In the summer and May of the twenty-second year of Zheng Zhuang Gong (the first year of Lu Yin), Uncle Tai began to quietly gather rebel forces, waiting for Wu Jiang to determine the date for launching a rebellion.

Duke Zheng Zhuang inherited his father's throne in the royal family, so he often went to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to deal with government affairs. This time, Zhuang Gong said goodbye to his mother after setting the date of his trip. The hypocritical woman pretended to be very concerned, and asked in great detail about the specific time, route, and accompanying persons of the trip. After Zheng Zhuanggong left, she couldn't wait to send a secret envoy to send this information to her uncle.

However, as soon as the hapless messenger slipped out of the city, he was caught by Zhuang Gong's spies. Zhuang Gong opened the secret letter and read it several times, then sealed the letter as it was, and sent his henchman to pretend to be Wu Jiang's secret envoy to deliver the letter to Uncle Tai. Uncle Tai's messenger was also captured by Zhuang Gong before infiltrating Xinzheng, and the conspiracy plan of the two was completely exposed in front of Zheng Zhuang Gong.

Wu Jiang and Uncle Tai thought that if they covered their ears and stole the bell, Zhuang Gong would not hear the ring, so Zhuang Gong pretended not to hear it.

There are still three days left before the day of Zheng Zhuanggong's departure. In the early morning of this day, when Wu Jiang was still in a haze, he suddenly heard a faint noise from the direction of the Taimiao, as if there were many people holding some ceremony.

It was not a special day, and there were no activities and ceremonies arranged at the temple. Wu Jiang's sensitive nerves suddenly felt a bad omen. She jumped up suddenly, hurriedly climbed the high platform barefoot, looked in the direction of the Taimiao, and suddenly felt like a basin of cold water on her head and holding ice in her arms.

The last thing she wanted to see happened: the square in front of the temple was full of chariots and soldiers. Zhuang Gong was dressed in military uniform and was holding a military ceremony.

The temple system is the patriarchal system of the nobles of the Zhou Dynasty, and the temple is dedicated to the gods of the ancestors. The Son of Heaven has seven temples, the princes have five temples, and the doctor has three temples. Take the Temple of the Son of Heaven as an example, the middle is the Tai Temple, the three on the left are called "Zhao Temple", and the three on the right are called "Mu Temple".

The temple is dedicated to Taizu, and his descendants are divided into generations by generation. For example, if King Tai is the ancestor, then Wang Ji, King Wu, and King Kang are Zhao; King Wen, King Cheng, and King Zhao are Mu. Father and son are in different temples, and grandparents are in the same temple, which is quite what is now called "holding grandchildren but not children".

The main purpose of the temple is to worship the ancestors, but ceremonies such as alliances, deliberations, planning, divination, banquets for foreign guests, war mobilization, and weapons issuance are also often performed here.

Zheng Zhuanggong stood on a temporary platform in front of Taimiao Square and delivered an impromptu speech.

First of all, he fondly recalled the great achievements established by the former Emperor Huan, recalled the good times he spent with his mother and younger brother, and told him about his respectful filial piety to his mother and generous love for his uncle. After that, he began to list all kinds of injustices of Uncle Tai, his greed and disrespect, his ferocity and cruelty. He said that the greatest achievement of Taishu Yeli in the capital was to turn half the free people of the country into homeless people; If Uncle Tai seizes the throne, he will have to extend that system to the whole country—you know, Uncle Tai is a seasoned veteran of doing such bad things.

When Zheng Zhuanggong said this, he stopped and ordered someone to push Uncle Tai's secret envoy up. Zheng Zhuanggong asked him to confess to his uncle's conspiracy, and that person told all the nonsense and said that he would be guilty of meritorious service. Later, Zhuang Gong showed evidence of Taishu Duan's rebellion.

Among the soldiers, there were many exiles who had escaped from Uncle Tai, and they were also gossiping about Uncle Tai's various evil deeds. Zhuang Gong called several of them to the stage and asked them to tell everyone what happened to them. Those people had experienced the brutality of the uncle, so their accusations were real and touching, and their words were fierce, so that the anger of the army was aroused.

Zhuang Gong signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "The widow can hand over the position of monarch to the uncle and choose to go into exile!" But is Zheng Guo alone? Whoever sits on the throne of the monarch has nothing to do with you? Even if you can tolerate a rebellious minister and thief who kills a brother and a king and becomes the new king, can God tolerate it? Could it be that the purpose of Uncle Tai's seizure of the throne is to make your life better? Can you tolerate him killing the widow and then hurting you? These innocents have said enough, if you don't want to be exiles or slaves, take up arms and follow the widow to stop Uncle Tai's plot! ”

The people in the audience shouted: "We only need the lord!" Don't be a tyrant! ”

Duke Zhuang then announced the beginning of the military ceremony, and he awarded the military flag to Gongzi Lu; The soldiers received their weapons and shields in an orderly manner. Gongzi Lu boarded the chariot and led the army out of the north gate. The total number of chariots and 8,000 infantry in this battle was 200 times.

After the army was launched, Zhuang Gong immediately rushed back to the palace. At this time, Wu Jiang was already under house arrest, and her important henchmen were also arrested. Wu Jiang clamored for a visit to Zhuang Gong, cursing the soldiers who were guarding her, accusing them of rebellion, and saying that her filial son would never imprison his mother.

At that time, it was the sacrificial foot who was in charge of the security affairs in the palace, and he couldn't stand Wu Jiang's endless crying, so he threatened her with a black face and said that if she didn't stop, he would tie her up and throw her into the big garage and lock her up with her adulterers. Wu Jiang became quiet and obedient at this time.

She turned to the sacrificial foot and asked to see Zheng Zhuanggong. Satsuri said that her wish would not be fulfilled until the war was over. Wu Jiang begged to pass a message to Zheng Zhuanggong again, that is, not to hurt Uncle Duan.

The sacrificial foot turned and went out, and returned a moment later; He held in his hand the secret letter written by Wu Jiang to Uncle Tai and said, "Madame's words, I have already reported to Uncle Jun." Uncle Jun ordered the minister to ask Madame, what does the phrase 'killable life' in your letter mean? When Wu Jiang heard this, he immediately fainted.

The heavy soldiers of the office have been released, but Uncle Duan is still in the dark. After a day's march, Zheng Shi crossed the ambush site of the capital army mentioned by Uncle Tai in the secret letter, and laid an ambush on the road that Uncle Tai must pass to march.

Shu Duan still carried out the original plan, he was going to set up an ambush at the predetermined location to intercept Zheng Zhuanggong's convoy. The rebels marched without the slightest sense of defense, marching at a high speed and in a very scattered formation, with each infantry running with a sore back and weak legs. Before the rebels could reach the intended location, they were ambushed by the public army.

The army rushed out from both sides, cut the rebels into several sections, and launched an attack on the whirring enemy. The rebels were almost crushed at the touch of a button, and many of them threw away their weapons, stretched out their hands, and ran directly into Gongzi Lu's ranks without the slightest resistance. Shu Duan burst out with powerful combat power at a critical juncture, and he led his most loyal supporters to fight their way out of the siege and desperately break through.

Gongzi Lu was given the order not to let him go or hurt him. Gongzi Lu ordered a part of the army to receive the capital, and he himself led the army to follow the fleeers not far away. Shu Duan fled to Yanling, trying to resist with the help of the strong city walls; However, the Yanling people took up arms and drove out the rebels, and Shu Duan fled from Zheng State. Gongzi Lu has been watching his uncle escape from the country, and then the class teacher returned to the city.

On the other hand, the people of the capital were dissatisfied with Taishu Duan's unification, and opened the city gate without resistance to welcome the public army into the city; Uncle Tai's son, Gongsun Hua, disguised himself as a civilian and fled to defend the country.

Wei Guo and Zheng Guo face each other across the Yellow River, and the two countries are neither allies nor enemies, but the arrival of Gongsun Hua made this civil strife, which was originally limited to Zheng Guo's office, eventually turn into a war between the two countries.