Let's briefly discuss the rise and fall of the Ruo Ao clan, the largest prince of Chu in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Xiong Yi, the king of Chu, was buried in Ruoao after his death, so he was called Chu Ruoao, and Ruo Ao was the descendant of Xiong Yi.
Ruo Ao has two branches, one is the Dou clan and the other is the Cheng clan.
King Wu of Chu was self-reliant and needed the support of a domestic family to legitimize his crimes.
If the Ao clan stood in line with the martial king Xiong Tong, Dou Bobi, Dou Lian, Dou Jin, Dou Qi and others were reused by the monarch and held important positions, and the family began to become strong.
Ling Yin Dou Bobi was the chief planner of King Wu of Chu to take the Han River Plain, and he made great contributions.
Dou Lian was an important general of the King of Chu, who killed Kokang in the campaign against the Fallen Kingdom, and played a key role in dividing the Han River Zhuji.
It can be said that if there is no Dou Clan, King Wu of Chu will not be able to sit steadily, and I am afraid it will be difficult to break through the Han River.
Then he is not qualified to ask Zhou Tianzi to upgrade his title, let alone "want to see the politics of the Central Plains".
If the Ao family made meritorious service at the same time, the anti-bone characteristics of the children of the family who did not obey the king's order were also exposed.
Dou Yi rebelled in Quan County and was killed after being suppressed by King Wu of Chu.
However, soon Mo Ao, the son of King Wu of Chu, committed suicide in defeat, and his military strength was seriously lost, and King Wu had to rely more on the Ruo Ao clan.
Mo Ao was originally the highest official position in the Chu State, equivalent to the Minister of State, and Ling Yin was second. As the situation changed, King Wu of Chu raised Yin's power above Mo Ao.
Since then, the status of the Ruo Ao family is higher than that of the Qu family, ranking among the strongest families in the Chu State.
From then until the time of King Chuzhuang, almost all the Ling Yin and Sima in the past hundred years were from the Ruo Ao clan.
If the members of the Ao family always reflect a state of polarization, some people actively plan for the hegemony of the king of Chu, and some people rely on the family power to have no scruples or even make trouble.
During the reign of King Cheng of Chu, the famous minister Ling Yin Ziwen (Dougu Yu Su), served the Chu State wholeheartedly, and donated all his family property in order to support the development of the country, and he was often hungry.
King Chu Cheng was moved by this, and always received Ji Ziwen.
And Ling Yin Ziyu (Cheng Dechen), who succeeded Ziwen, was evaluated as "rigid and rude", he did not listen to King Cheng's orders, and forcibly fought against the Jin State to prove his ability, so as to eliminate the criticism of the countrymen.
King Chu Cheng was hindered by the face of the Ruoao family and gave Ziyu a small amount of troops, but the battle of Chengpu completely overturned and ruined his reputation.
Ruo Ao may not have realized that his power in the Chu State was too great, and the Battle of Chengpu created a shadow in the heart of the King of Chu.
From Ziyu, the Cheng clan branched out from the Dou clan, and under the impetus of the monarch, the limelight gradually suppressed the Dou clan.
The scenery that the king of Chu wants to see is that the Ruo Ao clan is divided into two factions to engage in infighting.
So later, King Chu Cheng knew that Dou Bo did not escape, but was framed by the prince, but he couldn't help but cut him.
King Chu Mu once again snubbed the Dou clan and appointed Cheng Daxin as Ling Yin.
The Dou clan finally understood, and it was the King of Chu who made a hindrance from it, supported the Cheng clan to suppress the Dou clan, and at the same time let the Ruo Ao family fight among themselves.
So the contradiction escalated, and the Dou clan began to directly target the king of Chu.
Dou Shenyi was ready to kill him on the grounds that King Chu Mu had killed the king, but his plan failed and he was counter-killed.
Dou Ke and Cheng Jia failed to compete for Ling Yin, and his mentality was unbalanced and he held the king of Chuzhuang, who had just succeeded to the throne, but he also did not succeed and was booby-trapped by Ji Liang.
The Dou clan and the monarch are on the same page, almost to the point of fighting each other.
The reason why King Chu Zhuang chose to hibernate for three years was that he deliberately showed mediocrity to make the Dou clan take it lightly.
The Dou clan was really paralyzed, and did not seize power through the monarch's "stupidity", but turned around and went to do it himself, competing for the phase.
In three years, Dou Pan replaced Cheng Jia as Ling Yin, Dou Jiao took the position of Sima, and Dou seemed to have won.
King Chu Zhuang was not idle, he secretly contacted the old nobleman of Chu State, the Ping family, and set up a game for the Dou family.
Bao Jia first helped Dou Jiao, plotting to make Yin Zhi, won Dou Jiao's trust, and gradually sought military power.
Feeling that the time was ripe, Bao Jia and Dou Jiao joined forces to falsely accuse Dou.
At the critical moment, King Chuzhuang suddenly announced, I won't play anymore, I want to be a blockbuster.
Then, according to the plan, King Chuzhuang carried out a major personnel adjustment, killing hundreds of people and entering hundreds of people.
made Dou Jiao like a dead fight, promoted Dou Jiao to Ling Yin, and Ping Jia served as Sima.
After the operation, Doujiao found that he had indeed been promoted, but he had no military power for Lingyin, and the military power fell into the hands of Sima Pingjia.
At this moment, Bao Jia suddenly turned his face completely, completely disobeyed Doujiao, and only listened to the command of the King of Chu.
Dou Jiao was fried, and it turned out that he had always been a chess piece, and he was played around.
After all, Ruo Ao still has strength, he organized his clansmen and the old tribe, killed Zhu Jia, attacked the king of Chuzhuang, and fought to the death.
In 605 BC, King Zhuang of Chu defeated Doujiao in the Battle of Gaohu and exterminated the Ruoao clan.
Ruo Ao's clan was basically slaughtered, because Ziwen was a model of the courtiers of the Chu State and was respected by the kings of Chu in all dynasties, and only his descendants were pardoned!
A few strokes are not enough to describe the complexity and wonder of this history. The danger of political struggle, this article is only a glimpse of the leopard.
If most of the people of the Ao clan are not lacking in resourcefulness and power, they will fight for a hundred years for the sake of interests, and the only thing that can be preserved in the end is the honest and simple Ziwen lineage.
Therefore, Zi said: "The life of a person is also straight, and the life of recklessness is also spared!"
Those who are not upright may be spared for a while, but throughout history, they will never be spared.
You and I quit it!