We must have all learned the article On Qin when we were in middle school. In this article, Jia Yi summed up Qin Shihuang's achievements in unifying the world by "swallowing princes for two weeks". "vassals" are easy to understand, that is, Korea, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi, while "Erzhou" is not so easy to understand. Anyone who has studied history knows that the Zhou Dynasty was divided into two periods: the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was really destroyed by Qin. Then the question is, besides the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, did Qin Shihuang also annex another Zhou Dynasty? As long as you look at the historical materials about the Warring States, you will find that there are actually two countries, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. In these two weeks, wars often broke out and even participated in the hegemony war of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. What the hell is going on here? By studying the textbook knowledge, the two kings immediately learned that the reason for the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty was that Zhou Youwang did not hesitate to be a vassal in order to win the praise and smile of the cold beauty. As a result, when the dog Rong really came to attack Haojiang, all the princes in the world did not come to the rescue. Haojiang was captured by the dog Rong and killed by the dog Rong. Zhou Pingwang, the son of Zhou Youwang, was forced to move eastward to Luoyi to escape the war, and the Western Zhou Dynasty ended. Although the story of warlords in Zhou Youwang's bonfire drama is widely circulated, it is only a story, not history. The real history is that Zhou Youwang dotes on his son Bofu, and intends to abolish the old Prince's clothes and wear them instead. Escape to the fief behind my grandfather to avoid unexpected disasters. The betrayal of the old prince gave Zhou Youwang a legitimate reason to change Li Bobei into a prince, so Zhou Youwang officially changed Li Bobei into a new prince, but it also caused strong dissatisfaction of the old prince. With the acquiescence of September 19th, Shen Hou colluded with Quan Rong, Zhi and others to attack Haojing, killing He in one fell swoop, and the steamed stuffed bun was taken away by Quan Rong. Later, Shen Hou joined forces with some governors to make Yijiu the son of heaven, for the sake of, while other governors clearly expressed their opposition, also for the sake of Zhou, and made the prince the son of heaven. In order to avoid disputes, Zhou Pingwang had to move eastward to Luoyi in 770 BC and establish his own regime in Xindu. The coexistence of Zhou Pingwang and King Xie of Zhou lasted for 2 1 year, and finally ended with King Xie of Zhou being killed by Emperor Wen of Jin, leaving only Zhou Pingwang as the son of heaven. Although he won the victory, his position was not suitable, which made all the governors in the world look down on Zhou from now on. In 707 BC, King Huan of Zhou, the grandson of Zhou Pingwang, personally led an army to attack Zheng, but he was defeated by Zheng Zhuanggong in Gege and shot to death by Zheng with an arrow. King Huan of Zhou stole chickens and wasted rice, and his authority plummeted from then on. During the Spring and Autumn Period, monarchs in various vassal states were often killed or expelled, and the declining Eastern Zhou royal family was no exception. During the periods of King Zhuang of Zhou, King Hui of Zhou, King Xiang of Zhou and Zhou Dynasty, there were constant internal disputes among the royal families of Zhou Dynasty. King Hui of Zhou, King Xiang of Zhou and Zhou were even forced to flee to other places and asked the governors to help quell the civil strife. Jin Wengong has been in exile for a long time. The reason why he was able to quickly establish his prestige in the Central Plains after returning to China was that he used force to quell the civil strife in the royal family and help King Zhou Xiang regain the throne. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the civil strife of the Zhou royal family reached its acme. After Zhou Zhen's death, his son fought bloody battles for the throne, and within a year, there appeared King Ai of Zhou, King Si of Zhou and three emperors. Zhou Wangkao either appeased his younger brother Wang Zijie, who threatened him, or rewarded his younger brother Wang Zijie for helping him win the throne. In 440 BC, the prince was made Duke of Zhou and Henan was made a fief. Wang Zijie was the Duke of Huan in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and established the principality of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhou's son was King Weilie of Zhou. In 403 BC, Han, Zhao and Wei, the three doctors of the State of Jin, were made princes, and the famous Warring States Period of later generations began. Khufu appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was succeeded by his son Gong Wei after his death. After the death of Gong Wei in the Western Zhou Dynasty, serious civil strife occurred in the vassal states of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Gongzichao and Gongzigen only wanted to compete for the throne, and did not hold a funeral for their father, which led to the burial of Gong Wei in the Western Zhou Dynasty in September. In 367 BC, Zhao and Han sent troops to help Gongzigen, forcing all the territories under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to be sealed as Gongzigen, so as to quell the civil strife in the Western Zhou Dynasty. King Xian of Zhou had to do this in the face of powerful force, so he sealed all the land including Luoyang, the capital, to Gongzigen. Gongzi Dynasty was called Gong Hui in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Gongzi Root was called Gonggong in East Hui Zhou, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was established. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was completely divided into two countries: the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The division of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty made the Emperor of Zhou exist in name only, so the governors in the world no longer had scruples. In the following decades, a wave of self-reliance became king, and the once-prominent status of Zhou Tianzi ceased to exist and became an ordinary vassal without any prestige. After the split of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the second week of Qin Dynasty, the three generations of King Zhou Xian, King Zhou of Shen Liang and Zhou Nanwang lived in the Eastern Zhou Principality and were dominated by the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Principality. In these decades, the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty still cared about family ties. Although there have been conflicts between the two countries, there is no war, which can be said to be peaceful. At this time, Qin, Chu, Han, Zhao, Wei and other powerful countries surrounded the "two weeks" and used the debaters Qin and Zhang Yi to deal with the princes. Zhou Zui of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Doukhi of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were outstanding celebrities at that time, and they made great contributions to the "Two Weeks". In 308 BC, after Qin Wuwang sent Gan Mao to conquer Yiyang, he also sent Chilizi to the Eastern Zhou Principality to "see the Zhou Room". The monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not dare to offend the State of Qin, and welcomed Chilizi into Luoyang with grand etiquette. Later, seeing Zhou Nanwang in the broken particles, Qin Wuwang asked Zhou Nanwang to personally try Zhou Ding in Luoyang. Zhou Ding is a symbol of the Zhou royal family, and trying to try it is undoubtedly an insult to the Zhou royal family, so he sternly refused the request of Broken Particle. After being rejected, Gui Lizi flew into a rage. First, Zhou Nanwang was expelled from the palace, then Zhou Nanwang was expelled from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and Zhou Nanwang was forcibly moved to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Since then, Zhou Nanwang has been living in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Nanwang was humiliated in public, aiming at the Eastern Zhou monarch who took the initiative to open the Luoyang gate to welcome Qin Jun into the city. Since then, wars have frequently broken out between the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, the policies of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty towards Qin were also very different. The former was hostile to Qin for a long time and became the "conspirator" of the governors against Qin, while the latter was close to Qin for a long time and surrendered to Qin. Therefore, the "two-week" battle can also be regarded as a microscopic reflection of the hegemony between Qin and Shandong. After Zhao Haoqi Xiang of Qin Dynasty won the battle of Changping, it occupied an absolute dominant position in Lu, and the sense of crisis in the vassal states of the Western Zhou Dynasty became increasingly acute. In 256 BC, the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty once again planned to unite the princes against Qin. Zhao Xiang, the king of Qin, sent troops to attack the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the face of powerful enemies, the monarch and Zhou Nanwang of the Western Zhou Dynasty were forced to surrender to Qin Jun and give up their land. At this point, the principalities of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties perished at the same time. In 249 BC, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty also planned to unite the princes against the Qin Dynasty. Wang Xiang of Qin Zhuang immediately sent his troops to attack the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, killed the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and destroyed the principality of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The image of Qin film and television dramas can be traced back to the sentence "Swallow a vassal who died in two weeks" at the beginning of this article. Jia Yi actually attached the achievements of Qin Zhaoxiang and Qin Zhuangxiang to Qin Shihuang, so we can regard this sentence as a literary technique, but we can never regard this sentence as a historical fact. In addition, it should be noted that the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC) overlapped with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (770-22 BC1year), but it ended 34 years earlier than the Warring States Period. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty began with the split situation of "two kings coexisting" and ended with the split situation of "two weeks coexisting", which was enough to deeply move future generations. It can only be said that the decline of the royal family in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is not only due to the rise of the princes in the world, but also because the royal family in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not cherish its authority and often had civil strife and division, which made the princes in the world begin to despise themselves and even replace them.