Han Buxin and Wei Hao became Zhao Ying's followers at this time. The sum of the three: Liang Ying's father replaces the Zhongxing family, and he will inevitably become Xun Song's sworn friend; The Fan family is the fattest family, driving away the greedy Shi Ji She, in exchange for Shi Gaoyi, the Fan family is still strong, and if the Fan family and the Liang family are ranked in the sixth Qing, then they will inevitably be close to the Zhi family, and the threat to the Han, Zhao, and Wei families is great.

So Han, Zhao, and Wei spoke in unison, opposing the restoration of the Liuqing system, and Xun Song had no choice but to give up.

Liang Ying's father couldn't enter the Qingqing, he had a grudge against Zhao Ying, he couldn't deal with Zhao Ying, and he wanted to disgust him, so he whispered to Xun Ying: "Zhao Ying's power will be strong so quickly, all because of Dong Anyu." If you don't kill Dong Anyu and let him always preside over everything for the Zhao family, the Zhao family will one day get the Jin Kingdom, why not blame Zhao Ying in the name of Dong Anyu initiating the war first? ”

Xun Song didn't want Zhao Ying's subordinates to have such capable people, so he adopted Liang Ying's father's plan and sent someone to tell Zhao Ying: "Although Shiji and Xun Yin did launch a rebellion, it was Dong Anyu who provoked the bottom of the matter. The laws of the Jin Kingdom have long stated that those who take the lead in starting a rebellion must be put to death. Now that the Fan family and the Bank of China have pleaded guilty, please watch and do it! ”

Zhao Ying's reluctance to meet the battle was because he was worried that there would be such a day, but this day still came. Zhao Ying's six gods have no owner, and he is deeply afraid that the Zhao family will also become the target of the public, and he feels ashamed of his sincerity to Dong An. Things are still deadlocked, Dong Anyu once again became the mainstay of the Zhao family, and he generously enlightened Zhao Ying: "If I die, the Jin Kingdom will be peaceful, and the Zhao family will be at peace, so where do I need to continue to live?" Who has no death in life, and my death has come very late! He hanged himself that day.

Political struggles are always so ruthless and always so helpless, but as the founder of Jinyang City, history will always remember his name.

Dong Anyu's death made Zhao Ying very sad, ordered a thick burial and personally supported the coffin. The reason for all this is the rebellion of the Fan clan and the Bank of China clan. Zhao Ying vowed to exterminate the rebels in order to comfort Dong An's spirit in the sky.

In the summer and autumn of 496 BC, Zhao Ying asked for the order of Jin Dinggong, who was fully responsible for exterminating the rebels of the Zhongxing clan and the Fan clan, while the court was completely handed over to Xun Song, that is, "the Zhi clan is in charge of the interior, and the Zhao clan is outside the lord". Zhao Ying also changed his name to Zhifu to show that he had reformed and started everything from scratch.

Zhao Ying led the Jin army to march to the entrenched Chaoge of Erqing, and when he heard that Zhao Ying was leading a large army, Zhong Xingyin and Shi Ji sent envoys to ask for help from Qi Jinggong. Soon, the Jin army, under the leadership of Zhao Ying, besieged the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan in Chaoge. Shi Ji and Zhong Xingyin were besieged in the city, and the ambitious Qi Jinggong had been waiting for the day of the Jin civil strife for half a century, and in order to be able to intervene in the internal affairs of the Jin, it was agreed that Lu Dinggong and Wei Linggong would meet with Shangliang to discuss the rescue of the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and at the same time invite Song Jinggong to join the anti-Jin camp.

In order to alleviate the frontal pressure on Chaogecheng, Shi Jishu and Zhong Xingyin sent their cronies to Rong Di to provoke the contradiction between Rong Di and the Jin State, and united the Di army to attack the capital of the Jin State.

At the end of the summer of this year, the Erqing Rebellion Army and the Rongdi Coalition Army took advantage of the fact that the main forces of the Jin army were all taken to the front line by Zhao Ying, and Jiangdu seemed to be only garrisoned by the army of the Zhi clan and launched a surprise attack on Jiangdu. The scheming Xun Song would not know the principle of "capturing the thief and capturing the king", and sent an army to defend the capital of Jiangdu, and finally made the capital as stable as Mount Tai, and the chaotic army was exhausted and defeated. Rong Di's army was defeated and fled, and Cheng Cheng fled to Cheng Zhou, and Rong Di's leader Xiao Wang Taojia entered Chaoge City and made peace with Shi Ji and Xun Yin.

Erqing's first offensive was dismantled. The calm Xun Song sat in Jiangdu, which was a relatively solid rear base for Zhao Ying's military practice. The enemy retreated, and Zhao Ying further intensified his attack on Chaoge.

After the autumn, Qi Jinggong and Song Jinggong met in Yaodi to discuss the rescue of Fan.

No matter how Qi Jinggong provoked the remnants of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan to rebel, the Zhao army always besieged Chaoge, intending to encircle the point and send reinforcements. One day, the retainers of the Erqing family, Qin and Gao Qiang, successfully broke through from Chaoge, and the two came to the fiefdom of the original Erqing and called on their Erqing family army to rescue the two masters. Under the repeated urging of Shi Jichu and Zhong Xingyin, in the winter of this year, the armies of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan gathered like ants under the leadership of Ji Qin and Gao Qiang, and launched an attack on the land of the Jin Kingdom.

In order to cooperate with the military operations of Qin and Gaoqiang, Zheng Xiangong, with the support of Qi Jinggong, united with the Fan family army and attacked the Zhao fiefdom - Baiquan.

In the face of the enemy's counterattack, Zhao Ying responded calmly, reproduced the demeanor of the Zhao family, and defeated the enemy army in Ludi and Baiquan respectively.

Long-term battle, both sides are tired and need to recuperate, swords and armor need to be repaired, grain and grass need to be replenished, this takes time, Zhao Ying's army besieged Chaoge and did not attack, after a year of rest, at the beginning of 494 BC, Zhao Ying's troops led Zhao's troops to another stronghold of Erqing - Handan launched a fierce attack in order to quickly solve the battle, Handan was in a hurry.

The situation forced Qi Jinggong and Wei Linggong to mobilize Chaoge reinforcements to the north, rescue Handan, and surround Zhao's base Wulu. Qi Jinggong and Wei Linggong met in Qianhou to discuss the rescue of Fan. The Qi Jing Convention decided that the Lu State and the Wei State Kong Yu would contact the Xianyu people who were dissatisfied with the Jin State to attack the Jin State and capture the Jianpu State, in an attempt to influence Zhao Ying's determination to besiege Handan and Chaoge. After winter, in November, Zhao Ying once again sent troops to attack Chaoge.

In August 493 B.C., Qi Jinggong, who had been careful all his life, decided to let blood once and transferred a large amount of grain and troops from the country. After hearing the news, Zhao Ying was in a hurry, and he must not let the hostile forces obtain grain and grass materials, otherwise the Zhao army would be in danger and hurriedly mobilized the army to intercept it. The armies of the two sides met at Tieqiu in Qiyi (now the new urban area of Puyang City).

The strength of the vassal states of several roads and the military strength of the two major families of Fan and Shi, in the face of the situation of being outnumbered by the enemy, the whole army of the Zhao clan was full of death, and everyone's depressed mood made Zhao Ying very worried.

There is one person under this Zhao Ying, Yang Hu, Ji surname, Yang family, and Ming Hu. A native of Lu, a retainer of the Jisun family. First of all, as a retainer of Ji Sun, he became one of the doctors of Secretary Lu, and tried in vain to implement the administrative d'état to seize the power of Sanhuan. After the defeat, he fled to the State of Qi, instigating the State of Qi to fight against Lu Guokai, Qi Jinggong saw that Yang Hu was not well-intentioned, so he wanted to arrest Yang Hu, this Yang Tiger had great powers, and he slipped away, and traveled to the Song State to the Jin State, and defected to Zhao Ying, Zhao Ying's left and right had admonished: "Yang Hu is very good at stealing other people's national politics, how can he let such a character be the second-in-command of the Zhao family?" ”

Zhao Ying smiled slightly: "What Yang Hu is good at stealing is the power that can be stolen, since Yang Hu wants to steal my power, I will definitely stick to my power." ”

Zhao Ying, with his excellent scheming skills, controlled Yang Hu, a careerist, and let Yang Hu carry out a series of reforms, which made the Zhao family's family strength stronger and stronger, and his reputation among the princes also increased day by day. Although this Yang Tiger is not very good, he has outstanding features.

This Yang Hu carefully analyzed the situation of the enemy and us, and said to Zhao Ying: "I have few soldiers, I should line up first, and plant flags all over the place. ”

Zhao Ying was overjoyed when he heard this. Before the war, Zhao Ying went to the high platform in front of the army and swore in public: "The Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan violated the mandate of heaven, beheaded the people, and wanted to monopolize the Jin Kingdom and destroy the Jin Marquis." Our monarch relied on Zheng Guo to be preserved. Now that Zheng Guo has no way, abandoning the monarch and helping his subordinates, a few of us have decided to obey the will of heaven, obey military orders, promote virtue and righteousness, and eliminate shame, and fight here. If the enemy is defeated, the upper doctor will get the county, the lower doctor will get the county, the scholar will get 100,000 acres of fertile land, the common people can become officials, and the slaves can be freed. I, Zhao Zhifu, if I can defeat the enemy and avoid being asked, I ask the monarch to consider it. If I am guilty of defeat, I am willing to be hanged to death. After death, I was buried with the rites of the next king, in a three-inch thick paulownia coffin, without a lining plate and an outer coffin, and transported my coffin in an undecorated carriage and horse, and I was ashamed to bury my body in the cemetery of my ancestors! ”

When the sergeants heard Zhao Ying's encouragement, their morale really soared.

The two sides finally faced each other. The two armies faced each other, and the prince of the Wei Kingdom, who took refuge in the Jin Dynasty, was Zhao Yingche right, and the doctor Youliang was his royal Rong. They boarded the chariot and looked at the Zheng army from afar, seeing its large number and huge momentum, Prince Wei was afraid, panicked for a while, and fell down from the car. ”

Zhao Ying was afraid that the soldiers would have a cowardly mentality, so he shouted loudly, "Bi Wan, Pi Fu, is still brave in seven consecutive battles, captures the enemy alive, obtains 400 horses, and gives Wei land to a good death." Ladies and gentlemen, summon your courage, and the brave one will win! As soon as these words came out, the army's heart was settled. Kuai Yu also prayed to his ancestors to bless them with victory.

The Jin army desperately rushed to the Zheng army, Zhao Ying took the lead, braving the rain of arrows, the enemy's offensive was also very fierce, Zheng Jun someone hit Zhao Ying's shoulder, Zhao Ying fell on the chariot for a while, Kuai Shen used Ge to scoop up Zhao Ying's body, Zhao Ying's back up, and continued to lead the army to fight. The Jin army saw that the commanders were throwing their heads like this, spilling blood, their morale was high, and they rushed forward to attack the Zheng army, and the Zheng army was suppressed by the Zhao family's army, and they were defeated and retreated, with most of the dead and wounded. Zhao Ying finally left the battlefield early due to his injuries, and the army was pursued by the command of the patriotic prince Kuai, and the last Zheng army had to leave behind the grain and grass and flee. During the war, Fan's tax official Gongsun Yan was captured, but Zhao Ying did not punish him, and released him after a few words. In order to repay the grace of not killing, Gongsun Yan led 500 private subordinates to attack Zheng Jun at night, recapture the handsome banner, and hand it over to Zhao Ying to repay the lord's virtue.

In this battle of Tieqiu, the Jin State overcame the strong with the weak, and regained the heroic style of the Zhao family to reappear as the overlord of the Jin State, and its reputation was far and wide. Soon after the battle, it was reported that Xun Song Xun was driving away, and Zhao Ying, by virtue of his lofty position in the army, succeeded Xun Song as the new ruler of the Jin State with an overwhelming advantage, ending the political pattern of "Zhi is in charge, Zhao is outside". Since then, Zhao Ying has cultivated both inside and outside, completely concentrated the military, political, diplomatic, judicial and other national powers, and became the third Zhengqing of the Zhao family of the Jin State after Zhao Dun and Zhao Wu, and the surname Zhao began to realize his re-take-off.

After taking power, Zhao Ying decided to purge the remnants of the Fan family and the Shi family. Zhou Tianzi's doctor Liu Wengong married Jin Fan for several generations. Chang Hong, Liu Wengong's doctor, helped Fan several times during the previous Jin Qing infighting, which made Zhao Ying extremely angry, but he must not offend the Son of Heaven, and finally came up with a plan after several days of hard thinking. In June 492 BC, Zhao Ying led the Jin army to march to Zong Zhou, claiming to denounce the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and the Zhou royal family was ashamed and terrified. During the garrison, Zhao Ying sent his uncle Xiang to envoy to the Zhou royal family, and that uncle Xiang deliberately had frequent contact with Chang Hong, sometimes secretly talking about late at night before taking his leave, which aroused the suspicion of King Jing of Zhou and Liu Wengong. One day, Shu Xiang met with King Zhou Jing and said matter-of-factly: "Your Majesty the Son of Heaven, the Jin Kingdom has found out that the rebellion between the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan has nothing to do with Chang Hong, and you don't have to pursue Chang Hong anymore." I also said goodbye and went back to China. When Shu Xiang was leaving, he pretended to be in a hurry and accidentally left a letter in his sleeve on the temple steps.

After Shu Xiang left, the chamberlain picked up the letter and handed it to King Zhou Jing. King Zhou Jing opened it and saw that it was a secret letter written by Chang Hong to Shu Xiang. The letter said: "Please tell the Jin Jun to send troops to attack the Zhou State as soon as possible, and I will force King Jing to depose the Liu clan as an internal response." ”

King Zhou Jing passed the letter to Liu Wengong, Liu was furious, did not distinguish between the true and the false, and immediately asked King Zhou Jing to search for Chang Hong and exterminate his nine clans. King Jing of Zhou remembered his auxiliary work and couldn't bear to do harm, but in the end he exiled Chang Hong to the wild land of Shu thousands of miles away. Chang Hong was hard to argue, full of grief and indignation, but he didn't expect that he was loyal to the Zhou royal family, but in the end he ended up with such a tragic ending because of a fake letter! After he arrived in Shudi, he was depressed. Soon after, he committed suicide by disembowelment. Chang Hong's unjust death aroused the pity and sympathy of the local officials, who buried Chang Hong's blood in a jade box and erected a monument to commemorate it. Three years later, digging the earth and moving the burial, I opened the jade box and saw that the original milky white jade had turned into blood-colored jasper.

Later generations feel its loyalty, with "blue blood Danxin", "Changhong Huabi" to describe Changhong's loyalty, in fact, this is blood jade, the jade is soaked in blood, absorbed by blood, and has nothing to do with Dan heart and blue blood.

After dealing with Chang Hong, Zhao Ying's squad returned to the dynasty and directly killed Shi Gaoyi to prevent him from making trouble again.

In the spring of the second year after the Battle of Tieqiu, that is, in 492 BC, Huizi of Qi and Shi Mangu of Wei led the coalition army to surround Qiyi again, which was originally the fief of the Sun family of Weiguo, and now Weiguo wants to reclaim its land. Zhao Ying is mobilizing troops in the country to eliminate the Fan clan and the Shi clan, and temporarily withholds the provocation of Qi and Wei.

In October of this year, Zhao Ying led the main force of the Jin army to surround Chaoge again, and directly garrisoned the south of Chaoge City. Xun Yin expected that Chaoge could no longer hold on, so he pretended to attack the outer city, let his subordinates enter through the north gate, broke through the siege himself, fled to Handan to seek refuge, and Zhao Ji accepted Xun Yin into Handan City. Shiji shot still held on to Chaoge, the Jin army besieged Chaoge, refused to retreat, and Chaoge City was in danger.