The next day, in order to prevent the Zhao family from being convicted, Dong Anyu became the loser and hanged himself.

Before dying, Dong Anyu did not forget to enlighten his lord Zhao Ying-

"If Dong An dies, the Jin Kingdom will be at peace, and the Zhao family will be at peace, so why am I afraid of death?"

"Who has not died in life, it is too late for me Dong Anyu to die!"

Dong Anyu, Cheng is also Zhao Ying, and defeat is also Zhao Ying.

Because Zhao Ying can know his talents, use his talents, and make the best use of his talents, he has already handed over his life to Zhao, interpreting "the one who is a confidant dies"!

Due to Shi Ying's former bullying, Zhao Ying hated the Fan family and the Zhongxing clan very much, and the power of the Erqing who fled to Chaoge was still strong, and it was intertwined in the country and implicated in a wide range of ways.

Zhao Ying asked the Marquis of Jin to be Chisel and 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 inside, and the Zhao clan is outside the lord".

Since then, Zhao Ying has changed his name to Zhifu to show that he has reformed and started everything from scratch.

In the eighteenth year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in the summer and autumn of 496 B.C., Zhao Ying led the Jin army to march to the Song of the Dynasty where Erqing was entrenched.

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 Hou had been waiting for the day of the Jin civil strife for half a century.

In order to be able to intervene in the internal affairs of the Jin Dynasty, the Marquis of Qi agreed that the Marquis of Lu and the Marquis of Wei would meet between the Spleen Land and Shangliang to discuss the rescue of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan, and at the same time invited the Duke of Song and the Marquis of Wu Qingji to join the anti-Jin camp.

However, at that time, Qingji was leading the army to destroy the Chu State, where did he have the time to meddle in the melee in the Central Plains?

In order to be able to strike at the rear of the Jin State to alleviate the frontal pressure on Chaogecheng, Shi Ji 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 summer, 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 Xiao Wang Taojia entered Chaoge City, and made peace with Shi Ji and Xun Yin.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

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.

When the enemy retreated, Zhao Ying further intensified his attack on Chaoge......

Time entered the eighteenth year of King Wu Qingji, the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

The capital of Wu State, Jinling.

Qing Ji convened his ministers in the Zide Hall to discuss important matters.

Those present are Gongzi Hong, Gongzi Heng, as well as Guowei Sun Wu, Da Sima Wu Zixu, Dazai Jiran, Imperial Historian Fan Li, Left Prime Minister Wenzhong, Right Prime Minister Kong Qiu, and Imperial History Zhong Cheng Bo Ng.

These people are all high-ranking and powerful people in the state of Wu......

Except for the two sons.

"The second and third sons, and now the melee in the Central Plains is intensifying."

Qingji said with a smile: "After the autumn, the Marquis of Qi and the Duke of Song met in Yaodi to discuss the rescue of the Fan family. ”

"However, no matter how the Marquis of Qi provoked the remnants of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan to make rebellion, Zhao Ying's army always besieged Chaoge, intending to besiege the city and send reinforcements."

"Erqing's retainers Qin and Gao Qiang successfully broke through from Chaoge, and the two came to the fiefdom of the original Erqing and called on their Fan and Bank of China family troops to rescue the two masters."

"Under the repeated urging of Shi Jishu and Zhong Xingyin, not long ago, 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 correspond to the war on the side of Qin and Gaoqiang, Zheng Guo also joined forces with the Fan family army with the support of the Marquis of Qi to attack the Zhao family's fiefdom - Baiquan."

"In the face of the counterattack of the coalition forces, Zhao Ying responded to the battle and defeated the enemy army in Ludi and Baiquan respectively......"

After a pause, Qingji said slowly: "The Jin civil war that has lasted for more than half a year has not yet ended. ”

"The Jin army led by Zhao Ying has achieved relatively brilliant results, however, their enemies are not only the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan, but also the Central Plains countries such as Qi, Zheng, Song, Lu, and Wei, and even the Zhou royal family may participate in the war at any time."

"The tide of battle is so unpredictable. Recently, the Fan family, the Zhongxing family, and the Marquis of Qi have all sent letters to the widows, asking the Wu State to send troops to join this Jin civil war. ”

is the so-called "a history of the Spring and Autumn Period, half of the history of the Jin Kingdom"!

The influence of the Jin State is self-evident.

No, a war that originally belonged to the Jin Civil War has intensified and expanded to the level of melee in the Central Plains.

If Wu Guodu joins it, I am afraid that the battle will become more intense.

"The king, the minister thinks that there is no need to meddle in the war in the Central Plains."

Fan Li calmly analyzed for Qingji: "Although the Jin army defeated the coalition forces of Zheng Ren, Fan, and Zhongxing in Ludi and Baiquan, this time the Central Plains War is still a confusing situation, and the Jin State is still in a passive situation. ”

"First, the Marquis of Qi has formed a gang among the princes and brazenly attacked the Jin State itself."

"The Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan launched a rebellion, and sincerely invited Hou to intervene, which is in the arms of Qi Hou."

"Therefore, when the State of Qi encircled and suppressed the rebels of Erqing in Zhao Ying, it would ally with Wei Hou, Lu Hou, Zheng Bo, Song Gong and others to discuss the rescue of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan."

"The sinister intention of the Marquis of Qi to assist the second secretary is self-evident, it is to weaken the ...... of the Jin State to the greatest extent"

After a pause, Fan Li said again: "Second, since Shi Peng and Xun Xifu Zuo Jin Xiangong, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family have been bred in the Jin Kingdom for a hundred years. ”

"His family power has long been entrenched under the nourishment of Shiqing Shilu, and his henchmen are all over the country."

"Under the management of Shi Kuo and Shi Ying, Fan's strength has long been at the top of the Six Qings!"

"The Zhongxing clan plundered a lot of land and wealth in the Zhongxing Yan and Zhongxing Wunan Expedition and Northern War."

"After the two families came to power, they have developed and grown even more."

"If Zhao Ying can't end the encirclement and suppression of Chaoge as soon as possible, Erqing is very likely to flee back to his fiefdom and call on the clansmen to reorganize a faster counterattack in the name of the suzerain!"

"Three!"

Fan Li said in a deep voice: "Among the two kings, the Fan family has a very high reputation among the princes. ”

"Diplomatic relations are the strength of the Fan family! The Fan clan established a series of family alliances with the Liu clan of the Zhou king, the Ji Sun clan of the Lu Guo, the Dai clan of the Song dynasty, and the Zheng Guohan clan, especially the Liu family of the Zhou royal family. ”

"The Liu family has intermarried with the Fan family for generations, and there are ministers like Changhong who give advice to the Liu family, how can they not make the Jin people like a man?"

In the end, Fan Li chuckled again and said, "Moreover, the interior of the Jin Kingdom is not monolithic. ”

"In the process of jointly attacking the second secretary and betraying the party, especially the contradiction between the ruling Xun Song and Zhao Ying is the most serious."

"Xun Ying can't forget Zhao Ying's opposition to his promotion of Shi Gaoyi and Liang Ying's father, and Zhao Ying can't forget Xun Ying's forcing Dong Anyu to death."

"King, since Zhao Ying's debut, Xun Song has always been above Zhao Ying, the two have worked together for many years, both intrigue and intrigue, and they can know the general situation, and they can barely work together."

"Xun Song pushed Zhao Ying to the enemy's blade, waiting to see how Zhao Ying caught fire."

"As the war is delayed step by step, it is difficult to guarantee that Xun Song will always be able to support Zhao Ying......"