![]() ![]() But King Zheng, for his part, believed he incarnated the virtues and achievements of San Huang Wu Di ("Three Monarchs and Five Emperors, " meaning all the great emperors of Ancient China). Praising the King for his accomplishments, the court suggested the most respectable title of Ancient China: Tai Huang. and 221 b.c., Qin defeated and conquered the rest of the regional kingdoms and brought China to unification.įollowing his triumph, King Zheng discussed with his ministers an appropriate title for the new ruler of China. After the attempt failed, the king of Yan killed the crown prince to make peace with Qin. the crown prince of Yan sent an assassin to kill King Zheng. In the hope of preventing Qin's attack, in 227 b.c. Qin presented a great threat to the kingdom of Yan. In 228 b.c., Qin besieged Han Dan, the capital of the Zhao kingdom, and captured the king of Zhao. Han, the weakest kingdom, was conquered in 230 b.c. King Zheng accepted Li Si's proposal to first launch frontal attacks upon Han, Zhao, and Wei, and then attack Yan and Chu, before finally taking over Qi for the final unification. Han, Zhao, and Wei were the three kingdoms directly to the east of Qin beyond these were Yan in the north, Chu in the south, and Qi in between. Desperate, Lü committed suicide by poison in 235 b.c.Īfter the removal of Lü Bu Wei, King Zheng used the scholar Li Si as his major adviser in planning the conquest of China's six other kingdoms. Later, the king learned that his prime minister LüBu Wei was also involved in the attempted coup and banished Lü to Shu (today's Sichuan), which was a remote area at that time. Lao Ai's conspiracy was immediately discovered by King Zheng, who had him executed. When he left for the old capital Yong for his coronation, Lao Ai, the Queen mother's lover, attempted a coup d'etat. In 238 b.c., the ninth year of his kingship, King Zheng reached the age of 22, the legal age to rule the kingdom by himself. LüBu Wei, prime minister of the former king, continued to hold his position under the new king, who was now called Qin Wang Zheng (King Zheng of Qin). His unification of China not only ended six centuries of wars but also started a centralized imperial system which was to last for over 2, 000 years.Īfter his father's death, Qin Shi Huang acceded to Qin's throne in 247 b.c. These kingdoms continued their fighting until 221 b.c., when Qin's king, later known as Qin Shi Huang-di, defeated all the other kingdoms. ![]() By 403 b.c., only seven major kingdoms remained, of which the Kingdom of Qin gradually became the strongest. From the 8th century b.c., the rival principalities were constantly engaged in warfare during the later Zhou Dynasty. and turned the country into a centralized empire.īefore Qin Shi Huang (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti) unified China in 221 b.c., the country was torn apart by wars between the regional kingdoms. First emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Quin Shi Huang-di (259 B.C.-210 B.C.) unified China in 221 B.C. ![]()
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