The Song Dynasty was a second-class country during the Spring and Autumn War, sandwiched between the two hegemons of Jin and Chu, and it was not easy to survive. The State of Song has always been the tail state of the Jin State, Song Zhaogong was tyrannical and ruthless, the people of the country rioted, Song Zhaogong was killed, Song Wengong took the throne, the master of the Jin State could not tolerate the atrocities of the vassal state of killing the king, and immediately sent the four kingdoms of Jin, Wei, Chen, and Zheng to cover up the killing, fortunately, Hua Yuan went out to mediate, the Jin State accepted a few carts of gold offered by Hua Yuan on behalf of Song Wengong before withdrawing his troops, and Song Wengong relied on Hua Yuan's diplomatic talent to sit firmly.
Hua Yuan, born into a famous family, is the fifth grandson of Song Daigong, the great-grandson of Hua Du, the head of the Six Secretaries of the Song Dynasty, the elder of the Four Dynasties, who has long served as the Right Master, mastered the state affairs, under one person, above ten thousand people, many titles, a set of politicians, diplomats, military experts, assassins, hostages, and warlords, and the characters of the bull fork are always very complicated!
The Battle of Jin-Chu Chengpu delayed the time for the Chu State to dominate for another 36 years, and 36 years later, the Battle of Wucheng made the Chu State dominate the Central Plains, the Jin Hegemony declined, and the tail states of the original Jin State such as Wei Guo and Lu Guo flew to the Chu State, but the Song State still firmly did not abandon the Jin State. The State of Song was a nail that the State of Chu had to pull out in defeat of the State of Jin. Two years later, the Chu army approached the chu state of Cheng, and the Jin state had just been defeated, and the Yuan Qi was seriously injured, and there was no troops to rescue it. Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, was besieged by the Chu army for 9 months, the grain and grass had long been exhausted, in order to survive, split human bones as firewood, exchange children for each other to cook and eat, the Song Kingdom City is already a hell on earth, and it is impossible to save the city when it looks at it. Hua Yuan, as the prime minister of a country, dressed as an ordinary soldier of the Chu state in a critical situation, came out of the city and mixed into the Chu army camp, and actually touched the big camp of the Prince of Chu and the commander-in-chief of the Chu army.
While he was sleeping on the side of the chu, Hua Yuan directly put the dagger on the throat of the side of the mi and demanded that the Chu army retreat. Hua Yuan said that the Song state could surrender, but the Chu soldiers must retreat 30 miles in succession, so that the Song state did not look like surrendering to outsiders. Qi Bian immediately agreed, so that the Song State would lift the disaster of annihilation, and then joined the Chu camp. The style of the Spring and Autumn Period was that a country could perish, but it was not shameful, and it was okay to surrender, but it was decent. According to people's current ideology and concepts, they cannot understand Hua Yuan's approach. Therefore, history must be examined with the eyes of the thinking of the time in order to deeply understand.