In 719 BC, The Duke of Wei joined forces with the fleeing Wei people to kill his brother Duke Huan of Wei and establish himself as the Prince of Wei, becoming the first prince to successfully usurp the throne during the Spring and Autumn Period, and also helped him usurp the throne by Shi Hou, the son of Shi Hou (石碏), the grand master of the State of Wei.
During the lifetime of Duke Wei Zhuang, Shi Bei once persuaded Duke Zhuang: "I have heard that loving a child should be taught in the right way, and cannot be made to take the evil road, arrogance, extravagance, fornication, and indulgence are the causes of evil, if you want to establish a state and call for prince, you will be sure, if you can't settle down, it will lead to trouble." ”
At that time, Shi Hou's son Shi Hou and Zhou Wu had a very good friendship, Shi Bei saw that Wei Zhuanggong did not take his own advice, so he wanted to ban his son Shi Hou's comings and goings, but did not succeed, Shi Hou and Zhou Wu remained the same, in 735 BC Wei Huan Duke succeeded to the throne, Shi Hou returned to his hometown.
Two years later, when Duke Huan of Wei saw that his younger brother Zhou Hu was arrogant and extravagant, he dismissed him, and Zhou Hu fled from Wei Guo, and the following year he befriended Gong Shu Duan, the younger brother of Zheng Zhuanggong, the king of zheng guo, and Duan Gong also fled abroad because he failed to attack Zheng Zhuang Gong.
So Zhou Wu returned to Wei Guo, killed Wei Huan Gong, and became the king himself, but this incident caused strong dissatisfaction among the Wei people, who did not support the new king, and Zhou Wu was quite uninteresting when the king was, in order to divert the domestic contradictions, so he used the excuse of avenging the xianjun to attack Zheng Guo.
Attacking Zheng Guo did not mean that it could be done, so Zhou Wu obtained the support of song guo, Chen guo, and Cai guo, attacked Zheng guo one by one, and surrounded the east gate of Zheng guo for a full 5 days before winning the victory.
His subordinates told the king: "I have only heard of a king who uses grace to gain the favor of the people, and I have not heard of those who act recklessly to win the hearts and minds of the people, and the state calls for war everywhere to make the people of the country rebel against him, and his cronies turn away from him." Sure enough, the Defenders were still dissatisfied with the attitude of the new king, and Shi Hou went to consult his father Shi Jiao, who designed to allow Chen Guoren to successfully capture the unprepared Zhou Wu and Shi Hou.
Later, Zhou Wu was executed by Wei Guo's right Zai Ugly in Puti, and Shi Bei sent his family ministers to Chen Guo and killed his own son Shi Hou, so the world called the situation of Zhou Wu as the queen of Wei Guo as "the rebellion of the people", and the execution of his son by Shi Bei was "great righteousness and annihilation of relatives".
However, the act of "killing relatives with great righteousness" has been controversial since ancient times, and it is often used to say that "kissing and hiding" advocated by Confucianism, "kissing and hiding" refers to the crime of not picking up relatives.