Chapter 198: The Beginning of the Disaster (1)

Lu Xugong ten years, Chidi extinguished the temperature.

Wendi was originally given to the great priest Su Xisheng by King Wu of Zhou, and later King Huan of Zhou took it back to the royal family. King Huan of Zhou exchanged Wen for a piece of land in Zheng Guo. However, Wendi was soon reclaimed by the royal family and given to the Su clan again.

During the reign of King Hui of Zhou, the prince was in trouble with the five doctors. The prince fled to Wen and coaxed Suzi into the rebel camp. After the prince's faction was suppressed, Su Zi hid in a fiefdom and united with Chidi to confront the royal family.

King Xiang of Zhou once persuaded Su Zi to return to the arms of the royal family, and Su Zi was not without the will to return, but Chi Di jumped out to obstruct it. Both sides wanted to pull Suzi into their camp, and then they both offered generous terms. After a few rounds of fighting, Su Zi found that his worth had increased, and he couldn't help but become arrogant. He demanded a lot of money from both sides, but he didn't keep his promises.

Chidi was furious and sent troops to attack Wen. Su Zi was so frightened that he had to ask the royal family for help in a low voice. However, King Xiang of Zhou believed that although Chidi could capture Wenyi, it was impossible to keep it; He was also happy to see Di Jun teach him a lesson to the capricious old scoundrel, so he simply watched from the sidelines, waiting for the enemy to retreat before coming forward to clean up the mess.

Chidi captured Wendi without much effort, Suzi disguised himself as a refugee (in fact, he didn't need to wear makeup) and fled to defend the country empty-handed, while Chidi plundered and withdrew. Next, the royal family took back the city, which was devastated but had a fairly complete main structure.

The royal family's indifferent attitude towards Su Zi and Wen Yi aroused Rong Di's great greed, and they regarded King Zhou Xiang's failure to save him as weakness and deception; And the restless brother of King Xiang of Zhou, the prince belt, secretly encouraged Rong Di even harder, instigating Chi Di to attack his brother in order to obtain more booty.

In the summer of the eleventh year of the reign of Lu Xi (BC649), at the instigation of the prince, the six Rongdi tribes of Yang, Zhu, Quan, Gao, Yi and Luo jointly went out to attack the Zhou, and the prince took refuge in the fiefdom to watch the changes. At that time, it was the season when the wheat was ripe, and the people of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were busy with agricultural work, but they were caught off guard by the enemy. The Rongdi coalition captured large numbers of people, turned them into slaves, and ordered the slaves to harvest and transport crops for themselves.

The enemy delayed the best opportunity to attack Chengzhou due to his focus on looting, and the Zhou people had already withdrawn into the city by the time the enemy army reached the outside of Zhou. The strategy of this operation was to launch a surprise attack, so none of the enemies carried decent siege equipment.

Since King Ping moved eastward, the Zhou people treated the construction of the defense system of the capital as a top priority, and the people built the walls of Cheng Zhou very tall and strong, and stored a large number of defensive weapons in the city towers. The enemy attacked the walls with makeshift and rudimentary equipment and savage heroism, and as a result suffered heavy losses, and their mood became depressed and restless.

But what happened before was nothing, and what happened later made the enemy almost crazy.

It turned out that the prince couldn't look down on it, so he hurried to the coalition camp in Rongdi's costume and reprimanded the enemy leaders, saying that they had captured the wrong city.

The prince said that the king of Zhou did not have to live in the most majestic and prosperous city in the world; On the contrary, he was hiding in the nearby royal city and sending people to bring rescue troops everywhere; The Rong army previously lost the best fighter due to greed, and now chose the wrong target for attack because of stupidity; He really didn't know what to say about his allies; If they can correct their mistakes in time and conquer the royal city, they can also get the wealth of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, if not, they will wait to be wiped out by the Huaxia coalition army one by one!

The leader of the enemy was furious and said, "Who knows that your king does not live with his people? The coalition forces immediately lifted the siege of Cheng Zhou and turned to besiege the royal city.

The royal city is a palace city, and although its defense system is perfect, its scale is too small. The enemy quickly breached the eastern gate of the royal city and burned it to the ground. But the defenders piled up obstacles on the roads inside the city, and the enemy stumbled under their feet, but they were attacked by bows, spears, and spears fired from above. The fallen corpses created an even greater obstacle for the attackers, and the corpses almost blocked the gates of the city; The enemy had to suspend the offensive and drag the corpses out of the city gates.

The loss of troops for several days has made the enemy angry, and at this time there is worrying and frustrating news. It turned out that the Qin and Jin states separately launched attacks on the residences of the six major tribes, and those tribes suffered the same situation as the Eastern Zhou people. The enemy has no intention of fighting, and in an instant, birds and beasts are scattered.

After the crisis in Wangcheng was resolved, the Eastern Zhou people began to clean up the mess, only to find that many dignitaries had been captured by the enemy. King Xiang of Zhou wanted to redeem those people, but he was unwilling to put down his empty shelf, so he handed over the errand to Jin Huigong. He said that this was a great opportunity for Jin Huigong to stabilize his regime and establish his achievements.

Since the Qin-Jin coalition also captured many high-ranking nobles of Rongdi in the war, the Duke of Jin Huigong personally stepped forward to bring together representatives of several forces and temporarily resolved the dispute by exchanging prisoners of war.

In the twelfth year of the reign of Emperor Lu (648 BC), King Xiang of Zhou decided to investigate the crimes of the prince. The prince got the news through the spies who had been planted by the Son of Heaven, and he knew that he was guilty, and immediately fled to the country of Qi without stopping.

For the arrival of this rebellious minister and thief, Qi Huan Gong was really overjoyed. It turned out that King Xiang of Zhou quickly became arrogant after he ascended the throne, and he did not respect and attach himself to the Qi people as before; What's more, he often told the scandals that occurred in the court of Qi as a joke to the people around him.

The people of Qi decided to do something to teach the "ungrateful" little king a lesson, and it happened that the prince fled at this time. The people of Qi regarded him as a killer weapon against King Xiang of Zhou - once King Xiang of Zhou did something unfavorable to the State of Qi, the people of Qi would let him out to oppose Zhou Tianzi.

The Jin State mediated the conflict between the Zhou royal family and Rong Di, but the agreement was not effectively implemented - it was not easy for either Jin Huigong or Rong Di to spit out what they had eaten. The Zhou people demanded that Rong Di fulfill his obligations, and Rong Di pushed the responsibility onto the Jin people on the grounds of the right to defend themselves uneasily.

The Zhou people went to the Jin people to theorize, but the Jin people said that not long ago, the prisoners of war launched a riot, but they were either killed or fled, and now they have no one to make friends with. Of course, no one believed this explanation, and as a result, the Jin people pushed themselves to the forefront again - the contradiction between the Eastern Zhou and Rong Di had not disappeared, and the Jin State was stirred up again.

The people of Qi thought it was time to do something, so Duke Huan of Qi sent Guan Zhong to calm the conflict between the royal family and Rong Di, and sent Xi Peng to mediate the dispute between Jin and Rong Di. At the behest of Duke Qi Huan, the prince also secretly played a significant role in mediating disputes: he wrote to the lords of Rong that although Uncle Qi Huan did not like to use force to solve problems, once he felt that his face was damaged, force was the minimum means he adopted; He (the prince) witnessed the fate of the Rong Di who offended the Duke of Qi Huan in the Qi State: men were punished with corporal punishment and became the most despicable slaves, and women also did the lowest jobs; Children are also doomed, or become ****, or suffer the same suffering as adults.

In the end, he said: "Both the Eastern Zhou and Jin were small states, and behind the Qi state stood half of the princes of China. So, accept the mediation of the Qi people! Rejection means destruction, while acceptance is rewarded. ”