Chapter 26 Chapter 25 Is the Son of Heaven Bullying People?

After the Juandi League, Duke Huan of Qi's hegemony has been established.According to Guan Zhong's slogan of "respect the king and fight against the barbarians", Duke Huan of Qi took care of the authority of the emperor everywhere, so that the princes and states were also convinced.It can be said that "respecting the king and fighting the barbarians" is the theoretical basis for the legalization of Duke Huan of Qi's hegemony. Of course, at this point in our story, Duke Huan of Qi has not done a single thing to "repel barbarians", and his prestige has risen rapidly just by "respecting the king".It can be seen that the banner of Emperor Zhou is still useful.However, when Duke Huan of Qi had just succeeded in the overlord, for some reason, he missed the best opportunity to honor the king. This cannot but be said to be a major dereliction of duty by the new overlord.

The story takes place in the hapless Zhou royal family. Since King Zhou Xi ascended the throne, Duke Huan of Qi has shown enough respect to him.From now on, every time Duke Huan of Qi subdued a prince, he would let the prince go to Luoyi to have an audience with the emperor. This made King Zhou Xi very satisfied, and he grinned every day to the back of his head.It's a pity that King Xi of Zhou didn't become the Son of Heaven for a few years, and he collapsed after five years in power.His son Zhou Huiwang succeeded to the throne. King Xi of Zhou had a half-brother named Tui.I always wonder why these princes and nobles are so careless about their names.Perhaps the folk saying that "relying on a name is easy to support" really represents a cultural tradition.Prince Tui was favored by his father King Zhou Zhuang since he was a child, and King Zhou Zhuang asked the doctor Rong Guo to teach Prince Tui.However, according to the principle of the eldest son succeeding to the throne, there is no way for the prince to be the emperor. Of course, judging from his performance, he does not seem to want to be the emperor.

When Wang Zitui's older brother, King Zhou Xi, was on the throne, Wang Zitui was his prince with peace of mind.When King Zhou Xi's son, King Zhou Hui, succeeds to the throne, Prince Tui will still be his prince with peace of mind.However, King Zhou Hui was an uneasy emperor, and he did a lot of things to offend people after he came to power. Since King Ping of Zhou moved to the east, the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty had a bad problem more or less, that is, they felt that they were emperors, so everything in the world was their own, and they could take whatever they wanted.King Huan of Zhou had this problem. At that time, it was Zheng Guo who bullied him. He exchanged land with Zheng Guo by means of empty gloves and white wolves. As a result, Zheng Guo was bullied in a hurry. In the end, he fought a battle of Ge, and King Zhou Huan was beaten to shame. of.When King Hui of Zhou came here, the emperor of Zhou did not dare to bully the princes, so he bullied his own subordinates.

675 BC was the second year after King Zhou Hui formally ascended the throne.For some reason, King Hui of Zhou fell in love with the land of the Dafu Rong State, and insisted on confiscating the vegetable gardens of the Rong State and turning them into pastures.In fact, King Hui of Zhou didn't really want to raise livestock. He occupied this vegetable garden just to raise some rare birds and animals.Luo Guo is just a doctor, so of course he dared not speak out. If you only bully one country, that's all.Not long after, King Hui of Zhou took the house of Uncle Bian, the doctor, into his own.The reason for the confiscation was very nonsensical, it was because Uncle Bian's house was located next to the palace, so close.Of course Uncle Bian is unhappy, King Hui of Zhou doesn’t care if you are happy or not, who made your house so close to mine?Why didn't you cover it far back then.

Remember, there are already two doctors who have been bullied by King Zhou Hui, and they are dissatisfied. The doctor Ziqin Zhugui (although it is a bit complicated, but it is really just a person’s name, we just know that there is such a person, so we don’t need to understand the meaning of the name) and Zhan’s father, who has fertile land at home, is also remembered by King Zhou Hui up.Not long after, King Hui of Zhou took these fertile fields for himself. In this way, two more doctors were dissatisfied with King Zhou. The head chef of King Zhou Hui was named Shi Su, and he didn't know which meal was not to the emperor's liking, so King Hui of Zhou deducted his salary.At that time, wages were deducted not for one month, but irregularly. That is to say, as long as the emperor is unhappy, you can keep working for nothing.How can a chef support his family without a salary?At that time, there were not so many restaurants. Even if there were, you, a head chef of the royal family, could not just jump to a restaurant to be a cook.So King Zhou Hui's handling of this matter is wicked enough, you can't get along with a cook, and you are not afraid of being poisoned in your food.

This is the fifth. Although starting from King Ping of Zhou, the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty were not as good as each other, and they were the most muddy ones, but it is really rare to see rogues for the sake of King Hui of Zhou. Four of the five people that King Zhou Hui offended were royal family officials, so it is convenient to connect them together.These five people scolded their mothers all day long, scolding and cursing, so they got together.A few people discussed, why don't we abolish the emperor?People at that time were also very courageous, and monarchs were often killed, so it is not surprising that these few people moved their minds.But if the emperor is abolished, who will replace him?Ruo Guo is Wang Zitui's teacher, so he proposed to put Wang Zitui on the throne, and the others had no objections.After a few people discussed it, they staged a coup d'etat in Luoyi, trying to support the prince as king.

Just look at these few people who rebelled, and you will know whether they can succeed.One is a teacher, one is a cook, and the other three are also doctors without military power.No matter how rascal and shameless King Zhou Hui is, he is still the Son of Heaven and has soldiers in his hands.When King Hui of Zhou heard that these doctors were making trouble, he was not in a hurry, so he sent a few police officers to settle the matter.These few people who rebelled are also kind and honest, and don't think about bad ideas.In fact, wouldn't it be easier for Shi Su to poison King Zhou Hui's food directly!

If you can't beat it, you have to run away.The five of them ran all the way to Wendi with Wang Zitui.Wendi is the fiefdom of the Su family. As we said earlier, King Zhou Huan once exchanged the land of Su Weisheng for the fertile land of Zheng State.The Su family here refers to the family of Su Weisheng.At that time, King Huan of Zhou exchanged the land of the Su family to the State of Zheng, playing empty-handed white wolf, which not only offended the State of Zheng, but also the Su family. Give it to someone else?So from then on, the Su family never listened to Zhou Tianzi again. The five people brought the prince to defect, and the Su family took them in without saying a word.However, the Su family also knew that they could eat a few bowls of dry rice, so they had the guts to make a little embarrassment with the emperor, but they really didn't have the skills to do it.How to do it?Seek international assistance.So the Su family sent troops to escort these rebels to Weiguo.

At this time, Weiguo was no longer a first-class powerful country, but compared to the wimpy Zhou Tianzi, it was still powerful.In the past, Wei Guo also had a little conflict with Zhou Tianzi (we won't introduce the specifics in detail), so this time he caught the opportunity, he had to make good use of it.Duke Hui of Wei called Nan Yan's army and followed him to attack the royal family of Zhou. Now that the matter has become serious, King Zhou Hui sent a few more policemen to control the matter.The so-called decline of the royal family is fully demonstrated here. King Hui of Zhou has declined so much that even Weiguo and Nanyan can't deal with it.Still the same sentence, if you can't fight, you have to run. This time it was Zhou Huiwang's turn to run all the way, and he ran out of Luoyi in a flash.In the winter of 675 BC, the rebel army made the prince the emperor.

When Duke Li of Zheng heard that there was a rebellion in the royal family, he raised his troops and marched towards Luoyi.Zheng Ligong is the second son of Zheng Zhuanggong, the protagonist in the previous stage of the book. He still has his own father's legacy, and he really wants to take care of the royal family's business and revive the "Xiaoba" career. Zheng Ligong first sent a messenger to Luoyi to negotiate with the rebels.Let’s put the courtesy first and then the soldiers. Is there any conflict that you can’t solve?This emperor is a bit muddled and a bit of a rascal, but he is the real emperor after all, and he is obviously the eldest son succeeding to the throne. Your prince Tui is just the half-brother of the previous king. "Chang", if you inherit the throne, the world will not accept it.Let's sit down and have a talk, each take a step back, you let the emperor go back and reset, I promise that the emperor will not hold you accountable, and just give you back everything that was taken from you, isn't that good.

Can those people agree?Yes, you are right now, when King Zhou Hui comes back and resets himself, it will be no wonder if you don’t take your anger out on us.Is your Zheng Bo's guarantee useful?He is the Son of Heaven, if he wants to kill us, will he ask you for instructions in advance? Zheng Ligong was very depressed when the mediation failed.In a fit of anger, he vented his anger on Nanyan, who was relatively weak, and beat him violently, capturing Nanyan King Yanzhong's father.If we say that Wei Guo is not making progress, he always likes to call Nanyan when he makes troubles, but this Nanyan's combat effectiveness is really bad enough.They were unable to defeat the State of Zheng during the time of Duke Zheng Zhuang, and they were still unable to defeat the State of Zheng under the time of Duke Zheng Li. However, the current state of Zheng is no better than it was decades ago.At that time, Zheng Zhuanggong was in power, and Zheng Guo was a "little bully". Now who still treats you Zheng Guo as an onion.Although the strength of the five rebels is not very good, they have already occupied the capital of the kingdom, and with the help of the state of Wei, Zheng Ligong weighed it up and decided not to continue the attack. Yi was in a threatening posture, but he didn't move. This delay is almost a year.During this period, no matter how hard Zhou Huiwang begged, Zheng Ligong just stood still.On the other side of Luoyi, the rebel forces saw that Zheng Ligong hadn't moved, and they became more at ease, as if their rebellious behavior had been acquiesced by the princes. So far, there is no record in the history books about Wang Zitiao's attitude towards this matter.I think that even though Wang Zitao is somewhat ambitious, he has to restrain himself under the strict eldest son succession system of the Zhou Dynasty.In addition, he saw that the two emperors, King Zhou Xi and King Zhou Hui, succeeded to the throne without doing anything, so he was probably not that interested in the throne. However, since he has been pushed to the throne of the Son of Heaven, then let nature take its course.The pie is falling from the sky, why don't you pick it up and eat it?The prince happily ascended the throne and became the emperor.To become the emperor, the first thing Wang Zitui would like to thank is those five people who helped him snatch the throne.So in the winter of 674 BC, he held a big banquet in the palace, entertaining the five elder brothers to eat and drink. These few people really felt at ease, and just ate and played at the banquet.Wang Zitui performed the music and dances of the six dynasties of the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Shun, Yu, Shang Tang, and King Wu of Zhou in turn, and he was very happy. Here in Luoyi, the singing and dancing are peaceful, while King Zhou Hui's place is gloomy and gloomy.He persuaded Zheng Ligong several times to send troops, but Zheng Ligong just didn't agree.King Zhou Hui once thought that he was about to be abandoned by the whole world. But Zheng Ligong is not idle, he is always paying attention to the movement of Luoyi.When he heard that the group of rebels in Luoyi drank all day long and held dances, and even danced to the music of the Six Dynasties, he knew his chance had come. Generally speaking, there are no major festive festivals. Even the royal family has strict requirements for music and dance.The dance performances of the six dynasties, even the emperor, did not use it whenever he wanted.Now that the prince is so arrogant, it is completely ecstatic. It can be seen that the people in Luoyi are so happy that they are carried away. It is a good opportunity to send troops. Zheng Ligong sent someone to discuss with the king of Guo State (the Xiguo State mentioned above): "The prince has stolen the throne, and now he is overwhelmed with complacency. He actually performed all the music and dances of the Six Dynasties. Their nonsense will sooner or later spread to the People in the world. I think we should start early and send the decent emperor back to Luoyi to restore the people in the world. What do you think?" Guogong wrote back and said: "Okay, I will follow you!" In the spring of 673 B.C., Duke Li of Zheng and Duke Guo held talks in Midi (which belonged to Zheng State at that time, in today's Mi County, Henan Province) and decided to send troops to King Qin. In the summer of this year, the armies of Zheng and Guo marched towards Luoyi.At this time, the Weiguo army that helped the rebel forces had already withdrawn to the Weiguo.Only relying on the army mobilized by Prince Tui and five people, the Zheng-Guo coalition army could not be stopped at all.Duke Li of Zheng escorted King Hui of Zhou to attack the south gate of Luoyi, while Duke Guo attacked the north gate.Wang Zitui and those five people still wanted to run away, but they didn't run away this time, and were caught by Mr. Zheng Ligong. Duke Zheng Li was willing to kill even his own brothers, so of course he treated these rebels with one word: "kill".The poor prince died after only being the emperor for more than a year.It seems that it is better to be a prince honestly!King Zhou Hui finally returned to his country and was restored, so he was naturally grateful to Duke Zheng Li.Duke Zheng Li also felt that he had done a very glorious thing, so he held a banquet to entertain the emperor.At the banquet, Duke Zheng Li followed suit and ordered people to perform the music and dance of the Six Dynasties, which disgusted the ministers of the Zhou royal family.King Hui of Zhou also generously rewarded Duke Zheng Li and gave Zheng Bo a lot of land. Zheng Ligong finally regained the feeling of a little "little bully", but it is a pity that the good days will not last for a few days.In May of this year, Duke Zheng Li died of illness, and he went to report to his father, Duke Zheng Zhuang.The last embers of Zheng Guo's hegemony were extinguished. The royal family was in a mess, and the real overlord, Duke Huan of Qi, did not respond at all, which disappointed those who placed high hopes on Duke Huan of Qi.How can this overlord who claims to "respect the king and fight against the barbarians" only do face-saving projects?If something happened to the royal family, he would no longer be seen. Some people sighed, since Duke Huan of Qi is revered as the overlord, you should fulfill your duties to the royal family. How can you give such a great contribution to King Qin to such small roles as Zheng Guo and Guo Guo?This is not only a dereliction of duty, but a miscalculation. In fact, Duke Huan of Qi cannot be blamed too much for his dereliction of duty.In 674 BC, when the royal family was in full swing, Duke Huan of Qi was busy conquering Beirong.Don't forget that the work goals Guan Zhong set for Duke Huan of Qi included "respecting the king" and "removing barbarians". At that time, the invasion of the Central Plains by the surrounding ethnic minorities was already quite serious.According to historical records, at that time, "Southern Yi and Northern Di crossed, and China was like a thread."That is to say, the ethnic minorities in the south and the north continued to invade the Central Plains, the southern ones fought north, and the northern ones fought south, squeezing the countries of the Central Plains to only a single line.Since Duke Huan of Qi wants to fight against the barbarians, he must work hard to change this situation and create a sense of security for the countries in the Central Plains.In contrast, no matter how chaotic the royal family is, it is also the family affairs of Emperor Zhou, and it is not as important as resisting foreign humiliation. In any case, Qi Huangong lost an opportunity to show courteousness to the emperor and at the same time set an example to the princes of the world.But it doesn't matter, there are plenty of opportunities, Qi Huangong's career is far from reaching its peak yet.