#历史故事 #
Of course, King Chu Kang attached great importance to the power struggle at home, but unfortunately, just when the world was at peace and King Chu Kang was about to carry out drastic domestic reforms, King Chu Kang, who had worked hard for the Chu Kingdom, came to the end of his life.
In 545 BC, the second year after the Rebellion, King Chu Kang collapsed and reigned for only 14 years! The history of the Chu state rarely records the correct date of birth of the chu monarch, it is said that it is because the Chu people believe in witchcraft and cannot publicize their birthday to others, in order to prevent being deceived. But it may be certain that King Chu Kang died young, less than 40 years old.
It's a pity! This is a rare Lord. The State of Chu that he inherited was a State of Chu that had fallen behind in the struggle for hegemony with the Jin Dynasty, and was often harassed by the increasingly powerful State of Wu, and the Central Plains were even more alienated from the State of Chu by various princes, and the international environment was extremely poor.
But King Chu Kang did not disappoint the people of Chu. He continued to unite with Qin in the west, and repeatedly sent troops together with the Qin state, consolidating the alliance with the Qin state.
On the eastern front, when he faced the Wu state taking advantage of the great mourning of the Chu state to attack, he decisively sent troops to meet the enemy, defeated the Wu army at the Battle of Yongpu, and captured the first warrior of the Wu state, the Gongzi Dang, the great chief of the Chu people.
Although he was defeated in the later Battle of Gaozhou due to the capture of The Enemy by Making Yin Xiongwu light, he did not lose the main force of the Chu army. In the ensuing Battle of Jiushu and the Battle of Weichao, the State of Wu was completely beaten to the point of no temper, and even made Zhu Fan, the king of Wu, one of the few princes of the Spring and Autumn Period who died on the battlefield, playing out the prestige and domineering spirit of the State of Chu, which made the princes of various countries feel frightened.
King Chu Kang has always paid attention to the Central Plains, which is the place that successive Chu kings have always paid attention to. In order to plan to go to the Central Plains again, he joined forces with the State of Qi in the east to compete with the State of Jin. In an attempt to regain control of the State of Zheng, King Chu Kang painstakingly sought an opportunity. Finally, in 555 BC, when Zheng was in internal strife, he sent troops to attack Zheng. It is just a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and after winning victories, the Chu army suffered a cold wave on the way back and lost its troops.
In 549 BC, in order to consolidate the Alliance of Qi and Chu and help the State of Qi resist the Jin, King Kang of Chu formed a coalition of the four kingdoms of Chu, Cai, Chen, and Xu to attack the State of Zheng again, forcing the State of Jin to abandon the attack on Qi and save Zheng, and the State of Chu won a strategic victory.
In 547 BC, King Chu Kang joined forces with the State of Qin to attack the State of Wu, and attacked the State of Zheng with the trend, achieving a great victory. In the same year, in order to rescue Xu Guo, King Chu Kang once again attacked Zheng and won victory.
It was King Chu Kang who took a strong blow against the State of Wu, adopted an aggressive offensive posture against the State of Jin, and won a series of victories in battles, which made the Princes of the Central Plains, including the State of Jin, panic over the State of Chu, win a favorable international environment for the State of Chu, and finally achieved substantial results in the Alliance of Soldiers led by the State of Song, becoming the hegemony of the Central Plains alongside the State of Jin. This is another brilliant in the history of the Chu State, and its martial arts are no less than those of Wu, Wen, Cheng, and Zhuang!
In terms of governing internal affairs, King Chu Kang developed production, cared about the people's livelihood, and carried out the reform of the political, economic, and military systems, so that the Chu state embarked on the road of national prosperity and people's strength. In governing his internal affairs, King Chu Kang must also talk about his strong anti-corruption actions.
Speaking of the anti-corruption actions of the Chu State, it was not only during the period of King Chu Kang, as early as the period of the King of Chu, the King of Chu deeply resented corruption and corruption, and the means adopted were also thunderous and never soft.
In 571 BC, Xiong Shen, the son of The Right Sima at the time, was reported for asking for bribes from the vassal states of the Chu state, and the king of the Chu Communists was not polite at all, directly killed Xiong Shen, and spread his head throughout the vassal states.
Three years later, in 568 BC, Xiong Renfu, who was then the commander of the Chu state, demanded bribes from the state of Chen, forcing the state of Chen to prepare to rebel against Chu and Jin. After the King of Chu Gong knew about it, he was not polite at all and killed Xiong Renfu as well.
In 552 BC, King Chu Kang again killed Ling Yin Xiong, which shocked the government and the opposition. We'll tell you the story.
In the summer of 552 BC, Ling Yin Xiong died of illness, and King Chu Kang originally wanted to appoint Feng Zifeng as Ling Yin, but after being refused, he had to promote Wang's uncle Xiong Chaishu, who was then serving as Zhen Yin, to Ling Yin. Xiong Chasshu was known for his military achievements, and after being promoted to Ling Yin, he acted in a very high profile, and the historical records record that "when he goes out, he hugs before and after, and when he enters, he sits with high friends.".
Xiong Chashu raised many disciples, all of whom were his cronies, one of whom was a close associate named Guan Qi, whose identity was not a gong clan doctor, and the other was not a scholar, but only a common man, but he had a lot of wealth, one of which was that there were dozens of carriages in the family. According to the regulations at that time, the car of the Shu people was only a "wooden cart and a single horse", which was already illegal to exceed the standard, not to mention that this view actually owned dozens of carriages, which was equivalent to the crime of unknown origin of the huge amount of property now.
King Chu Kang was furious when he found out and ordered a strict investigation. When the results came out, not only did he look at the usual greed and pervert the law, but he used his master to make Yin Xiong chase Shu Zhiwei to ask for bribes everywhere, and the officials down to the people hated him to the bone. Moreover, Xiong Chasshu himself is also similar to this virtue, and he has become extravagant and corrupt, and he has ignored the corruption of his subordinates.
King Chu Kang chased After Shu on the spot in the court and immediately executed him. And for Guan Qi, King Chu Kang even used torture - car cracking! After the car split and watched, the mutilated corpses of the car were displayed throughout the country to show the King of Chu's determination to punish corruption. This is the third person we talked about when we talked about the Spring and Autumn Period who was split by the car, one was Gao Miqu, the shangqing of the Zheng Kingdom, who was split by the Car of the State of Qi; the other was Xia Zhengshu, who was self-reliant of Chen Guojun, who was split by the Car of the State of Chu; and then there was this Chu people.
In the Case of Xiong Chaishu, there are two things that need to be said.
The first one is about Xiong Chaishu's son Xiong abandoning the disease. At that time, Xiong abandoned the disease and won the trust of King Chu Kang and was appointed as a personal bodyguard. Xiong Shuyi is a very dedicated guard and is very loyal to King Xiong Kang. With the deepening of the investigation of Xiong Chaishu, King Chu Kang knew that his uncle Ling Yin was about to be killed by himself, so every time he faced Xiong's abandonment disease, he would feel unbearable, and even sometimes shed tears of sadness.
Xiong Qiyi finally asked King Chu Kang, "When the Great King recently saw the Last General, he often had a look of intolerance, and sometimes there were tears, and the Last General was sincerely afraid, and he did not know where he had done something wrong, and if the Last General made a mistake, he hoped that the Great King would make it clear and punish him." ”
King Chu Kang lifted up Xiong And said to him in an extremely heavy tone, "General, do you know that your father is corrupt and is about to be executed?" The general is sincere and loyal, and does not trust the general very much. And now That Bugu wants to kill the general's father, and he is reluctant to let the general leave Bugu, Bugu really doesn't know how to face the general. ”
The bear was shocked, and he fell to his knees again, leaning over and weeping: "The great king wants to kill the father of the last general, and the last general does not dare to ask for it, but I would like to ask the great king, will the last general still get the trust of the great king in the future?" Now, the king has informed the last general of this heavy secret, which is the greatest trust in the last general, who will not be able to repay it, but will keep the secret strictly. ”
Three days after Xiong Chasshu was killed, Xiong abandoned his illness and asked King Chu Kang to take the body for burial, and King Chu Kang immediately agreed. After xiong abandoned the disease and buried his father, he hanged himself in front of his father's grave. In terms of what he said to his friend before he died, Xiong Abandoned Disease believed that the King of Chu wanted to kill his father, and in order to be loyal to the King of Chu, he had to keep secrets, which was equivalent to participating in the killing of his father. For the sake of loyalty, he could not fulfill filial piety. Now it is time for him to fulfill his filial piety, and he can only use suicide to achieve his filial piety!
This is the understanding of loyalty and filial piety by a small person who has been left by history, and it is not touching to read.
It should be noted that soon, there will also be a person named Xiong Abandoning Disease, who will come out of the Spring and Autumn River and Lake, and that Bear Abandoning Disease and this Bear Abandoning Disease, although they have the same surname and the same name, but they are definitely different words, so they are not the same person.
And the One who was split by the car also had a son, called Guan Cong. This view played a key role in the later coup d'état of the Chu State, and we will explain it in detail later.