Stories of Chinese word and term (44-1)

毛遂自荐, 毛遂 Recommending himself. At the time of War-States, there was a tradition that a noble provided for some people for believing that they had some special talent. Historian used to call these people Dependent 食客 (Eating-Fellow). 秦始皇was the first master 君, who unified the China by power. At his time there were seven strong states in China, they were 齐、楚、韩、赵、燕、魏 and秦. 秦始皇was the master of 秦only. As his grandfather that was the old master had started a cruel reform of their state. This state turned to be a militarism super power. Then he started to invade his neighbour states. When his troop arrived the state of 赵. The master of 赵 asked his brother seeking help from state of楚. The brother named 赵胜, who had provided for few thousand Dependent.