Cui Cheng's future is bleak, and he has changed from a person hated by Cui Ming to a person who hates Cui Ming. Cui Qiang also stood firmly on his brother's side - he thought that Cui Cheng had fallen and it would be his turn to take the position, but he didn't expect to be overtaken by his brother, so he hated his brother more than his brother.

Cui Ming has become arrogant since then, not to mention the doting of his parents, his uncle is the head of the Cui family, and his half-brother Tang Wuyi is also very powerful. In contrast, the brothers Cui Cheng and Cui Qiang have almost become pitiful outcasts; Dong Guo Yan also flaunted his might in front of the brothers, as if the family had changed its surname to Dong Guo.

Cui Cheng couldn't bear the huge gap from heaven to earth, and he couldn't bear to continue to live with those villains, and he was very old, so he dragged his stump to make a final request to his father.

"Father," he said, "though I wish to continue to serve your old man, I am crippled. I became a useless person, and I didn't want to get in the way of my brothers. Please ask my father to show mercy on the fifty years of father-son relationship, and let me go back to Cui Yi to retire! ”

Cui Shu stared at the gray-haired and pitiful eldest son in front of him, recalling the good times with Cui Cheng's mother and young Cui Cheng, and his eyes instantly moistened; He felt pity and agreed to Cui Cheng's request without careful consideration.

Cui Shu finally let out a sigh of depression, and planned to leave the house after packing his luggage. However, to his surprise, Cui Cheng's attitude completely changed the next day: he revoked Chengruo and demanded that Cui Cheng must stay in Linzi and not go anywhere.

It turned out that Cui Shu was chatting with Tang Jiang at dinner and talked about Cui Cheng's hope to return to Fengyi for retirement. Tang Jiang was anxious in her heart, but her face was silent, she said lightly: "Who dares to oppose the husband's decision?" Then let the old man prepare the relevant matters. ”

Cui Shu summoned Dong Guo Yan and ordered him to handle the relevant matters of Cui Cheng's return to Cui Yi, but Dong Guo Yan jumped up and shouted: "Absolutely not!" Cui Yi is the sect of the Cui family, and it can only be in the hands of the suzerain, just like the capital must be in the hands of the monarch. The sect master is now the master, and in the future it will be Cui Ming. It is no longer possible for Cui Cheng to become the suzerain, and giving Cui Yi to Cui Cheng will make him ambitious, confuse the clansmen, and eventually cause the Cui clan to split. Cui Cheng is now full of resentment, so he can't let him leave the house at the moment, preventing him from contacting local forces to oppose Cui Ming. ”

Cui Shu patted his head: "I'm really old and confused, I haven't figured out such a simple truth." ”

When Cui Cheng informed Cui Cheng of the final result, Cui Cheng was going crazy: he had only lost his status as the son of the world before, and now he had even lost his freedom! Cui Cheng told Cui Qiang about the situation, Cui Qiang was furious, he said: "Since the Dongguo clan is afraid that my brother will look for helpers outside, we will look for it in the city!" ”

Eventually, the resentful brothers decided to break through and use the power of the Qing clan to get rid of their rivals.

Before narrating the Cui brothers' search for accomplices, first briefly revisit the history of the relationship between the Choi and Qing families.

When Cui Shu was young, he was deeply favored by Qi Huigong, and he relied on his favor to oppose Gao and Guo. After the death of Duke Qi Hui, Duke Qi succeeded to the throne, and Duke Qi and Guo were like brothers, and Gao Gu and Guo expelled Cui Zhu. However, after Qi Linggong ascended the throne, he regarded Gao and Guo as the "Ruo Ao clan" of Qi State. In order to get rid of it quickly, Qi Linggong recalled Cui Shu back to Qi and named him Xiaqing.

In the struggle with Gao and Guo, in order to cultivate his own power, Cui Zhu did not hesitate to envelop a group of villains, including Qing Ke, and promoted them to high positions by the hands of Qi Linggong, without considering how much disaster the villains would create for the country in the future.

After Gao Wuyi was unjustly expelled, Gao Weak occupied Luyi and launched a rebellion. In the operation to quell the rebellion, Choi Shu served as the commander of the army in the office, and Kyung-uk served as the deputy commander. Qing Ke was a good hand at fighting in groups, and as a result, when he commanded the regular army to fight, he also showed his rogue style of organizing crowd fights.

As Kunisa said, this person is confused every day, he has no experience in war, he can't do anything, and he always likes to command blindly, so that the army loses troops but achieves nothing.

If this had happened in the legions of the ancient Roman Empire, the soldiers would have mutinied.

Just when Choi was at a loss, Kunisa tricked Kyung-ki into killing him. To be honest, when Cui Shu and his subordinates heard this bad news, they were crazy with joy, but Gao Miao felt very lost. When Luyi was captured by the Qi army, Cui Zhu said: "The army without Qingke is really invincible!" ”

Later, after Guozuo was blatantly "assassinated" by Qi Linggong, the successors of Gao and Guo still nominally retained the title of Shangqing, but in fact lost the power of Shangqing. The power was transferred to the hands of the Linggong faction represented by Cui Zhu and Qingfeng. And the contradiction between Cui and Qing arose from the time when the two were together as Qing.

In fact, as early as when Qi Linggong was preparing to canonize Qingfeng as a secretary, Cui Shu raised objections.

First of all, Cui Zhu can't tolerate the son of his protégé (who is also an adulterer) (and at the same time another adulterer) to instantly jump to the same position as himself; Secondly, Qingfeng's dictionary does not have the word "shame" at all (he is simply illiterate, a denominator of knowledge, and he has no dictionary at all). Qingfeng is a person who has detached himself from high-class interests, and has no credit to the country, but because of his father's afterglow - but more importantly, Mrs. Qing's **, he was forcibly promoted to a high position. Third, Cui Shu had an ominous premonition, he looked back on the history of the Cui clan (starting from Cui Yao as a retainer of the Gao clan) and compared the history of the Qing clan, and how similar the two situations were! Is Gao's today Cui's tomorrow?

History later proved that Qingfeng was indeed sent by God to destroy the Cui clan and the Qi state. Although he did not destroy the state of Qi, he completely destroyed the values of "courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame" established by Guan Zhong, and replaced them with hypocrisy, luxury, greed, and shamelessness.

Qingfeng waited for Mrs. Qing and began to serve Mrs. Ling after leaving; Relying on the favor of women, he cultivated a huge power and amassed a huge wealth. During the Zhuang Gong period, he was still able to maintain a good relationship with the doctors; After Zhuang Gong was killed, he rose to the high position of Prime Minister Zuo, and with the support of Qi Jinggong's mother, he no longer took anyone in his eyes except for showing respect and humility to Cui Zhu.

One day in the court meeting, Qingfeng sat on the seat, squinting his eyes and swaying left and right; I smelled of alcohol in every breath and breath, and I obviously hadn't woken up from last night's hangover. He suddenly turned his face and smiled strangely at the minister beside him, and the poor man did not understand the meaning of the horrible smile in the slightest, and immediately shuddered. To everyone's surprise, he suddenly let out a "wow" and spit out the man's face. Even more unexpected was yet to come: soon after, the unlucky doctor was kicked out of the palace gate to guard the city gate, because Qingfeng said that he "felt sick to see him".