#Toutiao Creation Challenge# "Records of the Grand Historian: Praise of the Family of King Yuan of Chu" records: "A country is about to perish, wise men hide, and chaotic ministers are noble." In history, chaotic ministers and thieves are often extremely destructive and even beco

1. Guo Kai (Zhao State)

Guo Kai was a treacherous minister of Zhao State. In 244 BC, after Zhao Daoxiang King succeeded to the throne, Guo Kai framed the famous general Lian Po , causing him to fail to continue to be appointed by Zhao State and eventually died in a foreign land. After the death of Zhao Daoxiang, King Zhao moved to to ascend the throne. In 229 BC, King Qin Ying Zheng ordered Wang Jian and others to lead their troops to attack Zhao State, while King Zhao Qian sent Li Mu to resist. As a result, Guo Kai was bought by Qin and framed the famous general Li Mu again. After Li Mu was wrongly killed, Zhao State was then destroyed by Qin State. From this perspective, Guo Kai, who killed two famous generals of Zhao, was extremely destructive.

2. sons ( Yan State )

sons (? - 314 BC), Ji surname, a powerful minister of Yan State during the Warring States Period. After the king of Yan , Yan ascended the throne, Zizhi was appointed as prime minister. During the period when Zizhi was in charge of power, he was decisive in his work and was appreciated and valued by King Kuai of Yan. In the late reign of Yan King Kuai, he did not care about the government affairs and allowed his son to deal with it. In addition, King Kuai of Yan also believed in Lu Maoshou's suggestion and abdicated the throne of the monarch to Zizhi.

On this basis, the Zizhi Rebellion broke out in Yan State. In order to fight against Zizhi, the prince of Yan State, Ji Ping, was jointly engaged in civil strife with the general city, and Zhongshan State took the opportunity to conquer the city. In the first year of King Nan of Zhou (314 BC), Zizhi calmed down civil strife. However, Qi seized the opportunity of Yan's civil turmoil and sent a large army to invade and kill Yan King Kuai and Prince Ping, which led to Yan's state being occupied by Qi for a time.

3. won (Qi State)

At the end of the Warring States Period, he later won served as the prime minister of Qi and was trusted by King Jian of Qi. Qin State knew that Hou Sheng was greedy for money, so he sent someone to give him a lot of money. The guests and servants of Housheng also often received money from Qin. So they worked together to urge King Jian of Qi not to send troops to assist other vassal states, which led to Qin defeating other vassal states one by one.

In 221 BC, the Qin army launched a large-scale attack on Qi. Because Qi was later victorious, the situation was chaotic, the morale of the army was slack, and no one dared to fight, so the Qin soldiers destroyed Qi without any effort. The people of Qi complained that the King of Qi believed the slander of Hou Sheng and his guests, which led to the defeat of Qi, so they compiled a song: "I am sad, I am sad, the one who has lost his fortune will win!"

4. Li Yuan ( Chu State )

Li Yuan (? - 228 BC), a powerful minister of Chu State during the Warring States Period. Li Yuan was originally from Zhao, but later entered Chu. When King Chu Kaolie was reigned, he had no children for a long time, which gave Chunshenjun Huang Xie a headache. So, Li Yuan married his sister Li Yanyan first to Chunshenjun, and then gave it to King Kaollie of Chu after being pregnant. Li Yanyan gave birth to a son, , Xiong Han , and Li Yuan became noble because of this.

When King Kaoli died, Li Yuan planned to kill Huang Xie, one of the four princes of the Warring States Period. Since then, Li Yuan usurped the power of Chu State. It is worth noting that Li Yuan did not end up in a good end. "The Biography of Women" records: "After that the son of King Kaoli was still established, and he was King Ai. The disciples of King Kuolie's son, King Chu, heard that King You was not Prince Kaoli, and suspected that King Ai, so they attacked and killed King Ai and the Queen Mother, destroyed Li Yuan's family, and made Fuchu the king."

5, Lao Ai

Changxinhou Lao Ai [lào ǎi] (? - 238 BC), their real name is controversial, one said to be "阿明", and he was Changxinhou of Qin in the late Warring States Period. In his early years, Lao Ai pretended to be an eunuch and entered the palace. He had an affair with the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji and had two sons. In the eighth year of the 6th year of the King of Qin (239 BC), Lao Ai was named Changxin Hou and had a strong power. Under the favor of Queen Mother Zhao, Lao Ai gradually intervened in court affairs. There were as many as thousands of children and servants in Lao Ai's family, and there were more than a thousand guests who defected to Lao Ai for official positions and officials.

At the same time, as Ying Zheng grew up, Lao Ai was worried that he would encounter an unexpected situation after the matter was exposed. Therefore, Lao Ai planned to kill the King of Qin. Later, Lao Ai was reported, so he stole the imperial seal of the empress dowager, mobilized county soldiers and palace guards and palace cavalry, and launched a mutiny in the Qinian Palace where the King of Qin lived, known in history as the "Qinian Palace Incident".

After a fierce battle, Lao Ai's side was defeated, and he was sentenced to death by King Ying Zheng of Qin and his car broke into pieces. After getting rid of Lao Ai and dismissing the position of Prime Minister of Lu Buwei, Ying Zheng was able to truly take over the power of Qin, thus starting Qin's plan to destroy the six countries.