liaodong and captured Yan Wangxi alive, and the Yan Kingdom perished.

King Youmiao of Zhao (c. 245 BC?) ), his real name is Zhao Wangqian, also known as Zhao Youmiao Wang, Ying's surname, Zhao's name, and his name is Qian. He was the last monarch of Zhao during the Warring States Period of China, the son of King Xiang of Zhao, and his mother was the queen of Zhao Mourning.

King Wei fake (?) - 225 BC), formerly known as Wei Fake, son of Wei Zeng, King of Wei Jingyu. King Wei took three years of vacation (225 years ago), Qin general Wang Ben led the Yellow River and the chasm to irrigate the city of Daliang, flooded for three months, countless dead and wounded in the city, the king of Wei surrendered, the Wei state perished, where the eight passes, the nine monarchs.

The Zizhi Tongjian records that the King of Wei was executed after the fake surrender, but there is no record of his whereabouts after the surrender in the Historical Records.

Han Wang'an, surnamed Ji, Han, named An, reigned for 9 years. When Han Wang'an ascended the throne, the situation in Korea was as dangerous as an egg and it was on the verge of extinction.

In 231 B.C., Han Wang'an dedicated Nanyang (now the south of Wangwushan (Taihang Mountain) in Henan Province and the area north of the Yellow River), and in September of the same year, King Qin appointed the Korean general Nei Shi Teng as the Nanyang Shou.

In the seventeenth year of the reign of King Qin (230 years ago), the Qin State sent Shi Teng to lead 100,000 divisions to cross the Yellow River to the south to attack Korea, all the way like a bamboo, almost no resistance, captured Han Wang'an, built Yingchuan County with Han land, and established the county in Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan), and Korea perished.

In 226 BC, the former Korean nobles in the former Korean capital of Sinjeong rebelled, which was later put down, and Han Wangan was executed in this year.

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