In September of the year of Wuyin, Zhou Tianzi ordered Wei Si, Han Qian, and Zhao Ji to be the marquis, which is known to the whole world.

While the Han, Zhao, Wei, Zheng, Zhou, and Yue kingdoms won great victories, the Zhou rites, which lasted for nearly 600 years, basically lost their sacredness.

The alliance outside Linzi City was the doctor under the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, and it was also Tian Hao, the suzerain of the Qi Guotian clan, who agreed on everything, and then the Qi Hou Lu loan came forward to admit it.

But after all, it is the princes of the Dafu Alliance.

The Doctor and the Marquis will be in ...... This is something that has never happened before in the world. It's not that there hasn't been a matter of Liuqing coming forward to form an alliance with the king of a weak country before, but the fact that the doctor has come forward has never been.

And this event, which two hundred years ago was enough to trigger a thought insult that could lead to a bloody war of revenge, was taken for granted by this time.

The Jingguan, where the corpses of 30,000 Qi people were piled up, has not been recovered so far, because the Tian family does not allow it and does not want it. The dead are said to be useless, and they waste money to recover, but the Tian family can use these dead people to the extreme.

The Qi people blamed the resentment of dying in the country and not being able to return to the soul on Qi Hou Lu Yuan.

Guan Zhong Qi Huan's strategy of official mountains and seas has been completely destroyed by the fiefdom nobles, and the Marquis of Qi has no money and cannot afford to recover those corpses.

The corpses of 30,000 Qi people were exchanged for what the Tian family wanted, and also for what the Sanjin wanted.

The Marquis of Qi understood why the Three Jin Dynasty attacked the State of Qi and the Tian clan, so the Marquis of Qi, who had just served as a guard for the King of Yue in Qufu, came to the Three Jin Army and went to Luoyi to make a pilgrimage to Zhou Tianzi, asking Zhou Tianzi to seal the three families as marquis in exchange for the Jin people to withdraw their troops.

The Jin people did not ask for the cities, fields, and slaves of the Qi State like the Yue people, but let the Qi State sign the Linzi Treaty.

There are two Ming covenants:

Recognize the independent status of the Gongsun Society, and no longer crusade against Xiaqiu, whether the Gongsun Society will enter Zhao or Wei, the Qi State must not interfere.

Qi gave up the plan to rebuild the Great Wall, demolished part of the city wall, and forbade the repair of the Great Wall from Pingyin to Taishan for the next 30 years, otherwise it would mean a breach of the contract.

As for the secret covenant, it was not Qi Hou qualified to participate.

No one knows what Sanzong and Tian had secretly discussed.

They are not enemies, but on the contrary, they have a common enemy, the authority of Zhou Tianzi.

In this way, after a hundred years, on the surface, Zhou Tianzi once again realized the authority of the Son of Heaven and was convinced that he was still the Son of Heaven.

The Marquis of Qi, the Marquis of Wei, the Marquis of Zheng, the Marquis of Lu, the Duke of Song, the Marquis of Jin, and the three sects of Han, Zhao, and Wei, went to the court to meet the Son of Heaven together.

Han, Zhao and Wei presented Jiahe, and Zhou Tianzi ordered the musician to play "Guihe" and "Jiahe" in harmony.

Qi Hou admitted that he had violated Zhou etiquette, thanked the Marquis of Jin and Han Zhao Wei Sanzong for correcting their mistakes in time, and expressed his gratitude for the crusade of the three families, thinking that if he did not crusade against himself, the mistakes would only get bigger and bigger in the future, so he implored Zhou Tianzi to seal the three families as Hou to reward him for this merit.

Zhou Tianzi's land was completely surrounded by the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei, and the only relative surnamed Jin Hou who could rely on him could not protect himself.

After the Duke of Zhou, he only drove to the King of Yue last year, and after summoning the Duke to be far away in Yandi.

In addition to the Three Jin Dynasty, the bordering Zheng State was even more in civil strife, and the arrow that Zheng Bo shot at Zhou Tianzi's shoulder when he first challenged the authority of the Son of Heaven......

The Chu people who could challenge the hegemony of the Three Jin Dynasty claimed to be kings, sealed the county as a prince, and didn't care about Zhou Tianzi's system at all, and even relied on the destruction of Zhu Ji's family.

When King Kang of Zhou, the five monarchs of Qilu Weijin and Chu assisted King Kang, but King Kang of Zhou deliberately ignored the existence of Xiong Yi when he rewarded the ritual jade, and the King of Chu was still haunted by this matter five hundred years later, and it was even more of a dream to expect them to maintain the authority of the Son of Heaven.

Zhou Tianzi has no one to rely on.

Even Qi Hou, the biggest victim, has come forward to ask for a seal, and Zhou Tianzi just doesn't want to and can't.

Moreover, nursery rhymes circulated, saying that Tang Shuyu was promoted to Jiahe back then, and Zhou has been prosperous since then. And now the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei also have their own Jiahe, which is really the mandate of heaven and cannot be violated.

Zhou Tianzi wants to talk about the Mandate of Heaven, and the Mandate of Heaven is the foundation of the Son of Heaven, so at least on the bright side, he has to talk about it more than others.

Now that the three forces have been formed, and Zhou Tianzi has been given enough steps with Jiahe, it is logical to divide him into marquis.

There was no way to fight in Middle-earth, and the kings and nobles who came to the Hajj seemed to have forgotten all kinds of hatred.

Zheng Bo, who had a blood feud, congratulated Han Zong, Qi Hou, who broke the country's hatred, rejoiced to Wei Zong, and Wei Hou, who had a grudge against the country, praised Qi Hou for knowing his mistakes and being able to correct them......

This time, the princes seemed to be going to make a pilgrimage to Zhou Tianzi, but they were actually acknowledging the hegemony of the Three Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains.

In particular, Zheng and Song, who were fighting for hegemony in the buffer state of Jin and Chu, used this attitude to tell Chu State: We think that the Three Jin Dynasty is stronger......

When the news reached Chudu, it was already late autumn.

In the Chu Palace, Xiong Dang, who had just been on the throne for several years, was giving a banquet to the ministers.

Xiong Dang inherited from his father, King Jian, a seemingly powerful state of Chu.

To the north, the Song State rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and the Chu Dynasty, and to the east, the battleships left behind by the Gong Defeat Ban refused to have the advantage in the battle with the Yue people for Huaishui, and the feudal lords were continuously sent to the south, and the Ba State was forced to the west.

It seems that the situation is very good, but Xiong Dang looked at the ministers who were drinking and feasting, and knew that it was difficult for him, the king of Chu, to be the king.

Ling Yin is the most expensive official in the Chu State, and among the more than 30 Ling Yin so far, only one is not a royal family, and the rest are all royal families.

In order to fight against the hereditary position of Mo Ao of the Qu family, King Wen destroyed Shen and captured Peng Zhongshuang to fight against his close and distant relatives.

Peng Zhongshuang has no family power, and he is a sword that can be used against his relatives.

However, at this time, the old aristocracy still could not recognize.

The reuse of foreign ministers means strengthening the royal power, especially the appointment of Peng Zhongshuang, who has no foundation, is more like silently declaring that he wants to reform, wants to confront his relatives, and wants to strengthen the royal power.

So after Peng Zhongshuang went to the throne, Mo Ao's power began to weaken, but the highest position of Ling Yin was still monopolized by the old nobles, and it was impossible to let go.

Numerous coups, defections, and the introduction of other countries to attack ...... So that the successive kings of Chu no longer have the strength to reform.

In history, the next Ling Yin, who was not his own relative, did not have a chance to use Wu Qi until decades later after the civil strife in Chu, the crisis of inheritance, the restoration of Chen Cai, the unstoppable of the Three Jin Dynasty, and the extinction of many nobles in the Yuguan War.

The musicians in the palace played, and Xiong Dang looked at the ministers below him, and forced a smile.

Ling Yin, Sima, Mo Ao, Si Defeat, Left and Right Sima, County Gong, Shangzhu Guo...... The ministers who are either substantive or honored officers are all surnamed Mi. Qu, Jing, Dou, Yang, Zhao...... Which one is not a branch of the royal family of the Chu State? Which one is not a powerful family?

The policy of internal election over pro-family and external election over the old one prevented the Chu State from weakening and even being divided by the three families like the Jin State, but it also made the power of the Gong clan so great that such a thing as sending troops to fight had to be agreed by the nobles.

Want to use my private soldiers? Yes, decide how many fiefs you will give me if you win.

Want to use our county soldiers? Yes, first settle down, I command how you will reward me if I win.

Want to strengthen the royal power and expand the scope of the direct jurisdiction? I'm sorry, I think you're tired of being a king, so let's change it. Don't you see that the number of troops under your jurisdiction is as large as the private soldiers of my fiefdom?

Shen Gong was dissatisfied and defected to the enemy country, so that Chu was shocked three times a day and never had peace; Bai Gong was dissatisfied, made chaos and killed the king, and set himself up as the king; Ye Gong was dissatisfied, led troops to quell the rebellion, and supported the new monarch; Shen Gong was dissatisfied, so that Yin Zichang was defeated by the Wu people, and he didn't even have the courage to go to Ye County, where the Chu people belonged, to take refuge, but fled to Zheng State, because Ye Gong was the son of Shen Gong, and Shen Gong was often pit on the battlefield, so he would rather flee abroad than flee to his own big county to hide......

The political situation of the Chu State is a mess of gold and jade.

Beginning with Xiong Dang's grandfather, King Xianhui, the king of Chu hoped to use the local scholar class and the foreign nomadic class to fight against these deep-rooted big families and powerful vassals, and did not hesitate to use the method of "feudal king" to quickly increase the power of the scholar class, but the result was to quench the thirst: the new family rose and became part of the old aristocracy.

Xiong Dang, who had just ascended the throne, was ambitious and extremely dissatisfied with this situation.

His posthumous nickname was not very good "Sheng", but unlike the Central Plains records, those who had a close relationship with the Chu people and had a long deal with the three generations of Moshi recorded that the nickname was "Shenghuan".

The two different nicknames may just be a difference caused by transcription, but the two nicknames reflect a completely different desire for the person's life.

Now that the news of the Marquis of Sanjin has come, Xiong Dang is not shocked, it can only be said that it is reasonable.

He knew that the problem of Chu State was not outside Xiao Qiang, but within Xiao Wall.

He also knew that something had to be done now to maintain the hegemony of the Chu State.

The essence of Chu has the danger of Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain, and Bashu is weak. Unless it is a battle to destroy the country, it is difficult for the Jin people to break through.

But if you want to maintain hegemony, you must ensure the offensive in the Zheng, Song, and Huaibei regions. Once Song and Zheng rebelled against Chu and pro-Jin, the right wing of Chu would be fully exposed, and then the Jin people would be able to bypass the danger of Funiu Mountain and pass through Song Zheng and Chen Cai from the right flank, so that the Chu people would lose these strategic advantages that had been determined for a hundred years.

At the banquet, the music was melodious, and the nobles of the Chu State who were dressed in curved clothes and wore high crowns did not have much serious etiquette, and they talked and laughed.

Women also appeared at the banquet, including the concubines of the King of Chu, and no one felt that there was anything wrong.

From the beginning of King Zhuang's determination to break away from the Xia Dynasty, the state of Chu gradually began to reform, but the cultural reform could not be completed overnight.

The Chu people attach great importance to witchcraft, and the unique high crown of the Chu State that evolved from the bird feather crown of the Great Witch is still the most obvious difference between the nobles of the Chu State and the nobles of the Central Plains.

The extremely high crowns such as the Tongtian crown of the Han Dynasty all evolved according to the Chu system.

This was originally the decoration of the sorcerer, and Ji Lian, the ancestor of the Chu people, was the son of Lu Zhong. Lu Zhong's wife had a difficult birth, and gave birth to six sons by cesarean section, including Peng Zu, Kunwu, Ji Lian, etc.

And Lu Zhong is the direct line of Chongli of the legendary Jedi Tiantong, and it can be said that the Chu people's habit of attaching importance to obscene witches has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

The Chu people attach great importance to Wu Zhu, and among the people, because of the legacy of the matrilineal clan era, most of the Wu Zhu are women. It is the specific name of the Chu people for male witches, but it rarely appears in historical books, but the Chu people mostly record witches.

There is no distinction between witch doctors, and the women of Chu State also have medical skills in addition to sacrifices, and this folk status has also affected the court. For example, Fan Ji, Deng Man and other women's participation in politics and persuasion, Chu people are also accustomed to it.

"Historical Records" once contained: King Zhuang wanted to appoint Youmeng as the prime minister, and Youmeng directly said that I would go back and ask my wife. King Zhuang didn't feel anything wrong, and asked your wife what her opinion was three days later...... Obviously, even the king of Chu is accustomed to the high status of women.

In addition, the Chu people were originally a clan alliance and called themselves barbarians, and the Zhou ritual constraints of the Central Plains countries did not attach much importance to the Chu people.

When King Zhuang, King Zhuang's concubine personally poured wine, and then the lights were extinguished, and she was touched, and there was a unique meeting that has been sung through the ages. Even after a hundred years, the etiquette of the Chu court is still open, and there are not so many dogmas.

In such a cheerful and jumpy environment to talk about national affairs, the nobles of Chu have long been accustomed to it.

When Xiong Dang's concubines poured the third round of wine for the ministers, Xiong Dang finally proposed the major matter of sending troops and asking Song Zheng why he rebelled against Chu.

He needed the support of the nobles.

Speaking of asking Song Zheng about the crime, this Shen Gong Qu Xiao couldn't help but think of his concubine Qu Jiang who left home to be a Mo man, and sighed: "Although Song is weak, Mo Zhai is still there, and Shangqiu is also a big city in the world." If you can't attack it for a long time, it will hurt the spirit of our army, and I am afraid that Sanjin will come to the rescue. ”

When Xiong Dang heard this, he was half surprised and half cautious and said: "The heroes who retreated from the army of ten thousand people in the past are still there today?" ”