Chapter Fifty-Eight: An Analysis of the Alignment of the Qin State

At this moment, Lin Xiangru had already walked quickly towards Handan, and Mao Sui, who went to Xianyang, also saw Qin Wang Yingji, who was not in much interest this time, but came to Qin with sincerity. Qin Wang Yingji, Fan Ju, Wei Yang and others are personally ready to accept gifts from Qi State, after all, it is Qi State, which is also a heart?

King Qin has one attitude towards Qi State, and another attitude towards Zhao State, of course, this is a later story, at this moment, Mao Sui came to Qin State's purpose, or does he hope to get into a relationship with Qin State, so that Qin State will underestimate his country too much and pay the due price?

Or is it back to the relationship between Qin and Qi, the current King of Qin has received the envoys of Qi, and he accepted the gift of Qi, and he is also deep in his heart, full of gratitude, but in addition to gratitude, he himself feels that Qi is a little stupid, which is beyond doubt? Because the two befriended each other, the result was also a bit surprising. At this moment, the Qin State already felt that the Qi State was not to be afraid?

At this time, I have to talk about the relationship between the two sides, during the Warring States Period, Qi and Qin were the two major powers in the East and the West, and once formed a situation of confrontation between the two powers, and the two countries carried out a series of joint vertical and horizontal activities in the process of foreign annexation for a period of time, but after the five countries invaded Qi, Qi was no longer able to compete with Qin, and finally made Qin have the last laugh. The ancients believed that during the Warring States Period, the relationship between Qi and Qin could be divided into the following stages:

The alliance of Qi and Qin attacked Wei, and when Wei became the earliest overlord of the Central Plains after Li Kui's reform, and after Wei became hegemonic, he successively sent Wu Qi to attack Qin, which was not strong at that time, and seized the territory west of the Yellow River in Qin; At the same time, Wei also took advantage of the internal strife in Qi to unite Zhao and Korea to attack Qi. Qi and Qin faced a common enemy, Wei, so they united against Wei.

When Qi defeated Wei at the Battle of Maling, Qin attacked Wei in a big way, and the following year, Qi attacked Wei with Qin and Zhao. Under the attack of Qi and Qin, Wei soon lost its hegemony, and formed a three-legged situation of Qi, Chu and Qin in the Central Plains. In particular, the two great states of Qi and Qin faced each other in terms of strength and strength, and both countries began to strive for other countries to try to dominate the world, and the relationship between Qi and Qin entered an era of unity and horizontal.

At the time of the meeting of Qi, Qin, and Chu, Qi and Qin were in a period of relative peace, although the two countries contained and suppressed each other through diplomatic means, but on the whole, Qi's military and diplomatic strategy was far less successful than Qin's, Qi's focus was on attacking Yan, contributing to Yan, but due to brutal rule, the people of Yan resisted, and Qi was forced to withdraw its troops.

In addition, when Su Qin launched the Six Kingdoms to attack Qin, King Huai of Chu was elected as the commander, and although the State of Qi supported the Six Kingdoms to attack Qin, it did not really resist Qin and did not send troops, in fact, only the Five Kingdoms sent troops. After the Qin State destroyed the plan of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin, it sent troops to attack Shu, controlled the Bashu region, and attacked Yiqu to expand its strength in the northwest; At the same time, Qin took advantage of Qi's annihilation of Yan to attack the Sanjin region and force Korea and Wei to submit.

When Qin's power expanded to the east, it caused the vigilance of Qi and Chu, so Qi and Chu united against Qin, and Qi helped Chu to attack the Qin army and occupied Quwo; In order to break the alliance between Qi and Chu, Qin sent Zhang Yi to Chu to successfully lobby King Huai of Chu to break off relations with Qi.

When Qi united with Song to besiege Wei, under Wei's request for help, Qin sent troops to rescue Wei and defeated the Qi army in the Pushui area; At the same time, Qin defeated Chu and obtained the land of Hanzhong, and since then Qin has become more powerful, and the strength of Qi has been further weakened, and Qi is in a passive position between Qi and Qin at this time.

Qi and Qin reconciled, Qi, Han and Wei attacked Qin, and after the defeat of Qi in the Battle of Pushui, Qi actively organized an alliance with Korea, Wei and Chu. Faced with this situation, the state of Qin took the initiative to reconcile with the state of Chu and promised to return half of the land in Hanzhong to the state of Chu; At this time, the state of Qi was also actively fighting for the state of Chu, in order to break the deadlock, King Qin Zhao bribed the state of Chu generously, and the state of Chu was a marriage alliance with the state of Chu, so the state of Chu betrayed the state of Qi again to form an alliance with the state of Qin.

The capricious state of Chu angered the state of Qi, and the state of Qi, together with Wei and Korea, launched a five-year war against Chu, and the state of Chu asked the prince to enter Qin as a hostage on the condition that the Qin state send troops, and the state of Qin sent troops, and the state of Chu was saved. Later, under the pretext that the crown prince of Chu killed Dr. Qin and fled back to Chu, Qin united Qi, Korea, and Wei to attack Chu; At this time, Qi and Qin became alliance friends again.

After the state of Chu was severely damaged by the coalition army led by Qin, he sent the crown prince to the state of Qi as a hostage and united with the state of Qi again, at this time, the state of Qi became an opponent with the state of Qin. In view of this situation, the Qin State wanted to take the initiative to reconcile with the Qi State, sent Jingyang Jun into Qi, and sent Meng Weijun to the Qin State as the prime minister, but the Qin State wanted to kill Meng Weijun, which angered the Qi State.

Qi and Han, Song, Zhongshan, Wei and other states jointly attacked Qin, at this time, Qi and Qin once again became opponents in military confrontation, and the alliance of the five countries broke through the Hangu Pass, forcing Qin to sue for peace.

In order to break the alliance of Qi, Wei and Korea, King Zhao of Qin began to adopt a policy of uniting Qi and sent Wei Ran to persuade Qi to be called the Eastern Emperor and the Qin State to be called the Western Emperor; In 287 BC, Qi formed a five-nation alliance with Korea, Zhao, Wei, and Yan to attack Qin; Under the pressure of the Five Kingdoms, the Qin State was forced to cancel the imperial title and sued for peace in various places.

Qin participated in the five countries to attack Qi, after the five countries attacked Qin, Qi after three wars against the Song Dynasty, destroyed the Song State, directly threatened the interests of the Three Jin and Chu States, Yan State has also been angry because of the Qi State to destroy the Yan behavior, in this case, the situation of the great powers against Qi has been formed, so the Yan State, South Korea, Zhao State, Wei State first formed an alliance to attack the Qi State, Qin State saw this situation, decided to participate in the joint war of Qi, in the process of the war Qi, the Qin general Meng Wu captured the nine cities east of the Qi River. Under the leadership of Le Yi, the five-nation alliance defeated Qi and occupied most of the land of Qi.

At this time, Qi adopted a policy of "being cautious about Qin" to Qin, and Qin adopted a diplomatic policy of distant friendship and close attack on Qi, which led to Qi ignoring Qin's attack on the five countries, although Qi avoided Qin's attack, but when Qin destroyed the five countries, the next step was Qi, and finally Qi was destroyed by Qin.

The attitude of Qin and Qi is also from the King of Qi to send gifts, he himself does not want to offend Qin State, but because of this, he knows that Qi State is now strong on the surface, empty inside, attacking him may be able to get benefits, but now it is not good, to take these countries is only to make friends from afar and close to attack, let them underestimate themselves too much, and at the same time let him know the means. The surface of the Qi State is strong, for the Qin State, as long as it is properly wooed, the result is very easy to deal with, the good show has begun, and the wonderful is still to come.