In early December, the Duke of Jin Ding announced that he would pardon Zhao Ying, recall him back to Xinjiang, and order him to continue in his original position. Jin Mourning Gong and Siqing made a bloody alliance in the palace, and the book wrote: The Marquis of Jin will no longer hold Zhao Ying responsible; Zhao Ying must be loyal to the office and must not do anything detrimental to the monarchy; The ministers were united and worked together to assist the prince.

Zhao Ying thought that the family disaster was over, but soon a tragic incident occurred that made him heartbroken but irreversible.

It turned out that Liang Ying and Dong Anyu were feuding, and they both wanted to find an opportunity to put each other to death. Liang Ying finally found the reason this time, he formed a plan in his heart, and then ran to see Zhizheng and said: "Half of the reason why the Zhao family is strong is due to Dong Anyu. If he is allowed to continue to rule the Zhao clan, the Zhao clan will even get the entire Jin Kingdom. Why didn't the master take this opportunity to get rid of Dong Anyu? His death is of great benefit to the Ji family. Zhisong agreed, and Liang Ying then stated his plan in detail, and Zhisong approved the plan again.

A few days later, rumors unfavorable to Zhao Ying and Dong Anyu spread in Xinjiang. Since the content of these rumors was true, Zhao Ying felt particularly annoyed and embarrassed. He had a premonition that someone was going to attack Dong Anyu, so he persuaded him to go abroad to avoid the limelight.

Dong Anyu said: "It is easy for me to escape, but the situation of the master is difficult. I'm going to stay home and wait for the results. ”

After a few more days, the mood of the Chinese people began to become restless. The eyes of the pedestrians on the street who looked at the gate of Zhao's Mansion were full of anger, and even the brave shouted outside the door: "Master Zhao! How long will you protect that traitor? ”

At the beginning of the fourteenth year of the reign of Lu Dinggong (BC496), the anger of the Chinese people against the Zhao clan reached its peak, and a crisis was imminent. At this critical juncture, Zhi Gang sent someone to see Zhao Ying. The visitor said, "Master must have heard the rumors that have broken out recently, right?" Some people falsely claimed that the master had mobilized Jinyang's troops to the north of the capital before Fan and the Bank of China attacked, and also framed the mobilization order as Dong Anyu's issue, and said that Dong Anyu was the initiator of the turmoil, and that Fan and the Bank of China were just self-defense. The Chinese also complained that the victim had fled, but the culprit had flaunted through the market unscathed

"Now the rumors are getting stronger. Zhi Boru thought that if the rumors could not be quelled as soon as possible, the master would probably suffer disaster, so he ordered me to remind the master and ask the master to make plans as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Ying was anxious. After the people left, he summoned Dong Anyu and told him that Zhisong had sent someone to urge him to come; and asked him to put on makeup and leave the city immediately, and not to stay for a moment.

Dong Anyu said to Zhao Ying: "If my death can be exchanged for the peace of the Zhao family, then I will not die in vain." Who doesn't die? I was ready when I advised the master to deal with it in advance! With that, he withdrew.

Dong Anyu committed suicide after explaining to his son.

Zhao Ying personally untied Dong Anyu's body from the beam and drove it; Put him on the market to show the public, as a way to appease the resentment of the people. Zhao Ying's clan armor protected the corpse so that it would not be insulted and destroyed by those who owed it.

After the expiration of the public demonstration, Zhao Ying held a high-level funeral for Dong Anyu, and made an exception to place his god in the family temple for sacrifice.

After Fan and Bank of China were expelled, the Jin State Office vacated two positions. Zhisong originally planned to give one of them to Liangying, but when the vacant seat was placed in front of him, Zhisong regretted it.

It turned out that the reason why Shi Gaoyi betrayed the family was to get the throne, but the four secretaries all thought that if the power was taken away from Shi Ji and then handed over to Shi Gaoyi, it would lose the meaning of expelling the Fan family; It's better not to get into that trouble. In addition, no one is willing to give up the benefits in their hands, so the four secretaries reached a secret agreement, and the content is that the qualifications of the secretaries will be fixed at four, and they will never be increased.

Due to the destruction of the Liuqing system, the three-armed system of the Jin army also died out. The four families gathered themselves and the clans of the doctors under their command and organized them into four private armies. This action marked the official division of the Jin Kingdom into four, and the territory of the Four Secretaries became the state within the country, and the Four Secretaries became the monarch of the kings.

Zhisong sent many emissaries to take over the estates of the Nakayo clan (just as the Nakayo clan had taken over the land of the Chi clan in the past), promising to guarantee the status and wealth of the locals. Some of the smaller towns obediently handed over their maps and household registers; In some cities, the natives expelled or even killed the messengers. Zhisong led the army to conquer those places one by one, and as a result, almost all the land of the Zhongxing clan was obtained by Zhisong; However, Zhao, Wei, and Han could not snatch Fan's territory like he did (because Shi Gaoyi was still there), and as a result, the Zhi clan became the biggest winners of this civil unrest

Zhisong later gave Liangying a few pieces of land, which was considered a comfort to him. For this result, although Liang Ying was not willing, he could only accept it. However, instead of getting his wish, Shi Gaoyi was deprived of a lot of land (because the Fan family had been demoted from a scholar to a doctor, and the fief should be reduced accordingly); He was furious and refused to incorporate the clan armor into the name of any of the ministers, and finally simply returned to the fiefdom to stand on his own.

Zhao Ying already hated the Fan clan, and Shi Gaoyi was "capricious" and captured a fortress in Jinyang, so he couldn't wait to ask Zhisong to attack Shi Gaoyi.

But Zhisong's attitude took a 180-degree turn and began to act as a peacemaker. Zhisong persuaded Zhao Ying to give up the idea of attacking Fan with "the overall situation of the office first", and also said that "depriving Fan of the throne" was a decision that was harmful to the "office", and attacking Shi Gaoyi would push him to the side of Fan and Zhongxing to strengthen the strength of the rebels; Therefore, he was ready to send a request to the Duke of Jin Ding: to restore Shi Gaoyi's status as a secretary.

It turned out that after Siqing reached a secret agreement, as time passed, Zhizhen regretted it again. He found that Zhao, Wei, and Han had formed a strong alliance; And although he has great power, he does not have an ally around him (Liang Ying is his subordinate, and it is impossible for him to raise him to the level of an ally); The office formed a situation where one tiger faced three wolves. In view of this, he turned his gaze to Shi Gaoyi, ready to pull him to his side. But before he could act, the grumpy stunned young man went away in a rage; That's why he said the above to Zhao Ying.

This high-sounding statement couldn't hide Zhisong's "cunning" heart, and Zhao Ying was even more angry, but helpless. As a result, Zhao Ying not only did not get rid of his fierce rival Fan, but he had another opponent - Zhi.

The Duke of Jin Ding soon issued an order to restore the Fan family's status as a secretary. After a few more days, Shi Gaoyi put on the appearance of a villain and walked into Xinjiang City with a large number of guards and honor guards. Someone gathered a group of idle people near the city gate in advance, and they beat gongs and drums and shouted slogans to greet Shi Gaoyi, just like welcoming the black boss out of prison and welcoming a new life. The team blew and played all the way, and specially swaggered through the Zhao Gate, which was not on the route; The drummers were desperately blowing and knocking, in order to provoke Zhao Ying.

In the east, the situation is developing in a direction unfavorable to the Xinjiang forces: Qin, who led the army to attack Handan, was originally a henchman of Zhongxingyin, but at this time he also rebelled, and the Handan clan, the Ji clan and the Erqing had already united; The rebels are gathering troops, collecting baggage, building fortifications, and preparing for a big fight with Xinjiang.