The story of the "complete jade returned to Zhao" during the Warring States Period is well-known by later generations, but there is also a very famous story in the Warring States Period called "The Wrath of Commoner". We may not be so familiar with it, so "The Wrath of Commoner" ?What exactly is it talking about? In fact, the Wrath of Buyi is a story about Tang Sui, who was sent by Lord Anling to discuss land exchange with Qin during the Warring States Period.

1. Lord Anling sent Tang Sui as an envoy to Qin

According to the "Warring States Policy", the King of Qin wanted to exchange five hundred miles of land with Lord Anling for his fiefdom, but because The prince of Qin never mentioned the fifteen cities. In addition, the prime minister of Qin once promised to use 600 miles of land to break off diplomatic relations between Chu and Qi, but he refused to admit it after it was accomplished. These two lessons learned from the past. Lord Anling did not trust the King of Qin's lies, but at that time the Qin State had already destroyed Han and Wei, and the Qin State had already begun to annex the six countries. In the end, Lord Anling had no choice but to send Tang Sui to Qin State for discussion, and hoped that Able to reconcile.

2. Tang Sui? The commoner’s anger? Against the King of Qin? The emperor’s anger?

At the beginning of Tang Sui’s visit to the King of Qin, the King of Qin was still able to convince people with reason, but after hearing Tang Sui’s He called the change of land an act of disloyalty and unfilial piety, and angrily threatened "the emperor's wrath, millions of corpses will be laid down, blood will flow for thousands of miles", but Tang Sui retorted with "the wrath of the common people" to King Qin, the so-called "the wrath of the common people". , Tang Sui quoted the famous sayings of his ancestors to deal with the King of Qin. The implication is that I, Tang Sui, am a commoner. Today, I can only lay down two people and bleed within five steps. However, today is the day when he and the King of Qin will die together. The consequences of this are equally serious, and will make the whole country of Qin mourn, and all the people will wear hemp and mourn for the King of Qin. Yan Guan had already raised his sword and stood up. Seeing that he could not threaten him, King Qin surrendered.

It can be seen from the story of the Wrath of the Commoners that the commoners here are not the common people as we later understood them, but the scholars at that time, which also fully reflects the This class cherishes reputation more than life.