Here is a story about a small person. The little man is actually not small. His surname is Zi and his name is Yan. He is the thirty-fifth king of the Song Dynasty. Song State was a vassal state enfeoffed in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty. The ancestor Wei Zi was the concubine brother of King Zhou of Shang. He was exiled for repeatedly admonishing King Zhou.When King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, Wei Zi surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty and became the earliest leading party in Chinese history.Later, in order to appease the adherents of the Shang Dynasty and commend Weizi for his contribution to leading the way, the Zhou royal family made him a prince, established his capital in Shangqiu, and named him Song.

It can be said that the State of Song is the continuation of the Shang Dynasty, but its status has declined, and it has changed from a co-lord of the world to an ordinary prince. The rulers of the Zhou Dynasty were both gentle and defensive towards the Song Dynasty.Several major Ji surnamed countries around Song State——Lu State, Wei State, Cai State, etc., all had the mission of monitoring Song State.But over time, that surveillance relaxed.In the Spring and Autumn Period, the royal family declined, the princes fought, and the Ji family was still fighting endlessly. Naturally, no one took surveillance of the Song State seriously.Seeing this scene, the rulers of the Song Kingdom couldn't help but want to move and actively participated in the competition. During Song Xianggong's reign, he once had the ambition to dominate the world.

Unfortunately, due to Song Xianggong's pedantry, Song State lost to Chu State in the Battle of Hongshui, and has since been devastated and reduced to a second-rate country. It can only survive in the cracks between several big powers. After entering the Warring States period, the seven heroes stood side by side, and the war escalated. The strong became stronger and the weak became weaker. Like other small countries, Song was swept into the third world and was basically at the mercy of others. No one expected that in the hands of Ziyan, this dying country of Yin and Shang survivors would suddenly come back to life and do a few things that amazed the world.

In 318 BC, the eleventh year of Ziyan's accession to the throne, a bird hatched an egg under the city wall of Shangqiu, and unexpectedly hatched a kite eagle.Zi Yan ordered Dashi to do a divination, and the answer was: a small bird will give birth to a big bird, and it will definitely dominate the world. Ziyan was overjoyed, thinking that this was an auspicious indication of the revival of the Song Dynasty, so he proclaimed himself king, known as Song Wangyan in history. It's all right to be called king, Song Wangyan has really dreamed of the rise of a great power since then.In 317 BC, Gongsun Yan organized the Five Kingdoms to defeat Qin and failed. Qi took advantage of the fire to invade Zhao and defeated the combined forces of Zhao and Wei in Guanze.Song Wangyan seized this opportunity to attack the State of Wei, conquering several cities, and forged a grudge with the State of Wei ever since.

It is worth mentioning that during this battle, Song State captured a group of Wei State soldiers, including a man named Liu.He was incorporated into the army of the Song State, and fought for several years. After retiring from the army, he settled down in a small town called Fengyi in Pei County, Song Guo, where he married a wife and had children. In Chinese history, this man surnamed Liu did not leave a name.However, those who did not leave their names may not be small people. In the records of "Han Shu", he is honored as "Feng Gong". Fenggong had a son, which was also recorded in history. He was first called Liu Taigong, and later he was honored as Taishanghuang.He is the father of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty.

This is a later story, and I will bring it up first. In 301 BC, Lord Mengchang organized Qi, Wei, and Han to unite and defeated the Chu army in Chuisha.King Yan of Song Dynasty took the opportunity to attack Chu State again, and captured more than 300 li of Huaibei.As mentioned in the previous book, Qi State originally wanted to threaten Chu State to cede it to the five hundred miles of Huaibei, but later gave up because of Qin State's interference.Unexpectedly, Song Wangyan took the initiative and bit off more than half of it in one bite. There is no doubt that Song Wangyan's move offended both Qi and Chu.

After the First World War in Huaibei, Song Wangyan was overwhelmed with self-confidence, thinking that he was invincible in the world, and made some shocking moves.He ordered people to fill blood in skin bags, hang them on the flagpole, and shoot them with arrows, which is called "shooting the sky"; Burn them all, saying that the power of the widow can subdue ghosts and gods. In Song Wangyan's eyes, all the princes in the world are full of wine bags and rice bags, which are not enough for Taoism, except for one person. This person is King Zhao Wuling. Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu rode and shot, which doubled Zhao's military strength and became the second largest military power after Qin.Song Wang Yan was envious, but also actively expanded his army and prepared for war, and soon became known as "the powerful Song of five thousand times".

With Song's comprehensive strength, it is still difficult to maintain a thousand troops, but expanding to five thousand at once is no longer what can be described as militarism, it is almost vicious.When Su Qin, an internationally renowned broker, heard the news, he said in an extremely contemptuous tone: "Shit! What Jin Song? It's clearly Jie Song." Jie was the last king of the Xia Dynasty, famous for his promiscuity.Su Qin's words quickly spread among the princes, and Song Wangyan got the title of "Jie Song" from then on. In 299 BC, in order to concentrate on developing the territory, King Wuling of Zhao passed the throne to King Huiwen of Zhao in advance.Song Wangyan followed suit, and also passed the throne to the prince, and retreated behind the scenes to manipulate the state affairs.

After that, King Wuling of Zhao pretended to be a messenger and went to Qin to spy on King Zhao of Qin. After returning home, he adopted the suggestion of Minister Lou Huan and decided to unite with Qin to fight against Qi.For this reason, King Wuling of Zhao sent Lou Huan as an envoy to the State of Qin and served as the Prime Minister of the State of Qin; he also sent his minister Qiu He to the State of Song and served as the State of Song.In this way, a situation in which the Qin, Zhao, and Song groups confronted the Qi, Han, and Wei groups was generally formed. After climbing the two big trees of Qin State and Zhao State, Song Wangyan became more confident.

In 297 BC, King Wuling of Zhao attacked Zhongshan, and King Yan of Song Dynasty also attacked the neighboring state of Teng and wiped it out in one fell swoop. Teng State is located in Shandong, within the sphere of influence of Qi State.Song's extermination of Teng was tantamount to provoking Qi State nakedly, which aroused the voice of crusade from the ruling and opposition parties of Qi State.But to Song Wangyan, the great god's anger was nothing more than a few thunderclaps, let alone those ordinary people in Linzi City, let them yell! Just when Song Wangyan was in high spirits and ready to enter a new era, in 295 BC, his political ally and spiritual mentor King Zhao Wuling encountered a mutiny in the sand dunes, ending his rather legendary life.

Song Wang Yantu was saddened by the death of the rabbit, and he had to face a reality-the death of King Zhao Wuling led to major changes in the international situation.And these changes are not good things for him.