In 676 BC, Duke Xian of Jin (?) – 651 BC) Ji Wei zhu ascended the throne. The origin of the name is also quite interesting. In the year of The birth of Duke Xian of Jin, his father Duke Wu of Jin conquered the Yi Kingdom and killed the king of the Yi Kingdom, Wei Zhu, and named his newborn son Wei Zhu in order to commemorate the victory of the war. During the reign of Duke Xiangong of Jin, he was politically clear-minded and meritocratic, and annexed and eliminated many countries, and history called him "seventeen countries and thirty-eight countries". The two idioms of "false Dao" and "cold lips and dead teeth" are related to the Jin Dynasty.
Shanxi ancient name Jinguo, photographed in the Datong Museum.
Jin Xiangong was already forty years old when he ascended the throne, and at that time, there was no family planning. Some people are still having children when they are fifty or sixty years old when they are grandfathers, and after a few generations, there is a situation where the generations of the same age are very different, just like when we first said that Yao Shunyu's generation was five or six generations.
Jin Xiangong encountered such a problem, the age is not small, the generation is too small. In the Jin Dynasty, there were five or six figures of the grandfather generation of the Jin Dynasty, more than a dozen uncles, and twenty or thirty brothers. A total of forty or fifty people formed a large ducal clan of the Jin Dynasty.
These people were insatiably greedy and always asked for officials, money, land, and always took the generations to talk about things. Jin Xiangong was harassed by this group of "flies" every day, endured for seven years, and finally couldn't bear it. He asked Shangdafu Shilang to help, and decided to fight with these gong clans.
Shi Jia was a wise man, and he knew that it was better to use ingenuity than to be tough with the Gong clan. "If you go to the rich son, then the sons of the group can also conspire." This passage from the Zuo Biography records the method that Shi Pu told the Jin Xiangong. It is proposed to get the leader of the Gong clan, Gongsun Fuzi, first, then the Gong Clan can naturally be easily solved, and this is the truth that the thief first captured the king said.
When it was said, Shi Huang spent half a year to mingle with the Gong clan, everyone liked him, and Gongsun Fuzi became friends with Shi Huang. Usually idle, Shi Bao often said in front of Fuzi that Jin Xiangong praised Fuzi's talents and wanted to appoint him as a middle doctor. Because Fuzi and the Gong clan were too close, they hesitated. As soon as Fuzi heard this, he began to deliberately open the distance with the gong clan, which caused some gong clans to be a little dissatisfied. Not long after, the Duke of Jin appointed Fuzi as the Middle Doctor, and originally everyone was working together to ask for officials from the Jin Dynasty, but now only Fuzi was the official, and the Gong clan was even more dissatisfied. Under such a divisive situation as Jin Xiangong and Shi Bao, the Gong clan planned to kill Fuzi, who received the news and could not take care of the position of Zhongdafu who had just been promoted, and fled to the Zhou Kingdom.
As soon as the rich son left, the gong clan was leaderless, but the power was still there. The existence of these people made Jin Xiangong feel like a thorn in his back, and he would not be happy if he did not clear his heart!
Ever since they had the idea of eliminating the Gong clan, Jin Xiangong and Shi Bao began to plan. Wait, wait, finally one day the opportunity came.
In the Jin Dynasty, there was a You Dafu who made meritorious contributions to the siege of the city during the jin dynasty of the old father of the Jin Dynasty, and received the city as a fief. Because You Dafu was a foreign surname, the Gong clan was very dissatisfied with him, and the Jin Xiangong also wanted to take back Jucheng. In this year, Dr. You died, and the fief was inherited by his two sons. At this time, Shi Pu told the Gong clan that Jin Xiangong had long wanted to destroy the Youjia family, but there was no excuse, and it was not convenient for him to do it. If the Gong clan helped jin Xian Gong solve the Youjia, then jucheng would be divided equally among the Gong clans.
The gong clan cheered and cheered, carried their knives, and rushed into the Youjia with their men. Regardless of the fact that the Youjia were still doing funerals, he destroyed the Youjia, and then snatched the property like a ghost entering the village. After the robbery, the gong clan was tired and gathered at the newly exterminated tourist house to drink and celebrate, for three days in a row, oblivious.
It's just a pity that they don't have a fourth day. On the grounds that the Gong clan had indiscriminately killed the Youjia, the Duke of Jin sent troops to surround jucheng. Then an army rushed into the Youjia family, and the gong clans who were still drunk in their dreams lost their heads.
From the grandfathers to the nephews, the Jin Xiangong killed four generations of his family, nearly a hundred people, and only one person in Chinese history.