In the middle of the reign of King Zhuang of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Five Powers, Zheng Mugongxue of the Northern Zheng Kingdom died—by the way, the death of the Heavenly Son was called Collapse, and the death of the princes was called Xue—and his son Ji Yi succeeded to the throne, which was the historical Zheng Linggong.
At that time, the speed of information transmission and material delivery was much slower than now, so Zheng Linggong succeeded to the throne in October 606 BC, and when King Zhuang of Chu received the news to send a large shrew symbolizing auspiciousness (later known as Wang Ba) to congratulate him, it was already the spring of 605 BC. As the monarch of the small princely states, Zheng Linggong felt extremely honored and supremely honored to receive gifts from the overlords at that time, and decided to invite the doctors in the court to drink Wang Ba Tang from the Great Chu Kingdom, which is the so-called "king eats meat and drinks soup, and drinks soup and thanks the king for drinking soup."
On this side, Zheng Linggong's imperial chef was busy slaughtering the poor great living king eight who was an auspicious object in the palace kitchen; on the other side, Zheng Linggong's two important ministers, Song And Gongyu, entered the palace to report on important news at home and abroad. Just when the two princes were waiting for Hou Zhengling to listen to the government, the index finger of Gongzi Song's right hand suddenly shook up sharply, and he, a super foodie, couldn't help but be overjoyed and happy, while letting Gongzi return to life to see his big moving index finger, he said infinitely: "Every time my index finger beats, there will be a special delicacy waiting for me to taste, and today should be no exception." ”
After Zheng Linggong sat down, Gongzi Song and Gongzi Guisheng began to report, and it happened that at this time, the imperial chef came to report to Zheng Linggong on the progress of the eight cooking projects of the Great King: "Your Majesty, the big shrew sent by the Chu Kingdom has been slaughtered, when to put down the pot please ask for instructions." Zheng Linggong finished cooking the relevant matters of the Chu Kingdom King Viii, turned his head, and unexpectedly found that Gongzi Song and Gong Yu Guisheng were looking at each other and laughing, so he asked what was going on. Gong Yu did not dare to hide it, and told Zheng Linggong the truth about what had just happened.
Zheng Linggong did not believe that Gongzi Song had a special function, and he wanted to prove it in his own way.
You should remember the most famous bronze Simu Peng Da Fangding of the Shang Dynasty, right? Zheng Linggong's imperial kitchen cooked the steaming, fragrant Wang Ba Tang in front of the doctors in such a container. When the time came to divide the soup, Zheng Linggong asked the attendants to serve each doctor a wang ba tang that represented the face of the king Long En and the courtiers, but only missed the gongzi Song, who had long been eager to taste the food. Gongzi Song saw that Zheng Linggong deliberately embarrassed him in public, almost mad, he desperately rushed to the Ding Instrument, extended his right index finger to stir greatly in Wang Batang, desperately sucked a few mouthfuls, and then whisked his sleeve away in a menacing manner. This time it was Zheng Linggong's turn to go crazy, one gongzi Song offended the dignity of the monarch, and the other was a good ding wang eight soups that made gongzi Song dirty. Zheng Linggong was furious and furious, furious, and furious, and declared to the courtiers in his throat: "If a widow does not kill Gongzi Song, the widow will not be surnamed Ji!"
Gongzi Song was not idle, he was a high-powered minister of zheng guo, and had a very close relationship with the powerful Jin state, after hearing that Zheng Linggong was particularly interested in his head, he decided to preemptively attack with the spirit of "first hand is strong, and then the next hand suffered", and led a large number of his hardcore fans to launch a coup and surround the palace late that night. As a result, Zheng Linggong, who was worried about the remaining pot of king bad soup, was cut off his head like the poor Chu state shrew, and a little mischief made the new monarch who had succeeded to the throne for less than half a year pay a heavy price in his life.
In the novel "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty", Song, the son of the Emperor, was "retributed with evil and evil" and was finally destroyed, but such a result is not found in the records of history, because novels often rely on morality, but history ultimately speaks by strength. In the era when Zheng Linggong was the king and Gongzi Song was a subject, the Zheng state already had a situation in which the king was weak and the subject was strong, and the historical development of the Zheng state and the historical process of the Jin and Qi states fully proved this. It can be seen that it is also necessary to have strength to speak harshly, otherwise it will be like Zheng Linggong because of a momentary pain and death.