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嬴驷 / Ying Si

嬴驷 / Ying Si appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》13丨 公孙鞅苛刻变法惹杀身（1） as 秦孝公’s crown prince. The episode introduces him at the endpoint, after 公孙鞅 / 商鞅’s new law has been active for more than a year and public complaints have accumulated.

The source uses Ying Si as a suspense point rather than a full biography. His violation of the new law turns 商鞅变法 from a general policy program into a legitimacy test: if the law does not reach the ruler’s heir, the reform loses credibility; if it does, it threatens the court’s highest-status people.

《资治通鉴·周纪》13丨 公孙鞅苛刻变法惹杀身（2） resolves the suspense by making Ying Si’s tutors suffer in his stead. The episode stresses that the heir’s status prevents direct punishment, but the tutor punishments still make the case a high-status law-enforcement signal. That makes Ying Si the hinge between Qin’s new legal credibility and the later resentment carried by figures such as 公子虔 and 公孙贾.

《资治通鉴·周纪》23丨魏惠王 悔不用公叔之言 returns to Ying Si as successor after Qin Xiao Gong’s death in 338 BCE. The episode does not develop his independent rule, but his accession is the political turn that lets 公子虔’s faction attack Shang Yang and makes the earlier prince-law conflict part of the larger Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬 sequence.

《资治通鉴·周纪》30丨苏秦的“开挂”人生 refers to him as 秦国’s Qin Huiwen Wang in 苏秦’s failed lobbying itinerary. The episode says Qin had just executed 公孙鞅 / 商鞅 and was therefore unfriendly to persuader politics, so Su Qin’s renewed learning and 揣摩 do not win access there.

《资治通鉴·周纪》31丨合纵连横 围殴秦 returns to him as the Qin ruler who trusts 张仪 after Zhang Yi reaches Qin. The episode makes Ying Si’s court the place where Su Qin’s hidden manipulation of Zhang Yi turns into a diplomatic buffer for the still-forming 合纵.

《资治通鉴·周纪》34丨秦国总理如何玩转六国 shows Ying Si using that court talent. After Qin captures 蒲阳, Zhang Yi advises him to return it to 魏国 and send a Qin prince as hostage. Ying Si’s acceptance lets Zhang Yi turn a captured city into 上郡’s fifteen counties and elevates Zhang Yi inside Qin.

《资治通鉴·周纪》35丨历史上第一骑兵教父是他？ keeps him as Qin Huiwen Wang while Qin balances two fronts. Qin defeats 义渠 without fully ending the frontier problem, then returns 焦邑 and 曲沃 to 魏国. The episode reads the returned-land move as Zhang Yi’s way to improve the diplomatic setting before Ying Si claims kingly status.

《资治通鉴·周纪》36丨卫嗣君的帝王之术 gives the title claim itself. In 324 BCE Ying Si becomes Qin Huiwen Wang in a fuller status sense by claiming kingly title; the episode says the move is calmer than 徐州相王 because Qi and Wei have already set a precedent and because 秦国 is strong enough that other rulers do not respond as sharply.

《资治通鉴·周纪》39丨历史上张仪是怎样怒怼强敌的 keeps Ying Si active behind 张仪’s Wei posting. The episode says Zhang Yi has not yet delivered the desired Wei submission to Qin, but Qin Huiwen Wang secretly treats him better instead of punishing him. The source reads this as 恩赏负债式忠诚压力: favor creates shame and repayment pressure, helping explain why Zhang Yi remains Qin-oriented while serving in 魏国. This should be kept source-scoped alongside Zhouji 38’s different 秦武王 supplement.

《资治通鉴·周纪》47丨燕王哙的理想主义 gives Ying Si’s Ba-Shu decision directly. He considers attacking 蜀国, hears 张仪 propose the higher-status eastern route against 韩国 and the 周王室, and then follows 司马错’s lower-risk argument for gaining land, wealth, and people through Shu.

《资治通鉴·周纪》50丨张仪是怎样把楚怀王忽悠瘸的 shows Ying Si using Zhang Yi against the 齐国-楚国 relationship directly. Qin Huiwen Wang wants to attack Qi but worries about Qi’s alliance with Chu, so he sends Zhang Yi to promise 楚怀王 six hundred li of 商於. The resulting 未验地先断交陷阱 isolates Chu and pushes Qi toward Qin before Chu attacks in anger.

《资治通鉴·周纪》51丨 楚怀王：秦小儿看舅舅如何灭了你！ shows the payoff of that move for Qin Huiwen Wang’s state. Once Chu attacks in anger, Qin defeats Chu at 丹阳之战, captures 屈匄, takes 汉中, and later defeats Chu again near 蓝田之战. The episode therefore makes Ying Si’s use of Zhang Yi a bridge from diplomatic separation into territorial and battlefield gain.

《资治通鉴·周纪》52丨 陈庄叛秦 端起碗吃饭放下碗骂娘 looks back to Ying Si’s earlier strategic choice to take 蜀国. The episode says he follows 司马错’s advice over the competing eastern-expansion impulse, conquers Ba-Shu, and creates a resource base that later becomes difficult to govern when 陈庄 rebels.

《资治通鉴·周纪》53丨秦惠王用张仪换地皮 returns Ying Si to the center of Qin-Chu bargaining. He asks to exchange Qin land around 武关 and 商於 for Chu’s 黔中, then faces Chu Huaiwang’s counter-demand for 张仪. The host’s reading of 《史记》 makes Ying Si’s calculation cold: Zhang Yi might win territory if spared and useful, while his death could give Qin a war pretext under the 不斩来使 norm. That makes Ying Si a case of 可交换功臣 as well as ruler-backed zongheng use.

《资治通鉴·周纪》54丨我尊你是王，你当我是屁 shows the final phase of Ying Si’s patronage of Zhang Yi. After Zhang Yi persuades 韩国, Ying Si rewards him with six cities and the title Wuxin Jun, then sends him to continue the 连横 tour through Qi, Zhao, and Yan. The episode closes with Ying Si’s death before Zhang Yi reaches 咸阳, converting his ruler-backed success into 靠山更替暴露风险 under 秦武王.

《资治通鉴·周纪》55丨 张仪痛失贵人秦惠王 makes his death the decisive break in Zhang Yi’s final career. Once Ying Si is gone, Qin courtiers attack Zhang Yi, the lords abandon 连横 for renewed 合纵, and Zhang Yi must turn his own removal from Qin into 以自保包装国策 under Qin Wuwang.

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