In fact, it is a truth to enlarge what happened to the king. The imperial concubines prefer king Qi Wei and say that he is good. The ministers in the court are afraid of him. Who dares to say that he is bad, but the people in China have to rely on him. How dare they say that he is not good? Zou Jiyi gave us a good explanation and the analysis was reasonable. King Qi thought that he was good and began to accept all kinds of criticisms with an open mind
In this story, Zou Ji is absolutely an upright and open-minded man. However, is Zou Ji really like this? Is he really a good prime minister? In fact, it's not like this. In one move, he forced two top generals out of the state of Qi and made Qi's hegemony stop!
As we all know, the state of Qi dominated the Warring States period in the reign of King Wei of Qi, relying on the battle of Maling. In this battle, Sun Bin used the method of reducing kitchen stoves to lure Pang Juan to go deep. In Maling, he peeled off the bark of a tree and wrote "Pang Juan died under this tree." he ambushed 10000 archers and waited for Pang Juan. When Pang Juan arrived, he saw the words on the tree and looked up. As a result, ten thousand arrows were fired, When the Wei army was in chaos, Pang Juan knew that he could not survive and killed himself. However, the Qi army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack. 100000 Wei soldiers disappeared, and the prince Shen, the chief General of the state of Wei, was also captured!
In 344 B.C., King Hui of Wei, together with South Korea and several small countries, paid homage to King Wei in Xuzhou and respected him as king. For fear of becoming the target of public criticism, King Wei also recognized King Hui as king. This is the Prime Minister of Xuzhou!
The successive victories in the Yiling and Maling Wars also made Tian Ji, Sun Bin's superior, raise the boat. This event attracted Qi Xiang Zou Ji's fear. In fact, the war between Tian Ji, Sun Bin and Wei state was one of Zou Ji's conspiracies!
Zou Ji was a reformer of Qi. Under the leadership of Zou Ji, Qi became more and more powerful. However, Zou Ji was only a literati after all, and he had to rely on military generals to fight. Tian Ji, who was born in the royal family, was one of the best. Especially the arrival of Sun Bin, Tian Ji was even more powerful. With a little plot of Sun Bin, Tian Ji won easily. Soon, the state of Wei attacked Zhao At the suggestion of Sun Bin, Tian Ji won easily by "encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao". Tian Ji's prestige became more and more popular in Qi, which attracted Zou Ji's fear. After all, where is the opponent holding the pen?
So, on the advice of counselor gongsunyue, Zou Ji played the role of King Wei of Qi and asked Tian Ji and Sun Bin to attack the state of Wei and win. This is because Zou Ji had vision and lost. Tian Ji and Sun Bin died in battle and got rid of a strong enemy, didn't they? As a result, Tian Ji and Sun Bin fought and won, killing Pang Juan, 100000 Wei soldiers and capturing Prince Shen Sheng, Zou Ji lifts a stone and smashes himself in the foot
When Tian Ji and Sun Bin didn't die on the battlefield, Zou Ji sent someone to fake Tian Ji's housekeeper, took a lot of money to make trouble and found a fortune teller, and boasted, "my general is victorious in all battles. If you want to accomplish something, you can't do it?". This remark spread to king Qi Wei, who was very angry and ordered Tian Ji to confront him in the court!
When Tian Ji heard that King Wei of Qi asked him to return home, he was frightened and fled to the state of Chu. However, when Sun Bin saw that Zou Ji, the Prime Minister of Qi, was so cruel, he was also disheartened and left in the dark. His whereabouts were unknown!
Zou Ji made a move, and the state of Qi lost two good generals. After the battle of Maling, King Wei of Qi ruled the world, he never launched a big war again. The hegemony of the state of Qi stopped. It was not until a few decades later, King Xuan of Qi ascended the throne, that Tian Ji was vindicated, and Tian Ji returned to the state of Qi. Unfortunately, Tian Ji was old at that time. If Zou Ji did not frame Tian Ji and Sun Bin, he would be able to compete with Lianpo and Lin Xiang Perhaps, in that short period of several decades, the state of Qi would expand to a terrifying state. Perhaps, it would not be the state of Qin that unified the six states, but the state of Qi
