State of various countries during the period of King Kuai of Yan
To In the period of Warring States Period, the Zhou Dynasty, which originally maintained superficial unification, fell apart, and all countries became kings independently, but Yan State ushered in a disaster-like civil strife and invasion. Fortunately, it finally received international support and the will of the people, and Yan State was finally safeguarded.
The planner of this invasion was Qi State , but the source was blamed on Yan State itself for committing suicide. When King Yan was in power, he had a sudden whim and wanted to abdicate the throne.
and abdicated to his prime minister.
The abdication of the ancient Yao, Shun and Yu periods has been at least a thousand years since then. After Xia Qi took Dayu , the abdication system was abolished. The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties were all inherited by the "family world". Against this background, King Kuai of Yan could be said to have gone against the current, which naturally aroused opposition from the court and the public.
However, the obsessed Ji Kuai also took back the official seal with a salary of more than 300 stones in order to re-appoint officials at all levels of Yan State, so as to truly take over the power of Yan State. Ji Kuai ran to the north to pay tribute and left another palace.
Art painting: The King of Yan gave way
Many people are probably depressed when they read this. Why did such a good thing not fall on me? Why doesn’t the boss want to give the company to me? What is the attitude of
? Of course he was ecstatic and was not polite. After the abdication ceremony, he took the throne and began to become the new King of Yan. There is probably a factor of forced force in this, but history books have not recorded it in detail.
Zizhi became the King of Yan for three years. He spent all day long, enjoyed extravagance and imposed heavy taxes, which made the people suffer from misfortune and the people were very resentful. Seeing this, the original Prince Ji Ping of Yan State could not sit still. The throne was originally his, but his confused father abdicated, but he ended up doing this?
Ji Ping secretly began to contact the general of Yan State and was plotted to seize the throne by mutiny.
I have to say that the confidentiality work was not done well, and this important coup event was known by Qi, which was thousands of miles away. The King of Qi specially sent someone to contact Prince Ping, saying that this time is good and we strongly support you.
What a pity, Qi State knows it, can Zizhi not know? Prince Pinghe City's small movements were clearly seen by Zizhi, and before the trouble was raised, he was besieged by Yan army. In order to save his life, the city actually turned against him and surrendered. In the end, the coup was a mess: Zizhi led his army to quell the rebellion, killed Prince Ping, and killed the city repeatedly.
" Zizhi Tongjian " records: "In the third year of Yan Zi's king, there was a great chaos in the country. The general was conspired with the prince to attack his son. The king of Qi asked someone to say to the prince of Yan, "I heard that the prince would order the monarch and ministers to be the throne of father and son. Although my country is small, the prince ordered him to do so. "The prince wanted the party to gather people, so that the city was attacked by Zizhi, but it was not defeated. The city was counterattacked by Prince. It was difficult for several months, and tens of thousands of people died, and the people were panicked."
This anti-rebellion war, known in history as the "Zizi Rebellion", brought unprecedented disaster to the people of Yan. The people of Yan could not see the future, and the royal family and Zizhi also had internal struggles due to Prince Ping's death, and the entire Yan State was in a state of war.
In 314 BC, that is, the sixth year of King Xuan of Qi, King Xuan of Qi was angry that he was killed by his son. He took advantage of the chaos in Yan and sent general Kuang Zhang to lead 100,000 elite soldiers (machinery) from Linzi to attack Yan State. The reason for sending troops was that King Yan was stupid and incompetent and stood up for the people of Yan State.
During the Warring States Period, the elite Qi army, the martial warriors,
The people of Yan hated Zizhi and opened the city to welcome the Qi army. The Yan National Defense Army was also negative. As a result, in less than two months, the capital of Yan was captured by the Qi army, and Zizhi and the old king Ji Kuai were killed.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records: "The King of Qi ordered Zhang Zi to generalize the soldiers of the Five Capitals to attack Yan because of the people from the north. Yan soldiers did not fight, and the city gates were not closed. The people of Qi took their sons and ate them, and then killed King Kuai of Yan."
However, what was unexpected was that the just battle between the Qi army was just popular with the people of Yan, and then it turned into a situation where everyone in Yan State shouted and beaten, international allies collectively condemned, and were forced to flee in a panic.
It turned out that after Kuang Zhang occupied the capital of Yan State, he did not restrain the army, and the soldiers bullied the people wantonly, causing the soldiers of Qi to burn, kill, loot and plunder all evilly. The Qi army also destroyed the ancestral temple of Yan State and transported away the national treasure of Yan State, which quickly caused the Yan people to rebound in strong resistance consciousness, and began to form a rebel army to attack the Qi army camp at night and set fire to the fire. The food and grass of Qi army made the Qi army stationed too tired to deal with.
during the Warring States Period siege
Internationally, facing the fact that Qi quickly defeated the capital of Yan, Zhao State , Qin State , Wei State , etc. all jumped out to accuse Qi State, fearing that Qi State would grow bigger from then on, which would be unfavorable to itself. Therefore, the three countries formed a coalition forces to march from west to east to attack Qi State.
Duke of Yan State far away in South Korea Zi Jizhi was helped by South Korea and Zhao State and returned to Yan State to ascend the throne, called King Zhao of Yan , claiming to lead the people to revenge, and the voice of Yan State resisting Qi State is higher and higher.
, especially Zhao State, listened to the suggestions of Leyi , and exchanged the city of Qi State from Zhao State, which aroused the suspicion of other princes. Under such internal and external pressure, King Xuan of Qi and Kuang Zhang were finally afraid of retreating and decided to withdraw. The Qi army along the way encountered resistance and ambush from the Yan army, and fled.
, In the end, Qi The attack on Yan State turned into a thankless unjust battle. King Xuan of Qi won the face, but lost his character.
art composition, the capital of Qi State,
6 years later, King Zhao of Yan, who was sleeping in firewood and tasting gall and striving to govern, used Le Yi as a general and led the army of five countries to attack Qi State, almost exterminate Qi State and successfully took revenge.
Mencius has a classic evaluation of this: "Use the country of ten thousand cheng to defeat the country of ten thousand cheng, eat the pot of slurry to welcome the king's army. How could there be someone else? To avoid water and fire. If the water becomes deeper and the fire becomes hot, it will be just luck. ”
