In 770 BC, the year when King Ping of Zhou moved east to Eastern Zhou, the power of the Zhou royal family weakened, the power fell, and the Spring and Autumn Period began, since the death of the "Beacon Theatre Princes" of King Zhou You, the princely states fought each other, attacked the city and plundered the land, and frequent wars broke out, and the once powerful Zhou Dynasty only had a small piece of territory left. Later, the five names of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons that developed were left in the annals of history, qi huan, jin wen, song xiang, Qin Mu, and Chu Zhuang, but few people remember the first person who rose up strongly to dominate the princes, making "'The princes of the world, can not be Zheng Dang'", this person is Zheng Zhuang Gong.
Zheng Zhuanggong was the third monarch of the Zheng Kingdom, he was a famous politician in the Spring and Autumn Period, known as the "head of the Three Little Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period", it was such a big man with great talent who was initially implicated by his own mother and brother, and almost lost the throne, he used his clever political wisdom to perfectly defeat the enemy, in handling the affairs of his relatives, if he was not careful, he would be regarded by the people of the world as a person who "destroyed his relatives with great righteousness" and "did not recognize the six relatives", but he did not leave a single handle.
In the fourteenth year of Zheng Wugong, his wife Wu Jiang gave birth to Gongzi Huansheng, which was her eldest son, but Wu Jiang did not like this eldest son, because Yu Sheng was born of difficult childbirth, which made her suffer a lot of sins, so as a mother, she has always disliked the son of Yu Sheng, but liked the second son Gong Shu Duan, because the young son was born by birth. Such a reason is really ridiculous, and what is even more ridiculous is that when Zheng Wugong was seriously ill, she actually asked the youngest son to be the crown prince, but Zheng Wugong had already decided on a candidate, and it was the eldest son Who was born.
The mother did not love, fortunately, the father still read about The Birth, perhaps also saw that his eldest son would have a great deed in the future, so zheng zhuanggong insisted on letting the son succeed to the throne, after the succession of the mother, it was for the duke of Zhengzhuang, the mother Wu Jiang was still thinking about his young son, wanted to let the father of the city larger than the capital of the Zheng kingdom be sealed to the gongshu duan, Jingyi is a prosperous place, the land is vast, zheng zhuanggong is unwilling, but because this is the mother's request, he can only give this land to his brother, in the face of the minister's resolute opposition, he said, "This is the mother's request, I must listen! The reasons for this can only be agreed.
After Wu Jiang and GongShu Duan arrived in Jingyi, instead of being grateful for the holy virtue, they actively expanded their power, controlled nearly half of the Zheng state, and plotted to launch a rebellion. When Zheng Zhuanggong learned of this, he did not preemptively attack, but did not move, allowing the ministers of the DPRK to be suspicious of their mother and son, and the doctor Cai Zhong advised him to stop them in time, but Zheng Zhuanggong said a meaningful sentence, "Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, let's wait and see." ''
In the twenty-second year of Zheng Zhuanggong, Gongshu Duan thought that the time had come, sent troops to attack Zheng Du, wu Jiang as the internal ying li should cooperate with the outside, but in fact, Zheng Zhuang Duke had already learned in advance that he was going to rebel, and had already prepared an army to attack Gongshu Duan, and the people in the capital had betrayed Gongshu Duan, and Gongshu Duan could only flee to the Gongdi of Weiguo, so he called him Gongshu Duan, and he eventually died in other countries. Zheng Zhuanggong placed his mother Wu Jiang in Chengying, and he was very angry at his mother's betrayal, swearing: "I will not meet until Huangquan".
But after a year, he missed his mother very much, and he gave Yingkao Uncle food, but Yingkao uncle did not eat it, so Zheng Zhuanggong asked why, and Yingkao uncle replied, 'I have a mother, and I have tasted all the food I honor her, but I have not tasted your broth, and I asked me to bring it to her. This reminded Zheng Zhuanggong of his mother, very remorseful and missed, under the persuasion and plan of Uncle Yingkao, he met his mother, and the relationship between mother and son was eased.
In the face of the betrayal of his birth mother and brother, Zheng Zhuanggong's handling method is nothing wrong, and he has gained a good name, is he really tolerating his brother? Until the final rebellion, he would not blame his brother, was this really the case? If Zheng Zhuanggong was so benevolent, then he would not let the once little Zheng Guo rise rapidly. He is very patient, even if his brother is greedy and creates trouble for him, he can still hide his hair, pretend to be careless, and endure a momentary anger, so as not to be caught by others.
When his brother rebelled, he could strike later, knowing that Gongshu Duan was plotting rebellion, he still deliberately connived and even encouraged Gongshu Duan to act arbitrarily, and was dissatisfied by the people's arrogance, but he had to wait until the last moment to sweep them all away, so as to eliminate the consequences, so that no one would say that his six relatives did not recognize him, and to avoid the separation of the chinese people and nobles, which was extremely unfavorable to his rule.
And in the face of his mother Wu Jiang, Zheng Zhuanggong also has his own plan, he first drove his mother out of the palace, poisoned and vowed never to see each other, which shows that his heart is cold, but later because he misses his mother, he welcomes his mother back, for the sake of a good name.
The ritual music system and patriarchal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty also had a great influence in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and according to the Zuo Chuan, Zheng Zhuanggong was a king of reverence, and he valued the filial piety of his mother and his brothers. Even though the Zhou royal family was weak, he still attached great importance to etiquette, and this style made him an excellent politician, able to gain a good reputation in the world and be respected, rather than becoming a ruthless tyrant.