The growing power of Qing Dafu was a problem that had been faced since the establishment of the Jin dynasty, and the Zhao and Hao clans, as well as the Luan clan and the Bank of China successively took charge of state affairs, posing a great threat to the monarchy.
This problem not only affected the decision-making of the Jin state in terms of foreign policy, but also caused the Jin state to accept unfavorable conditions for military service, but also caused a very adverse impact on domestic politics.
On September 26, the second year of Lu Xuangong (607 BC), Zhao Dun "killed" The Emperor, Zhao Shiqing Dafu, was indispensable in the dynasty.
At the time of the Jing Gong, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo were killed, and the strength of the Zhao clan was greatly weakened, but after Zhao Wu was re-established, the power of the Zhao clan gradually recovered.
In the Li Gong period, the strongest of the Gong clan secretaries was the Hao clan, and the three secretaries of the imperial family, Hao Jun, Hao Zhun, and Hao Zhi, and their uncles and nephews were listed as eight secretaries, and the family power reached its peak, and all the secretaries of state in the DPRK were frightened.
After the Battle of Yanling, San hao thought that he had made a great achievement in the process of the Defeat of the Chu Army by the Jin Army, and it was even more indispensable.
The strength of the Hao clan directly threatened the rule of the Duke of Jin.
After the Battle of Yanling, Duke Li of Jin had been plotting to get rid of these powerful scholars and replace them with his own loyal subordinates, especially the brothers of many of his favorite concubines.
One of Li Gong's favorite concubines' brother was named Xu Tong, who hated the Hao clan because his father Xu Ke had been deposed by the Hao clan and wanted to get rid of the "Three Hao" and then quickly.
Another of Li Gong's ministers, Luan Shu, also resented that Hao Zhi had defeated the Chu army by not adopting his own strategy at the Battle of Yanling, so he bribed the Chu state with a lot of money and asked him to deceive Li Gong that the Battle of Yanling was launched by Hao Zhi in collusion with the Chu state to welcome Gongzi Zhou, and only because the other allies were not ready, they did not succeed.
Luan Shu also designed for Shao Zhi to meet gongzi Zhou in ZhouJing, which made Li Gong, who was already suspicious of the Hao clan, more determined to get rid of this family.
However, because the Hao clan was very arrogant on weekdays, there were many people in the Jin dynasty who held grudges against them, and the Jin LiGong instructed Xu Tong, Yi Yang Wu, and Chang Yu Jiao to lead 800 soldiers to destroy Sanhao.
Xu Tong took the opportunity to quickly arrest the Chinese marshals Luan Shu and Zhongxing Yan and others, and demanded that Li Gong also destroy these qingshi doctors who had been in power in the dprk for a long time.
At this time, Li Gong was partial to the benevolence of the woman, and expressed his reluctance to kill more people for his own selfishness, so he released Luan Shu and Zhongxing Yan and sent people to comfort him.
Although the two were outwardly grateful for the monarch's virtue of not killing, they were very suspicious of the Duke of Jin, and in addition, the Duke of Jin was very cruel, and the ministers of the DPRK often regarded him as a tyrant such as Xia Jie and Shang Yi.
In the following year, when Jin Ligong destroyed Sanhao, Luan Shu colluded with Zhongxing Yan to imprison Li Gongyu and sent Cheng Shui to kill him in prison, and after his death, he was buried in Yidongmen by car.
Changyu Jiaobendi, Xu Tong was killed, and Li Gong's cronies were almost wiped out.
The killing of Li Gong was another great turmoil in the Jin Dynasty since Linggong.
After Luan Shu destroyed Li Gong, he sent Xun Jie, Shi Qu and others to Luoyang to greet Gongzi Zhou on the pretext that the country could not be without a monarch for a day.
Gongzi Zhou also ascended to the throne of the Marquis of Jin in this situation of internal and external troubles.
At the beginning of Gongzi Zhou's reign, he was only 14 years old and was a tribute to the Jin Dynasty.
Duke Mo's grandfather Jie was the son of Duke Xiang of Jin, and although he was not allowed to ascend to the throne as a monarch due to his young age, he was favored by Duke Xiang of Jin and was known as "Uncle Huan".
Uncle Huan gave birth to Hui Bo Tan, the father of Gongzi Zhou.
Because of the Jin state policy of "not having a group of princes", Huan Shu's branch was placed in Luoyi.
Although Gongzi Zhou was young, he was already quite famous at the time of Luoyi, proficient in poetry and books, virtuous and noble, and well-known about the general trend of the world.
In view of the fierce struggle within the Jin state that lasted for twenty or thirty years and the repeated killing of the king by his subordinates, Gongzi Zhou always maintained a high degree of vigilance despite being invited to return to China.
10 days after Li Gong's death, Gongzi Zhou arrived in Jin under the greeting of Luan Shu and others.
When they arrived in The Land, Gongzi Zhou and Zhu Qingshifu slaughtered chickens as an alliance, and admonished the ministers: "If a widow is bound to another country and does not expect to return to his hometown, how can he hope to be a king?" But he who is noble is a king, and he who commands himself. If you take it in your name and do not obey his orders, it is better to be a king. The secretary of state is willing to use the life of a widow, only today. If they don't listen to Qing Qing and others, they will do more to others. Loneliness can not hold the empty name above, for the continuation of the state Pu no ya! ”
The words of the Duke of Jin's mourning seemed to be a greeting with the ministers, but in fact they were a severe rebuke of the criminal acts of Luan Shu and other powerful bullies, and they also forced their subordinates to swear loyalty to the new king.
The 14-year-old Duke of Jin also took on the burden of the Zhongxing Jin State from then on.
After the mourning duke took the throne, he also really tried to govern.
He first devoted himself to rectifying internal affairs, first dealing with the residual evil of the Li Gong Dynasty, and beheading Yi Yangwu, Qing Boiling Fish and other 5 people for the crime of "greeting the prince and the prince with evil", and killing Cheng Shui.
For Luan Shu, who committed rebellion but had the grace of supporting himself, he belittled his pension and promoted his eldest son Luan Yu to the rank of official in the dprk.
Subsequently, the mourners began to work on the national economy and the people's livelihood, reduce taxes, relax punishments, exempt the people from debts to the government and nobles, take care of widows and widows and lonely people, help disasters and famines, prohibit evil and extravagant things, and strictly stipulate that when infringing on agriculture, there are also restrictions on the construction of civil engineering projects by the state, doctors, and secretaries.
In terms of foreign relations, the Duke of Jin also has his own set of ideas.
In the second year of his reign, the Duke of Jin summoned Lu, Song, Wei, Cao, and Yi to meet at Qidi (in present-day northern Puyang, Henan), and adopted the suggestion of Lu Zhongsun to "fortify the city and tigers to force Zheng", and finally caused Zheng to break away from the Chu state and move closer to the Jin state.
Chen Guo then came to submit.
At the same time, Duke Mo took the advice of the grand master Wei Dai and reconciled with Rong Di, thus relieving him of the worries of the Southern Expedition to the Chu State.
After this series of vigorous actions, the Jin state finally had the strength to go south and compete with the Chu state.
The Duke of Jin also gradually adopted the methods of warfare of the Song Dynasty, Herong, Lianwu, and the tired enemy, so that the Jin State had a situation of "no stagnation and no difficulty, no prohibitions, and no greedy people", and gradually restored the hegemony of the Jin State, forming the hegemonic position of the princes under the heavens and the Jin Dynasty.