Zheng Zhuang dug the ground to see his mother

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Zheng Wugong, the ruler of the State of Zheng, had two sons, the eldest son named Zheng Wu

Wu (寤) was born, and the younger son was called Shu Duan. Wu Gong's wife Wu Jiang had difficulty giving birth when she was born, but when she gave birth to her uncle Duan, she was very smooth, plus he looked like a talent. For this reason, Wu Jiang especially liked Shu Duan, seeing him as a pearl in his hand, but was very disgusted with Yu Sheng. Later, when Duke Wu was very ill and was about to die, Wu Jiang favored his younger son in his heart, and repeatedly asked him to make Uncle Duan the crown prince, and even said: "If You let Uncle Duan take power in the future, it will be ten times stronger than Yu Sheng." Wu Gong believed: "The elderly and young should be orderly, and the rules should not be messed up." Besides, Yu Sheng has never been at fault, how can he abolish the eldest son and establish a second son at will? Therefore, he still made Yusheng a prince. After the death of Duke Wu, Hesheng became the King of zhengguo, that is, the duke of Zhengzhuang. His younger brother Duan was not convinced because he did not become the monarch.

Wu Jiang saw that his beloved young son did not become the monarch, and the eldest son she did not like did, and he was very angry that Zhuang Gong knew that his mother favored Shu Duan, and in order to make his mother happy, he gave Shu Duan one of the most important cities in the country, one by one, to Shu Duan, and also named him "Uncle Tai of the Capital". As a result, Shu Duan had a lot of soldiers under him, so he used this to conspire with his mother Wu Jiang on how to take the throne. He first bought a large number of weapons to hide secretly, and then constantly recruited young and strong men to join his troops. After twenty years of recuperation, the strength of Shu Duan's army almost caught up with Zhuang Gong. At this time, he decided to attack the capital of Zheng Guodu and seize the throne. Shu Duan's mother had been hoping for her young son to be the monarch for twenty years, and this time it was Ding (dng) to help, because she lived with Zhuang Gong in the palace, after the war began, she took pains to listen to many of Zhuang Gong's battle plans for Shu Duan, and then sent someone to tell Shu Duan and make internal responses for him.

With her help, Shuduan won consecutive battles in the first few battles. Later, Zhuang Gong found out that his mother had leaked his military secrets, and in anger, he asked the native soldiers to take care of Wu Jiang. Without Wu Jiang's whistleblowing, Zhuang finally defeated Shu Duan with a powerful army.

After the war, Duke Zhuang was very angry and asked his mother to leave the palace, and swore: "Mother, you are sorry for me, Uncle Duan is your son, but I am also your own son, how can you conspire with him to kill me!" I don't want to see you again from today onwards, and we won't have a chance to see each other until I'm in Huangquan after I die. Wu Jiang left the palace with tears in his eyes. Soon after she left, Zhenggong regretted it, he began to miss his mother, wanted to take her back to the palace, but when he thought of the oath he had made, he hesitated and contradicted, and did not know what to do.

A minister named Uncle Kao knew about this and wanted to help Duke Zhuang, so he went to see him and brought a gift. Zhuang Gong was very happy to receive him, and also prepared a rich meal for him, but Uncle Kao did not move his chopsticks for a long time, Zhuang Gong was very strange, and asked: "Do you not like to eat these dishes?" Uncle Kao replied, "Great King, I know that these dishes must taste very delicious, but there is an old mother in my family, she always leaves the best things for me to eat, today the king rewarded me with so many delicious dishes, I would like to take some home to let my mother taste it, I don't know if the king allows me to allow it?"

After Zhuang Gong listened, his heart was very moved, he stood up and said to Uncle Kao, "You are so filial to your mother, but also remind me of my mother." At that time, because of Uncle Duan's affair, I swore that I would never see her again, unless we arrived at Huangquan. But I miss her so much now, what do you say I should do?" Uncle Kao replied, "I have a solution." You have people dig a waterway under the ground until there's a spring gushing out, and then you and your mother meet there. In this way, you will not break your original vows and will be reconciled with your mother. After Zhuang Gong heard this, he felt that this was a good idea, so he did what Uncle Kao said, so that he finally met his mother and took her back to the palace.

This historical story tells us a few points. First, Zheng Zhuanggong's broad mind, regardless of his mother's faults, deeply remembering his mother's kindness, is worth learning from all of us; second, Zheng Zhuanggong met a virtuous minister, which is unattainable.