During the Spring and Autumn Period, after the death of Duke Huan of Qi, the various states of the Central Plains were leaderless and attacked each other endlessly.
With its strong national strength, the State of Chu gradually expanded its influence to the Central Plains, intending to achieve hegemony in the Central Plains. The monarch of the Song state, Song Xianggong, rebelled, but because of his lack of ability and national strength, he was defeated by the Chu army on the banks of the Hongshui River. The sound of the Chu kingdom resounded greatly throughout the Central Plains.
Just when the State of Chu was about to dominate the Central Plains, the Duke Wen of Jin, who had neglected the people, began to rule the State of Jin, and the State of Jin swept away the chaos and the national strength flourished. The State of Song and the State of Qi no longer succumbed to the State of Chu for this reason.
The State of Chu sent troops to attack the State of Song and the State of Qi, and the State of Song asked the State of Jin for help. The Jin state was suddenly full of ambition, intending to take this opportunity to defeat the Chu state in one fell swoop and dominate the Central Plains. He mobilized three armies to rescue the Song Kingdom.
The Jin State wanted to rescue the Song State, and the Wei State, located in the rear of the Song-Chu battlefield, was an obstacle that had to be solved. So the Jin army attacked Weiguo, trying to force Weiguo to submit to jin.
Wei Guo was not an opponent of the Jin state and wanted to submit to the Jin state, but the Jin Wengong did not allow Wei Chenggong to participate in the alliance between the Jin and Qi because he was treated rudely by the Wei Wengong when he was exiled to the Wei state. Wei Chenggong had no choice but to temporarily hand over power to Dafu Yuanfu and his brother Shu Wu, so that they would submit to the Jin state to defend the country, and leave the wei state with a group of heartfelt men.
When the State of Jin defeated the State of Chu at Chengpu, Duke Wei Cheng, fearing further retaliation from Duke Wen of Jin, fled to the State of Chu. During the reign of The State of Chen, Duke Wei Cheng sent someone to tell the Grand Master Yuan Kui to serve Shu Wu in the alliance convened by the State of Jin, and asked Duke Wen of Jin to allow him to return to the State of Wei as monarch.
Yuan Kui and Shu Wu fulfilled Wei Chenggong's instructions, and Duke Wen of Jin agreed to Wei Chenggong's return to the throne. However, before this, Wei Chenggong listened to the rumors of others, believing that Yuan Kui supported Shu Wu as the monarch, so he killed the son of Yuan Fu who was with him.
Yuan Kui did not really support Shuwu because his son was killed, but also served Shuwu to maintain state politics according to the instructions of Wei Chenggong. Nevertheless, there was a gap between the doctors at home and the doctors who accompanied wei Chenggong and the attendants abroad.
Therefore, after Wei Chenggong waited for Wei Guo to send back the news that Duke Wen of Jin had allowed Wei Chenggong to be reinstated, he sent the doctor Ning Wuzi to make a pact with the domestic doctors, saying that when Wei Chenggong returned to China and reset, he would not pursue the betrayal of the domestic doctors.
However, Wei Chenggong's returning forward killed shuwu, who welcomed him. Although Wei Chenggong held Shu Wu's corpse and cried that Shu Wu was innocent, that the striker had killed the wrong person, and that he had sent someone to kill the striker, Yuan Fu did not recognize it.
Yuan Fu was furious at Wei Chenggong's departure. He ran to jinguo and announced to Jinwen. Wei Chenggong sent someone to defend and lost the case. The Jin people captured Wei Chenggong and imprisoned him in the capital of Zhou. Yuan Huiwei was made the prince of the state.
Two years later, Jin Wengong instructed the doctor to poison Wei Chenggong, and the Weiguo doctor Ning Yu bribed the doctor to greatly reduce the dose of poison, so that Wei Chenggong could not die. Wei Chenggong then asked Duke Lu to bribe King Xiang of Zhou and Duke Wen of Jin on his behalf in order to release Wei Chenggong. King Xiang of Zhou agreed.
As a result, Wei Chenggong was released from prison. After Wei Chenggong was released from prison, he sent someone to bribe the Weiguo grand master Zhou Xun and Ye Li, promising them that if they could accept themselves back to China as monarchs, they would be named Qing Dafu. The two men were very happy, so they killed Yuan Fu and others to welcome Wei Chenggong back to china and restore him.
After Wei Chenggong was restored to the throne, zhou shen and Ye Li were preparing to accept the canonization of Qing Dafu, when Zhou Xi suddenly died, frightening Ye Li to resign from Qing Dafu's canonization. At this point, Wei Chenggong had once again taken the throne of Wei Guo.
Looking at the turmoil in Weiguo, Jin Wengong and Wei Chenggong were two of the protagonists. Duke Wen of Jin twice pushed Wei Chenggong to lose his country with Wei Guofu Yuan Kui as a pawn, and Wei Chenggong destroyed Yuan Kui and other chess pieces in cold blood and conspiracy, successfully restoring the throne twice, so that Duke Wen of Jin could only acquiesce to his position as monarch.
It can be seen from this that Wei Chenggong's cunning is superior to that of Jin Wengong, who has a "slanderous and improper" evaluation, and it is really appropriate to call him cunning like a fox.