Gongsun Xia thanked Shi Kuo and continued: "The people of the Chen State rely on the support of the people of the Chu State and have invaded our border towns several times, so please ask the alliance leader to crusade against the Chen State for our country. ”

Shi Kuo also nodded in agreement. Then Zheng Jiangong made a move that surprised the scholar - he actually bowed to the scholar. Shi Kuo was shocked, and immediately jumped up and flashed to the side and shouted: "The minister dare not take it!" ”

Gongsun Xia said: "The master's words made Zheng Guosheng, how dare the widow not worship?" ”

As mentioned earlier, the state of Chen was in turmoil due to the dictatorship of the Qing brothers. Gongzi Huang fled to Chu to defend himself, and issued an accusation against Erqing, and the people of Chu learned the truth. But the people of Chu did not move for a long time, and Chen Aigong was worried about his safety, so he soon ran to Chu State. King Chu Kang previously thought that the problem of the Chen State was only the minister's struggle for power, but Chen Aigong said that the Qing clan wanted to kill the king and seize the throne and support a puppet monarch.

King Chu Kang was furious and immediately sent someone to summon Erqing to Yingdu to confront Chen Aigong and Gongzi Huang. The Qing brothers knew that this trip was auspicious, so they didn't dare to set off. The two shirked being sick in bed, and just sent Qingle to see King Chu Kang instead of the two. King Chu Kang said: "Even if the monarchs of the countries are summoned by Bugu, they dare not come. The courtiers of the Qing clan actually disobeyed Bugu's orders; Disobedience is a capital crime, and it is not necessary for two people to die without a place to be buried! ”

After receiving the news, the Qing clan immediately announced the deposition of Chen Aigong and put a cannon fodder son on the throne. In the summer of the twenty-third year of Lu Xianggong, Qu Jian led the army to surround Chen Aigong and come to Chen Guo.

The Qing brothers were very anxious, and the two deployed their troops on the one hand, and strengthened the city walls on the other. But soon, a small accident suddenly took the lives of the two brothers.

It turned out that the conscripts were not paying enough attention when fixing the slabs (because they hated the Qing clan and did not want to work for him), and as a result, the slabs fell from the city and injured one of the overseers. This situation was reported to Qinghu, who was furious and immediately rushed to the scene. He ordered several of the perpetrators to be tied up and hanged in front of everyone.

The conscripts were terrified. In the evening, people finished their day's work and prepared to rest. Then talking about the daytime killings, a prestigious elder said, "The Qing clan wants to destroy the state of Chen, and we are acting as an accomplice to the villains; So we should do something about it, not to ruin the country and then destroy ourselves. ”

The people said, "Then kill the usurper and riot!" ”

The elder said, "Okay, tomorrow we'll have another accident; When the Qing clan arrives, I will send a signal at the right time, and when you see the signal, you will each kill the overseer of your team, and I will lead the people to eliminate the Qing clan and his men. ”

The task was assigned. The next morning, two more landslides occurred at the construction site. The Qing brothers quickly rushed to the construction site in a rage. Qinghu brought the perpetrators over as he did yesterday and prepared to execute them. The elders came with some of the conscripts, and the others remained where they were. Qinghu had just given the order when the elder shouted, "Action! Before the words fell, he chiseled through Qinghu's skull with a chisel, and the others rushed up, rushing and beating with various tools in hand, and wiped out a group of people in a moment. Chen Ren opened the city gate to welcome Chen Aigong and Gongzi Huang into the city, and Chen Guo was restored in this way.

After that, Chen Aigong obeyed the words of the people of Chu; In order to behave well in front of his benefactor, Chen Aigong harassed Zheng Guo without incident.

However, Hua Chen's motion was not immediately put on the agenda, because the Jin State was about to retaliate against Qi Zhuang Gong's crazy actions.

In the summer of this year, King Chu Kang led a powerful naval army down the Yangtze River to attack the state of Wu. King Chu Kang did not fail to talk about the standard of rewards and punishments when he was mobilizing before the war; Discipline in the army is lax, and those who violate military discipline go unpunished. As a result, the enemy army has reached the front line, but the Chu army still lingers and does not reach the designated place.

Seeing this scene, King Chu Kang said: "This battle will definitely be lost, let's withdraw our troops!" "The Chu army turned around and returned to China before an inch of success.

After his uncle and grandson Leopard returned to China, Meng Xizi Marshal invaded the southern border of Qi. This operation was seen as the prelude to a large-scale attack on Qi by the Huaxia Alliance.

Duke Qi Zhuang did not dare to slack off, he actively prepared for war while sending envoys to Chu for help. But the envoy had not yet set off, and the envoy of the Chu State, Xue Qiqiang (the son of Xue Zifeng), came to Linzi first.

It turned out that after the Chu division returned to China, King Chu Kang lost his temper greatly, saying that the soldiers of the Chu army were too weak to go to the battlefield, and this battle was thanks to the fact that it was not fought, otherwise many soldiers would not even bother to use the strength to escape.

Qu Jian said: "The decline of the Chu State is already an indisputable fact, and from now on, we must not only restore the military management order issued by the former monarch Zhuang Wang and strictly govern the army, but also pull the Qi State into the alliance." The Marquis of Qi was now worried about imminent reprisals, so it was better to send an envoy to ask him to meet with the king to discuss the matter of resisting the Jin. "King Chu Kang had this intention, so he sent Xue Qiqiang out.

The two sides set the time for the meeting between the two monarchs in the autumn. The state of Qi was holding large-scale military exercises at that time, in which a grand military parade was inserted. Qi Zhuang Gong specially asked Xue Qiqiang to ride in the same chariot with him to review the army together. The parade lasted for two hours, and the monarchs inspected the chariots, infantry, longbow troops, slingstones, masked scouts, and, most notably, a death squad of armed slaves.

Xue Qiqiang couldn't help but admire, he said that he must greatly strengthen military exchanges with Qi State; Qi Zhuang Gong nodded with his usual high-minded smile. At that time, Chen Wuyu was his father, Chen Xuwu, and Chen Xuwu said to him: "The country of Qi must be invaded by foreign enemies, otherwise the country will have civil strife." I have heard: 'If the country does not hide its troops (to cover up its force), there will be a war; Or outside, or inside. We need to step up. ”

On the Jin side, Shikuo summoned the monarchs of Lu, Zheng, Song, Wei, Cao, Ju, Di, Teng, Xue, and Xiao Yi to meet at Yiyi (near present-day Xingtai, Hebei), and the theme of the alliance was to fight Qi. At this time, it has entered autumn, and the day when the two monarchs of Qi and Chu will hold talks is not far away. Qi Zhuang Gong expected that the country would be attacked by the Huaxia coalition army soon, and he did not dare to leave Linzi, so he had to send Chen Wuyu to Chu to express his apologies to King Chu Kang and ask Chu to send troops to save Qi.

Cui Shu led his army to send Xue Qiqiang and Chen Wuyu to the border of Chu, and then attacked Ju to the east (because Juzi "betrayed" the covenant and attended the Yiyi Meeting).

At the meeting, the Chinese princes formulated a plan for the destruction of Qi, and decomposed and arranged the tasks. Just as the coalition forces were about to set off, the Yellow River's water level soared due to the intense autumn floods, flooding the banks and connecting many small rivers. The coalition army was really unable to move an inch, so they had to wait in place for the flood to recede, and the Qi State temporarily escaped with God's care.