One day in 613 B.C., a comet suddenly streaked across the sky and headed straight for the Beidou. The famous "fortune teller" Zhou Nei Shi Shufu looked up at the starry sky, stepped on the earth, sighed and said: "In less than seven years, the kings of Song, Qi, and Jin will all be in chaos." Sure enough, within a few years, the "crow's mouth" of Uncle Neishi's clothes was fulfilled one by one. In 611 BC, Song Zhaogong was assassinated while hunting and was killed by his grandmother and brother-in-law. In 609 BC, when Qi Yigong was drinking and enjoying the cold, he was cut off by his henchmen. Hearing these news, Jin Linggong, the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, was a little drummed in his heart. Could it be that the next one is going to be the widow's turn?Who would dare to kill a widow?Who would dare to kill a widow?The widow does not believe. Speaking of Jin Linggong, this is really a gentleman, because he was only seven years old when he ascended the throne, so Zhao Dun has the final say in all matters in the imperial court, no one dares to take care of children, and there is no need to deal with political affairs, and gradually developed a bad habit of pursuing fun, now Linggong is twenty years old, still very ignorant, all day long with the favorite minister Tu Anjia to eat, drink and have fun, but also play high-end art, loot a lot of people's wealth to paint and decorate the palace wall, and build a garden in the palace, plant peach blossoms all over, named peach orchard, and build a three-story platform in the garden, stand on the platform, look around by the railing, the whole Jin is in full view。 
Therefore, Jin Ling's favorite place to have fun on the fair day is to have fun, and to have fun, he uses a slingshot to shoot the ministers and people passing by under the stage, in order to see their crying father and mother embarrassed and embarrassedForget it, once, Jin Linggong's cook was executed by him just because he didn't cook the bear's paw badly enough, cut it into eight pieces, threw it into the trash, and asked the palace maid to take it out of the palace and throw it away!The monarch should do whatever he wants, kill and take it, otherwise how can it reflect its value?But Jin Linggong never expected that this matter would make a big fuss, it turned out that when the palace maid threw out the garbage, Zhao Dun, who was passing by, saw the broken hand inside. Zhao Dun was shocked and immediately entered the palace to advise, although Linggong verbally agreed to correct his mistakes due to Zhao Dun's status, he still acted in his own way. Although Zhao Dun repeatedly talked to Linggong and told him to study well and be an obedient and well-behaved child, he only got Linggong's rebellious mood. It turned out that Zhao Dun was too fierce, and some people commented on Zhao's father and son at that time, saying that Zhao Yu was a winter day, like sending charcoal in the snow, warm and amiable;Zhao Dun is a summer day, often arbitrary, fierce and terrifying. Zhao Dun's face can be known from this. In fact, in order to support the little Jin Linggong on the throne, Zhao Dun also sent someone to kill his rival Hu Shugu (the son of the fox Yan) and the rival of the Jin Linggong Gongzi Le (the son of Jin Wengong and Huai Ying), in short, Zhao Dun has invested a huge amount of political capital in Jin Linggong, and he will never let himself lose his money. So Linggong, a little naughty boy, was in awe and hate Zhao Dun, plus Zhao Dun's political enemy Tu Anjia was talking badly about Zhao Dun next to him, and finally, Jin Linggong made up his mind to simply do nothing and launch a coup d'état to get rid of Zhao Dun. In fact, even if there was no Zhao Dun's crooked words and Tu Anjia's slander, Jin Linggong would have killed Zhao Dun sooner or later, because the power held by Zhao Dun had seriously threatened his monarchy. 
But Jin Linggong didn't have military power, so what should he do, so he sent a martial arts master named 鉏麑 (pronounced chú ní) to assassinate Zhao Dun. So in the middle of the night, the deer sneaked into Zhao's house, thinking that the god was unaware, but the chicken didn't wake up, Zhao Dun actually woke up, not only woke up, but also wore neat court clothes, was preparing to go to the court, because it was still early, so he sat and pretended to sleep, and his mouth kept talking about national affairs, what a workaholic. Seeing that Zhao Dun was so loyal to state affairs, he really couldn't do anything to him, so he had to retreat silently, and sighed: "When you are alone, you are so diligent and respectful, you are really a good servant of the people!."If I kill the servants of the people, I will be disloyal;But I have not fulfilled the mission of the king, and I do not believe itIt can't be killed, it can't be killed, I'm too entangled, simply, I'll kill myself!So he found a big locust tree and killed himself. 
Judging from this historical record, Zhao Dun is really a big gentleman, but I am very suspicious of this gentleman. But Malier died overnight, so how did his inner monologue become known?Did he really commit suicide?Maybe he was not skilled in business, and he was killed by the Zhao family's guards and then faked the suicide scene?Maybe he accidentally hit a tree and fell to his death when he climbed over the wallIn short, this is just the rhetoric of the Zhao family on the one hand, and the purpose of touting Zhao Dun is very obvious, and the reason why it can be recorded in the history books is only because the parties said so, and there is no proof of death, and the history books have to be recorded like this. 
On the other hand, Jin Linggong saw that Zhao Dun was not dead, and he easily fooled his professional assassin to death, could this guy be the leader of the cult?No matter, anyway, he had to die, so Jin Linggong taught himself to train a ** wolf dog, named Lingmastiff, more than one meter tall, as red charcoal, eating several catties of mutton every day, which can be empathetic. As long as Linggong gives an order, it will pounce on it, bite the major artery in the neck, and will not die. Every time Linggong travels, he takes this terrible mastiff with him, and everyone who sees it is terrified. After the training was completed, Linggong set up a banquet to invite Zhao Dun, and specially prepared a soldier and a spirit mastiff, ready to give Zhao Dun a surprise. Unexpectedly, Zhao Dun's chief bodyguard (car right) Ti Miming felt the murderous aura, and hurriedly stepped into the hall and said: "The courtiers and the king's banquet, the third lord, is indecent!."According to the "Book of Rites Yuzao", the monarch banquet courtiers are divided into two kinds of etiquette, one is called "Zhengyan ceremony" and the other is "Xiaoyan ceremony". Zhengyan ceremony is suitable for large-scale banquets, and monarchs and ministers can drink to their heart's contentXiaoyan Rite is suitable for small banquets, and courtiers cannot drink more than three lords. 
When Zhao Dun saw Ti Miming's face, he knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly resigned from the palace. At this moment, Zhao Dun did not forget to sarcastically mock Jin Linggong: "Some people don't know how to use it, and they have to use dogs, it's really naïve." Sure enough, Timiming stood in front of Zhao Dun, and with just one twist, the spirit mastiff broke his neck and died. Linggong was furious, and all the armor soldiers who were in ambush rushed out and chased and killed the two. 
Timimin drew his sword, cut down an unlucky ghost who rushed to the front, blocked in front of Zhao Dun, and shouted: "Lord, you go quickly, leave it to me here!."Zhao Dun hurriedly walked down the hall, while Timi Ming was under siege, fighting dozens of armor soldiers, but there was no fear on his face. Two fists were invincible to four hands, and after stabbing down two enemies, Timimin's left hand was cut off by a soldier, and the armorer behind took the opportunity to rush up, and several long ges went straight into Mimin's chest. Zhao Dun heard Ti Mi Ming's screams, and hurriedly turned around, Ti Mi Ming endured the severe pain and shouted: "Leave me alone, the lord is leaving!."With a wave of his right hand, he killed another enemy beside him. The armor warriors were shocked, and their hands worked harder, pushing Timimin to the wall, and slashing his sword together, which killed him. 
After the armor killed Timiming, he quickly chased after him, Zhao Dun didn't care about the grief, so he had to fight and retreat, at this critical moment, one of the armor soldiers suddenly turned against him, and he was caught off guard from behind, killing more than a dozen armor soldiers in one go, and then picked up the injured Zhao Dun and fought his way out of the encirclement. Although Zhao Dun escaped, he couldn't solve the doubts in his heart: "What's the matter, what are you?" The man replied, "The hungry man of the mulberry is also" After speaking, he smiled slightly and floated away. It turned out that five years ago, Zhao Dun was hunting in Shouyang Mountain, staying in Pengsang, and met a man named Lingyu lying on the road, Zhao Dun asked him what was wrong, and Lingxu said: "I haven't eaten for three days." Zhao Dun gave him food, but he only ate half of it, and the remaining half wanted to pack it and take it back, Zhao Dun asked him why, and Lingyu replied: "I have been working outside for three years, and I don't know if my mother is alive." Now that I'm almost home, please let me bring this food for her to eat. Zhao Dun sighed at Lingyu's filial piety, so he asked him to eat all the rest of the food, and gave him a basket of rice and some meat, so that he could go back to serve his mother. Later, after returning to China, Lingyu became a warrior of Jin Linggong, and remembered Zhao Dun's past kindness, so he turned against him to save him. 
Of course, these are just Zhao Dun's statements on the one hand, maybe Lingqi was originally the person he placed next to Jin Linggong, and the purpose was to play a big role at this critical moment. Otherwise, it is difficult for us to explain Zhao Dun's behavior: since he has already cracked the assassin of Jin Linggong, why would he go to this "Hongmen Banquet" without precautions?And this king's henchman is so coincidental that he happened to receive his favor?In short, I do not believe that in a brutal and bloody political struggle, a person's survival depends on his benevolence, righteousness and virtue, rather than his far-sighted layout. After Zhao Dun escaped, he didn't dare to stay in Jiangdu anymore, so he quickly packed up his baggage and ran away, fortunately, Jin Linggong was also a naughty boy, and when he saw Zhao Dun running away, he didn't care about the Zhao family, but like a village boy without a teacher, he directly took the beauty to Taoyuan to continue to play bullets, but was sent by Zhao Dun's cousin Zhao Chuan to rush into Taoyuan and stabbed him into a hedgehog. The reason why Zhao Chuan's assassination was successful was because he also married the sister of Jin Linggong, and the two families were relatives, so he didn't take precautions, and the result was tragic. 
Then the next day, Zhao Dun, who had been missing for a long time, miraculously appeared in Taoyuan, he lay on the corpse of Linggong, crying loudly, and the mourning was heard outside the garden. This is a bit fake, trying every possible way to get rid of his political enemies is dead, but it is like a dead son, Zhao Dun is a good actor, and a good actor can be a good politician. When the people of the Jin Kingdom heard such a mournful cry, they all said: "Xiangguo is loyal and loves like this, and the Marquis of Jin has brought disaster upon himself, and it is not the fault of Xiangguo!"Zhao Dun was waiting for these words, and seeing that his performance had successfully affected **, he held back his tears and returned to the court, twisting and pinching and half-pushing and half-pushing on the spot and began to preside over the overall situation. Of course, Zhao Dun's tricks can't deceive some discerning people, and Dong Hu of Jintai Shi will not eat this set, he wrote directly on Shi Jian: "Autumn and July are ugly, Zhao Dun killed his monarch in Taoyuan." When Zhao Dun heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly explained: "Taishi, you misunderstood me, at the time of the incident, I was in Hedong, more than 200 miles away from Jiangcheng. I have an alibi, how can you say that I killed you, I wronged me!”
Dong Hu said: "Wrong, I didn't wronged you. You didn't go far when the accident happened, how can you get out of it?And you didn't punish the murderer after you came back!"In the Spring and Autumn Period, the status of the historians was transcendent, even if the rulers were powerful, they could not interfere with them, even if you killed them, the successor historians would still write as before, because although China had not yet produced a religion at that time, it already had a mature belief system of "the unity of heaven and man", and they believed that what the historians recorded was actually the will of Heaven and the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven (Note 1), and if there was any inaccuracy at all, then it would have misinterpreted the will of Heaven and the Mandate of Heaven, and it was to deceive the Heavens.
Therefore, no matter how good Zhao Dun was, he couldn't do anything to Dong Hu, so he had to sigh pretendly: "Oops!."The Book of Songs says: 'Because of my nostalgia, I have brought sorrow to myself. I'm afraid that's me." Because I was nostalgic for my homeland, I didn't go out of the country, and as a result, I was forced to bear this hateful charge of killing the kingNo matter how Zhao Dun exonerates himself, history is like a mirror that makes his hypocrisy clear. We look at people, not by what they say, but by what they do. After Zhao Dun came back, not only did he not punish Zhao Chuan, but let Zhao Chong take charge of a business trip to Luoyang to welcome the new monarch Jin Chenggong (Note 2), and finally rewarded Zhao Chuan, Handan Dayi. Obviously, Zhao Dun felt that Zhao Zhuo's neatness in killing the monarch was worthy of reward. In short, Zhao Pier is just a knife, and Zhao Dun is the real knife bearer, but he still pretends that he has nothing to do with this knife, which is really ridiculous. Of course, politics itself is an industry that pays attention to hypocrisy, and if you want to play politics, you must learn to put on a show, which is also a no-brainer. In the final analysis, Jin Linggong is indeed a bastard, it is not a pity to die, and he is very happy;Although Zhao Dun was hypocritical and cunning, he lived a simple life, governed diligently, and did his best for the hegemony of the Jin State. Therefore, when Confucius analyzed this period of history, he believed that values were equally important as historical facts, and he said: "Dong Hu, the good history of ancient times, calligraphy is not hidden;Zhao Xuanzi, the ancient good doctor, also suffered evil for the law. Unfortunately, crossing the border is avoided. "The Legend of the Spring and Autumn Ram" also said: "It is said that Zhao Dun of the Jin Dynasty killed his monarch and Yigao, and he passed in the next place." It is said that in the shield, see the loyalty of the ministers. ”
For the general public, as long as the play is well acted, conveys the correct values, and is willing to accept the torture of history honestly, it does not matter what the truth is hidden behind the scenes. Especially after thousands of years, the spirit has been passed down for centuries, and the details have long been submerged in the pile of old papers. Why do you have to dig up the small black material of Guan Yu, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, and Lin Zexu?Interesting?This is a matter for historians, and ordinary people don't need to care. This is Confucius's true view of history. See, this old man is very ghostly, and he is not pedantic at all (Note 3). On the other hand, after Jin Chenggong ascended the throne, he changed his ways, because he was the son of Duke Wen, and he had served in the Zhou royal family for many years and had rich political experience, so he wisely chose to compromise and marry his daughter to Zhao Shuo, the son of Zhao Dun, and the monarch and ministers became in-laws. At the beginning of the Li Ji Rebellion, Li Ji and Xian Gong drove away all the princes, and cursed in front of the gods with the Qing doctors, not allowing the children to be contained, and since then there have been no more princes in the Jin Kingdom;is as strong as Duke Wen of Jin, and many of his sons can only serve as officials in foreign countries and are not allowed to return to China for life. And Jin Chenggong was supported by Zhao Dun and other Qing doctors, and his foundation was even more unstable, so he had to give more power: re-establish the Gong clan, but the identity of the Gong clan was not given to the prince of the Jin State, but to the son-in-law of the Qing State, and gave them land. From then on, the power of the Jin State officially fell into the hands of the ministers, and the Jin State began a 200-year historical period in which the ministers were in charge. The mainstream historiographical view is that the "Three Divisions of the Jin Dynasty" is an important node in Chinese history, and is even considered to be the dividing point between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. But in fact, from the day Jin Linggong died, the end of the Jin Kingdom was already doomed. In other words, Zhao Dun's success is not only his success alone, but also the victory of the entire Jin Qing clan;And the failure of Jin Linggong is not only a tragedy for him alone, but also the starting point of the entire Jin State Office towards a tragic fate. Note 1: The so-called providence is the principle that guides everything in the world, in short, it is "Zhongzheng" (the word "history", that is, "Zhong"). Therefore, Chinese attach the greatest importance to history, especially to the observation and recording of "astronomical" and "catastrophic" phenomena, and to guide personnel with this. There is no other nation in the world that is as keen as the Chinese to leave a name in history and pursue immortality. In a certain respect, the "Bible" of the Chinese is not the Four Books and Five Classics, but the history of successive dynasties. Note 2: That is, the youngest son of Duke Wen of Jin, Hei Buttocks, was the son of Zhou Wang Ji and was serving in the Zhou royal family at that time. Note 3: As the so-called monarch and minister, father and son, but if the monarch is not the king, there is no need for the minister. Confucius's disciples and grandchildren in the Warring States period insisted on this point. For example, Mencius said: "The king regards his ministers as his siblings, and the ministers regard the king as his heart."The king regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the king as a countryman;The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. And the tendency of "Zuo Chuan" to promote ministers and suppress the monarch is also quite obvious, and even the authoritarian Sanhuan and Tian family are full of praise. Of course, this is also related to the general situation of the Qing clan at that time, such as the "Three Families Divided into Jin" and "Tian Clan Daiqi".