The founder of Qin's foreign policy, his distant relatives and modern attacks.
In 268 BC, a man fled from Qi to Qin. His arrival had an important influence on the fate of Qin, and even changed the course of China's history. This man is Fan Sui, who proposed the strategy of making friends and beggar-thy-neighbor to King Qin Zhao.
Fan Sui? -255 years ago), Zi Shu, a native of Wei, lobbied the minister and wanted to be the minister of Wang Wei. However, due to poverty, his wish was difficult to realize, so he had to be sent to North Korea by the doctor, and his entourage had to be sent to Qi. King Xiang of Qi appreciated his eloquence and gave him a lot of possessions. So it is suspected that he leaked Wei's information. When he came back, he told Wei Xiang Wei Qi that Fan Ju was imprisoned and punished. Later, he pretended to be dead and fled to the state of Qin.
When Fan Sui entered the Qin Dynasty, the Warring States had been fighting for more than 200 years. Qi, Chu, Korea, Wei, Yan, Zhao and other countries were weakened in the war and their national strength declined. However, since Shang Yang's political reform seized the land of Xihe River, Qin has been cooperating with the military to seize Bashu through diplomatic means. It is more and more obvious that Qin will shoulder the historical responsibility of unifying the whole country and ending the separatist regime. The goal of the war changed from ruling the prince to unifying the world. Under this historical condition, Fan Sui timely put forward the strategy of diplomatic contact with foreign countries to raise troops to King Qin Zhao.
Fan Sui first analyzed the situation faced by Qin State to Zhao Haoqi. He said that there are fortresses around Qin, oases and valleys in the north, Weihe River in the south, Longxi, Ba and Shu on the right, Hanguguan and Xiaoshan on the left, with millions of troops and thousands of chariots. China people are afraid of infighting, but they are brave enough to fight for their country. When the situation is favorable, you can go through the customs and conquer, and when the situation is unfavorable, you can keep the customs and refuse the enemy. With its unique geographical position, people and powerful army, Qin controls other countries, just like a fierce hound catching a lame rabbit. A great cause and a hegemonic world can easily succeed. Qin is still in a corner of the west, and its hegemony has not yet been realized. What is the reason? Some people say that the fundamental reason lies in Qin's strategic mistakes. Boldly pointed out that it was a big mistake for Hou to send troops to cut Qi instead of cutting Han and Wei. Serenade is not enough to hurt Qi, but many soldiers hurt Qin. Qin intends to send its own troops as little as possible, so that the Han and Wei armies can fight Qi as much as possible. In fact, it is unreasonable for Han Feng and Wei to sacrifice their own troops. Now, if we find that our allies are unfriendly to me, we can't go beyond their country to attack other countries. Therefore, this paper puts forward the strategy of making friends and attacking Qin, that is, making friends with people far away from Qin as much as possible and concentrating on attacking countries close to Qin. In this way, inch is king inch and ruler is king ruler.
Fan Sui further pointed out the concrete steps to implement the strategy of overseas contact and close attack. He suggested pro-Korea and pro-Wei, making Wei obey Chu and Zhao, thus forcing Qi to pro-Qin, and then coming back to destroy Han and Wei. According to the analysis, in today's world, North Korea and Wei live in the Central Plains and are the gateways to the world. If Qin wants to dominate the world, it must first have good relations with the countries in the Central Plains, and then it can deal with Chu in the south and Zhao in the north. When Chu is strong, we will approach Zhao again; When we are old, we will be close to Chu. Chu and Zhao were both vassals of the State of Qin, and the distant State of Qi was afraid of the State of Qin, so he sent messengers with expensive gifts to please the State of Qin. Once Qi surrenders, we can take this opportunity to subdue Han and Wei. King Qin Zhao believed Fan Sui's words, worshipped him as a VIP, and planned to fight with the soldiers. The strategy of contacting foreign countries and attacking near China pointed out the direction and steps for Qin to occupy six countries and kill each other. As Bushido said in the Notes on the Warring States Policy in the Yuan Dynasty, Qin Jun defeated the governors and conquered the world.
Since then, overseas exchanges and close attacks have become one of the important strategic strategies for various political forces to strive for multipolarization in Chinese history. In the cold war era, the interests between countries are mainly manifested in the possession of population and land, and the resulting contradictions often occur between neighboring countries. In addition, at that time, countries did not have long-range killing weapons and lacked long-range transportation tools. Even the strong can't attack the country far away, they can only nibble away and gradually expand. In modern times, with the development of military technology and the improvement of troops' delivery ability and long-range strike ability, long-range attack becomes possible. As geo-strategies, overseas contacts and close combat are far less important than in ancient times, but they are still factors that countries must consider when formulating national strategies.
It should be pointed out that since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the people of China have completely abandoned the traditional idea of making friends and being close at hand, pursued a good-neighborly and friendly foreign policy of peace, and made peace with all peace-loving countries. But when the enemy attacks me from all directions, I must be prepared to fight back resolutely.