First, the same root is the same.
Historically, all the monarchs in the state of Qin were named Zhao, but this origin is not Zhao, which we are more familiar with now, but winning.
Won surname is also one of the eight ancient surnames (Ji, Yao, Gui, Yi, Jiang, English, Yi and Yi), which originated from Boyi, Dayu's chief assistant. This man got his surname because of his meritorious service in water control, which was given by the monarch Shun at that time. It can be seen that in ancient times, it was a very glorious thing to get the surname itself, and later it naturally became a symbol of future generations.
But with the development of the times, there are more and more people with the same surname. In order to distinguish this point, the name "Shi", which also has inheritance property, is widely used. At first, the name of the person who won the surname Zhao was Zhao Fu. As a descendant of Boyi, he naturally got the inheritance of the won surname. As the fifth monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty in about 977 BC,
However, Zhao Wuji was not the ancestor of the kings of Qin and Zhao.
In Shang Zhouwang, there was a famous man named Fei Lian, who was a favorite of Shang Zhouwang.
He has two sons, one is called E Lai, and his fifth grandson, later the first monarch of Qin, is not a son. There is also a son named Ji Sheng, who is the great-grandfather of Zhao Fu we just mentioned. The descendants of Zhao Fu gradually developed on the basis of Zhao Cheng, and later established Zhao State.
It can be seen that Qin and Zhao have the same ancestry in paternal inheritance, but it has been hundreds of years since they spread to the Warring States. From this point of view, the blood relationship between Qin and Zhao is even worse than that of Qin Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period. Compared with Qin and Chu, who were married several times at the end of the Warring States period, it was even farther away. After all, Empress Xuan and Empress Huayang are both aristocratic women of Chu, but China will pay more attention to patrilineal inheritance after entering the patrilineal society in ancient times.
So, will Qin finally let Zhao's nobles go because of the same roots with Zhao? Let's have another steak.
National subjugation, monarch and minister
The last prince of Zhao was Zhao Wangqian, who was called Zhao Miaowang. Because of his trust, he killed generals Li Mu and Sima Shang, so that he destroyed the Great Wall and destroyed Zhao, and he himself became a prisoner of the Qin people. Wang Zheng of the Qin Dynasty, regardless of the friendship of the same origin, exiled him to the deep mountains of Fangling (now Fangxian County, Hubei Province) and left him to fend for himself.
How long can a prince of Zhao, who has been living in prosperity, survive in such an environment? Although there is no exact answer, it is not difficult to imagine.
After the demise of Zhao, a group of nobles of Dr. Zhao fled to the Northern Dynasty, and began to establish Zhao's half-brother as the generation king, joining hands with Yan State to fight against Qin State. However, the dying Yan Dynasty did not last long. A few years later, it was destroyed by Qin.
Zhao Heyan has also become a prisoner of Qin, and there is no freedom at all.
Then, after Zhao's death, how did other unknown nobles of Zhao and the king of Qin settle down?
This is also recorded in the history books. In historical records, it is said that Qin Shihuang "immigrated to Xianyang with 120,000 richest people in the world", which means that after Qin Shihuang's reunification, he ordered 120,000 immigrants, including the richest people in the world, to Xianyang, on the one hand to enrich the population, and on the other hand to eliminate the threat of the six countries.
Among the "120,000 households", the six nobles still occupy a considerable proportion, but it is not necessary to move the six nobles to Xianyang.
As we know, in the later anti-Qin struggle, there were still a large number of nobles' children from six countries, such as Wei Bao's son, Tian's three noble brothers, and Zhao Xie, who was elected as the prince of Zhao at that time, indicating that Qin did not move the nobles from six countries to Xianyang at that time.
Moreover, according to the Records of Historical Records, the aristocratic children of the six countries still "lived together" at that time. For example, Tian's influence was mostly in the county (now southeast of gaoqing county, Shandong Province), and the geography of Chu (now Suqian, Jiangsu Province) also became the settlement of Chu nobles, and Zhao Xie was also the patriarch of Zhao in Qin Dynasty.
It can be seen that Qin Shihuang did not completely break the old pattern of aristocratic settlement, but instead caused a counterattack from the aristocratic forces of the six countries who rose up against Qin. In response to this hidden danger, Liu Bang later did it more thoroughly.
About two years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Bang listened to Hou's suggestion and moved more than 100,000 aristocratic strongmen from six countries to Guanzhong to enrich the population. At the same time, the nobles from the six countries were far away from their hometown, naturally losing the soil for their rise and no longer posing a threat to the emerging Han Dynasty.