Chapter 46: The Marriage of Zheng and Chen
The reconciliation between Zheng and Song also created positive conditions for the normalization of relations between Chen and Zheng.
As mentioned earlier, an important factor in Chen Huangong's refusal to form an alliance with Zheng was that Chen was more afraid of Song and did not want to get involved in the struggle between Zheng and Song (although Chen and Song did not have an alliance). Later, Zhou Gong spoke some language in front of Chen Huangong that was enough to shake his will (if he still wanted his will), when Chen Huangong felt that the sky was about to fall, and he kept asking Zhou Gong: What should he do, how many princesses do he need to marry to resolve the country's disaster.
Zhou Gong comforted him and said, "Your worries are really unnecessary, and Uncle Zheng does not intend to be an enemy of Chen Guo. Although the two countries are now in a dilemma, I will solve this dilemma for the two of them. You go back and wait for the news. ”
Chen Huan Gong said: "With your words, the widow will not be afraid." But Chen Guo is a victim after all, Zheng Bo does not take the lead in making a gesture, and there is no way for the widow to do it. ”
Zhou Gong smiled and said that he would satisfy Chen Huangong.
After sending Chen Huan Gong away, Zhou Gong immediately wrote a letter to Zheng Zhuang Gong, saying that Chen Huan Gong intended to eliminate the hostility with Zheng Guo and establish friendly relations; But because Chen Guo was badly ravaged by Zheng Guo last year, Chen Huan Gong refused to take the initiative to show favor to Zheng Guo like a defeated man - no matter the office, the people of the country, or himself, he was not allowed to do that kind of thing that damaged the national body.
In view of this, Zheng Zhuanggong took the initiative to extend an olive branch to Chen Guo. He said: "The widow can't be like Chen Hou, if you want to get allies, you have to pretend to be 'you come to beg me'. Otherwise, Zheng Guo would have been destroyed long ago. ”
Zheng Zhuanggong gave Chen Guoren a big gift: he returned the people and goods captured in the war last year to Chen Guo, and he also gave him a valuable gift.
Chen Guoren's self-esteem was satisfied, and the road to establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries was unimpeded. Chen Guoren paid a return visit to Xinzheng, and after a brief consultation, the two countries sent envoys to sign an alliance with each other's monarchs.
The envoy of Chen Guo was Chen Huan Gong's younger brother Chen Tuo (the fifth father of the character), and Chen Tuo always had a little secret in his heart, which made him appear absent-minded in the bloody ceremony with Zheng Zhuang Gong, as if he was not the executor of an important mission, but a bored bystander; He even mispronounced Chen Hou's name in the book of alliances.
After the ceremony, Dr. Zheng said to his colleagues, "The Fifth Father will not be exempt from calamity. What could be more important than a bloody alliance? If there is, it must be something that is not right; If it is not justified, it will be punished. He also did not faithfully fulfill the orders of the Marquis of Chen, and did not take our monarch seriously, so his actions were not conducive to the development of relations between the two countries. ”
The envoy of Zheng Guo was the great doctor Liangzuo, and when he was in Chen Guo, he observed that the prince of Chen Guo had a wooden expression and restrained behavior, without the majesty of a prince. He also saw that any doctor could joke with the prince without any scruples, and the prince only laughed with everyone, as if it was not him but someone else who was being mocked.
When Liang Zuo returned to China and returned to his life, he said: "The prince is humble, and the minister is disrespectful; Chen Guo will definitely have trouble in the future. ”
"Then I will know the cause of the five fathers' troubles." ”
As a result, within ten years, all the prophecies of Sapo and Ryozo were fulfilled.
Chen Huan Gong met Zheng Taizi Hu, who was acting as a hostage, in Beijing a few years ago. Soon after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Chen Huan went to Chengzhou to deal with government affairs, and the crown prince was entrusted by his father to visit him. Chen Huan Gong became more and more fond of this erudite and humble young man in the process of interacting with the crown prince. He heard that the prince had not yet married his wife, so he wrote a letter to Uncle Zheng, asking to marry his beloved daughter to the prince.
The Chen family has produced beauties since ancient times (the queen of Chuwen, Mrs. Peach Blossom, is only one of the recorded ones, and there are more unrecorded beauties), and Zheng Bo has never objected to this kind of beauty - if the conditions are ripe, he also wants to marry a princess from the Chen country. The parties quickly agreed to get married. In this way, the crown prince suddenly became a brother-in-law with King Zhou Huan.
In the summer and April of the following year, the crown prince Hu personally led a team to Chen Guo to marry the princess of Chen Guo, and Chen Guo saw off the doctor Chen Zhenzi. The crown prince suddenly fell in love with the princess in front of him, and his lust for her was so fierce that he had sex with the princess on the way back without waiting to return to China for the temple ceremony.
Prince Hu's behavior has seriously violated Zhou etiquette, but what is even more intolerable is that he openly deceived his ancestors: Prince Hu knelt in front of the ancestral god when he told the temple, saying that he would "will" marry Chen Fei.
Chen Zhenzi said: "If they follow the Zhou etiquette, they cannot be called husband and wife. The prince deceived his ancestors, and I am afraid that he will be doomed. ”
Unfortunately, Chen Zhenzi's prophecy was later fulfilled.