Speaking of the King of Chu Ling alone, everyone may not have an impression, but when it comes to the allusion that "the King of Chu has a good waist and dies of hunger in the palace", everyone is probably familiar with it, and this "good thin waist" king of Chu is the King of Chu Ling.
Maybe you think that the "good and thin waist" King Of Chu Ling is more strange, but what is even more strange is that he who ascended to the throne by relying on the king, but under the banner of "doing the right way", he went around to manage the killing of other princely states, but unexpectedly he also ended up with a killing.
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King Chu Ling, who was bent on being the boss, had joined forces with the king-killer
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the great powers of Qi, Chu, Jin, and Qin all had a dream, that is, to call the wind and rain to lead a group of little brothers and dominate one side.
However, when the boss has a bunch of little brothers below who hug back and forth, and a hundred should be very powerful, but when the boss also has to have the appearance of being the boss, the little brother who has a contradiction in the family, this big brother always has to stand up and say two sentences, comment, otherwise, you slack off the government, do not act, these little brothers are saying to run away with other bosses.
When King Chu Ling succeeded to the throne, he also wanted to be the boss like his ancestor King Chu Zhuang. He first made an alliance with the princes in Shenyi, so that the princes involved in the alliance would recognize their status as the boss, and then he took the initiative to exercise the authority of the boss and manage the family affairs of the little brothers.
What was the biggest family affair of the little brothers at that time? It's the Executioner. For the king killer, the King of Chu Ling looked at it in his eyes and was annoyed in his heart. Therefore, he decided to uphold justice and establish his prestige in the name of punishing the king-killer.
Qingfeng turned out to be the doctor of the State of Qi, and together with Cui Zhu, he conspired to kill the Duke of Qi Zhuang and became a powerful vassal of the State of Qi. Later, because of the loss of power in the State of Qi, Zhu Fang ran to the State of Wu.
In the third year of the reign of King Chu Ling, that is, in July 538 BC, King Chu Ling led a large army of princes to attack the state of Wu and capture Zhu Fang, not only cutting qingfeng full of doors, but also using Qingfeng as a negative teaching material to parade the streets, saying: "Don't imitate Qi Guoqingfeng to kill your own monarch and bully your own young monarch." Blackmail the doctors to swear an oath with themselves. ”
In the eighth year of King Chu Ling, that is, in 533 BC, the State of Chen also had a rebellion against the king.
It turned out that Chen Aigong was confused on the issue of Li Chu and was forced to die by his younger brother Concubine Zhao. When King Chu Ling heard this news, he thought to himself, This is a good thing, the following crimes, forcing people to die, even if it is his own brother. So he sent a large army to attack Chen Guo, and at once justice was done and Chen Guo was destroyed.
After destroying Chen Guo, King Chu Ling thought of his younger brother Cai Guolai and thought to himself, Cai Guo's monarch was also "unjust in name and unsmooth in speech"! Chen Guodu was destroyed, but cai guo could not be left alone!
It turned out that at this time, when Cai Linghou, the ruler of the State of Cai, was crown prince, his father Cai Jinghou married him a daughter-in-law from the State of Chu. As a result, Jing Hou looked at it, and the daughter-in-law here looked really beautiful! I secretly got along with my daughter-in-law.
As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall under the heavens. When the prince heard that his father had such a leg with his daughter-in-law, he was really angry: "If you are not kind, don't blame me for being unjust." Therefore, he killed the killer, killed his father, and successfully ascended to the throne, becoming the monarch of the Cai Kingdom, that is, Cai Linghou.
In the tenth year of the Chu Ling King, in 531 BC, the Chu Ling King decided to take action to eliminate the harm for the Cai Kingdom, he pretended to feast on Cai Linghou, tricked Cai Linghou into Shendi, and when Cai Linghou was drunk, he gave him a "one knife and two cuts", making Cai Linghou a "Pingding Marquis".
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The Chu Ling King's boss did not use it as a backyard but started a fire
This series of actions of the Chu Ling King not only made him proud, thinking that he had really become the boss, but also made the surrounding princes terrified. However, just when King Chu Ling was oblivious and thought that Lao Tzu was the first in the world, there was chaos in his own home.
In 529 BC, while King Chu Ling was enjoying himself by Qianxi and waiting for the good news that the Chu army was fighting against xu, his younger brothers Gongzi Bi, Gongzi Hao, and Gongzi Ren abandoned their diseases and secretly formed an alliance, taking advantage of his absence from the capital, and entered the palace to kill his son Prince Lu. Then he ordered that if anyone found who dared to bring food to the King of Chu Ling or flee with the King of Chu Ling, the three tribes would be exterminated.
When King Chu Ling heard that his prince had been killed, he fell out of his mind and fell out of the car. His men advised him to flee quickly in an attempt to make a comeback, but he said nothing. In desperation, his men also fled from him.
The King of Chu Ling, who had become a lonely man, wandered alone in the mountains, and no one dared to take him in, nor did anyone dare to give him food. While walking, King Chu Ling met the Juan people in the past palace, and pleaded, "You can find food for me, I have been hungry for three days!" ”
Juanren said, "The new king has just issued an edict that there are three tribes that dare to bring you food and flee with you, not to mention that I have nothing to eat!" ”
Listening to Juanren's answer, the hungry and sleepy King Chu Ling fell asleep on Juanren's thigh. Who knew that the Chu Ling King had just fallen asleep, and the Trick people stuffed the chu ling king's head with a dirt block, pulled out his legs and fled.
When King Chu Ling woke up, he was so hungry that he couldn't sit up. In the end, the Chu Ling King, who was forced to go nowhere by his brother, hanged himself but lost his life.
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King Chu Ling turned out to be a hypocrite who had ascended to the throne by killing the king
Judging from the above few things alone, you may be upset that the Chu Ling King was killed! King Chu Ling presided over justice for other princely states at every turn, so why did God not open his eyes so much that such a just person could end up being killed?
In fact, everything has a result and a cause. I think that at the beginning, King Chu Ling also became the monarch of the Chu State by killing the monarch, and his brother forced him to die, just imitating him.
King Chu Ling's name was Wei, and he was the son of King Gong of Chu and the younger brother of King Chu Kang. After the death of King Chu Kang, his son took the throne, that is, the King of Chu. This Ao Ao trusted his uncle Wei very much, so he made him the Commander in charge of the military.
But what Wu Ao couldn't imagine was that as soon as his uncle had power in his hands, he had a non-divided idea. In 541 BC, this powerful Ling Yin, an uncle who was very trusted by Ao Ao, took advantage of Ao's illness and strangled his nephew to death with a hat belt in the palace on the pretext of visiting the disease, making himself the king of Chu.
Although King Chu Ling took the throne by illegal means, he always wanted to teach others a lesson as a righteous gentleman, but how could he correct others if he was not right?
No wonder king Chu Ling grabbed Qingfeng of The King of Chu and showed him the Qingfeng to the public, warning the people of the world, "Don't imitate Qi Guoqingfeng to kill your own monarch and bully your own young monarch", Qingfeng sneered: "Don't learn from Gongzi, the son of king Of Chu, who killed his own monarch - the son of his brother took the throne instead of the member!" ”
Qingfeng's words made king Chu Ling angry and immediately killed Qingfeng. Qingfeng was dead and would never speak again, but the matter of the Chu Ling King's execution did not stop fermenting. You King Chu Ling can kill the King, and others can also kill the King, so his younger brother Gongzi Bi, Gongzi Hao, and Gongzi Renou died together "in the way of his people, and also subdued his human body".
There is a folk saying called "old bird don't laugh pig black". This means that a person cannot only look at the shortcomings of others (black) and not look at his own shortcomings (black). King Chu Ling was the "old bird" who laughed at others, he only saw others killing the king, never thought that he was also a king killer, but instead carried the banner of punishing the king killer and flaunted the market, he did not know that he was not right, he could not be a righteous person, just when he wanted to do a great job, others followed his example, and the following offenders wanted his life.
Author: Zhao Xianwen, our special guest author