The Song State is a very unique country, from its founding to the present era, there are endless powerful ministers. However, before Zixi, no matter how powerful the minister, no one had ever been able to complete the transformation from "minister" to "king"!

Hua Rong, as a descendant of Hua, who was in power in the Song Kingdom, understands the failure of his ancestors very clearly. In his opinion, his ancestors Hua Yuan, Hua Hai and others, as powerful ministers, were finally driven out of the Song Kingdom, and even the entire family was buried, and the most important reason was nothing more than that Song Jun's power was too great!

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the major powers divided by the King of Zhou have entered the era of monopoly of state politics by the princes or wealthy families. During that period, the Jin State had Liuqing, the Lu State had Sanhuan, the Zheng State had Qimu, the Qi State had the Son of Heaven Ershou Guo and Gao, and the Song State had the Dai and Huan tribes.

The power of the princes swelled dramatically, and they began to wantonly usurp the power of the monarch. The struggle between the monarch and the princes began to intensify, and various countries began to seek "transformation". In this transformation, the Jin kingdom was divided into three, thus becoming the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei; The Qi Guotian clan took advantage of the second guard of the Son of Heaven to stab the monarch in the back when he was fighting for power, and took control of the Qi State in one fell swoop and completed the generation of Qi; The state of Lu relied on Confucianism and the help of lower-class scholars to kick Sanhuan out of the state of Lu one by one, and finally the division and decline of the state of Lu made Lu Jun return to the state government; As for Zheng Guo, as a country that failed in transformation, it was directly annexed by South Korea.

In the struggle between the monarch and the princes, most of the monarchs of the country are the losing side, and even if the monarch defeats the princes like the Lu state, it will inevitably cause the division and decline of the country. The only state that could defeat the princes and maintain the general unity of the country was the Song state.

How could the monarch of the Song Kingdom be the only victor? Of course, this is that Song Jun's strength is strong enough, and the most important reason for Song Jun's strength is that Song has a long history, and under this unique culture, Song Jun holds a strong divine power.

The origin of the Song Kingdom, the Shang Dynasty, was a **** country. Even if the Zhou Dynasty launched the Zhou Wu Revolution and destroyed the Shang Dynasty in one fell swoop, it would not be able to wipe out the Shang Dynasty's large population and its own rule. The Song State, which was built on the ruins of the Shang Dynasty, did not fully inherit the **** tradition, but the divine power of the entire country was still extremely strong.

In countries other than the Song Kingdom, the monarch is just the monarch. Although the legitimacy of their power and power ostensibly comes from the canonization of Zhou Tianzi, they indirectly share the divine power. In practice, however, their power comes from the performance of the king, and if you behave well and are a "benevolent king", everyone will work for you; If you don't behave well and you're a "tyrant", it's good if everyone doesn't overthrow you!

For this layer, the most profound understanding is none other than King Zhou Li and Wei Yigong. King Li of Zhou forbade the benefits of the mountains and forbade the people to discuss, and as a result, he was overthrown by the people and implemented a "republican administration; Wei Yigong loved the crane and gave the crane an official position and a fortune, but when Wei Guo was invaded by Rong Di, the countrymen and ministers were reluctant to fight, and as a result, Wei Yigong fought alone and was killed by Rong Di.

However, in the Song Kingdom, it was impossible for the people of the country to rise up against Song Jun and overthrow Song Jun. In the eyes of the Song people, who worship ghosts and gods, Song Jun is not only the leader of the country, but also the spokesman of God! How can mortals confront God and disobey God's will?

This can be clearly seen in the Huaxiang Rebellion, when Hua Shi was completely out of the Song Kingdom. At that time, Song Yuangong had no political achievements in the country, and no immediate family members held important territories. His brother was captured by Fahrenheit and personally pleaded with the ruling Huahai as the monarch, but he still could not save his brother's life, and even his son became a hostage of Hua's family. However, when it was time for a decisive battle with Hua, Yuan Gong personally went out, and the people responded to it. On the battlefield, even Hua's own clan soldiers naturally defected when they encountered the monarch's banner, unwilling to confront the monarch!

Song Jun's greatest power comes from the status of "god". In a country like the Song Kingdom, the limit of what any powerful minister can do is nothing more than to become a shogun like the neon of later generations, and he can never become an "emperor"!

However, for a powerful minister, who can bear to have another person with a higher status than him in his head? This person with a higher status is a god in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of powerful ministers, he is just a banner and a waste!

For Zixi, Song Huanhou at that time was such a waste, and he was the real ruler of the Song Kingdom! However, it is such a waste, Zixi can call him around, he can kill him and set up a new king, but the only thing that cannot be done is to replace his position and become the rightful ruler of the Song Kingdom!

Hua Rong, who came to the Song State from the Chu State, saw Zixi's ambition to replace Song Jun, and as soon as he saw Zixi, he was immediately reused by him and helped Zixi plot to take the Song from Dai!

As a careerist, Hua Rong is well versed in the art of domination. He deeply agreed with Li Kui's art of rule, "the government of kings, don't be in a hurry for thieves", and in his opinion, the best way to let the common people know to rule is to use whips and axes to make people realize that it is humans or gods who actually control their destiny!

In order to get the right to punish, he asked Zixi to fool Song Huan Hou: the husband celebrates the reward, and the people like it, and the king himself does it; Those who kill and punish are also evil to the people, and the ministers should deserve it. As a result, he successfully obtained the power to judge and punish the people, and only left Huan Hou with the power of superficial rewards and celebrations, turning Huan Hou into a mascot. Subsequently, within a few years, he passed a series of severe punishments, implemented the legal system, and used whips and axes to let the Song people know that Sicheng Zixi was the one who decided their fate, not the illusory "Song Jun"!

In this process, Hua Rong also helped Zixi eliminate Huan Hou's brothers, nephews, etc. one by one, leaving the monarch completely isolated and helpless. And after the Song State truly established its authority through punishment, he ousted Song Huan Hou from power and executed him, allowing Zixi to ascend the throne as the Song Jun, thus completing the process of Dai's taking the Song Dynasty!

Through this plan, Hua Rong helped Zixi win the throne of the monarch, and thus received Zixi's reward: the great secretary of the Song Kingdom. For Zixi, he established authority and seized power through punishment, and this power can never be discarded, only in the hands of "his own people" is the most suitable! Hua Rong is his own person in Zixi's eyes!

However, Hua Rong took so much trouble to help Zixi plan and make Zixi become Song Jun, but he harbored evil intentions! Even if Zixi really became the monarch of Song and became the rightful ruler of the Song Kingdom, he could not become the "god" in the hearts of the Song people! Because although the Song people didn't care about the monarch's political achievements or anything, they only cared about their inheritance and bloodline. Although Zixi is the queen of the Gong family, he has not inherited the bloodline of "God" from generation to generation, so naturally he cannot become the spokesperson of "God", nor can he become the spiritual leader in the hearts of the Song people!

After Dai took the Song Dynasty, the spiritual image in the hearts of the Song people collapsed all of a sudden. Without the cohesion of theocracy, the most important bone of the Song State has been broken, and the whole country has become a state governed by a coalition of princes. For this reason, Zixi had to vigorously win over the Le clan, who was also a member of the Dai clan, and gave the Le clan patriarch Le Cheng the position of governance; At the same time, appeased the small and medium-sized nobles, supported the Xiang clan, who had lost power in the Song State, as a banner, and gave Xiang Shesima the position, so that the psychology of the small and medium-sized nobles in the Song State could be balanced, so as to maintain the overall unity of the entire Song State.

And such a situation is the result that Hua Rong expected when he planned Dai's capture of the Song Dynasty! After Hua Rong planned such a result, through his position as the Sikou in charge of the punishment of the Song State, he quietly integrated the original Hua's power in the Song State, and through the Hua's forces in the Chu State, he contacted the high-level of the Chu State.

Under such internal and external forces, Hua Rong has absolute confidence that he can control the situation of the entire Song Kingdom and rule the entire Song Kingdom! In his opinion, the thief of the hook will be punished, and the thief of the country will wait, if anyone stands in his way, he will definitely destroy him!

In Hua Rong's original plan, he wanted Zixi to be the monarch's royal family, and the Le family behind Le Cheng to maintain the balance of strength, and then he provoked the relationship between the two sides, and when both sides were defeated, he came out to calmly clean up the situation of the entire Song Kingdom, control the Song Kingdom, and complete the feats that his ancestors could not imagine: become the Song monarch and become the rightful ruler of the Song Kingdom!

Hua Rong's plan was successful when he carried out Dai's capture of the Song Dynasty; When he secretly supported the Le clan and allowed him to control one-third of the power of the entire Song Kingdom, and he could fight against Zixi, he was successful; When he integrated the power of Fahrenheit and colluded with the state of Chu, he was also successful!

However, in all his plans, only one character he ignored as soon as he came to the Song Kingdom was missing-Ziyan.

When Hua Rong came to the Song Kingdom, Ziyan was still very young and extremely inconspicuous. Hua Rong did not object to Zixi's transfer of Ziyan to Fengyi, believing that this was the key to maintaining a balance between the Huang clan and the Le clan, and could also serve as the focus of future conflicts between the two sides. In his eyes, Ziyan is a short-tempered and naïve teenager, as long as such a person is slightly guided, he can become a thunderbolt, and finally use it for him!

However, after Ziyan was sealed to Fengyi, it was like a different person. He began to become the "virtuous son" of the Song Kingdom, and won over the Mo family and the peasant family for his use. And his means of governing the territory also amazed Hua Rong.

Hua Rong has always been extremely vigilant against such a "virtuous son" who is good at governing the territory and developing his strength. Because the better the governance of the territory, the more he can mobilize enough strength, and the increase in strength will break the balance of power he planned in the Song Kingdom!

To this end, he used his means in many ways to drive Ziyan out of the Song Kingdom. At that time, he had already seen Tian Ying's killing of Ziyan, and in his opinion, Ziyan would definitely die, and the balance he had planned in the Song Kingdom could be rerealized, and his plan would not change again.

Ziyan walked out of the mortal game, which surprised him. And when Ziyan returned to the Song Kingdom and received the support of the powerful foreign aid Zhao State, he already regarded it as the biggest enemy in his scheme!

Throwing Tao Qiu to Ziyan was also his plan. Because in the case of Ziyan having Fengyi, the power of the Huang family has begun to surpass the Le family, if the relationship between the two sides is provoked without authorization, and the two sides have a conflict, it will not make both sides lose out, but will make the Le family fall into decline, and the Huang family will become the largest family in the Song Kingdom, and unify the power of the entire Song Kingdom!

Of course, this is not in line with Hua Rong's plan, so he needs to strengthen his own strength to maintain a new balance in the entire Song Kingdom. He took advantage of the situation and threw Zi Yan to such an intricate place as Taoqiu, hoping that this place could involve Zi Yan's energy and give him more time to develop his strength!

However, Ziyan's governance talent made him unbelievable, and in just a few years, Taoqiu was so prosperous, and now, even he can't accurately judge Taoqiu's strength!