The turmoil in the defense of the country is over, and now we turn our attention to other countries.

Due to the calendar, the second day of February of this year turned out to be the winter solstice of this year. Uncle Sun Wu and priest Zi Shen climbed the south wall of Qufu City, Zi Shen looked at it, observed it for a while and said: "There will be turmoil in the Song Kingdom this year, and the country will almost be destroyed, and the country will be stable in three years." And Cai Guo will have a big funeral. ”

Uncle Sun Wan said: "The chaos in the Song Kingdom should be provoked by the Dai and Huan tribes!" The extravagance and rudeness of the two tribes is already very high, and this is the root cause of the trouble. ”

Hua and Xiang were the two most powerful families in the Song Kingdom, and their prosperity and glory were due to the outstanding contributions made by their ancestors, Hua Yuan and Xiang Xu, to the Song Kingdom. However, in the current peaceful era of idleness, since they have no chance to solve problems for the country, they can only create disasters for the country and create opportunities for others to make meritorious contributions.

In the past, Song Pinggong was particularly fond of Liu, a native of Xinsi, but Prince Zuo (later Song Pinggong) hated him very much. It turned out that the temple man Liu not only had a full servile appearance, but also looked exactly like the prince with a fake beard, just like a pair of twin brothers.

The right division Hua Hebi had been at a disadvantage in the struggle for power with the left division Xiang Xu, and when he learned of the above situation, he hoped to win the prince's favor by getting rid of the temple man Liu; In this way, when the crown prince ascends the throne, his status will surpass that of Xiang Xu. But the news leaked, and the temple man Ryu decided to strike first; Although he didn't have the strength to confront Huahebi, he had Song Pinggong as the backstage, and he was good at tricks, and finally got rid of the office Yaqing.

The following describes the process of Siren Liu's framing of Huahebi.

As mentioned earlier, after Hua Yuan's death, the Hua family was divided into two branches, Hua Gaobi and Hua Chen. Hua Gaobi died in the seventeenth year of Lu Xianggong, and Hua Chen tried to control the entire Hua family, and even murdered Hua Gaobi's old man Hua Wu in a frenzy, and almost killed Xiang Xu by mistake. Although Huachen was not punished for the time being, he was later implicated by a mad dog and fled from the Song Kingdom.

Huachen couldn't help but regret when he learned the truth, but once he went into exile, it was difficult to return. He didn't dare to ask Song Pinggong directly, and wanted to try to contact the domestic clansmen and henchmen, but found that people avoided him.

Temple man Liu decided to use Huachen to make a fuss. In the summer of the sixth year of Lu Zhaogong, the temple man Liu dug a pit outside the north wall of the capital, slaughtered a sheep and put it in, and placed a book on the sheep, and finally filled the pit and disguised it as a pit for killing animals.

The henchmen of the temple man Liu advised him: "The last person who used this method to get rid of the late prince (Yi Er) was already made into air-dried meat, why should you follow his example?" You'd better stop it! ”

"The method is not important, the important thing is that the monarch favors me but does not trust Yier; In the eyes of the monarch, Huahebi is not as important as the late prince. ”

Liu, a member of the temple, announced to Song Ping and said: "Huahebi is trying to accept the fugitive Huachen and other sinners, and the two sides have already sworn an oath to kill animals outside the northern city!" If Huachen returns to China, where will he still have his official position? He is not willing to be subordinate, and he will definitely set off a bloody storm again, so that he can grab the position. ”

Song Pinggong hurried to the place of the incident under the leadership of the temple man Liu as if he had been deceived last time, and dug up the book and sacrifice. The content of the book is similar to what the temple man Liu said (he originally wrote it). For the second time in his life, the dull monarch had been deceived by such an unclever insect carving skill. Song Pinggong was furious, he wanted to expel Huahebi, but he was afraid of Hua's power.

Fahrenheit is like a small office inside, and it has long since split into several factions. Hua Hebi's nephew Hua Hai and his uncle have always been at odds, and when he heard the rumors and wanted to get the position of right teacher, he took the initiative to stand up and expose Hua Hebi's crimes. He said that Huahebi "had long planned to summon the exiles back and wanted to seize the position of Sicheng." Then he drew a clear line with Huahebi and "firmly" stood on the side of the office, expressing his "resolute support for the office's just actions against Huahebi."

With the support of Huahai, a powerful faction, Song Pinggong's courage returned to his side: he exiled Huahebi to defend the country, and then gave Huahai the right division.

After Huahai took office, he first went to visit Hezuo Shi Xiang Xu. Xiang Xu did not show him the hypocritical smile that his colleagues in the officialdom usually show, but said with a cold expression and stern words: "You! You! The best ending is to flee! If you destroy the clan, do you still have people in your heart? Without the clansmen, will the clansmen still have you in their hearts? "Poem" says: "Zongzi Weicheng, do not make the city bad, do not be afraid." You'll soon be scared! ”

As mentioned earlier, Song Yuangong was appointed as the heir because of special reasons, which can be understood from another point of view: his political foundation is not very solid.

Before Song Yuangong became the crown prince, he was despised and ridiculed by some people because of his ugly appearance and low status, and he was particularly inferior and extreme, and had a strong sense of revenge; Therefore, once he ascends to a high position, some of those who have offended him will be unlucky.

At the beginning of Song Yuangong's ascension to the throne, he began to test his skills, and successively killed many shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Most of those people are dependent on big families to survive, and Song Yuangong's move is considered to send a dangerous signal - he is going to take action against those prominent families. This caused strong dissatisfaction between the Hua and Xiang families.

Song Yuangong hated Xiang Xu the most. As mentioned earlier, Xiang Xu and Yi Er were both the culprits who killed the prince's acne, and Song Yuangong, who was still the prince at the time, cured Yi Er's crime through his father. However, due to the need for Xiang Xu's support, he had to continue to squeeze out a smile on the murderer.

After Xiang Xu's death, Xiang Ning succeeded him as the left division. Xiang Ning's words and deeds are the opposite of his sleek and sophisticated father, and he is particularly arrogant and domineering. Xiang Ning was also very disrespectful to Song Yuangong, because he was used to seeing Song Yuangong's appearance of being inferior to his father before he ascended the throne.

Song Yuangong vigorously cultivated and installed his own henchmen, and even used public power to interfere in the private affairs of the ministers' fiefdoms. But because of the incompetence of him and his men, they usually make a mess of things.

Originally, when the monarch granted the minister the land of the fief, he also stipulated the amount that should be handed over to the enshrinement; Levy is an internal affair of the minister's family, and the monarch only needs to sit back and enjoy his achievements. However, Song Yuangong sent a group of cool officials to bypass the ministers and directly go to various fiefs to ask for offerings, and the amount has also increased a lot.

You must know that the retainers are only loyal to the master, not to the office (the sentence that Qi Jinggong said to Nan Kuai is the most revealing); Without the master's order, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu could not take away a grain of grain. As a result, the two sides fought at a disagreement, and the aborigines fought more and more, and the officials had to leave the dead and wounded and hug their heads.