In the spring of the year when Zheng Linggong came to the throne, Chu State gave him a pure natural wild Chu State tortoise in order to express his congratulations. Linggong was very happy to receive the gift and immediately ordered the chef to stew it into soup.
Linggong's two important ministers, Zijia and Zigong, were preparing to go to see Linggong that day to discuss with Linggong whether to form an alliance with Chu or Jin. Since Linggong came to the throne, the two men and Linggong have always had differences on this issue. Duke Linggong had a good impression of the Chu State because the King of Chu cared about his health very much and often sent him 王八 stew. The Zi family and Zi Gong tend to have a good relationship with the Jin State, because their fiefdom is relatively close to the Jin State. Once a war breaks out with the Jin State, they will be the first to suffer.
The two of them were getting dressed, shaking off the dust from their bodies, and preparing to enter the palace. The atmosphere was slightly serious. At this time, Zi Gong's index finger suddenly trembled involuntarily. Zi Gong thought this was a good sign. At the same time, in order to relieve the tense atmosphere, he said to Zi's family: "The trembling index finger means that there will be a novel and delicious enjoyment in a while. Today we two It won't be in vain."
Zijia stroked his beard, grinned, and nodded in agreement.
The two of them entered the palace, bowed and paid homage to Duke Lingying. At this time, Linggong's ridiculous soup was served. When Zi Gong saw the stewed tortoise, he looked at Zi's family and smiled, muttering in a low voice: "As expected!"
At this time, Linggong was holding a piece of tender tortoise meat and was about to put it into his mouth. The father's mysterious smile felt strange. He closed his mouth before he even had time to eat the meat, and asked his father why he was smiling. Zigong told the story of the scene before entering the palace.
Duke Ling and the big tortoise in the cauldron looked at each other. There was a faint green glimmer in the bastard's eyes, like the little look in King Chu's expectant eyes towards Zheng Guo. Linggong forced a smile on his face, and immediately asked someone to give the two ministers a seat, presented them with various delicacies, and asked them to have a feast with him.
Steamed pig's trotters, barbecued wild duck, honey-glazed bear paws, crispy radish and other delicacies are constantly on the table. When Zi Gong ate these, he felt that they were tasteless. It was not that the ingredients were not good, but that the chef's cooking was not that tasty. It was not that the chef's cooking was not tasty. In fact, it was because Zi Gong was always thinking about that mouthful of tortoise soup.
Zi Gong saw that his stomach could hardly hold the food, and Duke Lin did not tell them to give them a mouthful of tortoise soup. What's even more hateful is that every time Linggong talks to him, he always stuffs a mouthful of bastard meat into his mouth. He chews it while saying something to him, and the taste of bastard meat almost blows out of his mouth. It's on my father-in-law.
Gradually, Zigong understood that Linggong was deliberately embarrassing him.
Zi Gong guessed it right, Ling Gong did it on purpose. For a long time, Duke Linggong was very dissatisfied with his son's attitude toward Jin. This time, the bastard soup just gave him the inspiration for revenge. Duke Ling thought to himself: You want to betray Chu and marry Jin, and you also want to eat the bastard soup sent by Chu State. It is simply a delusion! Watch me teach you a lesson for this ignorant guy.
As he watched, everything on the table was eaten up. Zigong almost chewed up the pig's trotter bones. It seemed that he could no longer eat this meal, and that mouthful of tortoise soup that he had been craving for was gone. After the meal, there was still no consensus on whether to marry Chu or Jin. We couldn't just linger in the palace in embarrassment. There was no choice but to say goodbye and go back.
Zi Gong became more and more irritated as he thought about it, feeling that he really couldn't swallow this breath. Just as the two were about to leave, Zigong suddenly seemed to remember something and walked back to Linggong, pretending to say something in private. Linggong hurriedly put his ear to it and heard Zi Gong say lightly: "What does your tortoise soup taste like?" After saying that, he inserted his index finger into the tortoise soup and stirred it vigorously. , took out his fingers, put it into his mouth, took a bite, and said, "It doesn't taste good, it's bitter~". After that, he walked away.
Zijia on the side was dumbfounded, his mouth opened wide, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he stood numbly at a loss. When he saw Zigong coming out, he realized what he was doing and hurriedly followed him out.Zi Gong looked at the panic-stricken Zi Jia, stretched out his index finger in front of him and said, "Well, do you want to try it?"
Zi Jia wiped his sweat and said angrily: "No, no need." . "
In the palace, Lord Linggong looked at the bastard, his face turned purple with pain. After a period of terrible silence, he suddenly overturned the table and saw that the tortoise soup was scattered all over the floor, and a big turtle shell rolled out far away. He roared: "You son of a bitch, I'm going to stew you!"
Afterwards, Zigong also realized the seriousness of the problem. He didn't wait for Linggong to stew him, so he stabbed Linggong first. Send him to the spiritual throne.
Later, Duke Linggong's younger brother Zheng Xianggong came to the throne and wanted to kill Zigong's family, but he finally gave up due to the intervention of domestic opposition forces.
Zheng Guo’s national policy also turned from pro-Chu and anti-Jin, to turning against Chu and pro-Jin.
Throughout the history of the State of Zheng, after Zheng Zhuanggong , the State of Zheng gradually became a victim of Jin and Chu's struggle for hegemony . The state of Zheng was struggling between the two great kingdoms of Jin and Chu. When it came to Chu, it was severely beaten by the state of Jin. When it came to the state of Jin, it was abused by the state of Chu. Just like the tortoise in the big cauldron, when the fire is strong in the north, he swims to the south to take a breath; when the fire is strong in the south, he swims to the north to take a breath again, but in the end, he cannot escape the fate of being stewed. In this way, Zheng Guo struggled for two to three hundred years in the struggle for hegemony between Jin, Chu, Qi, Qin and other great powers, and was finally swallowed up by Korea .
