Zhai You said: "During the reign of King Zhou Li, the Zhou royal family was in dire straits. At this time, Xirong began to loot on a large scale. However, because the Qin people were located between the Zhou royal family and Xirong, they had to block the plunder for the Zhou royal family. Feizi's ancestor's brother, That is, the grandson of Marquis Shen Ying formed a lineage, and in these several battles, the entire clan was wiped out."
"It was also from this time on that the people of Qin and Xirong forged a bloody feud."
"When King Xuan of Zhou came to the throne later, he made the leader of the Qin people, ancestor Qin Zhong, a doctor."
"Let Ancestor Qin Zhong continue to lead the people to resist Rong Di."
"In the 20th year of our ancestor Zhong of Qin, he was ordered by King Xuan of Zhou to attack Xirong. However, at that time, the Qin people were attacked several times by Rong and Di. However, they were weak and had no gains. However, the Qin people had a deep hatred for Xirong. Even if the attack was fruitless, Still insisting on fighting Xirong, but "
"In the 22nd year of Qin Zhong's ancestor, our ancestor was defeated and died in the battle against Rong."
"After the death of Qin Zhong's ancestor in battle, King Zhou Xuan launched the Battle of Chengpu that shocked the world. In this battle, the Qin people finally recaptured the Quanrong occupied by Xirong, and Qin Ye, the son of Qin Zhong's ancestor, also Therefore, he was granted the title of Doctor of the Western Frontier."
"After the death of the ancestor Zhuang Gong, my ancestor gave up his inheritance status and gave up the throne to Duke Xiang."
Speaking of which.
Zhai You was even more excited and said: "My ancestors gave up the throne and led the people to continue fighting against Rong and Di. Therefore, they swore a poisonous oath."
"Rong people, kill my father and ancestors."
"If I cannot kill King Rong with my own hands and avenge this bloody sea of blood, I will never return to the capital for the rest of my life."
Hear the words.
Ji Heng's mouth twitched.
He took a deep look at Zhai You, and already understood why the Zhai family would stay in Qinting. It was probably because Qin Shifu's poisonous oath had not been completed, and their lineage really had no shame in returning to the capital. At that time, the Qin people's capital In Xicui, he could not return to the capital, so he could only stay in Qinting.
Sending poison and swearing to harm people!
However, Ji Heng still underestimated Qin Shifu. '
Qin Shifu actually led the Qin people to fight against Xirong for six or seven years. Not only did he fail to avenge his father and ancestors, he was eventually captured by Xirong and imprisoned for more than a year. In the end, it was Qin Xianggong who negotiated with Xirong many times. Only then was he released.
Zhai You certainly knew this.
But after all, he was his direct ancestor, so he would not say much, and said a few words vaguely. Qin Shifu fought bravely at that time, and then quickly skipped this paragraph, but how could Fusu and others not understand the meaning? With just a little thought, I can already guess a lot.
Several people tacitly did not expose it.
Ji Heng didn't pay much attention to this little episode.
He also heard something from Zhai You's words. During the reign of King Zhou Li and King Zhou Xuan, the relationship between the Qin people and the Zhou people was probably not good. Otherwise, if the Qin people tried so hard to stop them, King Zhou Xuan would not be indifferent. Even if he sent troops later, it would be the same. Wait until Qin Zhong dies.
This may be intended to weaken the Qin people.
After all, when the entire Western Zhou Dynasty conquered the Rong and Di, it was the Qin people who ultimately benefited.
Because it is the people of Qin who border Rongdi.
Not from Zhou Dynasty.
If the Qin people are not weakened, the Qin people may become bigger as a result.
Zhai You continued to talk, Qin Xianggong was obviously much smarter than his brother Qin Shifu.
He no longer wanted to defend the Zhou people from swords, nor did he want to waste Rong Di on behalf of the Zhou people, so he did not bite the bullet and fight Rong Di again, but chose to hide his power and bide his time, and even married his sister to King Feng of Xirong. , used to divide the Rong tribe and buy time for themselves to recharge their batteries.
Otherwise.
In order to avoid fighting with Rong Di, Qin Xianggong also chose to move the capital.
They moved from the west to Qiyi and began to expand their power to the east to open up a new living space.
Under the leadership of Qin Xianggong, the strength of the Qin people continued to increase.
It can even be compared with Qi at that time.
To know.
At that time, Qin was only a senior official.
In Zhai You's eyes, Qin Xianggong seemed to be working for the king of Zhou, and he had been loyal and loyal to resist Rong Di.
Ji Heng disagreed with Zhai You's cognition.
If Qin Xianggong was really so loyal, he would not be the founding king of Qin.
However, Ji Heng didn't have much interest in these. He was more concerned about how Qin Xianggong rose from a small Xicui doctor to the founding king of Qin, the tiger and wolf country that swept across the six kingdoms. There must be a reason for this. .
At that time, the Zhou Dynasty was obviously deliberately wary of the Qin people.
Why would there be such a big reward later?
Zhai Youzi didn't know what Ji Heng was thinking. He clarified his thoughts and said: "The following situation is very familiar. King Zhou You favored Bao Si and deposed the then prince Yijiu and the daughter of Marquis Shen who was the queen. This move aroused the dissatisfaction of Shenhou, and Shenhou, the king of Xishen, joined forces with Rongdi to attack Haojing. The city of Haojing was destroyed, and King You of Zhou was defeated and killed. As a result, the Zhou Dynasty had a situation where two kings were in control."
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Zhai You continued to talk.
Ji Heng frowned slightly.
He looked through the history books beside him.
My mind kept replaying my memories of this period of history.
What impressed him most was actually the Fenghuo Opera on the Princes.
But Zhai You didn't mention it at all.
After thinking about it for a while, Ji Heng suddenly figured it out.
There is no beacon fire drama at all.
The large-scale use of beacon smoke in military affairs only existed in the Han Dynasty. Although the Qin people began to use it in military affairs, the scope was actually very small. It was impossible for King Zhou You to rely on beacon fire to travel hundreds of miles. However, it is recorded in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" It's not a beacon fire, it's a drum beat.
But the picture of notifying princes hundreds of miles away through relay drumming is really a bit abstract.
But this may be the historical truth.
Ji Heng looked at the bamboo slips under him, seeming to remember something, and flipped through dozens of bamboo slips.
finally.
He found what he wanted.
"Tsinghua Slips" and "Bamboo Chronicles".
"Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" is a history book recorded by the historians of Chu State.
"Bamboo Book Annals" is a history book recorded by Jin historians and Wei historians after the Jin Dynasty.
He combined what Zhai You said with these two historical books, pondered in his mind for a while, and gradually clarified a line.
A line from a foreign relative!
Ji Heng said in a deep voice: "The father-in-law of King You of Zhou was Shenhou, the king of Shen State. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the royal family was defended by Zheng State and Guo State. Both countries were granted titles near Zong Zhou."
"Judging from the chronology of the Bamboo Book, Shen State was an ancient state with the surname Jiang and was founded in the Xia Dynasty."
"During the time of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty, the Kingdom of Shen was divided into the Kingdom of Xishen and the Kingdom of Nanshen. This may be the result of the intentional differentiation of the Zhou royal family, and the price of the differentiation is that the king of Xishen, Marquis Shen, can be an important minister of the King of Zhou and can also cooperate with the king of Zhou. There was a marriage between the Zhou royal family, so within a few decades, Shen Guo formed a powerful force of foreign relatives within the Zhou royal family."
"It can even be powerful enough to influence the internal affairs of the Zhou royal family!"
"I have been reading the history of Qin these days, and it is recorded in it that at that time, King Zhou Xiao wanted to change Feizi to be the heir of Daluo, so as to replace the grandson Yingcheng of the Marquis of Shen, but he was blocked by the Marquis of Shen. So King Xiao of Zhou followed the current and granted another piece of land to Feizi."
"He also allowed Feizi, who was born as a concubine, to resume worship in the ancestral temple with the surname Ying."
"This is clearly a political game."
"King Xiao of Zhou divided the Qin people who were close to Marquis Shen by rewarding Fei Zi."
"Qin Feizi, who was originally a concubine, suddenly became a major surnamed Ying. This move will definitely make Ying Cheng, the eldest son, dissatisfied. Ying Cheng's grandfather was Shen Hou, and when Qin Feizi went to Qin Ting, Xirong They have taken action many times, and Xirong has a close relationship with Shen State, so what you said before, Zhai You, is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Zhai You was stunned.
Ji Heng slowly stood up and said while thinking: "You said earlier that Yingcheng's lineage was a tribe that was suppressed during the confrontation with Xirong, but Yingcheng is the grandson of Shenhou and is already close to Xirong. This statement is basically It is untenable. It is most likely that Qin Feizi cooperated with the Zhou royal family to fight against Ying Cheng and Xirong, and in several battles, the Ying Cheng lineage was completely wiped out."
"Destroying the Yingcheng lineage may be Qin Feizi's show of loyalty to the Zhou royal family."
"This may be the beginning of the bad relationship between the Qin people and Xirong."
"All of this is actually a secret power grab by the Zhou royal family and the successive Shen Hous."
"However, the Marquis of Shen is not a vegetarian. After the Yingcheng line was wiped out, the Marquis of Shen immediately married his daughter to Feizi to win over the Qin people's power, and the Qin people were able to breathe. However, this move was evil. He killed the Zhou royal family, so he has always been targeted by the Zhou royal family."
"The Bamboo Book records the year."
"King You of Zhou deposed Yijiu, the grandson of the Marquis of Shen, as the crown prince, and appointed Bao Si's son Bopan as the crown prince. However, Yijiu fled to his grandfather's country of Xishen. King You of Zhou was furious and sent troops to besiege Xishen. The Marquis of Shen planned and fell into the trap of the Marquis of Shen and Xirong, and was eventually defeated and killed together with his new crown prince Bopan."
"It seems that King Zhou You killed the dog soldiers by accident."
"But that's not the case."
"In the seventh year of King You of Zhou Dynasty, Guo State destroyed Jiao State and moved Guo State to Sanmenxia. Sanmenxia has always been known as "Five Mountains, Four Ridges and One River". It borders Guanzhong to the west, three Jins to the north, and guards the Central Plains to the east. , and Hangu Pass, which can only be opened by one man and cannot be opened by ten thousand men, is located here."
"Judging from the various measures taken by King Zhou You, he may have realized the threat of Shen Kingdom very early and started to prepare for a rainy day."
"Once the expedition to the west against Rong and Di is unfavorable, we can still move east to avoid disaster."
"In the tenth year of King You of Zhou, King You of Zhou made an alliance with the princes of the world at Songshan. This alliance was probably to discuss fighting against the Rong and Di. Therefore, it can be roughly concluded that the Zhou royal family at that time suffered many intrusions from the Xirong, and the Zongzhou area was already in danger. , the hereditary aristocrats and bureaucrats in the country have long been unable to get rid of them."
"Combined with the paradox of the people during the reign of King Zhou Li."
"King You of Zhou was actually a monarch who tried hard to govern. Within a few years of taking the throne, he made a lot of political and military arrangements. In order to get rid of the control of the court by his father-in-law, Marquis Shen, who had close contacts with Xirong, he finally chose to take risks. , deposed Shenhou’s daughter and grandson Yijiu, but unfortunately fell short in the end and was stabbed in the back by the ‘great filial son’ Zhou Ping Wang Yijiu, who secretly communicated with Shenhou and Quanrong.”
"In the end he was defeated and killed."
"He ended up with a tragic ending of death, destruction of the country, and infamy for eternity."
"King Ping of Zhou seriously violated the Zhou rites because of his father-killing and regicide, so he was not recognized by the princes of the world. In order to win the support of the princes, King Ping of Zhou made many promises to the princes of the world, including officially making Qin a prince. , and at the same time promised to reward the Qin people with the hometown of Zongzhou, where the Zhou people have lived for generations."
"This is the true reason for the rise of the Qin people."
"It was precisely because of King Ping of Zhou's improper way of winning the country that the prestige of the Zhou royal family was completely lost, and the world has since entered a turbulent and chaotic era in which rituals, music, and conquests all come from the princes."
Ji Heng sighed softly.
Shi Shiran sat back down.
In the past, he was very vague about this period of history and had always had doubts. However, after reading "Bamboo Chronicles", "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" and Zhai You's oral account, he had a clear understanding of the events of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the last few decades, the Zhou royal family experienced a thrilling political struggle.
But in the end, the Zhou royal family failed.
King Zhou Li was bewildered by his countrymen and fled the country for more than ten years. King Zhou Xuan, the rejuvenating monarch, was shot dead by a noble during a hunting trip. King Zhou You was stabbed in the back by his dutiful son.
The Zhou royal family was completely devastated by this disaster!
(End of chapter)
