Just as the Chu army was attacking Baipu, the princes of the Central Plains had been peeking near the northern border of the Chu state. King Chuping was very worried, and Fei Wuji seized the opportunity to transfer the prince away from the capital—as mentioned earlier, because Fei Wuji had left the prince hostage with the tyrant, the prince would hate him to death. He said: "The Jin Kingdom is adjacent to the Chinese princes, so it can achieve hegemony; The state of Chu was in the south and could not compete with the state of Jin. If the city father (now the east of Baofeng County, Henan) is expanded, the prince is appointed to guard the town, and in this way, he communicates with the northern princes, and the king sits in the south, so that the world will be stable. ”

King Chuping was very happy, so he took his suggestion and sent the prince to the city father.

In the autumn of this year, the Chu people began to repair the city walls of the state and built two fortresses in the east of the city, the purpose of the Chu people to repair the city was the same as the meaning of moving Xu and Yin Rong, but in the eyes of the Wu people, it was a serious provocation. Chu Doctor Shen Yinxu saw the current situation very clearly, and he said: "Chu State will eventually lose the state!" When the state of Wu was destroyed, Yin Ziqi asked him to crusade against the state of Wu, and the king said: "I have not been able to appease the people. 'Six years have passed, and now it is appeased?' I don't think so, it's still the same as it was. The king disregarded the people's livelihood and turned the state into a military fortress to provoke the people of Wu, can he not be defeated? ”

His attendant said: "The king has been giving tirelessly, and he has been resting the people for five years, so why is it not considered to care for the people?" ”

Shen Yinxu said: "I have heard that the monarch appeases the people, and must be diligent and thrifty in private life, and establish virtue in the outside world; The people are content with their nature, so the country is stable. Although the king did not wage war against foreign countries for five years, he built many palaces, and the people were exhausted and fearful. This cannot be called 'appeasing the people'. ”

As Shen Yinxu expected, Wu Guoren's emotions were really stirred. Wu Wangbi issued an order to expand the army, and the army began to conduct large-scale military exercises, and craftsmen rushed to make chariots and armor day and night.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yin Zibian wanted to do something to hint at the goodwill of the Chu people to the people of Wu; He suddenly remembered that Wang's uncle was still locked up in the big garage (in the fifth year of Lu Zhaogong, the two armies of Wu and Chu confronted each other; Yimo's brother Jiyou was ordered to go to the Chu military camp to serve as a teacher, but was detained by King Chu Ling, and has not been released yet) So he said to King Chuping: "What crime did Jiyou commit? Keeping him was just the result of the Spirit King's temper, and the king might as well let him go. The proverb says, 'Anger is in the house, and lust is in the city.'" That's what happened. ”

King Chuping immediately carefully packed the stumbling clothes, extended cordial condolences to him, and gave him valuable belongings, and sent him back to China as a gift. The mood of the Wu people calmed down a little, but soon a turmoil within the Chu royal family made relations between the two countries tense again.

The turmoil took place between his dearest family and his most trusted ministers.

When he abandoned his illness and sent an envoy to Cai Guo, the local governor of Xiangyang took his daughter, who had the appearance of a captivating city, to pass by Cai Guo and stop for a while. The girl had a strange dream on the night she arrived in Cai: she dreamed that she was in the temple of Chu and bowed down to the god of the ancestor of Chu. When she awoke, she found a witch and asked her to tell her about the good fortune of the dream. The witch told her, "You will marry a prince of the state of Chu." ”

She was thinking nonsense on the way back to the post house, when suddenly the carriage of the prince Qiji passed by, and she saw the gorgeous appearance and noble temperament of Qiji, and was immediately shocked by him, and in a trance she ran into the palace with the carriage, but ran in and did not come out again.

The two soon married, and their eldest son, who would later become Prince Jian, was born the following year. When the crown prince reached the age of studying, King Chuping appointed Wu Hao, the son of Wu Ju, a university scholar in Chu at that time, as the prince's fu.

Fei Wuji saw a great opportunity to climb to the pinnacle of power, so he recommended himself to King Chuping with a face; He was later appointed as the young master of the crown prince. Although Fei Wuji has an evil heart, as a person who has studied with the prince, he is definitely not an ordinary person.

History proves that the king's teacher is often the one who exerts the most influence on the king, and they can always satisfy their own ** through the relationship with the king without trouble, Pan Chong, Xue Jia, and Prince Yingqi are all like this. Therefore, Fei Wuji especially hoped to establish a close teacher-student relationship with the future king of Chu.

But it backfired, and Fei Wuji gradually discovered that Prince Jian not only didn't like him, but also hated him very much. The prince admires Wu Hao's profound knowledge, but he hates Fei Wuji's villainous face; The prince liked to mingle with Wu Hao's two sons, Wu Shang and Wu Yuan, because these two young men were intelligent and brave; But Fei Wuji's son is a stupid person with an obscene appearance and a stupid heart, and he looks disgusting when he looks at it.

Fei Wuji wanted to use some small tricks to save the decline, but the crown prince was not the king of Chuping, so he explained Fei Wuji's every move maliciously and laughed at his little tricks; He never gave Fei Wuji a good face, as if the two were born enemies.

At this time, Fei Wuji felt a great pressure, and later his plot to take the prince hostage and put him in danger was also revealed. It is not difficult to imagine what the crown prince will do to the person he hates once he ascends the throne, which means that for him, a person obsessed with power, a bright future will be ruined in the hands of this young man. Therefore, since he could not get the favor of the prince, he began to set out to get rid of him.

He buried this insidious thought deep in his heart, and suddenly became industrious. He goes out early and returns late, and is busy from sunrise to sunset; He rarely held banquets, and rarely attended banquets; He traveled to nearby towns to resolve disputes and help those in need. His reputation was getting better and better, and King Chuping was very happy, and he regarded Fei Wuji as an upright and trustworthy minister, just like Zheng Dan did.

When he had gathered enough political capital, he began to carry out his evil plan in an orderly manner.

In the nineteenth year of Lu Zhaogong, King Chuping built a crown ceremony for the crown prince. Fei Wuji suggested to King Chuping that it would be best to marry a princess for the crown prince in the Qin State to strengthen the relationship between Qin and Chu. King Chuping agreed, and immediately appointed Fei Wuji to go to Qin to invite relatives.

Fei Wuji reported this happy event to the prince again, and the prince was also very happy. In the past few years, because Fei Wuji's role has been successfully changed, coupled with his deliberate alienation of the prince, the prince feels that he is not as disgusting as before.

Fei Wuji led a large delegation to the Qin state. The Qin people held a grand welcoming ceremony for the visit of the envoys of the Chu State. Qin Aigong was ready to send one of his most beautiful, smartest, and beloved daughters, Bo Ying, to the state of Chu.