This chapter is about the destruction of the ancient and once-famous Wang clan of the Jin Kingdom, the Luan clan.

Luan was descended from the Marquis Jing of Jin, the sixth monarch of the Jin Kingdom, whose reign corresponds to the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Luan Bin, the grandson of the Marquis of Jing of Jin, was sent by the Marquis of Jin Zhao to Quwo to monitor the movements of Gongzi Chengshi (Uncle Qu Wohuan), but was co-opted by the anti-intermediary plan formulated by Chengshi.

Later, the Luan clan was divided into two branches, Jiang and Quwo. Luan Cheng and the Marquis of Jin Ai in Jiangdu were surrounded by Qu Wo's army in the battle, and Luan Cheng rejected the generous conditions offered by Qu Wo Wu, and would rather die than surrender, fighting to the last breath to protect the Marquis of Jin Ai. Since then, the Jiangdu branch has gradually declined.

Duke Wu of Jin died the year after he was made a prince, and his son Duke Xian of Jin ascended the throne. In the first few years of Jin Xiangong's reign, the powerful ministers fought fiercely against the monarch. Luan Zhi is on the left and on the right, he ostensibly hooks up with the ministers, but in fact resolutely stands on the side of Jin Xiangong; He made outstanding contributions to the elimination of the Fu family, the You family, and the group of princes.

Later, Duke Wen of Jin formally established the three armies at the ceremony of being beaten by Lu, and Luan Zhi was listed as the first general. But Luan Zhi's official fortunes ended here, and after his death, his son Luan Dun was appointed as the subordinate military assistant. Luan Dun has cultivated an extremely excellent son, and he is Luan Shu.

Luan Shu entered the political arena at the end of the reign of Duke Cheng of Jin, initially serving as a military assistant and emerging in the battles of Jin and Chuyi. Later, he participated in two major battles of Lu and Chidi. His greatest merit in the campaign was the successful disintegration of the Chidi Alliance, which turned the enemy from a single iron plate into a plate of scattered sand.

Due to the sacrifice of Zhao Shuo, a general of the lower army, in the war of extermination, Luan Shu was promoted to a general of the lower army after the war. In the thirteenth year of the reign of King Jing of Jin, the battle of Qi and Jin broke out, and the army under the command of Luan Shu once again achieved remarkable results. At this time, he had been in the army for more than ten years, and because his father Luan Dun had also been leading the army, the good deeds of the Jin State called Luan "the king of the army".

After the battle of Xuan, Xun Ke returned to his hometown; Luan Shuyi was promoted to a general in the Chinese army and began a 16-year ruling career.

During his tenure as the Chinese army, the Jin State successively defeated the Chu army in the Battle of Yanling and the Battle of Circling Corners, and achieved overwhelming results against the Chu State. During this period, there were three major upheavals in the country, namely the difficulty of the lower palace, the destruction of Sanhe and the murder of Duke Jin Li. Luan Shu was directly or indirectly responsible for every upheaval, and succeeded every time, all thanks to his cunning and cunning perseverance.

Luan Shu devoted his life to grabbing power and gaining fame, so he was ruthless in political struggles, but he cared deeply for the people. His colleagues respected him and stayed away, but the people regarded him as the reincarnation of Zhaogong.

After Luan Shu told him to grow old, Shi Kuo went to Fengyi to visit him (Shi Kuo was both Luan Shu's student and his in-laws), and saw him wearing the coarse cloth clothes of ordinary people, sitting in the middle of a group of fellow villagers (without escorts), patiently listening to people's complaints, and solving disputes and troubles for them.

Luan Shu enjoyed such great prestige among the Chinese people that within a few days of his death, the Jin people spontaneously stopped all entertainment activities. People changed into mourning clothes, white lanterns were hung outside their homes, and the whole country was plunged into great grief.

Luan Shu had two famous sons, the son Luan Huang inherited the Luan family and served as the general of the lower army, and the second son Luan Lian served as the doctor of the lower army. When Luan Shu was alive, Luan Huang's actions were all decent; Luan Lian is even better, and his appearance and heart are more similar to his father.

Luan Huang began to become extravagant and depraved at the beginning of his ascension, but his family did not have enough property for him to squander. It turned out that Luan Shu did not pay attention to material life during his lifetime, his clothing and diet were very simple, and he did not like to collect rare treasures, and the greatest wealth he left behind was the whole house of books. Because Luan Shu had no extravagant material needs, he only levied a very low grain tax on the peasants who mined the village to ensure the basic expenses of the family, and as a result, Luan's life was a little shabby.

Luan decided to get back the property that had been "deposited" in the farmer's home. He issued an order to raise the grain allowance of the tenant farmers in the mining area to one and a half times the normal level.

The tenant farmers' nostalgia for Luan Shu had not disappeared, and considering that Luan's wearing utensils were indeed too cold, the elders said: "If you are high, you will be high!" After all, we haven't repaid Luan Wuzi's kindness yet. ”

Seeing that the first step was carried out very smoothly, Luan Huang gradually began to issue more excessive orders, and squeezed the people's wealth little by little through many shameless means, until many tenant farmers went bankrupt.

Luan's coffers soon filled up, and he often hosted lavish banquets for the most shameless men in the city; He spent a lot of money seeking the treasures of the world, and he put those objects everywhere; The pomp and circumstance of his travels surpassed his own status, even to the extent of disturbing the people; He wasted a lot of money on useless things, leaving the tenant farmers to starve and even be displaced.

Luan Huang also has a special penchant for doing brutal things. Once, when he found that a couple of slaves and a man and a woman who had been favored were flirting with each other, he boiled a pot of boiling water, pressed their heads into the water, boiled them half-cooked, and threw them into the demolition house to die. As a result, the poor couple tossed for three days before dying in agony.

Sometimes the Jin people would also see the dismembered and abandoned corpses somewhere outside the city, and people could conclude from the imprints of the corpses that they were all slaves of Luan Huang in their lifetimes.

The people finally lost patience with him, cursed him for his shamelessness, hated his cruelty, but were helpless against him.

It is never the civilians who kill the powerful, but only another group of magnates.

Fan has a special and close relationship with Luan. The relationship between the two clans stems from the close friendship between the Shihui and Luan Dun; It comes from the teacher-student relationship between the Shihui and Luan Shu, Luan Shu and Shilu; Shi Kui later married his favorite daughter, Luan Qi, to Luan Huang (of course, this was before Luan Huang turned bad, and Luan Qi later gave birth to Luan Ying); Shi Yan and Luan Lian are like brothers.

The two families were originally a teacher-student and in-law relationship, but later they became enemies who did not share the sky, and the reason for this has already been said earlier.

After Shi Ying ended his life in exile and returned to Xinjiang from Qin, Luan Huang still did not let him go, and asked him for trouble from time to time. According to the words of the good deeds at that time, "(Luan) sent to Fan's door to sharpen the kitchen knife." Of course, Shi Ying had no reason to be afraid of his brother-in-law, and he only followed his father's instructions to retreat from Luan.

Luan Huang also often confronted Shi Kuo in the court and embarrassed him. The status of the two is very different, but Shi Kuo did not dare to clash with him head-on, so he could only swallow his anger. The situation got worse and worse, and then it developed to the point where Luan Qi stabbed Luan Huang with a knife, and then was locked up in the stable by Luan Huang.