Imagine That year, when Xiao Bai was a prince of jiuhe, he was majestic and heroic, and his five sons took his wife and starved to death

The head of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period was the Duke of Qi Huan, who reigned for 44 years, the princes of Jiuhe and the world of Kuang, and were majestic and heroic.

The rich country strengthened its troops and fought all over the invincible hands of the princes; practiced the way of benevolence and righteousness, and went north to help Yan destroy the lonely bamboo without taking it at all; the Western Guards drove away the Northern Di, repaired the city walls, and rebuilt daddy. Chen Bing went south to attack the King of Chuzun Zhou, and Ling Ran was just. The Son of Heaven gives meat, and Kwai Qiu will establish an overlord. However, in his later years, he ended up starving to death, moratorium for more than seventy days, until the maggots bitten the field.

In 645 BC, Duke Huan's most important friend, Guan Zhong, died, and Bao Shuya, Kui Peng, and other able ministers around him would leave him one by one. Before Guan Zhong died, he offered the last suggestion: stay away from the pseudo-loyalists of "Vertical Diao", "Yi Ya", and "Kaifang", and deal with the affairs after his death. Huan Gong did not comment.

Why didn't Huan Gong, who had always obeyed Bao's words, give a positive answer this time? It turned out that these people proved their "loyalty" with practical actions. First of all, shu diao, in order to always be able to serve Huan Gong, wielded a sword from the palace, compared to Lü Fang of "Daming 1566", who did not hesitate to let go, fierce enough; there is more absolute, Yi Ya heard that Huan Gong wanted to eat child meat, and even killed his son to cook it for Huan Gong; and then kaifang, originally the son of Wei Guo Wei Yi Gong, the heir of the monarch, did not return to Wei Guo, and wholeheartedly served Huan Gong. There must be demons when things go wrong, but even the wisest monarch is in the middle of the game, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Knives can hurt themselves and stab others. There are awls hidden in the pockets of his pants, one is to pierce people, the other is to show his head, at this time he does not listen to zhongyan and ends up in a desolate body.

Mengziyun: There is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, in fact, spring and autumn is also a period of collapse of Lile, the father is not like the father, the son is not like the son. There are some like King You of Zhou, who married a beautiful daughter-in-law and deposed his wife, deposed the prince, and set up the son of a favorite, and there were also like the opening chapter of the Spring and Autumn Period when Gongzi Zhouwu killed his brother and seized the throne. In his later years, Duke Huan also faced the problem of taking the throne, and staged a drama of five sons seizing wives in the twilight years of Huan Gong.

As the saying goes, the father of the tiger has no dog, Huan Gong has five sons, Gongzi Wuxia, Gongzi Yuan, Gongzi Zhao, Gongzi Pan, Gongzi Merchant, and none of them is a concubine, which makes the position of crown prince confusing. According to the custom, it should be the prince who is not young, but the Duke of Huan is very fond of Gongzi Zhao, and his most virtuous, secretly instructs his younger brother Song Xianggong, the monarch of the State of Song, to take more care of him and help him in the future.

What men fear most together is a dispute, the five-headed tiger faces the position of the most powerful monarch of the State of Qi at that time, all of them are looking at each other, each with their own forces to support. Shu Diao and Yi Ya support Gongzi without loss and have strong strength; there is a father to greet, Song Xianggong is the strong backing of Gongzi Zhao; Kaifang also has a back road, and Gongzi Pan is a firm supporter.

In 643 BC, two years after Guan Zhong's death, Huan Gong became seriously ill. The guards around him and the palace ladies who were waiting for them had all been controlled by Shu Diao and Yi Ya, and the prince did not threaten his father to order the courtiers, and the Huan Gong government ordered him not to leave the palace. Later, the palace wall where Huan Gong lived was directly sealed, leaving only a dog hole. You think it's for delivering food? The purpose of keeping the dog hole is to go to see from time to time, when to die. Huan Gong was sealed in a cage, called every day should not be, called the earth not spirit, no water to drink, no food to eat, starvation alive.

After Duke Huan's death, the other four princes came to make trouble one after another, taking the servants of the family to fight with the prince without loss, ignoring the body of their father who was still lying in the palace. After more than two months of fighting, Gongzi Zhao fled to the Song Kingdom, and the ministers could only stand up for the throne, and Gongzi took the throne without loss. At this time, I remembered my father, who was already smelly of corpses.

The poor generation of Ming kings and overlords ended up miserable. Think of Xiao Bai's year, cross-beam poetry, drunken linjiang, how many heroic things...