King Hui of Zhou felt the taste of living under someone else's roof in Zheng Kingdom, and he decided to return to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Zheng Ligong then sent him to Wuyi, which was adjacent to Zheng Guo. Wuyi originally belonged to Zheng Guo, but later King Huan of Zhou exchanged Suzi's fief with Zheng Guo, and the city was placed under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

By this time, the prince had moved into the royal city and was enjoying his short-lived, luxurious and erosive life. The closer he got to Cheng Zhou, the more heartbroken King Zhou Hui became: "Although I can't go back to the palace to enjoy the dance and music, it's also great to have some jade ritual utensils by my side." ”

Thinking so, he sent his men disguised as merchants into the city to inquire about the situation. Those people went around the city for a few days and came back to say that the army of Wang Zi and the Patriots were stationed around the royal city, but Cheng Zhou's defense was very lax, and now the people of the country were dissatisfied with Wang Zi Yuan's unification (because compared to the stinginess of King Zhou Hui, people could not tolerate Wang Zi Yuan's cruelty), and if the Son of Heaven wanted to enter the capital, he should not be resisted.

Then, one evening, King Hui of Zhou broke into Chengzhou from the east gate with a light army, and their movement was indeed not hindered by the soldiers.

At first, the Chinese thought that the Son of Heaven had returned to the throne, and immediately ran out of the house, shouting slogans, and excitedly following the team. But then they witnessed the unthinkable: the team broke into the palace and the temple like robbers, looted the treasures that were easy to carry, and then fled back the way they came.

At this time, someone from behind roared: "My king! You snatched these treasures that belonged to you, don't you really plan to come back?! ”

But it was wiser for King Hui of Zhou to flee from Cheng Zhou quickly, because the army of the prince was coming over immediately. The prince laughed at King Zhou Hui and said that if he knew in advance that this miser was only here to grab something, he would give the other party more time, because he was not a stingy person. And the prince was also curious, he wanted to know what else that guy would move if he had time. Later, the prince collected some rags and sent them to Wuyi to show his mockery of King Zhou Hui.

The prince's decadent life can be described as varied, he first enjoyed King Zhou Hui's harem one by one, and then enjoyed the etiquette that the Son of Heaven can adopt one by one. He was also particularly fond of raising cattle, which were rare animals at the time, and only nobles with a certain status and wealth could afford to raise them. The prince recruited cattle breeders all over the world, and even the later Qin State minister Baili Xi also served him.

It has been a year since the prince usurped the throne, and although there were not many princes who came to see him (in fact, there were not many who came to see King Zhou Hui before), but in his opinion, his ass has already sat on the throne of the Son of Heaven.

One day in winter, the prince entertained his accomplices with all the luxury. At the banquet, six generations of dance music were played, and the opening repertoire was the Yellow Emperor's "Cloud Gate", followed by "Dajuan", Di Yao's "Da Xian", Di Shun's "Da Shao", Da Yu's "Da Xia", Tang Wang's "Da Hui", and Zhou Wuwang's "Dawu", as if in this way their regime would become legitimate.

The rebellious ministers and thieves blasphemed the dance music of the first emperor and the holy king, for fear of missing the next song, as if they had not done enough bad deeds. The feast began at dusk and lasted until midnight, and everyone was so drunk that it was as if there was no day to drink again.

Soon, Zheng Ligong and Yu Gongchou talked about it. Zheng Ligong said: "The widow heard that 'when the sorrow and happiness are lost, the blame will come'. Now the prince is singing and dancing tirelessly, which is both a curse and a curse. In the past, when the priest executed the criminal, the monarch would depreciate the meal and remove the dance music to show that he valued the great evil, how could he dare to gloat? The prince has blasphemed the throne and sinned, and who is more evil than his? When a great calamity comes, but you forget the sorrow, and the great calamity will come! The widow thinks that he can now send the king back. ”

Yu Gongchou said: "This is also the wish of the widow! ”

So the two widows began to plan how to help King Zhou Hui restore the throne.

In the spring of the twenty-first year of the reign of Duke Lu Zhuang, Duke Zheng Li invited Duke Yu and Duke Lu Zhuang to meet in Mi (now Mi County, Henan), and the monarchs of the three kingdoms reached a consensus to immediately overthrow the puppet regime of the prince and send King Hui of Zhou back to the royal city.

In the summer and April, the allied forces of Zheng, Yu and Lu attacked the royal city together. The number of patriots stationed in the royal city was not large, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they turned and fled; The morale of the lost allies of the prince's army was extremely low, and many of them threw down their weapons and ran into the ranks of the coalition army.

The Zheng army surrounded King Zhuang of Zhou and entered through the east gate, and the Yu army entered through the north gate. The prince and the five doctors did not insult their noble origins, they resisted with all their might, and in the end they all died.

When Zheng Ligong was about to leave the royal city, he held a banquet for King Zhou Hui, and he also played the dance music of the six generations at the banquet. King Hui of Zhou re-granted Zheng Guo the land east of Tiger Prison Pass, which had been taken away by the royal family when Zheng Ziyi was in power. Also present at the banquet was Dr. Zhou, Yuan Zhuanggong.

Yuan Zhuang Gong later said to his colleagues: "Zheng Bo follows you! He criticized the prince for his decadence and transgression of etiquette, but he did even more excessively, how could the princes play the emperor's dance music?! Uncle Zheng is afraid that he will also get into trouble! ”

Yuan Zhuang Gong became a prophecy. Only a short month later, Zheng Ligong died, and Prince Jie ascended the throne as Zheng Wengong. Zheng Ligong reigned for a total of twenty-eight years, but spent most of his time in exile; He was a man of great talent, ruthlessness and tenacity. If he had been in charge of the state from beginning to end, Zheng might have been able to dominate the princes instead of being replaced by Qi.

Duke Lin's father squeezed out Duke Zheng Zhuang to become the secretary of the dynasty, and Duke Yu now feels that Duke Zheng Li has a tendency to regain favor, and he is unwilling to lose the power seized by his father from his hands, so he does everything possible to flatter King Zhou Hui. He took advantage of Zheng Guo's great funeral to invite King Hui to hunt in the land. King Zhou Hui not only accepted the other party's invitation, but also gave the land of Jiuquan to Yu Gongchou.

At the beginning of Zheng Wengong's accession to the throne, he harbored a lot of resentment towards King Zhou Hui. It turned out that when Zheng Ligong was banqueting King Zhou Hui, King Hui gave the queen's belt to Zheng Ligong; When the prince asked for a reward, the reward he received was a wine lord. Although these two objects are not particularly valuable, and people have long been accustomed to the petty family spirit of King Zhou Hui, the wine jue belongs to the ceremonial vessel, and the belt belongs to the woman's ornament, and the weight of the wine jue is obviously heavier than the belt.

Zheng Wengong thought that his father's merits were much higher than that of Gong Chou, who was just a little follower who followed Zheng Ligong's ass and shouted the flag, so he thought that King Zhou Hui's behavior was a great insult to Gong Li. The petty monarch was full of resentment towards the royal family at the beginning of his reign, and this resentment later led to a second major conflict that broke out between Zhou and Zheng shortly after.