After the unification of the Six Kingdoms after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, when the rebel armies in various places were surging up, the old forces of the Former Six Kingdoms still came out to restore the country, but the situation in each country was different.
1. The State of Qi
The State of Qi was the last of the Six Kingdoms to be destroyed, and the only old force in the Six Kingdoms that truly controlled its own destiny from beginning to end, and their helmsman was Tian Dan, the former king of the State of Qi, and his cousins Tian Rong and Tian Heng.
1. Tian Dan
After the fall of the State of Qi, they moved to Di County. After the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the Tian brothers stepped forward and killed Di Xian Ling, relying on their local power and appeal in the State of Qi, and soon became the most powerful anti-Qin force in the State of Qi, and Tian Dan also became the first King of Qi, the year was 209 BC.
2. Tian Rong
In the new year, Tian Dan died at the hands of the Qin general Zhang Handan in the war. When the Qi state was leaderless, the Qi people supported Tian Fei, the younger brother of the former Qi king Tian Jian, as the king of Qi, and Tian Rong, who was fighting with Zhang Handan on the front line, could not help but be angry from the heart, and immediately returned to the division to expel Tian Fei and set up Tian Dan's son Tian Shi as the successor to the King of Qi. However, after Tian Rong retreated, Xiang Liang was unfortunately killed in the war, and Xiang Yu also recorded this hatred on Tian Rong's body.
Therefore, later, when Xiang Yu was divided, Tian Rong did not get a sub-seal, while The City of Tian of Qi was renamed the King of Jiaodong, and the State of Qi was divided into three, the other two being Tian Du, the King of Qi, and Tian An, the King of Jibei. (I have to say that the descendants of the Tian surname who stood out in the late Qin and early Han dynasties really far surpassed the descendants of the other five kingdoms.) An angry Tian Rong took away Tian Du and Tian An in one fell swoop, and even his nephew Tian Shi, who wanted to confess, was also taken away in one fell swoop and established himself as king.
3. Tako
Xiang Yu naturally did not allow the State of Qi to grow, and continued to send troops to defeat Tian Rong, who finally died at the hands of the Plains people. Soon, however, Tian Heng established Tian Rong's son Tian Guang as the King of Qi and organized an army of tens of thousands of people to continue to resist Xiang Yu's invasion. Xiang Yu hadn't taken Tian Heng for several months, and Liu Bang had already called over there, and he had to retreat. The year was 205 BC.
The final demise of the State of Qi was defeated at the hands of the great general Han Xin.
After Han Xin sent down Wei, Dai, and Zhao to persuade the Yan state to surrender, the army wanted to attack the state of Qi, at this time Liu Bang's subordinates li li to persuade him to surrender, Tian Heng weighed the pros and cons and decided to surrender to the King of Han. However, Han Xin, who was not willing to run away in vain, finally attacked the State of Qi and destroyed the State of Qi in one fell swoop.
Tian Heng fled overseas, and was later summoned by Liu Bang to commit suicide thirty miles from Luoyang, and his five hundred brave men who remained in the wild bird also committed suicide with him. The year was 202 BC.
Qi Guo worked hard for seven years during this time, and although he was unsuccessful, he was also very hardworking.
2. The State of Chu
Although the State of Chu was the most powerful force during this period, it did not have the strength of the Chu Royal Family to take the initiative to stand up.
The first to bear the name of the State of Chu were the rebels of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, whose national name was Zhang Chu.
1. Jingju
The first chu nobleman to be supported was Jing Ju, and the one who supported him was qin Jia, the former general of Chen Sheng. In 208 BC, Chen Sheng was killed by the coachman Zhuang Jia, and Qin Jia pushed Jingju out, but unfortunately, he was soon killed by another Chu force. This is Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew.
2. Bear heart
At Fan Zeng's suggestion, Xiang Liang supported XiongXin, the grandson of King Huai of Chu, as king of Chu, and killed Qin Jia and Jing Ju to form a unified Chu state. Later, after Xiang Yu divided the princes in 206 BC, he sent Yingbu and others to kill Xiong Xin, who had already been promoted to the rank of Emperor Yi.
Since then, although the State of Chu is still there, the monarch of the State of Chu has been replaced by Xiang Yu.
3. Zhao Guo
Zhao Xie
In 209 BC, Chen Sheng sent Wuchen to the Zhao state, and after the Wuchen occupied the Zhao state, he established himself as the king of Zhao. In 208 BC, Wu Chen was killed by the general Li Liang, and his subordinates Zhang Er and Zhao Xie, descendants of the nobles of the State of Zhao, were made king of Zhao.
In 206 BC, Xiang Yu divided the princes and changed the title of King Xie of Zhao to The Acting King, while Zhang Er became the King of Changshan, and the State of Zhao was split. Chen Yu was dissatisfied with Zhang Er's title of King, and he was only given the title of Marquis of Nanpi, so he supported Zhao Xie to attack Zhang Er, zhang Er was defeated, Zhao Xie and Chen Yu reunified the Zhao state, and Zhao Xie was re-established as the King of Zhao.
The defeated Zhang Er defected to Liu Bang. Liu Bang sent Han Xin and Zhang Er to attack Zhao, and one of the famous battles in Han Xin's life, the "Battle of the Backwaters", was the battle to destroy Zhao. In 204 BC, the Zhao state fell.
Zhao Xie's Zhao Guo existed for less than four years, but because of the reasons for its support, its sense of existence was low.
4. The State of Wei
1. Wei Wei
The restoration of the State of Wei was thanks to a man named Zhou Wei [fú], who was originally sent by Chen Sheng to the Wei state, but after he took the state of Wei, he did not want to establish himself as the king of Wei, but instead asked Chen Sheng for the Wei prince Ningling Junwei. Chen Sheng was reluctant at first, and his opinion was that zhou wei would be the end of being the king of Wei directly, but Zhou Sheng did not agree to it, and in this way, Wei Wei became the king of Wei, and the year was 209 BC.
2. Wei Leopard
In 208 BC, Wei And Zhou were defeated by Zhang Handan, and both were killed in battle. Subsequently, his younger brother Wei Bao borrowed troops from King Huai of Chu, recaptured Wei, and established himself as the King of Wei. When Xiang Yu was divided into princes, he was made the King of Western Wei, with only one county. When Liu Bang was out of Guanzhong, Wei Bao briefly submitted to Liu Bang, but with the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang lost, and Wei Bao once again turned his back on Han and Chu.
In the autumn of 205 BC, Liu Bang ordered Han Xin, Cao Shan, and others to attack the Western Wei state and capture the Wei king Leopard (of course, and later Emperor Wen of Han's mother Bo Ji). The State of Wei fell, and the Wei king Leopard was killed a year later by the Han general Zhou Jiao.
The State of Wei also existed for about four years.
5. South Korea
Although South Korea has not grown, it has existed for a relatively long time.
1. Han Cheng
The first King of Han was The Prince of Korea, Hengyang Jun Han Cheng. After Xiang Liang established xiongxin, Zhang Liang went to him to suggest that Li Han become the king of Han, and Xiang Liang agreed and helped find Han Cheng. As a result, Zhang Liang and Han Cheng began the Restoration Movement in Korea. However, unlike other countries that successfully restored their country, South Korea's restoration movement was extremely unsuccessful, often they attacked several cities, turned around and were taken back by the Qin army, and kept going back.
Later, before Liu Bang destroyed Qin, he passed through Korea and helped stabilize the situation in Korea, and Han Wangcheng became a veritable King of Han, but Zhang Liang also began to follow Liu Bang at this time.
2. Han Wangxin
Before Xiang Yu entered Xianyang, he took Han Wangcheng with him, and later the division was also normal to seal the King of Han, but he always brought him to Pengcheng, and the reason for this was naturally Zhang Liang's body.
Later, when Liu Bang was out of the customs, Xiang Yu also killed King Cheng of Han and replaced Zheng Chang with the Title of King of Han. Subsequently, Liu Bang also supported the former Han Xiang King Shusun Han Xin as the King of Han, because it had the same name as Han Xin the Marquis of Huaiyin, so he was accustomed to calling him Han Wangxin. Han Wangxin's Korea remained under The wing of Liu Bang until the establishment of the Han Dynasty.
However, later, because of the Attack of the Xiongnu, the King of Han was defeated and surrendered to the Xiongnu, and the Korean state was eliminated.
The reason why the restoration of the six countries did not succeed
It can be seen that the six kingdoms except for the Yan kingdom have no descendants of the clan to participate in the restoration, and the other five countries still have their presence, but except for the state of Qi and the state of Wei, the other three countries do not have much sense of existence, nor do they have much autonomy. The reason they did not recover was actually very simple:
1. There is no really capable monarch appearing;
2. Although the appeal of the Six Kingdoms was once stronger, with the demise of the Qin Dynasty and the division of Xiang Yu, its appeal was no longer there;
3. The descendants of the Six Kingdoms mostly have the heart to restore the country, and have no intention of fighting for the world, which is also the fundamental reason for restricting their development
4. After the founding of the Qin Shi Huang, more than 100,000 descendants of the Six Kingdoms were moved to Guanzhong, which greatly weakened the power of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms.
5. The existence of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu no longer allows them to restore their country.
Therefore, we see that after the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, although the Six Kingdoms Restoration Fever arose, in the end, they were all defeated at the hands of the two major forces of Chu and Han.