《吕氏春秋》 / Lushi Chunqiu
《吕氏春秋》 / Lushi Chunqiu appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》23丨魏惠王 悔不用公叔之言 as the text used to criticize 公孙鞅 / 商鞅 after the capture of 公子卬 / 公子昂. The episode says the criticism centers on two problems: the parley trap cannot be repeated, and it damages Shang Yang’s personal trustworthiness.
The page is source-scoped. Its role here is not to summarize the whole work, but to preserve a source tradition that reads Shang Yang’s victory through 战术信用成本 rather than only through battlefield success.
《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（3） adds a second source-variant role for the text through 吴起’s death. The episode says 《吕氏春秋》 presents Wu Qi as pulling arrows from his own body and sticking them into 楚悼王’s corpse so that the attacking nobles will be punished for damaging the ruler’s body. In this branch, the text sharpens Wu Qi’s final political calculation.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-2｜孔子在鲁国的身世之谜 adds a composition-timeline note. The source says that in 秦庄襄王’s second year, 248 BCE, 《吕氏春秋》 begins to be compiled, placing the text inside the early post-吕不韦 chancellorship context rather than only as a later cited source.
Connections
- 公孙鞅 / 商鞅 - figure criticized in the episode’s reading.
- 公子卬 / 公子昂 - target of the deception.
- 和谈诱捕 - tactic being judged.
- 战术信用成本 - concept the episode draws from the critique.
- 《资治通鉴》 and 《史记》 - adjacent source texts in the same episode branch.
- 吴起, 楚悼王, and Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬 - Wu Qi death variant added by Zhouji 08 part 3.
- 秦庄襄王 and 吕不韦 - Qinji 102-2 composition-timeline frame.