In this year, there was an unprecedented upheaval in the Zhou royal family; The turmoil lasted for two years, and King Hui of Zhou's brother, Prince Kui, colluded with Duke Wei Hui to defeat Zhou Tianzi and drive him out of the royal city, making him an exile under the fence. The prince usurped the throne and violently carried out his short reign. In the end, King Hui of Zhou regained the throne with the help of Zheng and Yu, and finally did not make himself the most cowardly ruler in history.

It turned out that King Zhouzhuang had a very favored concubine named Wang Yao, and Wang Yao gave birth to a prince; Because of his mother, the prince was greatly favored by King Zhuang. Later, the prince tried to seize the position of the crown prince, and after continuous efforts, he has achieved phased results. But at the critical moment, King Zhou Zhuang was killed. As a result, the prince had to stop and pick up his tail again to be his little brother.

As soon as King Hui of Zhou ascended the throne, he began to snatch things from his ministers: he first took back a vegetable garden from the prince's teacher (Yang Guo) to raise cattle; Later, he took a fancy to the palace of the great doctor Bian Bo, and since those buildings were close to the palace, King Hui of Zhou thought that it would be more spectacular to connect the two, so he used force to drive Bian Bo out of his house, thus seizing his property; This was not over, and soon after, he took away Ziqin Zhuknean and Zhan's father's land.

Throughout the Spring and Autumn Period of 270 years, no Son of Heaven was as greedy as King Hui of Zhou (some say that his greed stemmed from his father's miserliness). The noblest and most powerful man in the world went around robbing and extorting other people's property as if he were poor and crazy; He didn't behave like a high-ranking lord at all, but like a ruffian bully who had just taken over a neighborhood.

If he hadn't done something even more shameful, one would have thought that his greed had reached its peak: not long ago, he had personally ordered the deduction of the salary of a cook named Shi Su!

King Zhou Hui did far more than that. Most of the people chose to swallow their anger, but the aforementioned people decided to rebel, because they did not have much wealth in the first place, and now they were on the verge of bankruptcy by King Hui. Those people want to put the prince on the throne. But people felt alone, so they colluded with Suzi, who was also dissatisfied with the royal family, - King Huan of Zhou had deprived Suzi of twelve fiefdoms in the eleventh year of Duke Yin. With Suzi's support and involvement, the rebels' strength became strong enough.

In the autumn, Wang Ziyi led a rebel army to attack the royal city. Due to the leakage of the news in advance, the royal family was fully prepared in advance. The people of Wangcheng killed Neiying, and the rebels were unable to launch a strong attack on the city, so they had to flee in a hurry.

The rebels fled to Suzi's fiefdom of Wenyi. Soon, the royal army came straight to Wenyi, Su Zi did not dare to confront the prince, and protected the prince to flee to the country.

The grievances and grievances between the Wei Guo Gong and the Eastern Zhou royal family have been described earlier, and because Qianmu is protected by the royal family, there is no one in the world who resents King Zhou Hui more than Wei Huigong.

The prince used his eloquent mouth to constantly instigate Wei Huigong, incite his anger against King Zhou Hui, and instigate him to use troops against the Zhou royal family. As a careerist, Wang Ziqi was particularly adept at befriending princes; If it weren't for the overthrow of the royal family, he could have been a brilliant diplomat.

Wei Huigong is indeed anxious to take revenge on the royal family, he has been reigning for twenty-six years, and time is running out for him. But Wei Huigong also had doubts, he thought that although Zheng and Qi had a history of defeating Wang Shi, none of the vassal states had been mad enough to dare to attack the royal city?! Isn't that the enemy of the whole world?! Moreover, he was very afraid of Qi Huangong, and the people of Qi have always regarded themselves as moral guardians and would never tolerate the rebellion of the defenders.

But the prince was not in decline. He said: "The enemies of Qi are Beidi and Lu, and the Marquis of Qi needs to win over Wei against his enemies. And the relationship between the Marquis of Qi and the royal family is not as close as you think. Although the Marquis of Qi was grateful to Qianmu before he ascended the throne, he later felt that that experience was unbearable. However, Qianmu has always regarded himself as a benefactor, constantly asking for benefits from Qi Hou, and trumpeting his dark experience during his exile in Weiguo.

Qianmu also boasted of his great kindness to Qi Hou, complaining that he was ungrateful to him (because Qi Huan Gong had been very tired of him). In order to avoid that resentful woman-like guy, Qi Hou simply didn't go to the court to see the Son of Heaven. Therefore, the Son of Heaven is also like Qianmu, and Qi Hou is deeply resentful. The Marquis of Qi once said to me in private, 'The royal family will not decline, and the hegemony of the Qi country will not succeed.' In this way, the prince is actually helping the Qi people, are you afraid that you will not get the support of the Qi people? ”

Wei Huigong was brainwashed by this guy who was particularly good at inciting others. He thinks that he needs an accomplice, and turns around and pulls Nanyan into the criminal syndicate (as mentioned earlier, there is a marriage relationship between the two countries). In winter, the combined forces of Weiguo and Nanyan surrounded the prince and marched into Chengzhou.

This was the first time in the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that it fell into the hands of princes with the same surname. You must know that it was this ancestor of Wei Huigong (Wei Wugong) who repelled the dog Rong a hundred years ago, recaptured Hojing, and saved the Western Zhou from danger; And his children and grandchildren are now following the example of what the dog Rong did back then!

The rebels then pretended to crown the prince, and then the impostor openly sat on the throne of the Son of Heaven and began to listen to the government, as if King Zhou Hui no longer existed, and he was really the only ruler of the world.

King Zhou Hui was still in the royal city at this time, and he was going crazy when he got the news. King Zhou Hui made a gesture of resolute resistance on the surface, but secretly he was ready to flee at any time. At this critical juncture, Zheng Ligong appeared.

Zheng Ligong is particularly anxious to restore the hegemony of Zhuang Gong, he doesn't want this good opportunity to help the royal family and gain fame and fortune to be snatched away by others; He did not dare to slack off, and led the army to protect the royal city as quickly as possible.

The internal turmoil within the royal family thus turned into a struggle between the Patriotic Group and the Zheng Guo Group, but neither side wanted war until peaceful means were exhausted.

In the spring of the second year (the twentieth year of Lu Zhuanggong), the two sides decided to negotiate in Wangcheng. The representative of King Hui of Zhou was Zheng Ligong, and the representative of the prince was Yan Zhongfu, the monarch of Southern Yan. Zheng Ligong demanded that the prince withdraw from Cheng Zhou, and said that Zheng Guo could provide them with asylum, but Yan Zhong's father put forward the opposite condition.

Zheng Ligong was very annoyed, so he severely criticized the other party's betrayal; But Yan Zhong's father sneered at him: "Yuan Fan is loyal, but you didn't give him a good result." Zheng Ligong was furious and immediately arrested Yan Zhong's father.

Zheng Ligong felt that the current situation was very unfavorable to King Zhou Hui; The small royal city was almost unsafe to defend, and it was impossible for Zheng Jun to be stationed in the royal city for a long time; The power of the prince is growing day by day; Qi Guoren's attitude is ambiguous, but it is certain that Qi Huan Gong will definitely not make Zheng Guoren's wishful thinking go too smoothly. Therefore, he welcomed King Hui of Zhou back to Zheng and placed him in Liyi.

Duke Qi Huan acquiesced to the defenders to provoke trouble, and then hoped to improve his prestige by resolving the crisis of the royal family, but his reaction was half a beat slower than that of Zheng Ligong, which was taken advantage by Zheng Ligong.

The people of Qi would never follow behind Zheng Guoren to wave their flags and shout, so they waited and watched the situation change. In the spring of that year, another fire broke out in Linzi, which burned down one-fifth of the buildings in the city, and the people of Qi were too busy with self-rescue and reconstruction work to participate in the royal strife.