The Ji (Sun) family, Meng (Sun) family, and Shusun family originally belonged to the Gong clan, which is the direct descendant of the king. These three were called the "Three Gong".

Originally, the monarchs of Lu State enjoyed the dominant power of military taxes, but because Duke Xiang of Lu was young, the three dukes, or Sanhuan, made great contributions in the war of fighting against national aggression and had close ties with the overlord Jin State. Therefore, these three Gongsuns used the young king to allocate the military tax distribution power that only the monarch could enjoy. As a result, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the phenomenon of the ministers enjoying privileges and respect more than the monarchs officially appeared.

Not only was the military tax of the Duke of Lu State divided, but since then, the king of Lu State also completely lost control of the army. Since then, Ji Wuzi took a series of measures to expand the power of Ji Sun family, and quickly replaced Shusun Muzi to take charge of the Lu State regime, and formed a political pattern of "Shusun's out of Ji Du".

The so-called "Shu left Ji's place" means that Shusun's family is responsible for on-the-job diplomacy, while Ji's family is responsible for defending the country and governing the country.

While Lu was busy undermining the king and separating the power of the Gong clan, the same fission occurred in Qi. The Qi clan originally had four prominent ministers, namely the Gao clan, the Cui clan, the Qing clan and the Tian clan. After Cui Zhufu established Duke Zhuang of Qi as the governor, he destroyed his political enemy Gao clan. Now only the Tian clan and the Qing clan remain in Qi.

Speaking of Tian family, the first person in China's surname is Chen family. The first person in the surname Tian was originally a young man in Chen State. He fled to Qi State because of the dispute over the right to succeed the throne in the country. The king of Qi State appointed him as the Shinshi, in charge of counting the crop cultivation area. Subsequently, his descendants took "tian" as their surname and gradually entered the business world, becoming the largest businessman in Qi State.

The Tian family was very small, and the head of the Tian family came up with a method. He chose beautiful women everywhere to teach singing and dancing. When the guests came, they asked these singing girls to come forward to entertain them and waited for the guests to give birth to children with the singing girls. It was a man, and all the Tian family recognized them as their clans and allowed these boys to be surnamed Tian. Since then, the Tian family grew stronger and stronger. In the Warring States Period, the Tian family usurped the throne and became a new generation of Qi kings...

As a result, the world is in chaos.

Lu and Qi intensively divided power, resulting in the power of the ministers and ministers gradually overwhelmingly over the power of the monarchs - the sign of the "Three Families Dividing Jin" incident was revealed at this time. From this incident, the ministers and officials gradually stopped taking "the monarch's power sacred" seriously.

A chaotic era, an era of lower-minded superiority kicked off...

At this time, the king who had fled to the country was also working closely to return to the country - he hooked up with Ning Xi, the left prime minister of the Wei Kingdom.

Ning Xi was in charge of civil affairs and had a good relationship with the right prime minister Sun Linfu. Ning Xi's father was Ning Xian, the teacher of Duke Wei Xian. Duke Wei Xian insulted Sun Linfu before he fled. Unfortunately, Ning Xian was standing beside Sun Linfu and was disturbed by the storm. He was repeatedly insulted by Duke Wei Xian. However, when Duke Wei Xian was insulting, Ning Xian taught him that Duke Wei Xian was "sacred in the monarchy" and wanted to find a way to demonstrate the majesty of the power of the monarchy. Later, Sun Linfu resisted and expelled Duke Wei Xian. Ning Xian had to support the current Duke Wei Shang with Sun Linfu and continue to teach Duke Wei Shang to safeguard the power of the monarchy...

When Ning Xian was dying, he thought that Duke Wei Xian was a good student. He did a good job in insulting himself, like a qualified monarch. Therefore, he couldn't bear to have his beloved student exile abroad and had a family hard to return. Therefore, before his death, he specifically reminded Ning Xi: He must take Duke Wei Xian back to China and succeed to the throne again...

Wei Xian Gong's teacher was not only Ning Xi's father, but also Wei's Swordshot Gongsun Ding, Zixian, etc. Wei Xian Gong was eager to return to the country. The situation changed at this moment. With the state of Lu and Qi's Duke and Ministers were in power, he sent Gongsun Ding to sneak into Diqiu from Yiyi and asked Gongsun Ding to convey Xian Gong's promise to Ning Xi: "If you can follow your father's will and accept me again and return to the country and succeed to the throne, the national affairs of Wei will be yours. I only want to preside over the sacrifices to ancestors."

Ning Xi was overjoyed when she heard this. This fulfilled her father's last wish and could also grasp the authority of Wei State, which was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. But he was afraid that Duke Xian would deceive him with kind words for a moment, so he regretted it after returning home, so he wanted to find a wise man to testify on behalf of the king of Wei State. So he asked Gongsun Ding and others who came to lobby to endorse Duke Xian's promises on behalf of the king of Wei State to confirm Duke Xian's guarantees - but these lobbyists themselves were not at ease with Duke Xian's credit, and they could not guarantee that Duke Xian's promises could really fulfill his promise...

Finally, Ning Xi wrote a secret letter to Zixian (Prince Xian, the younger brother of Duke Xian of Wei, who accompanied Duke Xian of Wei to escape at that time), and expressed his concerns. After receiving the letter, Zixian immediately passed on Ning Xi’s concerns to Duke Xian of Wei. Duke Xian immediately said to Zixian: "I restore the country, all depends on the Ning family. If I can restore the throne, I will not deceive each other. My brother will be my fellow and persuade Ning Xi to agree."

However, Duke Xian of Wei was famous for being untrustworthy. His younger brother Xian was also afraid that Duke Xian of Wei would regret his return to China and would make him lose his trust in Ningxi, so he was embarrassed and he was hesitant for a moment. Seeing that Zixian was hesitant, Duke Xian of Wei said to him again: "I am living in a foreign country and have nothing in my hands, including the regime. If I can return to the country and be able to preside over the sacrifice again. The sacrifices of the ancestors of Wei will be able to continue to my descendants. My wish is enough. How can I break my promise and hurt my brother?"

Zixian had no choice but to agree to Duke Xian of Wei, but he didn't want to leave for a long time. After a while, Duke Xian of Wei was delayed...

The three major powers in the Central Plains all showed signs of a minister undermining the monarch. In this power struggle that affected the world, Zhao Wu seemed very leisurely. He did not even return to the capital of Jin, and stayed on the south bank of the Yellow River to organize his territory. Just like the ancient Go method, the ancients had to start playing Go from the center, and were called "incorrect", "strange", "biased" and so on from the corners.

Under the "central determinism" of people in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Wu did not return to the country to cultivate power in the court, but took the initiative from the corners and occupied the real and empty space. It seemed that the main theme of this era was not in line with the main theme of this era. Therefore, no matter how Zhao Wu was trying outside, the domineering Fan Yi did not agree with it. Instead, he admired Zhao Wu's tolerance and avoidance attitude. In this power adjustment, Fan Yi also gave some affection to the three alliances...

Zhao has many years of experience in land reclamation, and in addition, Zhao has many meritorious warriors who need rewards. Because Zhao's new territory on the south bank of the Yellow River is equivalent to an enclave, Zhao Wu did not sting at all this time. He left only a few huge primeval forests on the south bank of the Yellow River without rewarding. The rest of the land is ten miles a reward unit. As long as the warriors have some credit, Zhao Wuquan rewarded them with a new corps. The enthusiasm of all the warriors of the Zhao family was mobilized. In just one year, thousands of lords acted together, and more than a thousand feudal castles of all sizes appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River.

In order to connect these castles, Zhao Wu used 100,000 slaves to renovate the road on the south bank of the Yellow River. At the same time, in order to ensure that the new lords could be self-sufficient, he also built water conservancy along the river, making the originally fertile plain in the lower Yellow River another granary for the Zhao family. In just over a year, the Zhao family's warriors had taken root here, and depending on the situation, they had already stood here and had a slight desire to expand.

That winter, Fan Yi convened the vassal states to re-election, greatly increasing the share of tax paid by the vassal states, and the vassal states were miserable...
Chapter completed!