In the spring of the eighth year of Lu Dinggong, Zhao Ying thought that he had to do something to solve the problem. He went to see the Duke of Jin Dinggong and said, "Among the princes, only the Song State serves our country. Even if we went to invite, we were afraid that we would not be able to invite the people of the Song Kingdom, but now we have detained the envoys of the Song Kingdom; Isn't this the severance of our country's dealings with the princes! Le Qi has been under house arrest for two years, and if he is guilty, please try him; If there is no sin, release him. Without any explanation, how can the princes be convinced? If the princes do not believe in the alliance leader, how can they serve the alliance leader? ”

Jin Dinggong said: "Everything is what the master wants." At Zhao Ying's insistence, Jin Dinggong ordered Le Qi to be put back.

Sensing that he was about to pay a high price for his mistakes, he became anxious. He said to his son Shiji: "I left Le Qi in the Jin Kingdom for a few years for no reason, and he must hate me to death." Once Le Qi returns to China, he will definitely instigate Song Gong to betray. At that time, Zhao Ying will put the blame on my head. ”

Shi Ji said: "Le Qi can be released, but the premise is to make Le Qi a hostage." The hostage was in the hands of his father, and Song Guo did not dare to give birth to two hearts. ”

Shi Yan went to see Le Qi in private and asked him to send his son over, but Le Qi did not express his position on the spot, but only said that he needed time to think about it. After Shi Yan left, Chen Yin persuaded Le Qi: "The Song State is about to withdraw from the alliance with the Jin State!" If the master summons him, he abandons him; To abandon him is to abandon the family. The master can't bow to the Jin people anymore! ”

Le Qi then sent Chen Yin to reply to Shi Ying: "Although I am Le Wei's father, Le Qi has been appointed as a doctor by the widow. He was not allowed to leave the border without the order of the widow. Therefore, if the Master wants to summon Le Wei here, please ask the widow to come here! ”

Shi Ying was furious, and he wanted to keep Le Qi imprisoned until death. But the Duke of Jin had already issued an order, and Le Qi was already seriously ill at this time - if he died in the Jin State, the Song State would not hesitate to join the anti-Jin Alliance.

Therefore, Shi Yan still had to send him away. But what Shi Ying was worried about still happened: Le Qi died before he got out of Taihang Mountain.

When the news reached Xinjiang, Shi Ying broke out in a cold sweat, and he immediately sent a light army to intercept the mission, and the army finally controlled the Song people before they left the country. Shi Ying sent people to the Song Kingdom and asked Song Jinggong to send an envoy to greet Le Qi's coffin and hold talks with him. Shi Ying's idea was that once the Song people sent an envoy, he would force the envoy to sign an agreement not to betray the alliance.

But just at this time, Wei Guo announced that he would abolish all the alliances signed with the Jin State and officially join the anti-Jin alliance led by the Qi State.

Shi Ying had no choice but to put aside the affairs of the Song State and rush to teach the defenders a lesson (this matter will be described in detail later).

In the spring of the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Lu Ding (BC501), the Jin army ended its military campaign against the Wei Guo, and Shi Ying began to restart negotiations with the Song people.

Song Jinggong planned to send Shangqing's right teacher, Le Daxin, to see Shi Yan (Le Daxin is Le Qi's brother and Le Qi's uncle), but Le Daxin knew that Shi Yan needed hostages and was afraid that he would suffer the same fate as Le Qi, so he lied that he was not in good health and could not travel long distances. Song Jinggong then changed his order to Yaqing's left division to send an envoy to the nest.

Xiang Chao is a sleek and delicate character. Xiang Chao fulfilled all the demands of Shi Ying, and coaxed him so much that Shi Yan could no longer find any reason to embarrass him. In this way, Xiang Chao successfully completed his mission and returned to the Song Kingdom with the coffin.

During the envoy to the nest, Le Daxin seemed to have forgotten that he was "sick". He actually held a grand banquet, and in the middle of the banquet he struck the bell and played music. But the people of the Song Kingdom who know the inside story know that Le Daxin is demonstrating to Le Wei.

After Xiang Chao led the team into the country, Song Jinggong sent Le Daxin to the suburbs to greet Le Qi's coffin. Before leaving, Le Miao asked dissatisfiedly: "I am still in mourning, but my uncle is striking the bell and playing music, may I ask why?" ”

Le Daxin defended: "The great funeral took place in the Jin State and not in the Song State. ”

After Le Daxin took the coffin back to the capital, he said, "Are you embarrassed to say that you are in mourning? I struck the bell once, and he gave birth to sons! Is it more unsightly to ring the bell than to indulge? He doesn't care about the dead ghost, so why don't I strike the bell? It turned out that it had been more than a year since Le Qi died, but Le Qi was not idle during the mourning, he still turned over the cards every day, and he just had three sons not long ago.

Le Wei was furious when he heard this, and the thought of expelling Le Daxin suddenly appeared in his chest.

Although Le Wei's status in the office is lower than that of Le Daxin, he is the patriarch of the Le family; And because of his father's sacrifice for the country, his weight in Song Jinggong's heart is also heavier than that of the other party - what he said, Song Jinggong will definitely adopt it.

Le Wei recruited three cronies, Le Ping, Le Zifeng, and Le Qiao, and asked them to collect all the evidence related to Le Daxin. Leping people then carefully designed a trap and waited for Leda to drill.

Leping is Le Daxin's brother and is the easiest person to get close to Le Daxin. One day, Le Wei announced that he would take back a piece of Leping's fiefdom and then assign it to Le Zifeng.

Leping was full of complaints and resentment for this, and often used alcohol to kill his sorrows. Le Daxin began to approach him intentionally or unintentionally, revealing some hints with vague meanings.

Le Ping saw that Le Da was hooked, so he set up a private banquet at home to entertain him. After a few glasses of wine, Le Daxin was a little fluttering, he asked Le Pingping to go left and right, and then began to hold Le Ping's grievances. Le Ping followed his words, and lured him to say excessive things as he could, but Le Daxin fell into the trap headlong. He scolded Le Ping for disrespecting God, not being filial to his father, and not being in harmony with his clansmen, and then began to encourage Leping to attack Le Hui, and promised that he would send the clan armor to help Leping.

What Le Daxin didn't know was that when he was instigating Leping to attack the enemy's house, there were two "gentlemen" (Le Zi Feng and Le Qiao) lying on the beams of the house, and every word and word he said really reached the ears of the two, and every expression and action was deeply imprinted in their minds.

The banquet didn't end until late. After sending Le Daxin away, the three of them immediately rushed to Le Daxin's mansion and reported the big news to him.

Le Hao couldn't wait for dawn, so he immediately took a few people into the palace to expose Le Daxin's crime to Song Jinggong.

Le Wei said: "The right master pretended to be sick to escape the king's life, this is what the monarch knows. The reason for his refusal to go to the Jin Kingdom was that he planned to rebel in order to seize the position of the patriarch of the Dai clan (the Le clan came from the Dai Gong of Song). Everything he said was true, and there were witnesses here. ”

Song Jinggong was dragged out of the gentle township, and he was very anxious; He was so sleepy that he wished he could go back to bed early. He summoned the witnesses, and after hearing their testimony, he yawned and said, "The widow knows, and the widow will issue an order when he goes to court." But he didn't say any orders, he just wanted to go to bed quickly, and only said casually to deal with Leyu.

Le Wei saw through Song Jinggong's careful thinking and decided not to give him a chance to think about it. Le Wei said that it would be too late after dawn, and insisted on expelling Le Daxin immediately. Song Jinggong didn't plan to get involved in the internal disputes of the Le family, so he said, "Okay, just do what the master says." The widow is going to bed. ”

Le Hao was overjoyed, and immediately returned home to gather the clan armor, and expelled Le Daxin overnight.