"King!"

In the middle of September, Huainan Shouchun, with the autumn wind blowing, the lotus leaves in the pond began to gradually wither, just like the national fortune of the Chu State.

On the floors and pavilions of the Chu Palace, surrounded by lotus ponds, Xiang Yan had a trace of annoyance in his eyes: "Let such rumors circulate in the country, King Yu Kaolie is really disrespectful, and I hope the king can ban it!" ”

"Why is Shangzhu like this?"

The king of Chu did not wear a ceremonial robe, only a Chu-style curved deep coat, the belt was tied very high, the robe was nearly twice as wide as the sleeves of the Central Plains Qindi, and the high crown on the high was even more exaggerated, nearly a foot and a half, he got up elegantly, helped Xiang Yan up, waved his wide sleeves, and asked the palace maids who were singing and dancing to retreat, and then glanced at the wizard wearing a crown next to him, as well as the left disciples, right disciples, left and right Sima and others present, and said with a smile:

"Second and third sons, what are the rumors in the country? Why don't you know? ”

"We don't know."

Everyone tried their best to pretend not to know, they were undoubtedly much smarter than Xiang Yan in doing so.

But Xiang Yan's temperament is destined not to turn a blind eye to this matter, and the veteran said again: "In the middle of the country, many people are spreading the story of 'blossoming on the tree', which is about Chun Shenjun and Li Yuan

, Empress Li and King Chu You's life experience, the king has never heard of it? ”

King Chu's face suddenly froze, and his eyes moved elsewhere.

Speaking of this, Xiang Yan became angry, this rumor suddenly spread this year, but it was an old thing more than 30 years ago.

They said that after King Chu Kaolie fled from Qin and returned to Chen Ying's succession, he only gave birth to daughters and could not give birth to sons.

In the end, Li Yuan, a Zhao man who entrusted the road of Chunshen Junmen, dedicated his sister to the palace of the king of Chu, and soon got a son, named Xiong Han, and was established as the prince by the king of Chu Kaolie, which was the later king of Chu You......

However, those rumors added fuel to the fire and said that in fact, the crown prince born to Li Yuan was not the son of King Chu Kaolie, but the son of Chunshenjun Huang Xie! Even his younger brother, the later King of Chu Ai, Xiong You, was also the evil seed of Huang Xie and Empress Li!

In the rumors, how Chun Shenjun asked for a daughter for King Chu Kaolie, how Li Yuan wanted to sacrifice his sister and worried that he would not be able to give birth to a son and could not be favored, and finally wanted to capture the old man and dedicate it to Huang Xie first, and after the woman was pregnant, Li Yuan asked his sister to lobby Chun Shenjun with the saying that "the concubine Lai Tian has a son, and the son of the king is the king, and the Chu State can get it", so that he can enter the palace on his behalf......

All of this is said to have a nose and eyes, and this so-called "blossom on the tree" is also.

Even after the death of King Chu Kaolie, Li Yuan ordered the Menke assassins to set up an ambush in the Thorn Gate and kill Chun Shenjun Huang Xie, which is also said to be "afraid that Chun Shenjun will be arrogant and want to kill him".

This theory has been widely circulated in the market recently, and the common people talk about it, but in the ears of Xiang Yan and other wise people, it is full of loopholes.

Xiang Yan, who has experienced these things, knows very well that Chunshenjun Huang Xie, although the older he gets, the more confused he becomes, and he was accidentally killed by Li Yuan's calculations for a while, but he at least assisted the king of Chu to move eastward, so that the state of Chu expanded vigorously during the period of Qin and Zhao's struggle, destroyed the princes of Lu and Sishang, and ran Jiangdong, so that the state of Chu was prosperous for a while, and he was also a generation of famous ministers, how could he do that kind of thing to bully the king?

As for King Chukaoli not being able to give birth to a son? It is even more ridiculous in the world, and now Ling Yin of Chu State, Xiong Qi, the king of Changping who was sent to Jiangdong by the king of Chu to train troops, is not the eldest son of King Kaolie!

"There are such ridiculous rumors!?"

The king of Chu put away his smile, made an angry appearance, looked at the ministers, patted the case, and shouted angrily: "Why didn't anyone tell him? ”

All the ministers were speechless, but Wu Ling, who was favored by the king of Chu, stood up, twisting his hands full of the fragrance of blue grass, and said softly: "It seems to be a thing, but it's ......."

He showed a sly smile: "The rumors in the market also have some truth, and in the eyes of the minister, there is no need to rush to ban them. Now that the Qin army has begun to prepare for the invasion of Chu again, at this time, the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan, and the matter of King Zhou Li cannot be repeated. ”

"The words of the witch spirit are reasonable, and forcibly forbidding the people from discussing is not beautiful, and it is better to be sparse than blocked."

The king of Chu was relieved, and said indifferently: "The rumors can be handed over to the left disciples, and the Shangzhu Kingdom should focus on military affairs!" ”

Xiang Yan was silent, it was obvious that the person who spread this rumor wanted nothing more than to prove: King Chu You and King Chu Ai were not in the right position, but the current King of Chu was wrong, although he was the concubine born to King Chu Kaolie and the palace maid, but he was very popular!

In this way, the King of Chu killed King Chu Ai and Li Yuan with his followers four years ago, and the act of killing the monarch and standing on his own feet has also become the original source......

Li Yuan's death was originally the result of the joint efforts of the Xiang clan and the Zhao, Jing, and Qu clans. But an action of chasing the wicked people on the side of the king was finally used by the negative and turned into killing the king, which they did not expect.

Although in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was common for the princes of Chu to kill the monarch and stand on his own, but with the strengthening of royal power in the Xuan and Wei eras, this was the first case, which really shocked the government and the opposition.

That year, the Qin State had just broken Handan to destroy Zhao, captured Zhao Wang Qian, and since Jiazi, Qin's fierce enemy, Chu Zhao was only, the Zhao State was dead, and the Chu State was also in great trouble. Since the dead king cannot be resurrected, Xiang Yan and the Zhao, Jing, and Qu clans can only pinch their noses and respect Shu as the king, hoping that he can carry the banner of resistance against Qin.

In the first few years of the Chu king's defeat, he was extremely cooperative, integrating all kinds of domestic forces, and when the Qin general Li Xin attacked with an army of 200,000, he assigned Xiang Yan to fight a rumbling defense battle, and relied on Changping Jun Xiong Qi to strike a blow at Chen Ying, and finally reversed the tide of the battle and achieved an unprecedented victory for the Chu army against Qin!

The Chinese people even compared this battle with five hundred years ago, when Jing Chu counterattacked the attack of the Zhou Dynasty and drowned King Zhao of Zhou in the Han River!

Xiang's reinvention of Jing Chu! They're all preaching that.

Xiang Yan's fame is unique for a while; Changping Jun is also ranked as Ling Yin and is loved by the people.

However, the king of Chu was a little uneasy, as soon as the Qin army retreated, and the state of Chu had just been able to breathe, he began to let his cronies occupy various important positions in the court, gather power, and did not hesitate to send people to spread rumors and slander the life of the former king.

The king of Chu was afraid, afraid that the Xiang family and the Zhao, Jing, and Qu families would depose him like supporting themselves to succeed to the throne, and in the warm spring breeze of Huainan, he could not rest, and he always felt the shadow of the axe dangling on his neck.

"There are no axes at all!" Xiang Yan wanted to tell his king that at this moment, what he needed was to abandon all old grudges and unite the nobles and common people of the entire Chu State to defend against the enemy, instead of proving his right position by the following means for the sake of old things......

"In that case, the minister...... The old minister no longer inquired about the matter. ”

Xiang Yan forcibly suppressed his dissatisfaction and anger, and Shangzhu State bowed his head, this time the Qin army was menacing, even worse than last year, the Chu State could no longer be chaotic!

He didn't hear those rumors, and turned to today's business: intelligence from Wei Di!

"Great King, the chief general of the Qin army already knows, it is Wang Qian!"

"Wang Qian!?"

As soon as these words came out, the monarchs and ministers of Chu suddenly lost the mood to enjoy the autumn scenery, and they all looked at each other and became timid......

Xiang Yan also sighed with emotion, he remembered the little Langguan he met in Xianyang Palace when he went to the Qin State Shrine with Chun Shenjun thirty years ago. Wang Jian and Xiang Yan, when they met and talked, they faintly felt that they might become enemies of each other.

However, in the past 30 years, they can only hear about each other's outstanding achievements from afar, but they always pass by, who would have thought that the day of the showdown would finally be ushered in!

"This battle is related to the survival of the Chu State!"

Xiang Yan doesn't know how many times he said this, since when did every battle fought by the Chu State be a victory or a defeat?

However, what his opponent Wang Jian possessed was the Tiger Talisman that the King of Qin had for the whole country, and even though he had some suspicions, he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians at hand who could use it at will, and he had the victory that the Qin State had accumulated for more than a hundred years.

What do you have?

Looking at the ministers who forgot about their worries and resumed their sheng songs and feasts on the platform. Looking at the king who was bent on discrediting the first king, and after hearing that the golden drum was approaching, his face was terrified, Xiang Yan could only sigh.

"I only have an army of fear and doubt!"

……

In late September, the 600,000-strong army of the Qin people, under the command of Wang Qian, successively approached the battle line on the Qin-Chu border, and the Chu state also hurriedly mobilized to begin to deal with this catastrophe, which was a year late......

And Heifu and other Nanjun soldiers under the command of Captain Li You, also gathered with the soldiers of Ba, Shu, Hanzhong, and Nanyang to the front line of Shangcai and Yangcheng! The general who commands this army is Mengwu!

Shangcai is Li You's hometown, and the place where Heifu and the others once fought is not far from here.

Before the army was about to enter the Shangcai camp, Heifu rode his horse to the side, pointed to the east, and said to his charioteer Sangmu, five hundred main Dongmen Leopard, Lixian, Xiaotao, a hundred generals of the guard, Ji Ying, a herald, and Gong Ao, who had already been a hundred generals in Yan County, but always liked to be with them: "It's over there!" One hundred and fifty miles away! ”

Everyone followed Heifu's whip and looked to the east, even though their gaze would be infinitely extended, but they would eventually be obscured by the strong defense line built by the Chu army in Pingyu City......

After the peace, it is Liyang! They will never forget the battlefield, the place where hundreds of robes once threw their heads and spilled blood.

"Huaimu, and the second and third sons, have been waiting for a long time!"

Heifu's eyes were resolute, as if he had penetrated a space of more than a hundred miles, and saw the humble cemetery full of Qin Jian.

"This time, I'll take you home!"