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《资治通鉴·秦纪》107｜最后一次合纵伐秦 伐了个寂寞

Summary

This 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 episode moves the Qinji sequence into 241-239 BCE and frames the 241 BCE campaign as the last 合纵 attack on 秦国. It compares two incompatible 《史记》 traditions: one centered on 黄歇 / 春申君 and 楚考烈王, the other on 庞煖, while keeping the shared conclusion that the coalition gained no meaningful advantage from Qin.

The episode then turns from failed coalition to aftermath. 朱英 warns Chunshenjun that 秦国东进压力 and 魏国’s weakness make Chu’s old capital exposure dangerous, leading 楚国 to move to 寿春; Qin continues absorbing territory into 东郡, while the source preserves an important Wei/Wey ambiguity around 卫元君 and 卫君角.

Key Claims

  • Qin Shi Huang’s sixth year, 241 BCE, is presented as the final anti-Qin hezong attempt of the Warring States period.
  • The 《资治通鉴》 account follows the Chunshenjun tradition: Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Wey join; Mi Wan is the nominal leader; Chunshenjun commands; the force reaches the 函谷关 area and is defeated when Qin comes out to fight.
  • The 《史记》 Zhao-house tradition gives a different version: Zhao, Chu, Wei, and Yan join; Pang Nuan commands; the coalition gains no Qin land and then turns toward Qi, taking Raoan.
  • The source treats the two versions as impossible to reconcile securely from the episode alone, making this a case for 史书异文政治重量 rather than a single flattened narrative.
  • The strategic bottom line is stable despite the source conflict: the coalition did not reverse Qin’s advantage, so the episode adds 末次合纵失败 to the wiki’s hezong failure pattern.
  • After the failure, Mi Wan distances himself from Chunshenjun, suggesting that the failed campaign damages Chunshenjun’s standing inside Chu.
  • Zhu Ying argues that Chu’s earlier safety depended on Qin’s inconvenient route and Han/Wei rear risk; once Wei can no longer hold the central plains, Chu’s capital at Chen becomes dangerously close to Qin’s path.
  • Chu moves its capital to Shouchun and calls Shouchun Ying, turning a diplomatic-military failure into a capital-geography adjustment.
  • Yan and Qi do not join the Chunshenjun-version five-state campaign: Yan has wasted strength attacking Zhao, while Qi is alienated by Chu’s destruction of Lu and administration in the Huai north.
  • Qin continues pressure after the coalition fails, taking Chaoge and Puyang in the source’s summary and associating those gains with Dong Commandery.
  • The source says the remaining Wei/Wey ruler branch survives as a subordinate shell because it is low-posture, strategically minor, and still protected by kinship-sacrifice custom; this segment is kept source-scoped because the transcript’s Wei/Wey wording overlaps with the wiki’s existing 卫国 branch.
  • In the 240 BCE follow-up, Qin attacks Wei again and takes Ji; 夏太后 and 蒙敖 die in the same year.
  • In 239 BCE, Wei gives Ye to Zhao, and 韩桓惠王 dies before Han An succeeds.

Key Quotes

“伐了个寂寞” - the episode’s title gloss for the coalition’s empty result.

“今天已经难以判断哪一种更接近事实” - the source-critical stance toward the competing accounts.

“合纵联军都没有从秦国获得实际好处” - the stable conclusion despite variant details.

Connections

Contradictions

  • No direct contradiction with existing wiki content is asserted.
  • Source-scope caution: the Chunshenjun and Zhao-house traditions disagree on coalition membership, commander, route, and post-campaign action; the wiki records both under 史书异文政治重量.
  • Source-scope caution: the transcript segment around “魏元君/魏君角” overlaps with the existing 卫国 and 卫元君 branch. This ingest preserves the ambiguity rather than silently merging 魏国 and 卫国.