In the third year of King Jian of Zhou (583 BC), two years after moving the capital away from Xinjiang, where the Zhao clan was deeply powerful, and changing the capital to Xintian, the Duke of Jin Jing had already formulated a plan of action against the Zhao clan with Zhu Qingshi (mainly the Luan clan and the Hao clan), and everything was ready; Therefore, Jin Jinggong convened the meeting of the ministers in Xintian, the national capital, and prepared to launch the final blow against the Zhao family.

In order to become famous, Jin Jinggong asked Zhao Shuo's widow and his own sister Zhuang Ji, who lived in the palace, to also participate in the court discussion, and came forward to frame the Zhao family, saying, "Yuan, Ping will be reversed!" ('Yuan, Ping' is the fiefdom of Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo brothers.) ）

Subsequently, Jin Jinggong used Zhuang Ji's first complaint as an excuse to discuss with the Chinese army general Luan Shu, the Chinese army Zuo Xun Geng, the upper army Zuo Xun Geng, the upper army Zuo Hao Qian, the lower army Zuo Han Ju and others to see how to deal with the situation of 'Zhao's rebellion'; at that time, the Chinese army general Luan Shu and Shangjun Zuo Hao Qian had already secretly formed an 'anti-Zhao alliance' with the monarch to plot against the Zhao family; therefore, after Jin Jinggong spoke, Luan Shu and Yin Jian first stood up to testify to Zhuang Ji, proving that the Zhao family had already prepared a conspiracy to make a rebellion, and asked the monarch to strike first. Eliminate the hidden danger of the Zhao clan that threatens the stability of the country.

Among the twelve secretaries of the Jin State at that time, the three secretaries of the Zhao family (Zhao Tong, the general of the new army, Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Zhan, the new army) were naturally not summoned to the meeting by the Duke of Jin Jinggong, and the general of the Shangjun was out at this time and could not participate in the meeting; In addition to the Chinese army general Luan Shu and Shangjun Zuo Heqian who first spoke in support of the monarch's attack on the Zhao clan, the rest of the secretaries - Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Zhongxing Geng), the new Shangjun Zuo Xun (Cheng Hao), and the new army general Xun Gang (Zhi Gang) represented by the Xun clan (branch Zhongxing clan, Zhi clan, Cheng clan) and Luan clan have always been friendly, and Xun clan (Zhongxing clan) also has a great contradiction with the Zhao family, therefore, Xun Geng, the head of the Xun family, immediately spoke in support of Luan Shu and Xun Qian's opinions, and asked the monarch to send troops to crusade against the Zhao clan.

Gong Shuo, the new Chinese army, was soft-spoken, weak, and the head of the big sect was not present (Gong Shuo was a branch of the Shi family, and Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family, was not at the scene of the court meeting at this time, so Gong Shuo was not good at speaking alone), so he did not express his opinion at the court meeting.

Therefore, in the court discussion specifically aimed at the Zhao clan initiated by Jin Jinggong, among the eight secretaries who participated in the meeting, they had not yet expressed their opinions on the proposal of 'crusading against the Zhao clan' proposed by the monarch, and only the Han clan where the lower army Zuo Han Ju and the new army general Han Pierce were located; Under the repeated urging of Jin Jinggong, the subordinate army Zuo Han Ju had no choice but to express his opinion on this matter, but what was surprising was that Han Ju did not agree to launch an action to 'crusade against the Zhao clan'.

The reason why Han Ju did not agree with the monarch to directly send troops to attack the Zhao clan was because Han Ju was grateful for Zhao Yu and Zhao Dun's kindness to him back then, and he was unwilling to fall into the ground; Second, Han Ju also knew about the monarch's private plan to cut off the Zhao family with the Luan family and the Hao family, thinking that this was the monarch's venting of his personal anger and plotting to seize the private property of his courtiers.

Therefore, Han Ju braved huge political pressure and disagreed with the monarch and the ministers in the court meeting to send troops to attack the Zhao clan based on Zhuang Ji's words alone. Han Ju suggested that the monarch first summon Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo to testify against each other, so as to distinguish the truth of the matter and find out whether the Zhao family had any rebellious intentions before acting.

Han Ju's meaning is to ask the monarch to put things on the bright side, it is best to solve the problem through communication, even if he can't help the Zhao family get out of trouble in the end, he can let the Zhao family retain some of the family's wealth and fiefdoms, and exile the members of the Zhao family's great sect to other places, just like Zhao Dun did with the fox clan back then. Solving the matter bloodless in this way is good for the Jin Kingdom, the Zhao family, and the other Qing clans.

However, in order to destroy the Zhao clan in their eyes, Jin Jinggong and Luan Shu, Yin Qian and others began to prepare for it as early as two years ago, and had already prepared a plan of action to exterminate the Zhao clan by force. Zhuang Ji's first (so-called) "Yuan and Ping will rebel" is just an excuse for Jin Jinggong, such a big action, it is impossible to easily stop sending troops to crusade against the Zhao clan because of Han Ju's opposition alone, and let go of the Zhao clan (Dazong) who has already committed public anger.

Therefore, Jin Jinggong chose to ignore Han Ju's advice to 'investigate first and then communicate, and confront the Zhao brothers', and then further issued a royal order to the ministers on the grounds of protecting the safety of the Jin Dynasty's Zongmiao Sheji, so that all other secretaries should send troops with the office to attack the rebellious Zhao clan (Dazong); After the Battle of Yi, the monarchs and ministers joined forces to eliminate the Xian clan who united with the Di people to rebel.

Under the monarch's order to 'cut down Zhao', the Luan clan and the Xun clan, who had been prepared for a long time, responded first, and Luan Shu and Xun Jian immediately led their respective families' private soldiers to launch a large-scale attack, and the army of the rendezvous office launched an attack on the lower palace where the Zhao clan's great sect was located. After the office and the Luan and Hao families sent troops, other Zhuqing families of the Jin State, such as the Xun family and the Shi family, also sent troops one after another, and launched an attack on the Zhao clan with the office army.

In this attack against the Zhao clan, among the Qingshi families in the Jin court, only the Han clan where the lower army Zuo Han Ju and the new army general Han Chuan was located insisted on not sending troops to attack the Zhao clan, but Han Ju, the head of the Han family, did not help the Zhao clan, but only ordered the members of the Han clan to defend themselves behind closed doors and not help each other. Han Ju used this method to express his opposition to the monarch and the Luan family and the Hao family, and the contempt for the Luan and Hao families in his heart (and the helplessness of not being able to help the Zhao family).

It wasn't until the coalition forces of the monarch and other Qingshi families had surrounded the lower palace that the current head of the Zhao family, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo, did they react that the monarch was going to serve the Zhao family! As a result, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo hurriedly arranged a counterattack against the armies of all parties surrounding the lower palace; But in the face of the sudden crusade army, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo have been unprepared, and their thoughts are confused, and they don't know how to deal with it, and the chaotic situation is irreversible.

At first, Zhao Tong also wanted to send an envoy to intercede with Jin Jinggong and ask the monarch to let Zhao go; But this move was rejected by Jin Jinggong; Immediately, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo organized Zhao's private soldiers to actively counterattack the army besieging the lower palace several times in desperation, intending to restore the military decline.

However, the members of the Zhao clan (Dazong) underestimated the determination of the Jin Jinggong and the Jin Zhuqing family to completely eliminate the Zhao clan, and they did not expect that the monarch would personally take the lead this time and take the lead in mobilizing the official armor soldiers to attack the Zhao clan. Therefore, the defense of the lower palace was still a beat slower, and the counterattack of the Zhao family's private soldiers could not improve the speed; Soon, Zhao's private soldiers were defeated by the coalition forces, and the lower palace was also besieged and attacked on all sides by the coalition regiments.

Because of the strength of the single force and the outnumbered (in fact, if you compare the strength alone, the Zhao clan is stronger than the strength of the Jin office, and any other Qingshi family in the Jin Kingdom is not as strong as the Zhao family; But this time in the battle of Zhao, Jin Jinggong did not fight according to the routine at all, but led other Qingshi families to fight in a group; The result of the group fight is that the strength of the Zhao family is not enough), under the onslaught of the joint army of the Gongshi and the Qingshi family led by the Duke of Jin Jing, the Zhao family (Dazong) was finally defeated, the original and Ping Eryi were conquered, and the lower palace was also declared lost, and the members of the Zhao clan in the fief were slaughtered regardless of men, women and children, and the brothers Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo also died in the chaos; The Zhao clan (Dazong), which had been in the court of the Jin Kingdom for more than 50 years, was wiped out.

This thrilling Jin civil strife is the famous "difficulty in the lower palace" in history.

In order to ensure that Zhao Wu, his nephew and one of the members of the Zhao family, was not implicated in this matter when he crusaded against the Zhao clan, Jin Jinggong also personally made a statement before sending troops to attack Zhao - this time to send troops to "quell the rebellion of the Zhao clan", Zhuqing was only allowed to crusade against the Zhao clan's large sect, and the Zhao Shuo line, which was already a small sect of the Zhao clan (the male members of this line, only Zhao Wu himself) were not included; In order to better unite the ministers and stabilize the authority of the office, Jin Jinggong also specifically pointed out that the Handan clan (Zhao Chuan, Zhao Zhan lineage), which belongs to the other branches of the Zhao family, does not belong to the Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo rebellion parties, and is not included in this crusade.

When the 'difficulty in the lower palace' occurred and the Zhao clan was completely destroyed, Zhao Wu, who was protected by his uncle Jin Jinggong, was still safe and sound, and lived in the palace in Xintian with his mother Zhuang Ji as usual. Zhao Zhan, a member of the Zhao clan's other branch who was the new military assistant at that time, also drew a clear line with the big sect in time under the protection of Jin Jinggong, and escaped the fate of being attacked by other Qing families who were killed and wiped out together.

After the defeat of the Zhao clan, the property, fiefdoms, and people accumulated by the Zhao clan in the Jin State over the past decades were divided between the Jin Gong led by Jin Jinggong and the Zhuqingshi family who sent troops to attack Zhao. The part of the fief and property of the Zhao clan was collected by the office, and the Duke of Jin Jing gave it to the branch of the Jin clan, the Yang Tongue Clan of the Jin State.

When the domineering and domineering Zhao clan (Dazong) who offended almost everyone was exterminated, in order to better divide the existing scope of interests and enhance the participation and control of the Qingshi family in the Jin court, Luan Shu, a Chinese army general who made a great effort in the battle against Zhao, took the opportunity to put forward his own proposal to Jin Jinggong - to reduce the size of the current Jin army, compress the position of the secretary above the court, so that the monarch can directly control most of the court power (in fact, it is to take the opportunity to fight for more benefits for the Luan family).

Regarding Luan Shu's proposal, Jin Jinggong thought deeply, and now it was time to make personnel adjustments to the court again; Therefore, after the completion of the extermination of the Zhao clan (Dazong), the Duke of Jin Jing reduced the original system of six armies and twelve secretaries of the Jin State to four armies and eight secretaries; Among the four positions that were abolished, in addition to the original two positions of the Zhao clan - the lower army general (Zhao Tong) and the new middle army general (Zhao Kuo), Jin Jinggong also abolished the new Shang military general (Han Chuan) retained by the Han family, who was reluctant to send troops to attack Zhao, and the new Chinese army (Gong Shuo) held by the Shi clan, who was relatively weak and not very active in fighting Zhao.

In addition, Jin Jinggong also recombined the original new upper, middle and lower armies of the Jin State and organized them into a new army. At this time, the Jin State only had the upper, middle, lower, and New Fourth armies.

After the Jin Jinggong destroyed Zhao Zhiwei, readjusted the position of the secretary in the court, and reduced the establishment of the Jin army, the ranking of the new Jin State's eight secretaries and generals was - Luan Shu, the general of the Chinese army and the ruling doctor, the Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Zhongxing Geng), the Shangjun general Shi Xie (Fan Xie), the upper army Zuo Heqian, the lower army general Han Ju, the lower army Zuo Xun Fu (Zhi Gang), the new army general Zhao Zhan, and the new army Zuo Hezhi.

This time, the newcomer who entered the court and served as the new army assistant at the end of the Eight Qings, is also a member of the Yin family; He Zhi is the second cousin of the current head of the Hao family, Xu Yi (Yin Zhi's great-grandfather Yi is the younger brother of Yin Rui, the great-grandfather of the Yin family, and the two have the same great-grandfather, that is, the founder of the Yin family, Yin Bao). Yin Zhi's grandfather, Yin Yang, whose fiefdom is in Buyi, is also known as Bu's clan; He Zhi's own fiefdom was in Wenyi, and because he ranked third among his brothers, he was also called 'Wenji'.

After Xu Zhi was promoted to the court by Jin Jinggong and served as the new army at the end of the Eight Qings, the Yin family had two positions in the newly built Eight Qings, and his strength was greatly enhanced, which could be compared with the Luan family of Luan Shu (the Yin family was originally a veteran nobleman of the Jin Kingdom, and its background was no worse than the Luan family, and even stronger).

After proposing to Jin Jinggong to reduce the army and reduce the position of secretary, and after getting the consent of Jin Jinggong, Luan Shu thought that his family had previously assisted the monarch to destroy the ministers (Zhao), and followed in the footsteps of the monarch and adjusted the balance of power in the court.

However, Jin Jinggong has been in the position of Marquis of Jin for a long time, and he has long been well versed in power control and the way of controlling the ministers, so among the new Eight Secretaries after the personnel adjustment, he did not promote any member of the Luan family except Luan Shu to be the new secretary, but deliberately supported another hero of the Battle of Zhao, the Yin family, and appointed the younger brother of the head of the Yin family, Xu Zhi, as the new military assistant, in recognition of the "outstanding contributions" made by the Yin family in the process of crusading against the Zhao family.

The purpose of Jin Jinggong's move was to carry out a further plot to prevent the already powerful Luan clan from being arrogant in the process of assisting him in destroying the Zhao clan, and after obtaining more court benefits, it would accelerate the rapid growth of the Luan family's power, thus forming a new family of powerful ministers; Therefore, Jin Jinggong did not choose the members of the Luan family, but promoted him to the court, which was to use the Yin family to contain Luan Shu and the Luan family, so as to achieve political balance in the court.

As for whether Luan Shu is convinced or not, whether Luan's is resentful and angry with the Luan family because of this, and how will Xun Qian and Luan Shu get along in the future, Jin Jinggong doesn't care about this matter, and even this is what Jin Jinggong hopes for (there is a conflict between the secretaries, isn't it just for the monarch to divide and rule).

On the other hand, after the collapse of the Zhao family, Han Ju, who had received several generations of kindness from the Zhao family, did not want the former benefactor's family to decay and die, so he found an opportunity to make a statement to Jin Jinggong, saying that the Zhao family had really made great contributions to the Jin country, and the merits of Cheng Ji (Zhao Yuan) and the loyalty and diligence of Xuan Meng (Zhao Dun) were obvious to all.

Now, because of the unscrupulousness of some descendants, the Zhao family has no one who can inherit the family title, if such a meritorious family has lost the qualification to retain the family glory and knighthood because of the impatience of the descendants, then which family is willing to continue to serve the country and the monarch desperately in the future?

Therefore, Han Ju asked Jin Jinggong to re-establish a sect for the Zhao family, so as to inherit the sacrifice of Zhao Yu and Zhao Dun and the Juelu of the Zhao family, and rebuild the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom.

Jin Jinggong originally had the intention to promote his nephew Zhao Wu and let him inherit the Zhao family's Juelu after the Zhao clan's great sect was destroyed, and Han Ju's request to "let Zhao Wu inherit the Zhao clan's great sect" was in line with Jin Jinggong's heart; So, with Han Jue's words, less than a year before the end of the "difficulty in the lower palace", Jin Jinggong officially established his eight-year-old nephew Zhao Wu as the new generation of Zhao clan sons, in order to inherit the Zhao family inheritance, and be responsible for the three generations of 'good ministers' of Zhao Yuan, Zhao Dun, and Zhao Shuo's ancestors.

After establishing Zhao Wu as the son of the Zhao clan and rebuilding the Zhao clan, Jin Jinggong returned part of the fiefdom of the original Zhao family that had been transferred to the Yangyu clan to Zhao Wu (part), and then ordered Zhao Zhan, the only surviving close relative of the Zhao family, the head of the Handan clan of the Jin Kingdom, and the current general of the new army, to assist and take care of the young Zhao Wu and deal with the internal affairs of the Zhao family.

In this way, the glory and revival of the entire Zhao family fell on Zhao Wu, who was only eight years old.

In the third year after the end of the 'Difficulty in the Palace', at the beginning of the fifth year of King Jian of Zhou (581 BC), Jin Jinggong, who had reigned for 19 years, suddenly fell seriously ill, causing him to be unable to sleep day and night;

Therefore, under the double torture of heart disease and external diseases, Jin Jinggong often suffered from nightmares and serious illnesses, and fell on the sickbed, unable to continue to deal with the heavy government affairs.

The monarch is sick and cannot govern, but the country cannot be without a helmer. In desperation, Jin Jinggong had no choice but to order Pu Dai, the prince of Jin, to preside over state affairs, and to assist the prince in governing the country with the top two Chinese army generals Luan Shu and Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Shangjun Zuo Hao Qian and other secretaries have lower rankings and are not qualified to assist the government).

In the summer of the fifth year of King Jian of Zhou (581 BC), in the midst of endless anxiety and deep fear, Jin Jinggong, who had been suffering from illness for half a year, was finally freed and died of illness in the palace of Xintian, the national capital (the death of Jin Jinggong is also another theory, he accidentally fell into the toilet when he went to the toilet and drowned in feces; Because it does not involve the focus of this article, I will not spread out the narrative here, and I will rewrite a special article in the future to tell about the death of Jin Jinggong).

After the death of Jin Jinggong, Luan Shu, the general of the Chinese army, who had the 'right to take care of his life', and Zuo Xun Geng, the Chinese army, supported the Jin prince Zhou Pu and inherited the position of the Marquis of Jin, which was the Duke of Jin Li. The historical process of the Jin Kingdom has opened a new page. In the third year of King Jian of Zhou (583 BC), two years after moving the capital away from Xinjiang, where the Zhao clan was deeply powerful, and changing the capital to Xintian, the Duke of Jin Jing had already formulated a plan of action against the Zhao clan with Zhu Qingshi (mainly the Luan clan and the Hao clan), and everything was ready; Therefore, Jin Jinggong convened the meeting of the ministers in Xintian, the national capital, and prepared to launch the final blow against the Zhao family.

In order to become famous, Jin Jinggong asked Zhao Shuo's widow and his own sister Zhuang Ji, who lived in the palace, to also participate in the court discussion, and came forward to frame the Zhao family, saying, "Yuan, Ping will be reversed!" ('Yuan, Ping' is the fiefdom of Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo brothers.) ）

Subsequently, Jin Jinggong used Zhuang Ji's first complaint as an excuse to discuss with the Chinese army general Luan Shu, the Chinese army Zuo Xun Geng, the upper army Zuo Xun Geng, the upper army Zuo Hao Qian, the lower army Zuo Han Ju and others to see how to deal with the situation of 'Zhao's rebellion'; at that time, the Chinese army general Luan Shu and Shangjun Zuo Hao Qian had already secretly formed an 'anti-Zhao alliance' with the monarch to plot against the Zhao family; therefore, after Jin Jinggong spoke, Luan Shu and Yin Jian first stood up to testify to Zhuang Ji, proving that the Zhao family had already prepared a conspiracy to make a rebellion, and asked the monarch to strike first. Eliminate the hidden danger of the Zhao clan that threatens the stability of the country.

Among the twelve secretaries of the Jin State at that time, the three secretaries of the Zhao family (Zhao Tong, the general of the new army, Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Zhan, the new army) were naturally not summoned to the meeting by the Duke of Jin Jinggong, and the general of the Shangjun was out at this time and could not participate in the meeting; In addition to the Chinese army general Luan Shu and Shangjun Zuo Heqian who first spoke in support of the monarch's attack on the Zhao clan, the rest of the secretaries - Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Zhongxing Geng), the new Shangjun Zuo Xun (Cheng Hao), and the new army general Xun Gang (Zhi Gang) represented by the Xun clan (branch Zhongxing clan, Zhi clan, Cheng clan) and Luan clan have always been friendly, and Xun clan (Zhongxing clan) also has a great contradiction with the Zhao family, therefore, Xun Geng, the head of the Xun family, immediately spoke in support of Luan Shu and Xun Qian's opinions, and asked the monarch to send troops to crusade against the Zhao clan.

Gong Shuo, the new Chinese army, was soft-spoken, weak, and the head of the big sect was not present (Gong Shuo was a branch of the Shi family, and Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family, was not at the scene of the court meeting at this time, so Gong Shuo was not good at speaking alone), so he did not express his opinion at the court meeting.

Therefore, in the court discussion specifically aimed at the Zhao clan initiated by Jin Jinggong, among the eight secretaries who participated in the meeting, they had not yet expressed their opinions on the proposal of 'crusading against the Zhao clan' proposed by the monarch, and only the Han clan where the lower army Zuo Han Ju and the new army general Han Pierce were located; Under the repeated urging of Jin Jinggong, the subordinate army Zuo Han Ju had no choice but to express his opinion on this matter, but what was surprising was that Han Ju did not agree to launch an action to 'crusade against the Zhao clan'.

The reason why Han Ju did not agree with the monarch to directly send troops to attack the Zhao clan was because Han Ju was grateful for Zhao Yu and Zhao Dun's kindness to him back then, and he was unwilling to fall into the ground; Second, Han Ju also knew about the monarch's private plan to cut off the Zhao family with the Luan family and the Hao family, thinking that this was the monarch's venting of his personal anger and plotting to seize the private property of his courtiers.

Therefore, Han Ju braved huge political pressure and disagreed with the monarch and the ministers in the court meeting to send troops to attack the Zhao clan based on Zhuang Ji's words alone. Han Ju suggested that the monarch first summon Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo to testify against each other, so as to distinguish the truth of the matter and find out whether the Zhao family had any rebellious intentions before acting.

Han Ju's meaning is to ask the monarch to put things on the bright side, it is best to solve the problem through communication, even if he can't help the Zhao family get out of trouble in the end, he can let the Zhao family retain some of the family's wealth and fiefdoms, and exile the members of the Zhao family's great sect to other places, just like Zhao Dun did with the fox clan back then. Solving the matter bloodless in this way is good for the Jin Kingdom, the Zhao family, and the other Qing clans.

However, in order to destroy the Zhao clan in their eyes, Jin Jinggong and Luan Shu, Yin Qian and others began to prepare for it as early as two years ago, and had already prepared a plan of action to exterminate the Zhao clan by force. Zhuang Ji's first (so-called) "Yuan and Ping will rebel" is just an excuse for Jin Jinggong, such a big action, it is impossible to easily stop sending troops to crusade against the Zhao clan because of Han Ju's opposition alone, and let go of the Zhao clan (Dazong) who has already committed public anger.

Therefore, Jin Jinggong chose to ignore Han Ju's advice to 'investigate first and then communicate, and confront the Zhao brothers', and then further issued a royal order to the ministers on the grounds of protecting the safety of the Jin Dynasty's Zongmiao Sheji, so that all other secretaries should send troops with the office to attack the rebellious Zhao clan (Dazong); After the Battle of Yi, the monarchs and ministers joined forces to eliminate the Xian clan who united with the Di people to rebel.

Under the monarch's order to 'cut down Zhao', the Luan clan and the Xun clan, who had been prepared for a long time, responded first, and Luan Shu and Xun Jian immediately led their respective families' private soldiers to launch a large-scale attack, and the army of the rendezvous office launched an attack on the lower palace where the Zhao clan's great sect was located. After the office and the Luan and Hao families sent troops, other Zhuqing families of the Jin State, such as the Xun family and the Shi family, also sent troops one after another, and launched an attack on the Zhao clan with the office army.

In this attack against the Zhao clan, among the Qingshi families in the Jin court, only the Han clan where the lower army Zuo Han Ju and the new army general Han Chuan was located insisted on not sending troops to attack the Zhao clan, but Han Ju, the head of the Han family, did not help the Zhao clan, but only ordered the members of the Han clan to defend themselves behind closed doors and not help each other. Han Ju used this method to express his opposition to the monarch and the Luan family and the Hao family, and the contempt for the Luan and Hao families in his heart (and the helplessness of not being able to help the Zhao family).

It wasn't until the coalition forces of the monarch and other Qingshi families had surrounded the lower palace that the current head of the Zhao family, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo, did they react that the monarch was going to serve the Zhao family! As a result, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo hurriedly arranged a counterattack against the armies of all parties surrounding the lower palace; But in the face of the sudden crusade army, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo have been unprepared, and their thoughts are confused, and they don't know how to deal with it, and the chaotic situation is irreversible.

At first, Zhao Tong also wanted to send an envoy to intercede with Jin Jinggong and ask the monarch to let Zhao go; But this move was rejected by Jin Jinggong; Immediately, Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo organized Zhao's private soldiers to actively counterattack the army besieging the lower palace several times in desperation, intending to restore the military decline.

However, the members of the Zhao clan (Dazong) underestimated the determination of the Jin Jinggong and the Jin Zhuqing family to completely eliminate the Zhao clan, and they did not expect that the monarch would personally take the lead this time and take the lead in mobilizing the official armor soldiers to attack the Zhao clan. Therefore, the defense of the lower palace was still a beat slower, and the counterattack of the Zhao family's private soldiers could not improve the speed; Soon, Zhao's private soldiers were defeated by the coalition forces, and the lower palace was also besieged and attacked on all sides by the coalition regiments.

Because of the strength of the single force and the outnumbered (in fact, if you compare the strength alone, the Zhao clan is stronger than the strength of the Jin office, and any other Qingshi family in the Jin Kingdom is not as strong as the Zhao family; But this time in the battle of Zhao, Jin Jinggong did not fight according to the routine at all, but led other Qingshi families to fight in a group; The result of the group fight is that the strength of the Zhao family is not enough), under the onslaught of the joint army of the Gongshi and the Qingshi family led by the Duke of Jin Jing, the Zhao family (Dazong) was finally defeated, the original and Ping Eryi were conquered, and the lower palace was also declared lost, and the members of the Zhao clan in the fief were slaughtered regardless of men, women and children, and the brothers Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo also died in the chaos; The Zhao clan (Dazong), which had been in the court of the Jin Kingdom for more than 50 years, was wiped out.

This thrilling Jin civil strife is the famous "difficulty in the lower palace" in history.

In order to ensure that Zhao Wu, his nephew and one of the members of the Zhao family, was not implicated in this matter when he crusaded against the Zhao clan, Jin Jinggong also personally made a statement before sending troops to attack Zhao - this time to send troops to "quell the rebellion of the Zhao clan", Zhuqing was only allowed to crusade against the Zhao clan's large sect, and the Zhao Shuo line, which was already a small sect of the Zhao clan (the male members of this line, only Zhao Wu himself) were not included; In order to better unite the ministers and stabilize the authority of the office, Jin Jinggong also specifically pointed out that the Handan clan (Zhao Chuan, Zhao Zhan lineage), which belongs to the other branches of the Zhao family, does not belong to the Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo rebellion parties, and is not included in this crusade.

When the 'difficulty in the lower palace' occurred and the Zhao clan was completely destroyed, Zhao Wu, who was protected by his uncle Jin Jinggong, was still safe and sound, and lived in the palace in Xintian with his mother Zhuang Ji as usual. Zhao Zhan, a member of the Zhao clan's other branch who was the new military assistant at that time, also drew a clear line with the big sect in time under the protection of Jin Jinggong, and escaped the fate of being attacked by other Qing families who were killed and wiped out together.

After the defeat of the Zhao clan, the property, fiefdoms, and people accumulated by the Zhao clan in the Jin State over the past decades were divided between the Jin Gong led by Jin Jinggong and the Zhuqingshi family who sent troops to attack Zhao. The part of the fief and property of the Zhao clan was collected by the office, and the Duke of Jin Jing gave it to the branch of the Jin clan, the Yang Tongue Clan of the Jin State.

When the domineering and domineering Zhao clan (Dazong) who offended almost everyone was exterminated, in order to better divide the existing scope of interests and enhance the participation and control of the Qingshi family in the Jin court, Luan Shu, a Chinese army general who made a great effort in the battle against Zhao, took the opportunity to put forward his own proposal to Jin Jinggong - to reduce the size of the current Jin army, compress the position of the secretary above the court, so that the monarch can directly control most of the court power (in fact, it is to take the opportunity to fight for more benefits for the Luan family).

Regarding Luan Shu's proposal, Jin Jinggong thought deeply, and now it was time to make personnel adjustments to the court again; Therefore, after the completion of the extermination of the Zhao clan (Dazong), the Duke of Jin Jing reduced the original system of six armies and twelve secretaries of the Jin State to four armies and eight secretaries; Among the four positions that were abolished, in addition to the original two positions of the Zhao clan - the lower army general (Zhao Tong) and the new middle army general (Zhao Kuo), Jin Jinggong also abolished the new Shang military general (Han Chuan) retained by the Han family, who was reluctant to send troops to attack Zhao, and the new Chinese army (Gong Shuo) held by the Shi clan, who was relatively weak and not very active in fighting Zhao.

In addition, Jin Jinggong also recombined the original new upper, middle and lower armies of the Jin State and organized them into a new army. At this time, the Jin State only had the upper, middle, lower, and New Fourth armies.

After the Jin Jinggong destroyed Zhao Zhiwei, readjusted the position of the secretary in the court, and reduced the establishment of the Jin army, the ranking of the new Jin State's eight secretaries and generals was - Luan Shu, the general of the Chinese army and the ruling doctor, the Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Zhongxing Geng), the Shangjun general Shi Xie (Fan Xie), the upper army Zuo Heqian, the lower army general Han Ju, the lower army Zuo Xun Fu (Zhi Gang), the new army general Zhao Zhan, and the new army Zuo Hezhi.

This time, the newcomer who entered the court and served as the new army assistant at the end of the Eight Qings, is also a member of the Yin family; He Zhi is the second cousin of the current head of the Hao family, Xu Yi (Yin Zhi's great-grandfather Yi is the younger brother of Yin Rui, the great-grandfather of the Yin family, and the two have the same great-grandfather, that is, the founder of the Yin family, Yin Bao). Yin Zhi's grandfather, Yin Yang, whose fiefdom is in Buyi, is also known as Bu's clan; He Zhi's own fiefdom was in Wenyi, and because he ranked third among his brothers, he was also called 'Wenji'.

After Xu Zhi was promoted to the court by Jin Jinggong and served as the new army at the end of the Eight Qings, the Yin family had two positions in the newly built Eight Qings, and his strength was greatly enhanced, which could be compared with the Luan family of Luan Shu (the Yin family was originally a veteran nobleman of the Jin Kingdom, and its background was no worse than the Luan family, and even stronger).

After proposing to Jin Jinggong to reduce the army and reduce the position of secretary, and after getting the consent of Jin Jinggong, Luan Shu thought that his family had previously assisted the monarch to destroy the ministers (Zhao), and followed in the footsteps of the monarch and adjusted the balance of power in the court.

However, Jin Jinggong has been in the position of Marquis of Jin for a long time, and he has long been well versed in power control and the way of controlling the ministers, so among the new Eight Secretaries after the personnel adjustment, he did not promote any member of the Luan family except Luan Shu to be the new secretary, but deliberately supported another hero of the Battle of Zhao, the Yin family, and appointed the younger brother of the head of the Yin family, Xu Zhi, as the new military assistant, in recognition of the "outstanding contributions" made by the Yin family in the process of crusading against the Zhao family.

The purpose of Jin Jinggong's move was to carry out a further plot to prevent the already powerful Luan clan from being arrogant in the process of assisting him in destroying the Zhao clan, and after obtaining more court benefits, it would accelerate the rapid growth of the Luan family's power, thus forming a new family of powerful ministers; Therefore, Jin Jinggong did not choose the members of the Luan family, but promoted him to the court, which was to use the Yin family to contain Luan Shu and the Luan family, so as to achieve political balance in the court.

As for whether Luan Shu is convinced or not, whether Luan's is resentful and angry with the Luan family because of this, and how will Xun Qian and Luan Shu get along in the future, Jin Jinggong doesn't care about this matter, and even this is what Jin Jinggong hopes for (there is a conflict between the secretaries, isn't it just for the monarch to divide and rule).

On the other hand, after the collapse of the Zhao family, Han Ju, who had received several generations of kindness from the Zhao family, did not want the former benefactor's family to decay and die, so he found an opportunity to make a statement to Jin Jinggong, saying that the Zhao family had really made great contributions to the Jin country, and the merits of Cheng Ji (Zhao Yuan) and the loyalty and diligence of Xuan Meng (Zhao Dun) were obvious to all.

Now, because of the unscrupulousness of some descendants, the Zhao family has no one who can inherit the family title, if such a meritorious family has lost the qualification to retain the family glory and knighthood because of the impatience of the descendants, then which family is willing to continue to serve the country and the monarch desperately in the future?

Therefore, Han Ju asked Jin Jinggong to re-establish a sect for the Zhao family, so as to inherit the sacrifice of Zhao Yu and Zhao Dun and the Juelu of the Zhao family, and rebuild the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom.

Jin Jinggong originally had the intention to promote his nephew Zhao Wu and let him inherit the Zhao family's Juelu after the Zhao clan's great sect was destroyed, and Han Ju's request to "let Zhao Wu inherit the Zhao clan's great sect" was in line with Jin Jinggong's heart; So, with Han Jue's words, less than a year before the end of the "difficulty in the lower palace", Jin Jinggong officially established his eight-year-old nephew Zhao Wu as the new generation of Zhao clan sons, in order to inherit the Zhao family inheritance, and be responsible for the three generations of 'good ministers' of Zhao Yuan, Zhao Dun, and Zhao Shuo's ancestors.

After establishing Zhao Wu as the son of the Zhao clan and rebuilding the Zhao clan, Jin Jinggong returned part of the fiefdom of the original Zhao family that had been transferred to the Yangyu clan to Zhao Wu (part), and then ordered Zhao Zhan, the only surviving close relative of the Zhao family, the head of the Handan clan of the Jin Kingdom, and the current general of the new army, to assist and take care of the young Zhao Wu and deal with the internal affairs of the Zhao family.

In this way, the glory and revival of the entire Zhao family fell on Zhao Wu, who was only eight years old.

In the third year after the end of the 'Difficulty in the Palace', at the beginning of the fifth year of King Jian of Zhou (581 BC), Jin Jinggong, who had reigned for 19 years, suddenly fell seriously ill, causing him to be unable to sleep day and night;

Therefore, under the double torture of heart disease and external diseases, Jin Jinggong often suffered from nightmares and serious illnesses, and fell on the sickbed, unable to continue to deal with the heavy government affairs.

The monarch is sick and cannot govern, but the country cannot be without a helmer. In desperation, Jin Jinggong had no choice but to order Pu Dai, the prince of Jin, to preside over state affairs, and to assist the prince in governing the country with the top two Chinese army generals Luan Shu and Zhongjun Zuo Xun Geng (Shangjun Zuo Hao Qian and other secretaries have lower rankings and are not qualified to assist the government).

In the summer of the fifth year of King Jian of Zhou (581 BC), in the midst of endless anxiety and deep fear, Jin Jinggong, who had been suffering from illness for half a year, was finally freed and died of illness in the palace of Xintian, the national capital (the death of Jin Jinggong is also another theory, he accidentally fell into the toilet when he went to the toilet and drowned in feces; Because it does not involve the focus of this article, I will not spread out the narrative here, and I will rewrite a special article in the future to tell about the death of Jin Jinggong).

After the death of Jin Jinggong, Luan Shu, the general of the Chinese army, who had the 'right to take care of his life', and Zuo Xun Geng, the Chinese army, supported the Jin prince Zhou Pu and inherited the position of the Marquis of Jin, which was the Duke of Jin Li. The historical process of the Jin Kingdom has opened a new page.