The Chu people felt that it made sense, and decided to spare his life for the time being, imprisoned him in a military tent, and asked Qijian for instructions on what to do with this person.

At nightfall, Yuan Ke told the guard in the tent that he wanted to urinate, and asked the guard to avoid outside the tent for a while. The guard muttered out of the tent door, Yuan Ke immediately leaned down, slipped out of the gap between the tent and the ground facing the door, escaped from the sight of the Chu people, tied a white silk to his forehead (as a tribute to Chen Aigong), and fled to Zheng Guo day and night.

King Chu Ling really spent a lot of brains when deciding on the selection of the county magistrate of Chen County. He went through the royal doctor in front of him in his mind, but he didn't find a suitable candidate; Just as he was meditating and thinking about it, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in his mind, and he thought of a small person outside Fangcheng Mountain-Wearing a seal.

As mentioned earlier, in the battle of Chenglu against Zheng Guo, Wang Ziwei, who was still Lord Yin at that time, shamelessly took the prisoners of war captured by the seals as his own, and as a result, the other party attacked him; Although he escaped the attack of the seal, he lost a handful of people.

King Chu Ling quietly summoned the piercing seal from the piercing ground into the Yingdu. The family and friends who wore the seal thought that King Chu Ling wanted to avenge the humiliation he had suffered back then, and persuaded him to flee immediately.

He said, "I'm not guilty, why should I run away?" Fleeing became sinful. He entered the palace with great righteousness, and King Chu Ling saw that he was still the same unconvinced and resentful as he was back then, and praised him again and again, so he asked him: "If the master knew that the widow had today's status in the battle of Chenglu, would he still compete with the widow for the prisoner?" ”

Wearing the seal has already made up his mind to die, and said proudly: "If the minister knew that the king had today, he would have paid tribute to death to prevent a disaster in the Chu State!" ”

The doctors present shook their heads and sighed in their hearts: "What an upright fool! Dead! It's hopeless! ”

King Chu Ling asked again, "Do you still have such thoughts today?" ”

Piercing Fengxu replied: "No, if there is, the minister will become the person he hates." ”

King Chu Ling said: "Bugu sincerely admires the loyalty of the master, so the master will go to Chen County!" Bugu immediately appointed his master as the Duke of Chen. ”

"Wear the seal" was changed to "Chen Gongxu".

After the demise of the Chen Kingdom, countries reacted differently to the annihilation event, either with hatred or fear. However, the princes reached a rare consensus in analyzing the reasons for the destruction of the Chen state: the Chen state did not die from external troubles, but from internal strife. Otherwise, if the Chen people unite as one and resolutely resist, it will never be possible for the people of Chu to succeed easily.

Jin Pinggong asked Shi Zhao: "Did the Chen State perish like this?" ”

Shi Zhao said: "Not necessarily. The Chen people are the descendants of the Zhuan Xu, and the year (Jupiter) belongs to the quail fire, so the age is in the quail fire, and the country can finally perish. Now that he is in Hanjin in Ximu, Chen can still return to the country. When the Chen clan usurped the power of the Qi state, the Chen state would finally perish. From Zhuan's son Mu to Shun's father, Shun's father, the four generations did not violate the orders of the Five Emperors.

"Shun has great virtue, and the generation is not chaotic; Chen Hugong inherited the virtues of his ancestors, so he was enshrined in Chen to continue the sacrifice to Yu Shun. The minister heard: 'The province will surely enjoy the sacrifice of a hundred generations.' 'Emperor Shun has not yet reached the hundredth century, and the sacrifice to him will continue in the Qi country, and the signs already exist (referring to the signs obtained by Chen Wan's father-in-law and mother-in-law through divination). ”

After the fall of the Chen State, the pattern of the Central Plains has changed dramatically, and the surrounding princes are worried all day long, and I am afraid that the next one to be wiped out is himself; The Chu people also planned to carry out a series of population migration plans. In order to dispel the fears of the princes of the Central Plains and prevent the countries from overreacting, the king of Chu Ling convened an alliance meeting in Chen at the beginning of the ninth year of the reign of Lu Zhaogong (BC533), and the ministers of the four countries of Lu, Song, Zheng, and Wei were invited to attend the meeting.

King Ling of Chu personally presided over the meeting, and he explained to the envoys of various countries the reasons for the destruction of Chen by the state of Chu and the diplomatic stance on peace of the countries (although no one believed it), and asked the countries not to misunderstand the actions of the state of Chu (it is impossible not to "misunderstand"). The envoys each brought back the news, and the hearts of the princes settled down a little.

In February, the Chu people began to implement the relocation plan. Chen Guo had a big city called "City Father (also known as Yi, in the southeast of present-day Bozhou, Anhui)", and Ran Dan moved the city father to Huaiyang; The people of Chu expanded the establishment of the city father, and the prince abandoned the disease and moved the Xu country from Ye to the city father. However, Xu Mourning complained that the land area was much smaller after the relocation, so the Chu people assigned a large area of land in Huaibei that belonged to the state to Xu Guo. Eventually, the Chu people moved the population outside Fangcheng Mountain to Ye. After tossing, the Chu people not only connected Ye with Fangcheng, but also set up a Xu state between Chu and Wu as a buffer.

In the summer and April, a serious fire broke out in Chen County, which started from a house in the northwest and quickly spread to adjacent buildings with the help of the southerly wind, until it was extinguished after burning down two streets of houses.

Dr. Zheng said: "In five years, Chen will restore the country again (why do you say "again", because the king of Chuzhuang has already been destroyed once), and he will be destroyed after fifty-two years of restoration. ”

The child inquired about the reason. Pizao said: "After Chen Wei is 颛顼, 颛顼 has water virtue, so Chen belongs to the water phase. After Chu is the Gaoxin clan's fire is Zhu Rong, Zhu Rong has fire virtue, so Chu belongs to the fire phase. Water and fire are dual, and now the appearance of the Great Mars and the fire in the Chen State are the harbingers of the expulsion of the Chu people and the restoration of the Chen State. The duality is based on the five elements, so it is five years (to be honest, the logic of it is incomprehensible to the author). The star of the year traveled for five weeks and then reached the quail fire after four years, and then the state of Chen would be destroyed by the state of Chu again. ”

In the summer of this year, Qi and Jin married again. Zhiying was ordered to go to the country of Qi to greet his relatives, but he unfortunately died on the way back. The team had to be divided into two parts: one part continued to march towards Xinjiang; The second part escorted Zhiying's coffin quietly into the old place.

The marriage of the prince should be celebrated by the whole country, but the death of the secretary belongs to the great mourning of the country; The people of the Jin Kingdom felt torn and did not know whether to celebrate or mourn. Shu Xiang persuaded Jin Pinggong to postpone the wedding until after Zhi's funeral, in order to show respect for Zhi's family and mourn for the deceased.

However, Jin Pinggong rejected Shuxiang's advice and insisted on holding a grand wedding when the Zhi clan was mourning. Zhi's house was crowded with people who came to mourn, but the drums in the Qiqi Palace were still singing, as if celebrating Zhiying's untimely death.

Halfway through the banquet, the chef Tu Kuai came to Jin Pinggong from the dining room. Jin Pinggong was already half drunk, and he warmly invited Tu Kuai to join the banquet. Tu Kui begged Jin Pinggong to allow him to toast those present.

His first glass of wine was given to Le Gong (Shi Kuang said that he was not sick), and after Le Gong toasted, Tu Kui said: "As the monarch's ears, you should be known for your intelligence. Jiazi is the day of Shang's suicide, and Yimao is the day of Xia Wei's death, and these two days are designated as murder days. The Son of Heaven and the princes must withdraw from pleasure and depreciate food on the evil day, so as to show that they dare not forget the lesson. And you don't care about the bad luck, and you play music day and night to celebrate the arrival of the evil day. The secretary is the prince's humerus, the prince has lost his humerus, and it is too late to grieve, where can I enjoy the joy? It's not that you don't know these conditions, but you still play music happily, and you are embarrassed to say that you are not deaf? ”

Tu Kuai's second cup of respect to Doctor Huan said: "As a prince, your eyes should be known for being sharp. Clothing represents etiquette, etiquette is used to act, things are classified, and classes are expressed. When the important minister died, the monarch was happy, and the performance of the prince did not match the class, but you turned a blind eye, and there was no one more blind than you in the entire court! ”

Tu Kuai finally toasted himself another glass and said: "Taste makes the blood flow, and when the blood is peaceful, the mind is full, the mind determines the speech, and the word is used to make life." Now the second official is derelict in his duties, but the prince cannot issue an order to reprimand, which is the dereliction of duty of the minister. ”

Jin Pinggong said happily: "What the master said is reasonable, the fault is not in others, and few people know that they are wrong." After that, he stopped feasting and drinking, turned around and went back to the harem.

In fact, Jin Pinggong's behavior expressed his attitude towards the Zhi clan, and he once considered abolishing the Zhi clan and appointing Uncle Huan as a secretary. But Tu Kuai's words made him change his mind. In August, Jin Pinggong appointed Zhiying's son Zhizheng as the subordinate military assistant.

In winter, the people of Lu built a garden in Langdi, and it was Ji Pingzi who was in charge of the construction work at that time. Due to the large amount of work and the tight time (it needs to be completed before spring ploughing), Ji Pingzi constantly asked the people to increase the workload, and even asked for day and night construction in order to complete the work as soon as possible; As a result, the people were exhausted and complained; Although the progress of the project has been accelerated, the quality has not reached the standard.

Uncle Sun Wan said to Ji Pingzi: "The poem says: 'Don't be anxious at the beginning, the common people come.'" 'Why do you have to rush to make progress?' If the people are tired, they will lose their support. A country can still exist without a garden, and it will perish without a people. ”