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The destruction of the six kingdoms was not due to unfavourable troops or bad war, but to the fact that they were bribed by Qin. The disadvantage was that the Qin were bribed. Bribing the Qin and losing strength was also the way to destroy the six kingdoms. Or said: "The six countries are losing each other, the rate of bribery of Qin? He said, "Those who are not bribed will lose their lives in order to be bribed. Cover the loss of strong support, can not be completed alone, so that "the disadvantages in bribery of Qin" also.
The Qin's attack and capture of other countries, small or big, will result in the acquisition of an area or a city, which is in fact a hundred times more than the Qin's gain and the victory; and the loss of the marquis and the loss of the war is in fact a hundred times more than the loss of the war. Then the great desire of Qin and the great danger of the feudal lords are not in war. I am thinking of my grandfather, who had to cut down the thorns in order to have a place of his own size. His children and grandchildren did not value it much, and gave it to others as if it were a piece of grass. Today he cuts five cities, tomorrow he cuts ten, and then he can sleep for a night; he rises to look at the four borders, and the Qin soldiers are coming again. However, the land of the feudal lords is limited, and the desire of the violent Qin is insatiable, so that the service is more and more frequent and the invasion is more and more urgent, so that the strong and the weak have already been judged without a battle. As for the subversion, the reason is certainly appropriate. As the old saying goes: "Serving Qin with land is like holding a salary to put out a fire; if the salary is not exhausted, the fire will not be extinguished". This saying is true.
The Qi people have never tried to bribe the Qin, but eventually the five kingdoms moved on and perished. The Qi people had not bribed the Qin, but eventually the five kingdoms were destroyed. The five states are now lost, and the Qi will not be spared. The ruler of Yan and Zhao had a far-reaching strategy, and was able to defend his land without bribing Qin. Therefore, although Yan was a small state, it died later. But when Dan took Jingqing as his plan, the disaster was quickened. Zhao had fought five battles against Qin, losing two and winning three. Later, Qin attacked Zhao again, but Li Mu was defeated; Michael Cook was killed and Handan was killed, but his use of military force did not end. And Yan Zhao was at a time when Qin's destruction was complete, so it can be said that the intelligence of the lonely and perilous, and defeat and death, honestly had no choice. If each of the three states loved its own land, if the Qi people did not attach themselves to Qin, if the assassins did not work, and if the good generals were still around, then the number of victories and defeats, and the reason for survival and demise, would be comparable to that of Qin, and might not be easy to measure.
The people of Qin will not be able to swallow the food of the Qin! I have given the world's counsellors a place in the land of Qin; I have given the world's wizards a place in the heart of Qin; and I have endeavoured to go westward, but I am afraid that the people of Qin will not be able to swallow their food. I am afraid that the Qin people will not be able to swallow their food! With such strength, they were robbed by the accumulated power of the Qin, and were cut down day by day and month by month, so that they were on the verge of death! No one who is a state should be robbed by the accumulated power of the Qin!
The six kingdoms and Qin are all vassals, their power is weaker than the Qin, but still can not be bribed to win the situation; the world's great, and from the six countries of the story of the destruction of the six kingdoms, it is again under the six countries!
language translation
The demise of the Six Powers was not due to the lack of sharp weapons or the failure to conduct warfare properly, but rather, it was due to bribery of the Qin State. Bribery of Qin led to a loss of national strength, and this was the reason for their demise. Someone asked, "Was it because of the bribing of Qin that the six kingdoms fell one after another? The answer was: "Those who did not bribe Qin fell because those who did bribe Qin fell. The reason for this is that they were unable to protect themselves without the help of a powerful state, and so they said that the fault lay in bribing the state of Qin.
In addition to the land Qin captured in battle, (the six states automatically gave land to Qin) the smallest state got some townships, and the largest state got some cities. Comparing the amount of land Qin got by bribery with the amount of land Qin got by victory, it was actually a hundred times more; and the amount of land the feudal lords lost by bribery was actually a hundred times more than the amount of land they lost by defeat. So what Qin wanted most, and what the feudal lords feared most, was not determined by war. Just think of their ancestors, who had braved the winds and the rain and the hardships to gain such a small amount of land. But their descendants did not cherish it, and gave it away like grass. Today they ceded five cities, tomorrow they ceded ten, and only then did they get a peaceful night's sleep; and the next day they woke up and looked at the border around them, and the Qin army was here again. The next day, when he woke up and looked around the border, the Qin army was coming again. In that case, the land of the feudal lords was limited, while the desire of the tyrannical Qin was endless, and the more land (the feudal lords) gave to it, the more urgent its aggression would be. Therefore, without fighting, it was already obvious that the strong and the weak would win or lose. And when it comes to the point of annihilation, it should be so by all rights. The ancient saying goes, "Taking land to serve Qin is like carrying firewood to put out a fire; the fire will not be extinguished until the firewood is burned out. The fire will not go out until all the firewood is burned." This is a very true saying.
Qi had never bribed Qin, but eventually it followed the five kingdoms to their doom. （Why? Because it was attached to Qin and did not help the other five states. When the five kingdoms fell, Qi was not spared. At first, the rulers of Yan and Zhao had a long-term plan to hold on to their territories and insisted on not bribing Qin. Therefore, although Yan was a small state, it did not fall until later, which was the effect of using military force to resist. It was only when Prince Dan of Yan used Jingkeshi's assassination of the King of Qin as a ploy that he incurred disasters. The state of Zhao fought against the Qin five times, losing twice and winning three times; then the Qin attacked the state of Zhao again, and Li Mu repulsed the Qin army one after another; and when Li Mu was killed for his mediocre advice and Han鄲 (the capital of Zhao) was captured, it was a pity that it resisted by force and did not persevere to the end. Moreover, Yan and Zhao were at a time when Qin was on the verge of annihilating all the six states, so it can be said that they had no choice but to be isolated and deprived of wisdom and strength, and were forced to lose the war. If Han, Wei, and Chu had cherished their own lands, if Qi had not attached itself to Qin, if Yan had not sent assassins, and if Li Mu, the good general of Zhao, had remained, the fate of victory and defeat and the reason for survival might not have been so easy to determine if they had competed with Qin!
Alas! If the land of Qin is bribed to reward the counsellors of the world, and the heart of Qin is served to honour the wizards of the world, and (the six kingdoms) unite their efforts against Qin to the west, then I am afraid that the people of Qin (will be so afraid that they will not be able to swallow their rice). I am afraid that the people of Qin will be so afraid that they will not be able to swallow their food! The situation is so favourable, but the Qin state is threatened by its accumulated power, and it cuts down every day, and cedes (land) every month, so that it is going to perish! Whoever governs a country should not be threatened by the accumulated power of the enemy!
The Six Kingdoms and Qin were both vassals, and the Six Kingdoms were weaker than Qin, but they still had the power to defeat Qin without bribing it; but if, with such a large state under the heaven, they repeat the same mistake as the Six Kingdoms, they are even worse than the Six Kingdoms!
