A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 32 Zhouxu fled, Zheng Gong defeated Duan Yuyan
In the thirty-seventh year of the Bai Kingdom, the third year of Duke Wei

Zhouxu Mansion
Zhouxu was depressed and beating the servants in the mansion with a whip to relieve his anger. Suddenly, a general whom he bribed came to him and said, "Sir, the Bai Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom are getting married."

After Zhou Xu heard this, he immediately stopped and asked, "When?"

"Three days later."

Seeing the general's expression, Zhou Xu knew it must be true. Zhouxu couldn't help but secretly think: If the Bai Kingdom marries the Wei Kingdom, what will I do? I won't be able to leave for the rest of my life.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately pulled the general who came to inform him into the room and said, "I have some jewelry here. You go and bribe the guards at the city gate. We will leave the city in three days."

The general took the jewelry and bowed before leaving. Why is Zhouxu so rich? This is all because of the favor of Duke Zhuang of Wei.

three days later

The whole Chaoge was full of joy. Bai's wedding team was huge and noble. The red wedding car was covered with silk and satin, and the canopy was hung with gold, silver, copper, jade and other decorations. The carriage was painted by Bai's best painter. Wedding painting.

Bai Feng is riding on a tall horse. He is dressed in red and wears a red crown. The jade belt around his waist and the hanging white jade fully embody the noble temperament of Bai Zhan. Bai Zhan kept waving to the people on both sides, and the attendants behind him kept waving copper coins on both sides of the street, causing the people to grab them one after another. It was such a happy and lively scene.

But Zhouxu, who was hiding in the shadows, felt itching to watch. Then Zhouxu let out a "hum" and took advantage of the crowd's cover to ride with the convoy out of the city with his confidants. Got out of the city.

Zhouxu, who escaped from Weiguo, kept traveling around various countries, constantly looking for like-minded comrades, and wanted to return to Weiguo and continue to live a luxurious life. When Duke Wei found out that Zhouxu was missing, he didn't think much about it. He just issued a notice in Weiguo that there would be a heavy reward for catching Zhouxu, so he ignored it and continued to deal with state affairs.

Duke Wu of Zheng, Ji Jutu, was the son of Duke Huan of Zheng and the cousin of King You of Zhou. In the eleventh year of King Zhou You, Shenhou, the king of Shen State, joined forces with Zeng State and Quanrong to attack King Zhou You and killed him under Lishan Mountain. At the same time, Duke Huan of Zheng was also killed in this turmoil. After the death of Duke Huan of Zheng, the people of Zheng jointly supported Ji Jutu to succeed Duke Zheng as Duke Wu of Zheng.

Because Zheng Wugong had made great contributions in escorting him to the east, the Emperor of Zhou appointed Zheng Gong to succeed his father Zheng Huan Gong and serve as a minister of the Zhou royal family.

After succeeding to the throne of Zheng Gong, Zheng Wu Gong continued to adhere to the eastward expansion strategic plan formulated by his father. On the one hand, he escorted King Ping of Zhou to move eastward to Luoyi. On the other hand, he further implemented the attack and annihilation of Dongguo and Hao, and annexed the surrounding Yan, She, Bu, Dan, and Yi. , Tao, Li, Xinbayi's specific actions.

In the second year of Zheng Wugong, the second year of Bai Guo
Duke Wu of Zheng occupied the capital of the state of Xi and destroyed the state of Xi.

The fourth year of Zheng Wugong and the fourth year of Bai Guo
Duke Wu of Zheng occupied the capital of Dongguo and destroyed Dongguo. Then sweep across the surrounding eight towns of Yan, Yi, Bu, Dan, Yi, Tao, Li and Xin.

Zheng Guo occupied Magpie Nest and moved the capital to the old capital of Hao State, turning the original land of deposits into his own territory. He also moved his old troops from Shaanxi to Henan and built a new city under the name "Zheng". This made Zheng Guo suddenly become as big a country as Wei Guo.

The tenth year of Zheng Wugong and the tenth year of Bai Kingdom
Duke Wu of Zheng married Wu Jiang, the daughter of the king of Shen, as his wife.

Wu Jiang gave birth to sons Huansheng and Gongshu Duan for Zheng Wugong in the 14th and 17th years of Zheng Wugong respectively. Since Wansheng was born in difficult labor, Gongshu Duan was born naturally, so Wu Jiang did not like Wansheng, but liked Gongshu Duan, so Wu Jiang wanted to make Gongshu Duan the crown prince.

She repeatedly requested Zheng Wugong, but Zheng Wugong insisted on the eldest son inheritance system and never agreed.

The twenty-seventh year of Zheng Wugong, the twenty-seventh year of Bai Kingdom
Zheng Wugong was seriously ill. Wu Jiang wanted to make his uncle Duan the crown prince, so he repeatedly requested Zheng Wugong, but Zheng Wugong always refused to agree.

In the same year, Duke Wu of Zheng died, and Wansheng succeeded Duke Zheng.

After Zheng Gongwensheng came to the throne, the Jiang family requested that the land be used as a fief for Gongshu Duan. Zheng Gong replied: "Zhi is a dangerous place. Uncle Guo died there in the past. If it were other places, I would definitely agree to do it."

Finally, the Jiang family asked for the capital, and Zheng Gong asked Gongshu Duan to live there, and he was called the uncle of the capital.

The twentieth year of Zheng Gong and the forty-seventh year of Bai Kingdom
One day, Zheng Guo minister Ji Zhong came to see Zheng Gong and said: "Your Majesty, any capital city with a wall exceeding three hundred feet will become a disaster to the country. According to the system stipulated by the former king: a large capital city must not exceed three hundred feet of the capital. One-fifth for medium ones, and one-ninth for small ones.

But now the city wall in Beijing does not comply with the regulations, which violates the system, and you will definitely suffer from this in the future. "

After hearing this, Duke Zheng thought for a while and then said, "If Mrs. Jiang does this, how can I avoid the disaster?"

Ji Zhong replied: "How can Mrs. Jiang be satisfied? It's better to make plans as soon as possible and don't let the disaster spread. Once it spreads, it will be difficult to deal with. It is difficult to clean up the spreading grass, let alone Where is your favored brother?"

Zheng Gong said: "Ms. Jiang is my mother-in-law after all. What's more, Uncle Duan is cruel and selfish. If he does too many bad things, he will inevitably fall into trouble. Just wait and see."

After a while, Gongshu Duan, the uncle in the capital, ordered the western and northern border areas to disobey Zheng Gong's orders and instead listen to his own control.

At this time, Gongzi Lu, the younger brother of Zhenggong, said to Zhenggong: "Your Majesty, the country cannot tolerate the coexistence of two regimes at the same time. What are you going to do? If you want to give up your throne to your uncle, then as a minister, I will serve him; if not Yes, then please get rid of him and don’t let the people have other ideas.”

Zheng Gong still said: "No need, he will bring it to himself." Seeing that Zheng Gong still didn't take any action, Gongshu Duan added two more areas to his fiefdom and extended it to Linyan.

Prince Lu came to see Duke Zheng again and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to take action. My uncle's land is already very vast, and people's hearts are about to join him."

Zheng Gong still said: "If you don't accept the emperor's orders and are not friendly to your brothers, the bigger the land expands, the faster it will collapse and fall." Young Master Lu could only retreat when he saw this.

On this day, Gongshu Duan Xiu restored the city, accumulated a large amount of food, built armor and weapons, and trained infantry and chariots. After everything was ready, he prepared to directly attack the capital, while the Jiang family prepared to open the city gate. .

At this time, Duke Zheng found out about the date when Duan, his uncle, would launch an army, so he summoned Prince Lu and said, "It's time to start!"

Then he ordered Prince Lu to lead 200 chariots to attack the capital.

After Prince Lu led his army to the capital, he said to Gongshu Duan: "I heard that if a family wants to be harmonious, it must have brothers and sisters who respect each other. An elder brother must have responsibilities as an elder brother, and a younger brother must have responsibilities. If the elder brother fulfills the younger brother's responsibility, can the younger brother accept it openly without any reaction?

I think this is wrong. In order to fulfill his responsibilities as an elder brother, Duke Zheng sealed you in the capital. He hopes that you can fulfill your responsibilities as a younger brother and govern the capital well. But what about you? Not only do you not appreciate the kindness of being an elder brother, but you want to raise an army to attack Duke Zheng, who is your elder brother. Isn't this rebellion?

Secondly, as an uncle in the capital, aren't you the elder brother of the people in the capital? As an elder, if you don't properly manage the people and fulfill your responsibilities as an elder, but instead bring chaos to the governance of the capital, isn't this tyranny?
Since you do not fulfill your responsibilities, then as the elder brother of everyone in the Zheng Kingdom, you must fulfill his responsibilities as an elder brother. Today, on behalf of Zheng Gong, I expel your irresponsible, rebellious and tyrannical younger brother and elder brother. "

Because Duan Gong was aggressive in the capital, all the people in the capital were against him. Soon, someone opened the city gate and let Gongzi Lu's army into the city. Gongshu Duan fled all the way to Yan, and Young Master Lu pursued him to attack Yan.

In May of Xinchou, Gongshu Duan fled to the Republic of China.

After Gongshu Duan fled, Duke Zheng was angry at Jiang's partial behavior, so he placed Jiang in Ying City, and swore: "We will never see each other again until we reach the underworld."

But not long after, Zheng Gong felt regretful again. Uncle Ying was then a local official in Yinggu. When he heard about this incident, he brought something to offer to Duke Zheng. Duke Zheng rewarded him with a meal, but he put the meat aside and did not eat it.

Duke Zheng felt strange and asked him, "Why did you put the meat aside?"

Uncle Ying replied: "The villain has a mother. She has eaten all the food of the villain, but she has never eaten the king's broth. Please allow me to give this to her."

After hearing this, Duke Zheng said slightly sadly: "You have a mother to give gifts to, but I don't!" Uncle Ying quickly asked why. Zheng Gong told him the reason for the incident and how he regretted it.

After thinking for a while, Uncle Ying replied: "What do you have to worry about? If you dig the ground to find a spring and meet in the tunnel, who will say that you have violated your oath?"

Duke Zheng did as he was told. When Mr. Zheng entered the tunnel, he sighed and said, "When I walked into the tunnel, I felt so happy in my heart!" Then when Mrs. Jiang walked out of the tunnel, she also sighed and said, "When I walked out of the tunnel, I felt so happy!"

Soon Mr. Zheng and Mrs. Jiang restored their previous mother-son relationship.

In the thirteenth year of Duke Wei, the forty-seventh year of Bai Kingdom
Zhou Xu has been wandering around the countries for ten years. He heard that Gongshu Duan, the younger brother of Zheng Gong, failed to rebel against Zheng Gong and fled to the Republic of China. He immediately got up and rushed to the Republic of China in the hope of making friends and forming an alliance to return home together.

The Republic of China, the place where uncle Duan lives.

"Uncle, we have a visitor." The attendant reported to Uncle Duan who looked sad. At this time, Gongshu Duan had a sad look on his face, his brows were furrowed, as if he was not interested in anything.

"Please come in!" Uncle Gong said weakly.

When Zhouxu walked into the room, he saw Uncle Gong Duan with a desolate look on his face. He rolled his eyes and said loudly: "I thought Uncle Jingcheng was an aristocrat who dared to break the clan system, was informal, and was confident in everything. Today I Look, he turns out to be a coward who dares not accept failure!"

Gongshu Duan was attracted by his words, and saw Zhou Xu with an arrogant look on his face, looking at the ceiling and pointing his nose at Gongshu Duan. He couldn't bear it anymore. He slapped the table, stood up and said loudly:
"Where does this thief come from and dares to speak arrogantly in front of my uncle in the capital?"

When Zhouxu saw that his uncle Duan was angry, he saluted and said, "I am the prince of the Wei Kingdom, Zhouxu, and I want to work together with my uncle to achieve a great cause."

Gongshu Duan quickly asked the reason, and Zhouxu told the story in a more embellished way that he was the favorite son of Duke Zhuang of Wei, but was usurped by the current Duke of Wei. After hearing this, Gongshu Duan felt sympathy. .

So the two immediately formed an offensive and defensive alliance and agreed to help each other return to the country and ascend to the position of king.

(End of this chapter)