后胜 / Hou Sheng
后胜 / Hou Sheng enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-2｜孔子在鲁国的身世之谜 as the 齐国 chancellor under 齐王建 / 田建. The episode says Qin repeatedly bribes him, and that he advises Qi Wang Jian not to concern himself with other states’ survival.
His source role is less a full biography than a mechanism for late Qi isolation. Qi is the nearest major state to 鲁国 and could plausibly have coveted Lu, but the episode argues that post-乐毅 weakness and Hou Sheng’s Qin-funded advice leave Qi unwilling to act. Hou Sheng therefore helps explain why 楚国, not Qi, becomes the final destroyer of Lu.
The page is source-scoped. Later sources may need to distinguish Hou Sheng’s personal agency from broader 联盟自保失灵, 屏障国救援失灵, and Qi’s long post-restoration decline.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》119-3｜历史上第一位真正意义上“垂帘听政”太后 moves Hou Sheng from background isolation mechanism to immediate adviser. After 齐王建 / 田建 continues 君王后’s pro-Qin line, Hou Sheng advises him to go personally to Qin, setting up 雍门司马’s remonstrance.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》120-1｜谁是皇帝中的妈宝男？ records Hou Sheng from Qin’s post-unification accusation layer. The episode says Qin’s legitimacy story blamed 齐国 on Qi Wang Jian’s trust in Hou Sheng, alleged rupture of Qin-Qi relations, and supposed rebellion plotting. This keeps Hou Sheng as a negative explanatory figure, while source-scoping the charge as part of 兼并自卫叙事.
Connections
- 齐国 and 齐王建 / 田建 - state and ruler he serves in the source.
- 秦国 - bribing power in the source’s explanation.
- 鲁国 - nearby state Qi does not absorb.
- 楚国 - state that ultimately destroys Lu in the episode’s account.
- 乐毅 - earlier attacker whose five-state campaign left Qi weakened in the source’s causal chain.
- 联盟自保失灵 and 屏障国救援失灵 - broader late-Warring-States non-intervention patterns.
- 雍门司马 and 远国安抚误读 - Qinji 119-3 advice and counter-remonstrance setting.
- Qinji 120-1, 齐王建 / 田建, and 兼并自卫叙事 - Qin’s later accusation that Qi’s fall followed trust in Hou Sheng.