In the twelfth year of Lu Zhaogong, King Chu Ling killed the doctor and became a tiger.

Chenghu is the descendant of Ling Yin Ziyu. Someone told King Chu Ling about Chenghu's black state, he had the opportunity to escape, but he coveted honor and wealth, and stubbornly believed that he could avoid disaster, but in the end he ended up in defeat and death. The charge given to him by King Chu Ling is both absurd and reasonable, he is "the remnant of the Ruo Ao clan".

After winter, King Chu Ling led his army to Zhoulai (now Fengtai, Anhui) to hunt, but in fact this was just a disguise, because there was no precedent for the king of Chu to lead a half-country army to hunt.

When the army arrived at Yingwei (present-day Zhengyangguan, Anhui), the true intention of King Chu Ling was revealed, and he sent Hou Dang, Pan Zi and other five doctors to lead an army to surround Xu to deter Wu, and he himself led the Chinese army to be stationed in Qianxi to monitor Wu's movements.

The air was already very cold, with frost falling in the morning and evening, and freezing at night. The army set out ill-prepared, lacking clothing and medicine, and many had fallen ill from the cold; Frostbite has become a common phenomenon, and the situation of miscellaneous labor is even worse, and some people have already frozen to death or died of disease.

King Chu Ling didn't care about this. In the afternoon, it was snowing heavily, and King Chu Ling wore a leather jacket, a fox fur coat given to him by the Qin State, a green feather shawl, leopard skin combat boots on both feet, and a horse whip inlaid with gold and jade, and took the doctor to patrol the camp.

At dusk, the right Yin Zhengdan came to see King Chu Ling. The Spirit King changed into a ceremonial crown, took off his cloak, put down his horsewhip to meet him, and the three of them walked slowly in the snow, chatting as they walked.

King Ling asked: "At that time, Xiong Yi, the first monarch of Chu State, assisted King Zhou Kang together with Lu Ji (Prince of Qi), Wang Sun Mu (Uncle Wei Kang), Father Xie (Uncle Tang Yuzi), and Father Poultry (Lu Bo Bird). At the Great Harvest Ceremony held in Qiyang, all four countries were rewarded by the royal family, but Chu Jun returned empty-handed. Now that Bugu wants to go to Wangcheng to ask King Zhou to give the widow a few tripods, will King Zhou agree? ”

Zheng Dan: "Yes, of course!" At that time, the ancestor was located in the remote Jingshan Mountain, built the country in rags, traveled through mountains and rivers to serve the son, and offered peach bows and thorns to the royal family. The Marquis of Qi was the uncle of the king of Zhou, and Wei, Lu, and Jin were the brothers of the king of Zhou, so Chu Xianjun was not rewarded. Now that the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the lower princes are all serving the king of Chu, they are obedient, how can the king of Zhou be reluctant to give up a few tripods? ”

King Ling asked again: "Back then, the ancestor of the Chu State, the Kunwu clan, lived in the land of 'Old Xu', and now the Zheng people covet the land and include it in the territory of the Zheng State, and they refuse to leave there. If the widow asks Zheng Guo, will the Zheng people sacrifice Xu Tian to the widow? ”

Zheng Dan: "Yes, of course!" King Zhou didn't dare to cherish Ding, how could Uncle Zheng dare to cherish Tian? ”

King Ling asked again: "In the past, the princes were afraid of the Jin State because of the distance from the Chu State, and they offered thousands of times of wealth to the Jin State every year; Now that the state of Chu borders the Central Plains, will the princes be afraid of the state of Chu? ”

Zheng Dan: "I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid!" Now that the king has expanded the four big cities of Chen, Cai, and Dongxi, and then backed by Great Chu, how can the princes not be afraid? ”

King Chu Ling was obviously very satisfied with Zheng Dan's answer, he turned his head to his father and laughed "hey, hey, hey".

At this time, a casting officer rushed over and asked King Chu Ling to determine the standard for a newly cast large Yue. The Spirit King asked Zheng Dan and Father Xi to stay where they were and wait, and then left with the foundry officer.

Father Xi was very dissatisfied and reproached Zheng Dan: "People have always praised the master as the hope of the Chu State, you don't know the situation, but you echo the master like the echo of the master, where does the master want to put the Chu State?" ”

Zheng Dan: "I'm just grinding. When the king returns, my blade will be slashed. Master, just look at it! ”

Soon, King Ling of Chu returned from the casting officer, and the three of them continued to colonel At this time, the Zuo Shibu of the Chu royal family walked quickly past King Ling, and King Ling pointed to his back to Zheng Dan: "He is a very knowledgeable historian, he reads through the "Three Tombs", "Five Classics", "Eight Suo", and "Nine Hills", and asks the master to treat him well. ”

Zheng Dan: "If you want him to be erudite, not necessarily!" The minister once asked him for advice, when King Mu of Zhou indulged his heart, Zhou Xingxia, the mountains, seas and deserts have his car traces. Dr. Zhou sacrificed to his father and made a poem "Pray to Advise King Mu." King Mu was deeply touched, so he restrained his madness and finally died a good death. The minister asked about this poem, but Zuo Shi didn't know; If he asks more distant things, can he still know? ”

The Spirit King asked, "Then do you know the content of this poem?" ”

Zheng Dan: "Of course I know, in the poem: 'Pray for the sorrow of the move, and move the virtue of the sound.'" Thinking of my king, the style is like jade, and the style is like gold. The power of the people, no drunkenness. ’”

King Chu Ling was stunned for a moment, and then immediately heard the sound of the words. He stopped, reached out to help his father, and lowered his head, as if he was unsteady on his feet due to vertigo. He slowed down for a moment, turned around and saluted Zheng Dan and his father, and then staggered into the big tent.

Zheng Dan shrugged at his father and said, "How is the master?" I'm sharp enough, right? ”

King Chu Ling is not a faint king, on the contrary, he has a high level of wisdom and courage; He is able to distinguish between right and wrong, and he can also recognize his mistakes, that is, he is not willing to do the right thing. He is also sometimes reflecting on whether the bad things he has done and the huge destructive power will bring dangerous consequences to himself; The final answer was "definitely".

Therefore, although he continued to go his own way, a voice in his heart cried out anxiously and incessantly: "Stop! As a result, he is like a student who is about to end his winter vacation but has not touched his homework, always anxiously assuring himself: "I will do it tomorrow!" But the second continued to play as usual, and continued to be anxious at night.

In the next few months, King Chu Ling couldn't eat or sleep; He was in a trance, sometimes muttering to himself, sometimes trembling and unable to restrain himself, as if he had gone mad. He wanted to withdraw his troops, but he couldn't open his mouth; wanted to recall the army that surrounded Xu, but he couldn't think of a reason (at this time, he remembered to ask for a reason). So I was anxious on the one hand, but on the other hand: "Wait." ”

King Chu Ling wasted the most precious and final opportunity of his life in vain (as a result, the school began to open), and in just a few short miles, a huge rebel force erupted within the kingdom, which had been suppressed for a long time, like a wildfire hurricane, like a landslide and tsunami, and quickly overthrew his regime. In this great turmoil, two kings committed suicide, and countless princes and doctors were killed, which can be called the largest civil strife in the history of the Chu State!

At that time, as Shi Xie said, "Only a saint can be free from internal and external troubles." "The internal worries of the Chu State have always existed, and the unstable forces are like healthy people living with disease-causing bacteria living in their bodies. When the immune system is strong, they lie silently and disease breaks out as soon as a specific condition arises.

In normal times, the kings of Chu mostly adopted a strategy of tolerance for ordinary dissident forces, and rarely used force; Extreme measures will only be taken when the situation suddenly changes and the situation is unavoidable, and it has been the case since the Martial King to the Spirit King. Therefore, as a representative of the tyrant and Ming monarch in the history of the Chu State, King Mu will not be more cruel than King Zhuang, and King Zhuang will not be more gentle than King Mu.