Soon after Zheng Ligong ascended the throne, the Song State sent a large number of envoys to Zheng State, and the envoy was Dazai Huadu. The envoy made all the way into Xinzheng, and judging from the number of empty cars brought by the Song people, they were not so much to congratulate the new monarch on his accession to the throne as to ask for benefits.

At the welcome dinner, Hua Tu publicly raised the question that embarrassed all Zheng Guoren: "Dare to ask when the bribe you promised to the widow will be honored?" ”

Zheng Ren couldn't help but think of the miserable and helpless expression of Zifeng when he was exiled to Zheng Guo, remembered the pitiful look he wagged his tail to Zheng Zhuanggong and the doctors, and remembered the image of a slave who was grateful to Zheng Zhuanggong before returning to China. After those scenes were replayed, Zheng Ren then felt extremely angry at the shameless face of Song Zhuang Gong's villain.

But Zheng Ligong still swallowed this breath - after all, he was in an unstable position; And it also needs the support of the Song people.

Zheng Ligong took the bribe request from the Song people and promised to gather the property as soon as possible. But he really couldn't get so much money for a while, so he had to ask the doctors for help.

This is even more unacceptable, the doctors say in private: "The country is still the original state, and the subjects are still the original subjects; Just because Zheng Guo changed a monarch, he changed from a small tyrant in the Central Plains to a Zheng tenant who was bullied? If Ziyuan's usurpation can only bring about this result, he can't even compare to Song Yangong! There will be more subsequent bribes, and the state will be overwhelmed! If Zheng Guoren is finally forced to give even clothes to the Song people, it is better to fight to the death with Song Guoren! Zheng Guoren will never become a slave of the Song people because they are begging for their lives! ”

It is precisely because of the shame and shame that Zheng Li is even more reluctant to justify his actions. Under the situation of internal and external pressure, he had to use extreme measures to punish several ministers who demonstrated to him, and the rest of the people did not dare to say anything more. The doctors were forced to hand over their belongings, but they were still much worse than the amount extorted by the Song people. The people of the Song Kingdom didn't want to make the relationship too stiff, so they left with the spoils of victory in the first battle.

This incident greatly damaged Zheng Ligong's prestige: Zheng's international status rapidly declined, and the Central Plains order began to become unstable. Zheng Ligong was ashamed to face the ministers, so he handed over the government affairs to him at the suggestion of the sacrificial foot, and he hid in the harem all day long to adjust his mood.

Song Zhuang Gong tasted the sweetness of blackmail, and as a result, he became out of control. His blackmail against Zheng Guo became more frequent and rampant, making Zheng people miserable. In the first half of the twelfth year of Lu Huan (BC700), the days of the Song and Zheng people were spent like this.

The Duke of Song Zhuang did not hesitate to distribute his wealth to his subjects (because the extorted goods would continue to pour into the Song State), and the Song people were excited and full of praise for the current Kaiyin monarch. People are optimistic that if this continues, they will be able to destroy Jeong-kook even without the means of war.

Zheng Ligong couldn't bear the greed and shamelessness of the Song people, so he asked the Lu people for help, hoping that Lu Huan Gong could mediate. Lu Huan Gong has just calmed down the contradictions between Qi and Ju, and he is on the occasion of complacency. He was glad to see that Zheng Guoren could ask him for help - mediating the dispute between the former Xiaoba and the Central Plains power would greatly enhance the status of the Lu State.

After Lu Huangong learned the real situation, he thought: Compared with Lu, Song Zhuang Gong is also a usurper, and Song Zhuang Gong is just bribing Lu Guoren with a Gao Ding, why does he endlessly extort money from Zheng Guo? Could it be that Zheng Guoren's crimes were more serious than those of Song Guoren, or did Song Zhuang Gong do something more righteous than himself? It is not proper to use the usurpation of the throne as a means of getting rich.

Lu Huan then sent an invitation to the two monarchs, asking the two monarchs to sit down calmly in order to resolve this non-irreconcilable contradiction. At the first meeting, Song Zhuang Gong was relatively cooperative, and Song and Zheng reached an agreement in which the Song people promised to reduce the number and frequency of property claims. However, after Song Zhuang Gong returned to China, he still went his own way, and the persecution of Zheng Guo was still the same. And so there was a second meeting. As soon as Song Zhuanggong arrived at the meeting place, he withdrew early under the pretext of an emergency in China; The rest of the attendees had no choice but to return in vain.

Lu Huangong decided to try one last time, but Song Zhuang Gong didn't even bother to participate in the talks! He just sent a low-level envoy to say that the initial agreement he reached with Zheng Ren could not be changed a word, hoping that the other party would recognize the situation and stop acting treacherously.

Lu Huan Gong was furious, he felt that he had been completely tricked by the Song people as a monkey. Therefore, in the winter of that year, a war broke out between Lu and Zheng against the Song Dynasty. The rupture between Zheng and Song led to another turmoil in the Central Plains.

Later generations said, "If there is no faith, there is no point in making a covenant." 'Gentlemen are repeatedly aligned, chaos is long', this is the truth. ”

In the thirteenth year of the reign of Emperor Lu Huan (699 BC), the relations between Zheng and Lu and the Song state deteriorated further, and a full-scale war was about to break out again in the Central Plains.

Duke Qi has always valued Zheng Zhaogong very much, so he hates Zheng Ligong very much. In Weiguo, Wei Xuangong died last winter, and the new monarch Wei Huigong was the grandson of Qi Xugong, who carried out a one-sided pro-Qi policy. Based on the above reasons, Qi and Wei sided with the Song State; Ji Guo joined the Zheng and Lu alliances.

In winter, the armies of Lu, Zheng, and Ji and Song, Qi, Wei, and Yan set up their positions violently, preparing for a big battle. However, the largest war since the Spring and Autumn Period began with a bluff and ended in a perfunctory manner. This probably happens because countries that do not want to pay for the interests of other countries and do not want to make too many enemies. All parties are well aware that once this big war starts, it will get out of control, so it is worth comparing and analogizing. As a result, the belligerents made only a small contact and withdrew their troops.

In the fourteenth year of the reign of Lu Huan (BC698), the Song State united the four kingdoms of Qi, Wei, Chen, and Cai to attack Zheng. The monarchs of Lu and Ji knew that they were alone, so they hid and pretended not to see the outside. The coalition army marched all the way, and in a short time captured the fortress Niushou City on the outskirts of Xinzheng, and then burned the canal gate of Xinzheng and attacked the inner city, which was the first time in the history of Zhengguo's capital that it was captured by the enemy.

Just when the situation in Zheng State was precarious, the Qi army suddenly received the bad news of the death of Qi Xugong, and the army immediately turned around and returned home. In this way, Zheng Guocai did not suffer more damage. The Song people dismantled the rafters of Zheng Guotai Temple and transported them back to Shangqiu to make the rafters of Lumen. This insult is really just right for Zheng Guoren.

In the spring of the fifteenth year of Duke Lu Huan (BC697), King Huan of Zhou knew that he would die soon. He heard that the Lu people were very skilled in making cars, "but the stingy Lu people never paid tribute to the royal family." Thinking so, he sent the doctor's father to Lu to ask for a few cars to bury him.

On March 11, King Zhou Huan died. King Huan of Zhou reigned for twenty-three years, and this was the critical period of Lile's conquest from the Son of Heaven to the princes. Before King Huan of Zhou, no King of Zhou had ever suffered such a variety of disasters and failures as he did; But for his future King Zhou, those encounters are nothing.