As mentioned earlier, Yuan Taotu was almost killed by Shenhou because of a thought. Not only did he eat in prison in Qi for half a year, but after returning to China, he was also taken away half of his fief by Chen Hou. But when Chen Hou found out the truth that Yuan Taotu was framed, he returned the fief to him, and admonished him earnestly: "The master has the fur of a tiger, but he has an innocent heart like a baby. The Master must give up one thing, or he will be in danger. "Yuan Taotu behaves in a decent manner, he is obsessed with money and soft-hearted, and he is easy to trust others, and as a result, he has been deceived by different wicked people several times.

One day, while chatting with his sympathetic friend, Gongsun Hu, he once discussed the question: "If you were deceived by friends and strangers in the same way, who would you hate more?" ”

Gongsun Hu said: "I must hate the stranger, because I have no feelings for him, and he must be punished." Friend, there must be a hardship, I can understand him and forgive him; I may break up with him, but I won't punish him. ”

Yuan Taotu said: "I am the opposite of you, I must hate my friends more." Strangers don't need to be trustworthy to me, and they don't need to be responsible for their words and actions; But not friends, credit is the basis for becoming friends. If a person destroys his friend's trust and interests in him, his heart is treacherous and evil can be punished, and I will punish such a person quickly! ”

Yuan Taotu gave birth to the heart of a tiger and wolf, but he buried his hatred for Shenhou deep in his heart, and still pretended to be harmless on the surface, but secretly implemented the plan step by step, and finally killed Shenhou.

Soon Yuan Tao Tu sent an envoy to Zheng Guo, and at the private banquet held for him by Shen Hou, he poured bitter water with the strength of wine, and complained that he had always regarded Shen Hou as his closest friend, but Shen Hou almost killed him.

Shen Hou said aggressively with the same mocking attitude as ever: "You are really stupid! If the Marquis of Qi's army is really defeated in Dongyi, whether the Chen State will perish or not will not be said for the time being, will you still be able to live to this day? It was I who saved Chen Guo and saved you! If you don't thank me, you're still here to blame me! If I hadn't begged for it, I'm afraid you would have died of old age! ”

Yuan Tao painted a look of surprise in understanding, and then asked him why he didn't remind him to stop him at that time, and sat back and watched him make a big mistake.

Shenhou said, "Have you given me time?" You said it to yourself, thinking that you had done a great job, and for fear that your old friend (that is, me) would take away the credit, so you hurriedly ran out to ask for credit. But by the time I think about it, it's too late to stop you! In this way, I still tried my best to excuse you in front of Qi Hou, so I rescued you. ”

Yuan Tao Tu was greatly shocked and moved, he hugged Shenhou with tears in his eyes, kept apologizing, and begged the other party to forgive him. And Shenhou told the other party very generously that he didn't care about Yuan Taotu's misunderstanding of him, and he just felt a little sad and disappointed about it, because he regarded him as his closest friend didn't understand and didn't believe him.

After his mood stabilized, Yuan Taotu proposed to take a look at Shenhou's fiefdom to see how majestic and dangerous the legendary "Tiger Prison Pass" was.

When the two arrived outside the city, Yuan Taotu shook his head and pouted, "Is this the legendary Tiger Prison?" Even my own Xiaoyi is not so dilapidated! This wall is hundreds of years old, right? It hasn't been renovated since it was built, has it? Not to mention the damage to the national body, there is no light on your face! ”

Shenhou said: "Zheng Guo is staring at the system, it's not that I don't want to strengthen the city wall, but I'm afraid of provoking criticism. "But Shenhou is only talking about one aspect; On the other hand, he came to loot the people's wealth, not to build the country, and it had nothing to do with him what the system was.

Yuan Tao patted his chest and said, "Master saved my life, I have nothing to repay you; I went back and asked Uncle Zheng to reinforce the province, and I don't need you to spend a penny. ”

The two returned to Xinzheng, and Yuan Tao went to see Zheng Wengong. No one knows what method he used to persuade Zheng Wengong to expand the palace for Shenhou (this secret was not revealed until Yuan Taotu's death).

However, this move was fiercely opposed by the minister Shu Zhan. Shu Zhan and Zheng Wen have been at odds for a long time, and this time they went home in a rage to make trouble. Zheng Wengong summoned him many times, but he just didn't go to court.

Zheng Wengong issued an order to use the treasury property to build a city wall for the villain's fiefdom. Half a year later, the new city was built, and the new city was tall and majestic. Shenhou has infinite scenery and has become more unstoppable, and there is more criticism of him in the royal family.

Xianguo is located on the south bank of the Huai River and west of the Huang Kingdom, and is a small viscount country with the surname Kui. Xianguo and Jiang, Huang and other countries are in-laws. Because Jiang and Huang had already fallen to the Qi State, the Xian State relied on the relationship between the two countries and the Qi State to no longer pay tribute to the Chu State; Because Xianzi was too arrogant, he also did not take precautions against the state of Chu.

Xian was not a member of the Huaxia Alliance, so the Chu people considered its destruction to be a breach of their alliance with Huaxia; Ling Yin Ziwen led the army to launch a surprise attack and destroyed the Xian Kingdom before the Chinese rescuers arrived.

Zheng Wengong sent an envoy to Chu as soon as he fled back to China, and the people of Chu were very happy to see that the Zhaoling Alliance had begun to split so quickly, and the host received the visitors warmly and ceremoniously. In order to prevent retaliation from the Chinese princes, Zheng built a fortress in Xinmi (southwest of present-day Zhengzhou).

In order to punish Zheng Wengong for his crime of escaping the alliance, in the summer of the sixth year of Lu Xugong (654 BC), the allied forces of Qi, Song, Chen, Wei and Cao attacked Zheng and besieged the Xinmi fortress.

Not to be outdone, the people of Chu immediately waved their troops north to attack Xu. The purpose of the Chu army was that Zheng was not in Xu, but only wanted to attract the coalition forces, so the attack on Xu Du was not violent. However, Xu Guoren misjudged the enemy's intentions and made a big move, defeating the Chu army in a local battle.

King Cheng of Chu was furious and immediately strengthened his offensive against Xu State. When the coalition forces got the information, they had no choice but to lift the siege of Xinmi and turn to save Xu; When the Chu people saw that their goal had been achieved, they took the initiative to withdraw their troops.

Although Xu Guo escaped, Xu Ren faintly had a trace of worry in his heart, worried about whether Xu Guo would become the next target of Chu State.

The answer was soon revealed: yes, and Xu Guo would no longer be able to retain his place in the Huaxia Alliance.