In 606 BC, Duke Yigao of Jinling was killed by his courtier and brother-in-law Zhao Pu, and Zhao Dun, a powerful minister of the Jin Dynasty, decided to welcome his son Back to the Jin State from Eastern Zhou and proclaim him the new monarch of the Jin State, in order to be the Duke of Jin. However, Duke Chenggong of Jin died of illness after reigning for only seven years, and after the death of Duke Chenggong of Jincheng, his son Gongzi succeeded to the throne as Duke Jing of Jin. Jin Jinggong was able to become the monarch of the Jin dynasty because he was the eldest son of The Duke of Jincheng and because of his excellent political ability. However, without Zhao Dun, the Duke of Jinjing would not have succeeded to the throne.
The reason why Zhao Dun is mentioned in particular is because the relationship between Zhao Dun and Jin Chenggong is more complicated. Zhao Dun was the son of Zhao Wan, and after Zhao Wan's death, Zhao Dun began to take sole control of the Zhao clan and became the suzerainty of the Zhao clan. The Zhao clan was originally a large clan in the Jin Dynasty, and Zhao Wan's brother Zhao Su (赵夙) was granted a fief because of his military merits during the Jin Dynasty, but the prosperity of the Zhao clan began here in Zhao Wan, and by the time of Zhao Dun, the power and status of the Zhao clan reached its peak. After the death of Duke Xiang of Jin, he made The Crown Prince Yigao the Prince, but Yigao was young and the power of state governance was controlled by Zhao Dun, the secretary of state. Zhao Dun's status is above ten thousand people under one person, and you can imagine how huge the zhao clan's position among the Zhongqing clan is! Zhao Pu, a branch of the Zhao clan, was dissatisfied with the assassination of Zhao Dun by the Duke of Jinling, so he killed the Duke of Jin linggong in Taoyuan, and after Zhao Dun returned to the dynasty, he presided over the matter and did not convict Zhao Pu of the crime of killing the king.
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At this time, some people will inevitably wonder, there are so many courtiers in the Jin Dynasty, is there not a single person who feels that Zhao Dun is unfair? Zhao Pu's crime was a capital crime such as killing the monarch, and he could have done nothing, how did he do it? In fact, this is not surprising, Zhao Dun's power is very large, this is the effect of Zhao Dun's monopoly, no one dares to oppose him. Zhao Dun wanted to protect Zhao Pu, did anyone dare to kill Zhao Pu? However, Zhao Dun was not a generation of traitors, so he did not replace the throne of the country, but went to The Eastern Zhou and invited the son of Duke Wen of Jin, Gongzi Hei, to return to China to become the monarch. In the early years, Jin Chenggong took hostages in Eastern Zhou, and without Zhao Dun's invitation, the Jincheng Guild would have been a proton in Eastern Zhou for the rest of his life, and his descendants would have been staying in Eastern Zhou. Therefore, we say that the relationship between Jin Jinggong and Zhao Dun's ability to become the monarch is extremely great, and the indirect role played by Zhao Dun is huge.
In 600 BC, Jin Chenggong died of illness, and during his reign, in order to control the expansion of Zhao's power, Jin Chenggong restored the position of Gong clan doctor cancelled during the Jin Dynasty, and also set up official positions such as Yuzi and Gongxing. The eldest son of the Duke of Jincheng was the monarch after the Duke of Jincheng, the Duke of Jinjing. During the Jin Jinggong period, the struggle between the Jin state and the Chu state became more and more fierce, and finally the Battle of Qi broke out between the Jin and Chu, the Jin state was defeated, and the hegemony was occupied by the Chu state for more than ten years.
After succeeding to the throne, the Jin state first fought the Battle of Wu in 596 BC, and after the defeat, the Duke of Jin Jing listened to the advice of Shi Zhenzi and did not kill the meritorious Xun Lin father, but reinstated Xun Lin's father and continued to serve as the ruling doctor of the Jin state. Later, Xun Lin's father defeated Zheng Guo and pulled Zheng Guo back into the jin camp. In 594 BC, duke Jing of Jin sent Xun Lin's father to attack the Lu clan of Chi Di and won a great victory. In 592 BC, in order to ease the contradiction between the Jin state and the State of Qi, the Duke of Jin Sent an envoy to the State of Qi, but Duke Jing of Jin was humiliated in the State of Qi and made a fuss about attacking the State of Qi, but the Duke of Jin Jing did not allow it. In 589 BC, Jin Jinggong, believing that the time was ripe for a decisive battle between Qi and Jin, formally decided to attack the State of Qi, and defeated the State of Qi in the Battle of Qi, forcing the Duke of Qi to curry favor and ask for forgiveness. The following year, after jin jinggong conquered the state of Qi, he expanded the three armies and six secretaries of the Jin army into six armies and twelve secretaries, further enhancing the strength of the Jin state. In 585 BC, in order to pave the way for the elimination of the Zhao clan, the Duke of Jin moved the capital of the Jin state from The Capital to Xintian. In 583 BC, Zhao Zhuangji reported to the Duke of Jin jing that the Zhao clan intended to rebel, and Luan Shu and Hao Shu forged evidence of zhao's rebellion, so the Duke of Jin Jing sent an army to kill the lower palace of the Zhao clan, known in history as the "difficulty of the lower palace", and the two great emperors of the Zhao clan and Ping were destroyed. Later, Jin Jinggong was seriously ill, and once went to the toilet, he fell directly into the toilet and drowned.
In the life of Jin Jinggong, there were two major events, one was the failure to compete with Chu for hegemony, and the other was the destruction of the Zhao clan. Finally, there are also various rumors about the death of Jin Jinggong, and it is said that he died in retaliation by the ancestors of the Zhao clan. We don't know why his death was so strange, but it is certain that he had the wronged souls of countless people in his hands, and Zhao's grievances were later cleared by Zhao Wu.