There were sixteen Chu kings in the Spring and Autumn Period: 1. Chu Ruo'ao Xiongyi (790 BC - 764 BC), 2. Chu Xiao Ao Xiong Kan (763 BC - 758 BC), 3, Chu Li Wang Xiong Xuan (757 BC - 741 BC), 4, Chu Wu Wang Xiong Tong (740 BC - 690 BC), 5, Chu Wen Wang Xiong Zhen (689 BC - 677 BC), 6, Chu Ao Xiong Yan (676 BC - 672 BC), 7, Chu Cheng Wang Xiong Yun (671 BC - 626 BC), 8. Xiong Shangchen, King of Chumu (625 BC – 614 BC), Xiong Lu the King of Chu Zhuang (613 BC – 591 BC), 10 Xiong Zhen the King of Chu (590 BC – 560 BC), 11 Xiong Zhao the King of Chu Kang (559 BC – 545 BC), 12 Xiong Zhao the King of Chu (544 BC – 541 BC), 13 Xiong Qian the King of Chu Ling (541 BC – 529 BC), 14 Xiong Ju the King of Chu Ping (528 BC – 516 BC), 15, Xiong Yi the King of Chu Zhao (516 BC – 489 BC), 16, Xiong Zhang, King of Chuhui (488 BC – 432 BC).
The author introduced the first thirteen in the previous article, and this article follows the last three Chu juns: Xiongju, the king of Chuping (528 BC - 516 BC), Xiong Yi ,the king of Chu Zhao (516 BC - 489 BC), and Xiong Zhang, the king of Chu Hui (488 BC - 432 BC).
King Chuping was the second Emperor of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period, and his Emperor Chu was no less dim than his brother King Chu Ling. King Ping of Chu was the fifth son of King Gong of Chu, and his real name was Abandoned Disease. In 529 BC, he joined forces with his brothers Gongzi Bi and Gongzi Xi to launch a coup d'état and seize the throne. King Chuping's fainting was manifested in the following aspects:
1. The wife who snatches the son. In 528 BC, in the second year of King Chuping, King Chuping married Princess Meng Wei of the Qin State as his wife for the crown prince Jianjian, and ordered Fei Wuji to go to the Qin State to greet his relatives, Fei Wuji found that Meng Ying was beautiful, and persuaded King Ping to marry himself. King Chuping was lustful and married Meng Wei as his wife. Since then, Fei Wu has become a favorite of the King of Chu, and the contradiction between Prince Jian and the father and son of King Chu Ping has intensified, laying hidden dangers for the decline of the Chu State. In 523 BC, Fei Wuji was afraid that Prince Jian would not be able to succeed to the throne, so he instigated the relationship between King Cheng of Chu and Tai nü Jian, and Prince Jian was forced to leave the capital of Chu and live in Chengfu (present-day Chengfu Town, southeast of The Chengcheng District of Bozhou City). In 522 BC, Fei Wuji again slandered King Ping, falsely accusing Prince Jian of joining forces with Jin to attack Chu, King ChuPing of wanting to execute Prince Jian, and Prince Jian fleeing to the Song kingdom (Shangqiu, Henan). In the same year, in order to avoid the rebellion of the Song dynasty, he fled to zheng guo (新郑, in Henan), and the Zheng people were very kind to prince Jian, because the prince Jian had the possibility of returning to China as a king, but prince Jian took advantage of the trust of the Zheng people to plan an attack on the Zheng state with the Jin people. Zheng Ren detected it, obtained evidence, and killed Prince Jian. After Crown Prince Jian's death, his son Sheng fled from the State of Zheng to the State of Wu. After Gongzi Sheng fled to the State of Wu, he always wanted revenge, and Gongzi Sheng was brave and good at war, posing a threat to the Chu State. In 487 BC, the State of Chu ordered Yin Zixi to recall Sheng from the State of Wu to the State of Chu and let him live in Chaoyi, a place on the border between the State of Chu and the State of Wu, as the Grand Master of Chaoyi, known as Bai Gongsheng, so he was called Bai Gongsheng. Bai Gongsheng liked to use soldiers, corporal Li Xian, and always wanted to attack Zheng Guo to avenge his father. In 483 BC, Bai Gongsheng asked Zixi to attack the State of Zheng, and Zixi agreed, but delayed sending troops. In 481 BC, the State of Jin attacked the State of Zheng, and Zixi led an army to rescue Zheng and accepted bribes from the State of Zheng, and Bai Gongsheng was very angry about this. In 479 BC, after Bai Gongsheng defeated the Wu army, in the name of offering war booty, he took the opportunity to launch a rebellion, killed Zixi and Ziqi, imprisoned King Hui of Chu, and established himself as the King of Chu. Soon Ye Gong led an army to qin wang, and together with the people in the Chu state attacked Bai Gongsheng. Bai Gongsheng was defeated and hanged himself, and King Hui of Chu (grandson of King Chu Ping) returned to the throne.
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2. Persecution of loyal subjects. In the Chu kingdom, there was a family of great generals, the Wu family. Wu Shan was a chancellor of the Chu Dynasty and made great contributions to Chu in the Battle of Jin and Chu. Wu Sansheng Wuju was a chancellor of the Chu Ling Dynasty. Wu Jusheng Wu Hao, the prince of the Chu State, was responsible for teaching Prince Jian, and the prince was framed by Fei Wujie, and Wu Hao was also implicated. The traitorous minister Fei Wuji said to King ChuPing: "Wu Hao has two sons, both of whom are talented, and not killing them will become a scourge for the Chu state." Their father could be summoned as a hostage, or it would become a scourge to the Chu state. King Chuping thought that since Wu Hao's two sons were talented, he wanted to control them first. Send an emissary to Wu Hao, "If you recruit your two sons, you will not die, or your life will be in danger." King Chuping sent someone to summon Wu Hao's two sons and said, "If you come, I will let your father live; if you don't come, kill Wu Hao immediately." Wu Shang wanted to go, and Wu Zixu (Wu Yuan) thought that as soon as the two brothers arrived, the father and son would be killed together. Wu Shang also knew this truth, but he was afraid that the people of the world would laugh at the two brothers and their brothers, regardless of whether their father was dead or alive, and said to Wu Zixu, "You can escape, you can avenge your father's revenge, and I will die with peace of mind." "Wu Shang tied his hands and captured, and the emissary came to capture Wu Zixu." Wu Zixu took the bow and arrow and pointed it at the messenger, but the messenger did not dare to come forward, and Wu Zixu fled. When Wu Hao heard that Wu Zixu had fled, he sighed and said, "The monarchs of the Chu state are about to suffer from war." King Chuping killed Wu Hao and Wu Shang together. Later, Wu Zixu fled to the state of Wu and was highly valued by king Wu.
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There was also a loyal vassal who was persecuted in the Chu state, that is, Hao Wan. Hao Wan was Zuo Yin, the King of Chu, who was honest, wise and capable, and deeply loved by the people, so he was hated by The Young Fu Fei. Fei Wuji provoked the relationship between The Chu State Ling Yin Nangwa (Zi Chang) and Hao Wan, and then acted as a peacemaker, telling Nang wa that he wanted to invite him to dinner. Hao Wan was usually a clean and honest official, and there was nothing good to entertain Nang wa. Fei Wuji said that Ling Yin loved armored soldiers, and he could pick a few good armored weapons to put at the door, so that Yin would definitely watch it when he came. On the day of the banquet, Fei Wuji told Nangwa that Hao Wan would be unfavorable to him and asked him not to go. After Nangwa arrived at Hao Wan's house, he saw the armored weapons placed at the door, became angry, and ordered an attack on Hao. The Hao Wan clan was killed, and only their son Yao fled to the State of Wu, which was the famous Bo Yao.
Bo Zhao and Wu Zixu were used by King Wu, and King Wu decided to avenge them. In 506 BC, the State of Chu ordered Yin Nangwa to attack the State of Cai, and the State of Cai asked its ally the State of Jin for help, and zhongxingyin, the Grand Master of Jin, asked Cai Guo for a bribe and did not allow the State of Jin to save Cai. Here it has to be said that this ZhonghangYin had asked Zheng Guo for bribes before, but he did not get it, so the relationship between Jin and Zheng deteriorated. At that time, some qing masters of the Jin Dynasty often demanded bribes from some small countries, such as Hao Yi, who had asked for bribes from the State of Lu. This kind of immoral behavior has harmed the country, and eventually caused the destruction of one's own family, and also caused the country to decline as a result. Both the Zhongxing and Hao clans of the Jin state were exterminated, and the Jin state also lost its hegemonic status. Continuing above, Cai Guo asked the State of Jin for help, and then asked the State of Wu for help, and Wu Zixu, a major minister of the State of Wu, and Bo Yao and the State of Chu both had a feud against each other, and persuaded the King of Wu to attack Chu. He agreed to the request of the two men, personally went out on the expedition, and with Sun Wu as the general and Zi Xu and Bo Zhao as the deputy generals, led 30,000 elite troops on a long journey to attack Chu. The Wu army fought against the Chu Nangwa army at Baiju (present-day east of Macheng, Hubei Province), wu jun won, five battles and five victories, and always attacked the capital of Ying, creating a miracle of 30,000 Wu troops defeating 600,000 Chu troops, so Sun Wu was called a soldier. After occupying the capital of Chu, King Wu excavated the tomb of King Chuping and whipped the corpses of three hundred to avenge Wu and Bo. Ling Yin Nangwa fled to the State of Zheng; King Chu Zhao fled into Yun Mengze, was attacked by local bandits, and fled to Sui. Shen Baoxu, the grand master of the Chu state, asked for help from Qin, and Qin did not agree at first, Shen Baoxu cried in the Qin state for seven days, and Qin Waigong took pity on him and sent troops to save Chu. Sun Wu, the commander of the Wu army, advocated retreating, and Bo Yao made a military decree to lu Lu to lead the army out, but was defeated by the State of Qin, and Wu Zixu led the army to rescue him and pleaded with the King of Wu to spare him for the crime of losing his master. Sun Wu hated Bo Yao for this. At this time, the Wu army had been on an expedition for more than a year, and the time had reached 505 BC, and the brother of the Wu king Fu Lu established himself as king, in this case, the Wu army returned to China and Lu Lu regained the throne.
Third, traitors are in charge and political corruption. King Chuping did not use loyal subjects, but used a group of villains such as Nangwa and Fei Wuji. Nangwa laughed at Chu's Yanzi, "I have heard that the kings and generals are all burly and handsome, so they can make contributions to the present generation and leave their names behind." And you're less than five feet tall, and you can't beat a chicken, don't you feel ashamed?" Yan Zi replied: "Although the scale camel is small, it can press a thousand pounds; The oars are long and eventually water service. Qiao Ru was killed by the State of Lu, nangong Wanqi died of the State of Song, you think you are tall, is not only the royal horse of the King of Chu? Although I am not talented, I can stand alone and faithfully serve the country. "Nangwa is ashamed. Namwa has also asked for bribes from other countries. In 510 BC, Tang Chenggong and Cai Zhaohou came to see the King of Chu. When Nangwa learned that they had a BMW and a jade pendant, he asked them for it, but neither marquis refused, so Nangwa told King Zhao, saying that they would serve as a guide for the State of Wu to attack the State of Chu, so that the two marquises were imprisoned for three years and handed over the treasure to Nangwa before escaping. In order to shame, Marquis Cai Zhaohou asked King Wu to send troops, which was the Battle of Baiju in 506 BC. When King Chu Zhao learned of the reason for Wu Guo's conquest of Chu, he scolded Nang wa bitterly: "Misleading the country and committing adultery, secretly born in the world, dogs do not eat their flesh!" After the defeat of Chu, Wu Zixu learned that Nangwa was in Zheng, so he sent troops to surround Zheng. Zheng Guogang died Xianchen Youji, Zheng Dinggong was afraid, blamed on Nangwa, and Nangwa committed suicide.
In order to get the king of Chu to reuse himself, Fei Wuji asked the king of Chu Ping to marry the wife of Prince Jian. Later, he was worried that Prince Jian would not be good for him after he ascended the throne, so he constantly separated King Ping and Prince Jian. After persecuting Prince Jian, he harmed Wu Hao's entire family, and Wu Zixu escaped to the State of Wu by chance, laying the groundwork for the chaos in the State of Chu. Later, Fei Wuji was jealous of Zuo Yin's status and good name in the hearts of the people, and killed his entire family by the hand of Nangwa, and Bo Yao, the son of Hao Wan, ran to the State of Wu. The people of the country complained that Yin Nangwa and Nangwa (Zi Chang) killed Fei Wujie and exterminated his clan.