Ji Yan, the King of Zhou, was the last king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the last son of heaven of the Zhou Dynasty. Ji Yan could have died with the Zhou Dynasty, but he wanted to fight to the death, and the result was that the ideal was very full and the reality was very bone. Ji Yan listened to the chicken soup of King Chu Kao Lie, borrowed money to arm the army to cut down Qin, and originally wanted to revive the majesty of Zhou Tianzi, but left behind the idiom of "high debt".
There is no dynasty that does not perish, and the Zhou Dynasty has enjoyed more than 800 years from the founding of the Wu King to the fall of the Zhao King. In the time of Ji Yan, the Zhou Kingdom had no territory, and Ji Yan's royal family lived in the Western Zhou Principality, which was only a county now. Qin Wei Lielie, the Three Jins on the outskirts of the Western Zhou Principality had been encroached upon by the Qin State, and the Qin army had reached the gate of the Western Zhou Principality. Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan has a strong danger of subjugation, he wants to preserve the Zhou royal family and revitalize the royal family!
In addition to encroaching on the Three Jins, the State of Qin also continued to encroach on the State of Chu, and the old state of the State of Chu had become the southern county of the State of Qin. In order to resist Qin and Chu, King Chu Kaolie thought of using the Zhou royal family, and if the Qin state targeted the Zhou royal family, then the Chu state could breathe for a while. If the Zhou royal family can unite with the princes of the world to fight against Qin again, then it will be more beneficial to the Chu state!
King Chu Kaolie sent emissaries to persuade Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan, and the main words were roughly three: First, the Zhou royal family was the co-lord of the world, the Greed of the Qin State was excessive, causing the indignation of the nations, and Zhou Tianzi could unite with the princes to resist Qin, so as to revive the royal family's prestige; second, the Qin state had destroyed Zhou with arrows on the string, and the Zhou royal family had to rely on the strength of the princes to protect itself; third, the Chu state fully supported the Zhou royal family in cutting down qin, sending troops and grain, honoring the king and the king of Qin.
Ji Yan had been in the bag for a lifetime, and he wanted to take this opportunity to revitalize the Zhou royal family and become the same ancient sage king as the King of Wu and the King of Ping. Since the State of Chu strongly supported the royal family, and the State of Chu contacted other princes to jointly cut down Qin, it was very likely that the Qin would win, after all, Wei Wuji had led the Five Kingdoms Alliance to defeat the Qin army and recover the lost land in Hedong. What he Wei Wujie can do as a nobleman, I Ji Yan a Heavenly Son will certainly be able to do it!
Ji Yan instructed the Western Zhou Gong to reorganize its armaments and gather 100,000 Tiger Troops to cut down Qin! The Duke of Western Zhou said that there were no 100,000 tiger troops, but there were still 1,000 old and weak; the Western Zhou Principality had been in peace for a long time, its armaments were loose, and the money, grain, and weapons needed to fight the war were very scarce. Ji Yan said that he could borrow it when he lacked money, and wouldn't it be easy to handle things when he had money? In the name of Tianzi, Ji Yan borrowed money, grain, and people from the nobles and rich families of the Western Zhou Principality, and promised to borrow one and pay back two!
Ji Yan borrowed a lot of money, grain, and people, and finally cobbled together six thousand troops, and after a little training, he went to the front line to cut down Qin. Zhou Tianzi cut down Qin and waited for three months for the allies, and finally Chu and Yan sent 20,000 elite troops to assist in the battle, and the three Jin and Qi forces did not arrive! In the face of the 100,000 tigers, wolves, and Qin troops, the royal army retreated without a fight! Ji Yan thought that he could win the battle, and then obtained a lot of money and prisoners of war from the Qin State, but as a result, he spent a lot of money and grain, and Ji Yan changed from debtless to indebted!
The nobles and rich families of the Western Zhou Principality saw that the royal army retreated without a fight, and they entered the royal family to collect debts, and Ji Yan Tianzi was overwhelmed! In the end, Ji Tianzi ordered people to build a high platform, and he hid on it to borrow wine to sell his sorrows, and the people below shouted to break the sky, and he couldn't hear it! This platform is called the debt escape platform, and later evolved into a debt platform!
Ji Tianzi could hide in the debt escape platform, and the Western Zhou Gongke was miserable. As soon as the Qin army arrived, the royal family and the Combined Forces of Chu Yan scattered, and the Duke of Western Zhou was captured by the Qin people, hung up a sign and paraded the streets to show the public, and was humiliated! The Duke of Western Zhou eventually returned to the Principality of Western Zhou, and his will to resist had been broken by the Qin, and when the Qin army reached Luoyang again, the Duke of Western Zhou directly surrendered to Kaicheng.
Ambition has no strength to support, the final result is to lose the lady and fold the soldiers! Listen to other people's chicken soup, do things outside of your own ability, and the final result will inevitably lose money and lose your life!