During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin was a resounding power in the north, and formed a north-south confrontation with the great power of the Chu State in the south, and was the number one hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Period. The reason why the Jin state was able to claim the king's hegemony was inseparable from the efforts of the jin monarchs of the past generations, and among these Jin monarchs, the most famous was the Jin Wen Gong, one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the origin of the Jin Dynasty</h1>
There is a very interesting story about the origin of the Jin Dynasty. The founding monarch of the Jin dynasty was the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou. King Wu of Zhou destroyed Yin Shang and created the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty for eight hundred years, but King Wu died young and passed the throne prematurely to his son King Cheng. King Cheng was very young at that time, and he was not enough to handle state affairs, so he was assisted by the Duke of Zhou. Once, when King Cheng and his brother were playing together in the palace, he picked up a leaf and gave it to his brother, half jokingly saying that he would crown his brother as a prince.
Originally, this matter was like a game between children living with each other, and Neither King Cheng nor his brother paid attention to it. But after all, jun did not joke, and when it came to the next day, a group of ministers suddenly stood up and demanded that King Cheng put his promise yesterday into practice. When King Cheng heard that there was no way out, he divided his brother into jin and became the monarch.
Most of the territory of the Jin Dynasty was within the scope of today's Shanxi Province, blocked by the Taihang Mountains, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, unlike other Central Plains powers, where there was no danger to defend. In addition, the internal land of the Jin State was fertile, so the economy of the Jin State was also very developed. In his north, there were Rongdi peoples constantly invading, so in the process of constantly fighting with these peoples, the Jin army exercised a very strong combat effectiveness. Under the addition of these advantageous conditions, although the time of the Jin Dynasty was relatively late, it developed very rapidly.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > turmoil in the Jin dynasty</h1>
From this until the era of The Duke of Jin, the State of Jin was already a well-known great power in the north, and the Duke of Jin was also a generation of heroes of the State of Jin. Unfortunately, once people's exploits reach their peak, it is inevitable that they will go downhill, especially the monarchs of noble status, after seeing that they have made certain achievements, it is inevitable that they will be complacent, and they will begin to be extravagant and lascivious. In his later years, The Duke of Jin went to war with a northern nomadic tribe, which was certainly not a rival of the State of Jin, so it could only submit to the State of Jin, and in order to show its sincerity, the tribe specially presented a beautiful woman named Li Ji to the Duke of Jin.
After Jin Xiangong got this stunning beauty, he was pampered by it, and the two of them glued together like glue all day, and soon Li Ji gave birth to a son. After having a son, Li Ji pestered Jin Xiangong every day, asking him to make his son the prince, unable to withstand the soft and hard bubble of ai concubines, so Jin Xiangong drove his original crown prince ShenSheng and another son out of the Jin kingdom, and instead established his own younger son, that is, Xi Qi, the son born to Li Ji, as the prince.
After the death of Duke Xian of Jin, Xi Qi succeeded to the throne, and there were many ministers within the imperial court who wanted to welcome the exiled prince Shen Sheng back to the throne, so the ministers were divided to support the two factions of Xi Qi and Shen Sheng, and the contradiction between the two factions became increasingly acute, and soon there was a fire, the two factions fought back and forth, and finally ended up with a lose-lose situation, both of whom were killed in the rebel army, so another son of the Duke of Jin Xian succeeded to the throne, which was the Duke Hui of Jin.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the wandering life of heavy ears</h1>
At this time, Gongzi Zhong'er was still living a life of exile outside as before, as if the blood struggle inside the Jin Kingdom had nothing to do with him. Heavy Ear's mother was a Di woman, so Heavy Ear returned to his mother's hometown of the northern grassland, stayed in this place for decades, and when he was in his fifties, his little life was also considered to be full of taste, and he no longer missed his homeland, and he planned to spend his whole life in the grassland. But he did not expect people to sit at home, disasters came from heaven, his brother Jin Huigong knew that Zhong'er was still hiding in foreign countries, and his heart always felt unsteady, always doubting that one day Chong'er would return to China and compete with him for the throne. Therefore, The Duke of Jin Huigong ordered the tribe where Heavy Ear belonged, asking them to expel Heavy Ear and no longer take him in. Jin Huigong planned to set up an ambush halfway above the way from which Heavy Ear had left and kill him.
Although this tribe was the grandmother's family of Heavy Ear, after all, the strength of the tribe was far from the powerful Jin State, so they planned to obey the orders of the Duke Hui of Jin and hand over the Heavy Ear to the State of Jin. Fortunately, Heavy Ear has lived in this place for many years, and he also has a certain number of contacts, and one of his good friends immediately informed him after learning the news, so Heavy Ear immediately packed up his family's luggage and escaped from the tribe overnight. Just as the group began to flee for their lives on the road, a servant in charge of transporting gold and silver belongings in heavy ears saw the wealth and fled with all the money and wealth of heavy ears. Even if this heavy-eared master and servant is unlucky and doesn't have a penny on him, will it take us in? You can only try your luck one place at a time.
They first arrived at Weiguo, but they were treated coldly by the Weiguo monarch, so the group turned to Qi again. However, the country of Qi is a long way away, and it is very difficult to pass through many other countries along the way, and it is very difficult to eat and sleep on the road. Once, heavy ear's men saw an old farmer on the side of the road eating in the field, hungry he wanted to ask the old farmer for a bite of food to fill his hunger, did not expect that this old farmer saw that the former high-ranking prince and grandson also put down his body to ask for food for himself, and instantly hardened, he not only did not give them food, but also used to use the soil in the ground to humiliate the heavy ear and his party, let them eat the soil in the field to fill their hunger.
The heavy-eared men listened, and they did not bat an eyelid and prepared to beat the peasant with their hands. After seeing this, he quickly stopped the behavior of his subordinates, saying: "Now that the peasants have given us the soil blocks, this shows that the people intend to contribute land to us, and we will certainly be able to return to the Jin Dynasty one day." After saying this, he respectfully knelt down and accepted the piece of soil given by the farmer.
After passing through the wind and dust servants along the way, the heavy ear and the party finally arrived at the State of Qi. At that time, the monarch of the State of Qi was the famous Duke Huan of Qi, and the national strength of the State of Qi was at its peak. Huan Gong was very touched to see the prince of the Jin Dynasty come to him thousands of miles, so he married the daughter of the clan to Zhong'er, who lived in the Jin Kingdom for many years. However, after the death of Duke Huan of Qi, several of his sons fought for the throne, and the situation in the entire State of Qi became very turbulent. Heavy Ear's subordinates felt that they could not stay in the State of Qi any longer, and they must leave here and send their lord back to China to ascend the throne. However, now that Zhong'er was already old, he really did not want to live that kind of turbulent and displaced life, so he resolutely refused to leave the Country of Qi.
When their men saw the appearance of the lord, they had no choice but to set up a banquet to drunk the heavy ears, and then dragged the drunken and unconscious heavy ears into the carriage and left the country of Qi overnight. After dawn, Zhong'er found himself taken out and was furious, but the matter was already overwhelmed, and the group had to continue to live the original exile. Their next stop was the Chu state in the south, when the reigning monarch of the Chu state was also a generation of sages, Chu Cheng. King Chu Cheng was also very happy to see the heavy ear coming to him, and he was very good to the heavy ear. At a banquet, King Cheng of Chu asked Zhong'er how he would repay his kindness if he returned to China one day and became the monarch, and after listening to it, he replied that if the Jin state and the Chu soldiers met in the future, he was willing to retreat to repay the favor of the king of Chu.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > succeed to the throne</h1>
Soon after, Duke Hui of Jin died and was succeeded by his son Duke Huai of Jin. As soon as Duke Huai of Jin succeeded to the throne, he severed diplomatic relations with the State of Qin. At that time, the reigning monarch of the Qin state was also the famous Qin Mugong, so the Qin Mugong planned to send troops to abolish the Jin Huaigong and establish another Jin monarch. So with the help of the Qin army, Zhong'er was finally able to return to the Jin state to succeed to the throne, which was the famous Jin Wengong.
After Succeeding to the throne, Duke Wen of Jin developed production with the assistance of a group of old ministers, selected talents and talents, and strengthened the army, so that the national strength of the Jin state was developed unprecedentedly. In terms of diplomacy, the three generations of in-laws of the Jin and Qin states have left a good idiom of Qin and Jin in history. The strength of the Jin state grew day by day, and gradually had the ability to dominate the Central Plains, but Jin Wengong understood that if he wanted to dominate the Central Plains, he had to deal with his benefactor Chu Guo, and the great war between Jin and Chu seemed to be inevitable. It was precisely at this time that the State of Chu sent troops to attack the State of Song, and the State of Song asked the State of Jin for help, so Duke Wen of Jin personally led an army to rescue the State of Song.
When King Cheng of Chu saw Zhong'er bringing troops forward, he remembered the words of the two of them at the banquet, so he specially sent envoys to the Jin army to demand that Chong'er fulfill the promise of that year. When Jin Wengong heard this, he did not break the agreement and ordered the army to retreat, and the General of the Jin Army was very puzzled, but Jin Wengong insisted on retreating, so the Jin army retreated backwards to the distance of Sanshe. In fact, Zhong'er wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to let the Chu army relax its vigilance and lure the enemy deeper. The Chu army saw that the Jin army really retreated, began to breed a feeling of pride, and began to rush to pursue, so that the Jin army was in the middle of the heart, and after the Jin army retreated, the team came to a return to the horse gun, the Chu army was unguarded and defeated by the Jin army, and the Jin army won a complete victory.
After this battle, the Jin state established the status of hegemony, and Jin Wengong became one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. But Duke Wen was old after all, and when he succeeded to the throne, he was already more than half a hundred years old, so not long after becoming the overlord, Duke Wen of Jin died, and if he could continue to govern, perhaps the Jin state would be able to avoid the disaster of the later division of the country, but history did not have ifs. In any case, during the Jin Wengong period, the Jin state completely established the position of the hegemon of the Central Plains and became the hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period that dominated the north for three hundred years.