After the destruction of the Chu State, Cheng Jia resigned from Ling Yin due to health reasons. His successor was Dou Pan (Zi Yang), who had achieved outstanding feats in the Battle of Yong; After that, Dou Jiao was promoted to Da Sima, and Bao Jia was appointed as Gongzheng. As a result, there was a pattern in the political arena of Chu State, in which two careerists who were unwilling to live under others assisted a righteous gentleman.

Dou Jiao and Dou Pan had a serious conflict during the Yong War, which made the already cold relationship between the two even more rigid; As the teacher of the king of Chu Zhuang, he has a prominent family background and outstanding merits, and he claims to be the wisest person in the state of Chu, so he does not take anyone seriously.

This precarious situation is destined to be broken soon.

Doujiao is the son of the former great Sima Ziliang and the nephew of the former Ling Yin Ziwen. It is said that after Doujiao was born, Ziwen went to say hello to his younger brother. But Ziwen only glanced at the baby and quickly withdrew, and he said to Ziliang with a solemn expression: "This child has a body like a bear and a tiger, and makes a cry like a jackal, it is simply a beast!" Kill him! Otherwise, Ruo Ao will be ruined in the hands of this person! ”

Ziliang was overjoyed, but he was poured a basin of cold water on his face; He was very annoyed in his heart, and he opened his mouth to quarrel with Ziwen. From then on, Ziliang always had a grudge against Ziwen, and the discord between the two directly led to the hatred of future generations.

After the defeat of the Chu State at Chengpu, the prophecy of Pu Jia lingered in Ziwen's mind day and night, and Ziwen couldn't afford to fall ill because of it. Ziwen gathered his clansmen when he was dying, took Dou's hand and said his last words: "If Doujiao is in power, you must leave the state of Chu immediately." Ziliang didn't listen to my advice and didn't kill Doujiao. Now that this man has revealed his wolf nature, if you don't move, I'm afraid you will perish with him......"

He then cried bitterly, "The ghosts and gods are still begging for food! If the ghost of the Ao clan is going to starve in the future, I'm afraid I'm going to starve! ”

Dou Jiao gritted his teeth with hatred whenever he thought of Ziwen's attempt to persecute him. And the result of the battle of Yong intensified his hatred of the fight.

As mentioned earlier, during the Battle of Yong, Doujiao led the left army to go around in a big circle before reaching the northern suburbs of Yongguo. The soldiers of the Left Army marched hard, the battles experienced along the way were not tragic, and the contributions made were not great; It was only for objective reasons that the left army did not catch up with the general attack on Yongguo. But all the efforts of the left army could not catch up with the battle of Dou Bang against Yongguo - King Chu Zhuang held Dou Bang to the sky, but only gave Dou Jiao a consolation prize.

Because Dou Jiao's hatred for his cousin is morbid, he also pathologically thinks that Dou Pan also hates himself and tries to get rid of him; When he saw that his cousin had ascended to the highest position of human minister, he could no longer tolerate living in the world. Dou Jiao then found his "comrade" Bao Jia and prepared to join forces with him to get rid of Dou Fan.

The friendship between Doujiao and Pu Jia began in the eighth year of King Chumu, when the two led an army to attack Zheng State. At that time, Doujiao ordered a strong attack on Xinzheng, but the result was a loss of troops but no effect; Later, if it weren't for the fact that Bao Jia designed to defeat the Zheng army and make the Zheng people go out of the city and surrender, Doujiao would probably have to apologize for his crimes.

Since then, the two have become good friends who talk about everything, the two drink together, go out together, Doujiao charges in front, and Zangjia designs to harm (enemy) people in the back.

Dou Jiao euphemistically expressed the idea of getting rid of Dou Ban at a wine banquet, and Pu Jia had already seen through his thoughts, so he said: "When I help the master, it is equivalent to helping myself, and when the master is promoted to Ling Yin, don't forget to support me as Sima." ”

Doujiao was overjoyed, he asked himself what he should do, and Bao Jia said: "You just need to pretend that you don't know what to do, and I'll do the rest." ”

Dou Jiao couldn't help but show a puzzled look, and Bao Jia explained: "Everyone in the country knows that you are at odds with Ling Yin, and the farther you are from this matter, the greater the hope of success." ”

After Dou Yishen and his son were killed in the rebellion (in the tenth year of Lu Wengong), King Chu Mu planned to set up an investigation team to investigate the ins and outs of the entire incident. Many ministers, including Doujiao, want to be involved in the investigation of the incident - a great opportunity to make a fortune or eliminate dissidents.

Although the king of Chumu was cruel in temperament, he was very clear-headed, and he knew very well what would make the country look like if greedy and cruel officials were appointed: how many good ministers would be framed for being ashamed of bribery; how many traitors will get away with bribes; How many people will die from a communiqué vendetta (know this: the filthy can be bought with money, just as the innocent need money to justify themselves).

King Chu Mu was very cautious about the selection of people, he listened to the advice of his teacher Pan Chong, appointed the fair and honest Dou Pan to be in charge of the investigation, and gave him the power to choose the members of the investigation team.

Dou Jiao was naturally excluded from the investigation team, and he couldn't profit by framing others, so he wanted to help the person under investigation get away with it.

Dou Yishen's son-in-law Peng Shi (after Peng Zhongshuang) was also implicated. Doujiao then sent someone to ask Peng Shi for a bribe and promised his safety, but Peng Shi was innocent and arrogant, and he contemptuously refused the blackmail. Annoyed and angry, Doujiao turned to falsely accuse Peng Shi, trying his best to kill him.

Later, even King Chu Mu was brainwashed by Doujiao and decided that Peng Shi's crime was unforgivable; But Dou resisted the great pressure, and finally found evidence of Peng Shi's innocence, foiling Dou Jiao's conspiracy.

Since then, Peng Shi has maintained a "plain" gentlemanly relationship with Dou Bo, but he is on the same page as Dou Jiao. After Peng Shi's death, Doujiao's hatred for Peng remained unanished, and he continued to suppress and persecute his descendants.

Peng Shi's son, Peng Zheng, could not bear it and later participated in the Prince's Rebellion. Although many years have passed since the rebellion was suppressed, Zangja believes that there is still much to be written about.

Soon, King Chuzhuang ordered the construction of a building on the outskirts. Since Bao Jia is a worker, this project was given to him to be fully responsible.

On this day, Minfu "accidentally" dug a strange pit while digging the foundation. The pit contains animal bones and several bamboo slips, and it is a standard sacrificial pit for killing animals.

Officials at the scene couldn't help but be surprised when they took a closer look at the bamboo slips. He ordered the men to stop work immediately and stay where they were, and not to leave any of them, and then hurriedly reported to Bao Jia with the bamboo slips.

Bao Jia was also "shocked" when he saw the bamboo slips, what was written on the bamboo slips was the oath of Wang Zixie and his henchmen before the rebellion, and the name of the fight "Heran" was among them!

Feeling that "the situation was extremely serious", he immediately mobilized a group of soldiers to cordon off the scene and took the officials and people to a remote place to take care of them; He immediately took the bamboo slips to report the situation to the king of Chuzhuang.

The conversation between King Chu Zhuang and Bao Jia lasted from the afternoon until midnight. When the East wanted to know, King Chuzhuang secretly summoned Pan Yu into the palace and ordered the two to establish a secret investigation team to find out the truth of the sacrificial pit incident as soon as possible.