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The Song Kingdom was the highest rank in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

When it comes to Song Guo, we still have to start with Ziqi. Ziqi was the eldest son of Emperor Yi, the monarch of the Shang Dynasty, and had a total of three half-brothers. The eldest brother is Ziqi, the second is called Zhongyan, and the third is Shoude. When Wei Ziqi's mother gave birth to Ziqi and Zhongyan, she was still a concubine. Later, she became the wife of the Shang Dynasty monarch Emperor Yi and gave birth to Xuan. Justice arose in the question of who to appoint as crown prince. The monarch Emperor Yi wanted to appoint his eldest son Ziqi as the crown prince, and the Taishi of the court believed that it was impossible according to the legal code, the main reason: according to the legal code, as long as there is a son of a wife, the son of a concubine cannot be appointed as the crown prince. In this way, neither Ziqi nor Zhong Yan could be established as the crown prince, so Ziqi passed by the heir of the king of Shang. However, his third brother Shoude inherited the throne, which was for Emperor Xin, that is, the king of Shang.

After Emperor Xin ascended the throne, he expropriated and extorted excessively, abused punishments, harmed innocents, and ignored the advice of his ministers, which aggravated the contradictions between the people and the government, and the subjects of the Quartet rose up. Ziqi repeatedly personally admonished the emperor Xin Xu, but the king not only did not listen to the advice but was annoyed and angry, which made Ziqi very sad, seeing that the Shang Dynasty was in danger, Ziqi discussed with Taishi Jizi and Shaoshi Bigan. Jizi believes that "today Cheng has to govern the country, and the country is not hated when he dies; For the sake of death, there will be no cure in the end, so it is better to go." Ziqi thinks that what Jizi said is reasonable. Even if he died, he couldn't save the Shang Dynasty from falling, so why bother. So Ziqi gave up the title of Qingshi and left the Shang Dynasty. It settled in the micro land and was called a micro by the locals. Began to live the life of an underclass. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, Ziqi visited King Wu's military gate with a sacrificial vessel, tied his flesh and face, led the sheep on the left, and put the grass on the right, and walked forward on his knees, explaining to King Wu that he was far away from Emperor Xin. King Wu of Zhou was very moved, personally loosened his bonds, and still gave him a secretary.

After the death of King Wu of Zhou, King Cheng of Zhou was young, and Gongdan of Zhou acted as the governor of the country. Guan Shuxian and Cai Shudu once suspected that Zhou Gongdan had a conspiracy to conspire with Zhou Gongdan, and colluded with Wu Geng, the son of Emperor Xin, to make a rebellion, and organized a joint armed force to prepare to overthrow the Zhou Dynasty and establish a new policy. After Zhou Gongdan got the news, he led the Zhou royal army to the east on the order of King Zhou Cheng, punished Wu Geng, killed Uncle Guan, and exiled Uncle Cai. Ordered Ziqi to serve Shang Yin and sacrifice, and gave him the title of duke, which was divided into Song land. Weizi has always been benevolent and virtuous, so the remnants of Yin Shang reunited in the Song Dynasty and supported the first generation of the Song Dynasty.

When the monarch of the Song State passed to the thirteenth Song Xuangong, he did not pass the throne to his son Zi Heyi, but insisted on passing the throne to his younger disciple Zi He, Zi He repeatedly humbled and conceded, and Princess Song Xuan had already decided. had no choice but to ascend the throne as Song Mugong. Song Mugong also followed his brother's example and insisted on passing the throne to Song Xuangong's eldest son, Zi Yi, who was Song Yangong.

Therefore, the tortuous accession to the throne of the Song State not only became the focus of contradictions used by various countries, but also became the center of domestic power struggle.

The combined forces of Song, Wei and Cai were defeated in Daicheng, and they were beaten by Zheng Zhuang Gong and lost their armor and collapsed.

Confucius Jia, who fled in embarrassment, returned to the Song Kingdom, and almost all the 200 chariots and thousands of soldiers when he went out were abandoned by him in Daicheng. Needless to say, it was hard to escape death all the way. When he saw Song Yangong holding his head, he knelt and cried silently, and claimed again and again: "The minister deserves to die the most, please punish the lord!" ”

Song Yangong didn't say how painful his heart was, if he wanted to ask for guilt, this sin was not small, after all, it was the core national strength of the Song State that suffered a great loss. After all, those soldiers who spilled blood on the battlefield were all the ordinary people of the Song Kingdom. Two hundred chariots and thousands of soldiers have become ghosts in other lands, and how many families have separated their wives and orphans and widows. However, Song Yangong still stepped forward to help Kong Fujia, Song Yangong still weighed the merits and demerits of Kong Fujia, remembered his plan to retreat from the joint army of the Three Kingdoms, and saved the life of the Song family and the king of one country.

Song Yangong said: "I remember that you have the wisdom to retreat from the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and keep the capital of my Song Kingdom unharmed, and your merit can be low, continue to be your great Sima." ”

When Confucius heard Song Yangong say this, he quickly knelt down and bowed again, thanked him for his kindness, and then left the court.

However, this defeat involved thousands of families, and everyone thought that Kong Fujia would return to China and would be severely punished. When he saw that Song Yangong not only did not have any punishment, but reinstated his official position, it caused an uproar in public opinion. So the people's grievances arose and rushed to the court. The government and the opposition of the Song State complained.

The Dazai Huadu of the Song Kingdom used to be the concubine of Gongzi Feng, and later Zifeng was sent to Zheng Guo, and the two still come and go, and the master and apprentice are in constant contact privately. Although they are not together at this time, this teacher-student friendship is hidden in their respective henchmen. Seeing that Song Yangong was gullible in the early stage, Zhou called for troops to attack Zheng, and ordered the Song army to conquer Changge, specifically to kill Zifeng, and naturally understood in his heart that Song Yangong and Zifeng could not get along, and they would destroy Zifeng and then quickly. Although Hua Du didn't dare to admonish him, he naturally didn't have a taste in his heart. I want to transfer the throne to your son and Yi instead of passing it on to your eldest son. Not only do you not want to reciprocate, but you want to destroy the ancestors and descendants, aren't you revenge? However, this Dazai Castle is extremely deep, and he just keeps his mouth shut, but is secretly watching the fire.

Da Sima Kong's father Jia was a courtier in charge of the military power of the Song State, if it was said that United Wei and Cai Wei Zheng saved Wei were successful moves, then what was the reason for Vadai? And even the two armies of Wei and Cai were wiped out, isn't it because your father Kong is reckless and criminal, and it is difficult to escape the blame? Annihilation, what does it mean? It means that the whole country is angry with you Kong Fujia! Taking advantage of the special climate of Confucius Fujia escaping from his own crimes, but Song Yangong did not blame, and the official was reinstated, and the people complained about the special climate, Hua Du felt that the time had come for him to play his role.

Dazai Huadu is a careful and shrewd person, and he is also a rival in the power of the DPRK and China with the great Sima Kong Fujia, he thinks that if he wants to engage him Kong Fujia, he must have a clear eye, reason and evidence, and he can't act lightly. Dazai Huadu summarized that since the succession of Song Yangong, the Song State has participated in eleven battles with neighboring countries, and each battle Song State army is not very glorious, not to mention the loss of soldiers, such as the battle with Dai State. And what is even more vicious is that Hua Du associated these eleven battles with the great Sima Kong Fujia. When Dazai Huadu asked his henchmen to spread these reasonable facts to the people in the city, it caused a wave of public opinion to crusade against Confucius and then against Song Yangong. For a time, the street talk in Song City caused an uproar of dissatisfaction with the Song dynasty.

So Song Cheng began to discuss hotly: "The monarch is not sympathetic to all people, and he is warlike, causing orphans and widows everywhere in the Song Kingdom, and the people are difficult to survive....... ”

This kind of rumor is in the hands of the Chinese governor Dazai. When the Song capital was full of wind and rain, Dazai Huadu secretly rejoiced.