Although the Jin State has declined since the death of Jin Xianggong, and is at a disadvantage in the competition for hegemony with the Chu State, after all, it is a great power that has dominated for many years, and it is slowly reviving in dormancy, and the key figure in this revival is a monarch Jin Jinggong who is fixed in people's hearts with a brutal and mediocre image. In fact, the real Jin Jinggong is not as cruel and tyrannical as in the legendary story "Zhao's Orphan", and when Jin Jinggong was in power, it was a time of internal and external troubles in Jin. Internally, there are many factions in the government and the opposition, and there are many contradictions; Externally, the Jin State gradually fell behind in the struggle for hegemony with the Chu State, and many nomadic people invaded from time to time. After Duke Jing ascended to the throne, he reconciled the contradictions of the ministers, so that the country could avoid being mired in internal friction and could not get out, and used troops to recruit Rong Di externally, clearing the external environment for the Jin State, so that he could free up his hands to compete with the Chu State.

Jin Jinggong faced a mess left by his father Jin Chenggong, Zhao Dun made waves in the court, formed a party for personal gain, and destroyed the consistently good political atmosphere of the Jin State; And his high-flying style and forgetful character also made the Jin State bear a lot of infamy for this, and many small countries were alienated from the Jin State and close to the Chu State because of the existence of Zhao Dun.

The dictatorship of the Zhao clan in China will inevitably affect the ineffectiveness of Jin's foreign affairs. In the third year of Jing Gong, the State of Chu attacked Zheng, and the State of Zheng could be regarded as the hardcore ally of the Jin State in the Central Plains, and the State of Jin naturally could not sit idly by. So, the Jin State took Xun Lin's father in command and led the troops to aid Zheng Guo. Under Xun Lin's father's account, there should be twelve generals in the army, and the Zhao family accounts for one-third, as well as the Han, Hao and other clans attached to the Zhao family. As a result, Xun Lin's father was elevated, the military power was all vested in the Zhao family, and the Jin army attacked the enemy lightly and was defeated, which seriously dampened the spirit of the Jin State.

The defeat of the Jin State not only caused it to lose the confidence of many small countries in it, but also made many nomads have the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob. There are many branches of these nomadic peoples, and they are collectively called "Di" by the Chinese state, among which "Changdi" and "Chidi" are the two more powerful.

Until the Central Plains countries did not decline in strength due to the continuous attacks on each other, these "Di" could not pose a substantial threat to them. Although the need for survival caused these peoples to constantly invade the Central Plains countries, the results were often very disastrous, and showing off their victories against Di became a popular activity among the princes of the Central Plains for a time.

The friction between the Jin State and the Chidi State was more frequent, and the Jin monarch Jin Chenggong formulated a strategy of retreating as an advance, ignoring the small-scale harassment of the Chidi, but secretly Chen Cang, allied with other Di tribes, took the initiative to put down his body, and befriended them, and in this way, Chidi was isolated.

After all, Chidi has deep strength and cannot be annihilated in one fell swoop, and the Jin State is also soft and hard against it, barely controlling it. Time came to the sixth year of Jinggong, and an incident happened in this year, which became the fuse for the Jin Kingdom's determination to attack Chidi.

The Jin Kingdom and Lu Guo, one of the most powerful branches of Chidi, were married, and the sister of Jin Jinggong married into the Lu Kingdom. Feng Shu, the minister of the Lu Kingdom, was extremely hostile to the Jin Kingdom and killed the sister of the Jin Jinggong. Jin Jinggong was furious and made up his mind to exterminate Chidi to prevent future troubles. The ministers of the Jin State thought that the Jin State was not doing well recently, and Feng Shu was a very capable minister, so Chidi was not a soft bone at this time.

However, the great doctor Zongbo thought that this was the right time to crusade against Chidi, and he said that although Feng Shu was indeed a capable minister, he used his power for the evil way and did not benefit the people. In this way, the greater his power, the more sins he has, and the faster he will bring about his own destruction. If the Jin State does not crusade against Chidi now, it will be difficult to find an excuse to crusade again in the future.

So Jin Jinggong ordered to send troops, Xun Lin's father took command again, and the conquest process was quite smooth, and Lu Guo was wiped out in one fell swoop in less than a month. Feng Shu fled to Weiguo, who escorted him to Jin, and Jin put him to death.

After this battle, the Jin State regained its self-confidence as a big and powerful country, and the Jin Jinggong rewarded the three armies and crowned Xun Lin's father Qianhu. The scholar who pleaded for the defeat of Xun Lin's father was also rewarded. Summing up the reasons for this victory, the Doctor believed that the Shangshu admonished the king to appoint respectful and rigorous men. Shibo interceded for Xun Lin's father, and Jing Gong accepted it, and entrusted him with important responsibilities, reflecting Jing Gong's kindness and wisdom. The reason why King Wen of Zhou was able to rule the world was because of his virtue and politics. If the king implements virtuous government, he will win the hearts and minds of the people, and then the country will be invincible.

The Jin Kingdom did not stop there. The following year, the Jin State sent troops to attack the Jia clan and other states in Chidi and annexed them. Duke Jing of Jin dedicated the captives to Zhou Tianzi, and asked for the name of the secretary of state for the taxi meeting leading the troops in battle, and Zhou Tianzi agreed. As a result, the scholar will be named the secretary of state, and the title of Taifu will be added, and the military and political power of the Jin State will be concentrated in one. The prestige of the Shihui was quite high, and it formed a strong deterrent to the other ministers of the Jin State.

In terms of governing the country, the Jin State embarked on the road of etiquette and education in an all-round way. Jin Jinggong once appointed a man named Xuan Yong, who was extremely capable and could distinguish loyalty from the subtle expressions between people's eyebrows. So Jing Gong ordered him to arrest the thief, and the effect was very good. Zhao Wenzi disagreed, and told Jing Gong that this method was difficult to implement for a long time, and it was even difficult for Xu Yong himself to live long. Sure enough, Xuan Yong's extraordinary ability caused disaster, and the thieves of the Jin Kingdom knew that there was such a person in charge of arresting them, so Xuan Yong was killed.

Jin Jinggong was shocked by this and asked Zhao Wenzi how to govern the country. Zhao Wenzi suggested that Jing Gong might as well vigorously implement indoctrination and appoint virtuous talents, so that the atmosphere of the country can be purified, and everyone will know etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame, so that the Jin State can be peaceful and peaceful.

In the sixteenth year of Lu Xuangong (593 BC), the Zhou royal family had a mutual conflict between courtiers, and Wang Sun Su sent people to assassinate his political enemies Mao and Zhao and fled to the Jin State, and the Jin State sent a scholar to the Zhou Dynasty to mediate and calm the situation. After the scholars returned to China, they governed the country according to the etiquette standards of Zhou Tianzi, which made the national style of the Jin State to a higher level.

A few years later, the Jin state, together with the other vassal states, eliminated the last branch of the Chidi, and completely eliminated the threat of the nomads around the Jin state.

Jin Jinggong brought the Jin State out of the darkness and put the Jin State back on the road of rising, and the hegemony pattern of the Jin and Chu kingdoms was formed again in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After the Jin State pacified Chidi, its strength was greatly enhanced, and several small-scale expansions were carried out, and there were frictions with the Qin State and the Qi State.

In the seventeenth year of Lu Xuangong (592 BC), the Jin State sent Xun Ke as an envoy to the Qi State and invited the Qi State to participate in the alliance. The monarch of Qi ridiculed him because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, and he held a grudge against him, and after returning to China, he asked the Jin State to send troops to attack the Qi State. Jing Gong thought that the time had not yet come to attack Qi at this time, so he did not agree to Xun Ke's request, and Xun Ke asked to only lead his own people to crusade, and Jing Gong did not allow it.

When the monarch of Qi heard that the Jin State was already discussing the matter of cutting Qi, he hurriedly sent envoys to the Jin State to participate in the alliance, but he refused to go out of fear, which angered the Jin State even more. So the Jin State arrested all the envoys sent by the Qi State. The Jin State and the countries of Lu, Wei, and Cao met the alliance in the Broken Dao and Juan Chu twice, excluding the Qi State.

The minister Miao Benhuang advised Jin Jinggong not to be too harsh, causing the princes to think that the Jin State had no good intentions, so Jinggong deliberately relaxed the supervision of these Qi envoys and let them escape smoothly. At this time, the Shihui was very old, and knew that Xun Ke was eyeing his position, and he was eager to use his power to mobilize the Jin army to attack Qi. So the scholar would return to his hometown and give up his seat to Xun Ke, who immediately organized a raid. The Jin State's expedition to Qi did not take place, and the fearful King of Qi quickly made peace with the Jin State, taking his son as a hostage in exchange for the Jin State's withdrawal.

At that time, both Lu and Wei hoped to take advantage of the conflict between Jin and Qi to take advantage of the Qi State, and vent their anger for being bullied by the Qi State on weekdays. Unexpectedly, there was no fight between Jin and Qi. Lu didn't want to give up, so he persuaded Chu to send troops, but Chu was in a state mourning due to the death of King Chu Zhuang, and not a single soldier could go out of the country, and Lu's plot went bankrupt again. Qi was furious when he learned about these actions behind the back of Lu, so he formed an alliance with Chu and joined forces with Lu when his national mourning was over.

At this time, for the Lu State, the Jin State was its only life-saving straw. On the one hand, the monarch of Lu State prepared his troops for war, and on the other hand, he ordered people to be ready at all times, and as soon as Qi and Chu marched into Lu State, he immediately went to Jin State for help.

Soon after, the Qi army really invaded the Lu country, but the division was not good, when attacking the border city of Longyi, the king of Qi was captured, the people of Longyi did not listen to the king of Qi's request to behead the favored ministers, the king of Qi was furious, and ordered the army to storm for three days, and the city was broken. The Qi army marched all the way to the nest hill.

As an ally of Lu, Wei Guo has always been dependent on it, and this time he couldn't sit idly by, so he sent troops to help. In the newly built land, the Wei and Qi armies met and fought, and the Wei was defeated, and the Qi army entered the territory of the Wei country. Sun Liangfu, the general of the guards, had to go to the Jin State for help, and in the capital of the Jin State, he met Uncle Zang Xuan, who was sent by the Lu State to ask for help, and the two defected to the warmonger Xun Ke of the Jin State. After deliberation, Jin Jinggong felt that it would be too unfavorable for Jin to let Wei and Lu be annexed by Qi, so he agreed to send troops to the war. Xun Ke opened his mouth like Jing Gong asking for 800 chariots, and Jing Gong agreed.

The Jin army slaughtered the Qi army, and after the two kingdoms of Lu and Wei received strong reinforcements, they regained their spirits and organized the army to fight again, and Cao Guo, an old ally of the Jin State, also sent troops to help, and the situation was very good for a while. The State of Qi was not afraid, and with the momentum of the previous victories and the Kingdom of Jin, they opened up a formation in a place called the Dian under the Milu Mountain, and fought against each other.

Qi Qinggong was full of pride and shouted to defeat the Jin army and then have breakfast, so the Qi army swarmed up, even ignoring the armor of the war horses. The Jin army was suppressed for a while, and the commander Xun Ke was injured by an arrow, and the blood flowed all the way to his shoes, but he insisted on not retreating, and kept ordering the drums to beat and let the Jin army advance. The driver of the chariot was even more seriously wounded, his arm pierced by arrows, and the blood stained the wheels red, but he also gritted his teeth and fought, driving with one hand and beating the drum with the other. The heroism of the commander formed a great encouragement for the whole army, and the Jin army reversed the decline and the Qi army was defeated. The Jin army chased after him, circled the mountain three times, and the doctor Han Ju took the lead and went straight to the king of Qi, and the king of Qi shot the soldiers on the Han Ju chariot one after another, but Han Ju still did not let go. In desperation, King Qi had to swap places with his courtier, Feng Ugly's father, and Feng Ugly's father was finally captured.

King Qi is not a cowardly person, after he escaped from the pursuit of the Jin army, he quickly organized his forces and re-entered the enemy formation, three in and three out, hoping to rescue Feng Chou's father, but he did not succeed. The Qi army had no choice but to fight and retreat, but the Jin army persevered. King Qi had no choice but to admit defeat and seek peace. After his ugly father was captured by Xun Ke, because he took pity on his loyal and brave minister, Xun Ke spared him from death.

The king of Qi sent people to the Jin military camp and promised to bribe the land, hoping to stop the war. The Jin State did not forgive, and insisted that the mother of the King of Qi be taken hostage, and asked the fields in the territory of the Qi State to change the direction. Such a request far exceeded the bottom line of Qi State's acceptance, and there was not much practical benefit for Jin State and its allies, under the reconciliation of Lu State and Wei State, Jin State relaxed the conditions slightly, so all parties negotiated peace.

In this war, Lu and Wei can be said to be sad and then happy, first hit hard by Qi and almost perished, and then found Jin in time, not only recovered the lost land, but also took a share of the overall victory in the back, which not only gave a bad breath to Qi State, but also obtained a lot of practical benefits, and consolidated the alliance with Jin State to ensure their own safety, and it was indeed a bumper harvest.

As for Jin Guo, it is just to put into practice what he has always wanted to do but did not dare to do, and the effect is good. In the war, the Jin State tested its own quality as a great power in the Central Plains, and at the same time proved the correctness of the development path it has been taking through the victory of this war, and laid confidence for the future hegemony with the Qi State and the Chu State.

However, the Chu State in the south has been watching from the sidelines in this war, and they will never sit idly by and watch the Jin State become bigger. The state of Chu hibernated like a yellow finch behind a praying mantis, watching. The two kingdoms of Qi and Jin, no matter who wins or loses, the state of Chu is the winner, because the defeated powers, not only weakened, but will also be eager to seek a stronger and more stable military alliance, and the state of Chu is their only choice. The victorious side, while being complacent, will inevitably make omissions and will more likely lose the support of international public opinion, which will provide a pretext for the Chu State to discuss them.

Sure enough, just when the Jin State was still immersed in the joy of victory, the Chu State made a move.