When the wheel of history rumbling through the Spring and Autumn Period and coming to the troubled times of the Warring States, it began to get out of control.
Why?
Because this age of blood and fire is too crazy, whether it is the thrilling fight on the battlefield or the treacherous wits in the temple, they have reached unprecedented heights.
What is interesting is that when China’s Warring States Seven Heroes were frantically mobilizing the country’s war potential and launching one after another war of annihilation, the Western Old Testament "Bible" Just finished.
Okay, get back to business.
Historians regard the division of the three schools as the dividing line between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so why should the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period be separated?
Is it because the historians are fed up?
Of course not, the real reason is that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are very different.
is different because it is different.
So what is the difference between Spring and Autumn and Warring States?
The status of the Emperor Zhou was different in the two periods
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Emperor Zhou had no strength, but had a status.
But the Emperor Zhou in the Warring States Period had neither strength nor status.
Why is this?
Everyone, please see the Spring and Autumn Five Fighters.
Qi Huan Gong, whose surname is Jiang, is the descendant of Jiang Ziya, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty. The position of the princes was also granted by the Emperor Zhou.
Jin Wengong, surnamed Ji, is a proper royal blood.
The king of Chuzhuang, whose surname is Xiong, was granted to the family of Lao Xiong in the period of King Zhou Cheng.
Wu Wanghelu, surnamed Ji, is also of royal blood.
Yue Wang Goujian, surnamed Si, a descendant of Dayu, Yue State was also a vassal state when the Zhou Dynasty was founded.
As you can see, the Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants are either of the bloodline of the surname Ji, or the hero of the Zhou Dynasty, and no matter how bad they are, they are the descendants of the sages.
The most important thing is that their first position of princes was entrusted by the Emperor Zhou.
This is called eating people’s mouth short and holding people’s hand short.
Therefore, although the Emperor Zhou declined during the Spring and Autumn Period, everyone was embarrassed to destroy the Emperor Zhou directly, but still maintained the status of the Emperor Zhou as the co-master of the world.
Because only by maintaining the legal status of Emperor Zhou, his status can be justified.
Moreover, you can also command the heroes under the banner of Emperor Zhou. For example, Qi Huan Gong and Jin Wengong once carried the banner of Emperor Zhou to fight. The beautiful name is "Respect the King and Eliminate the Barbarians." The effect is quite good.
Later, Cao Cao's "Even the emperor is not a minister" was learned from here.
Looking at the Emperor Zhou in the Warring States Period, he basically had no status, and was later destroyed by Qin.
What exactly is it?
Please see how the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period came.
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Qi, the monarch of Qi during the Warring States Period did not have the last name Jiang, but Tian.
In 386 BC, after four generations of painstaking efforts, the Tian clan successfully exiled Qi Kanggong, the monarch of Qi, to the sea. Tian He established himself as the emperor, historically known as "Tian clan generation Qi". From then on, Qi was surnamed Tian. Up.
The three families of Han, Zhao and Wei were originally ministers of the Jin Kingdom. In 376 BC, after the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei joined forces to destroy Zhibo, they divided up the land of Jin. The history of this country is called "three divisions of Jin".
You will find that the monarchs of Qi, Han, Zhao, and Wei are all won by their own strength, and Chu, Qin, and Yan have always received little favor from Emperor Zhou (For example, Chu State has always been in an embarrassing situation of being looked down upon by Emperor Zhou), so he is not too cold towards Emperor Zhou.
The nature of war is different
The war in the Spring and Autumn Period is for hegemony, what is hegemony?
To put it plainly is to fight for the position of the big brother.
The war fight is also a stop, as long as you recognize me as the eldest brother, not only will not fight you again, but also give you some medical expenses.
For example, Qi Huangong once organized a coalition of the princes to attack Chu. It was so powerful that Chu was unable to defeat it, so he confessed to Qi Huangong as his eldest brother, and Qi Huangong did not have a large-scale outbreak with Chu. war.
And in the Spring and Autumn Period, when you become a eldest brother, you have to do your eldest brother's obligations, similar to the United States today, being a world policeman.
What mediate the contradictions of the younger brothers, the younger brother is bullied and wants to help the younger brother to get ahead, the older brother will do it.
For example, Qi Huangong once led the princes' coalition to "save Xing Cunwei". Although he didn't get any practical benefits, he could enjoy the supreme prestige! After
"Save Xing Cunwei", Qi Huangong was in the same spotlight.
Qi Huangong coughed at the meeting of princes, and the little brothers all had to shake, this feeling is easily addictive.
Looking back at the wars in the Warring States period, it was quite different.
Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period, the war in the Warring States Period was more real. If the war in the Spring and Autumn Period was to fight for the position of the eldest brother, then the war in the Warring States Period is simply seven words: grab money, grab food, grab woman!
The nature of the war during the Warring States Period was a war of predation. What was being contended for was land, population, and food? Swear to resist? Then destroy the country.
Wars in the Warring States Period often have such an endless loop:
First of all, the attacker advances to other countries with the slogan "grab money, food, and women", but no one wants to do it themselves. Things are robbed, so the attacked party will fight to the death.
But the attacking party can't come in vain if it comes? I can't stop beating you just because you resisted to the death, right?
There is no way, so let's smash it, so the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and the degree is getting more and more fierce, until it later develops into one state-level war after another.
Of course, from the standpoint of Qin, it is called a war of unification.
I once read a short paragraph, saying that if Alexander the Great in the Warring States period attacked China, what would happen?
Some netizens joked: “I’m coming early at seven to one, and I’m late to build the Great Wall”.
In fact, seven fights are unlikely, but Alexander the Great’s expeditionary army is absolutely unable to defeat the Warring States Seven Heroes.
Yes, South Korea can't beat the weakest.
The fact is that if Alexander really brought his 50,000 "army" to kill, he would see the Warring States Seven Heroes fight one after another with hundreds of thousands of people. I don’t know at that time. What would he think.
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