Later Chu Huai Wang Xiong Xin Profile: Chu Yi Emperor: that is, Xiong Xin, the grandson of Xiong Huai, the King of Chu Huai during the Warring States period, after the death of Chu, he hid the people as a shepherd. Xiang Liang revolted, took Fan Zeng's advice, proclaimed himself Wu Xinjun and established Xiongxin as the King of Chuhuai, in order to obey the people's expectations. Xiang Liang was defeated and killed at Dingtao, and King Huai, with Song Yi as his general and Xiang Yu as his second general, led his troops to save Zhao. He also ordered Liu Bangxi to enter the customs slightly. Make an appointment with the generals, and enter the king first. Xiang Yu killed Song Yi and defeated Zhang Handan at Julu, and King Huai made Xiang Yu a general. Later, Liu Bang entered Guanzhong first, and Xiang Yu made people report to the King of Huai. King Huai replied to the original agreement, and Xiang Yu resented King Huai, so he pretended to honor King Huai as emperor of righteousness and moved to Changsha Chenxian County, while secretly ordering Yingbu and others to kill King Huai in the Yangtze River.
Biography:
Attack the King of Huai
In the autumn and July of the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled against Qin in Daze Township (大泽乡, in present-day Su County, Anhui), and after capturing Chen County, they established the state name "Zhang Chu", and Chen Sheng proclaimed himself the King of Chu. In September, Liu Bang of Chu raised an army in his hometown of Feng County (present-day Feng County, Jiangsu), responded to Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, attacked Pei County (沛县, in modern Pei County, Jiangsu) in the east, and was supported by Xiao He and others as the Duke of Pei (i.e., the governor of Pei County). In the same month, after the famous Chu general Xiang Yan, Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew raised troops at Huiji (present-day Shaoxing), and Xiang Liang called himself Wu Xinjun.
In the second year of Qin II (208 BC), Chen Sheng was defeated by the Qin general Zhang Handan, and his whereabouts are unknown. In June of the same summer, Xiang Liang learned that Chen Sheng had been killed, so he summoned Liu Bang and other generals to Xue County (薛县, in modern Teng County, Shandong) to discuss anti-Qin plans. The strategist Fan Zeng said: "Chen Sheng lost Gudang (of course). Fu Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and Chu was the most innocent. Since King Huai (Xiong Huai) entered Qin, the Chu people have taken pity on him so far, so (so) Chu Nan Gong said, 'Although Chu has three households, qin will die chu also'. Now Chen Sheng's first thing, not to establish chu (descendants of the king of Chu) but to stand on his own, his momentum is not long (not long). The generals of Jinjun (Xiang's uncle and nephew) from Jiangdong and Chu bee (swarming up) all competed for the king, and the Chu generals of the Junshi Dynasty were also "History of Xiang Yu Benji" in order not to restore Chu." Xiang Liang took Fan Zeng's advice and visited Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Huai of Chu, a descendant of king Huai of Chu, to become the King of Chu Huai, with the capital at Xutai (盱台, in modern Xuyi, Jiangsu). Xiong Xin had the same nickname as his grandfather in order to inherit his prestige and "follow the expectations of the people".
Plotting to destroy Qin
In the autumn of the second year of Qin II (208 BC), the Qin general Zhang Handan defeated the Chu army at Dingtao (定陶, in present-day Dingtao County, Shandong), and Xiang Liang was defeated and killed. At this time, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were still attacking Chen Liu (陳留, southeast of present-day Kaifeng, Henan), while Chen Sheng's old capital Lü Chen was stationed in chen county (present-day Huaiyang, Henan), both located southwest of Dingtao, and if the Qin army took advantage of the situation to move south, Xutai would be in danger. Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, in order to stabilize the hearts of the army, defend the King of Huai, resist the Qin army, and hurriedly moved his division back to the east, and asked the King of Huai to move north to the capital Pengcheng (present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu), Lü Chen also felt that the situation was grim, abandoned Chen County, and defected to the King of Huai, garrisoning Peng Chengdong, and Xiang Yu stationed in the west of Pengcheng, liu Bang stationed in The County of Pengcheng (present-day Zhongshan, Anhui) formed a horn with each other and supported each other. The Qin general Zhang Handan "had broken the Xiangliang, thinking that the Chu soldiers were not worried enough, but crossed the river north to attack Zhao." The military pressure on Chu temporarily subsided, and King Huai began to rectify the political situation of the Chu state, and personally managed the military and political affairs of the Chu state, and actively planned the strategic arrangement of cutting down Qin and destroying Qin.
In September, "King Huai and Lü Chen, Xiang Yu's army took command of it", that is, xiang Yu and Lü Chen's two armies were merged into one place under his direct command, and King Huai began to take charge of all the anti-Qin rebel armies in the south. King Huai promoted Song Yi to the title of Champion of Qingzi, established his cronies in charge of the army, and led Xiang Yu, Fan Zeng, and Yingbu to go north to save Zhao. At the same time, he issued a famous political declaration, and agreed with the generals that "the king who first breaks the Qin into Xianyang will be the king." He also agreed that Liu Bang would collect xiangliang and Chen Sheng's remnants and march west to attack Qin. However, Xiang Yu was unwilling to go north to save Zhao, and was more willing to enter the pass with Liu Bangxi. King Huai believed that "Xiang Yu was a fierce man, and the Duke of Du pei was lenient and elderly, and could be dispatched", but did not agree to Xiang Yu's request, but only sent the Duke of Pei to the west to attack Qin.
The State of Qin collapsed
At the beginning of the first year of the Han Dynasty (206 BC) (winter October), Liu Bang, the Duke of Pei, "entered Xianyang and Pingqin". Two months later (winter December), Xiang Yu supported 400,000 troops after the giant deer broke the main force of the Qin army and followed Liu Bang into the pass, "killing the prince and baby of Qin and slaughtering Xianyang".
Overlord usurpation
After the fall of Qin, Xiang Yu entered the customs later than Liu Bang, so he also reported to the King of Huai that he had requested to change the previous agreement of "the king who entered the customs first", and the king of Huai did not allow it. Xiang Yu was originally resentful of King Huai's refusal to send him to enter the pass with Pei Gongju, but at this time he was even more angry, complaining that "the king of Huai, the ear of my family (Xiang family), is not meritorious, how can he get the special lord covenant (how to preside over the agreement alone) ("Book of Han, Gao Emperor Ji")," and also said: "When the world first started to trouble, the false princes (descendants) were set up to cut down Qin." However, those who were firmly committed to the first thing, exposed to the wild for three years, and destroyed the Qin Dynasty, all of them would be able to match the power of the kings and the emperor (Xiang Yu). Although the Yi Emperor was ineffective, he should divide his land and the king (the king of the divided land) ("History of Xiang Yu Benji"). In the first month of spring, Xiang Yu pretended to honor King Huai as the Righteous Emperor, "but in fact, he did not need his life." In the spring and February, Xiang Yu imitated the old system and divided the princes into large lines. He also established himself as the King of Western Chu, took the capital of the Yi Emperor, Pengcheng, as his own, and forced the Yi Emperor to move the capital to Chenxian County, Changsha County, under the pretext of "the emperor of the ancients, the place is thousands of miles, will live upstream". Chenxian is located in the northern foothills of the Five Ridges, in ancient times, the land of the Southern Barbarians and Hundred Yues, located in the upper reaches of the xiang river. At the beginning of the Warring States period, it was still in a clan society of "each with its own dependence", and the Chu people called it "Ling", which means a place full of artemisia annua. In the middle of the Warring States period, the king of Chu mourned Wu Qi as the "Nanping Baiyue", and the "Ling" was conquered by Chu and the southern frontier of Chu. During the period of XiongHuai, king of Chuhuai, Fang formed a city of a certain scale, so it was renamed "Chen", (according to the Chu "Ejun Qizhou Festival" inscription, the original seal left from "邑", the right from the beginning of "廪" The Chu seal character is the tongnese character of "郴", which originally means "remote Yi"). How can Chencheng be compared to the prosperity of Pengcheng. Emperor Yi naturally refused to move the capital and still lived in Pengcheng.
Chenxian was killed
In the summer and April of the first year of the Yi Emperor (206 BC), Xiang Yu wanted to return the capital to Pengcheng. How willing to let the Yi Emperor live in a city with him, so he sent generals to force the Yi Emperor to migrate, and the Yi Emperor had no choice but to go to the capital, but the left and right subjects, attached to their hometown, complained bitterly, and did not agree to move quickly. Xiang Yu was furious and secretly ordered the three kings of the land through which Emperor Yi was passing (Yingbu the King of Jiujiang, Wu Rui the King of Hengshan, and Gong'ao the King of Linjiang) to kill the Yi Emperor on the way. In the first year of the Yi Emperor,that is, in the winter of the first year of the Han Dynasty (206 BC), Yingbu sent to Chenxian County, and killed the Yi Emperor in Chencheng. The Chen people took pity on him and buried the Yi Emperor in the back hill southwest of the city.
After death
In March of the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), Liu Bang of Han crossed the Yellow River to Luoyang in the east, passing through Xincheng (present-day Shangqiu, Henan), and when the three old Dong Gong received the news of the death of Emperor Zhiyi, the King of Han was very sad, causing the three armies to mourn for three days. A message was issued to the whole country: "The whole world will establish a righteous emperor, and the north will do things." Now Xiang Yu let go of the Killing Of the Righteous Emperor in Jiangnan, and there was no way to rebel! The widows are mourned, and the princes are all mused. The soldiers of Xifa Guan, willing to kill the Righteous Emperor from the princes of Chu ("History of Emperor Gao")." In response, the princes of the world responded, and the King of Han had all kinds of armies, a total of 560,000 people, to kill Pengcheng, to fight against Xiang Yu, and to open the prelude to the three-year Chu-Han war.
In 202 BC, after Liu Bang destroyed Xiang Yu, unified the world, and established the Han Dynasty, he sent the three marquises of Wang Ling, Zhou Bo, and Fan Duo to Chen to mourn the Yi Emperor. Later generations built ancestral temples to honor the Yidi Emperor, and established the Three Marquis ancestral halls in Yongxing and Guidong.