Cui Shu said loudly: "I respectfully invite the prince to enter the temple to be crowned!" ”

But Guang said: "The prince is alive, and Guang does not dare to be crowned." I returned to Linzi privately, just to be spared the death penalty. ”

Cui Shu said: "Is it possible to avoid capital crimes with loyalty and filial piety alone?" ”

The doctors scrambled to shout: "Guang is the prince of the public office, who dares to say that he is guilty?" ”

Cui Zhu said: "The doctors have no opinion, so please take the regent!" ”

The crown prince then changed into court clothes and sat down next to the throne, and his first order was to bring his brothers Ya and Rongzi up.

Gongziya had slipped through a small door in the back wall, and the soldiers just dragged Rongzi in. Rongzi knew that death was coming, but there was no fear on her face, she knew that she could not escape death, so she pointed to the light nose and scolded; Qi Guang listened expressionlessly, and did not stop her.

Rong Zi scolded enough, and finally said: "If you kill Mrs. Junhou, you will kill your own mother!" I curse you to die at the hands of women! ”

Light then charged her with the crime of shaking, maliciously blackening, and cursing the highest dignity of the future of the country, beheaded her on the spot, and threw her body on the steps in front of the door.

It was felt that revenge alone was too much, not to mention that the death penalty was hardly applied to women at that time, and even if it did, the corpse of the deceased could not be displayed in public.

But Gao Hou was not punished in any way—perhaps because he was not guilty, but only carried out Qi Linggong's orders; Maybe the light thinks the time has not come.

On the 29th day of the fifth month of the summer, Qi Linggong ended his life of being arbitrary, cowardly, and causing great damage to the Qi country. The crown prince is Guangli, for the Duke of Qi Zhuang.

Qi Linggong reigned for 28 years, and his greatest deed was to regress the national strength and status of Qi to the last years of Qi Xiaogong's reign. He not only destroyed the two gates of the guarded office, the Gao clan and the Guo clan, but also raised several adulterers and a yin-yang man to a high position that people looked up to; Before his death, he finally ruined half the country with his "ambition" to complete the battle.

But his well-timed death saved the other half of the country from destruction: the new Jin army commander Kuo Zheng led the princes' coalition army eastward in preparation for a second attack on Qi. When Shi Kuo heard that Qi had suffered a great funeral, he ordered the withdrawal of his troops.

In this regard, the people of Qi Guo rejoiced: "This is really a double happiness!" ”

Duke Qi Zhuang also made no secret of his hatred for his father, and he said when the ministers discussed the name of the first monarch: "The first monarch is stubborn and ruins our country's normalcy, so it is better to call it 'spirit'!" ”

Although Hikari got the throne as he wished, the deposed prince had to be dealt with. Gong Qi Zhuang issued a wanted notice for Gongziya, Gongziya was young and had no experience in escaping, and the servants around him had almost run away, so he was arrested in a border town.

Qi Zhuanggong wanted to get some useful testimony from Gongziya's mouth so that he could dig up more co-defendants. Gongziya confessed to Su Shawei, saying that he was the one who informed him to escape.

Qi Zhuang Gong immediately personally led people to arrest Shu Shawei, but the guy with a keen sense escaped first. Su Shawei fled into his own mining province of Gaotang and declared his independence from the control of Qi.

After Su Shawei escaped, Gao Hou was exposed to his political enemies. Gao Hou inherited his father's arrogance of Gao Gu, but did not inherit his arrogance; He preferred to gain advantage by flattering the monarch, thus reducing his personality to the status of a servant. He was not unaware of his current precarious situation, but he was unwilling to give up his position and wealth, and tried to re-establish his former position by means of flattery.

After the Duke of Qi Zhuang ascended the throne, Gongsun Yu became the new favorite of the office; Gao Hou refused to let go of any opportunity to contact Gongsun Yu, and kept entertaining him and giving him a lot of precious gifts.

But Gao Hou's initiative to show favor scared Gongsun Yu a lot, and he saw that Gao Hou was getting closer and closer to him, so he almost moved to his own house. Gongsun Yu turned his heart sideways, ran to see Qi Zhuang Gong and Cui Zhu, and revealed to them what Gao Hou said to himself and Gongsun Zao.

Cui Shu sneered: "What a 'brave forward'!" What a 'death does not spin'! He's going to be Xun Xi! ”

Gao Hou's crime was finally confirmed, and Qi Zhuanggong threw down a sentence: "Just ask Cui Zi to fulfill him!" With that, he stood up and left the room with his hands behind his back.

One day in August, at noon, Gao Hou hosted a banquet for his friends at the Blue Villa in the suburbs. The banquet ended after nightfall, and the well-fed guests and hosts were talking and laughing and preparing to return to the city together; An armed force suddenly rushed out to block the way, led by Cui Qiang, the second son of Cui Shu. Cui Qiang shouted: "The prince crusaded against the Gao clan, and everyone avoided it, otherwise there would be no forgiveness for killing!" The friends who had just hooked up with Gao Hou rolled over the car one by one, scattered and fled, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Gao Hou shouted, "Don't lie to me! I want to see the prince! Cui Qiang sneered, raised his hand and shot an arrow into his left chest, and the thugs swarmed him, stabbing him to the blink of an eye.

Cui Ming, Cui Zhu's third son, led the crowd to capture Gao Hou's mansion, and the mob killed and expelled the Gao clan, and directly turned the courtyard into Cui's.

The last nail is Su Shawei, and Gao Tang is still in his hands; It's a miracle that the eunuch was able to outperform others enough to endure to the end.

In October, Qingfeng led his army to besiege Gaotang. The Qi army attacked for three days in a row, but did not even break through the moat; The Gao Tang people then launched a night attack, and the Qi army was scattered and fled. Qingfeng saw that his morale had been lost, so he didn't dare to stay, so he had to return to Linzi with the defeated army.

Qi Zhuang Gong scolded in his heart: "You can't even conquer a little Gao Tang, how did you become a secretary?" By the way, the widow forgot that you were an adulterer. ”

In November, the army of the prince of Qi Zhuang arrived in Gaotang. Duke Qi Zhuang saw Shu Shawei standing on the city and looking down at him across the moat. He rode his bicycle to the river, shouted Su Shawei's name, and asked him to come down and talk.

Soon the city gate opened, and Su Shawei drove his bicycle to the inner side of the moat. Qi Zhuang Gong could have killed the opponent with an arrow, but he handed the bow to Che You, and then asked, "Wei, how are the defenses in the city?" ”

Su Shawei replied, "Don't dare to resist the prince." ”

Qi Zhuanggong bowed his hand to him, which was regarded as showing him his last respect; Su Shawei returned the salute, and the two sides immediately returned to the army.

That night, Su Shawei slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward the soldiers, and asked them to meet the battle with all their strength and not to retreat. The defenders had two high-ranking commanders, the Colony and the Gongfu. He was originally captured in the Battle of Pingyin, but later took advantage of the drunkenness of the guards to remove the rope and fled back to the Qi State. Qi Ling's public son, after the teeth, ordered him to protect the safety of the new prince; Qi Zhuang Gong was ready to clear Gongziya's henchmen, so he fled to Gaotang with Su Shawei.

When he approached the princess, he said, "I am not guilty, but I have been implicated by the dead eunuch who has come here; I don't want Gao Tang Nan'er to die for him. If we can dedicate Gao Tang to the new monarch, we may be able to avoid punishment. ”

Gong Wei will say: "Yes, with the land of Gaotang projectiles, it will definitely not be able to resist for ten days; If you are bound to lose, why should you kill yourself? ”

The two discussed it and decided to surrender to the Duke of Qi Zhuang. In the middle of the night, the two men touched the city wall, retracted into a basket, and were roped down the city wall. The Duke met with the Duke of Qi Zhuang, who called the latter into the military tent after obtaining the pardon from the Duke of Qi Zhuang.

After some conspiracy, the two sneaked back to Gaotang, and by this time the defenders were already drunk and sleeping soundly. The two led their men to kill the soldiers guarding the city gates, opened the city gates, lowered the drawbridge, and put the army into the city.

Qi Zhuang Gong captured the sleepy-eyed Su Shawei alive, and chopped him into meat sauce in the barracks early the next morning, in front of all the sergeants.