How to understand the last paragraph of the Six Kingdoms Theory Su Xun .

The Six Kingdoms, like the Qin State, were all princely states at that time, and the power of the Six Kingdoms was indeed weaker than that of the Qin State. But if you don't bribe the Qin State, you still have a chance to defeat the Qin State. If we rely on a country as large as our territory and repeat the old path of the destruction of the Six Nations, then we may not even be as good as the Six Nations.

In addition to the translation, it is also necessary to understand the profound historical background of Su Xun.

Is it not just the Six Nations? It shows that future generations will not learn from their predecessors and repeat the actions of the Six Nations. Haha, in modern times, it means that you don't have a long memory.

Let future generations be vigilant and don't follow in the footsteps of the Qin people.

The Six Kingdoms and Qin are all princes, and his power is greater than that of Qin.

Translation: Like Qin, the Six Kingdoms were also the kingdoms of the feudal princes of the Zhou Dynasty, and the power of the Six Kingdoms was indeed weaker than that of Qin, but if you didn't bribe Qin, you still had a chance to defeat Qin. If we rely on such a large country and repeat the old path of the destruction of the six nations, we will be under the six nations again.

The so-called "under the Six Kingdoms" refers to such a large country as the Song Kingdom today, and there are lessons from the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, if it continues to repeat the old path of the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, then it is even worse than the Six Kingdoms.

Because the Northern Song Dynasty was extremely weak diplomatically at that time. By the time Su Xun lived, the Northern Song Dynasty had to pay 200,000 taels of silver and 300,000 horses of silk to the Khitan every year; Xiang Xixiana 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 horses of silk, and 30,000 catties of tea. As a result of such bribery, the arrogance of the Khitan and Western Xia was boosted, the burden on the people was increased, the national strength was greatly damaged, and endless disasters were brought about.

Su Xun did not write this article simply to comment on ancient historical events, but to use the past to satirize the present and warn the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty not to adopt a foreign policy of compromise and Gou'an. Follow in the footsteps of the fall of the Six Kingdoms at that time.

Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" is not only an excellent reference for the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also for today's Chinese companies.

In "The Theory of the Six Kingdoms", Su Xun not only criticized the countries in the Six Kingdoms that ceded land to Qin, but also criticized the Qi State that watched from the wall when the Six Kingdoms were envying the land.

In Su Xun's view, Qin is the country of tigers and wolves, and the six countries are just lambs, and the Qi State regards the other five countries as imitators and cuts the land of Qin without help, and when the Qin State destroys the other five countries, the Qi State is not far from being destroyed.

Now, the United States is preparing to send potatoes to treat a certain Chinese company with a false excuse, and if the Chinese follow the example of the Qi State of the past, ignore it, do not wake up a certain company, and do not help a certain company, more Chinese companies will suffer the same suffering in the future.

This is precisely the practical significance of Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" at present.

The differences between Su Xun and Su Zhe's views on the Six Kingdoms are as follows:

1. The root causes of demise are different.

Su Xun believes that the fundamental reason for the demise of the Six Kingdoms is that they compete with each other to bribe the Qin State with land in order to protect themselves, but they have invisibly weakened their own national strength, and at the same time deprived themselves of mutual aid countries that they can rely on.

Su Zhe believed that the reason why the Six Kingdoms perished was because they failed to make good use of the forces that could compete with the Qin State, that is, the national strength of Han and Wei, and he believed that if Han and Wei carried out the military confrontation to the end, the final result of the Six Kingdoms would not be here.

2. Different angles of argumentation.

Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" argues the reasons for the destruction of the Six Kingdoms from the perspective of "bribing Qin and losing power", and finally leads to the historical lesson of "those who do not do anything for the country and accumulate prestige".

Su Zhe's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" criticized the people of the Six Kingdoms for their "negligence in worrying about trouble, but seeing the shallowness of benefits, and not knowing the trend of the world" from the perspective that "Han Wei attached to Qin" caused the collapse of the Six Kingdoms one after another.

3. The theme is different.

The main purpose of Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" is to criticize Qin's mistakes, reveal the reasons for the fall of the Qin Dynasty, summarize historical lessons, and hope that Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty will understand the truth that those who lose the hearts of the people will lose the world, and rule the world with benevolence and righteousness.

Su Zhe's "Treatise on the Six Kingdoms" is really a metaphor for the present from the past, hoping that the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty will not cede land to the Khitan and Western Xia, and compromise and surrender. The fundamental cause of the demise of the Six Nations should be a violation of the trend of historical development. However, the argument in this article is also well-founded and convincing.

1. "Bribing Qin and losing strength will also be the way to ruin." ”

2. "Those who do not bribe will be mourned by those who bribe." ”

The second sub-argument is that "those who do not bribe will be mourned by those who bribe." "The author goes straight to the point and puts forward the central argument straightforwardly, which not only sticks to the topic and clarifies the topic, but also facilitates the subsequent text to gallop and argue freely, and has a leading role in the structure of the following and the whole article. In fact, the two sub-arguments further reveal the central argument from the positive (the first sub-thesis) and the negative (the second sub-thesis), so that the central thesis is complete and thorough, and it is logically firm.

Two sub-arguments: "Bribing Qin and losing strength is also the way to ruin." "Those who do not bribe will be mourned by those who bribe".

At the beginning, the argument that the Six Kingdoms broke "the evil lies in bribing Qin"; Then, based on historical facts, the two types of countries that "bribed Qin" and "did not bribe Qin" were argued from the front. He further stated with a hypothesis that if Qin had not been bribed, the Six Kingdoms would not have perished, and argued from the opposite side; As a result, the conclusion that "those who serve the country will not be robbed by the prestige".