No matter what the relationship between the two is, whether it is a stranger, a friend, a brother, or even a father and son, there will be contradictions between them, which may be trivial in daily affairs or about the mastery of authority. Although the Zhou Dynasty ruled the land of China for hundreds of years, for a long time in the later period, it belonged to the state of decoration, and the "decline of the Zhou Chamber" has become more and more intense, and the drawbacks of the sub-sealing system are constantly amplifying. Therefore, in the late Zhou Dynasty, there were spring and autumn five hegemons, and in the process of transitioning from slave society to feudal society, the seven heroes of the Warring States gradually appeared.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, due to the influence of the feudal system and the patriarchal system, the large and small princely states of the Zhou Dynasty coexisted, and they took advantage of the fact that the Emperor Zhou Tianzi was out of reach and dying, and arbitrarily annexed other countries to expand their strength, in order to stand out among these many countries and become the overlords of this land. Therefore, in the Spring and Autumn Period, because the Zhou Dynasty was still alive, the idea of "great unification" was not formed in people's minds, and the only thing these princes and overlords wanted was to establish prestige among many princes, establish hegemony, and thus become the leaders and "big brothers" among the princes.
King Cheng of Chu: Kill his brother to seize power and pursue the throne
At that time, the State of Chu was not as powerful as the Warring States Period, everything was still developing, and in order to realize his ambitions and realize his ideals, King Cheng of Chu at that time swung the butcher's knife at his brother Chu Tou Ao, thus seizing the power of the State of Chu and becoming a new generation of Chu monarchs. After seizing the throne, the first step he took was to spread his kindness at home and abroad, thus hiding and washing away his bad image of killing his brother and seizing power; he also resumed normal diplomatic relations with some princely states, thus providing better and more time for his own development, and more favorablely improving the bad influence of other countries on the Chu state. In addition, under the circumstance that the various princely states had ignored Zhou Tianzi, they still actively performed the courtesy of their subjects to Zhou Tianzi, and paid tribute on time and on time every year, so that Zhou Tianzi mistakenly thought that he was a "good minister of the auxiliary country", thus giving him the duty of "quelling the turmoil of the various ethnic groups in Yiyue and defending the countries of China", and King Chu Cheng was extremely happy after receiving it.
Many people are very puzzled, why is King Cheng of Chu tired and tired, just for Zhou Tianzi's sentence "Quell the turmoil of the various ethnic groups in Yiyue, in order to defend the countries of China"?
In fact, this is the great wisdom of King Chu Cheng, because Zhou Tianzi's words gave the Chu state the "legitimacy" to solicit other countries at will, which played a better and greater role in expanding the strength and establishing the prestige of the Chu state. It was with this sentence that King Cheng of Chu, during his reign, wantonly suppressed the Yiyue tribes and vigorously expanded the territory. The successive destruction of the states of Xian, Huang, Ying, and Kui provided him with a thick capital for him to pursue the hegemonic position of the Chu state.
King Chumu: Kill your father and seize power and expand your territory
It has to be said that King Chu Mu is very similar to his father, because they not only have the same ambitions and strategies, but also seize power by killing their relatives. I think the reason why King Chu Mu was so at ease in his coup d'état was because his father made a bad start. This is equivalent to the time of succession, ming ancestors said that it was the "eldest son", but the subsequent emperors who succeeded to the throne were not "concubines", which provided reasons and negotiation for other princes who were not the eldest sons but had the ambition to seize power.
During the Zhou Dynasty, countries attached great importance to traditional filial piety, not that the son would be fine after killing the father, but would be subject to a series of moral condemnations, and if it was serious, the position of the son of the father killer was likely to be unstable. However, because the throne of King Chu Cheng was originally "not right" and was through the killing of his brother, this led to the fact that King Chu Mu had too many reasons when he went to kill his father, and the pressure of public opinion after killing his father, after all, it was his father who opened this precedent, and it was ugly to say that King Chu Mu could completely whitewash the coup d'état of his father as "to avenge his uncle Chu Tuo'ao and kill his relatives in righteousness".
After King Chu Mu seized power, he also actively contributed to the development of the Chu state like his father, while whitewashing his father's atrocities, while trying his best to improve a series of shortcomings caused by the Chu state after the Battle of Chengpu; actively reconciling internal and external politics while continuously developing his own economy, laying the foundation for his later destruction of the Jiangguo, the Six Kingdoms, and the Tatetan Kingdom, and further control and expansion of the rule of the Jianghuai region.
The coup d'état of King Chu Mu and the demands of King Cheng of Chu
In his prime, King Chu Cheng, despite the opposition of the people, made King Mu the Crown Prince, but in the forty-sixth year of King Chu Cheng, that is, in 626 BC, he wanted to abolish King Mu's status as crown prince and replace him with someone else as a crown prince. Although there was such an idea, King Chu Cheng had been hesitant. Nevertheless, the matter of deposing the Crown Prince still reached the ears of King Chu Mu, and although this remark was not corroborated, King Chu Mu was very afraid that his position would be shaken, so he asked his teacher, who designed a set for him to become King Cheng's sister Jiang Mi .''Ah! Slut! No wonder the king wants to kill you and make the prince the prince! words.
It was precisely because of this that King Chu Mu raised an army to launch a coup d'état, thus forcing his father to die.
Interestingly, when King Chu Mu led a large army to surround King Chu Cheng, the father and son were nervously facing each other. In order to prevent the night from being long and dreamy, King Mu wanted to hang himself, but King Cheng made a request to eat a "bear paw" before he died. Shangqiu did not answer his father's request and insisted on forcing him to die.
In fact, there are many meanings about bear paws:
The first is the general "procrastination theory". After all, bear paws are extremely precious ingredients, and it is extremely difficult to cook, which is related to the backward cooking technology in ancient times, so such "not easy" will help King Chu Cheng delay time to a certain extent, so as to achieve his own "anti-killing".
However, King Chumu knew of his father's intentions, so he later refused the king's request and directly forced him to die.
The second is the "raise your hand" saying. There is a bear word in the "bear paw", and the clan of the Chu Mu King Shangchen is "bear", so according to my deduction, in addition to wanting to delay time, the Chu Cheng King is still speaking a hidden language to the Chu Mu King, thus asking him to indirectly "raise his noble hand" to let him go, but because of his identity is not good, so he used the word "bear paw" instead.
I have to say that King Cheng of Chu and King Mu' father and son really did whatever it takes to power, even if it was their families who hindered them, but both of them made great contributions to the Chu state, and I really don't know whether it was fortunate or sad.