In the spring of the thirteenth year of King Jian of Zhou (573 BC), according to the Zhou ritual system, Jin Li Gong led all the princes and family members to go out hunting, and the Hao family was naturally among them, and there were also Luan Shu, Xun Yan, Han Ju and other scholars, as well as Lu Xiang, Shi Yi, Xu Tong and other second-class doctors (Wei Jiang, the son of the Wei family, because his level in the court was not enough, he could not participate in this kind of activity).
It was this seemingly ordinary safari that made Jin Ligong determined to completely eradicate the Yin family, who was originally an important minister of the state and a branch of the office!
According to the custom, when the princes and kings held the spring festival safari, the monarch should first shoot arrows and hunt (symbolic), and then the ministers and doctors should shoot arrows one by one according to their positions to complete the ceremony; The family members, maids, and temple people (eunuchs) who participated in the spring festival were not allowed to participate in hunting.
But in this safari, Jin Ligong somehow, after shooting the first arrow, without waiting for the ministers and doctors to open their bows, he let the favored inner woman participate in the archery ceremony; The doctors, on the other hand, did not begin to hunt until the end; This practice is already a violation of etiquette.
For the king's unruly behavior, all the ministers and doctors were holding their stomachs, so they all had gloomy faces when shooting, and they could burst out of anger at any time. But when it was the turn of Yin Zhi to send an arrow and shot a wild boar, Meng Zhang, the inner servant of the Jin Li Gong (eunuch), was closer to the wild boar who was hit by the arrow, so he also shot an arrow privately and shot the wild boar; Immediately, Meng Zhang took this as a proof and preemptively dragged away the wild boar, preparing to sacrifice the wild boar to Jin Ligong, who started drinking with his relatives.
As a new army general who is an important minister of the country and one of the eight secretaries, how can he endure the humiliation of a mere temple person! Therefore, Yin Zhi, who had nowhere to vent his anger for a long time, in his anger, drew a bow and arrows in front of Jin Ligong, and shot Meng Zhang, who did not know whether he was alive or dead, directly on the spot.
The close attendant was shot to death by the courtiers in front of him like this, and Jin Ligong was suddenly greatly stimulated, jumped up and shouted
Rude! Insult the widow! ”
Immediately, Jin Ligong immediately ordered Luan Shu, the general of the Chinese army and the ruling doctor, to come and ask him to take down Hao Zhi and then deal with it according to the law.
But without waiting for Luan Shu to express his opinion, Xun Qi and Xun Li, who were shooting and hunting with him, hurriedly came forward to announce the crime and persuade Jin Li, and Xun Yan (Zhongxing Yan), Han Ju, Shi Lu, Lu Xiang and other scholars and doctors who were at odds with the Yin family on weekdays also stepped forward to dissuade and come forward to defend Yin Zhi (In the final analysis, even if there is any contradiction between the ministers and doctors, it is also an internal matter of the nobles; A small temple man dared to rely on the favor of the monarch and openly provoke the honorable ministers of the state, which was unbearable for all the ministers. What's more, Jin Ligong also broke the etiquette and violated the etiquette first, so it is even more inconnivable).
Seeing that the three secretaries of the Hao clan advanced and retreated together when they encountered an incident, as one body, and other secretaries also came forward to defend it, after the unprecedented unity between the extravagant secretaries, Jin Ligong in a rage calmed down instead, and secretly thought in his heart, considering that if he attacked immediately at this time, some preparations were still insufficient, and he could not easily take down the Hao clan.
So, Jin Ligong held back his anger and reluctantly gave up, not turning his face on the spot, but 'accepting' the persuasion of the ministers and letting go of the rude Xun Zhi (and the Yin family);Immediately, the disgruntled Jin Li Gong announced the dissolution of the hunting activity, and then went back to the palace on his own, leaving only a group of scholars and doctors with different thoughts to look at each other at a loss, not knowing what to say.
Since then, Jin Ligong's disgust and jealousy of the Yin family have become stronger and stronger, reaching its peak, and the determination to completely eradicate the Yin family cannot be changed (the previous plan of Jin Li Gong was only to take the power of the Yin family, reduce its fiefdom, and retain this family as a shield of the monarchy).
And Jin Li Gong wants to implement the plan of "going to the group of doctors and establishing his own rights", and the power plan is naturally indispensable to the support of his cronies and dead parties.
Fifth, these three people are the most important.
Xu Tong is the great-grandson of Xu Chen, the patriarch of the Jin State, and the Xu family was also the most prominent Qingshi family in the Jin State, and its power position is not lower than that of the Zhao family, the Xian family, the Hu family and other extravagant families, and is higher than the Han family, the Wei family and other later families. Xu Chen had served with Zhao Yuan, Xianzhen, Hu Yan, Hu Mao, Wei Li, Jia Tuo and others who had been in exile for 19 years with the Jin Wengong (Chong'er) before succeeding to the throne.
Therefore, after the accession of Duke Wen of Jin, Xu Chen was able to enter the court, successively served as the lower army and the upper army, and was one of the six secretaries of the hall (this is much stronger than his old colleague Wei Li, who was only a doctor in the army all his life, and the position he once held on the right side of the Jin Wen bus was also dismissed because of his mistakes). The Xu clan once had more power and status than the Wei clan within the Jin state.
When Xu Chen was alive, he still had the grace of recommending the Yin family, and it was because Xu Chen strongly recommended it to the Duke of Jin Wen that he was able to get rid of the adverse effects of the identity of the 'son of a criminal minister' (Yin Rui, the father of the Que of Yin, was a close confidant of the Duke of Jin Hui, who plotted to make trouble after the Duke of Wen of Jin ascended the throne, and fled to the Qin State after the defeat, and was killed by the Duke of Qin Mu;He stayed in the Jin State at that time, but was demoted to an ordinary countryman and could only cultivate the fields himself to make a living), and was able to rise all the way up, and finally served as the ruler of the Jin State.
After the death of Xu Chen and Xu Jia's father and son, Xu Tong's father Xu Ke was already the ruling of the Jin State when he served as the lower military assistant, and in order to repay and promote the children of the ally Zhao family, he used the excuse to remove Xu Ke and go home, and the vacated position of the lower military assistant was handed over to Zhao Shuo, the son of Zhao Dun; As a result, the Xu clan declined, fell out of the ranks of the top ministers of the Jin Kingdom, and became a family of ordinary doctors (which is similar to the status of the Wei family).
Therefore, when Xu Tong became an adult, he hated the Yin family's ingratitude very much, and always wanted to seek justice for the family, and severely attacked and weakened the Xu family. It is also for this reason that Xu Tong was included in the "Yizhong" by Jin Ligong, who had the same thoughts, and became a powerful cronie, assisting him in planning and plotting the action plan of "going to the group of doctors" to fulfill their respective wishes.
And Yi Yangwu, because the family's field was forcibly snatched by the Yin, which had a deep conflict with the Yin family, and was recruited by Jin Ligong to his subordinates to participate in the plan of "going to the group of doctors". The reason why Changyujiao and the Hao clan had a quarrel was also because they fought for land with the Yin Li, not only did they not fight, but they were also arrested by the Yin Li by taking advantage of the power of the Yin family, and then publicly wore a flail to show the public, and even his parents were locked on the chariot to show the public; Therefore, Chang Yujiao also hated the Hao clan to death, and wanted to take revenge, and then took the initiative to accept the secret solicitation of Jin Li Gong and became the monarch's right-hand man to implement the "extermination of the Hao clan" plan.
After the "hunting incident", Jin Ligong hated Xu to the extreme, and at the same time he was jealous of the Yin family, so Jin Ligong and Xu Tong and Yi Yang.
Fifth, Changyu planned day and night, and accelerated the preparation for the attack on the Hao family.
At the beginning, Jin Ligong just wanted to get rid of Yin Zhi, and he didn't have the idea of doing anything to Yin Qi and Yin Zhi for the time being. But in the process of deliberating the action, Xu Tong and Yi Yang.
Fifth, Changyu Jiaodu resolutely opposed only killing Xun Zhi, and proposed either not to do it, or to attack Sanzhi together, otherwise when attacking Yin Zhi, Yin Qi and Yin Li will inevitably send troops to rescue because of the interests of the family. Therefore, Jin Ligong decided to adopt the advice of his cronies and seize the opportunity to eradicate the Hao family in order to prevent future troubles.
There is no impermeable wall, and on the eve of Jin Ligong's imminent attack on the Hao family, the Yin family also vaguely knew the bad news through some other channels (as for who said it, anyway, the Luan family and the Zhongxing family are impossible, and the Han family is probably unreliable; Shishi, Shixie has long explained not to wade into troubled waters; The Zhao family had only one lonely teenager Zhao Wu at this time; The most likely is Lu Xiang, who was once 'interviewed' by Jin Ligong, but this is all speculation, not real history).
After getting the news that the monarch was going to be unfavorable to the Yin clan (assuming that Lu Xiang told the Yin clan, but he would only say that the monarch wanted to weaken the Yin clan, and would not know that Jin Li Gong actually wanted to destroy the entire Xun clan), as the head of the Yin family, of course, he was unwilling to sit idly by, so he was ready to take the initiative to send private soldiers to attack the monarch, and to break the net.
However, the key figure who caused the family to be suspicious and hated by the monarch was uncharacteristically opposed to war with the monarch, believing that the loyal and patriotic tradition of several generations of the Hao family could not be destroyed in the hands of his own generation; Besides, although the Hao clan is strong, but it really wants to start a war with the monarch, one will unite with other Qing clans to attack the Hao clan (just like when the Xian clan and the Zhao clan were defeated), it is really impossible to win, and the other is that if you take the initiative to attack the monarch, you will be charged with plotting against the monarch, and future generations will also be spurned.
Therefore, all thoughts were discouraged and Yin Zhi summed up the ending of the Yin family:
Life in the world depends on faithfulness, wisdom, and bravery. The faithful will not rebel against the king; A wise man does not kill the people; The brave do not initiate calamity. These three qualities are the foundation of being a human being, if you lose it, even if you die, you will still be resented by future generations, so what's the point? The three generations of the Yin family have received the favor of the monarch to enjoy the current official title and achieve a huge family. If you oppose the king regardless of the superiority and humility (that is, the sword and the soldier), then the sin of the Hao clan will be great. Moreover, if the king kills innocents indiscriminately, he will lose the support of his countrymen, and his rule will not be stable. He, let's wait quietly for the king's order! ”
Therefore, the Yin family did not prepare for 'chaotic ministers and thieves', but abided by the etiquette and law, and never betrayed the king;But Jin Ligong didn't care about this, and he must destroy the Yin family.
In December of the thirteenth year of King Jian of Zhou (573 BC), after careful arrangement, the Duke of Jin Li suddenly attacked the Hao family, and asked Xu Tong and Changyu to lead 800 soldiers in the office to attack the private house of the Xu family. When the catastrophe was approaching, Xun Qi, Xun Qian, and Xun Zhi really did not resist, and when the king's armor arrived, they hanged themselves to death one after another, in order to show their loyalty to the country and the monarch (the thinking and morality of the ancients, and the faithfulness are really incomprehensible to modern people).
After Sanhe committed suicide, other members of the Yin family were also killed by Xu Tong and his armor. In this way, the old Qing family of the Jin Kingdom, the Yin family, was wiped out under the deliberate conquest of the Duke of Jin Li.
There are other versions of Sanhe's death in the history books, and the other says that ——— Jin Ligong was jealous of the powerful strength of the Hao clan, so he ordered a cronie named Qingping Wei to help Xu Tong and Yiyang.
Fifth, the long fish correction. Changyu Jiao and Qing Boiling Wei pretended to be fighting privately, holding **, grabbing the other party's scuffle, running to the official office where the Yin family was while beating, and making a loud noise, asking the Yin family, who is also in charge of the law, to distinguish right from wrong and uphold justice for them.
When they were all in the hall, they were summoned in and prepared to hear their arguments so that the verdict might be made. At this time, Chang Yujiao suddenly stabbed Yin Qi and Yin Li with the Changge in his hand, killing them in the official office. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yin Zhi ran out of the inner hall of the official office, jumped into the carriage and prepared to flee, but Changyu Jiao caught up with Xu Zhi's carriage and killed Xu Zhi in the car.
After the extermination of the Xun family, Xu Tong and Chang Yujiao returned to the palace to play back to the Duke of Jin Li; And Jin Ligong was still angry, and ordered Xu Tong to return to the private house of the Yin family, carry the body of Sanhe who committed suicide in an ox cart, and pull it to the court to show it publicly, and then ordered other ministers and doctors to come **, so as to deter the ministers and show the monarchy.
Lu Xiang, who was the head of the Wei family at this time, was also in the ranks of the doctors who were ordered to go to the court ** Sanhe's corpse, I don't know what he thought when he saw Sanhe, who had worked together and had traffic together a few days ago, but now he became a cold corpse and lay on the ground for his colleagues** scene? (If it is indeed Lü Xiang who told the Sanhe monarch that he was going to be unfavorable to the Xin clan, and then saw the current scene, then Lü Xiang would definitely not support and be loyal to Jin Li Gong without reservation, except for being frightened, but would make another plan to try something else.) ）
Among the scholars and doctors who were ordered to come to the court to "inspect" Sanhe's body, the two top secretaries of the Chinese army general and ruling doctor Luan Shu and the general of the Shangjun Xun Yan (Zhongxing Yan) were also among them. When he first saw Sanhe's corpse, Luan Shu was very frightened on the surface, but in fact, he was very proud in his heart, Sanhe was really as he had planned before, he was attacked and killed by Jin Ligong, and he also had one less strong opponent.
When Luan Shu was thinking about how to make the next plan, divert the spearhead of the monarch again, and buy more time for the Luan family, he encountered a sudden change - Chang Yujiao, a close confidant of Duke Jin Li, in order to completely break the original order in the court and pave the way for his own promotion prospects, so without discussing with Jin Ligong in advance, he made his own opinion, directly led troops to kidnap Luan Shu and Xun Yan in the court and put them under house arrest, and then persuaded Jin Ligong to kill Luan Shu and Xun Yan and completely control Jin ** Political power: "If you don't kill the two of them, you will definitely have endless troubles and harm the monarch."
Luan Shu, who has been scheming and scheming all his life, this time he is a solid overturned boat in the gutter, and the nameless junior Chang Yujiao suddenly came to such a hand! Luan Shu, who was imprisoned in the annex of the Gonggong Palace, was both remorseful and frightened, and felt that this was lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot, if he was killed by Jin Ligong, it would be a cocoon! In a trance, Luan Shu himself felt that this was caused by the "retribution" of framing the Hao family.
If the Duke of Jin Li agreed to Changyujiao's request at that time, then the history of the Jin Kingdom would have to change in the future; But at the critical moment, Jin Ligong considered that Luan Shu and Xun Yan were both important ministers of the state and the backbone of Sheji, so they killed them casually, and the Jin Kingdom was likely to fall into chaos because of this, and there was also a hidden danger of civil strife.
Therefore, Jin Ligong decided to leave Luan Shu and Xun Yan for the time being, release them, and wait until later to slowly take power from the Luan clan and the Zhongxing clan (in this way, Jin Ligong really didn't want to completely eradicate the Luan clan and the Zhongxing clan, but just wanted to weaken part of their power).
So Jin Ligong released Luan Shu and Xun Yan in the name of "killing Sanqing in one day, and the widow can't bear to kill Gancheng again", and apologized to them
The widow only wants to crusade against the Hao family, and now the Yin family has been ambushed, and the doctors are all pillars of the country, don't take this matter (being arrested by Chang Yujiao) as a shame, please restore their positions and serve the country. "Encourage them to continue to do their duty for the country.
Changyu was unwilling, and once again persuaded Jin Ligong: "You can't bear to kill them, they may not attack you!" ", warn the monarch that if Luan Shu and Xun Yan are released this time, I am afraid that they will be unfavorable to you next! But Jin Ligong still didn't listen.
Seeing that he had completely offended Luan Shu and Xun Yan, and that he could not get the strong support of Jin Ligong afterwards, Chang Yujiao felt that the situation was serious, and if he didn't leave, the He's today would be his tomorrow! So, Changyu Jiao made a quick decision, gave up Juelu and all the fiefdoms in the Jin Kingdom, and did not resign from the official position with the Duke of Jin Li, so he secretly fled from the Jin Kingdom with his family and went into exile to Di Di.
After Luan Shu and Xun Yan were pardoned by Duke Jin Li, they immediately bowed to the ground and thanked them
The king crusaded against the guilty and pardoned the ministers, which is your magnanimity, showing grace to the ministers, etc. Even if he died, the ministers did not dare to forget the kindness of the king. ”
After thanking the monarch and exiting the palace safely, the trembling Luan Shu and Xun Yan looked at each other as if they were the next day. The two people outside the palace were deeply glad, but also deeply regretted the dangerous experience caused by their negligence, and were very jealous of the moody and uncertain monarch.
Therefore, Luan Shu and Xun Yan immediately unanimously decided not to wait for the future tossing and turning, in case there is another "court raid" and Xu Tong will start, there will be no good luck today (if Xu Tong does it, then he will definitely kill first and then report, instead of stupidly reporting to the monarch and then taking the next step like Chang Yujiao).
In this way, the two major families of the Luan clan and the Zhongxing clan unified their opinions and decided to strike first, without waiting for the monarch (and his cronies) to digest and receive the huge benefits after the elimination of the Hao clan, and send troops to directly attack Jin Ligong himself as soon as possible, eradicating this "ruthless tyrant" who has threatened the survival rights of Luan and Bank of China!