The year 722 BC (the year of Lu Yin A.D.), the first year of the Spring and Autumn Period. Zheng Zhuanggong turned his face to his mother and brother. This story is called "Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan" in the "Left Biography".
Zheng Zhuanggong was the third monarch of the State of Zheng, the eldest son of Duke Wu of Zheng, the first cattle man of the Spring and Autumn Period. Her mother was Wu Jiang, the princess of shenguo, and her younger brother was named Duan, also known as Shu Duan.
It is said that because Zhuang Gong came out on two legs first when he was born, his mother did not like him very much, so he called it "寤生", which means "born upside down". This is also understandable, after all, with the medical conditions at that time, it was easy for a child to be born backwards. In addition, Yu'er always pleased his parents more, so when Duke Wu was alive, Wu Jiang repeatedly blew the pillow side wind and asked Wu Gong to make uncle Duan the heir.
Fortunately, with the lessons of King Zhou You, Wu Gong did not have a hot head. After the death of Duke Wu, Duke Zhuang succeeded to the throne. Wu Jiang took advantage of his status as empress dowager and asked for a fief for Shu Duan, and this time Shu Duan got Jingyi as he wished.
When Shu Duan arrived in Gyeongeup, he began to reorganize his armaments. In the year of Lu Yin's reign, Shu Duan planned to sneak into Zheng Du, and Wu Jiang was also ready to open the door to receive it. Zheng Zhuanggong received the news and sent his eldest son Zifeng to lead two hundred chariots to cut down Jingyi. Shu Duan was unable to resist and fled to Yan. Duke Zhuang continued to pursue, and Shu Duan once again fled to Gong (Yin Tonggong) in Weiguo, and was henceforth called Gong Shu Duan.
After Shu Duan fled to Gong, Zheng Zhuang moved Wu Jiang to Chengying (城英, in present-day northwestern Linying County, Henan Province), announcing that the mother and son had broken off their love and died without contact.
The story is not bizarre, creating the image of a brother who seems to be forced to rebel. Why? Because Zheng Zhuanggong had actually had bad intentions long ago, Shu Duan and Wu Jiang were both used to him. It is recorded in the history books, which can be seen from the dialogue between the two doctors in the "Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan", Zi Feng and Zheng Zhuanggong. This is really a master of "pretending to be confused", much higher than the master's rank in "Let the Bullets Fly".
Why did Zheng Zhuanggong want to tolerate adultery? Because only in this way can we cure both the symptoms and the root causes. Shu Duan and Wu Jiang, one is a brother, the other is a mother. Just because of violations of rules and discipline, they will be brought to justice, and they will not be able to pass the reason and the face. Only the great sin of treason can wipe them out and directly penetrate them into the eighteenth layer of hell, so that they will never be able to turn over.
When the evidence of Shu Duan's rebellion was conclusive, he immediately sent two hundred chariots to attack Jingyi. At that time, two hundred chariots were equivalent to two hundred armored vehicles today, and this big deal was to push Shu Duan alive to death. Fortunately, Uncle Duan saw that the opportunity was not good, pulled his leg and ran, even if he went around in a big circle, he finally saved a small life, so that the result of this story inexplicably produced a harmonious atmosphere.
Zheng Zhuanggong won. Shu Duan and Wu Jiang, run the run, close the off. Historians are in a dilemma. The Zhou people's governing philosophy and political proposition are "governing the country with courtesy". Yi Li, Zheng Zhuanggong did not make any mistakes. He was the eldest son of Concubine, and Wu Jiang opposed his succession, and it was Wu Jiang who was wrong. He is the monarch and the elder brother, and Uncle Duan calls him a fight, which is not right for Uncle Duan. However, the Historian also knew that Shu Duan's thief heart and rebellion were all nurtured by Zheng ZhuangGong's appeasement and adultery.
The embarrassed historian had to use the words "Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan" to show his attitude. According to the explanation of the "Zuo Chuan", this expression not only accuses Shu Duan of not being like his younger brother, but also accuses Zhuang Gong of not being like his brother, and also implies that Shu Duan's sins were raised by Zhuang Gong. This is really a "Spring and Autumn Brushwork".
Is this story catty? It's hard to say, but some details can be questioned. For example, ShuDuan's escape route is a bit strange. Jingyi, in present-day Xingyang, Henan Province, was located northwest of Xinzheng, the capital of the Zheng Dynasty, and Yan, in present-day Yanling County, Henan Province, was located southeast of Xinzheng. In other words, fleeing from Gyeongyi to Yan will pass through Xinzheng on the way. Was it shu Duan's original intention to go to Xinzheng and surrender himself?
What's more, Yan is not Shuduan's territory. His sphere of influence was mainly in the northwest of the Zheng Kingdom, as far as the Liaoting. In present-day Qi County and Hua County, Henan Province, Liao Ting was in the opposite direction of Yan and close to Gong. It was in present-day Hui County, Henan Province, which was then the territory of the Wei State. Shu Duan's normal escape route should be from Jingyi to Liaoting and then to Gong. Why run to Yan? I don't know, history has no explanation, I'm afraid only Shu Duan himself knows.
I guess the story might look like this. Jingyi was besieged, and Shu Duan discovered that the plot had been exposed, and tried to take the elite subordinates back to Xinzheng to descend the beheading tactics with his mother's cooperation, but after failing again, he could only flee all the way to Yan, and then fled to Gong with the help of Wei Guo. Because at that time, there was a second pole defending the country who was recruiting troops and horses, preparing to kill the king.
In the fourth year of the Duke of Luyin (719 BC), Zhou Wu led people to sneak into the capital, killed his half-brother Duke Wei Huan, and became the monarch himself, which was the first case of the Spring and Autumn Emperor. This state and Shu Duan can also be regarded as a complicity, and the first thing to do when he comes to power is to cut Zheng. There are three reasons, one is that Wei and Zheng are feuding, and that Zheng is politically correct; the second is to help the brothers out of anger, and good luck can also turn over; the third is that they can please some princes, Zheng Guo developed rapidly at that time, and there should be many people who were envious and jealous.
The Zuo Chuan says that the state called for this move, "to repair the resentment of the ancestors against Zheng, and to seek favor with the princes, in order to reconcile with their people." In fact, the main purpose may be the reverse version of "outside must first be inside". The state's appeal to the wrong position and the people's dissatisfaction can divert internal attention by waging war on the outside world, thereby alleviating domestic contradictions. This is also the usual trick of successive rulers. Therefore, in the fourth year of lu yin, the prefecture called for the alliance of Song Guo, Chen Guo, and Cai Guo to form a coalition army to cut Zheng twice, once besieging Zheng Du for five days, and once robbing Zheng Guo of the crops in the field.
Although the state called for two harvests in half a year, weiguo still had a floating heart. One of his henchmen, Shi Hou, ran to ask his old father, Shi Hou (pronounced TongZong), how he could stabilize the throne. Shi Wei said that it was enough to see the Son of Heaven. This was because the princes at that time still had to be nominally crowned by Zhou Tianzi to be considered righteous. Shi Hou asked how he could meet the Heavenly Son, and Shi Hao said that he would pass through Chen Guo. Because at that time, Chen Guojun was the favorite of Zhou Tianzi. Therefore, Zhou Wu and Shi Hou decided to do the same, planning to use Chen Guo to meet Zhou Tianzi, and as a result, as soon as the two arrived in Chen Guo, they were taken down and the law was rectified on the spot. It can be seen that in the early Spring and Autumn Period, some people still insisted on the great righteousness.
The civil strife in the Wei kingdom was solved by Shi Bei's great righteousness, and the Lu and Song states did not have such good luck.
In the eleventh year of the Duke of Luyin (712 BC), the Duke of Luyin was killed. The reason is because he is too humble and courteous. Duke Huan of Lu was the son of Duke Hui of Lu, but the eldest son of Duke Hui of Hui was the later Duke Huan of Lu, and since Duke Huan was too young when Duke Hui died, he was regent by Duke Yin.
At that time, Lu Guo's doctor Yu Father was an ambitious man and an unruly guy. When the state called for the alliance of the States of Song, the State of Chen, and the State of Cai to fight Zheng, because the State of Song and the State of Lu were in-laws, they joined the State of Lu and were politely refused by duke Lu Yin. Later, Yu Father's power grew and he proposed to Yin Gong that he could assassinate Yin Gong's younger brother, later Huan Gong, on the condition that he become Qing Xiang.
It is not surprising that Father Yu has this idea. The careerist always thinks that others are as ambitious as he is. According to the patriarchal inheritance system of the Zhou Dynasty, it should be the younger brother of the Duke of Yin as the monarch, but it is okay for the concubine to be young and the brother to be regent, but the concubine must return to power when she reaches adulthood, unless the concubine is no longer alive. If The Duke of Cain covets the throne, he will agree to Yu Father's plot. But The Hidden Duke had no such intention. Lu Yingong said, I acted on the throne, only because my brother is young, and now that he has grown up, I am about to return the government to him, and I have even arranged the place for my retirement.
This is really "I would have turned my heart to the ditch, but the king's heart is like a bright moon", Yu Father panicked. On the one hand, he beat a rake at Yin Gong's younger brother, the later Huan Gong, and framed Him; on the other hand, he found an opportunity to murder Yin Gong. Duke Yin died inexplicably, and Duke Huan did not even hold a funeral for Duke Yin according to the specifications of the monarch. ay! It is true that "good has evil retribution", no wonder Confucius's era will be "bad and happy". However, according to the current household registration system, Confucius is not a Lu national.
In 710 BC, Confucius's ancestor Kong Fujia, the minister of the State of Song, was killed by a mutiny launched by Dazai Hua's father, and Song Zhengong was enraged when he heard the news, and Hua's father simply killed song gong together, and welcomed back Gongzi Feng from zheng guo and established him as the prince of Song Zhuang. The Kong family fell in the middle of the road and had to emigrate to the country of Lu, and Confucius became a lu countryman.
The cause of this tragedy is also the patriarchal inheritance system, but not the weekly, but the shang. Zhou's rules are that the father dies and the son inherits, and the rules of the Shang are that the brothers and the brothers are the same.
The State of Song was a descendant of merchants, and the first prince was King Yin's brother Wei Zi qi. The Twelve Emperors of the Calendar passed to the Duke of Wu of Song, who had two sons, the eldest was called Li, and the second was called He. Duke Wu died and li succeeded to the throne as Duke Xuan of Song. Xuangong died, but it was not passed on to the prince and Yi, but to his younger brother He, who was for Song Mugong. Therefore, before Mu Gong died, he refused to pass the throne to his son Feng, and returned the throne to Xuan Gong's son Heyi. Seeing this, the coffin board of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding prince of the later Song Dynasty, is estimated to be unable to cover it! After more than a thousand years, he still had to learn from the merchant's brother and brother, but unfortunately, Emperor Taizong of Song zhao Kuangyi did not learn from Song Mugong.
Kong's father Jia was a minister of the Song Dynasty who was prepared by Duke Mu of Song for Youyi, and he arranged for Gongzi Feng to be in the State of Zheng, and then he was succeeded by Li and Yi for the Duke of Song. Unfortunately, Song Zhengong did not argue with each other, and in the ten years of his reign, he fought eleven battles, which made the people unhappy and the people's resentment boiling. Among them, ten wars occurred between Song and Zheng, and in the eleventh war, in the eleventh year of Lu Yingong, Zheng Zhuanggong defeated the Song division with the Yu Division, which eventually led to the mutiny of Hua Father, and Kong Father Jia Was this considered to be "self-inflicted"?
The successive massacres of the emperor opened the prelude to the Spring and Autumn Period. The civil unrest that occurred successively in the Wei, Lu, and Song kingdoms eventually cheapened the Zheng kingdom. After Duke Huan of Lu ascended the throne, he immediately became a partner with Zheng Guo, and the history said that he "repaired Zheng". The State of Song was originally a sworn enemy of the State of Zheng and often joined forces with the State of Wei against the State of Zheng, but the Duke of Song Zhuang took refuge in the State of Zheng for ten years and naturally expressed friendship with Zheng after returning to China. Now Zheng Zhuang gongzhi is full of pride, but this is not his most beautiful moment.
Zheng Zhuanggong's most glorious moment was the Battle of Changge in 707 BC, which was opposed by the Four Kingdoms Alliance led by King Heng of Zhou and the army of the State of Zheng. The end was the defeat of the coalition forces, Zhou Hengwang was shot in the shoulder with an arrow, if zheng Zhuanggong had not shown a gentlemanly demeanor, Zhou Hengwang's classmates would have only raised their hands if they were captured alive. This battle was the only time in the entire Spring and Autumn Period that the Heavenly Son's imperial conquest was personally marched, and it was also the time when the Zhou royal family was severely beaten by pulling off its underwear, and since then it has completely lost the dignity of "the co-lord of the world". From the perspective of blood and generation, Zheng Zhuanggong was the uncle of King Heng of Zhou. Is this considered "self-inflicted"?
Note: The italic characters quote the original text of "From Spring and Autumn to the Warring States".