Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Being a Monarch Is Not Fun

Let us turn our attention to the State of Lu.As we said before, Lu Yingong’s father, Lu Huigong, did not have any sons born by his own son, and Lu Yingong was also the son Xi at that time, who was born to a concubine, and because he was the eldest son, he became the prince.Later, Prince Xi was robbed of his wife by Lu Huigong, so Lu Huigong made a new wife and gave birth to a son Yun.In this way, because Yun is a descendant, he will replace Xi as the prince.But when Lu Huigong died, Yun was still too young, so he took the throne temporarily, and this was Lu Yingong. Duke Yin of Lu has been the monarch for 11 years, and the state of Lu is still stable up and down.After a long time of stability, it's time for some opportunistic villains to show their heads.Father Yu, the son of the doctor of the State of Lu, is such a person.

Seeing that Duke Lu Yin has been on the throne for a long time, Young Master Yun has also grown up day by day.Once Young Master Yun becomes an adult, the conflict between the two will inevitably erupt.Gongzi Yufu felt that this was a good time to take advantage of the opportunity to gain political capital. Gongzi Yu's father said to Lu Yingong: "Young Ziyun has grown up. I am afraid that he will be harmful to you. If he competes with you for the position of king, it will be troublesome. I want to kill him for you. , your throne will be at ease. As long as you can appoint me as Dazai, I guarantee that this matter will be done beautifully, and no one will be left with any excuses.” According to the records of "Zhou Li", Dazai should be the ruler of a country. The highest ruling power is equivalent to the prime minister of later generations and the premier of the State Council.Of course, the situation in different vassal states is different.

When Duke Lu Yin heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly covered his ears and shook his head like a rattle: "Don't insult my personality. It was because Yun was young that I temporarily replaced him as regent. He will now Now that I have grown up, I am already planning to step down and return the throne to Yun. I built a nursing home in Tuqiu (place name, today’s Sishui County, Shandong Province), and I will go there to retire later.” Father Yu flattered and slapped the horse's hoof, bored, and hurriedly backed out, despising the monarch in his heart: Why are you so worthless, and you want to give up your seat when you become a monarch?Now is not the era of Yao and Shun.

After thinking about it again, it's broken, it's not very honorable for me to do this.If the monarch really gives way to son Yun in the future, then I will be in trouble.Although the current monarch is a kind person, he will not be able to tell Yun what I said today.I still want to be Dazai?Whether my life can be kept is a matter of two. The more Father Yu thought about it, the more frightened he became, so he decided to sue at Young Master Yun's.I hope that before the monarch tells him about this matter, I will act first and put Young Master Yun directly on the throne of the monarch.So Father Yu hurried to Young Master Yun's house, and as soon as he came in, he said seriously: "It's not good! It's not good! Young Master, you are going to be in disaster!" Young Master Yun, who was drinking and singing karaoke at home, was caught by him I was taken aback: "What's going on? Are you crazy? I'm living a good life, so what's the big deal?"

Father Yu said: "Are you confused, did you forget that you were the one who should succeed to the throne? Later, because you were young, the people of the country supported son Xi to be the regent. Now you have grown up, but Xi wants to continue to be the king. And pass it on to future generations. If you don't kill you, how can he continue to be the king?" How else can I say that I am not afraid of bad things, but afraid of bad people.Father Yu's incitement really scared Young Master Yun enough, he regarded Father Yu as his confidant, and hurriedly asked: "Then what should I do?" If the monarch is killed, I will lead everyone to support you as the monarch. You were originally the prince of the previous monarch, and you should inherit the throne, and the people of the country will support you."

Young Master Yun had been fooled by Father Yu long ago, so he naturally believed that only in this way could he save his life.He conspired with Father Yu and found an opportunity to kill Duke Yin of Lu in November 712 BC. After Duke Yin's death, Prince Yun naturally succeeded him, and this was Duke Huan of Lu.The unlucky Mr. Lu Yin wanted to be a kind person, but was tricked by villains.It seems that it is better to offend a gentleman than to provoke a villain, this is the truth.Of course, this issue should also be viewed dialectically. If you want to be a kind person, you must first learn to be a smart person.If Mr. Lu Yin had been vigilant enough and had strengthened his communication with Mr. Yun, his life would not have been lost.It's a pity that the future generations of monarchs have learned from this incident that one cannot be a kind person, and people around him cannot believe it.

When the news of Lu Yingong's death reached the state of Zheng, Zheng Zhuanggong was also taken aback.In the past two years, Zheng Guo and Qilu have a good relationship, and Zheng Zhuanggong and Lu Yingong have a good personal relationship.Now that the state of Lu has a new monarch, does that mean how much its foreign policy will change?So he sent people to the state of Lu to ask for a new covenant. Although Duke Huan of Lu killed his brother, he had no intention of changing his brother's foreign policy at all.As soon as the Zheng Guo envoy arrived, he agreed on the date of the alliance.The diplomatic relations between Lu and Zheng did not undergo major changes because of Lu Yingong's death.

In this way, Zheng Zhuanggong selectively forgot the personal friendship he established with Lu Yingong back then, and instead had a drink with Duke Lu Huan who killed Lu Yingong.Therefore, the friendship between politicians is the most nonsense friendship in the world. In the second year after Duke Huan of Lu succeeded to the throne, a vicious incident of regicide also occurred in Song State.The regicide case in the Lu State was a good deed done by Father Yu who wanted to be the Dazai, while the regicide case in the Song State was the evil result of the current Dazai's mischief. At the end of 711 BC, Hua Fudu, Dazai of the Song Dynasty, went out to handle errands, and saw the family members of his colleague Kong Fujia also traveling.When Kong Fujia's wife appeared in Hua Fudu's sight, Hua Fudu's eyes straightened.He watched from a distance as this woman came over, walked up to him, and walked over again, without even blinking his eyelids.

The entourage saw that something was wrong, did our patriarch suffer from some kind of illness?Taking a closer look, good guy, Father Hua's saliva is all over the floor.The entourage reminded him a few times before Father Hua came back to his senses, wiped his saliva, and said: "Beautiful and gorgeous." Women look very seductive. Father Du Hua has fallen into lovesickness, he doesn't think about tea every day, and when he closes his eyes, he seems to see Kong Fujia's wife dangling in front of his eyes.But no matter how good this woman is, it belongs to others.Kong Fujia was the Great Sima of the Song Dynasty. Although his position was lower than his own, he was also a senior official at the Qing level.They are not ordinary people, so it is still difficult for men to dominate women.

Hua Fudu is also a ruthless character, with a kind of tenacity of "whatever I like, I must get it".He decided to smear his colleague Kong Fujia first in order to create an advantage in public opinion for himself. Since Song Shanggong came to the throne, Song State has launched 11 wars in 10 years, and most of the wars were fought with Zheng State.Such frequent wars were too heavy a burden for the productivity of that era.Of course the common people would be dissatisfied. At that time, the public opinion environment was relatively loose, so the big guys can scold you as much as you want, regardless of whether you are a monarch or a minister.Hua Fudu took advantage of people's mentality and incited everyone to say: "All these years of wars are caused by our useless Minister of Defense (Kong Fujia's position as the chief minister is in charge of the military, so it is called national defense. The Minister is not exaggerating)." And Kong Fujia did not perform well in the Zheng-Song War, and had the experience of returning from a big defeat, so his reputation is not very good.The emotions of the common people were incited again, and for a while Kong Fujia became a national thief of the Song Dynasty.

Father Hua saw that the time had come, so in the spring of 710 BC, he led his own soldiers to attack Kong, killed Kong Fujia, and took his wife.This vicious incident has also become an example of "a beauty in trouble".But in the final analysis, the real "disaster" is still the villain's ambition. Hua Fudu's family soldiers are not the family guards raised by the big families of later generations, but the regular army of the country. Here we must avoid using the concept of a unified country to understand the enfeoffment system in the Spring and Autumn Period.Under the enfeoffment system, the emperor divided the land to the princes, and all the income on the land belonged to the princes, but the princes had to pay tribute to the emperor, and when the emperor needed it, he had to organize the army in his fiefdom to follow the emperor to fight.The same is true in the country of the vassals. The lords of the vassals and the princes do not pay salaries to the Qing doctor, but distribute the land to the Qing doctor, and the Qing doctor obtains income from the land.When the vassal states were about to fight against the outside world, the senior ministers also organized troops to go out in their fiefdoms.It can be said that the army of a country is composed of soldiers on the land directly under the monarch and soldiers on the land directly under the minister.Therefore, Hua Fudu's use of the army on his fief is actually a regular army organized in his fief. Of course, the armies of these ministers can only be regarded as "private belongings", at most they can be regarded as local armies.The central army of the vassal state is generally composed of the residents of the capital (that is, the people of the country). Although Kong Fujia is the Minister of National Defense, he has no way to mobilize the whole country's army except during wartime.With the army in his own fief alone, he can't beat Hua Fudu. It seems that Hua Fudu, who has a relatively high official position, has a relatively large fief area. Father Hua killed Kong Fujia and got Kong Fujia's wife as he wished, and the descendants of Kong's family fell and scattered.Among the many descendants, one named Uncle Kong Fang fled to the state of Lu and developed there. His great-grandson is the famous Confucius. The news of Da Sima's murder reached Duke Song Shang, who was furious and said: "Du ('Huafu' is a character, and 'Du' is a name, directly addressing the name expresses disgust for this person) Does this kid still see me as a monarch? He is good at killing the Minister of Defense, I have to deal with him sooner or later." Father Hua also knew that he had offended the monarch by doing so.The state of song fought against the state of Zheng again and again, where was it planned by Kong Fujia?After all, isn't it because Song Shanggong and Yi's cousin, son Feng, are in Zheng State, posing enough threats to Song Shanggong's seat?If you incite the common people to say that they want peace and not war, isn't that slapping the face of the monarch? Therefore, without doing anything, Hua Fudu played his ruthless nature, and before Song Shanggong made a move, he simply attacked the monarch and killed Song Shanggong in the midst of the chaos. As soon as Song Shanggong died, Hua Fudu sent people to Zheng Guo to welcome his son Feng back as the king.Zheng Zhuanggong had just finished dealing with the alliance with the new king of Lu, and saw that something happened to Song.The young master Feng has been in exile in the state of Zheng for a long time, so sending him back to be the king will naturally be of great benefit to the state of Zheng.This is also the best chance to subdue Song Guo. Therefore, Zheng Zhuanggong called on the monarchs of Qi, Lu, and Chen to meet together in Ji (belonging to Song, near Shangqiu, the capital of Song), and unanimously agreed to make his son Feng the king of Song, that is, Song Zhuanggong.But Hua Fudu was busy looking around, presenting property and gifts to all countries as foreign aid.The monarchs of the countries who participated in the alliance saw that this kid really knows how to do things, so don't worry about his crime of killing the king (not to mention the guy who was killed by him, he is still a very annoying character), and let him assist the new king of Song Dynasty , This will also better consolidate the friendly relations with other countries. In this way, the civil strife in Song Dynasty was properly handled.The regicide was not punished, but continued to rule in peace.As for the deceased Song Guoxian, let him be given the posthumous title of "Shang Gong" as a token of comfort. Here we emphasize again that all titles like "Zheng Zhuang Gong", "Qi Xi Gong" and "Zhou Huan Wang" in the article are all posthumous titles, that is, after the death of this monarch, his achievements in his life will be recognized by later generations. , characteristics, etc. to give an evaluative title.Generally speaking, words like "Wen", "Wu", "Cheng", "Zhuang", "Huan", "Hui", "Xuan", etc., are all praiseworthy; "Spirit", "Secret", "Brutal" and "Irritable", these are all critical in nature.As for "Shang", "Huai", "Mourning", "Min", "Sorrow", etc., they are sympathetic, and such posthumous titles are usually given to monarchs who die before they have done bad things. As descendants, we can directly call a certain monarch by his posthumous title, but when the monarch is alive, it is impossible to call his posthumous title. It is impossible for the monarch to know what his own posthumous title is.In addition to the monarch, queens, concubines, ministers, and even some well-known ordinary people can also have posthumous titles. Anyway, they are given to him after death, which only represents a kind of evaluation.Therefore, a line like "I am Xiaozhuang" appeared in a certain historical drama a few years ago, which was criticized by many people and became a big bug. The civil strife in the Song Dynasty, Duke Shang who was hostile to the Zheng Kingdom Game Over, the pro-Zheng faction Duke Zhuang of Song came to power, and a ruler Hua Fudu who "measured the material resources of the Song Dynasty and made the country happy" was regarded as a gift to Zheng Zhuanggong. He gave a big gift to help Zheng Zhuanggong solve the problem of Song State completely.Now, the main vassal states in the Central Plains, except for their allies, are all subdued by Zheng Guo.Zheng Zhuanggong, who has beaten invincible hands all over Henan, has become the leader of the princes.Therefore, later generations believed that the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period should be Zheng Zhuanggong, so there was a saying that Zheng Zhuanggong was a "little bully". Of course, the prestige of Emperor Zhou was still there at that time, and the princes probably did not have the concept of dominating.In ancient times, there was the concept of "Fang Bo", which refers to a group of small princes led by a big prince in one direction under the leadership of the emperor.This great prince was called "Fang Bo".Although the "East Bohou Jiang Huanchu, Xibo Hou Jichang, Nanbo Hou E Chongyu, and Beibo Hou Chonghou Hu" mentioned in the novel may not conform to historical records, they probably reflect the ancient concept of "Fang Bo".However, even Fang Bo is different from the "Five Hegemons" in the Spring and Autumn Period.The overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period was the leader of the princes in the world, and his status had to be recognized by the emperor and the princes, and he was responsible for helping the emperor discipline all the princes.Zheng Zhuanggong is indeed working hard in this direction, but in terms of influence, he has not yet reached this level. Zheng Zhuanggong's prestige is more due to his convenience as a royal official.However, the royal family has always disliked Zheng Zhuanggong.What Zheng Zhuanggong adopted was nothing more than a tightrope political game: he used the name of Zhou Tianzi to encourage other princes to fight with him and improve his prestige; If he didn't dare to deal with him, he could only let him continue to pull the banner as a tiger's skin.In this way, in the eyes of King Huan of Zhou, a vicious circle has been formed. The prestige of Zheng Zhuanggong can only grow, and the royal family will become weaker and weaker towards Zheng Guo. Finally, King Huan of Zhou couldn't bear it anymore. He wanted to fight up and give Zheng Yusheng a lesson for his disobedience, so that the royal family could regain its glory.Zheng Zhuanggong is in trouble again.