ps: Everyone has been waiting for a long time, only came down from Wa Mountain in the afternoon, and then worked for two more days, and the update can return to normal after returning to Kunming on the 31st, and it will be at night tomorrow

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"The widow wants to seal the land of Confucius Books for seventy miles, and let him be the doctor of Chu State, what does Sima think?"

Xiong Zhen, the king of Chu, had a small beard under his chin, was dressed in a rhino leather coat as red as fire, wore a gorgeous hat, and wore a long sword "Zhan Lu" at his waist, standing on the heavy chariot, but the murderous spirit in his eyes was a little insufficient. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 This time, he led the Chu army and Chen and the army to attack the state of Cai, and when he attacked near Shendi, he happened to save Confucius and his apprentices who were trapped for seven days.

The name of Confucius Xiong Zhen has long been heard, can be said to be one of the sages in the world, well-read and strong, because he is unwilling to submit to the power of the Zhao clan of the Jin Luqing clan and went out, traveled to Ju, Zheng, Chen and other countries, now the king of Chu is determined to rejuvenate, I heard that this person was saved here, and I can't help but have some desire for talent.

However, as soon as the King of Chu finished speaking, his cousin, Sima Ziqi, who was also the State of Chu, stood up and admonished: "Don't! ”

The King of Chu turned his head and asked, "Sima thinks it's inappropriate?" ”

Sima Ziqi, as Sima, is still very concerned about what happened in the Central Plains, he said: "I don't dare, but the minister heard that the knowledge of Confucius and his disciples is to respect Zhou Tianzi, trying to revive Zhou etiquette in the world, wanting to make people dress up, cumbersome regulations on the etiquette of respect and humility, gestures, and Zhou room etiquette and music that cannot be learned from childhood to old age, all of which are incompatible with the customs and habits of Chu, so Confucius's learning is not suitable for Chu, so it is better to go with him." ”

The king of Chu disagreed: "But I have heard Ye Gong say many times that Duanmuci, a disciple of Confucius, is good at colonization, diplomacy, and governance, and is now the ruling state of Taoqiu, leading the Cao people to implement the republican system; There is also Ran Qiu, who trained soldiers for the Zhao clan and trained more than 10,000 soldiers, so that the Zhao clan could sweep the Jin Kingdom. Since these disciples of Confucius are so powerful, I am afraid that he himself is not bad, not to mention that there are more than 100 disciples of Confucius, I am afraid that there are also talents, if you miss it, wouldn't it be a pity? ”

"Otherwise, the capable disciples of Confucius seem to have been left behind by the Zhao family, and the rest of the people followed Confucius to walk like begging in the nations, stolen in the country of Lu Zelu, occupied in the country of Ju Zeju, and were not popular and reused in the Song, Zheng, Chen, and other countries, it can be seen that including Kong Qiu, the rest are useless people, and the king is not worthy of being divided."

Seeing that the king of Chu was still a little hesitant, Sima Ziqi said: "More importantly, when the ancestor of the Chu State was entitled, his name was Zinan, and the fief was fifty miles in circumference. Now that the ancestor of Confucius recounts the law of King Wen and King Wu, the cause of Zhou Gong and Zhao Gong is revealed, if the king appoints him and also implements the Zhou rites, then how can the Chu State have a dignified and upright land for generations! ”

"Our ancestor Xiong Qu once said that Chu is a barbarian, and he does not fight with China, and the Son of Heaven does not take the position of my prince, so Chu will call himself king! It has been more than ten generations now, and the status of the king in the south is actually similar to that of the Son of Heaven. However, the princes of the Central Plains did not admit it, and I heard that the people of the Lu country secretly scolded us as barbarians and dove-tongued people, and called the king 'Chuzi'! Confucius attaches the most importance to the etiquette of the Zhou room, but I am afraid that he also sees it this way. Therefore, the king wants to seal Confucius, and first ask if he is willing to call the king the king and pay three respects to the head of the servants, otherwise it will be embarrassing. ”

King Chu thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's fine, let Zilu bring some gifts, go to greet Confucius for me, and also test a thing or two." ”

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Wang's disciple Lu took the order to go, and the king of Chu and Sima Ziqi continued to discuss the war, and they attacked Cai this time, firstly, in retaliation for Cai Guo more than ten years ago for guiding Wu Shi into Ying, which brought huge losses to Chu State, and secondly, in order to regain Cai State, so that the territory of Chu State could be restored to a more easterly position, and Chen, Cai, Dun, and Hu were used as barriers to build a defensive line against Wu.

"Chen controlled Yingshui, connecting Zheng and Song in the north. Huai, Si has something, along the river to the east, this is also the place where it operates, now Chen Hou is afraid of Wu State, willing to submit to the king, get Chen, you can communicate with the Central Plains princes, but also in Caidi! ”

"As for Cai Guo, this place looks at Fangcheng in the west, Huai in the east, leans on the Xiong of Jing Chu, takes the road of Chen and Xu, the mountains and rivers are dangerous, the fields are peaceful, the war is guarded, the cultivation is sufficient, and the place between Wu and Chu is important."

Zi Qi said solemnly: "At the same time, it is also the elbow and armpit of the Chu State, to eliminate the scourge of the Wu State advancing westward again, the Chu State must reconquer the Cai State!" ”

"Recapture Shen Di first, and then surround Xin Cai, don't be afraid that Cai Jun will not obey." The King of Chu touched his little beard and smiled: "The current Wu State is fighting with the widow's uncle, and there is no time to save Cai Guo, which is a great opportunity for us!" ”

At this moment, Zilu, who had gone to explore Confucius's mouth, came back.

"What did he say?" King Chu asked casually.

Zilu's face was a little unsightly: "Confucius is grateful, but he resigned, and he didn't want to see the king." ”

"Why?"

He said...... There are no two days in the sky, there are no two kings in the people, although Qiu is as down-and-out as a lost dog, but like the heavy ears of Jin Wengong, in order to ask for help when he was in the state of Chu, he called Chu the king, ignoring the only king in the world, Zhou Tianzi, he practiced the way of King Wen and Zhou Gong, and asked himself if he could ......"

"Rotten! What presumptuous! Although he expected it, Sima Ziqi couldn't help but scold.

But Xiong Zhen, the good-tempered king of Chu, smiled and waved his hand and said: "Sima Xian, don't be angry, Zilu, you go and ask Kong Qiu, when Lu Zhaogong came to Chu State, he also used the courtesy of the princes to see the Son of Heaven, and bowed to his lonely uncle Lingwang San, he is a Lu person, why not call me a king?" ”

Zilu took the order again, and came back soon after, his face a little embarrassed.

"How?"

"Kongqiu still won't come."

"What did he say this time?" Chu Wang Xiao asked with interest.

He said that Meng Xizi, who was one of the three Huan of Lu State, accompanied Lu Zhaogong to visit Chu State, and after arriving in Yingdu, he could not handle foreign affairs with courtesy, so that the monarch suffered undeserved humiliation. Meng Xizi was deeply ashamed, so he worked hard to learn Zhou etiquette, and when he was about to die, he also instructed his second son to learn etiquette from Confucius, and Confucius did not dare to slack off when he taught his second son......

Sima Ziqi snorted coldly: "Clever words, tying up Kong Qiu and his disciples and forcing them to the river, if they don't obey, they can't help but call the king!" ”

The king of Chu shook his head and said: "Kong Qiu's response is neither humble nor arrogant, no less than when Zhiwuzi dealt with the first monarch and the king. Since Confucius has resigned me from my gift and offer, I don't need to see him, lest I get tired of seeing him. In addition, Cai Guo is about to raise troops, they should not go deeper, send a team of people, send Kong Qiu and his party to Fang City, where Ye Gong is located, if there are talents among the disciples of Confucius, let Ye Gong leave a few, if not, let them go back to the Central Plains! ”

"No!" Zilu took the order for the third time, Sima Ziqi looked at his back, and then looked at the King of Chu who was concentrating on checking the map, and couldn't help sighing.

Ziqi knows his temperament, the younger brother of the King of Chu, he acts according to common sense, does not mess with discipline, does not confuse himself for selfishness, does not retreat for difficulties, and always adheres to his principles. Even if Kong Qiu was so ignorant of advancing and retreating, he would not make a move to drag down and kill with a sword, and he really laughed at it.

Such a benevolent and virtuous king of Chu, it would be good if the Chu State had met it decades earlier, or even ten years, if the power of the Chu State was in his hands ten years ago, and then assisted by himself and Zixi and other brothers, the Chu State probably would not have suffered that catastrophe......

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Five days later, when it was almost the end of spring, Confucius and his entourage had been sent to Fangcheng, and the king of Chu and Confucius did not see each other, so he simply kicked them to Ye Gong and asked Ye Gong to receive and screen them on his behalf.

The Chu army also moved quickly, and they quickly destroyed the fragile defenses on the outskirts of the Cai state and recaptured the Shen land.

"It's the same here as it was 20 years ago, it's the same......"

The place where Xiong Zhen, the king of Chu, is the old palace of the Shen State, which is a small country in the lower reaches of Ruying, and its ancestors were sealed in the Shen land because of their meritorious service in helping the King of Ping move eastward, and the monarch called it Shen Zi. This small state was incorporated into its own feudal system by the Chu State very early, and was influenced by the Chu culture, and the utensils, food, clothing, and all aspects were consistent with the Chu State, except for the difficult language.

Until more than ten years ago, the Jin State convened the princes' alliance to prepare for the Chu State, but the pro-Chu Shen State refused to participate, so the Jin State instructed the Cai State to send troops to destroy the Shen State, and sent Shen Zijia back to the Cai State to kill him, and the Cai people have since annexed it.

But the Cai people have not changed the layout and interior here, so many things in this palace are similar to Yingdu, and the mural depicted on the wall that the King of Chu is admiring with his side face at this moment is also full of Chu culture:

In the mural, the sun god "Dongjun" rises from the building wood in the east, turning the dark night into a bright day, he drives the dragon chariot thundering, and the dragon chariot carries the clouds like flags fluttering. In the sound of music and dance, the nobles of Shen finally ascended to heaven and became "feather people" under the support of the phoenix, and crossed the sky with Dongjun to the end of the world......

Seeing this painting reminded the King of Chu of the past - when he was young, he and his father, King Chuping, came to Ruying to hunt, and Shen Jun treated the Chu royal family like a son serving his grandson, with great respect.

His father once pointed to this mural and told him why the people of Chu worship phoenixes.

"After the Chu people are Zhu Rong, Zhu Rong is a bird, and he is a phoenix, and Zhu Rong is the incarnation of the phoenix, and so are our descendants. The first king of Chuzhuang once compared himself to a phoenix bird, which did not fly for three years, soared into the sky, and did not sing for three years, and was amazing"

He also touched his head and said: "Zhen, in the future, you will be like the ancestors of the past dynasties, and be a noble phoenix perched on the sycamore!" ”

At that time, he was less than ten years old, looking at the free and elegant phoenix, the high-flying Dongjun was envious and nodded heavily.

The father would also take Xiong Zhen with him, standing at the highest point of the Shen Palace looking at the woods, rivers and mountains, and then said to Xiong Zhen, who had just been crowned the crown prince: "One day, they are all yours!" ”

Not only Shen, but also Chen, Cai, Sui, and Tang, just a few years later, these vassal states eventually became Xiong Zhen's courtiers, and he ruled the vast land from Huaiwei in the east, Hanzhong in the west, Ruyang in the north, and Jiangnan in the south, just as his father King Ping, his uncle King Ling, King Kang, his grandfather Gongwang, and his great-grandfather King Zhuang once ruled.

But since the beginning of Xiongqu Road, the Chu people have never lost their land, but Xiong Zhen has never lost ......

His young phoenix rested on the plane tree that was too tall at the beginning, and he was so young and ignorant that he fell the worst.

At the beginning of his succession, he thought that everything in the Chu State was sunny and good. Ling Yin Zichang disguised and beautified everything, he bewitched the king of Chu to laugh and play with his sisters and brothers on the Zhanghua platform, hung brocade on the orange branches beside the road under the stage, and told the king of Chu that the Chu people outside were wearing silk clothes, and there were so many cloths that they could not be hung endlessly; He deliberately let people row a boatload of rice past under Zhanghua's platform, so as to tell the king of Chu that the state of Chu has a bumper harvest every year; He also equipped the palace guards with the best equipment, everyone wore good swords and rhino leather armor, so as to reassure the king of Chu that the armament of the state of Chu was also extremely strong!

However, all this was shattered, with the crushing defeat of the Battle of Baiju, and the destruction of Yingdu. He almost lost everything when Wu Shi entered Ying, lost his mother, lost his brother, lost his sister, lost the throne, lost the national capital, and lost the state of Chu......

He fled the capital with his sister and the whole family in a hurry, crossed the Han River, and trekked in Yunmengze along the way. Only then did he see the real Chu State: the rampant nobles, the robbers who openly looted during the day, the refugees who struggled to survive in Yunmengze, the Chu State was full of traitors, and the remnants of the Dou clan almost did it to him. The group tossed and turned for more than a month, and finally fled to Suiguo, and was surrounded by the Wu army, forcing the door to take it, if Suihou chose to betray them at that time, the king of Chu and the entire royal family would be served in a pot!

They escaped in the end, but fortunately, his eldest brother Xi Jianshu Wang Qi, calmed the people's hearts, recruited stragglers, and organized a war of resistance. Shen Baoxu went to Qin to beg for division, the Qin army under the leadership of Zipu crisscrossed the city inside and outside Fangcheng, the Chu division haunted the north and south of the Han River, and the Wu division was exhausted to cope, and was also resisted everywhere in the territory of the Chu State, so he withdrew from the Yingdu.

After Wu Shi retreated, Xiong Zhen returned to Yingdu, it was October, and the 10-month war finally ended, in this war, the worst disaster was the people of Yingdu, Yingdu was ravaged by Wu Shi, and it was dilapidated. Since then, the prince of Wu has been attacked against the current, and the Chu people are afraid of dying again. So he moved the capital of Yingdu to Yandi, reformed politics, and stabilized the Chu State.

Xiong Zhen, the king of Chu, came to adulthood in such a difficult process, which was the sin of King Chu Ling, King Chu Ping and Ling Yin Zichang, but this evil result made the Xiong Zhen brothers eat a positive ...... As a result, he accumulated too much guilt, lost his ancestral land for himself, and failed his countrymen. He knew that the state of Chu needed healing, so he rewarded the meritorious, tolerated the betrayer, and comforted the wounded, and this treatment was ten years......

Ten years have passed, and the state of Chu is gradually recovering, but at this time, they have lost more than a thousand miles of land along the Huai River, and the territory of the state of Chu is suddenly like an apple that has been bitten hard, missing a large piece. And the pain caused by Wu Shi's entry into Ying still exists in the depths of the Chu people's spirit and is difficult to treat.

"I have failed Zhu Rong and my ancestors."

Xiong Zhen, the king of Chu, ended his deep thought, walked up to the high platform of the old palace of Shen again, supported the battlements that his ancestors had conquered and stepped on, and looked at the distant Cai Di, showing a smile of ambition.

"But I won't let down my son!"

He married the thirteen-year-old daughter of Goujian, the king of Yue, the year before last, and the taciturn Yue girl who didn't even know how to speak Chu Yan had just given birth to an heir for Xiong Zhen this year, named "Zhang". Zhanghuatai's Zhang, Xiong Zhen hopes that he can solve the threat of Wu as soon as possible, and move back to Yingcheng, so that his son can grow up on the ruins of Yingdu and Zhanghuatai, learn the lessons of the past, and gain the courage to move forward.

Then he will touch his head and say to him what his father said.

"Chapter! In the future, you will also be a noble phoenix resting on the sycamore, and you must firmly remember that the phoenix is immortal, Nirvana will rise again, and its momentum will be even stronger, just like the royal family surnamed Mi, just like the Hehe Chu country! ”

The thoughts and pride of the "Great King ......" were interrupted, and Sima Ziqi appeared behind him, his face sinking like water.

When Chu Junbai was defeated and was in a hurry, this was his expression.

King Chu's heart suddenly tightened, and he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ziqi took a deep breath: "King, I just learned the news that Wu Wangfu defeated Yue Wang Goujian in Fujiao!" (To be continued.) )