King Xiong of Chuping was a very clever monarch during the Spring and Autumn Period, good at coordinating the relations between the ministers and ensuring that he had great power, but suffered a great loss because of his lust.
At that time, King Chuping married the Qin daughter Meng Ying for Crown Prince Jian, but at the instigation of his favorite minister Fei Wuji, he secretly included the beautiful Meng Ying in his harem, causing Prince Jian to have to flee to the Song Dynasty.
Subsequently, the crown prince Fu Wuhao was persecuted and killed by Fei Wuji, and Wu Suo's son Wu Zixu fled to the state of Wu, joined forces with the military genius Sun Wu, and successively raised troops to attack Chu five times, repeatedly defeating the Chu state, and the fortunes of the Chu state fell to the bottom.
In 516 BC, King Yu of Chuping, who had reigned for 13 years, died of depression, and the less than ten-year-old crown prince Ren succeeded to the throne as King Zhao of Chu. Since then, wu's invasion of the chu state has become more frequent.
In 506 BC, King Lu of Wu led Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, and others to attack Chu on a large scale, and defeated the Chu army in the "Battle of Baiju" and invaded the Chu capital Yin.
Xiong Ren, the king of Chu Zhao, and his party fled to the state of Yun first, and Yun Gongdou was the son of his predecessor Ling Yin Douchengran, and Dou Huai's younger brother Dou Huai wanted to avenge his father and killed the fallen King of Chu Zhao, but was categorically stopped by Dou Zhao. However, the state of Yun was no longer suitable to stay, and under the escort of Dou Shi and others, King Chu Zhao and his party fled to Suiguo again.
Although King Chuping had been dead for 10 years, Wu Zixu was still unable to understand the hatred in his heart, so he dug up the tomb of King Chuping, dug up the body, and whipped three hundred whips before stopping.
Shen Baoxu, the grand master of the State of Chu, ran to the Qin State for help, and when the Duke of Qin was unmoved at first, Shen Baoxu lay outside the gate of the Qin State Palace and did not leave, crying bitterly day and night, refusing to eat, and crying for seven days and seven nights.
Qin Aigong was impressed by Shen Baoxu's persistence and sincerity, and sighed: "Although Chu has no way, if there are subjects, can there be no existence?" So he sent troops to save Chu.
King Chu Zhao's eldest brother, Zixi, was also recruiting scattered troops to calm people's minds to resist the Wu army. Yue Wang, often unable to return from the main force of the Wu army, began to harass the State of Wu.
King Wu's younger brother Fu Guo (夫概), taking advantage of the fact that both his brother and a large army were in the State of Chu, fled back to China and established himself as king.
King Wu saw that the general trend in the front had gone, and the rear was in a serious situation, so he immediately ordered the whole army to withdraw to the state of Wu.
In 505 BC, after the Retreat of the Wu Army, King Chu Zhao returned to Yingdu, which had been away for 10 months, and everywhere was a mess and ruined. A year later, King Zhao of Chu moved the capital to The Land of Chu and called it "Zaiying".
After King Zhao of Chu restored the kingdom, he was busy reorganizing the mountains and rivers, and the Dou brothers and their descendants were able to continue to serve as officials in Yundi.
However, although the Chu state later had famous kings such as Xiong Zhang, the king of Chu Hui, xiong, xiong, the king of Chu Wei, and Xiong Huai, the king of Chu Huai, the situation deteriorated more and more under the rise of the Qin state.
In 224 BC, because the Chu king Xiong Baojiao was unwilling to sacrifice the land west of Qingyang that he had promised to cede to the Qin state, and sent troops to attack the Qin state of Nan Commandery, where the former capital of the Chu state was located, the Qin king Won sent the veteran general Wang Qi to attack the chu state, and the Chu king Xiong Baojiao also sent the main force to meet the enemy, resulting in successive defeats, and the general Xiang Yan committed suicide after being defeated by the Qin army.
In 223 BC, after a year of fighting with the Qin-Chu army, the Chu army was finally defeated in the face of exhaustion, and the Qin army invaded the Capital of the Chu State of Shouchun (present-day Shou County, Anhui), the King of Chu Xiong was captured, and the Chu State was destroyed.
Shortly after the fall of the State of Chu, ChangPingjun, a prince of the State of Chu who had been an official in the State of Qin for many years, was proclaimed King of Chu by the former Chu nobles at Ji Yin (present-day Ji Nancheng, Jingzhou, Hubei), but was soon captured and killed by the Qin army.
In order to prevent the remnants of the Chu state from rebelling again, King Yingzheng of Qin moved them out of the territory of the original Chu state one after another.
Among them, Ziwen's descendants migrated several times, and finally settled in the area between the former Jin state and the Dai state after the Qin king won the government to sweep away the six kingdoms and became the first emperor of Qin in 221 BC.
In order to continue to survive, Ziwen's descendants hid their names and chose to take the name "Ban" of the ancestor Chu Ling Yin Ziwen as their surname.
At this point, the Ban family began to officially appear on the stage of history, but it was still in a difficult moment of enduring humiliation and stealing life.
But this dilemma did not last long, because the situation changed too quickly, and even more because of one's wise choice.