The city of Daliang is not much better, the water in the city is too deep, and the people are climbing on the roofs to wait to be fed. But the water is still rising, and hundreds of thousands of residents are instantly unable to cook. At this time, there was no more nobility and poverty, and in just one day and one night, the whole city ran out of food, and almost all the stored grain was fed to fish and shrimp!

At this time, the only place in Daliang City that can maintain a peaceful food is probably only the palace: the terrain is high, and the pavilions and pavilions are also high, so there is still a place to store some grain and make a fire! However, the communication between the palaces depends on boats!

After an empty stomach for a day, the civil and military officers of the Wei State regained their spirits after devouring a full meal in the palace.

Wei Wang Wei said with a gloomy expression: "Zhuqing, now that the food in Daliang City is cut off, the people have no place to live, they are already Jedi, and the widows want to surrender to the Qin army, what do you think?" ”

"The king, the minister is unwilling, really unwilling! There are still 50,000 elite soldiers in the city, and 30,000 grains are hoarded. A civil servant shouted.

"50,000 elite soldiers are standing on the roof, and the food has been fed to fish and shrimp for three years, and in a few days, I'm afraid the adults won't even be able to shout!" One of the generals scoffed.

When the courtiers heard this, they were silent: think that their families are hungry on the roof, waiting to be fed, and they will never get up again for a while.

Wei Wang, the king of Wei, saw that all the ministers were in despair, and choked up and ordered: "The widow is immoral, the sin and the subjects, and now there is only one way to go out of the city and surrender!" ”

Second, the king of Wei, Wei, sent an envoy to surrender. Wang Ben was overjoyed and gladly accepted the demotion table. when, he ordered the Qin army to block the breach and help the Wei people rescue and rescue the disaster!

At this point, the Wei State was officially destroyed, and the Qin State took all the Wei lands!

In 226 BC, that is, the twenty-first year of the reign of King Qin, the Qin army turned its main attack to the south while capturing Yandu Ji and achieving a decisive victory in the north. Wang Ben, the son of the famous general Wang Qian, led an army to attack the northern region of Chu and occupy more than ten cities. After dealing a certain blow to the state of Chu so that it did not dare to act rashly and ensured the safety of the flank of the Qin army attacking Wei, Wang Ben immediately returned to the army and went north, and in 225 BC suddenly attacked the state of Wei and surrounded the Wei capital Daliang. The Wei army relied on the fortifications of the city and defended desperately. The Qin army's strong attack was ineffective, so the water of the Yellow River and the chasm was used to irrigate the city. Three months later, the city of Daliang was broken. The king of Wei, Wei faked his surrender, and Wei died. The state of Qin set up Dangjun in the eastern region of the state of Wei.

The State of Wei has a well-equipped Wei warrior who is well-equipped - wearing heavy armor, holding a sword with a sword, carrying a bow and crossbow, and crossing the arrow, with amazing combat effectiveness, and is famous all over the world! How strong was this army at once? Relying on this powerful army, the Wei State is invincible all over the world! Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, except for the fact that Wei did not have a large-scale war with Yan, the other five countries were defeated by the Wei Wheel War! In the five years from 413 BC to 408 BC, the Wei State attacked Qin continuously, and almost destroyed the Qin State in the west of the Qin River! Wei defeated Chu and seized the land of Huaibei of Chu; defeated Korea, surrounded the capital of Korea, and almost destroyed Korea, but was destroyed by the Qi State; Wei defeated Zhao and once conquered Handan; Even after the defeat of Pang Juan and the capture and killing of 100,000 troops by Qi, Wei still defeated Qi and reunited with Qi. Even the later Qin State adopted a strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack in the process of unifying the Six Kingdoms, and each one broke through, and there was never the experience of defeating the Six Nations one by one in a wheel war.

Why did the Wei State, which was the earliest to change the law, abundant in talents, strategically located, and militarily powerful, not unify the six countries, but the Qin State, which was inferior to Wei in all conditions, unified the world?

First of all, Wei's development strategy was seriously wrong.

Wei was the most powerful state in the early and even middle Warring States period, but such a powerful state has never formulated a correct and persistent development strategy. At the beginning, Wei chose to attack Qin and captured more than 600 miles of Qin land in one fell swoop, and Qin was in danger of perishing! However, Wei was satisfied, and instead of taking advantage of the victory, he expanded to the east. After Qin recovered its national strength, he chased after Wei and insisted on it, but Wei was just tired of defending! Wei used the extra troops to attack Chu, Korea, Zhao, Qi, etc., although Wei was strong, but it was not strong enough to fight five at a time! The final result was that Wei lost its position as the hegemon! The opportunity to unify the six countries was lost!

In fact, the monarchs of Wei may not have the courage and idea of unifying the six countries at all, and their ideas are still stuck in the period of being the hegemon in the autumn period, but the trend of history has already passed that period, so Wei's development strategy is seriously wrong! It was precisely because of Wei's mistakes that Qin provided an opportunity!

Secondly, Wei did not make good use of its own talents, but instead cultivated a lot of talents for Qin, and made great contributions to Qin's unification of the six countries! During the Warring States Period, at least seven out of ten people were from the Wei State, if the Wei State attached importance to talents and reused one or two of them, why would it be to the point of dying? The ministers who made great contributions to the unification of the Qin State, such as Shang Ying, Zhang Yi, Fan Sui, and Wei Yizi, were all from the Wei State, and if the Wei State could reuse these four people, then it must be the Wei State instead of the Qin State that unified the world!

Thirdly, the degree of change is different. Wei's reform was much milder than Qin's Shang Ying's reform, but at the same time, the blow to the old aristocracy was much smaller, which also caused the old aristocracy of Wei to be strong, which also seriously affected the feudalization process of Wei. On the other hand, in the Qin State, the old aristocracy underwent a brutal blow by the Shang Dynasty reform, and there were countless people who exterminated the clan and copied the family, which greatly accelerated the process of feudalization in the Qin State, and the latecomers overtook the Wei State. Society determines the relations of production, the relations of production determine the productive forces, and the productive forces determine the strength of the country, so the productive forces of the Qin State exceed the productive forces of the Wei State, and the national strength naturally exceeds the Wei State!

Finally, the Wei state despised cavalry. Wei has a strong Wei army, but it is precisely because of this that Wei has always despised cavalry, resulting in a serious lag in the development of cavalry! The territory of Wei is vast, and the surrounding countries are all powerful countries, and the speed of infantry marching is far inferior to that of cavalry, and the delay of fighters is very serious! And the final unification of the Six Kingdoms by Qin relied on having a strong cavalry force!

Therefore, although Wei was the first to change the law, rich in talents, strategically located, and very strong militarily, it was precisely because of the serious mistakes in Wei's development strategy, the loss of talents, the incomplete reform of the law, and the lack of cavalry, that the historical opportunity to unify the six countries was finally taken away by the Qin State! The state of Wei was destroyed by the state of Qin!

Thinking that at the beginning, Zhi Yao and Xun Yao extorted land from Han Kangzi, Wei Huanzi, and Zhao Xiangzi respectively, but only the Zhao family did not give it, Xun Yao was furious, and united with the Han and Wei clans to attack and defeat Zhao Xiangzi. Zhao Xiangzi hurriedly retreated to the base area of Jinyang, and Xun Yao surrounded and led Jin water to irrigate the city for two years. When the Zhao family's Jinyang City was flooded, he said to Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi: "I only learned today that water can also destroy the country. "Zhiyao said it unintentionally, but Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi listened to it intentionally. Because Fenshui can be used to flood Jinyang City, and it can also be used to flood Wei's Anyi City; And the water can be used to flood Han's Pingyang City. So, Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi secretly united with Zhao Xiangzi of the Zhao family to destroy the Zhi family, which led to the later "Three Families".

But history is like a naughty child, and in the end it still played a big joke with the Wei State. Even if the Wei State moved the capital from Anyi to Daliang, it still could not escape the fate of being flooded. However, having said that, Wang Ben's diversion of the water of the Bianhe River to flood the beams was only a kick in the door on the football field, and at most it was the direct cause of the demise of the Wei State, not the main cause. So, what were the main reasons that led to the demise of the Wei state?

It's talent! The brain drain and withering of talents in the Wei State were the main reasons for the eventual demise of the Wei State. The State of Wei really became a vassal state during the period of Marquis Wen of Wei. During his reign, Wei Wenhou recruited and appointed a large number of top talents at that time, such as Tian Zifang, Li Kui, Zhai Huang, Ximen Leopard, Le Yang, Wu Qi and so on. It was precisely because Wei Wenhou was able to attach importance to talents and seek talents, so Wei State jumped to the ranks of the powerful countries at that time, and laid a solid foundation for King Wei Hui to become the overlord in the early stage. However, what is amazing is that in the history of Wei State, only Wei Wenhou can really seek talents, below Wei Wenhou, the successive monarchs of Wei State, just like the nine-catty old lady said, is not as good as the next generation, until the destruction of Wei State.

Wei Wenhou was followed by Wei Wuhou. Marquis Wu of Wei reigned from 386 BC to 371 BC and reigned for 16 years. In these 16 years, the most wrong and stupid thing that Wei Wuhou did was to be nepotistic, listen to his uncle's words, and send Wu Qi to Chu State. Marquis Wu of Wei was followed by King Hui of Wei. King Wei Hui reigned for 51 years, and in the early stage of his reign, he became the overlord of the world at that time by virtue of the family wealth accumulated by the two generations of Wei Wenhou and Wei Wuhou. Historical records show that during the 51 years of King Wei Hui's reign, there were at least 21 wars with other princes, an average of one war in less than three years. This was an astonishing frequency of wars, and with the national strength of Wei at that time, it was simply impossible to support such frequent wars.

Why did Wei have such frequent, disorganized, and thankless wars? The root cause is that Wei lacked talents like Shang Ying, Sun Bin and Fan Ju with far-sighted long-term strategic vision and strategic planning. In fact, Shang Ying, Sun Bin and Fan Ju could have contributed to the Wei State, but King Wei Hui had no eyes and repeatedly missed.

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