When Zhou Tianzi founded the country, there was a very key system, that is, the system of sub-feudalism. Zhou Tianzi sealed the relatives and children of the Zhou people to the place of conquest, and maintained the ruling foundation of the entire dynasty with this blood relationship. Most of these fiefdoms were relatives of Zhou Tianzi's relatives. Zhou Tianzi and the princes of the nations attached great importance to this relationship, believing that the relationship based on blood connection was the most stable. But in fact, is this relationship really strong? Of course not, there are in the history books: "The world is in decline, there are heresies and atrocities, there are those who kill the king, and there are sons who kill their fathers." Confucius was afraid, doing Spring and Autumn", in Confucius's view, the Zhou Dynasty seems to have gone from the rupture of kinship to collapse.
Throughout the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the so-called "decline of the world" abounded, Qi Huan was hegemonic for a while, and finally he was imprisoned and imprisoned by his sons; King Cheng of Chu revitalized the Chu State, and before he died, he just wanted to eat a bite of bear paws and was rejected by the ruthless son; the prince took the harem eyebrows, and also attracted Rong Di from the outside, expelling the high-ranking King Xiang of Zhou from the capital, not to mention the chaos in the internal affairs of the Wei Dynasty, the sons of the Zheng State competed for the throne, that is, the Lu State, which had always prided itself on being a state of etiquette, and there were many incidents of usurpation of the throne in the Spring and Autumn Warring States. Lu Bo's usurpation of the throne, the Duke of Lu's son Yun killed His gu and became the Duke of Lu Huan, and Lu Qing's father became the new king of the State of Lu, which shows that kinship is not conducive to stability, at least in the royal family.
However, there are still many people who can see the essence through the phenomena of those characters who are traversed in the Spring and Autumn Warring States history books, and can regard the kind of kinship politics advocated by Zhou Tianzi as some kind of strategic tool. Zhou Tianzi and the princes may think that after the marriage between the two countries, the two sides will become the actual friendly allies of the covenant, but some people can deploy their own forces to the enemy camp through marriage. Here we are also going to talk about our protagonist today. The priest is an important courtier around Zheng Zhuanggong, who followed Zheng Zhuanggong in the southern conquest of the northern war and made great achievements, but the aura of The sacrifice of Zhengzhuang in the era of Zhengzhuang has not yet been fully presented, and more highlights the role of the auxiliary minister. The time that belonged to him was after The Duke of Zhuang.
At that time, Zheng Zhuang Duke had eleven sons, of which the most powerful four were Zi Ku, Zi Tu, Zi Qi, and Ziyi, according to Zheng Zhuang Gong, that is, these sons all had "princes of the face", which was a problem, that is, as the king of a country, he did not control the relationship between relatives and estranged, blindly conniving at the development of his own strength, which directly led to the decline of the later Zheng State. When Zheng Zhuanggong was opening up the land, he did not pay attention to the kinship of the Zhou people, and often ignored tianzi, and Zhou Tianzi directly went to war with Zheng Guo. Zheng Zhuanggong should also be the uncle of King Huan of Zhou, so the battle between Zheng Guoren and Zhou Tianzi was a landmark event when the blood politics of the Zhou people began to go bankrupt.
So why don't we say sacrifice yet? Don't worry, he'll be on the scene right away. Due to zheng zhuanggong's exemplary role, the person who sacrificed zhong also attached great importance to kinship relations. When Zheng Zhuanggong asked The Emperor zhong about the "candidate for the crown prince", he was already lamenting that "Zheng Guo has been troubled since then", and the priest was also indifferent to the upcoming struggle for the throne of the sons, or prevaricated with the excuse of "knowing the son is like the father, but the king's fate", and kicked the ball back to Zheng Zhuanggong. Gongzi Tu's mother was the daughter of the Yong clan of the Song Kingdom, and later gongzi suddenly ascended the throne, and then the priest Sent an envoy to the Song Kingdom, originally entrusted by Gongzi Kuo to "detect the sudden change of the Zi Dynasty", where did he know that the Song people were strong first, directly detained the sacrifice Zhong, coerced and seduced, and successfully persuaded him to support Gongzi Tu to return to the country and take the throne.
At that time, the Song people, including Gongzi Tu, were not at ease with the sacrifice of the zhong, and in their hearts, they still respected the politics of kinship, that is, to tie the sacrifice to a rope to be assured. "When he heard that there was a woman in the sacrifice, he made Yong Gui, the son of the Yong clan, teach Yong Gui to return to the siege and take the position of doctor. The contract right signed by The Sacrifice Ofe can be called the "Song Covenant", Gongzi Tu's mother's family is the Yong clan, and the daughter of the Sacrifice Zhong is married to the Yong clan, that is to say, Gongzi Tu has become a partner in the trench with the Sacrifice Zhong, at least gongzi Tu thinks so. However, the sacrifice did not think so, what kind of kinship was just a trick of Zhou Tianzi and the princes of the nations to deceive people, and later when the priest heard that gongzi suddenly wanted to send his daughter-in-law Yong gui to assassinate himself, he resolutely killed Yong Gui.
Here we must also talk about the tutoring of Matsuri, when she learned that her husband Yongjie wanted to assassinate her father, she asked her mother for a solution, and as a result, Matsushi's wife said, "The father is only one, and everyone is a husband", what does it mean? That is, there is only one father, and as long as a man can become a husband, this is a great irony of the politics of zhou people's in-laws, and it is an extremely bold idea. Therefore, Ji Zhong must be a person who dares to think and dare to do, but there is no lack of sinister and cunning intentions, even if he is imprisoned in the Song Kingdom, he can also exchange his daughter's lifelong events for the throne of zheng guo and his personal safety. From then on, Ji Zhong monopolized the power of Zheng Guo, supported several sons of Zheng Zhuanggong, and rotated to be the monarch of Zheng Guo for several years, and Zheng Guo's government also became chaotic after that. This incident is the bankruptcy of the blood politics of the Zhou people' relatives.