"Ran'er, do you have any feelings?" Speaking of Mr. Qi, who was in the mood, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked Meng Ran.

Meng Ran scratched his head for a while, and then replied: "Sir, the Zhou State is in decline, so it is driven by the vassal states. We should learn from history and use it as a lesson, practice ourselves, and not be lambs to the slaughter. ”

Looking at Meng Ran's serious expression, Mr. Qi returned with joy: "The son can be taught." We should cultivate ourselves as a family, but we must not stir up evil thoughts and hurt others. ”

"Disciple remember. Meng Ran replied respectfully.

Subsequently, Mr. Qi continued to talk about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Emperor Ji Yu of Zhou for ten years, Chu and Jin fought in Yi and won a great victory over the Jin State. Chu surrounded Song, Song told Jin to be anxious, Jin could not be saved, Song Sui made peace with Chu Yan, and respected Chu. At this time, all the countries in the Central Plains, except for Jin, Qi and Lu, respected the king of Chuzhuang as their overlord.

The continuous wars between the two major vassal states of Jin and Chu brought great disasters to the people, and also caused the boredom of the small and medium-sized vassal states. Therefore, it was initiated by the Song State and held the first "soldiers" alliance, which was for Huayuan. Soon after, however, the alliance broke down. Two large-scale battles broke out between the Jin and Chu countries again, and although both ended in Jin victories, Chu still maintained an evenly matched situation with the Jin in the Central Plains, and many small vassal states in the Central Plains were affected and exhausted. Later, due to geopolitical influences, the Song State once again intervened to mediate, inviting Jin and Chu and the vassal states to hold a second "soldiering" alliance, after which the war was greatly reduced. The history is known as "Xiang Xu's soldiers".

When the struggle for hegemony among the princes of the Central Plains was coming to an end, Wu and Yue, which were located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, began to develop. Wu Wang Lu reused Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others. Subsequently, King Wu took Wu Zixu as his general and commanded the army to attack Chu. The Wu army attacked Chu Duying, and Wu Zixu avenged his father and brother, dug up the tomb of King Chuping, and whipped 300 corpses. In the third year, the Wu army marched south to invade Vietnam. Goujian, the king of Yue, led his troops to meet the battle, and the Yue doctor Linggu Fu Yige hit He Lu, who died of injuries. The following year, Wu Wangfu sent revenge for his father and defeated the army. Gou Jian sued for peace, bribed Wu Chen Boyao and gave Wu Wang Zhenbao and the beautiful Xi Shi, and personally led the horse for his husband. King Wu rejected Wu Zixu's suggestion to join forces with Qi to destroy Yue, accepted Yue's request for peace, transferred his troops to attack north, defeated the Qi army, and became a small tyrant. Gou Jian lay down and tasted the courage, ten years of life and gathering, ten years of lessons, and finally eliminated the Wu State, and the husband committed suicide in shame. Gou Jian went north to join Qi Jin and Yu Xu, becoming the last overlord.

When Duke Wen of Jin returned to the Jin Dynasty and ascended the throne, many of his retinue returned to China with him, and as a result, these people gradually became hereditary nobles in the Jin Kingdom, and the state affairs of the Jin Kingdom also fell into the hands of these nobles. Later, only the four nobles of the Jin Kingdom remained: Zhi, Zhao, Han, and Wei. The Zhi clan sent troops to attack the Zhao clan and coerced the Wei and Han clans to send troops. After the war lasted for two years, the Zhao clan lobbied the Wei and Han families to defect, destroy the Zhi clan, carve up the Zhi land and control the state politics of the Jin State, known as the Three Families of Jin in history. To Jin Yougong only two places, there are only two places: Jiang and Quwo. Later, Emperor Zhou canonized Han, Zhao and Wei as vassal states, which opened the Warring States Period.

The victory of the Sanjin and Tian clans announced the cruel political law of the survival of the strong and the elimination of the weak. As a result, starting with the reform of Li Kui in Wei, the vassal states vied with each other to carry out a reform movement with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army. At the heart of the reform was the immobilization of laborers to the land in order to increase the state's tax revenue. The deepening of social civilization has caused the rulers' greed for material pleasures to swell rapidly. The most direct way to increase the amount of exploitation is to plunder more land, and the easiest way to plunder land is through war.

So, wars were more frequent during this period.

According to historical records, during the 242 years of the Spring and Autumn Period, 43 monarchs were killed by their subordinates or enemy countries, 52 vassal states were destroyed, there were more than 480 large and small wars, and more than 450 times of court appointments and alliances of the princes; and during the 255-year Warring States Period from the three families to the reunification of the Qin State, there were 230 large and small wars.

Later, Daozong felt that the war in the world continued, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the people were displaced, and the peace of heaven was harmed, so Daozong entered the WTO in the Qin State and helped the Qin State to unify the world.

In the following years, the Qin state expanded externally, and the war was invincible.

In the end, 800 years ago, the Qin State destroyed the last vassal state, the Chu State, completed the great cause of unification, and changed the name of the country to Great Qin. Taoism was also established as the state religion by the Great Qin, and since then, Taoism has prevailed in various places, and there are more and more people cultivating Taoism, and Taoism is even better.

Emperor Yingzheng of Qin was not enough to show his profession with the title of emperor, but called the emperor. Because he was the first emperor, he called himself the "First Emperor". The Qin state continued to implement the reform policy of the former Shang Dynasty, strengthening the absolute monarchy, weakening the power of the old aristocracy, and promoting the nobles who rose from military merit.

After Qin Shi Huang abolished the feudal system, he established a set of county and county systems and bureaucratic systems from the central to the local level. At first, the country was divided into 36 counties, and later increased to 46 counties with the expansion of land, and Xianyang was designated as the capital. The highest bureaucrats in the central government are the prime minister, the imperial historian and the taiwei, also known as the "three dukes". The magistrate of the local county shall be the guard, and the magistrate of the county shall be the order. The county system initially broke the patriarchal system of blood relations, and the feudal system and bureaucracy replaced the hereditary system of the aristocracy.

In order to consolidate his power, Qin Shi Huang also implemented a series of policies, mainly: unifying currency and weights and measures, unifying the written language, building the Great Wall, Chi Road and Straight Road, and forcibly relocating the rich people and civilians of the Six Kingdoms. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, in order to prevent the nobles of the Six Kingdoms from "resurrecting" by relying on their clans, they were forced to move to Xianyang, asking them to take care of the imperial tombs, or to migrate to the remote areas of the southwest.

Since then, the prosperous era of Great Qin has begun.

Although the Great Qin established Taoism as the state religion, it could not change its fate of decay and extinction.

Three hundred years ago, Emperor Qin died violently in the Dune Palace on the way to the east, and the close minister Zhao Gao took the method of persuading the son Hu Hai to threaten Li Si, and the two of them conspired in the Dune Palace to fake the Qin Emperor to issue an edict, and Hu Hai inherited the throne, and also accused the eldest son Fusu of being unfilial to his son and Meng Tian of being disloyal to his ministers in the name of Emperor Qin, so that they committed suicide and must not disobey. After receiving the exact news of Gongzi Fusu's suicide, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si ordered the convoy to travel day and night and quickly return to Xianyang.

After returning to Xianyang, Hu Hai succeeded to the throne as Emperor Qin, Zhao Gao was appointed as the lieutenant commander, and Li Si was still the prime minister, but the power of the imperial court actually fell to Zhao Gao. After Zhao Gao's conspiracy succeeded, he began to poison the people around him. He laid a trap and gradually forced Li Si to a dead end, and after Li Si found out about Zhao Gao's conspiracy, he wrote a letter to denounce Zhao Gao. Qin Emperor Hu Hai not only favored Zhao Gao, but also punished Li Si, and finally beheaded Li Si in Xianyang. Zhao Gao was promoted to prime minister, and because he could enter and leave the palace, he was specially called "the prime minister".

Emperor Hu Hai and Zhao Gao of Qin were ferocious and extravagant, and imposed brutal rule on the Qin State, which made the people live miserably, wearing the clothes of cattle and horses, eating the food of dogs, and often fleeing to the mountains and forests under the torture of the mobsters, and holding riots.

Later, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang used the name of Fusu, the eldest son who had been given to death, in Daze Township, to call on the people to oppose Qin, and the nearby peasants cut wood and uncovered poles to participate in the uprising. The rebel army divided its troops to the east, and the main force attacked westward, connecting the counties of Xuan, Yu, Ku, Zhe, and Qian in present-day eastern Henan and northern Anhui. By the time they advanced to Chen, it was already a huge contingent of tens of thousands of people.

Under the influence of the rebel army, the peasants of many counties and counties killed the guards and responded to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and then there were volunteers in all counties of the world who responded.

Two years later, the Great Qin Dynasty, which lasted for more than 500 years (counting from Qin Shi Huang), collapsed. responded to the proverb of "those who died in Qin, Hu Ye".

After Chen Sheng and Wu Guangcheng happened, the country was founded, the country was named Chen, and the capital was Jiankang.

When Mr. Qi said this, his face tightened, and he said earnestly: "It is difficult to create any dynasty, and it is even more difficult to keep the business. And no dynasty can last for thousands of generations, and there are always unscrupulous descendants who corrupt the ancestral industry and disgrace the ancestors. However, you have to remember that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. ”

Meng Ran nodded solemnly and replied, "The disciple understands that he will live up to the teachings of his father and his husband. ”

Mr. Qi nodded and said: "Our juniors should take history as a mirror when they learn in the evening, and the overturn of the previous car should be a lesson for the future car." Chen Guo did not learn from history and did not learn from the reasons for the demise of the past dynasties, which led to the rampant foreign relatives and eunuchs interfering in politics, so that the great mountains and rivers were handed over to others. ”

In the past, Chen Sheng "had great ambitions and did not manage production." He was long, read military books, had many martial arts, was wise and decisive, and was recommended by the time. "Chen Sheng was born in a poor family, and generally speaking, it is much more difficult for children born in a poor family to develop and progress in their careers than children of wealthy nobles.

At a time when the tyrant and traitor were in power, and the hearts of the people in the world were fluctuating, Chen Sheng and his friend Wu Guang raised the banner of rebellion against the tyrannical Qin, and the followers gathered. In two years, Great Qin was destroyed. Later, Chen Sheng sat on several counties, proclaimed himself emperor, established himself as the state of Chen, and fought with other anti-Qin princes.

During Chen Sheng's reign, he was able to determine the way to defeat the enemy and win every major military event, and he advocated leniency and simplicity in handling government affairs. He is frugal and simple by nature, and the harem concubines and palace maids do not wear gold and emerald clothes, nor do they have female music. He was able to be virtuous and politically clear, so that the situation in Jiangnan gradually stabilized.

Since then, Chen Guo has begun to recuperate and recuperate.

At this time, there was the Later Zhou Dynasty in the north, the national capital Luoyang, and the Chen State was bounded by Huaishui, and it was divided into two dynasties, north and south. To the north of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there is the Northern Han Dynasty of the country, and the capital is Jicheng.

Chen Guo recuperated, but Hou Zhou was arrogant and lascivious, thinking that being in the hinterland of the Central Plains was the orthodoxy of Shenzhou, and did not take Chen Guo, who was partial to the south of the Yangtze River, in his eyes, and indulged in carnivals all day long.

Chen spent ten years strengthening the army and enriching the people, making the country prosperous. From then on, the Northern Expedition began.

Emperor Chen personally led the armies to the Northern Expedition after the Zhou Dynasty. To Liang County (now Shangqiu, Henan), the county guard Wang Hong surrendered to the city. After that, he led the troops down to Luoyang. Later Zhou guards abandoned the city and fled, and the Later Zhou emperor and his clan fled north. This Northern Expedition was only 42 days old, and the soldiers were bloodless, and they collected three passes and four prefectures in a row, with a total of 17 counties. At this time, Chen Guo already owned 41 counties in the world.

Emperor Chen was preparing to take advantage of the victory to pursue, take advantage of the situation to seize Taiyuan, and returned in case of illness.

In December of the same year, Emperor Chen was unwell, and a few days later, he died of illness in the Xuanji Palace, reigning for 17 years, at the age of 47. In the first month of the following year, the ministers said that Emperor Wu, the temple name was Gaozu, and he was buried in Wan'an Mausoleum.