In the first month of the spring of the thirtieth year of Lu Xianggong (BC543), the envoy of Chu came to Lu for a state visit. Uncle Sun Leopard is eager to understand the policy of the new Ling Yin Ziwei, and intends to get some inside information out of Xue Ba's mouth. But the sin of the sin was quite severe, and he said, "I am but a villain; It's just a royal bargain and an execution of the governor's orders. Where do you know what Ling Yin thinks? ”

Uncle Sun Leopard insisted on wanting to know, but Xue Ba resolutely refused. His performance was unbelievable in the eyes of his uncle and grandson, because at the beginning of his tenure, the rulers had to reveal their governing ideas to the princes and doctors through various channels to facilitate future communication. Information that should be voluntarily disclosed is kept confidential and deliberately concealed only by trickery.

Uncle Sun Leopard woke up like a dream, and he later said to the doctors: "Chu Lingyin is going to do something big, Zidang (Xue Ba) is going to participate in it, he is hiding a conspiracy for Ling Yin!" ”

At the beginning of summer, Cai Jinggong was finally murdered by his crown prince. It turned out that Cai Jinggong married a wife for the crown prince in Chu State, and later he and his daughter-in-law had an affair. The prince lived in silence for a few years, Cai Jinggong regarded his son's patience as cowardice, and in order to take the princess for himself, he actually tried to kill his son, and revealed the conspiracy to the princess. The crown princess finally chose to stand with her husband, and she revealed the conspiracy to the prince and the plate. The crown prince couldn't bear it anymore and tricked Cai Jinggong into killing him in the palace in the suburbs. Cai Jinggong's death also confirmed the prophecy made by the child two years ago.

This summer, there was also a riot in the Zhou royal family. It turned out that King Zhou Ling had a brother named Dan Ji, and Dan Ji died before King Ling. His son, Wang Sun Kuo, went to see King Zhou Ling after the funeral, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh when he entered the main hall.

Shan Xuan served as the imperial priest of King Zhou Ling at that time. After witnessing this scene, he said to himself: "Oh, his sigh reveals great unwillingness, he is trying to seize power!" ”

Wang Sunkuo asked King Zhou Ling to be the teacher of Prince Yufu, the second son of King Zhou Ling, and left.

Shan Xuanqi said to King Zhou Ling: "The king must have killed this person!" You see that he has just taken off his mourning clothes, but there is no trace of sadness on his face, and in turn he is eager to seize power; He came in looking around and walked with his feet raised high. He has already developed ambitions, and if he is not killed, there will be disaster. ”

King Zhou Ling said: "Young man, don't talk nonsense, you let Bugu kill his nephew to show evidence of the crime?" How can a person be sentenced to death just by looking at the way he walks? Will there be any living people in the Eastern Week? ”

King Ling of Zhou died the previous year, and King Jing of Zhou ascended the throne. Wang Sunkuo tried to put his student on the throne, so he contacted his henchmen to prepare for the attack.

But what is incomprehensible is that Wang Sunkuo did not tell the husband of his intention to usurp the throne at all; In other words, the husband was completely unaware of the teacher's conspiracy and was a complete outsider.

On April 28, Wang Sunkuo expelled him on the pretext of having a personal vendetta with Shan. During his escape, he issued a warning to King Jing of Zhou, saying that Wang Sun Kuo and Prince Yufu were going to launch a rebellion. Although King Zhou Jing believed in Shan Shouji's words, he didn't want to do it himself, so he was infamous for killing his brother. King Zhou Jing handed over this dirty job to the five doctors in the court. On the 4th of May, the five doctors killed the prince and the prince, and Wang Sunkuo and his henchmen fled to the Jin Kingdom. He died unjustly, and he didn't know why he was killed until the last moment.

A sad thing happened in the Song Kingdom this year.

One day in May, I don't know what kind of living creature was shouting in the temple: "Hee-hee, come out!" Soon there was also a birdsong in the club: "Out! ”

On May 5, the Song Guogong Palace caught fire, and the Song Gonggong Lady Gongji was killed in the fire. Gongji is a native of the Lu State, she married to the Song State 40 years ago, was widowed six years later, and has been living alone for 34 years.

When the house she lived in caught fire, the maid urged her to escape immediately; "I have to wait for the nanny to guide me before I can go out, otherwise it will be indecent." ”

This nanny is the wife of a certain doctor, and she is responsible for guiding and supervising Mrs. Jun's behavior. The nanny was delayed, and Gongji was finally buried in the fire. The people of Song were very sad, because Gongji had done a lot of things to care for the people's livelihood during her lifetime, and she was a generous and kind woman. But the Song people also felt that she was too conservative, because the unmarried girls of the nobility did need the guidance of a nanny to act, but the married could move freely and were not bound by the nanny.

Some people also analyzed that Gongji was old and frail, and had been widowed for many years, and had lost her desire for life, so she found an excuse to die in the fire; Otherwise, with her knowledge, how could she not know the above etiquette?

The fire caused great losses to the Song state, and Zhao Wu called an alliance to provide aid to the Song state. At that time, those who participated in the alliance were Sun Yu, Lu Shu, Sun Bao, Song Xiangxu, Zheng Hanhu, Weibei Gongtuo and Xiao Yi Guoren. But the meeting began with a commotion and ended with a commotion: the Qi people behaved quite uncooperatively at the meeting; The people of Lu and Di did not want to offend the Qi people, so they were silent. In the end, under Zhao Wu's strong suppression, the aid plan was barely passed.

But when it came time to execute, the people of Qi prevaricated that the year was not good, and Qi had to start self-help first, and then they could consider saving people. As a result, under the obstruction of the Qi State, all countries failed to fulfill their commitments, and the covenant became a dead letter.

The participants of various countries knew very well in their hearts that what the people of Qi did was just to suppress the hegemony of the Jin State, and every monarch of the State of Qi would not tolerate the people of the Jin State riding on their heads to make a fortune, as long as they thought that the time had come, they would do anything to harm the interests of the Jin State.

However, the gentlemen all thought that the Qi people had gone too far this time: it was not too much for the Qi State to confront the Jin State, but this time it not only seriously damaged the interests of the third country, but also established a bad image of the great power without trust.

Therefore, a gentleman said, "You must not be afraid of credit!" The princes have made an alliance and have no trust, and have abandoned their status and reputation, there is really no one who is more discredited than them! "Poetry" says: "King Wen descended, around the emperor." It's about credit. And he said, 'There is no hypocrisy.' Don't be unfaithful. ”

After returning to the Lu Kingdom, the uncle said to Meng Xiaobo: "Zhao Wu is going to die!" His words are not far-sighted, and he is not yet fifty years old, and he nagged like a ten-year-old woman, and he will definitely not live long. Once Zhao Wu dies, his successor should be Han Qi! Why didn't the master persuade Ji Sun to make friends with Han Qi early? After the death of Zhao Wu, the Marquis of Jin will lose his royal power, Han Qi will be a gentleman but cowardly, and the power will be scattered in the hands of the doctors; And the doctors are greedy and depraved, and extravagant; The states of Qi and Chu are unreliable; We should be afraid, so we should be prepared for future dangers. ”

Meng Xiaobo said: "What is life? Who is not reluctant? What are you guarding against? ”

After his uncle and grandson leopard left, he said to others: "Mengsun is also going to die!" I said that Zhao Wu was reluctant, but he turned out to be even more reluctant than Zhao Wu. Then he persuaded Ji Wuzi to befriend Han Qi, but Ji Wenzi just laughed it off and didn't take it seriously.