Chapter 228: The King's Own Rebellion (2)
The words of the two villains fanned the anger of King Zhou Xiang even more, and King Zhou Xiang prevented Fuchen from continuing to speak, and at the same time ordered Uncle Fu and Taozi to serve as commanders of the Zheng army.
In the summer, Di Shi captured Liyi and withdrew after plundering. King Xiang of Zhou discovered that the Di people were much easier to call than the Huaxia people. He decided to continue to draw in the relationship between the royal family and Rong Di; After some negotiations, he was ready to marry a princess of Di Guo as the queen.
Fuchen said: "Resolutely. The minister heard: 'Those who report are tired, but those who give are not tired.' 'Di people are greedy by nature, and the king of heaven has opened their desires again, you will definitely regret it!' King Xiang of Zhou still did not listen, and as a result, the first queen of Chidi nationality in the history of the Zhou Dynasty was born.
King Xiang of Zhou and Empress Kui got along quite well at the beginning of their union. But Empress Kui's rustic habits, laughing accent, and rude and irascible personality soon made King Xiang of Zhou feel bored, and he regretted very much why he would marry such a woman who could not be put on the stage, and felt anxious at the thought of having to mix with her in this life.
King Zhou Xiang became more and more cold to her, but Wang Zidai became more and more enthusiastic. Kuihou is born to be active, likes to ride horses and whips, bend bows and arrows, and gallop hunting grounds; King Zhou Xiang has been soaked in the palace for many years without seeing the sun, and he is white and fat; The prince belt has the same hobbies as the queen of Kui. When Empress Kui went out of the palace to hunt, King Xiang of Zhou was happy to hide and be clean, which gave the prince the opportunity to get together with Empress Kui.
When the news of the fornication between the two reached the ears of King Xiang of Zhou, he did not show any surprise or anger, he just casually issued an edict to abolish her queenship, as if he had expected the outcome of the day.
Although the order was short, it provoked a great reaction from the Di people. The Di people immediately sent an envoy to negotiate. But that genius who is full of boiling has always acted nonsense according to his own temperament! In order to understand the anger in his heart, he actually tore up all the covenants signed with the other party in front of Di Envoy, and then ordered them to immediately take the Kui clan out of Jingshi.
The Di people not only did not get the expected benefits, but lost the existing benefits, and the Di lords gathered together to discuss countermeasures, and finally decided to take revenge on the royal family.
King Xiang of Zhou became worried after he became angry, and he summoned Uncle Fu and Taozi again, and said, "Since you can mobilize the army of the Di people, of course, you can also maintain the peace between the royal family and the Di people. Then he asked the two of them to go to the Di people and try their best to ease bilateral relations.
The two of them suddenly blushed and looked at each other, not knowing how to answer. But Uncle Decadence immediately took the order as loudly as usual, and pulled the peach to withdraw.
The two men walked out of the palace gate and came to the back of a sheepfold (where few people approached because of the bad smell) to discuss a solution. The two believed that King Zhou Xiang's order was to send them to death.
It turned out that the two of them had made a lot of packages to the Di people behind the royal family, and now all the promises were in vain, and the Di envoy secretly found the two before leaving the royal city, asking them to fulfill their promises or immediately return double the benefits they had reaped from them, otherwise the fiefdom of the two would never be peaceful. But the two have squandered all the money they have swindled, and doubling the repayment will ruin their family.
In order to prevent the matter from being revealed, and in order to save their lives, the two had to choose a crazy path of no return - that path not only killed many loyal ministers, but also destroyed a group of mad villains.
The two first went to see the prince and asked him to overthrow the rule of King Xiang of Zhou. Wang Zidai restarted the idea of usurping the throne at the beginning of fooling around with his sister-in-law, and the three hit it off. The two of them then led the mission to Di Guo, and the prince mixed in the procession with his retinue in disguise. After the envoy arrived in the kingdom of Di, the usurper made an ulterior deal with the leader of the Di people, and then made a plan to attack the royal city.
In the autumn, the rebels led Di Shi to attack the royal city. The soldiers of the royal division were full of righteous indignation and high morale, and vowed to exterminate the rebellious ministers and thieves who repeatedly betrayed the country and shook the royal family.
However, as soon as King Zhou Xiang thought that he was about to be subjected to a fierce attack, and thought of the terrifying corpses and the smell of blood, he completely lost his usual majestic aura and lost the invincible strength of the crusade against his brotherly country. He was scared to death, and he just wanted to find a way to escape from the war as quickly as possible.
King Xiang of Zhou said: "Belt is the favorite son of the first king and succession, and he is also the half-brother of Bugu. If I meet my brother at war, how will my heavenly parents rebuke me? So let the princes solve this problem! ”
Then he left the royal city with his harem and valuables, as if the capital had fallen and he could not return. King Xiang took with him the elite troops of the royal division, and his departure not only greatly weakened the city's defenses, but also created a serious panic and greatly demoralized the people.
Fu Chen could have fled with King Xiang, but he said, "The prince was summoned back because of my suggestion, and I tried my best to dissuade the king from mobilizing Di's army; Now that the enemy is present, if I don't fight the enemy, it's as if I'm only talking big. So he stayed behind and fought with the soldiers.
When the warring sides lined up outside the royal city, all the Zhou people were heartbroken—although the warring sides belonged to different countries, the commanders of the armies were all members of the royal family.
The decline of national power and the long-term peace had degenerated the royal division into a poorly trained, outdated and understaffed army. The weakness of the Wang division contrasted with the strength of the Di army, and also inspired the enemy to fight and rob.
Fuchen beat the drum first, and the prince was not to be outdone, and then the two sides began to advance step by step. It was a battle of unequal strength, and ended in a crushing defeat for the king's division; Duke Zhou, Uncle Yuan, Uncle Mao, Fuchen and many other royal ministers took the lead and died in battle.
At the moment of emergency, Zhao Gong led the troops collected from other cities to hurry up, so that the remnants of the defeated army escaped and the supreme commander of the royal division was not reduced to the rank of a doctor.
Di's army defeated Wang Shi, but was unable to attack Wangcheng and Cheng Zhou, so the prince took the prince and the Kui clan to live in Wenyi, while King Xiang of Zhou fled to Zheng.
For the great catastrophe that befell the royal family, the princes watched from the sidelines; The reason is not because the princes are indifferent in their hearts, but because the princes really can't figure out King Zhou Xiang's routine and dare not help that capricious guy.
King Xiang of Zhou lived in the Panyi of Zheng State, and he sent Master Jian to the Jin State and Zuo Yan's Father to the Qin State to ask for assistance from the two countries.
Zheng Wengong also waited for King Xiang's envoy, but King Xiang was ashamed and couldn't ask Zheng Guo for help again - he just poured bitter water on Duke Wen. Zheng Wengong also did not want to cause any extraneous branches, so he provided supplies to King Xiang and sent three doctors to follow the orders of the Heavenly King.