Qin Jinggong
The monarchs of the Qin State have been wise for generations, but this time, there was a despicable monarch, and all of a sudden the good reputation of the old Qin people was ruined, so how despicable this monarch is, you will know it if you look down.
In the twenty-seventh year of the Duke of Huan, that is, in 577 BC, the Duke of Qin Huan died of grief and anger, and Shizi Yingshi succeeded to the throne, and the Jianghu people called it the Duke of Qinjing.
At that time, the State of Qin had just defeated the Battle of Ma Tunnel, and was beaten by the Jin State and the Ten Kingdoms Alliance to Hou Li (in jingyang, Shaanxi), which was only more than two hundred miles away from Yongdu, and the national strength and people's hearts had suffered heavy losses.
That is, to clean up the hearts of the people and reorganize the mountains and rivers, this is the mess left to him by his father, who reigned for twenty-seven years.
Fortunately, God did not treat him thinly, and in those years, qin still had a chance, what opportunity?
1: Jin domestic war.
Duke Li of Jin favored Xu Tong and persecuted Liu Qing, causing domestic discontent and opposition from his ministers, so in the second year of Jing Gong, that is, in 575 BC, he was killed by Luan Shu, Zhongxing Yan and others;
Second: The Chu state competes for hegemony.
At the beginning of Qin Jinggong's succession, in order to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains, the Jin and Chu countries fought the third major war after the Battle of Chengpu and the Battle of Wu, the Battle of Yanling.
In these three great wars, the first battle was won by the Jin state, and the Jin state became the hegemon of the Central Plains; in the second war, the Jin state lost, and the position of the jin hegemon was in jeopardy; in the third war, the Jin state won again. After each great war, the pattern of the world was to be divided into new ones, so jin guo could not take care of him in those two years.
Faced with such a situation, what should Qin Jinggong do?
Pro-Chu
Of course, it is the first priority to clean up the hearts and minds of the people and bury their heads in development, but in addition, it also continues the "pro-Chu" policy that has been continued since Mu Gong, marrying the pro-sister to the king of the Chu Communists, forming a hardcore alliance with the Chu state, and continuing to maintain the posture of joint attacking the Jin state.
Although Qin Jinggong's strategy was correct, if the Jin state was chaotic for two more years, maybe the national strength of the Qin state could catch up with or even surpass the Jin state.
Unfortunately, however, after the rebellion of the Duke of Jin, the chancellor of the Jin Dynasty welcomed back the great-grandson of the Duke of Jin Xiang and Studied ji Zhou in Luoyang, and supported him to succeed him as king.
Don't look at Ji Zhouqi, who was only 14 years old at the time, but he was a very great hero, and he later became one of the Nine Lords of the Spring and Autumn Period.
After the Duke of Jin took the throne, in only a few months, he changed the chaotic government at the end of the Jin Dynasty, withdrew power from the hands of the ministers, and then appointed xianchen, reorganized the Eight Secretaries, and implemented a series of drastic military and political reforms, and then gradually restored the national strength, weakened the strength of the State of Chu with a strategy of "fatigue", curbed the momentum of the State of Chu in the Central Plains, and became a hegemon whose merits were no less than those of the Duke of Qi Huan and the Duke of Jin.
After the continuous civil strife in the Jin Kingdom, it was naturally a blessing for the Jin people to have such a heroic lord, but for the Qin State and for qin Jinggong, it was not a good thing.
Although the national strength of the Qin State during this period has developed a little, compared with the Jin State, the speed of development is still too slow, and the gap is getting wider and wider, and now they are watching the Jin Mourning Gong become the hegemon of the Central Plains, but they themselves are still shrinking on the other side of the Yellow River and cannot go east.
The Jin state is strong, as the Qin state that has been fighting with them for many years, can it have a good life in the future?
The situation in the world is like this, the Qin State and Qin Jinggong are anxious, what should they do in a hurry?
war
Decided to find trouble for jinguo and delay the pace of their development, but how to find trouble?
When Qi Huan was duke, Qin Chenggong did not dare to go east, for the simple reason that he could not fight;
When Jin Wengong was in power, Qin Mugong still did not dare to go east, because he still could not fight;
When the Jin Dynasty mourned the Duke, Qin Jinggong dared to go east, not because he was sure of defeating the Jin State, mainly because the Jin State was strong, the Qin State was in a hurry, and if he did not teach this neighbor a lesson, sooner or later the people would ride on their heads.
Of course, Qin Jinggong was not talking about fighting in the Jin Dynasty, he was waiting for the opportunity;
In the thirteenth year of Jing Gong, that is, in 563 BC, after thirteen years of buried development, the State of Qin restored a part of its national strength, and at this time, a large-scale famine occurred in the State of Jin, and Qin Jinggong thought that the time had come, so he hurriedly greeted his brother-in-law King Chu Gong, and the two countries jointly sent troops, and the Chu troops entered Wucheng (Wucheng County, Dezhou, Shandong) to disperse the jin forces for the strength of the Qin State, while Qin Jinggong led the army deep into the territory of the Jin State, very captive, and then returned triumphantly.
Qin Jinggong's first military campaign against the State of Jin was thus won with the help of the State of Chu, but this victory was only a face regained, and had little practical significance.
Of course, the State of Chu was not helped by Bai, and two years later, in the fifteenth year of the Jing Gong, that is, in 561 BC, there was a war between the Zheng And Song states, resulting in the suzerainty of the Chu state and the Jin state behind them also fighting each other.
Before the Chu and Jin countries fought, they naturally called for allies, so the King of Chu issued an invitation and asked his brother-in-law Qin Jinggong to send troops to fight the Jin.
Qin Jinggong gladly agreed, and not only sent troops to accompany the King of Chu on the expedition, but also took advantage of the Duke of Jin to meet the Chu army, and when the rear was empty, he sent Shu Chang Bao and Shu Chang Wu soldiers to divide into two roads and swing their divisions to cut down Jin.
In this battle, the Jin state was defenseless, the Qin army crossed the Yellow River, until the oak (the east bank of the Yellow River southwest of Yongji, Shanxi), and defeated the Jin army here, won the famous battle of oak in history, it was very plundered and then waved back to The Country, the Jin state reacted too late, the Qin state won again, or earned a little face, and had little impact on the Jin state.
After winning twice, Qin Jinggong was overjoyed, but the Duke of Jin was really angry and decided to free his hands to teach this disobedient neighbor a lesson.
In the eighteenth year of the Jing Gong, that is, in 558 BC, qin Jinggong's hardcore ally King Chu Gong died, and the Chu state temporarily could not take care of the war in the Central Plains at the time of the alternation of the old and the new, so the Jin mourning public believed that the time for revenge had come.
This battle was almost a disaster for the Qin State, why did it say so?
Jing River
Too many enemies are coming.
At that time, the Duke of Jin mourning was already the overlord of the princes of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and had a strong appeal among the princes, and since he decided to teach the Qin state a lesson this time, it was natural to hurt him and be afraid, so the Duke of Jin mourned gathered the combined forces of Lu, Zheng, and Wei to send the Qin state to start the battle of Qianyan.
In the face of the Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance, Qin Jinggong was finally afraid and did not dare to fight with the Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance, but gradually retreated, all the way to the hinterland of the Qin State.
The thirteen-nation coalition pressed forward step by step, all the way to Tanglin (Hua County, Shaanxi), where there was only one Jing River in front of it, crossing the Jing River, and soon reaching the Qin capital Yongcheng (Shaanxi Fengxiang).
Seeing that the tragedy of the Battle of Ma Tunnel was about to repeat itself, could Qin Jinggong be willing, so he thought of an idea, and actually defeated the thirteen-nation alliance army, defeated the Jin state, and an idea suddenly reversed the situation and let the Qin state achieve a decisive victory, then, his future prestige should be like the sun in the sky, no, but won the insult of the violent Qin, why? Just because the idea is so despicable.
What the hell is the idea?
When the thirteen-nation coalition army was stationed in The Forest, and it seemed that it was about to cross the Jing River, Qin Jinggong was angry and ashamed, and put dozens of bags of poison into the upper reaches of the Jing River, and the thirteen-nation coalition army used these poisonous waters, and before they crossed the Jing River, they lost most of the soldiers and horses, and they had no choice but to retreat with the whole army, and the Qin state took advantage of the situation to attack in a big way.
In this way, it was easy to defeat the Jin state, and the consequences were: the war in the Spring and Autumn Period still followed the Zhou rites, did something and did not do anything, and would not be killed completely, but Qin Jinggong used such a despicable means to win the war, and the good reputation of the old Qin people was also completely destroyed after this battle. Since then, it has received a violent Qin insult, and eventually spread all over the world, becoming synonymous with the Qin state.