King Zhao of Chu

King Zhao of Chu

King Zhao of Chu (about 523-489 BC), surnamed MI, surnamed Xiong, named Ren, also known as Yu (Zhen), was the son of King Ping of Chu and the king of Chu in the spring and Autumn period. Ten years ago, Zhaozi was the second king of Chu. He died 516 years ago. King Zhao of Chu was a leader of the state of Chu.

Life of the characters

Succession to the throne

In 527 BC (the second year of King Ping of Chu), King Ping of Chu sent Fei Wuji, a doctor, to the state of Qin to marry the prince. The bride was very beautiful. Before she arrived in the capital, Fei Wuji went back to the capital and said to King Ping of Chu, "this woman of the state of Qin is so beautiful. You can marry her yourself and find another one for the prince." After listening to him, King Ping of Chu finally married the woman of Qin, gave birth to her son Zhen, and married the prince Jian.

In 516 BC (the 13th year of King Chuping), King Chuping died. The general often said, "Prince Zhen is young, and his mother is the one that former Prince Jian should marry. I want to make Yin Zixi king. " Zixi was the younger brother of King Ping of Chu. He was benevolent and righteous. Zixi said: "the state has certain rules, and the change of the monarch will bring disaster and chaos. Besides, the change of the monarch will lead to killing." So he still established Prince Zhen as king Zhao of Chu.

In 515 BC (the first year of King Zhao of Chu), the people of Chu did not like Fei Wuji. Because he slandered Prince Jian, Prince Jian fled and killed Wu she, his father and son, and Ying Wan. Bo Chu and Wu Zixu, the sons of Bo's family of yingwan's Tongzong, fled to the state of Wu. The army of the state of Wu invaded the state of Chu many times, and the people of the state of Chu resented Fei Wuji. The state of Chu ordered Yin Zichang to kill Fei Wuji to please the people of the state of Chu.

reign

In 514 B.C. (the second year of King Zhao of Chu), King Liao of Wu took advantage of the death of King Ping of Chu and the turbulent situation in Chu, and sent troops to attack Chu. He sent his younger brother masyu and his younger brother Zhuyong to encircle Liuyi and Qianyi (now the northeast of Huoshan in Anhui Province) of the state of Chu. Wu army was cut off by Chu army and was in a dilemma. When there was a coup in the state of Wu, my son fled to the state of Xu, and my son Zhuyong ran to Zhongwu (now Suqian, Jiangsu).

In 512 B.C. (the fourth year of King Zhao of Chu), King Helu of Wu asked Xu to extradite his son to cover Yu and Zhong Wu to extradite his son Zhuyong. The second son had no choice but to seek refuge from Chu. King Zhao of Chu ordered the eunuch Ma Yin to meet the second son and put them in Yangyi (now Shenqiu County in Henan Province) to build a city for the second son. He also used his father and Huyi to carve out fields and expand the fiefdom of the second son. He Lu, the king of Wu, attacked and destroyed the two states at one stroke because of the connivance of Xu and Zhong Wu. Then he ordered Wu Zixu to be a passer-by and asked about the strategy of attacking the state of Chu. Wu Zixu proposed to divide Wu's army into three parts and harass the state of Chu in turn. Before long, Wu Zixu was appointed to be in power and became a minister of state. He Lu, Wu Zixu, Sun Wu, and Bo Chu led the army to attack the state of Chu and seize the capital of Chu. They killed master Mu Yu and Master Zhu Yong. He Lu, the king of Wu, asked the generals if they could invade Yingdu, the capital of the state of Chu (now in the northwest of Jiangling, Hubei). Sun Wu said, "the people are tired. They can't attack Yingdu. They have to wait for the right time." He Lu, king of Wu, followed his advice.

In 511 B.C. (the fifth year of King Zhao of Chu), Wu invaded the state of Chu, attacked the barbarians, and pushed to Qian and Liu. When the commander of Chu, Shen, yin and Xu rescued the submarine, Wu returned. After that, Wu Shi besieged Chu's Xian. Zuo Sima Shu and you Sima Ji rescued Xian and arrived at Yuzhang. Wu Shi returned. (in addition: records of the historian is about the capture of Qian and Liu.) In 509 B.C. (the seventh year of King Zhao of Chu) (or 508 B.C.), the king of Wu asked Shu Jiu's family to deceive the people of Chu, saying, "if Chu came to Wu as a teacher, Wu would be afraid of Chu's power, so he could cut tung trees on behalf of Chu." The king of Wu explained to Shu Jiu that this was to make Chu get rid of Wu's scruples. Sure enough, in the autumn of this year, the state of Chu sent Zichang and nangwa to attack the state of Wu. The Wu army defeated the Chu army in Yuzhang. Then it conquered the nest and captured the Chu doctor Gongzi fan alive.

In the spring of 506 B.C. (the 10th year of King Zhao of Chu), a total of 18 states, including Jin, Qi, Lu, song, Cai, Wei, Chen, Zheng, Xu, Cao, Tai, Ying, dun, Hu, Teng, Xue, Qi and Xiaoying, joined a league in Zhaoling to discuss the conquest of Chu. Wu's army sailed up the Huaihe River in a boat, then left the boat to go through the pass in the east of Han Dynasty and made a direct advance to Chu. When the state of Chu heard of Wu's invasion, it also sent troops to cross the Han River and fought three battles with Wu from xiaobie mountain to Dabie Mountain. Then the Wu and Chu armies confronted Baiju. He Lu's younger brother and husband first attacked Chu Zichang's death with his 5000 subordinates. Chu's division was in chaos, and Wu's army went out to pursue him until qingfashui (now in Anlu County, Hubei Province). When half of Chu's master had crossed the river, his husband would attack. Chu's master had no heart to fight, and he was defeated and fled. On the road, Chu master was hungry and prepared to cook. Wu army fought hard, Chu division abandoned food and fled. Wu army defeated Chu division again in Yong. Under the direct command of Sun Wu and Wu Yuan, after five world wars, it took only ten days to invade Chu capital Ying.

After the war of Baiju, the Zhaowang family and his younger sister Ji took refuge in the capital. King Zhao crossed the Han River one night when he was sleeping in the open when he met a robber. The robber attacked King Zhao with a dagger. Because Wang sun fell on him, King Zhao was all right. Because Wang sun was seriously injured in his shoulder, he was unconscious. In the darkness and confusion, King Zhao and his party fled to Yun state. Duke Yun is Xin, and his younger brother has Huai and nest. Dou Huai wants to kill King Zhao and avenge his father, but Dou Xin stops him. Xin He Chao escorted King Zhao and his party to suiguo.

Shen Baoxu, a doctor of Chu, went to the state of Qin for help and said to Duke AI of Qin, "the state of Wu is like a wild boar and a big worm (a long snake). He wants to swallow up the upper Kingdom one by one. When our country is destroyed, there will be no peace in your country. Why don't you send troops? At least some of the land and people can be allocated to the army. If our country will never be robbed again, it will also be your land and people. If you intend to preserve our country, we will serve you for generations. " After hearing this, Duke AI of Qin was not moved. He said he wanted to discuss it. Shen Baoxu refused to leave and eat. After seven days and nights of crying, Duke AI of Qin finally agreed to send troops.

The elder brother Xi Jianshu of King Zhao established the king's banner to calm people's hearts, gather scattered soldiers and organize the Anti Japanese war. By 505 B.C., the war had brought several other countries in, deep or shallow. Seeing that the state of Chu was destroyed by Wu Shi, Emperor Zhou sent assassins to the state of Chu and killed Prince Chao. CAI was short of food because he was in charge of the supply of Wu division. He asked Lu for help. Lu sent some millet to CAI. The king of Yue agreed that the main force of Wu division did not return for a long time and attacked the state of Wu. Qin division 500 by, to zipu, Zihu as the commander, out of Wuguan, over Shen County, defeated the king in Yiyi. At the same time, the scattered and reunited Chu division defeated Wu division Yu Junxiang (now southwest of Suizhou City, Hubei Province). The Qin master was in and out of Fangcheng, and the Chu master was in and out of the Han River. The Chu people supported the Qin master and the Chu master and obstructed the Wu master. In the autumn of that year, Chu and Qin fought together to destroy the state of Tang. He Lu saw that the general situation in front of him was gone, and that the rear was in great danger. He immediately ordered the whole army to withdraw to the state of Wu.

After Wu Shi retreated, King Zhao returned to Yingdu in October. The war, which lasted more than 10 months, was finally over. In this war, the people who suffered the most were the people in Yingdu, which was devastated by Wu Shi. On April 15, 504 BC, the prince of Wu finally defeated the water army of Chu and captured pan Zichen, Xiao Weizi and seven officials. The state of Chu was in great fear of extinction. Ziqi and his army were defeated in Fanyang. Yin Zixi said happily, "now we can govern." From then on, Yingdu was moved to Yingdi to reform politics and stabilize Chu state. After moving the capital, the new capital is still called Ying, to show that it does not forget its old. Ying, as the capital since the winter of the 11th year of King Zhao, is called "Zai Ying".

In February 496 BC, the state of Chu was destroyed. In February 495 BC, the state of Chu destroyed the state of Hu and captured Hu Zibao. In the spring of 494 BC, King Zhao of Chu united with Chen, Sui and Xu to encircle the capital of CAI. A mile from the city, the fortress is one foot wide and two feet high. Yefu was stationed for nine days and nights, the same as Zixi's plan. The people of the state of CAI arranged and bound male and female slaves as gifts. King Zhao of Chu asked the state of CAI to move between the Yangtze River and Rushui. In the summer of 491 BC, the state of Chu captured Yihu and began to plan to expand to the north.

Death

In the spring of the 27th year of King Zhao of Chu (489 BC), the state of Wu attacked the state of Chen. King Zhao of Chu rescued the state of Chen and stationed troops in Chengfu. In October, King Zhao fell ill in the army. There are red clouds in the sky, flying around the sun like birds. King Zhao asked Zhou Taishi about good or bad luck. Taishi said, "this is harmful to the king of Chu, but it can bring disaster to the generals." When Jiang Xiang heard this, he asked to pray to God and take the place of King Zhao. King Zhao said, "Jiang Xiang is just like my brothers. Can I get rid of my illness by shifting the disaster to my brothers today?" King Zhao did not agree. Divination causes, that is the Yellow River in trouble. The doctors asked for a sacrifice to the river god. King Zhao said: "since our first king was granted the throne, the Dachuan river that we sacrificed from afar is just the Yangtze River and the Han River. We have never offended the God of the Yellow River." King Zhao did not answer the doctor's request.

On his deathbed, King Zhao of Chu asked Zixi to succeed him as king, but Zixi refused to accept. Ziqi's attitude was just like Zixi's. The king of Zhao asked Zilu (gongziqi) to succeed him, but Zilu also insisted on not accepting it. The king of Zhao said it five times in a row, and Zilu resigned five times in a row. When Zilu saw that the situation was like this, in order to comfort King Zhao, he pretended to be ordered. In July, when King Zhao died, Zilu and Zixi and Ziqi decided to block the news and block the intersection. They secretly sent a capable messenger back to Yingdu to welcome Prince Xiong Zhang to Chengfu and make him king. After Huiwang was established, Chu Shicai returned to China. Later, King Zhao was buried.

Character evaluation

Confucius: "King Zhao of Chu knows the way. It's not too bad for the country! "Xia Shu" says: "only the Tao of Tang Dynasty, the handsome of Tian Chang, there is such a hope. Today, he lost his deeds and disorganized his records, but he died.

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