After getting rid of the Zhao family, Jin Jinggong had nightmares, often dreaming of a powerful ghost with long hair and a mask asking for his life. This powerful ghost is tall and mighty, and he scolded in his mouth: "The faint king has no way, my Zhao family has been loyal and good for generations, in order to achieve your Jin hegemony, one after another, liver and brain, you don't think about hard work, you actually slaughtered my innocent descendants, it's not as good as a beast!" I have reported to the Emperor of Heaven that you will soon have to atone for your life for this evil deed! With that, he waved his iron thorn-like claws and broke open the door of the house and the door of Jin Jinggong's bedroom and rushed in. Jing Gong was so frightened that he fell to the ground, unable to move, and was about to be killed by a powerful ghost in close quarters, when he suddenly woke up, only to find that he was dreaming, and he was shocked into a cold sweat. Since then, he has been ill, and this nightmare has been entangled day and night, and Jing Gong's illness is getting worse day by day.

Jing Gong knew that this was not a simple nightmare, but that there were powerful ghosts haunting him, so he asked for trickery, hoping to get rid of the entanglement of powerful ghosts. It happened that at that time, there was a witch living in a place called Sangtian, and his reputation spread far and wide, so he was summoned into the palace by Jing Gong. The gods and witches divined and calculated, and told the things that Jing Gong dreamed of exactly once, and Jing Gong was dumbfounded when he heard it. As if grasping the last straw, Jing Gong, who had been tormented by nightmares for a long time, asked anxiously, "What should I do?" But I heard the god and witch shake his head and sigh and said: "This powerful ghost was originally a hero of the previous dynasty, with great magical powers and great power, and at this time, he was aroused by the anger of his descendants who were unjustly killed, and he vowed not to give up until he reached his goal. Jin Jinggong was stunned when he heard this, and asked again: "Is the widow's sick body auspicious or evil?" The god and witch fell to the ground: "Please forgive the villain, I am afraid that you will not be able to eat this year's new wheat." "The wheat is ripe and harvested in June, and the god and witch mean that Jing Gong will not live until June.

I heard that there was a famous doctor named Zhuan in Qin, and any incurable disease in his hands was a medicine to get rid of the disease, so Jing Gong sent someone west to Qin State, please come and see a doctor. Before the slow people arrived, Jing Gong began to dream again, but this time he did not dream of ghosts haunting him for his life, but dreamed of two villains who were talking and laughing.

One of them said, "He is very skillful, and I'm afraid he will find us and get rid of us." Where should we hide? ”

The other grinned and replied, "As long as he hides under the anointing, above the belly, no matter how clever he is ten times, he will only be able to do nothing to us." "The so-called ointment is what is now called the fat at the tip of the heart, and the so-called belly is the place between the heart and the diaphragm. With that, the two little people shrank into small ones and got into Jing Gong's nostrils. Jing Gong woke up like this.

After the slowdown, he diagnosed and treated Jing Gong and said: "The disease is under the ointment, above the belly, the acupuncture drugs can't come, and the minister can't do anything." Jing Gong sighed: "Your diagnosis is exactly the same as the dream of the widow, it seems that the destiny is like this, and it cannot be forced." So he gave him a generous gift and sent him back to Qin.

On the afternoon of June, the new wheat had already begun to be harvested, and Jin Jinggong, who had been ill for a long time, suddenly wanted to eat wheat porridge. In fact, Jing Gong's psychology is very subtle, he is angry with the god and witch who asserted that he can't eat new wheat. Jing Gong summoned the gods and witches into the palace. The bowl of wheat porridge made of new wheat was placed on Jing Gong's table, slowly steaming. Jing Gong smelled the aroma of wheat porridge, pointed to the god and witch who knelt down and scolded, "Didn't you curse the widow for not being able to eat new wheat?" Look what this is! So he ordered his men to pull the witch out and cut him down.

Thinking that the gods and witches were not accurate, Jing Zheng, who had escaped by himself, wanted to eat wheat porridge, but suddenly the abdominal pain was unbearable, so he had to hurry to the toilet. However, Jing Gong, who had been ill for a long time, had weak feet and could not stand in the toilet, so he fell into the manure tank and drowned in it. A generation of heroes ended their lives in such a ridiculous and tragic way, according to the "Zuo Biography" record, after the death of Jin Jinggong, no one knew, it was a eunuch beside him who dreamed that he carried Jin Jinggong step by step to the sky in the early morning of the next day, he woke up and looked for the whereabouts of Jin Jinggong everywhere, only then did he know that the monarch had drowned, so he carried Jin Jinggong out of the toilet, and then buried it.

After the death of Jin Jinggong, the situation of the Jin State was not mentioned for the time being, and the eyes turned to a more macro perspective, from the analysis of the entire situation, after the battle of Jin and Chuyi, the King of Chuzhuang finally pulled the Jin State from the throne of the overlord for more than ten years in the Central Plains, and replaced it as he wished. However, although the Jin State was temporarily defeated, its status as a great power did not waver. Therefore, in the following decades, the two countries of Jin and Chu went south and north, and launched a fierce competition in the Central Plains. The turbulent situation brought about by the long-term war and chaos has greatly damaged the vitality of all the vassal states.

Jin and Chu competed for hegemony in the Central Plains, and the first to bear the brunt were the second-class vassal states such as Zheng, Song, and Wei in the Central Plains. According to historians' statistics, in the seventy or eighty years in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, more than 70 wars broke out in the territory of Zheng State, and more than 40 times in Song State, and as for other small countries, the number is not a few. Not only that, because the two sides took turns to dominate the Central Plains, the kings of these small countries had to submit to the power, and in the twilight of Qin, "sacrifice the jade silk and stay in the two realms", and take turns to do small and low to the two big countries, and at the same time suffer from the attack of the other side. In the long run, countries are exhausted and war-weary.

This is not only the case for small countries, but also for Jin and Chu, which have their own internal and external troubles. Since the death of Duke Wen of Jin, the successor monarch has been weak, and the military and political power has gradually been concentrated in the hands of a few powerful ministers. They competed with each other for power and profit, and infighting was endless, which greatly consumed the national strength of the Jin State. At the same time, the rise of the Qin state also made the Jin state feel the crisis. After Qin Mugong became the hegemon, the Qin State became a pivotal vassal state, and there were repeated frictions with the Jin State. Although Jin Li was in alliance with Qin, Qin did not care, but contacted Bai Di to plan to attack Jin.

The external troubles of the Jin State did not stop there, and the Jin State relied on its dominant position to exert its coercion against the Central Plains countries. In the seventeenth year of Jin Jinggong (583 BC), in order to make friends with Qi, the Jin State forced Lu to hand over the field of Wenyang to Qi State, and later Lu Chenggong saw Jin State, but Jin forcibly detained him on the grounds of "Tongchu", and forced Lu Chenggong to accept the covenant before letting him return to China. This kind of behavior of the Jin State naturally made the Central Plains countries very dissatisfied, and they all "fell in favor of the Jin" and made friends with Chu.

Although the Chu side is the hegemon and does not have as bad diplomatic problems as the Jin state, there are also many internal contradictions. After the death of King Chuzhuang, King Chu Gong succeeded to the throne at a young age, and his power was not as strong as before. And Zi Yan, Zi Zhong and others had conflicts with Shen Gong Wuchen because of the problems of Xia Ji and Xiantian. After Shen Gong Wuchen fled to Jin, Zi Rebellion and Zi Chong slaughtered Shen Gong Wuchen's family again, and the family wealth was divided. When Shen Gong Wuchen learned of this, he suggested to the Jin State to ally with the Wu State, which was not recognized by the Central Plains vassal states at that time, and attack the Chu State from the flank. Because Shen Gong Wuchen was also a famous general of the Chu State and was well versed in the military technology of the Chu army, the Wu State learned a large number of advanced tactics and began to use chariots to fight, and its military strength increased by leaps and bounds. Subsequently, the state of Wu attacked the nest, Xu and other places of the state of Chu, and won one after another, posing a great threat to the state of Chu.

In this way, temporary peace becomes the only option. Under these circumstances, both Jin and Chu sent envoys to contact each other, intending to seek peace through the alliance.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jing of Jin (582 BC), Duke Jing of Jin inspected the army and met Zhong Yi, a Chu man who was captured by Zheng and dedicated to the Jin State. Because Zhong Yi was upright and played the piano well, Fan Wenzi took advantage of the situation to suggest that Jin Jinggong release him back to the state of Chu in order to ease the relationship between Jin and Chu. The state of Chu also responded positively to this gesture of goodwill, and sent Gongzichen to visit the Jin state in the winter of that year. The Jin State then sent a doctor to pay a return visit. For a time, the diplomatic activities of the two sides were very close, and the smell of war seemed to be far away.

The easing of relations between Jin and Chu was sniffed by the sensitive princes of the Central Plains, and for their own interests, they naturally tried their best to promote peace between the two sides. Although Hua Yuan, the doctor of the Song State, did not have a high status, he had good personal relations with those in power on both sides of the Jin and Chu sides. He not only had a close relationship with Luan Shu, the Zhengqing of the Jin State, but also became a good friend with Chu Ling Yinzi. This favorable condition made it convenient for Hua Yuan to come forward to mediate between the two kingdoms of Jin and Chu. In the first year of Jin Li (580 BC), Hua Yuan visited Chu and Jin successively, creating conditions for a meeting between the two sides. In the following year, the Jin State sent Shi Xie, and the Chu State sent Gongzi Ba and Xu Yan, and the two sides met outside the west gate of the Song capital. Under the auspices of Hua Yuan, the two sides concluded an armistice. The agreement is as follows:

"Fan Jin and Chu have no other than each other, have the same likes and dislikes, sympathize with disasters and dangers, and prepare for rescue. If it is harmful, it will be cut down; In Jin, Chu is the same. There is no road to and fro; Seek to disagree, and do not seek court. There is this alliance of Chongqing, the gods are killed, and their teachers are fallen, and there is no country of Keyun. ”

This is a diplomatic event that was called "Hua Yuan's Soldiers" by later historians.

In order to implement the results of Huayuan's defeat of soldiers, the two countries carried out a series of follow-up diplomatic activities. Lu, Wei, Zheng and other vassal states that had already been friendly with Chu went to the Jin Dynasty to meet the Duke of Jin Li again, and re-established the vassal relationship. The Jin State and the Chu State also sent envoys to visit each other again, and the Duke of Jin Li personally joined the alliance with Gongzi, strengthening the alliance of the soldiers.

Despite this, the decades-long hostility between Jin and Chu was not so easy to resolve in one fell swoop. Just after the end of the meeting, the Jin State sent Yin Zhi to envoy Chu, and the Chu State prepared a full set of ceremonies to greet him. According to Zhou Li, only when the two monarchs meet, they can enjoy such treatment, so Yin Zhi expressed his shame and asked: If the two monarchs meet on a different day, what kind of etiquette will be used? Unexpectedly, Zi replied that the two kings only need to send each other an arrow when they meet, and there is no need for music. Zi Yan's words undoubtedly implied that the two countries were about to meet each other, and Shi Xie also expected that the Chu State would definitely break the treaty. Sure enough, Hua Yuan's army was soon defeated due to the outbreak of the Battle of Yanling in Jin, Chu, and Yanling.

The Huayuan war was not so much a long-term national policy of the Jin and Chu countries as a last resort in an increasingly difficult situation. A little analysis shows that the number of participants in this battle was extremely limited, and the covenant was vague. Therefore, its failure is understandable.