In the starry sky of the pre-Qin period, the stars were shining, some were dazzling, some were dim, some were eternal, and some were fleeting.

The dazzling ones are Qin, Jin, Chu, and Qi;

the bleak Youji, Di, Chen, and Jiao;

There are Song, Lu, Zheng, and Wei for a long time;

In a flash, there are directional, extreme, Yin, and Rong;

The Western Zhou Dynasty closed hundreds of countries, and there are not many countries that can leave a little imprint. If you want to tell the story of the pre-Qin, you have to start with Qin.

The earliest capital of the Qin people was built in a place called Dog Hill.

Dog Hill, as the name suggests, is a small hill with dogs. It's ugly, it's not good.

is such an unpleasant-sounding name, there were two in the pre-Qin period, one in the vicinity of today's Xianyang, and one in today's Tianshui, Gansu.

The fief given by Zhou Tianzi to the ancestors of the Qin people was in the dog hill of Tianshui, Gansu, also called the West Dog Hill.

Since there are two dog mounds, why not divide the places around Xianyang to the Qin people?

Hehe---, think about it too much, because the dog mound around Xianyang is a good place, and it is not convenient for you; The dog hill in Tianshui is remote, sparsely populated, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the traffic is inconvenient, and there are many grasslands around. Well, this place is idle and idle, so give it to the Qin people and let them raise horses.

So Qin Feizi, the ancestor of the Qin people, was sealed in Qin by King Xiao of Zhou because of his meritorious work in raising horses. Although the place is a little off, after all, from this day on, the Qin people have a place of their own.

Can a country be built with a locality? Not necessarily, because owning land and building a country are two different things, and there is still a long way to go. At this time, the Qin people who owned land could only be called the Qin tribe.

The world is so big, there are so many places, and there are as many as hundreds of countries divided by Zhou Tianzi, why can't the Qin people who have made meritorious contributions to raising horses a country and a good place?

The problem is complex, and the reason is simple.

Because the Qin people are not Zhou Tianzi's own family.

Some books record that in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were more than 800 countries divided by the Son of Heaven, and in the early years of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were more than 170 left, and there were only a few dozen at the beginning of the Warring States period.

800 pcs? The number is a bit big, but two or three hundred should not be a problem, and among so many countries, the country surnamed Ji accounts for 70 percent.

Zhou Tianzi is really not authentic, at the beginning of the establishment, anyone with the surname Ji whether it is a turning relative or a distant relative, as long as your surname is Ji, I will recognize you as my own person, and immediately give you a country and let you be the monarch. The world is very big, and there are only a few brothers in him, and they are completely sealed.

After his own brothers were sealed, there were also the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the descendants of the Huang Emperor, the descendants of the Shang Dynasty, etc., all of whom were with the ancient emperors, and the people of Zhou Tianzi were all sealed, and the title was quite high.

Since then, there is really not much place left for those heroes with foreign surnames, most of them are in remote areas.

Think about those Western Zhou heroes who are not surnamed Ji, who followed Zhou Tianzi all the way to fight the world, endured hardships and stood hard work, and almost lost their lives, but in the end they ended up marrying away from home. For example, the old man Jiang Taigong, who made great contributions to the Western Zhou Dynasty, was sealed in the distant Qi land after becoming famous.

Qidi seems to be pretty good today, but in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was definitely a border area, called "Dongyi".

Don't think that if you stay away from Guanzhong, stay in that place where you drink seawater, eat fish and shrimp every day, and have to deal with the surrounding aborigines at every turn, and you can rest assured.

Wrong, really wrong.

"Jiang Ziya, this old man, although he is a little older, but he is in good health, he can eat several bowls of yusheng at a meal, and he has a lot of ghost ideas. Now let him stay so far away in Qidi, the news is blocked, what if he has a bad mind one day? I really don't feel at ease with one person. No, no, I have to let my family go to see Mrs. Jiang and ask him about his old man's retirement. Zhou Tianzi thought of doing it.

As a result, a country surnamed Ji was born around the Qi State--- Lu State.

Let others look at those princes with foreign surnames, Zhou Tianzi can finally rest with confidence.

The meritorious Jiang Taigong all ended up like this, and it was even more difficult for the Qin people who raised horses to turn over in the dynasty of Zhou Tianzi.

But the credit of the Qin people is too great, they have raised so many horses, all of them are fat and strong, and the Son of Heaven likes them very much.

It's not easy for this child, he's been working hard to raise horses for generations, so he has to give something, otherwise what can they do if they are passive and slacking off?

"Why didn't the king seal them in Qindi?" A minister gave advice to the Son of Heaven.

Qindi?

After listening to the minister's words, Zhou Tianzi looked at the minister with a puzzled expression, "Why is this?" ”

"Qindi is remote, the mountains are high and the ravines are deep, the grasslands are vast, and the surrounding Rongdi is everywhere. Non-sub-clansmen don't have to worry about the lack of grassland at all to herd horses in Qindi, and they can also defend the royal family from Xizhui; If the Qin people can gain a foothold here, it is equivalent to opening up territory for the royal family; If you can't get a foothold and be destroyed by the surrounding Rong Di, you can only blame yourself for your life, no wonder the royal family, what does the king think? ”

？？？

So vicious?

After hearing this, King Zhou Xiao looked at the minister suspiciously, "The royal family already has the Kingdom of Yu defending in the west, why do you want Feizi to defend Rong Di in the farther Qin land?" ”

"Isn't this double insurance? Besides, the country of Yu is the country of its own people, and in the Qin land further west of the country of Qiu, there are people with foreign surnames to take the lead, isn't it better to be shot? ”

When the Kingdom of Yu was first established, Zhou Tianzi took a little effort to divide his own uncle Yu Zhong in the Kingdom of Qiu, and gave him the highest title of duke, so that he could defend Rong Di from the west for him. Now it is necessary to install foreign surnames to defend further west, so that the world of the royal family will be more stable.

"Huh? Isn't that a bit ruthless? I can't bear to give it to one person. Zhou Tianzi said regretfully.

"To one person" is Zhou Tianzi's self-title, which is the same as the self-proclaimed "I" by later emperors, but there are two more words, and it is even more difficult to read.

"It's ruthless, who made him Qin Ren not surnamed Ji?" The minister said.

This minister must be a descendant of the Lao Ji family, and like the Son of Heaven, he ruthlessly guards against all the princes with foreign surnames.

"Well--, you're right, you can't give a good place to someone with a foreign surname." Zhou Tianzi said firmly.

The place has been determined, just in the distant Qin land, but the problem is far from being solved, because the fief is also going to be feudal. According to the basic principle of feudal countries in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the countries that the Son of Heaven divided into feuds all had ranks, namely Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Male.

What kind of level should be given to the Qin people?

The minister spoke again, "Your Majesty, the Qin people are just a miscellaneous servant who puts horses, how can they directly seal the country?" Let's start with a fiefdom first, give them a piece of land, look at the performance first, and if the performance is good, give them an official position. If not, let them stay there as wranglers for the royal family. ”

The solution is a little more poisonous, but the effect is still quite large.

If you survive, you should open up territory for the royal family, and if you die, you should clear out dissidents.

So from the beginning of the founding of the Zhou royal family, the non-sub-clansmen who followed the Son of Heaven to eat together came to Qindi and began a long and professional career of horse breeding! In order to resist the invasion of the surrounding Rongdi, the Qin people also built a city of their own - Dog Hill.

The first three generations of monarchs of the Qin people, Qin Feizi, Qin Hou, and Qin Gongbo, basically had nothing to do, and honestly stayed around Inuqiu City as a royal wrangler to herd horses, and from time to time fought with the surrounding Rong Di, with victories and defeats, and deaths and injuries.

The social environment of the Western Weekend New Year is like that, and everyone is killed and injured.

A few people were killed and a few people were injured, and the Qin people didn't take it seriously, and they still felt that they were alive and well.

This situation lasted until the time when Qin Zhong succeeded to the throne, and the internal and external situations changed, and the story of the Qin people became rich and tortuous.

Although there are many reasons for the decline of all dynasties, there must be two most important reasons, one is internal troubles and the other is external troubles, which are also called internal causes and external causes.

In the third year of Qin Zhong's succession, the suzerainty of the Zhou royal family had the famous "Guoren Rebellion", and Ji Hu, the son of heaven, was driven out of Haojing. Although the "Chinese rebellion" was a struggle within the Zhou royal family, its impact was far-reaching, because this rebellion shook the foundation of the Zhou royal family's rule and made the originally powerful Zhou royal family decline from then on.

The external reason is that the Son of Heaven fled and the royal family declined, and the surrounding Rong Di took the opportunity to invade the Zhou royal kingdom and plunder, among which the Rong Di tribe around the Qin people entered the vicinity of Dog Hill and killed the Qin Zhong people one after another, and even Qin Zhong's cousins were killed.

Kill my people, I confess; Kill my people, and I will admit it; But if you want to kill my own brother, you can't do it.

Because I don't have many brothers, and I have killed them all, who will inherit the inheritance of the Qin people?

So the Qin people, who had been oppressed by the surrounding Rongdi tribe for three generations, finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to take action.