After Zheng Chenggong was detained by the Jin people, Zheng Guo fell into a state of domination. Such a state of affairs is prone to both invasion by foreign enemies and public unrest, and the urgency of the latter is obviously greater and more dangerous. Those who are loyal to the office are worried, and those with bad intentions are ready to move.

Since the Jin people cut off the diplomatic channel between the two countries, the Zheng people were no longer able to persuade the Jin people to release Zheng Chenggong in a short time.

In a secret meeting in the office, the doctor Gongsun Shen said: "The Jin people are sick but let us take medicine, as long as we take it, the Jin people's illness will worsen." So we might as well simply leave the Jin people aside, do what we have to do, and pretend to set up a new king. When the Jin people saw that we didn't take medicine, their illness would be cured, and then the Jin people would send our king back to Zheng Guo. ”

None of the ministers could come up with a better solution, and the plan was adopted.

Zheng Ren decided to ignore Zheng Chenggong and turned to the division to surround Xu. Zheng Chenggong's unpopular brother, Zheng Gongzi, did not attend the secret meeting because of his low rank; He didn't know the truth, so he protested: "My monarch is still under the control of the Jin people, and at this time, he wants to kill my monarch by adding troops to Xu Guo?" ”

Someone whispered to him: "You don't know what to do, just obey orders." ”

After the Zheng people added troops to the state of Xu, the Jin people were furious. In the spring of the tenth year of Lu Chenggong (BC581), Duke Jing of Jin ordered Wei Chenggong to invade Zheng.

Gongzi Ban gradually listened to the main content of the meeting, but he misunderstood the plans of the ministers - Gongsun Shen proposed a "false monarch", but he thought that he really wanted to establish a new monarch. Childe's class calculated that instead of letting others get the credit, it was better to start first. At that time, Zheng Chenggong's brother-in-law Gongzi was also actively seeking a position, and the two hit it off and began to prepare for the abolition of the old and the establishment of the new.

After the Wei army penetrated deep into Zheng State, the Zheng people decided to take the initiative; Gongzi and the Qing doctors led the army to the battle, leaving Gongzi Xuan, Gongzi Ban and Gongsun Shen and others to defend the country.

Seeing that the time had come, the two princes gathered their henchmen and used their swords to force Gongsun Shen and others to participate in the coronation ceremony of Gongzi Xuan.

When the generals returned to the city after the battle, they were surprised to find Gongzi Zhengzheng sitting on the throne restlessly, Gongzi Ban was standing in the position closest to him with vigor, and Gongsun Shen was silent with both eyes. Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the doctors couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what to do.

The doctors then held another secret meeting, this time not only excluding the childe class from the participants, but also failing to inform Gongsun Shen because the crimes he had committed were too serious, whether voluntarily or forced.

Gongzi said: "This disaster of Ban is a big one! The fake drama turned into the real one, and we all became traitors! If we drive him down, the Jin people will see through our plan, and they will definitely not release my king; But if we don't take action, once we are reinstated, everyone will die! ”

Childe said, "That's true. It was so difficult to welcome my king back to the country and save him from being killed. But since there is a prince in the country, the shirt is not in line with the Zhou etiquette. I don't think it's better to abolish the prince for this reason, and replace it with a stubborn prince. When I return to China, I will give way to my position without punishment. Perhaps only then can we be forgiven. This opinion was unanimously adopted.

In April, Zheng Qungongzi attacked and killed Gongzi, and then informed the prince that he was stubborn and wanted to make him king. It was not that he had not learned his father's bad temper, and he was frightened to madness when he heard the situation: he knelt on the ground and prostrated at the feet of his uncles, begging them to spare his life, claiming that he was willing to go into exile in any country.

Gongzi Yan comforted him and said: "It is a great righteousness for the prince to save the country, if the prince is held responsible, I will die on behalf of the prince." The others also expressed their attitudes, and only then did they enter the Taimiao surrounded by the doctors with complicated expressions.

The childe-like class heard the news in advance and fled in a hurry, but escaped by luck.

Jin Chu had already signed a peace treaty at this time, and it would be meaningless to continue to detain Zheng Chenggong. Just as the Jin people were worried about how to deal with that hot potato, civil strife broke out in Zheng Guo.

Luan Shu said solemnly: "Zheng Ren has set up a new king, what's the point of us keeping him?" It is better to send Zheng Bo back by cutting Zheng so that he can reach a reconciliation with Zheng Guo. ”

Jin Jinggong's health at this time had become quite bad, and he was no longer able to go to the court to listen to the government, so he simply took the initiative to abdicate and personally held a coronation ceremony for Prince Zhou Pu. Jin Jinggong was the only monarch in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period who took the initiative to hand over power to his successor while alive; Zhou Pu is for Jin Li Gong.

In May, the combined forces of Jin, Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, and Cao attacked Zheng, and the crime of the crusade was that the Zheng people "set up a new monarch". Zheng Ren said: "Jin people are really shameless! Our country originally had a monarch, but it was detained by the Jin people, resulting in our country having no monarch in the court for more than half a year! If Zheng Guo had been a little smaller, he would have perished a long time ago! Now the Jin people came with accomplices and asked, 'Why do you want to change the monarchy?' 'If you don't establish a king, are you waiting for the country to die?' ”

But Zheng Guo's ministers and doctors thought that this was exactly the result they wanted, and Jin was the fool who was tricked by himself. When the coalition forces besieged the city, Ziran came to the Jin army camp to sue for peace.

The Jin people severely accused Zheng Ren of wantonly trampling on Zhou rites, and solemnly demanded that Zheng Chenggong be reinstated, but Ziran pretended to be helpless and agreed; The Jin people forced the Zheng people to sign an alliance under the city, and Ziran also agreed; The Jin people demanded that Gongzi be taken hostage, and the Jin people demanded ...... All the conditions that made Zheng people feel humiliated, Zheng people agreed.

On May 11, the Jin people released Zheng Chenggong, and Gongzi went to the Jin army camp to welcome Zheng Chenggong back to China.

Zheng Chenggong pleaded: "The widow will be exiled to any small country." Can you let the widow live? ”

Gongzixi said: "Uncle Jun misunderstood, everything was a lie to the Jin people, and the doctor didn't really set up a new king." ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "If the uncle deceives the widow, the widow will go to God and accuse the uncle." ”

Zheng Ren opened the city gate, and the stubborn led the ministers out of the city to greet them; Stubborn in mourning clothes, prostrate on the ground, and dare not come out. Zheng Chenggong believed that the doctors had not lied to him, and he immediately regained his former spirit, and without looking at him, he went straight into the city.

Gongsun Shen's brother Gongsun Yu persuaded him to flee immediately, but Gongsun Shen didn't know why, he didn't know why he wanted to flee, and he was unwilling to give up the status and wealth that he had worked hard for many years.

Gongsun Yu said: "Uncle Jun has hatred in his heart, and he must vent it; Doctors need scapegoats, and someone has to take the blame. If you don't die, will you let the important ministers and the Seven Mu Doctors die? ”

But Gongsun Shen still couldn't understand: he was the primary contributor to Zheng Chenggong's freedom, and he deserved to be rewarded, so how could he be punished?

But if politics were as simple as he imagined, Childe would not have been killed, and Childe would not have escaped.

On June 8, Zheng Chenggong summoned the ministers of the public office and prepared to hold the ruler accountable. He slapped the case with a shocking sound: "Even during the fourteen years that King Zhou You was in exile in the land, the royal family did not set up a son of heaven to take the throne!" The widow left for half a year, and someone set up two monarchs! Is the widow more brutal than the king, or does someone already think that the widow will die? Are you in such a hurry? Before you even received the news of the widow's death, you began to celebrate the new king's accession to the throne? ”

Gongzixi, Gongziguo and other ministers said: "The minister is just pretending to set up the prince as the king, otherwise I don't know when the Jin people will be able to send the king back to China." ”

Zheng Chenggong shouted: "What about my ambitious brother-in-law? Did he also set up to help the widow return to China as soon as possible? If it were him, instead of stubbornly sitting in this seat, would he be able to spare the widow? Who was planning that conspiracy? ”

The ministers unanimously turned their gaze to Gongsun Shen.

Gongsun Shen realized the seriousness of the situation, and he defended that the method of "pseudo-king" was indeed proposed by himself, but he did not volunteer to establish Gongzi, he was forced.

Zheng Chenggong asked: "But everyone said that you were the official of the courtesy, and you crowned the silk with your own hands; And when you overthrow the stubborn man, not only do you not correct your mistakes, but you hide without a trace. And how do you prove that you were forced? ”

Childe Ban and his henchmen had long since fled, and the other participants in the ceremony were silent for fear of being implicated, and none of the doctors who had gone to war could testify. As a result, the crime was thus decided, and Gongsun Shen and Gongsun Yu were executed.

Childe couldn't help but sigh: "Loyalty is a virtue, but loyalty can only be dedicated to those who have virtue; Although Shu Shen is loyal, he recognized the wrong person, so that he was ruined and his family was ruined, which is really sighing. ”

Gongzi said: "Uncle Jun has endured it for months, and he must let his anger out. Shu Shen was favored and could not be abandoned, he thought that he would not be killed if he was not guilty, but the monarch did not need to be convicted at all for killing, but only needed an excuse. ”