Chapter 2 Qi Gong leads the army's northern expedition to destroy Gu Zhu and Yan Zhuang Gong benefited from the disaster recovery to become a greater nation

When talking about the history of the Spring and Autumn dynasties, we can't help but mention the original ethnic minorities. In the Zhou Dynasty era, the Zhou Royal Family divided the region into three categories based on their own control, one being the state ", one is "off-State", and the other is ethnic minorities or tribes that are called "nanman.com, dongyi, xijon, and Beidi. "State" refers to the land directly controlled by the Zhou royal family, while "state" refers to the control area of the various countries in which the Zhou royal family is isolated, the "state" and "State outside" refer to the regions controlled by the Zhou Dynasty, also known as zhuxia, while the situation of ethnic minorities such as "nanman, dongyi, xirong, and Beidi" is complex, some of them surrender to the Zhou Dynasty, while others do not surrender to the Zhou Dynasty.
There are many different types of "nanmanhan", including Jing manan, Yue, Min, Yong, Pu, Lu, Shu, Ba, Wei, Wei, Yu, and Yu. It is mainly distributed in the south, southwest, and southeast of China today, with Chu as the most powerful country in South China.
"Dongyi" is a general term for Eastern ethnic minorities. during the Spring and Autumn Period, the dongyi group was mainly divided into laiyi and huaiyi groups. The countries set up by layi are all small countries, which are basically distributed in the territory of Shandong today; Huai Yi is distributed in the huaishui area, and basically some small countries. Unlike ethnic minorities in other regions, dongyi was integrated into the Chinese National camp earlier.
"Xijon" refers to the general term of ethnic minorities in the Western region. It has many branches and complicated names, making it difficult to distinguish the ethnic series. Its main activities are in the following regions: Gansu, Qinghai, and Shaanxi, some of them migrated to the Central Plains and were completely integrated with the Chinese population.
"Bei Di" is a general term for Northern minorities. At the beginning of spring and autumn, ethnic minorities in the north were generally called Dijon, which was divided into Dijon and shanjong. After 662 BC, Dijon was often called Dijon. Therefore, Beidi was the name of a descendant of northern ethnic minorities.
In general, the Zhou Dynasty and the surrounding ethnic minority regime have a battle and a war. In general, in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty and their policy of appeasement was adopted, and after the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty took a lot of military actions against these regime. The conflict between the two sides even led to the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou royal family was weak and overwhelmed. At that time, they were unable to undertake the task of resisting the invasion of the surrounding ethnic minorities. At that time, the forces of the Central Plains were relatively scattered, no such country can independently deal with the invasion of ethnic minorities in the surrounding area, and no country can be powerful enough to issue orders to unite the scattered forces of all countries to deal with these ethnic minorities, at that time, the Central Plains vassal states were in a situation where they were not dominated. Some of the strong vassal states only wanted to take advantage of the weak power of the Zhou royal family to gain some benefits for themselves, no one is willing to take on more obligations to deal with the growing peripheral ethnic minorities. Under such circumstances, the surrounding ethnic minorities have achieved great development, which in turn has posed a huge threat and pressure to various countries.
We analyze the situation faced by the Zhou Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, mainly because the Nan Yi and bei di constitute the most serious threat to the Central Plains, and the Nan Yi refers to the Chu state, northern Di is the minority in northern China, which is "Di", also known as "Di ". During the Spring and Autumn Period, DI was in the nomadic stage. They did not occupy the central plains, but destroyed the city room and snatched the property, which was extremely destructive to the agricultural civilization of the Central Plains, therefore, I am deeply disgusted with the hatred of the zxia people and even regard them as animals. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the elders continued to intrude south, and qi, Zheng, Lu and other major countries could not be spared. For example, as described earlier in this article, in June 706 BC, xiaddi attacked Qi, and it was difficult for Qi to protect themselves. He even had to ask Zheng Zhuanggong for help. As a result, Zheng's army defeated di, the lessons of this fiasco led to the fear of further south intrusion by di over the past thirty years. After nearly thirty years, di recovered his strength and began a new South intrusion activity, this poses a serious threat to the Central Plains. However, the central plains are different from those of the Central Plains decades ago, because a powerful Qi is now emerging, an important part of Qi zhenggong's policy of hegemony is to reflect his responsibilities by fighting against yundun's invasion and disturbance, DI, who wants to capture property in the south, did not notice this point. They directly threatened the security of Zhou royal family's richest zhuhou guoyan country from the south of the yanguo's northern base.
Let's take a look at the nation of yanguo. Zhou Zhengfeng, an important fengguo country in the western part of yanguo, is built in Ji (southwest of Beijing today). It is an important military base for Zhou royal family to control the north and south of yanshan and the di tribe in western Liaoning. It is also the northern barrier of the Zhou Dynasty. In the north of yanguo, the so-called "Shan Rong" has been established by a lone bamboo in yinshang. It was this lone bamboo that posed a great security threat to the later yanguo in 664 BC, the king of the swallow State sends a distress instrument to Qi Gong, hoping that qi can help Yan state to send Shan Rong back to the north of Yanshan.
Although yanguo is an important country in the early Zhou Dynasty, yanguo has little influence, not to mention comparing it with a super power such as Qi and Lu, even if there is a certain gap with Zheng, Wei, song, and other countries in the Central Plains, there are not many exchanges between Yan and Qi because of their comparative advantages, and Yan has not joined Qi's camp, however, Yan Zhuanggong's distress has been paid attention to by Qi zhenggong. At this time, Qi zhenggong is no longer the master who just wants to persuade all countries to seek the best interests of Qi Gong, as the overlord of the central plains that won the white hat from the Zhou Royal Family and recognized by various countries, he realized that Qi and himself had to fulfill their responsibilities as overlord, and he decided to provide troops to support Yan, due to worries that Qi's military power is not enough, he made an emergency negotiation with Lu Zhuanggong at the junction of Qilu in the winter of this year to discuss how to send troops to the Northern Expedition, lu Zhuanggong finally agreed to send troops, but later worried that the road was too far away and gave up the troops. Qi zhenggong did not shake his mind, so he chose to send troops alone, take Guan zhongpeng and other competent ministers to dispatch the army of Qi to the north. When arriving in yanguo, I received news that Shan Rong feared Qi's troops and withdrew from yanguo back to the north of Yanshan. Yan Zhuanggong personally greeted qi gong to enter the capital city. He expressed gratitude to QI for his troops, it is reasonable to say that since Shan Rong has retired, Qi Gong's mission has been achieved, and he should be able to return to the country as a class engineer. However, Qi Gong considers Shan Rong's mobility, and now they are afraid of Qi Jun's strength to withdraw, once Qi's return to China, Shan Rong will inevitably go down south again to threaten the security of Yan's country. Therefore, he decided to cut down Shan Rong and eliminate Shan Rong to completely resolve the security threats to the nation and the Central Plains. Yan Zhuanggong was very grateful to Qi Gong for his decision, so he volunteered to lead Yan Jun to fight for Qi Jun, but Qi was rejected by Qi Gong. Here, we have seen Qi zhenggong as a Shandong person's characteristic, that is, to make sense, you can not care about your own losses, Qi zhenggong Let Yan Zhuanggong rate Yan Jun for their own temple, I personally led the Qi army to charge the troops in front of the North to fight Shan Rong, which has been going deep into the Changli area of Hebei today. Shan Rong is a guerrilla combat and has some advantages in aggression and harassment, if we want to confront the well-trained Qi army, there is clearly a huge gap. After several battles, Shan Rong lost the enemy and ran away to the desert area. Shan Rong was familiar with the terrain in this area, I plan to use the geographical conditions to consume the battle power of the Qi army. While the Qi army is eager to win and pursue all the way, the result will be lost in the desert. If no direction is found, the large troops will fight in the desert, you cannot find the way out. At this time, Guan Zhong, who once worked as a hacker, played his previous professional experience. He asked the sergeant to hold several old horses in front of the team, loosen the reins, and let them go, as a result, the old horses led Qi Jun out of the desert, which is the origin of the idiom "the old horse knows the path. Qi Jun had a hard time walking out of the desert, but entered the mountainous area where water shortage occurred. The troops could not find drinking water and were in a dilemma. At this time, Peng said, "ant financial lives in the south of the mountain in winter, living in the north of the mountains in the summer, there must be water in the nest of the ant financial. "Qi Army soldiers searched for the ant financial nest and finally dug the ground to solve the drinking water problem. Qi army was able to continue to pursue the attack, until they caught up with and completely destroyed the main army of Shandi, occupying the whole territory of the lone bamboo, it completely solved the threat that Shandi posed to the Central Plains. (For more information, see "Han Feizi".)
Qi zhenggong finished his work and returned to yanguo. He suggested that yanguo restore the yanguo weekly ceremony, pay tribute to Zhou Wang, make the son of the Minister, and send all the land in the land of the oldest land occupied by him to yanguo. Yan Zhuanggong is grateful, I personally sent Qi Gong's departure. Two people chatted along the way and unknowingly entered the territory of Qi Guo. After Qi Gong knew it, he felt wrong. So he asked Guan Zhong, "can I send a parcel to another country?" Guan Zhong replied, "if it is not a tianzi, it cannot be sent out of the border ." Qi zhenggong said, "This is probably because yanjun is afraid of making me unhappy. Even if the country is thrown out of the border, he will not be told. I cannot make yanjun rude ." So Qi Gong did something that the average person could not think of. He cut the land of Qi sent by Yan Jun to Yan Guo. Yan Zhuanggong is grateful for himself. After hearing this incident, the Central Plains may not admire Qi Gong's benevolence and righteousness, but all of them are willing to surrender to Qi Guo, qi zhenggong's dominant position has been recognized by all countries over the world (for details about the above events, see "Korean poetry rumor 4"). In order to thank Qi zhenggong, Yan Zhuanggong built a new city on the land donated by Qi Gong, named Yan Liu, reminding Yan's subjects to especially commemorate Qi's favor in seeking help from Yan. Although Yan has never signed a specific Covenant with Qi, his loyalty to Qi has far exceeded those of other allies.
After Qi zhenggong returned to Qi from Yan Guo, he first thought of Lu Zhuanggong, not his wife and wife. Although Lu Zhuanggong has completely surrendered to Qi, however, Qi zhenggong was upset by the retreat in this northern expedition. He could not understand what a once-powerful Lu Guojun was so suffering. After a slight adjustment, Qi zhenggong took the prisoners of war to the country to report for the victory. According to the etiquette at that time, the princes should report the victory to tianzi in the war against ethnic minorities, instead of reporting to the superiors at the same level, Lu Guo's Zuo Chuan criticized Qi zhenggong for being "rude", but we can see Qi zhenggong's interesting side, on the one hand, he is willing to take the initiative to cut the land of Qi to Yan Guo for courtesy, on the other hand, he also used a method against the courtesy of the road to provide revenge demonstrations to Lu Zhuanggong.
Lu Zhuanggong was not optimistic about the return of Qi Gong's worker from the north. In this situation, he is naturally uneasy. He began to try his best to please Qi and make up for his mistakes, so in the spring of the second year after Qi zhenggong's victory and victory (QI zhenggong's twenty-four years, 662 BC), Lu Zhuanggong built a city for QI zhenggong's great red man Guan Zhong, in this way, Qi zhenggong was pleased. From then on, Lu was completely killed by Qi Guo. The discord between Qi Gong and Lu Zhuanggong, a happy family, also ended here until Qi zhenggong died, lu is no longer alignment with a little resistance.
Today, we are going to analyze the actions of Qi Gong's northern expedition to Gu Zhu. It is natural that Qi has taken into consideration the interests of Qi. Qi has supported and supported Yan Guo through support, this increased an effective barrier in Northern Qi to defend against North nomadic intrusions and reduced the land and defense pressure in Northern Qi. Of course, qi zhenggong's Northern Expedition indeed reflected his responsibility as a generation Overlord. In order to fulfill his obligation as a overlord, he even spared no effort in cutting down the ship, in the end, yanguo was given a large land area free of charge, and even cut the land of Qi to yanguo in order to prevent yundun from being rude. Although it gained an excellent reputation, however, from the national interests of Qi, this is not the best choice, because Qi zhenggong's benevolence and righteousness, he changed the yanguo, which was not very influential, from a hundred miles to a country of nearly a thousand miles. Although in the short term, Yan Qi's relationship entered a honeymoon period, however, the final result has created a super competitor for Qi on the northern border. In the past, Qi only needed to deal with the southern border of Lu, however, in the future, Qi will have to take the power to deal with the powerful yanguo in the Northern Region. After Qi zhenggong, Qi will no longer be able to achieve the power of his position. On the one hand, Qi will not be able to achieve the power of his subsequent Qi Guojun. He is brilliant. On the other hand, it is also because some of his initiatives in politics have hidden dangers for future generations. For example, when he took over Chen's hard work, Chen's work indirectly led to Tian's generation QI. He gave support to Yan Guo, But he repeatedly attacked Qi several hundred years later, it even almost killed the nation. Of course, these are the things that will happen in the future that Qi zhenggong could not predict at the time, but we can imagine that, if qi, a businessman focusing on Shangwu and advocating free trade, started to implement a unified currency scale as early as Qin Shihuang in 400, pays attention to the national reputation and the actual interests of the country, so that the influence of the Qi can be expanded from the east to the North or even to the west to the south. What kind of situation does China's historical process look like?