Besides, after the meeting of Zhaoling, Zheng Guo's ruling master and uncle died on the way back to China. Uncle Zi is good at diplomatic rhetoric, and has made many envoys to the great countries of Jin and Chu. During his reign, he was close to the Jin State, and this death, Zheng Guo's pro-Jin power was greatly reduced, and Zheng Xiangong knew that the Jin State had completely broken with the Jin State as the sunset. After some preparations, in the autumn of 503 BC, Zheng Xiangong betrayed the Jin State and formally formed an alliance with the Duke of Qi Jing.

After that, Zheng Xiangong actively threw an olive branch to Weiguo, wanting to pull Weiguo into the gang. Wei Linggong was a little moved and leaned towards the Qi State, Qi Jinggong was overjoyed, and after getting the tacit approval of Wei Linggong, he immediately united Zheng and Wei to attack the Lu State, and the Lu State was not supported and asked the Jin State for help.

Lu is the bottom line of Jin diplomacy, once Lu betrays Jin, then Jin will lose its majesty. Qi State one stone stirred up a thousand waves, this time Qi Zhengwei coalition army attacked Lu State, causing Jin State Shiqing public anger, Jin State General Ming and Shang Army General Zhao Ying, Shang Army Zuo Xun Yin by the resolution together to send troops to aid Lu State, Qi Jinggong quickly noticed that his approach was a bit risky, thinking that the decisive battle with the Jin State is not an opponent, if the Jin people are too strong external pressure, but to promote the unity of the six Qing, which Jing Gong does not want to see, so Qi Jinggong is very interested in retreating.

The retreat of Qi Guo put the defense of the country on fire.

When the Jin army returned home, it passed through the border of Weiguo, and he hated Weiguo, and Sanqing discussed going to the alliance to teach Weihou a lesson, and Fan Ying decided to solve the diplomacy by the Zhao family, because of the rebellion of the Weiguo, the most threatened was the Zhao family.

The Jin and Wei sides agreed to meet in the Yan Ze alliance, and the Jin side only sent two doctors to form an alliance with Wei Linggong to show humiliation, and Wei Linggong was sad for a while. But Wei Guo did something wrong, and now the Jin State is overwhelmed by a large number of troops, so he has no choice but to form an alliance with the Jin State doctor. Wei Linggong is also very familiar with current affairs, and he tries his best to meet the requirements of the Jin people. When it came to the last link - holding the bull's ear, Wei Fang asked Dr. Jin to handle the cow's ear for Wei Hou. This alliance has always been done by the party with a lower position or title, but the two of them, Shen Tuo and Cheng He, reprimanded Wei Linggong on the grounds that they were from the kingdom of heaven: "Wei Guo, how big is a small prince?" Isn't it as big as our original and Wen counties? What qualifications do you have to be a prince? The reprimand made Wei Linggong's face hot, but he still suppressed his temper and did not have a seizure.

The two sides should follow etiquette and make a bloody alliance. As a prince, Wei Linggong should be the first to shed blood. As a result, Shi Tuo hurriedly stepped forward and spilled Wei Linggong's utensils, pushing Wei Linggong's hand aside, and Wei Linggong's hand was bleeding.

Wei Linggong was silent, the two of them were still strong, and the two sides did not give in to each other, but fortunately, Wang Sun Jia, the secretary of the Wei State, hurriedly ran over to round the field: "The alliance is just to let everyone understand the etiquette." How dare our ruler not serve the courteous? How dare you not accept the Covenant? ”

The effect of this alliance is self-evident, Wei Linggong endured the humiliation of the alliance, and finally betrayed the Jin State.

The rebellion of Cai, Zheng, and Wei put the Jin Kingdom in a passive situation. Zhao Ying thought about it again and again, but Le Qi, who was imprisoned before, must not have another accident, and the ally of Song Guo must be saved.

Zhao Ying sorted out his rhetoric and went to ask for orders from Jin Dinggong: "If there are few people who serve Jin today." Song is the most ironclad ally of the Jin Kingdom, and we are still so unkind to his envoys, who among the princes is willing to befriend us? On this occasion, when Le Qi was released to send him back to China, he warmed the hearts of the people of the Song Kingdom. ”

Jin Dinggong thought that what Zhao Ying said was reasonable, but he still didn't dare to make an arbitrary decision, and told Zhao Ying's words to Shi Ying, and asked for his opinion. During this period of time, the successive rebellions of the princes have made Shi Ying anxious, and under the pressure of internal and external public opinion, Shi Yan also had to give in. But Shi Ying had his own ideas, and he privately found Le Qi to explain his detention back then: "When the princes don't serve Jin Hou today, you were afraid that the Song State would also rebel against the Jin State when you were detained. Now that you have been left in Jin for three years, it is time to let you go back, and after you go back, you will send your heir Le Hui over again as a witness of friendship between Jin and Song, how about it? ”

Na Le Qi understood as soon as he heard it, this Shi Yan released himself and wanted his son to be a proton, so as to blackmail himself, and he did not obey. Nashi's plan failed, and he threw up his sleeves and left.

However, the call for the release of Le Qi became louder and louder, and Jin Dinggong also asked many times, and Shi Ying finally agreed to let Le Qi return to China in the name of Fan. This ally envoy cannot be innocently detained, and must find a suitable reason to declare the world, and the reason given by Shi Ying for Le Qi's detention is because of the party and the Zhao family, and the release is because of Fan's kindness. In this way, Le Qi finally embarked on the road back to China.

However, people are not as good as heaven, Le Qi died of illness before he got out of Taihang Mountain, or Le Qi was born without love, and he was always ready to become a martyr and did not want to achieve the fame of Shi Ying. When the bad news came, the Jin court was in an uproar. Shi Ying reacted very quickly, and immediately asked to seize Le Qi's corpse as a capital for peace talks with the Song State.

Perhaps God still favored the Jin Kingdom, at the beginning of 501 B.C., Shi Ying, who had been ruling the Jin Kingdom for nine years, died, Xun Song was the general of the Chinese army, Zhao Ying was the general of the Chinese army, Xun Yin was the general, Han Buxin was the general of the army, Wei Hao was the general, and Shi Ji, the son of Shi Ying, shot the army.

When Song Jinggong learned of Shi Ying's death, he didn't pursue it too much, and said to his subordinates, "Since the Song and Jin dynasties, they have been friends for many generations, and this time Le Qi passed away, not because of the Jin State Office, you should send someone to welcome Le Qi back to China." "Fortunately, Song Jinggong is righteous.

This personnel change coincided with the chaos of the Jin Kingdom. The long-accumulated strength of the Qi State was finally released, and Qi Jinggong called on the generals to kill Yiyi (now Liaocheng, Shandong), an important place in the eastern part of the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin Kingdom seemed to have lost its strength and reaction, and it did not take long for Yiyi to be captured. Doing this step has made Qi Jinggong very satisfied, and in order to avoid the anger of the Jin Kingdom, he stopped here.

Besides, Zhao Ying, at the moment is the Chinese army, Xun Song is elegant and silent, and does not fight with other strong clans, without the suppression of Shi Ying, Xun Song does not interfere too much, so he began to show his great talent and lofty ambitions.

Because his ancestors had suffered the disaster of annihilation, he felt uneasy every time he thought about it, and after careful consideration, he decided to build a city as his strategic base, and he entrusted this task to his retainer Dong Anyu.

Dong An judged the situation and selected from many cities, set his wise eyes on the Taiyuan Basin, which was far away from the other five Qings, and decided to build Jinyang City on the west bank of the Fen River, which was backed by Longshan, facing Jinshui, north of Yuyi (now northeast of Taiyuan Yangqu), and south of Jiaoyang (now Qingxu, Shanxi). The buildings in the city are made of copper pillars instead of wooden pillars, the city wall is made of rammed earth sandwiched by plates, the wall bones are made of plant trunks such as Artemisia annua, which are more than a foot high, and eggs and salt are mixed in the soil. This building is not an exaggeration to describe it as an iron wall. It's just that because the Zhao clan is now sparsely populated, even if the huge city is built, the lack of people will not make it prosperous. Therefore, Zhao Ying began to plan the population problem at the beginning of the construction of Jinyang.

Where did this people come from? coincided with the rude betrayal of the country and the re-alliance with the Jin, Zhao Ying asked for 500 slaves by the way, and temporarily settled these slaves in Handan.

In 497 B.C., when the city of Jinyang was finally built, Zhao Ying asked the 500 good people who had been placed in Handan to go to Jinyang, and Zhao Wu, the doctor of Handan, expressed his willingness to obey the orders of the suzerain. After Zhao Wu returned to Handan City, he was about to deal with the emigration, but he was opposed by his retainers, who believed that if the Qi State invaded in a hurry, if the migration was hastily attacked, it would give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it and hurt the feelings of the defenders.

In fact, they just don't want to let go of these people. According to the plan of the retainers, Zhao Wu asked Zhao Ying to delay for some more time. As a result, Zhao Ying was furious when he heard the news, knowing that Zhao Wu was close to the Zhongxing clan and the Fan clan, and this violation of his insistence must be the fault of the Zhongxing clan and the Fan clan, if he did not deal with it, he would rebel against the Zhao clan in the future, so he immediately ordered Zhao Wu to be recruited to Jinyang with the order of the sect master.

As soon as Zhao Wu entered Jinyang, Zhao Ying imprisoned him and was soon executed, and informed Zhao Wu's entourage that the Zhao family in Handan wanted the Zhao family to establish itself as its master, and then let the guests return to Handan. The guests returned to Handan full of grief and indignation, and everyone was excited about Zhao Ying's ruthlessness. The Handan family planned to avenge the ancestors, and publicly recommended Zhao Ji, the son of Zhao Wu, as the new Handan doctor. After everything was ready, Zhao Ji and Shebin launched a rebellion in Handan, and the Zhao civil war broke out.

Zhao Ying heard in the national capital that the Handan Zhao clan not only dared to disobey the orders of the Great Sect, but now they are supporting the army to rebel. As the head of the Zhao family, Zhao Ying wants to settle the internal disputes of the family as a patriarch.

In June 497 BC, Zhao Ying issued a military order, ordering the army of Sima to attack Handan and exterminate the Handan rebels. However, Zhao Ying was too careless to underestimate the difficulty of this battle, and it was precisely because of Zhao Ying's carelessness in solving the problem that a Zhao family battle expanded rapidly.

After the family was originally a prince of the Jin Kingdom, he was a doctor in later generations, attached to the Xun family, to be exact, the retainer of the Xun family, and followed Xun Wu, Xun Song, and Xun Yin many times. Handan Wu was originally the nephew of Zhong Xingyin, and while Qin marched to Handan on the one hand, he also ordered people to report the situation to Zhong Xingyin and Shi Ji.

Xun Yin and Shi Ji immediately held an emergency meeting and decided to rescue Handan, and if possible, solve the problem of Zhao Ying's henchman.

Zhao Ying's retainer Dong Anyu was keenly aware of the swords and swords of the Zhongxing clan and the Fan family, and had a premonition of the seriousness of the matter, so he reminded Zhao Ying to prepare early.

Zhao Ying said helplessly: "There is a law in the Jin Kingdom that those who start the trouble first should be put to death. I'm going to strike backwards! ”

Dong Anyu persuaded: "The situation is critical, instead of endangering the people, then let me Dong Anyu bear the sin of chaos in the country!" Seeing that Zhao Ying was still indifferent, Dong Anyu privately mobilized Zhao's army and actively prepared for war.

As Dong An expected, less than a month later, the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan launched an attack on the Zhao clan, and the Shang army Sima Ji Qin, who was ordered to besiege Handan, saw the outbreak of war, and also stopped the attack on Handan, turned the horse's head, and launched a surprise attack on the Zhao clan with the Handan army.

Zhao Ying fled the national capital in a hurry under the persecution of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan and withdrew to the rear of the Zhao clan - Jinyang. The sturdy Jinyang City made the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan helpless.

At this time, the configuration of the six secretaries of the Jin State was already full of contradictions: Xun Song and Zhao Ying were not in harmony with each other; Xun Yin and Han Buxin dislike each other; Wei Yu and Shi Ji Zhu hated each other. So Xun Song and his favorite ministers Liang Yingfu, Han Buxin, Wei Hao and Fan's side branch Gaoyi, the five conspired to plan: to expel Xun Yin and replace the position of the Bank of China with Liang Ying's father; Drove away Shi Ji Shot, and Shi Gaoyi served as the head of the Fan family.

The policy was established, Xun Song led Han Buxin and Wei Hao to ask Jin Dinggong for orders: "Back then, the prince ordered his ministers that the first person who started the rebellion must be executed, and the alliance of the monarch and the minister was still sunk in the river, and now the Zhao family, the Fan family, and the Zhongxing family began to launch a disaster, and now we are just driving out Zhao Ying, and this punishment is too unfair to the Zhao family." Everyone is equal above the law, please expel the Bank of China and the Fan family together! ”

Jin Dinggong agreed to Sanqing's request, and by November, the three armies of Zhi, Han, and Wei were ordered by Jin Dinggong to attack Fan and Zhongxing. However, due to the strong family background of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan, Sanqing's army failed to defeat the rebels, but made Xun Yin and Shi Ji angry and decided to attack Jin Dinggong.

Gao Qiang, a descendant of the Duke of Qi, reminded Erqing: "Attacking the monarch is a crime, and if you don't do it well, you will become the target of the public, and you will never recover!" Gao Qiang's advice obviously did not attract the attention of the second secretary.

Xun Yin and Shi Ji shot the main army hoarded in Jinyang to turn around and attack the capital, Jin Dinggong was terrified and called on the people to exterminate the rebels, so the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan embarked on the road of rebellion and separation. The armies of the Zhi clan, the Han clan, and the Wei clan defended the national capital for the Marquis of Jin, but the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan failed to conquer it, and fled in defeat and rushed to Chaoge (now Qi County, Henan). The three families took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the Zhao army also broke through from Jinyang City, and the danger of the Zhao family was temporarily alleviated.

After the persuasion of Han Buxin and Wei Hao, the ruling Xun Song agreed to identify the Fan family and the Zhongxing family as enemies of the country and not to pursue Zhao Ying. In December of the same year, Zhao Jianzi returned to the Jin capital of Jiangyi, received the forgiveness of the Marquis of Jin, and re-served as Zhengqing. Xun Song, Zhao Ying, Han Buxin, and Wei Xuan Siqing swore an oath in the palace of the Duke of Jin Ding, swearing to fight to the death against the Zhongxing clan and the Fan clan, and to retire from death.

The two nobles of the Fan family and the Bank of China clan withdrew from the competition, and the remaining four kings also needed to distribute the spoils. The plan already predetermined by the Zhi family, the Han family, and the Wei family, that is, the Fan family's side branch Shi Gaoyi became the Fan family's suzerain, and the Zhi family's favored minister Liang Ying's father replaced the position of the Zhongxing clan, that is, the Liuqing system remained unchanged, and the country continued to be divided and ruled by six families. Such a distribution was already drawn up by Xun Song and others, and everyone handed over the bill to Zhao Ying to seek his consent, but Zhao Ying expressed his opposition and resolutely disagreed with Xun Song's political proposition - the country should continue to be divided by the six secretaries.