King Ling of Chu

King Ling of Chu

King Ling of Chu? In 529 B.C.), the surname MI, the surname Xiong, was originally named Wei. He was the second son of the king of the Communist Party of Chu. He killed his nephew, Chu Ying Ao, to stand on his own. That is to say, he changed his name to Qian after he became king. In 541 B.C., he became the king of the state of Chu. He was famous for extravagance and lust in the spring and Autumn period. In 531 BC, the kingdom of Chu was destroyed. In 530 BC, troops were sent to encircle Xu and threaten the state of Wu. In 529 BC, the people of Chu overthrew his rule. King Ling fled, his followers left one after another, and finally hanged himself in the suburbs.

King Ling of Chu had two sons, Xiong Lu (Shizi) and Xiong Xundi, who were all killed by Duke Cai Xiong.

Life of the characters

Early experience

King Ling of Chu was born in Shangying (now Southeast of Yicheng, Hubei). In the fourth year of the reign of Chu Ying Ao (Gengshen, 541 BC), Chu Ying Ao was sick and bedridden. Therefore, MI xiongqian, on the pretext of visiting the palace, killed Chu Ying Ao with the long tassel of the crown. In 540 BC, he became the king of Chu and changed his name to Qian. The capital is located in Shangying. When he ascended the throne, it was the time when Chu and Jin shared the hegemony equally.

Lay the foundation for disaster

In the third year of the reign of King Ling of Chu (537 BC), the princes sent people to all countries and invited them to join the kingdom of Chu. However, King Ling did not make good use of the opportunity of the alliance. The states of Lu and Wei did not attend the meeting, and the state of song sent only one representative. This made king Ling very unhappy, especially for the absence of Jin, which made king Ling very angry.

Minister Wu Ju told King Ling: "this situation is not a good omen. On the one hand, we should be polite to all the countries present at the meeting, and at the same time, we should show our force to make the vassals feel awed, and then we will attack those vassals who are not present."

The spirit king did not take his words to heart. He was in the league. Show the habit of arrogance everywhere. Insulting the envoys sent by other countries on the spot, killing some innocent subordinates, and being impolite to the kings of the countries they came to, this laid the root of the disaster.

Loss of popular support

The king of spirit only believed in power. In order to gain a good reputation, he attacked Zhu Fang (place name) of the state of Wu, captured Yin Qingfeng, the former commander of the state of Qi, who had taken part in the killing of Duke Zhuang of Qi and fled there for refuge, killed his family, and pulled him to the street for public display. The king of spirit announced to the public, "don't learn from Qingfeng. He killed his monarch, oppressed the common people, and forced the doctors to support him. “

Qingfeng retorted, "don't be like the son of the king of Chu. He killed his own monarch, who was the son of his own brother. And force the princes to support him. "

Qingfeng humiliated the state of Chu, only made king Ling blush. People all over the street laughed when they saw it. The king of spirit became angry and ordered to kill Qing.

In order to maintain the face of the overlord, King Ling of Chu. There were wars with the vassal states. In the name of calming down the chaos in Chen, although he killed several doctors who led to the chaos in Chen, he took the opportunity to kill Chen, seduced and killed Cai Linghou, ignored the mediation of the princes to attack and destroy Cai, and even killed the son of CAI as a sacrifice to God. For the humiliation of the failure of the battle of Zhu Fang, the state of Wu set up troops to attack Chu. King Ling went to attack Wu for revenge, but failed. In order to cover up his failure, he did not want to rectify military affairs. However, he ordered to build a palace, called "Zhanghua Palace", which covers an area of 40 Li, with a high platform built in the middle, which is called "Zhanghua platform", also called "sanxiu platform". Taking its height as its height, it had to rest three times in the middle of climbing to the top. Besides, a large number of pavilions and pavilions were built around the platform, which was extremely exquisite. After the high platform was built, King Ling sent his ministers to gather the princes to celebrate its completion. From then on, he lived in Zhanghua palace and enjoyed himself.

In this way, King Ling of Chu did whatever he wanted. The successive years of war consumed the accumulation of his ancestors for many years, wasted time and money, and lost the popular support of the people.

In the winter of the eleventh year of King Ling of Chu, King Ling of Chu sent troops to fight Xu. It was snowing, and the soldiers were wearing armor. Armed with weapons, exposed to the wind and snow, cold unbearable. However, the king of spirit, wearing a "belly pottery fur", a "green feather fur", a leather hat on his head, and a pair of brocade boots decorated with leopard skin, stood in front of the Chinese army tent to watch the snow scene and repeatedly praised "good snow! "The pennies are colder than ever.

Lose the throne

So King Ling stayed in Qianxi, eating, drinking and having fun every day, so that he completely forgot the major events of his country. You Yin Zheng Dan once advised his head teacher. He had already talked about it, but it happened that the general who defeated Xu sent him a good news. King Ling thought that the state of Xu would be destroyed sooner or later, so he did not mention the matter of the headmaster. He has been fighting abroad for many years, but he didn't expect an accident at home. Cai Gong abandoned Ji (the younger brother of King Ling, later King Ping of Chu) and others killed Prince Lu, the son of King Ling, while King Ling was not at home, and set up another elder brother to be king. At the same time, they sent people to Qianxi to say to the officers and soldiers of the state of Chu, "your country has changed into a new king. If you want to go back, you can stay in the original official position, and the land you own will be changed I can return it to you; if you don't go back to join the new king, you can continue to follow this fatuous king. Then when you are caught, you will be beheaded and annihilated. "

Let them say that the troops of the king of spirit were very dissatisfied, so they scattered all at once, leaving only the king of spirit in Qianxi.

The fatuous king saw that his throne had been lost. He also heard that his son had been killed, so he fell down on the ground and cried loudly. "I'm not sad for myself, I'm sad for my son," he said to the two remaining attendants. How good I am to my son. How can I get this kind of retribution? "

At this time, an attendant said: "you kill other people's sons too much, can't you reach this point?" the king of spirit was robbed by him, and stopped his tears immediately.

At this time, Zheng Dan came to his side. King Ling trusted him so much that he asked Zheng Dan, who said, "I think you should go back to the outskirts of the capital of Chu to see how the Chinese reacted? "Spirit king flurried to wave a hand:" this still use to see? If I arrive at their hand, they definitely must kill me. "

Zheng Dan said, "then go to the princes' home to find help."

The spirit king said, "that's no good. I've offended their king. Who will help me at this time?" Zheng Dan felt that the monarch who had been invincible before was really pitiful now. He was so unrighteous that he would kill himself. Finally, he felt that he could not help him, so he left him.

hang oneself

King Ling of Chu was very lonely. He wandered in the mountains alone. When he was hungry, he wanted to go down the mountain and order some food. When he met a former acquaintance juanrenchou, he said to him warmly, "I haven't eaten for three days and three nights. Please give me something to eat. "But the man said," our new king has ordered that anyone who gives you food will be beheaded. "The spirit king was angry, hungry and tired. He fell to the ground, just pressed on the man's leg and fainted. The man pulled out his leg and said as he walked, "you wicked guy, you have this day too! "The king of spirit later met Shen Hai, the son of the doctor Shen Wuyu. Before and after he became king, Shen Wuyu offended him out of uprightness, but he didn't deal with Shen Wuyu, so Shen Wuyu told Shen hai to repay the king's kindness when he died. Shen Hai invited the king of spirit to his home, gave him food, and asked his two daughters to serve him. But the king of spirit had no idea. He couldn't take off his clothes and just cried. In the middle of the night, there was no crying. Shen Hai's daughter told her father that King Ling of Chu had hanged herself. Shen Hai killed his two daughters and buried them for the king of spirit.

Burial of Wang Li

After the death of King Ling of Chu, the news of his death did not spread. Cai Gong abandoned his illness and followed his advice. He pretended that the king of spirit had come back. He was so scared that he killed himself that he became king of Chu. At that time, the body of King Ling of Chu had not been found, only the clothes discarded by King Ling. In order to stabilize people's mind, King Ping found an unknown corpse near the place where the king of spirit was in trouble, put on the clothes of the king of spirit, pretended to find the body of the king of spirit. Three years later, King Ping visited the body of King Ling again. After Shenhai came out, the body of King Ling was found and buried again.

Historical allusions

The king of spirit has a fine waist

King Ling of Chu preferred people with thin waists. "King of Chu likes thin waists, and most of them starve to death in the palace" refers to him. So a group of ministers in the central court reduced three meals a day to only one. Then get up and get dressed. First hold your breath, then fasten your belt and stand up against the wall. A year later, the faces of civil and military officials in Manchu Dynasty were black and yellow.

Lingwang and Changqiu

It's said that King Ling loves hunting. One day, when hunting near fangyingtai, he ran into a young lady named Changqiu, who has a small family of Jasper. The lecherous King Ling fell in love with Changqiu at first sight. He is a man of reason, unwilling to marry the king of spirit, and unwilling to share with other women. The king of spirit built a garden nearby and named it Changqiu village. He hoped to share the common life of husband and wife with Changqiu here, and named the residence of Changqiu Mengyuan. Changqiu fell in love with him and fell in love with the king of spirit. However, for a long time, King Ling lost interest in Xianshu's Changqiu. He felt that she was not good at flattering. Changqiu fell out of favor. King Ling no longer stayed in Mengyuan, nor was he marrying Changqiu. After a long and gloomy autumn, the king felt the pain of losing his heart and changed the dream garden to Yimeng garden, which means that the beauty has gone and the dream is empty. Since then, the place has always been named Changqiu, which is also called yimengyuan (yuan). I hope Changqiu dream can be realized.

Orange is more than Huaihe

Yanzi is going to be an envoy to Chu. When King Ling of Chu knew this, he asked his ministers and bodyguards, "Yan Ying is a good rhetorical person in the state of Qi. Now he is coming to the state of Chu. What can I do to humiliate him?" The minister replied, "when Yan Ying comes, please allow him to bind a man and pass by in front of the king

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