Wu Wu confessed that the prince had mysteriously disappeared, and he interpreted the prince's escape as a renunciation of the throne. Then he said, "Let not a kingdom be without a king for a day; Whether in terms of age, position, conduct, or ability, he is the best candidate, and the ancestor had promised to make him the crown prince before his death; So he asked his brothers to unite and support him as the new king, and he would lead the Qi country to new glory...

Gongzi Yuan was the first to jump out to object, he said: "The age and position you said, the brothers are indeed not as good as you." But the question is, why didn't you become a prince if you met the criteria so well? This is because you are simply not qualified, so you are excluded in the first place! So since Prince Zhao abandoned the country, he naturally lost his qualification to the throne; According to the weekly rites and ancestral system, only I can become the new king..."

Gongzi merchants supported Gongzi Yuan, but Gongzi Yong resolutely opposed it, his reason was that Gongzi Pan's mother had a higher status than other ladies and women, and according to the ancestral system of son to mother, Gongzi Pan should inherit the throne.

Then these people quarreled with each other, and the parties did not give in to each other, and gradually it turned into a situation of saber rattling. During the quarrel, I don't know who shot an arrow, Yi Ya screamed, clutched his crotch and fell to the ground in pain. The negotiations broke down in an instant, and the forces of all sides immediately drew their swords and drew their bows to attack each other, and the scene suddenly became extremely chaotic.

The stiff corpse of the former overlord was abandoned in the dormitory and no one collected it, but the five sons he raised with his own hands and gave him brocade clothes and jade food were now running around and fighting in the sacred court and in the solemn place where the Chinese overlord accepted the pilgrimages of countless princes.

The battle ended with an undefeated voluntary withdrawal, and the sons returned to their respective camps, and then a standoff between them and day after day was presented.

The last time the Qi State encountered such a crisis was forty-three years ago. But unlike last time, the reason for the chaos at that time was that there was no prince in the country who could inherit the throne, and now there are too many sons vying for the throne; At that time, the state apparatus was functioning normally, but now it is completely paralyzed.

At the critical moment, the people of Qi pinned their hopes on Gao Zhuangzi and the country to return to his father. Officials who escaped from the scene of the massacre hid in two separate houses, according to their relationship with Gao and Guo, where officials believed they could escape death.

The two ministers first issued martial law and sent the city guards to patrol the city, thus temporarily stabilizing the situation and preventing the killing from happening again. Then the two sent officials to various places and asked the major cities to strengthen their garrisons to prevent foreign enemies from taking advantage of the chaos to invade.

After these two things were done, the two moved the government office into their homes to maintain the normal operation of state institutions. A strange phenomenon appeared in Linzi, the swords and shadows around the palace city were tense, and violent incidents occurred every day; In other areas, people live and work as usual.

When the doctors asked Gao Zhuangzi how to end the rebellion of the Five Princes, he said: "Internal strife needs external treatment. ”

There was a reason why Duke Qi Huan chose Song Xianggong as the foreign aid of Prince Zhao. In the fourteenth year of the reign of Duke Lu Zhuang (BC680), Duke Huan of Song was severely taught a lesson by the princes led by Duke Huan of Qi for "vainly trying to restore Yin Shang"; The Song State was forced to submit, so there was the Ju Alliance. When Song Huan Gong attended the alliance meeting, he deliberately brought the underage prince Zi's father.

His father was shocked by the momentum and demeanor of the Qi people, and from then on he was determined to become a monarch like the Duke of Qi Huan. After that, he moved closer to the Qi country in an all-round way, he married the princess of the Qi country, and his life was basically Qi country.

Duke Qi Huan found many ancient virtues in Song Xianggong, he was humble and diligent, liked to help others, and kept his promises; These virtues are hard to find in today's monarchs, even crown princes. Duke Qi Huan also took into account the traditional alliance between the two countries and the strong strength of the Song State, and finally decided to hand over the fate of the crown prince to Song Xianggong.

Song Xianggong did not regard this entrustment as a burden, but as a glorious mission; He was so excited about the arrival of the crown prince that some people thought he was happy that the prince had been forced into exile.

Song Xianggong thought that there was no chance of winning the war based on the strength of the Song State alone, so he decided to bring in a few more friends to support him; By the way, the new leader is in the limelight. He sent envoys to Cao, Yi and Wei, and asked the three kingdoms to send troops to appease and fight together.

Soon Gao Zhuangzi's envoy arrived, and then Song Xianggong and Gao Zhuangzi's messenger secretly traveled between the two countries. In the blink of an eye, more than two months have passed since the incident, and the five princes are still confronting each other, with no intention of reconciliation.

Gao and Guo decided to put an end to this scandal, which was ridiculed by the people of the world, as soon as possible and restore order in the country as soon as possible. The two gave the order, changed into mourning clothes with the officials, and marched to the palace in a car carrying a huge coffin. None of the five princes who were on guard around the palace dared to stop them; The procession entered the palace gate and parked the coffin in the middle of the square.

Gao and Guo summoned the five sons to the side of the coffin, and the two saw that the brothers were scarlet-eyed, unkempt, trance-like, and didn't know why, and the long-term tension and fatigue had tormented them to the point of exhaustion.

Gao Zhuangzi said: "Whoever among the sons finally becomes the monarch, should think about the country, right? Just when the sons are fighting for power and profit, people all over the world are watching you make a fool of yourself and see the jokes of the country! The allies of the Qi State were saddened and lost, and the enemy was even preparing to attack the chaotic country. I have also heard rumors that the one who will take the throne in the end must be the worst of you, because that person will emerge victorious in a struggle worse than anyone else!

"Oh my God! Oh, my God! This is the world's evaluation of the new monarch of Qi Kingdom! Don't talk about the hegemony of the Qi country and the support of the princes, just talk about the love of the people, the loyalty of the officials, and the trust of the princes, can you get those?

"So, put an end to all this before we completely lose the hearts and minds of the people, and before the Qi country is occupied! The bones of the ancestors are still rotting in the dormitory, and the ghosts are still roaming the sky, freezing and starving. Even the ancestors were not buried, who would dare to call themselves the heirs? ”

The sons are indeed powerless to stalemate any longer, and the strength that has supported them to survive until now is not so much faith and will, but more machinery and numbness. No brother fell to the ground, his eyes glazed over, as if he had lost his soul. Gongzi Yuan sat on the ground and shed tears first, the brothers and doctors couldn't help but start crying, the soldiers threw down their weapons and bowed their heads and sobbed, the sad atmosphere instantly dispersed, and everyone was immersed in the atmosphere of grief.

The sons' sanity is finally back to normal. Gongzi Kaifang invited the two secretaries aside, and the three of them discussed for a moment, then turned around and announced that they had no loss as the king. The fourth prince acquiesced to this result, and the son led the hearse to the dormitory without loss.