There is a high platform several feet high in Qufu Palace, and whenever Lu Wengong is in a bad mood, he will always climb the high platform to mediate his mood.

On the 23rd of February, the weather was gloomy and damp, and the earth was filled with a mist, and the air pressure was suffocating; In the late afternoon, the sky was drizzling.

Lu Wengong felt flustered and short of breath, and his mood was irritable. He planned to go to the high platform alone to calm down, so he walked out of the dormitory, paced to the high platform, and slowly stepped up the steps.

The steps are not very steep, but the stone surface is a little slippery due to the weather, and there are no handrails on either side. Lu Wengong didn't care, but when he was about to reach the top of the stage, his feet slipped and he rolled down from the high platform in an instant; He hit the ground with the back of his head during the fall and died instantly.

The sudden death of the monarch shocked the Lu people and brought great confusion at the same time. The young prince evil was put on the throne in a hurry, and it was for the king's evil.

Qi Yigong had recovered his health at this time, and the Qi division had also been assembled; When he learned of the great mourning in Lu, he disbanded his army and sent a mission to Lu to mourn the deceased—these practices showed that he was not shameless to the extreme.

In the summer of May, the weather in Linzi was already very hot, and Qi Yigong had nothing to do, so he went to Shenchi to escape the summer and relax.

When Qi Yigong was still a son, he had an endless dispute with the Bing family over the ownership of a piece of land, and this lawsuit caused a sensation in the entire Qi country; Situ couldn't handle it, and the lawsuit finally went to Qi Xiaogong.

After fully investigating the case, Qi Xiaogong believed that if the land was awarded to his brother, then an uprising would break out in the Qi state, and the people would remove themselves from the throne. As a result, he ruled against the businessman, and the land remained owned by the Bing family.

After the merchant ascended the throne, he still had a grudge in his heart when he recalled this past, so he dug out the Bing clan, which had already been buried in the ground, and ripped off the two kneecaps of the corpse, and then returned the remains to the deceased's son Bing Xiao, which was regarded as a bad breath.

Bing has always served in the pro-guard and followed the monarch from place to place. Qi Yigong enlightened him amiably: "'Father and son, brothers, sins are not related. 'Your father is guilty, and he deserves to be punished, but you will not be implicated; You have to do your job well and don't have a psychological burden. ”

Bing Xun was grateful on the spot, and almost knelt down, but the more he thought about it when he returned home, the more wrong it became: "This case has long been decided, is it just that the ruler has changed, and the black has become white?" The innocent become sinners? You are a guilty person, okay? ”

Another retinue of Qi Yigong was named Yan Zhi, and he had a beautiful wife. Qi Yigong always wanted to get her hands on her, so he asked Yan Zhi to send his wife to the palace on the grounds that one of his concubines needed companionship during confinement; As a result, his wife was sent to the harem, and the unfortunate man never saw his woman again.

To the west of the shrine is a dense bamboo forest, with several small ponds formed by underground springs; These ponds are very famous, and every year a large number of nobles come to play and soak in the mineral baths.

On this day, Qi Yigong rested in the palace, and Bing Yu and Yan Zhi made an appointment to go to the pond to take a bath. The two soaked comfortably for half an hour, Yan Zhi got up and went ashore, and Bing Xiao saw that his ass was very white, so he jokingly twitched it with a bath towel. Yan Zhi had just experienced the humiliation of his wife's seizure, and his mood had not yet adjusted, so he turned around and couldn't help but scold at Bing Xiao.

Bing Xiao sarcastically said: "I haven't seen you so excited when your woman is occupied!" You only dare to show your teeth and claws to your friends, and you will lose your temper when you meet a robber. ”

Yan Zhi sneered: "I'm not like a filial son, my father was dug up and destroyed, and I am still loyal to the enemy!" ”

Both of them fell silent suddenly, and Yan Zhi stepped back into the pond and sat down beside Bing Shu, leaning his shoulders against the stones on the shore.

After a while, Bing Xiao said: "Brother, the Qi merchant killed the monarch, usurped the throne, and did countless bad things, and half of the people of the Qi country are his enemies. Such a person is not worthy to give orders in the temple! Do you dare to join me in killing that villain? ”

Yan Zhi said: "Brother, my courage has never been less than yours! The two of them plotted, then climbed ashore and got dressed and returned to the palace.

The two found Qi Yigong and said that they had found a treasure like a dog's head in the forest, and they didn't dare to move it without permission, so they asked him to check it out.

Qi Yigong put on his shoes without hesitation and followed the two into the bamboo forest. When the three of them came to the vicinity of the pond, the two bitter masters violently twisted Qi Yigong's arm one left and one right, and pressed his head into the water. Qi Yigong struggled hard, but both men were experts in martial arts, and once the opponent was locked by the two, any struggle would be futile. As a result, the usurper Qi Yigong was soon immersed in water.

The two threw Qi Yigong's body into the pond, walked out of the bamboo forest with a sense of relief, and drove back to Linzi. The two of them reported to their ancestors separately, and then went to the official office to hand over the official talisman. When the chief asked them why they had resigned, the two said, "We have killed the prince and want to flee to a foreign land." Then he calmly walked away under the shocked gazes of the people around him.

Duke Qi Yi reigned for four years, and when he usurped the throne (the fourteenth year of Duke Lu Wen), Neishi Shufu predicted his death; Except for the villains who have the same smell as him, no one in the Qi Kingdom likes him, and at the same time hates his son, so the doctors are reluctant to make the prince king.

But the Qi people wanted to find a source and reason for the establishment of a new king. Someone proposed: "The nickname that Wei Ren gave Wei Chi back then was "Yi", and he refused to appoint him as the crown prince, so it is better to also call the merchant 'Yi', which is enough to express the meaning of Qi people." ”

The doctors really struggled to find a new candidate. The sons of Qi Xiaogong and Qi Zhaogong were excluded, and in the end, only Gongzi Yuan and one of his brothers remained.

Both the Gao clan and the Guo clan were inclined to establish Gongzi Yuan, and they said, "Gongzi Yuan is generous and benevolent, righteous and has no desire." Righteousness is selfless, and desirelessness is not greedy. It is already very rare for a monarch to have both breeds. ”

Qi people touched into a remote town and invited Gongzi Yuan, who had been in seclusion for four years, back to Linzi. At the end of May, Gongzi Yuan ascended the throne as the Duke of Qi Hui, and thirty-four years had passed since the outbreak of the Five Gongzi Rebellion.

In June, the Lu people buried Lu Wengong. In the months that followed, a serious upheaval broke out within the Lu State Office over the throne.