Luan Cheng's face was solemn, and he took a step closer and said, "If it weren't for you!" Called (Wu Gong name)! Nothing bad happens! I have heard that there are three people who need to live in the world, so I should serve them consistently: my father gave me life; The teacher taught me morality; The monarch gave me food. I should die for them in times of crisis. If I have turned my back on morality for my own benefit, how can you teach your subordinates? If I betrayed the prince, won't I betray you? How can you reuse a traitor like me? ”

He pointed his sword into the sky and shouted: "Although you will die, you will still fight!" Before the words fell, he rushed to the enemy first. Wu Gong's guards immediately rushed forward to fight the stubborn enemy. In the end, all the warriors who defended the Mourning were killed heroically, and the Mourning did not do anything to damage the monarch's status, he was the last to die in battle, and his mortal wounds were all in the chest.

Qu Wo Wugong prepared to take advantage of the victory to return to the division and capture Jiangdu in one fell swoop. However, when Quwo's army marched to the outskirts of Jiangdu, they found that the Jiangren had already established a new monarch and a young prince, and the city had been built into an impregnable fortress; The whole city was enveloped in an atmosphere of sorrow, the walls were covered with defenders in mourning clothes, men, women and children were spontaneously engaged in anti-enemy operations, and reinforcements from the princes were arriving day and night. Seeing that there was no opportunity, Wu Gong led his army back to Quwo.

Forty miles southwest of Quwo, there is a small city called "Wang Guan".

In the winter of the seventh year of Duke Lu Huan (BC705), the feudal lord of the royal official sent a secret envoy to meet the little prince. The envoy tearfully complained to the boy Hou about the atrocities of the Quwo people: "O prince, the Quwo people are really debaucherous and shameful! Not long ago, Qu Wo said that he took a group of villains to hunt near Wangguan. The king's officials did not spare jade silk, fine wine, cattle and sheep, but that scoundrel forced us to offer young and beautiful women, whether married or not, for their pleasure! If we don't do it, we'll destroy the city!" This is simply treating the kings and officials as enemies and slaves!

"O prince, the royal officials have always been loyal to the office, but what is more worthy of the hatred of the Quwo people than loyalty to the office? The Quwo people are already looking for an excuse to destroy the king! Wang Guanren is not greedy for life and afraid of death, but afraid of dying silently and odorlessly. How long can a small royal official resist? And how many enemies can be destroyed? Therefore, the feudal king asked his ministers to send a letter saying: 'The Quwo people will soon come to plague the king's officials, and then ask the king's army to exterminate those thieves, and the king's officials will serve as the guide and vanguard of the Jin division.' ’”

Xiao Zihou had no doubt about what the other party said (because he had already received the same information), and he decided that this was a perfect opportunity to end the life of Duke Qu Wowu, so he reached an agreement with Wang Guanren.

After that, the information from the royal officials continued to be passed on one after another. Finally, one day, the Jiangren received news that the Quwo people were coming to the king to "hunt" again; There are a lot of people on this trip, enough to wipe out the king's officials, so please be sure to come to the rescue.

The boy Marquis led the army on the expedition, but the army was ambushed by the Quwo army when passing through the Zhongtiao Mountain Pass, the Jin division was annihilated, and the boy Marquis was also killed in battle - it turned out that all this was originally a trap designed by Wu Gong and Wang Guanren.

In the spring of the next year (the eighth year of Lu Huan), Qu Wowu Gong fell.

The Jiangren have been defeated repeatedly, and the domestic military resources have been almost exhausted. But the terrible thing is that the people's hearts are already unstable, and panic is spreading throughout the city. The people of the country began to grow tired of each temporary victory (if it could be called a victory) only in exchange for a greater defeat. The people of the country hated the princes' allies even more than they did for the Quwo people, because if those people had not come to cause trouble, the Jin kingdom might have been unified long ago.

As a result, the Quwo people's attack on Jiang was surprisingly smooth, and the Jiang people raised their hands and surrendered without making any decent resistance. However, King Huan of Zhou did not want to fulfill the wishes of the Jin people, so he ordered Yu Gonglin's father's brother Yu to lead his division to attack Quwo, forcing Wu Gong to withdraw his army and return to the division to rescue. After the Quwo people withdrew their troops, Jiang Ren set up a brother of Xiaozi Hou as the king, and he was the Marquis of Jin.

The Marquis of Jin stood firm on the throne for another twenty-eight years, during which Jiang had no power to fight back against Quwo, and the forces that were originally loyal to the office fell to Quwo, and the cities that originally belonged to Jiangdu were eaten away by Quwo; Jiangdu lost all support and gradually became an isolated city.

The fundamental reason why the Marquis of Jin was able to reign for so long was that the princes, especially the state of Qiu, constantly carried out military attacks on Quwo. The princes were reluctant to see a unified Jin state, because the unification of the Jin state would be the beginning of their disaster.

In the sixteenth year of the reign of Duke Lu Zhuang (BC678), Duke Quwowu destroyed Jiang, and the mud of the Marquis of Jin finally flowed down from the city wall of Jiangdu. Even the princes who were obsessed with obstructing the unification of the Jin Kingdom lost confidence in him.

At this time, King Huan of Zhou had died, and Duke Wu of Quwo dedicated all the treasures in the Jiangdu Palace to his successor, King Zhou Xu. As a result, in Zhou Tianzi's current opinion, Jin Hou Yan has become a hateful guy, because if he dies early, he can enjoy these treasures sooner.

Since you have lost the ability to uphold justice, let's enjoy the benefits of evil! Zhou Tianzi accepted the mountain of bribes, praised Quwo Wugong greatly, and appointed him as the legitimate monarch of the Jin State - for the Jin Wugong.

Duke Wu of Jin was canonized as Marquis of Jin in the thirty-seventh year of his reign in Quwo, and then died the following year. The crown prince ascended the throne, and he was the pioneer of the Jin territory and the founder of the hegemony, Jin Xiangong.

The international environment when Jin Xiangong ascended the throne was still good, which was all due to the bribes given to Zhou Tianzi by Jin Wugong; These treasures are enough to buy him laugh for a few years. However, he only laughed for a year and then couldn't laugh - King Zhou died the following year, and then it was the turn of his successor, King Zhou Hui, to smile at the Jin Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Yu was the number one enemy of the Jin State at that time, and the heart of the ugly Emperor of the Kingdom of Qiu never died. But since Yu Gongchou is a member of the Zhou royal family, he must obey the will of Zhou Tianzi. King Zhou Hui praised the people of the Jin Kingdom every day, and Yu Gongchou didn't dare to mention the matter of cutting down the Jin, so he had to wait patiently for the opportunity. The surrounding small states such as Xun, Geng, and Wei all took the state of Yu as their leader, and they never dared or had the strength to fight against Jin alone; In this way, the Jin Kingdom spent a rare and fairly peaceful few years.

But while safe on the outside, there is turmoil and chaos on the inside.