In the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Lu Zhuang (683 BC), the situation in the Central Plains was still turbulent. In the summer of that year, the Song State took revenge on the Lu State for last year's defeat, and Lu Zhuanggong personally led the army to meet the battle. The Lu army launched a surprise attack before the enemy had time to complete the formation, and the Song army was taken by surprise and returned again.

But the more victories Lu Guo achieved, the more pressure Lu Zhuang Gong felt. He knows very well that debts owed to others must be repaid: the more you win, the more you lose. Based on the above ideas, Lu Zhuanggong has been looking for an opportunity to reconcile with the Song State.

The opportunity soon came, and in the autumn the Song Kingdom encountered a flood that had not been seen in a century. Floods inundated cities and land, displaced large numbers of people, widespread food harvests, and famine and pestilence began to spread. The people of the Song Kingdom tried their best to relieve the disaster, but they still felt powerless. At this time, the state of Lu extended a helping hand and provided a large amount of food aid to the state of Song.

The envoy of the State of Lu conveyed the concern of the Duke of Lu Zhuang to the Duke of Song Min: "The sky is a lewd rain, which makes the great country suffer; The widow doesn't dare to live in peace, how can he not come to condole? ”

Song Min Gong said: "Loneliness does not respect heaven, so God only sends calamity." I am worried about the prince of your country, and I ask the prince to accept Lone's thanks. ”

After hearing this, Zang Wenzhong said: "The Song Kingdom may be revitalized. Xia Yu and Shang Tang sinned against themselves and rose vigorously; Xia Wei and Shang sinners suddenly perished. When the country is in trouble, the monarch calls himself 'lonely', which is in line with etiquette. The words are full of awe and are in line with Zhou etiquette, so that the Song kingdom will rise. ”

A year later, Duke Min of Song was killed, and Gongzi Yu said that he ascended the throne for Duke Huan of Song. At this time, news came from Song Guo that the above words were all said by Gongzi Yu and Song Mingong. Zang Wenzhong then added: "This man is fit to be a monarch, and he has a benevolent heart for the people. ”

After the state of Lu reached a reconciliation with the state of Song, relations with the state of Qi were also greatly eased. It turned out that King Zhou Zhuang was going to marry one of his daughters, Gong Ji, to Duke Huan of Qi, so that Lu State would become the main marriage country of the royal family and Qi State. According to the order, the Lu people built another temporary palace outside the city of Qufu, and Gong Ji and her entourage lived in the palace. The Duke of Qi Huan led the team to the Lu State to welcome his relatives, how similar this scene was to the time when the Duke of Qi Xiang married Wang Ji ten years ago!

Duke Lu Zhuang and Duke Qi Huan held several long closed-door talks, and the two monarchs held in-depth discussions on restoring and developing relations between the two countries. Lu Zhuanggong made a big concession, and then the two sides agreed to abandon the war and switch to peaceful means.

In the twelfth year of the reign of Duke Lu Zhuang (682 BC), the most serious event that occurred this year was the murder of Duke Min of Song.

It turned out that in the battle of Chengqiu in Lu Song, Lu Zhuanggong shot and wounded and captured Nangong Wan, the first warrior of the Song Kingdom. Lu Zhuanggong always wanted to repair relations with the Song State, so he gave Nangong Wan and other prisoners of war very good assistance and treatment.

Soon, the two countries exchanged prisoners of war, and Nangong Wan was released and returned to China, but soon after he returned to China, he had a conflict with Song Mingong.

It turns out that Nangong Wan is always flamboyant, does his own thing, and never speaks with his brain; And Song Mingong is a snarky, narrow-minded, and malicious person who likes to speculate on the psychology of others.

Nangong Wan was seriously injured when he was captured, and he was already determined to die, but Lu Ren connected his broken humerus in time, otherwise he would have become a cripple who could only draw circles and would never be able to go to the battlefield again.

Nangong Wan was full of gratitude to Lu Zhuang Gong because of this, so he often praised Lu Zhuang Gong in public in the court, praising his nobility, benevolence and humility and simplicity.

Song Mingong couldn't listen to others being better than him, and regarded Nangong Wan's words as a kind of derogation to himself and a malicious blackening of his highest dignity. He sneered at each other, saying that he had respected Nangong Wan in the past; But it was unseemly to respect a prisoner, so it was decided that he would no longer be respected.

Nangong Wan felt that these words were particularly harsh, after all, the most taboo thing for warriors was words such as "defeated" and "captured"! Because of this, he had a grudge against Song Mingong.

The relationship between the two sides became colder and the contradictions became more and more acute, and Nangong Wan began to feel that his safety was threatened. Nangong Wan once drank with Song Mingong's brother Ziyou, and he complained a lot with the strength of the wine. Ziyou also fought for him, saying that if it weren't for Nangong Wan's heroic behavior, it would be Song Mingong who would have been captured by the Lu people.

Then he said "inadvertently": "If I were a monarch, I would treat you as the number one hero of the Song Kingdom." ”

The speaker has a heart, and the listener has an intention; The two of them were ready to murder Song Mingong and set up Ziyou as the king. Nangong Wanyou, the captain of the guard, and his son Nangong Niu were pulled into the conspiracy circle.

The golden autumn and August, the cool autumn breeze, and the fat beasts are fat, which is a good time for hunting. Song Min Gong took Dazai Huadu, Da Sima Qiu Mu and Nangong Wan and others to Mengze north of Shangqiu to hunt. The conspirators decided to make a move in Mengze, they planned to make Ziyou secretly sneak back to Shangqiu first, and Nangong Wan would wait for the opportunity to create an "accident" to kill Song Mingong, and Ziyou could rightfully ascend the throne.

But an unexpected event brought the murder forward and made it public.

On August 10, Song Min Gong and his entourage came to the hunting ground from the palace early in the morning, and the mood of the people was as happy as a singing bird. Nangong Wan's luck is very good, while Song Mingong's luck is even worse than his archery; Nangong Wan's side car was full of prey, but there were only a few Wang Ba in his car.

Seeing this, Nangong Wan began to tease him, saying that even Lu Zhuanggong's underage son's archery skills were higher than his. Song Min Gong said angrily, this kind of words coming out of the mouth of a captured slave sounded really appropriate! If Nangong Wan is willing, he can be captured by the Lu people again, so that he can flatter his new master even more!

Nangong Wan could no longer bear the humiliation of the other party, and rushed forward and broke Song Mingong's neck. At this time, Ziyou had not left Mengze, and Nangong Wan killed Song Mingong's Yurong and Che You, and turned around and returned to the palace to find Ziyou.

Nangong Wan happened to meet the old doctor Qiu Mu at the main gate of the palace, and Qiu Mu asked him strangely where Song Min Gong was, and why he returned so early and in such a hurry. Nangong Wan replied that the faint monarch had already been killed by him, and he asked Qiu Mu to join him in establishing Ziyou as the new monarch.

Although Qiu Mu was old and thin, he still couldn't control his anger in the face of the fierce monarch killer, he scolded "murderer, traitor", and raised his horsewhip in his hand and pulled it towards the murderer without a head. Nangong Wan was caught off guard, and his face was suddenly pumped. Nangong Wansheng was furious and hit him with a backhand, Qiu Mu suffered a heavy blow to his neck, his cervical vertebrae were broken, and his head slammed into the palace door, and even his teeth flew away.

Nangong Wan broke into the palace, bumped into Dazai Huadu head-on, and raised his hand and shot Huadu to the ground with an arrow. The great man who was a great man was killed by another monarch killer nearly thirty years after the murder of Song Yangong.

Nangong Wan found Ziyou and hurried to Shangqiu with him and his subordinates. Since the rebels did not have time to control the situation in the capital, by the time they entered Shangqiu, the princes and grandsons had basically fled cleanly. Ziyou was surrounded by a group of noisy people and entered the Taimiao and held a perfunctory coronation ceremony.