Chapter 56: April
Today's Qi women, tomorrow's Wei women, and the day after tomorrow are ......, each with its own characteristics and taste. At this time, Xiong Jing knew that women were to be compared with each other. However, it didn't take long for Concubine Zhao, who was about to leave for Xinying, to call him and say that she had something important to discuss.
"The queen mother will leave for Xinying tomorrow, if the women of the palace Jing'er want to stay, leave a few, and the rest of the people ......" After the son and the daughters share the bed, Concubine Zhao will not be entangled, but she will take the daughters to Xinying.
"Stay, stay?" Xiong Jing didn't quite know what Concubine Zhao meant for a while, "The queen mother wants to go to Xinying with them?" ”
"Since you have shared a bed with all the daughters, they may be pregnant with your heirs, how can you let them stay in the state of Chu?" Concubine Zhao asked rhetorically. "Sheng'er has gone to Xinying, and they should also go to Xinying."
"Yes, yes." Xiong Jing had an inexplicable cold sweat on his back, and he slept in the women's pile every night, tasting the beauties of various countries, and almost forgot everything outside the palace. Speaking of evasion, he remembered that at this time, the 600,000 Qin army was camping in the Shahai, and the difficult Wang Jian was the leading general again, and the situation was precarious, and if the decisive battle failed, the Chu State would be destroyed this year.
"Then the queen mother will decide this matter." Concubine Zhao said. "The women who have closed the bed all go to Xinying with their mothers, and the rest stay in Shouying."
I heard that Yingnan and Fei Kejia ...... These people were leaving, Xiong Jing was suddenly a little reluctant, he didn't expect the pleasure to be so short-lived. But it is right to send the daughters away, and the purpose of the bed is to reproduce the heirs, and many of them may be pregnant with their own heirs, so why not leave and stay.
"No." Xiong Jing agreed. As the queen mother said, the women who had joined the bed moved to Xinying. However, the queen mother must know that they are concubines, and even if they give birth to children, they are only concubines, and they must not take the lead from others......"
The son once again solemnly emphasized the identities of the daughters, and Concubine Zhao smiled at the corner of her eyes, not nodding or shaking her head. If the son also moves to Xinying in the future, of course this will be the case; This will not be the case if the son is killed in battle or captured by the Qin people in the future. Chu and Qin feud, how can they make a Qin girl the queen? The dignified Chu country, how can it be willing to be a barbarian? There used to be only one prince who couldn't do it, but now there are many heirs. What about concubines? The son of a prostitute can become the king of Zhao, but why can't the son of a concubine be the king of Chu?
As Xiong Jing spoke, reality penetrated his heart little by little, and his eyes sharpened a little bit. Because of this, he reminded Concubine Zhao again. Seeing that Concubine Zhao didn't care, he had no choice but to say directly: "If the girls violate Chu etiquette, Xuan'er can kill them, no reason is needed." ”
"She dares!" Concubine Zhao was angry, "They already have your heir, how can she ......?"
Concubine Zhao's words were heard in Xiong Jing's ears, but she didn't answer with a calm face. After a while, he said another thing: "If the Chu country is destroyed, the Lu people are no longer Chu people, and the queen mother should not listen to his lobbying." ”
"The Lu people are no longer the Chu people?" Concubine Zhao stood up in surprise, "Lu Di is my Chu land, why are Lu people no longer Chu people?" ”
"Lu Nai Zhou people, Chu Nai Chu people, the two should not be confused." Xiong Jing explained very simply, "It is to avoid Penglai, and they are not in Xinying, but hundreds of miles away." The queen mother knows this, and there is no need to ask. ”
Xiong Jing directly told the facts, Concubine Zhao's face changed several times, and she said: "The country of Lu was destroyed by your father, but you said that the people of Lu are no longer Chu people. If your father had known......
"If the father knows, the sin is in the child." Xiong Jing Road. "If the Lu people want to change Chu with Zhou, they should have been expelled from Chu State a long time ago."
"Nonsense!" Concubine Zhao's breathing fluctuated and she scolded loudly. "Chu is a vassal of Zhou, how can he be willing to be a barbarian!"
Concubine Zhao was very angry, and Concubine Zhao's words also made Xiong Jing unhappy, he wanted to draw his sword and cut off the long hair on his head that he had always hated, in order to show his break with Zhou Li, but in order to take care of Concubine Zhao's emotions and worry that she would faint again, he had to forcibly restrain his impulses and not make such excessive moves.
"The queen mother should know that only two hundred years ago, the Chu people were still regarded as barbarians by the Central Plains countries, and the Chu country has not changed at all for two hundred years, and the people still worship in the Hao Society and sacrifice in the obscene shrine. Taiyi, Da Si Ming, Shao Si Ming, Da Si Xuan, Xiang Jun, Zhu Rong ......, this is the divine residence of my Chu people. There are many witches in each county, and the nobles and common people believe deeply from life to death. The Lu people have not even been Zhouhua of the common people of Ludi, so how can they talk about Chu?
In the past, the king of Kui also believed in the words of others, respected the ghosts and gods and stayed away, did not sacrifice Taiyi, did not respect Zhurong, the first king became angry when he heard it, and ordered Yin Ziyu to destroy Kui, kidnap Kuijun, and kill his ministers......"
An unknown religious war, fought by both Chu people. The king of Kui, who was sealed in the state of Kui, dared not to sacrifice to the gods of the Chu people, and the state of Chu was immediately destroyed. This was four hundred years ago, but its significance lies in the fact that if there are Chu people who do not respect the gods, they can use this as a precedent to kill. What is Law? The precedent is the law, and the Chu people will applaud when they kill such a person.
Xiong Jing gently persuaded him and then retired. Concubine Zhao will be the last queen mother from another country in the history of Chu State, and the queen and queen mother of Chu State will only be Chu people in the future. In her lifetime, she couldn't change anything as long as there were no surprises in her original plan. This is the best result, which can save both her face and the face of Chu State.
Concubine Zhao took the girls to Kaifeng on the second day, Xiong Jing was not idle, he broke the jar and broke it for a while, and summoned all the women to bed the night before, and then the six people were slept together, one by one. Such a promiscuous act was naturally criticized by the historians in the history books, but they did not dare to describe the details directly, and could only write vaguely: '...... Da Ao called all the girls to sleep at night, and guessed that the princess was also. ’
The words are concise and to the point, and the careful thinking is absurd. The princesses of various countries are so noble, they were played and ruined by the king of Chu as a female Lu advocate. The scholars heard the disdain and denounced, but their hearts yearned. This guess the princess, what kind of guess is it, don't wear anything, burrow in the quilt and guess while touching, or guess which princess is the one who is lucky while being spoiled by the black light?
Xiong Jing didn't know that the game of guessing the princess was written by the historian and the whole world knew it, he just envied Wei Xiaobao since he was a child and had eight wives. As far as this time is concerned, he has three wives less than Wei Xiaobao. may not be able to make up eight concubines in this life, and they will be slept together again.
After Concubine Zhao left, in addition to taking advantage of the Qin people's lack of time to annex Badi and quickly send envoys to the Dian State, an extremely important thing was to make Wu Zhu the king.
After the death of King Wujiang of Yue, Yue became the princes of Chu and became a vassal to the state of Chu. Now that the Yue people are kings again, what exactly is the relationship with the Chu State must be thoroughly sorted out, which is also the place where the Chu Yue League has been arguing endlessly, and what kind of law Xiong Jing cares about within the Yue people is not the focus of the dispute.
The Chu people believe that it is the Chu State that has no Zhu as the king, and Yue is still one of the princes of Chu, but his status is higher than that of other princes; The Yue people are against the king, they want the king. What is the Prime Minister? Even if you recognize me as king, I will recognize you as king, and we will recognize each other and be equal to each other.
Naturally, this was firmly opposed by Dazai Jin, who was in charge of the negotiations. The so-called Xiangwang is a way for the princes of the Zhou people to no longer regard Zhou Tianzi as the co-lord and claim to be the king without authorization. Previously, whether it was Qu Wo Daiyi, the three families were divided, or the Tian family was Qi, these big rebellious fait accompli had to be recognized by Zhou Tianzi in order to gain a legal foothold.
It's one thing to have a fait accompli, it's another thing to have a jurisprudence. In fact, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by the Qin people thirty years ago, but in legal theory, the king of Xuzhou more than a hundred years ago had already announced the destruction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Yue people proposed to be the prime minister and not the king, not the status, but to get rid of the status of the princes and obtain substantial independence.
Of course, this was not agreed by the Chu people, and neither did Xiong Jing. He agreed that the premise of the Lu people's self-reliance was that the Lu people could only read and could not fight, and if they could not fight, of course they would be expelled from the war, and if they did not do so, over time, the Chu people would become only able to read and not fight; The Yue people are different, the Yue people maintain the custom of headhunting, and the tribal organization exists, how can they be substantially independent?
The Chu people have not yet weakened to the Tang people, and after the destruction of the government military system, they can only rely on the feudal generals to fight. In order to buy these feudal generals, they had to rely on the Sui-Tang Grand Canal to transport grain and silk from the south of the Yangtze River to buy them. Chu dared to kick the Lu people out, first, he didn't care about the extremely generous taxes in Lu Land, which could have bought the Yue people; The second is that the Chu people can still fight. The Chu people can fight, but they also want to control the 'vassal generals of the Chu State' in their hands, and Chu Yue must be one.
Negotiations began in February and were held until the end of April. The Yue people, who were still weak in strength, could only submit to the king of Chu, and de jure were still one of the princes of Chu, and still regarded Chu as their suzerain. At the beginning of May, under the observation of the envoys of various countries, Wu Zhu was named the king of Yue by Xiong Jing, and the 'Su' clan that expressed obedience was removed.
The old Yue land was also returned to the Yue people, but the Yue Wuzhu could not change the allegiance relationship of the old Yue land feudal lords and honored scholars, and could not infringe on their vested interests and the old Yue Di Jia soldiers. Under the feudal situation, these affairs were very easy to handle, and the old Yue land feudal lords and scholars were like suppliers in later generations, loyal to both the Chu State and the New Yue King, and the two did not conflict under the premise of stipulating appropriate obligations.
Before the alliance with Xiong Jingqi, Yue Wuzhuben was a little depressed, but standing on the high platform of the alliance, he was named the king of Yue under the gaze of the envoys of various countries, and the glory of that moment brought tears to his eyes, and he finally became the king and 'recovered' the old Yue land. It also made the Yue people who came to Shouying with him cheer, and the Yue people were no longer subject to the rule of the Chu people.
The expression of the prince of Zhuyue was strange, envy and jealousy at the same time, they were worried and forced to laugh, laughing was even more ugly than crying - after they came to Shouying, Dazai Jin hinted to them that they were not ambitious and talented, brave but unscrupulous. After becoming the king of Yue, their good days are coming to an end, and they should not be careful in the future. If there is anything to communicate with the state of Chu in advance, don't be good at making claims; It is best to learn to ride a horse, and run to the state of Chu if there is danger, and the state of Chu will be able to protect them......