Chapter 26: A Brief History of the Qin State (1)
There were still nearly fifty years from the eastward migration of King Zhou Ping to the first year of Lu Yin. In the remainder of this article, I will briefly describe the history of the Qin and Zheng states.
Emperor Gaoyang had a granddaughter named "女脩", and one day while she was weaving cloth, a bird (swallow) flew over her head and threw off an egg. After swallowing it, the woman felt pregnant and gave birth to a son; The name of the son of Daye was Dafa.
During the period of Emperor Shun, the Yellow River was seriously flooded, and Dayu was ordered to control the water, and Dafei was meritorious because of assisting Dayu to govern. He was not only appreciated by Dayu, but also praised by Dishun; Dayu married his daughter to him, and Di Shun gave him the surname "Ying". After the flood was eliminated, Emperor Shun kept Dafei by his side and made him the official of Bo Fei and was in charge of animal husbandry.
After the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, the descendants of the Ying family were either in China or in Yidi. At the end of summer, Xia Jian had no way, the dynasty building was about to fall, and Fei Chang, a descendant of Daye, abandoned the Xia Dynasty and went to Shang Tang and became the master of Tang. In the decisive battle between Xia and Shang Tiaoming, the Shang army wiped out Xia in one fell swoop, Fei Chang made great contributions, and the Ying family began to develop.
The Ying clan has been with the king for many years, and has made outstanding achievements with the Shang kings in the south and the north, and gradually became one of the most prominent families of the Yin Shang, and was later sealed in the land of Xitui.
At the time of the reign of the king, the patriarch of the Ying clan, Fei Lian, and his son Evil Lai were still like their ancestors, maintaining infinite loyalty to the king, and did not distinguish whether he was a yin monarch or a tyrant, but as a result, they won a bad reputation of "aiding and abusing".
When King Wu was defeated, Evil Lai, as the captain of the guard, shed his last drop of blood to protect the tyrant. During the Eastern Expedition of the Duke of Zhou, Fei Lian was killed by Lu Shang; Most of the Ying clansmen became slaves of the Western Zhou royal family.
The Ying clan has been in charge of animal husbandry for generations, and has unparalleled skills in breeding war horses. Because of this stunt, their lives are much better than those of ordinary slaves. Fei Lian's youngest son is called Ji Sheng, and Ji Sheng's son is called Meng Zeng. Meng Zeng was fortunate to be favored by King Cheng of Zhou and became a free citizen, which was the beginning of the revival of the Ying clan.
Meng Zeng's grandson was called Zaopa, who lived in the era of King Mu of Zhou, and he had superb horse training and driving skills. He selected four horses, Ji, Wen Li, Hua Liu, and Luer, and personally trained them, and when the horses were only commanded by him, he presented them to King Mu; Because others could not control the four horses, King Mu took him as his royal hand and rode around the world.
Once, when they were hunting in the west, King Xu Yan of the East launched a rebellion to attack the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the father drove the king of Mu to rescue the rebellion and won the victory. The descendants of the evil come, Da Luo, and his son Feizi were protected by the father, and they also lived in Zhao City, and they changed their surnames to Zhao together.
Da Luo's wife was the daughter of Shenhou (the ancestor of Shenhou who conquered Haojing), and their son Zhao Cheng was made a concubine, not a son born to a lowly concubine, and his status was low. Later, Feizi was expelled from Zhaocheng because he was better than Zhao Cheng, and he settled in Inuqiu to concentrate on raising horses.
People can always do what they focus on when they have no distractions, Feizi has raised the level of raising war horses to an incredible height, although some people in Zhaocheng have stolen most of Feizi's credit, but he still doesn't care.
After King Xiao of Zhou succeeded to the throne, the Inuqiu people finally had enough of the shameless behavior of the people of Zhaocheng, and they ran to Haojing to meet King Xiao and tell him about the achievements and injustices he had received. King Xiao summoned Feizi to him, and after confirming the facts, he put the horse farm between Huangshui and Weishui in his charge, and ordered Da Luo to appoint Feizi as his heir.
However, the Son of Heaven's order was strongly opposed by Shenhou, who said that Da Luo had an heir of the Jiang lineage and was essential to improving the relationship between the royal family and Xirong; And then a lot of alarmist things were said. Shen Hou had a lot of influence both in the royal family and in Xijon, and he was able to succeed in doing good things as well as in bad things (but he was more interested in doing bad things).
King Xiao comprehensively considered the actual situation and adopted a compromise approach. He did not touch Zhao Cheng's status as a concubine, but separated the Feizi branch from the Zhao family, sealed it in Qin (near present-day Zhangjiachuan, Gansu), and gave Feizi the surname Ying, restoring this ancient surname. In this way, it seems that the non-son is the main sect, and the father and the big Luo are the side branches.