Section 84 Zheng Zhuanggong's petty tyranny

"Big Car": I swear to love you well

A young man who was driving a big car and a girl fell in love, and the young man was driving a big car with a blue canopy, and his heart was surging in the rumbling sound of the car. He hurried to the place where he had made an appointment with the girl, who was already waiting for him. The young man shouted at the girl: Do you dare to have a vigorous love with me! The young man was impulsive, but in the face of the girl's hesitation, his heart suddenly ached. The young man understood that the girl hesitated because her parents did not approve of their love. Therefore, what is in front of her is whether the girl dares to elope with the young man without the permission of her parents and become a husband and wife. This is a girl's lifelong event, and she can't help but think about it carefully, because once she meets someone unladylike and betrays her parents, then her fate will be very tragic.

The young man now understood the girl's situation and thoughts, so he swore to heaven that he would always be faithful to love, even if he could not sleep together in life, and would be in the same hole after death. For the ancients, swearing to the heavens was a very prudent act, and it was a very solemn ritual in the era of nature worship and ancestor worship. Because they believe that breaking their promises is damned. The young man swore prudently, emotionally speaking, that the girl's doubts had been satisfactorily answered, so that the girl could confidently and boldly throw herself into the arms of her lover. This pair of lovers will happily drive the car and run to a happy life of love and companionship. What a young heart, what a heart devoted to love!

The big car rumbles, and the cyan felt makes the canopy. Don't I miss you? I'm afraid you won't dare to come to meet.

The slow movement of the cart was heavy, and the red felt made the canopy. Don't I miss you? I'm afraid that you will elope and dare not move.

There are two different living rooms, and after death they are to be buried in one grave. If you still don't believe me, the sun bears witness in the sky.

"Hemp in the Hill": Young and fiery love

In the era of the Book of Songs, the love relationship between men and women was relatively loose and free, especially in rural areas, where young men and women freely socialized and had trysts in the wild. This was not a disorderly act that later Confucian gentlemen denounced, but a normal way for young men and women to choose a mate. This is the same as the song selection and horse racing mate selection that some ethnic minorities in our country still retain, with the form of primitive ethnic marriage. More than 2,000 years ago, the free marriage and love relationship on the Loess Plateau made countless young men and women understand what tenderness and sweetness are.

A woman is beautifully recalling the happy scene she had with her sweetheart. In the shoulder-high wild hemp fields, between the dense wheat fields, and under the plum trees with rich green shade, they are all places inspired by the strong love of the girl and her sweetheart. Therefore, when the girl recalls that strong act of love, she can't forget those magical places. In the wild hemp fields, under the wheat ridges, and under the plum trees, they have performed passionate dramas again and again, and they have devoted their whole body and mind. Their love is real and strong, and they don't pursue one-off madness, but let innocent love set off layer after layer of heat that lasts forever.

The man gave the woman a piece of jade, and he used the form of material to determine the non-material love relationship, and expressed the eternity of love between the two with the steadfastness, purity and firmness of the jade. It is conceivable that in the future, girls and men can tie the knot, start a family, have children, and continue their lives. A happy family will continue that warm and innocent love, which is also the greatest hope that women place on when singing about love.

Remember that there is a wild hemp on the dirt slope, where Lang's affection remains. There is Lang's affection left there, and Lang's slow pace will be seen.

Remember a wheat field on the dirt slope, where Lang's love lingers. There is Lang's love lingering, and he will come to the picnic with Lang again.

Remember a plum grove on the dirt slope, where Lang's true love was there. There is Lang's true love there, and the peiyu he gave is smooth and crystalline.

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Guofeng, Zheng Feng

Let's get to know Zheng Guo first.

Zheng Guo is one of the important vassal states from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Warring States period, in the twenty-second year of King Xuan of Zhou, King Xuan named his younger brother friend Zheng Huan Gong, and Zheng Huan Gong became the first monarch of Zheng State. Zheng Huangong's fief at the beginning was in Zhengdi, and Huan Gong held the position of Situ for King Zhou You. Later, he saw that there were many changes in the Zhou royal family, and seemed to sense that a catastrophe was coming, so he moved his people to the area between the Dongyu Kingdom and the Yi Kingdom, which is today's Xingyang, Henan. Later, Zheng Huan Gong died in a national disaster, and his son Zheng Wugong destroyed the Dongyu Kingdom and the Yi Kingdom, and set the capital in today's Xinzheng, Henan.

Zhengcheng is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a warm climate and fertile land, which is very suitable for living and is also conducive to agricultural production, and its strategic location is both offensive and defensible. It is not only in the center of Zheng Guo, but also not far from Luoyi, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, with convenient water and land transportation, extending in all directions, and is a necessary place to go back and forth. After destroying the small states of Dongyu and Yi, Zheng Wugong continued to expand his territory, and by the time of the third monarch Zheng Zhuanggong, the expansion of Zheng reached its peak.

In 772 BC, Zheng Zhuanggong's younger brother Gongshu Duan plotted to seize the throne of his elder brother Zheng Zhuanggong. After Zhuang Gong found out, he devised a clever plan and adopted a means to capture the old man to induce Gongshu Duan to gain an inch and become more arrogant, and then Zhuang Gong finally defeated Gongshu Duan. After successfully dealing with the internal affairs problem, Zheng Zhuang Gong realized the unification of national strength, thus laying the foundation for the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. At that time, Zheng Zhuang served as the secretary of the Zhou royal family, and was an important minister who assisted King Zhou Ping, and his power was very great, which also created conditions for him to crusade against disobedient princes in the name of King Zhou. In 721 BC, the year after Zheng Zhuang was relieved of Gongshu Duan, he began to send troops to attack the neighboring kingdom of Wei, and from then on embarked on the road of expansion.

The eastward migration of the Zhou royal family mainly relied on the strength of Zheng and Jin, so the relationship between the Zhou royal family and Zheng was very close. However, with the growing strength of the Zheng State, King Zhou Ping was worried that the power of the court would be manipulated by the Duke of Zhuang, so he deliberately weakened the power of the Duke of Zhuang and prepared to hand over some things to the monarch of the State of Xiyu, the Duke of Yu. Zhuang Gong was very resentful of this, and King Ping was afraid of Zhuang Gong, so he had to deny it. But Zhuang Gong still didn't believe it, so King Ping and Zhuang Gong each gave their sons to each other as hostages. History called this incident "Zhou Zheng Jiao", from this incident it can be seen that the Zhou Dynasty at this time was already weak and powerless, which made Zheng Guo so strong. Moreover, the princes of that era were on guard against each other and the law of the jungle.

After the death of King Ping of Zhou, King Huan of Zhou ascended the throne, and in order to demonstrate to the Zhou royal family, Duke Zhuang sent troops twice to forcibly cut the crops of Wendi and Luoyi of the Zhou royal family. King Huan of Zhou was very annoyed by Zhuang Gong's approach, so he also adopted a tough attitude towards Zheng Guo. Later, when the Duke of Zheng Zhuang met King Huan of Zhou, King Huan deliberately treated him rudely as revenge. Subsequently, King Huan of Zhou appointed Duke Yu as the right secretary of the Zhou royal family to disperse the power of Duke Zhuang. Zheng Zhuanggong, who was good at scheming, realized that if he had a bad relationship with the Zhou royal family at this time, it would not be beneficial to him, so he adopted a tolerant attitude. At the same time, Zhuang Gong worked hard, expanded his territory, and constantly strengthened his own power.

In 714 B.C., the Beirong tribe took advantage of the continuous melee of the Central Plains vassal states to invade Zheng in the south, and Zheng Zhuang personally led the army to resist. At that time, the Beirong soldiers were brave and good at fighting, and the terrain was not conducive to Zheng Guo's military chariot combat, and Zhuang Gong was very worried about this. After seriously analyzing the weaknesses of the Beirong army, Gongzi Tu, the second son of Zheng Zhuanggong, believed that the Beirong army was scattered but not strictly organized, greedy for money and did not avoid relatives, and rushed to be the first to win the war, regardless of military law, and fled for their lives when there was a tendency to defeat the battle, and could not cover each other. Gongzi Tu thought that he should adopt the method of ambushing and luring the enemy, and then divide and annihilate him.

Zheng Zhuanggong agreed to this method, so he set up an ambush in three places, and ordered the doctor Zhu Dan to lead a seemingly weak army to fight first, and feign defeat as soon as he came into contact with the enemy. The Beirong soldiers didn't know what the plan was and were lured into the ambush circle of the Zheng army. The ambush troops in Zheng Guo's three places divided the Beirong army into several sections to attack, so that the Beirong army could not take care of each other. Zhu Dan led the troops to fight back, causing a situation of attacking from the front and back. The follow-up troops of the Beirong army had no way to rescue them, and the Beirong front army that was ambushed by the Zheng army was completely annihilated.