ZhengZhuang Gong jie shou chen (vernacular)

In the autumn of July, the Hidden Guild joined forces with the Duke of Qi and the Duke of Zhengzhuang to attack xu guo. On the first day of the first month, the army forced xucheng. Uncle Yingkao took Zheng Zhuanggong's arc flag to preemptively enter the city, and Zidu shot him with arrows from below, and Uncle Yingkao fell. Flawed Shuying took the Scorpion Arc Banner to the city again, climbed up and waved the flag around and shouted, "The monarch has ascended the city!" Zheng Guo's army all boarded the city. On the third day of the first year, Zheng Zhuanggong entered Xucheng. Duke Xu Zhuang fled to Weiguo. Duke Qi gave up xu to duke Lu Yin, who said, "The prince said that xu was not obedient, so I followed the prince to attack it." Since Xu Guo had committed a sin, although the prince had such instructions, the widow did not dare to listen. So he gave Xu Guo to Zheng Zhuanggong.

Duke Zhengzhuang sent Xu Guo's younger brother Xu Shu to serve Xu Zhuanggong's younger brother Xu Zhuang to live in a remote area to the east of Xucheng, saying: "Heaven sent misfortune to Xu Guo, and the ghosts and gods were indeed dissatisfied with Xu Jun, and borrowed the hands of widows to punish him." It's just that the widow can't even get along with one or two fathers and brothers, so how dare they take the attack on Xu Guo as their own merit? If a widow has a younger brother who cannot get along harmoniously, so he goes around asking for food, can he still occupy Xu Guo for a long time? You serve Uncle Xu to appease the people here, and I intend to let Gongsun Get to help you. If the widow receives a good death, the heavens or according to liturgy to withdraw the scourges inflicted on Xu Guo, and are willing to let Xu Zhuanggong govern his country again, at that time, if Zheng Guo has a request, like a relative, Xu Guo can probably allow it sincerely. Don't let other countries force us here to compete with our Zhengguo for this land. It is too late for my descendants to save the peril, let alone sacrifice the ancestors of xu guo? The widow let you stay here, not only for the sake of xu guo, but also for the sake of consolidating my frontier. So He asked Gongsun to live in a remote area to the west of Xucheng, saying, "Do not put any of your utensils and goods in Xucheng." When I die, I'll get out of here. My father built new cities here, the Zhou Dynasty has declined, and we, the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty, are losing our careers day by day. Xu Guo is a descendant of SiYue, and since heaven has already abandoned the Zhou Dynasty, how can I compete with Xu Guo? ”

The gentleman said that Zheng Zhuanggong "had courtesy in this matter." Etiquette is to govern the country, stabilize the society, make the people orderly, and benefit future generations. Xu Guo attacked it when he violated the law, forgave it when he served his sins, dealt with it by considering his own virtues, measured his own strength and placed it, and acted at the right time, so as not to affect future generations, and it can be said that he understood etiquette."