After the death of King Zhou Ling, the royal envoys went to various countries to report the funeral, but he died at a bad time, and many princes and ministers went to Chu to give the funeral to King Chu Kang.

The envoy came to Zheng Guo, Zheng Jiangong was not there, and Zizhan was ordered to defend the country and could not travel. Zizhan then ordered Yin Duan to go to the Eastern Zhou to mourn. Bo You wanted to receive this good difference, but objected: "Yin Duan has a low status and is too young, so he should not be sent." ”

Zi Zhan saw through his careful thoughts, so he made a concept change and replied, "It's better to send a young man than not to send a messenger, right?" "Poem": "The king's affairs are in a hurry, and he is not to be left behind." 'East, West, North and South, who dares to slack off? Firmly serving Jin and Chu to protect the royal family is what we should do. ”

In the summer of that year, Wu Ziyu was killed by a Vietnamese prisoner of war.

As mentioned earlier, the original intention of the feudal Wu State of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was to prevent the southeastern forces led by the Yue State from threatening the Central Plains.

The surname of the Yue people is the surname of Him, and they are the descendants of Dayu. After Dayu died, people buried him in the area of Huiji Mountain. Some of his descendants multiplied and grew in this area, eventually establishing the Yue Kingdom.

The agriculture, shipbuilding and handicraft industries of the Yue country were very developed, and the Yue people were tattooed, fierce and aggressive, and especially advocated force. The Yue State had an early relationship with the Chu State, and presented beauties to the Chu State during the reign of King Chu Zhuang.

Later, Wu provoked an anti-Chu banner, and Chu asked Yue to knife Wu from behind. At that time, Wu Yue was probably bounded by the Qiantang River, and a few years ago the Yue people crossed the river and captured several border towns in the southern part of Wu State. Yu Sai was furious, and then destroyed several cities in the Yue Kingdom, and captured many prisoners of war.

The Wu people treated prisoners of war with great cruelty, often breaking their tendons and then chaining them to guard the gates or important belongings – which was equivalent to treating people as dogs.

A Vietnamese prisoner of war was dumped at the dock of Taihu Lake to guard the boat. One day in the summer, Yomatsu plans to take a boat to a palace to escape the heat. The Vietnamese prisoner of war suddenly shouted: "The villain witnessed a strange thing yesterday, and he didn't dare not report it to the king!" ”

Yu Sai often came to the docks, and he was already familiar with this lame man. The lame man often told strange things to please him, and sometimes he also rewarded him with small dishes to eat and old wine to drink.

This time the priest came to him without any precautions, ready to hear what strange things had happened. The Vietnamese people knelt at his feet, looking at him with a smile on their faces and telling him about that funny and strange thing. Just as Yu Sai was fascinated by what he heard, the Yue people suddenly showed their fierce face, pulled out a sharp knife, tightened his leg with one arm, and stabbed him upwards in the middle of his thigh.

The guards immediately pierced the murderer's neck, and Yu Sai was also stabbed several times, and died in a short time. After the death of Yu Sai, his younger brother Yimo ascended the throne.

In the spring and summer of this year, Zheng and Song suffered a rare drought, and the autumn wheat was not ripe, and although no one in the two countries had yet starved to death, some people were ready to leave their homes and flee the famine.

At the time of crisis, Zizhan passed away again. Natural disasters and human mourning made Zheng Guoren feel that the sky was about to fall. Zizhan's son Hanhu (Zipi) succeeded him as Shangqing, and Hanhu was able to ascend to the sky in one step for many reasons; The most important one is that no one wants to see Bo You (who was Yaqing at the time) get that position.

The first thing Hanhu did after taking office was to provide a bell of food to each household in the name of his late father, and rescued many people from the line of death. Since then, the Han family has won the hearts of the people, and their descendants are often the kings.

Cheng Zihan, the secretary of the Song Kingdom, said: "If there are good people in the neighboring countries, the Song Kingdom will also benefit." At that time, the situation of the Song State was similar to that of the Zheng State, so Zihan asked Song Pinggong to lend grain to the people in the name of the monarch, and the doctors followed Song Pinggong's example, but the way of lending was also different: Zihan did not keep accounts for the loan (which was equivalent to a gift); Some doctors were not wealthy, so he lent them in the name of those doctors without asking for anything in return. With the help of the monarch's doctor, the Song people also survived the difficulties.

The news reached the Jin State again, and Shu Xiang said: "The Han clan of Zheng State and the Le clan of Song State should be the last to perish, right?" Both clans have won the hearts and minds of the people; And Lexi does better, Leshi will definitely coexist with Song Guo. ”

When the uncle of the monarch of Qi and the Duke of Jin came to the Jin Kingdom, he said: "The walls of the Qi Kingdom are in disrepair and cannot resist the attacks of foreign enemies; But they are small and poor, and they do not have enough human and financial resources. Therefore, the widow specially asked the alliance leader to help us repair the city wall. ”

Mrs. Mourning also persuaded Pinggong to help the poor relative, and Jin Pinggong issued an order to the princes, asking all countries to send servants to repair the city wall for Qiguo.

In June, Zhiying met with Qi Gao Zirong (Gao Zhi), Song Situ Huading, Lu Meng Xiaobo (Meng Yizi's elder brother, he has been recalled to Lu State), Uncle Zheng Zi, Uncle Wei Wenzi and others met in Qiguo, and Zhiying assigned the construction task to start construction.

Zhiying's deputy, Nu Qi (Sima Nu's uncle Hou), said to him: "Gao Zhi is tyrannical and Huading is extravagant, and both of them are the masters of the deceased family." ”

Zhiying asked, "Tell me about it?" ”

Nu Qi: "If you are jealous of your tyranny, disaster will come soon; The same goes for luxury. ”

It turned out that after the fall of the Cui family and the Qing family, the Gao family gradually showed signs of re-emergence. Gao Zhi had no merit in destroying the two families, and he was not favored by Qi Jinggong, but he fought for the glory of his ancestors, and wanted to be the first in everything.

After Gao Zhi returned to China, he became more arrogant, which caused great dissatisfaction and vigilance among the monarchs and ministers, and as a result, he was exiled to Yan by Erhui the next year. And Huading lived in the Song Kingdom for more than 20 years, and finally did not escape the end of exile.

Uncle Wenzi said to Uncle Zi: "In ancient times, princes only helped the royal family or countries attacked by enemies to repair the city walls, but they didn't hear of helping small countries!" The order of the Marquis of Jin is really too much! ”

Uncle Zi said, "Is there any way? The Jin State did not care about the difficulties of the same country, but used the small country of the Xia Dynasty as a barrier. From this, it can be seen that he is going to abandon the country with the same surname! Who will join him, who has forsaken him? I have heard: 'To abandon the same is to deviate from virtue.' "Poetry": "Compare with its neighbors, marry Kong Yun." 'If the Jin Kingdom doesn't treat its brother well, who can think about it?' ”

After the completion of the project, Jin Pinggong ordered his daughter Qi to demarcate the border between Qi and Lu (there was a border dispute between the two countries). Nu Qi received instructions from Mrs. Mourning in advance, and Madame asked him to assign all the disputed areas to the Qi Kingdom.

However, after listening to the debate between the two sides, Nuqi made a relatively fair decision, which violated the wishes of the mourning lady. Mrs. Mourning complained to Jin Pinggong against Nu Qi, slandering him for accepting bribes and favoring Lu Guo, and posing for the tablet of the first monarch, saying that the first monarch would not agree to Nu Qi's approach.

Jin Pinggong immediately summoned Nu Qi back to China and demanded that he answer the accusations made by his wife. Nu Qi said: "Yu, Yu, Jiao, Hua, Huo, Yang, Han, and Wei are all countries with the surname Ji, but they were all destroyed by the Jin State. Without annexing small countries, how can Jin become a big country? Below Duke Wu and Gong Xian, there are too many countries that have been annexed! Who can interfere? Qi is just a small country in the east of the Xia Dynasty. Lu Guo is a descendant of the Duke of Zhou and a brother of the Jin State. It's almost the same to give the Qi country to the Lu country, so why worry about the survival of the Qi country? Lu Guo has made a great contribution to Jin, what has Qi Guo contributed? Why weaken the country of Lu but fatten the country of Qi? Besides, if the ancestor had a spirit, he would send his wife to give the order, why bother the old minister? ”

In February of the following year, Mrs. Mourning held a banquet to entertain the Jin State conscripts who built the city wall for the Qi Kingdom. Among them, there was an old man from Jiangxian who was conscripted into forced labor because he had no son. When the officials who organized the banquet saw that this man was too old (according to the Zhou rites, the maximum age for conscription was sixty years), he asked him curiously about his age. The old man said, "The villain doesn't know the year, only the day." The villain's birthday is Jiazi Shuo Day, and more than two-thirds of the four hundred and forty-five Jiazi have passed so far (sixty days is one Jiazi). ”

The officials were also confused by him, so they asked the doctors how old the old man was.

Shi Kuang said: "It was the year when Lu Guo's Shu Zhong Huibo (Shu Zhong Pengsheng) met with Hao Chengzi (郤動) in Cheng Kuang. In that year, the elder Devarus, his uncle Zhuang Shu (Shusun Dechen), defeated the enemy army at Xian, killed Qiao Ru, Yu and Leopard, and named his three sons after the enemy leaders. The old man is now seventy-three years old! ”

Shi Zhao said: "The two heads and six bodies of the word Hai, and the two paintings in the lower part are like the body, which is his number of days." ”

Svenbo (another sermon) said, "Yes, twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty days." ”

Zhao Wu asked the old man who the county doctor was, and it turned out that the official happened to be his direct subordinate. Zhao Wu summoned the old man, apologized to him for the dereliction of duty of the county doctor, gave him a small official position to retire, and finally removed the county doctor from his post.