King Chu Ling said: "I use Qi Huan's gift. Then he summoned Xiang Xu and Gongsun Qiao to inquire about the procedures for holding the Summoning Tomb Alliance that year.

Xiang Xu said: "The big countries are going to exercise, and the small countries are going to use them, how dare you not tell the truth?" So he offered six rituals for the duke to meet the princes. The son also offered six kinds of etiquette for the earl, son, and man to see the duke. So the world praised Xiang Xu for keeping the gift of his ancestors, and Gongsun Qiao was good at governing a small country.

King Chu Ling ordered officials and ministers to practice twelve rituals under the guidance of Zichan and Xiang Xu, but Wu Ju was busy with official business, and he only participated in six of them.

There was a small episode before the ceremony, it turned out that Xu Zi's mother was from Wu, and he didn't know in advance that the purpose of this alliance was to destroy Wu, so he said something inappropriate on various occasions; As a result, he was locked up in the hat of Tongwu.

On 16 June, the heads of state held a bloody ceremony.

During the ceremony, there was another episode, it turned out that the king of Chu Ling ordered Wu to stand on his side and then remind himself or correct his mistakes; But what King Chu Ling was not familiar with or wrong was Wu Ju who did not participate, he was at a loss in front of the stage, but Wu Ju did not move like a clay wooden tire.

After the ceremony, King Chu Ling asked the reason with a sullen face, and Wu Ju said: "There are six kinds of etiquette ministers who have not seen it, and they don't know whether it is right or wrong. ”

Although King Chu Ling treated this alliance with solemn etiquette, he also showed his extravagant face to the princes: he had to change several sets of gorgeous dresses and crowns every day, put more than a dozen food utensils on each meal, and serve dozens of people. The princes looked at the smacking of their tongues, thinking about the pain.

Wu Ju advised: "In the past, the Holy King, the Duke of Zhou, and the Duke of Zhao showed the princes the side of courtesy, so the princes would obey the orders of the king and the prince. Although the king adopted the ceremony of summoning the tomb, he still needed to maintain the image of the courtesy, otherwise he would not get the princes. In the summer of that year, there was a meeting of Youyou, and after returning to China, the Yi clan launched a rebellion; Shang held the collection of Licheng, and after returning to China, Dongyi launched a rebellion. The reason for this is that the extravagant image was exposed to the princes, and the princes abandoned the king's order. Now that the king has gone more than the scum, does he still want a good result? ”

King Chu Ling didn't listen to persuasion, so Zichan said to Xiang Xu: "We don't need to worry about Chu disaster, Chu Jun is extravagant and refuses to admonish, and he can't survive for ten years!" ”

Xiang Xu said: "What the master said is reasonable, in less than ten years, his evil deeds are not enough to spread far, and after the notoriety is far and wide, a great disaster will come." The same is true of goodness, which arises when it becomes famous. ”

In the autumn and July, King Ling of Chu divided the Chu army and the coalition army into two parts, one to attack Lai and the other to attack Wu.

Soon after, King Chu Ling issued an order to the army attacking Wu to destroy Zhu Fang (present-day Dantunan, Jiangsu). As mentioned earlier, after Qingfeng went into exile in Wu, Wu Zi sealed him to Zhu Fang. Qing Feng gathered his clansmen and henchmen there, controlled the fishing and salt trade, and shipbuilding, and amassed a lot of money, and soon became richer than he had been in the Qi State.

King Chu Ling had several reasons to crusade against Zhu Fang: first, he took a fancy to Zhu Fang's wealth; the second is to set an example for the princes (Qingfeng's reputation is worse than that of King Chu Ling), and the third is to take revenge on Wu; the fourth is to show the face of the Jin State (the Jin State once helped the Wu State against the Chu State); Fifth, Zhu Fangcheng is small and easy to attack.

In this way, Zhu Fang became a victim of King Chu Ling's great prestige. In August, the coalition forces captured Zhu Fang, captured Qingfeng, and killed all the Qing clansmen; He also destroyed the shipbuilding base of Wu and handed over the captured shipbuilders to the Chu army.

King Chu Ling planned to parade Qingfeng to the public and then execute him, so as to show his righteousness even more.

Wu Ju persuaded: "I heard that only flawless people can kill, Qingfeng betrayed the country and fled here, is he willing to kill him?" If he talks nonsense, it will be detrimental to the king. ”

King Chu Ling didn't listen. The sergeants then tied Qingfeng up and stood on the cart, and tied a big sword behind him; Several slaves pulled the prisoner cart and slowly passed in front of the princes. The sergeant ordered Qingfeng and said, "Don't be like Qi Qingfeng, kill his monarch, despise the lonely and weak, and ask the doctors to obey him." ”

Qingfeng's cloak was scattered, and his clothes had been contaminated with blood so that he couldn't recognize his original color; He grinned widely, his eyes swept over the faces of the princes and doctors (as if he was going to turn into a powerful ghost and come back to seek revenge after death), his expression was painful and unyielding, and he squeezed out a few dry laughs and shouted: "You don't kill your nephews and nephews to usurp the throne and force the princes to submit to the tyrant like the concubines of the king of Chu!" ”

The hearts of those present were mixed, and many people secretly said in their hearts: "Happy! The sergeant immediately removed him from the cart, put him down with his face to the ground, and trampled on the back of his head, preventing him from speaking. King Chu Ling was furious and immediately ordered him to be beheaded, and the sergeant took out the big Yue behind Qingfeng and cut off his head.

At that time, Lai Guo was a subject country of Suiguo, located in the northeast of Suizhou, Hubei, and was on the way from Yingdu to Jiang and Xi, although the country was small but very important.

After the Chu army captured Lai's country, Lai Zi tied his hands and held a jade bi in his mouth, and the guards followed him shirtless, carrying a coffin; The group maintained this state from the city gate to the Chinese army camp.

King Chu Ling was dumbfounded, not knowing how to deal with this kind of scene. Wu Ju said: "When King Chu Cheng conquered the state of Xu (in the sixth year of Lu Xugong), Xu Xugong took this ceremony to welcome King Cheng. King Cheng personally untied the rope of Duke Xu, accepted the jade, burned the coffin, and held a purification ceremony for him. ”

King Chu Ling said: "Bugu does not dare not follow the etiquette of the previous king. He immediately followed the example of King Chu Cheng and forgave Lai Zi, and then ordered Lai Ren to be moved to Yandi.

King Chu Ling planned to move Xu to Lai, so he ordered Dou Wei Gu and his youngest brother, the prince, to abandon the disease and expand the size of the city on the basis of Laicheng.

King Chu Ling's rendezvous with the princes achieved great results - capturing a large number of slaves and robbing countless property. But most of the results were taken by him, and the rest of the wealth was given to the ministers; The return for the soldiers' bravery was zero, and the levy on conscription had not been reduced at all, not to mention the condition of the people.

Doctor Shen Wuyu said: "The disaster of Chu State will begin from here!" Summoning the princes; crusade against the country; No other country dares to fight for a city on the border. What virtues does my king have that makes any of his desires fulfilled? In order for him to get his wish, will the people of the country still be able to live a peaceful life for a day? When the people are separated, who will bear the consequences? The people are not worthy of the king's command, and trouble will come! ”

In winter, the people of Wu launched a fierce revenge on the Chu state. Yi Mo divided Wu's division into three parts, and at the same time launched an attack on Thorn (south of present-day Yongcheng County, Henan), Quercus (north of present-day Xincai County, Henan), and Ma (northeast of present-day Dangshan, Anhui), and soon conquered the three cities.

Shen Yinshu was ordered to command the enemy to defend against the enemy. Seeing that the enemy army was approaching, he did not dare to fight hard, so he had to occupy favorable terrain to prevent the Wu army from continuing to advance. King Chu Ling also ordered Zhen Yin Yijiao to strengthen the city wall of Zhongli (now Fengtai, Anhui), ordered Xue Qiqiang to strengthen the nest (now a hundred miles south of Shou County, Anhui), and ordered Ran Dan (the grandson of Zheng Mugong, who fled to Chu due to the rebellion of Gongzi Jia) to strengthen the city wall of Zhoulai (now Fengtai, Anhui). But at that time, the relentless winter rain was falling non-stop, and the construction of the city was basically impossible; But on the other side, the winter rain also stopped the Wu army from continuing to advance. As a result, the war ended in a state where one side was unable to attack and the other side was unable to establish an effective defense.