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卫国 / Wey State

卫国 / Wey State appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（1） through a 373 BCE notice: Wey attacks 齐国 in the same year that 燕国 defeats Qi at Linghu and 鲁国 occupies Yangguan.

This page uses “Wey” to avoid colliding with 魏国 / Wei State, a different Warring States power already present in the wiki. The source also records the death of 卫声公 and the accession of 卫成公.

《资治通鉴·周纪》11丨 世界风起云涌（2） revisits the same succession/title territory but places a Wey ruler rendered as 卫声公 dying in 362 BCE, followed by a successor styled 卫成侯. The episode uses 《史记》 to read the duke-to-marquis change, and the later move toward lord/ruler language, as deliberate low status before stronger neighbors. This creates a chronology/title tension with the earlier Zhouji 10-derived Wey pages.

《资治通鉴·周纪》18丨中国历史上第一例人头税 adds Wey’s status decline in 346 BCE. The source says Wey demotes itself from duke to marquis and submits to the Three Jin powers, marking reduced autonomy inside the 战国时期 order.

《资治通鉴·周纪》36丨卫嗣君的帝王之术 extends that decline into 324 BCE. 卫平侯 dies and 卫嗣君 succeeds while 秦惠文王 claims kingly title; the episode reads this contrast as weak-state status demotion. Wey still retains agency through legal insistence and envoy work: Wey Sijun demands an escaped prisoner back from 魏国, and a later 《战国策》 supplement has a Wey envoy gain access to 魏惠王 / 梁惠王 through 武夏’s intervention.

《资治通鉴·周纪》43丨孟尝君妻子偷情被发现他咋处理？ adds Wey as the destination for a problematic Mengchang Jun retainer. After a household scandal, 孟尝君 / 田文 sends the retainer to Wey with resources and access; the retainer later gains enough trust to persuade the Wey ruler not to join an attack on 齐国. The source itself cautions that this campaign scene may have narrative embellishment because Wey was weak.

《资治通鉴·周纪》48丨君王为啥不能传位宰相 adds a source-scoped ambiguity around Wey and 曲沃. The episode says 秦国 suppresses Wey people making disorder, takes Quwo, and drives them back to Wey. Because Quwo is elsewhere tracked as a Wei-Qin frontier place, this page records the notice as a wording and identity caution rather than a settled Wey territorial branch.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》100-1｜皇帝中的超长待机王过世了 adds a harsher late-stage dependence case. 卫怀君 goes to see 魏安釐王, is killed, and is replaced by his brother 卫元君. The episode uses the event to show that Wey’s weak-state status is no longer only title demotion or envoy difficulty; stronger 魏国 power can decide life, death, and succession.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》107｜最后一次合纵伐秦 伐了个寂寞 adds a late survival branch with source-scoped caution. In the Chunshenjun-version coalition list, Wey appears as one of the participating states, while the later transcript segment around Chaoge, Puyang, Yewang, 卫元君, and 卫君角 overlaps with the wiki’s Wey line but is phrased in a way that can be confused with 魏国.

The interpretive point is still useful: the source treats Wey’s remnant survival as the product of low posture, limited strategic value, and residual kinship-sacrifice custom. This extends the earlier weak-state pattern from title demotion and externally imposed succession into near-erasure under 秦国’s expanding commandery order.

Qinji 128-8 records the endpoint. 胡亥 / 秦二世 deposes 卫君角 as a commoner, and the episode treats this as the final end of Wey. The host stresses the paradox of the ending: Wey lasted longer than the stronger Warring States powers largely because its weakness made it useful as a harmless remnant, but that same hollowness meant Qin could abolish it without a major war.

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