In the fourteenth year of Lu Chenggong (BC579).

Sun Lin's father has been in exile in the Jin Kingdom for five years, and during these five years, he has been unable to eat and sleep. Life in Weiguo was hard and full of dangers (the political environment in the Jin Kingdom was too bad), and he was bent on returning to Weiguo.

In terms of defending the country, Wei Dinggong felt that his life without Sun Lin's father was peaceful and comfortable, so he had no intention of calling Sun Lin's father back at all.

Sun Lin's father had no choice but to turn to the Jin people for help. He made a major promise to the Jin people, who felt that if they could send him back to the country, it would be a great benefit to the Jin state. In the spring of this year, Wei Dinggong visited the Jin Kingdom, and Jin Ligong took the opportunity to ask him to meet Sun Lin's father.

Wei Dinggong's face, which was still warm as spring just now, was suddenly covered with a layer of frost: "Father Sun Lin? Who is Sun Lin's father? The widow doesn't remember knowing such a person! ”

Jin Ligong said: "If you don't see the prince, how do you know if you know it?" ”

But Wei Dinggong was distracted, and he said: "If the prince continues to force the widow, the widow will be splattered with blood on the spot for five steps!" Jin Ligong was afraid of causing trouble, so he had to give up his rude request.

After Wei Dinggong returned to China, Yin Li was ordered to pay a return visit, and Sun Lin's father was also mixed in the mission. He Li said to Wei Dinggong: "Wei has a minister, Sun Lin's father, who fled to our country for refuge because he offended the prince. Father Lin missed the prince and his homeland day and night, but he was afraid that he would not be forgiven by the prince, so he did not dare to return.

"Father Lin asked the widow to mediate, and the widow sent his ministers to the prince and said: 'The harmony between the monarch and the prince is a blessing for every country, and it is also a blessing for the alliance; The widow was worried about the safety of the Weiguo Office, and he couldn't bear to see Father Lin grieving day and night, so he asked the prince for Father Lin. Father Lin also told his ministers that if he could not get the prince's forgiveness, he would also splatter his blood five steps. ”

Wei Dinggong was angry in his heart, he wanted to refuse, but Mrs. Dingjiang said, "No." Father Lin is the descendant of the first monarch Mingqing, and there is a big country asking for him, if he is not accepted, the country is afraid that it will perish. Although the prince felt disgusted, he didn't know how many times better disgust than the death of the country. Wouldn't it be nice for you to bear with it, to stabilize the people and keep the Shiqing? ”

Wei Dinggong then summoned Sun Lin's father, and five years of exile grinded Sun Lin's father from a high-flying arrogant person to a calm and introverted person, and this good change eliminated some of Wei Dinggong's hostility.

Sun Lin's father sincerely pleaded guilty to Wei Dinggong, sincerely confessed his guilt and repented, and couldn't help crying bitterly at the end. Wei Dinggong's mood eased a lot, and he also shed a few tears, and later restored Sun Lin's father's status as a secretary, and gave him Qi Land again.

When Wei Dinggong held a feast for him, he behaved very arrogantly: when Wei Dinggong ascended the steps on the east side, he went up parallel to him from the west side, so that he regarded himself as a person with the same status as Wei Hou; He only bent down slightly when he saluted Wei Dinggong, just like the monarch did to his minister.

All this was seen by Wei Dinggong's official Ning Huizi, who said to Wei Dinggong in private: "The Kucheng clan (the fiefdom of the Kucheng clan is in Kucheng) is probably going to perish!" Since ancient times, the purpose of holding ceremonies has been to observe prestige and save blessings and misfortunes. Therefore, there is a cloud in the "poem": 'I look at it, and I want to drink and think softly; He made friends with bandits, and he came to ask for blessings. Now the Master is acting so arrogantly, but he is bringing it upon himself. ”

This autumn, Wei Dinggong suddenly fell seriously ill. Because his wife Dingjiang's son was too young to control Sheji, he ordered Kong Chengzi and Ning Huizi to make Concubine Jingji's son Jian the crown prince. In the winter of October, Wei Dinggong died, and the crown prince ascended the throne for Wei Xiangong.

This man is not loyal to the public office for the sake of the minister, and is not filial to the parents for the sake of the son, and all the bad conduct of the villain can be seen in him; He relied on sycophancy to deceive his father's favor, and was made a monarch, but he eventually became the biggest scourge of the country.

In the process of guarding the soul of the ancestors, Mrs. Dingjiang caught a glimpse of Wei Xiangong's face without a trace of sadness after crying bitterly, and looked extremely impatient; When he saw Ding Jiang squinting at him, he immediately turned his head and winked at her.

Later, Ding Jiang heard that Xinjun not only did not reduce his diet according to the weekly rites during the mourning period, but added two dishes to each meal; She couldn't help but sigh, "This man! It will definitely corrupt the patriotic society, and it will definitely start by trampling on me, the surviving person! Alack! Heaven is going to send disaster to defend the country! Why don't you let Gongzi Yan (Wei Xiangong's half-brother) preside over the society! ”

The doctors were horrified when they heard this, and then began to look for a way out for their future. Since then, Sun Lin's father did not dare to put the heavy weapons in his home in the capital, but transferred them all to Qidi; He also strengthened his contacts with the powerful ministers of the Jin State and established close friendships with them.

Dingjiang became a proverb, and Sun Lin's father's work was not in vain. A few years later, Sun Lin's father was forced to launch a coup d'état to expel Wei Xiangong and kill many heavyweights in the office; More than ten years later, Wei Xiangong was restored with the support of domestic and foreign forces. The Sun clan almost died and had to retreat to Qidi, surviving with the support of the Jin people. This event begins with gore and ends with gore, the course of which will be recounted in detail later.

After Zheng Gongzi quelled the rebellion of Gongziban, Zheng Guoren was ready to teach his behind-the-scenes supporter, Xu Guo, a hard lesson. In August, Zheng Gongzixi led his division to attack Xu, and Xu Guoren set up an ambush on the enemy's march and fought a beautiful ambush battle, and Zheng's army lost its armor and returned defeated.

Zheng Cheng was furious and personally led the army to attack Xu again. On 23 August, Zheng's army defeated the defenders on the outskirts of Xudu and then began to siege the city. On August 25, Zheng's army captured the outer city of Xudu, and Xu Linggong was forced to cede land and sue for peace, this time ceding an important border town of Xu. After the Zheng Guoren took the opponent's city, they immediately set about building it into a bridgehead for the war against Xu.

These two military clashes between the two rivals were originally small local incidents, but later set off a series of chain reactions that the princes of the world did not expect.

Xu Linggong could no longer bear the military threat of Zheng Ren and the ambition of dying in the heart of Xu Guo (of course, there were conspirators in it), so he asked the king of Chu Gong to move the country closer to Chu State. The Chu people felt that this idea was feasible and beneficial to Xu and Chu, so they told Xu that they could move the capital to Yecheng. In November, the king of Chu sent Prince Shen to help Xu Ren complete the relocation operation.

Since Zheng and Xu belonged to different alliances, in the eyes of the Chu people, Zheng's actions became a serious provocation by the Huaxia Alliance against the Southern Alliance, and the Huaxia Alliance should be held responsible for Zheng's aggression. Once the local dispute rose to the level of the alliance, the Chu people had an excuse to go north again; In this way, the peace agreement just signed between Chu and Jin was nullified, and the third major war between the two countries broke out, the Battle of Yanling.