Chapter 520
"The road is blue and arduous to open the mountains and forests. There are barbarians who belong to China. If they don't make a sound, they will make a splash." --- "Zuo Zhuan"
The ancestors of Chu at that time wore torn clothes and pulled firewood carts to reclaim the hillside forest land, founded the Chu State, and established the essence of Chu culture that was proactive, reformed the past and promoted the innovation, opened up and integrated, and refused to surrender until death.
Yuxiong, the king of Chu, has been practicing literature and martial arts since he was a child, and is proficient in literature and martial arts. He has the talent to govern the country and ensure national stability. Although he was ninety years old, he was still ambitious. Ji Chang specially visited him in Jingshan. When Yuxiong saw Ji Chang, he was overjoyed and said, "I have long admired the name of my name and wanted to join the people. Unexpectedly, the wise ruler was humble and respectful to the corporals. He came to my country. I am very lucky!" Ji Chang saw Yuxiong's long-term silver beard, and he said regretfully: "Although the old man has ambitions, he is just in his twilight years. When can he shine?" After hearing this, Yuxiong said confidently: "Although I am old, I can't beat the generals, but I can't do anything, but I plan my own plan.
The tent is still not old!” Seeing that he was right, Ji Chang was eager to submit, and asked, “How can you assist me in making achievements for thousands of years and building careers for thousands of years?” Yuxiong replied, “Now King Zhou is tyrannical, causing chaos in the world. In order to be in a corner, the princes captured the people and filled their troops, scattered the people’s wealth and food, and made the people suffer in a miserable way. I assisted the wise king to recruit talents and recruited the princes under my command, and restrained them with the ropes of law; to exert be kind and moral, the world will return to the hearts of the people; to mourn the people to replace Zhou, and to build the foundation for thousands of years. Then, to cultivate literature and martial arts, to teach the people to serve the people, and to revitalize all industries, so that the country can be prosperous and the people can be peaceful and peaceful in the world."
When King Wen heard this, he was shocked and bowed his hands in panic and said, "The old man is indeed talented and wise. Please get on the bus and go to Xiqi to plan major events together."
After Yuxiong arrived in Xiqi, he was regarded as a counselor and respected as a teacher. Later, he made many contributions and became a founding hero of the Zhou Dynasty. This greatly improved the reputation of the Chu State.
Twenty years later, King Wen of Zhou (Ji Chang)'s grandson, King Cheng of Zhou (Ji Song), met with princes in Qiyang (now northeast of Qishan County, Shaanxi). Chu Zi Xiong Yi (During King Cheng of Zhou, the Zhou royal family divided the princes to reward descendants of founding heroes. The princes who were granted the title of Duke, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan. Yuxiong's great-grandson Xiong Yi was named the fourth-class title, called Chu Zi). He was extremely happy because this was the first time in the history of Chu State that he attended the meeting as a prince. So he went to the meeting on schedule. Before the alliance ceremony, the princes sat scattered around the venue. Xiong Yi saw that the venue was solemn and solemn, with abundant sacrifices and very lively, and was very proud. In an instant, a minister invited the princes to attend the seat one by one, and the princes took their seats one by one.
Xiong Yi didn't see him and became anxious. At this moment, another minister came over and said to him, "Please go to the venue with the King of Dongyi Xianmu to place yarrow (the vanilla used for filtering wine to sacrifice to the gods), wooden signs (to mark the emperor and the princes' seats), and then go to guard the torch in front of the court." When Xiong Yi heard this, he thought that the minister had found the wrong person, so he quickly introduced himself, "I am the prince of Chu! It should..." Before he finished speaking, the minister smiled and said, "Ha, ha, ha, I know you are Chu Zi, and you can only enter the seat above the marquis. You little Chu Zi and a barbarian tribe, why should you enter the seat? This is the order of the emperor, and you must not disobey, go!" Xiong Yi's lungs were about to explode, but on such an occasion, he did not dare to attack, so he had to swallow his anger and obey.
A group of civil and military officials in Chu State determined Xiong Yi's return date. While organizing a long ten-mile team to greet him, he prepared a sumptuous pig and sheep wine ceremony to greet Xiong Yi, and celebrated a happy and lively celebration to promote the prestige of the country. Unexpectedly, Xiong Yi was depressed after returning. Everyone was not sure about the reason, and they asked about the meeting in a word, but Xiong Yi always said nothing. After a while, Xiong Yi sighed and told the civil and military ministers that the Zhou royal family bullied the small positions of other countries and did not give seats.
Situation. The more people listened, the more angry they became. Seeing this scene, Xiong Yi said calmly and solemnly: "All civil and military officials are angry, listen to my words. Now he is bullied by the Central Plains because the Chu State is poor in wealth and has few soldiers. If he is now facing the Central Plains, he will destroy himself. If he wants to survive, he will not be bullied, but only to start a business together and work hard to achieve success." Everyone said this and said "yes". So he led the Chu people to settle down in Jingshan, where natural conditions are very poor, which is the origin of the hard work.
By the time of King Zhao of Zhou (the grandson of King Cheng of Zhou), the Chu State no longer began to offer sacrifices like the Zhou Dynasty, so the emperor personally led his troops to fight. He was defeated by no good guide in the first place. Although he only brought the brave and war-hardened imperial guards, the "Xiu Division" guarding Haojing, the last two times ended in failure. Especially for the third time, the Chu people believed that after King Zhao's defeat, they would definitely cross the river from the Han River, so they used gum to stick the wooden boards and tied them into a boat and placed them on the shore. The gum-tight wooden board ship arrived at the middle of the river, and the gum melted, and the ship cracked. The most elite Wang family "Xiu Division" was eliminated, and the Zhou emperor fell into the river and died. The ministers of the Zhou Dynasty did not dare to hold funerals, for fear of spreading this indecent matter, so they buried King Zhao quietly.
Wu Yonglin and his group wore those ragged clothes that were plundered from the dead, which was quite like the Chu people who had hidden themselves and expanded their territory in the past. However, the Chu people were reforming the past and making innovations and making great progress, and Wu Yonglin and others just went to pick up ready-made ones.
Tang Shi met the new Master Wu not long after. Compared to the substitute he had seen before, he was more willing to believe that the person in front of him was a licensed product. Wu Yonglin's all-round style had completely convinced him.
"What do you think after collecting other people's money but the matter was not done?"
"If you are willing to let me take that substitute to work, I've actually done this. I don't know what you guys want to do, and I don't want to inquire now. I've also seen that you are the leader of these people. If you promise to let me go, I promise to rot him in your stomach and not let the third person know about it."
"I can't let you go now. If you want to let you go, I have to go to Chengdu. By then, my business will be done. You can go wherever you want. Your legs are on you, and no one will stop you. I heard that you haven't been home for years, so why don't you go back and have a look with us?"
"What should I do with those brothers from Tangmen Village, Xichuan?"
"Don't worry about this. Now you write a letter and I'll send it back for you. The contents in the letter are simple, so you said that you have gone home to visit your relatives."
"That's what they believe?"
"You have been the leader of Xichuan Tangmen Village for so many years, and you don't even have this prestige? Forget it, come and send this second-rate village leader back."
Tang Shi never spoke. When Luo Pingyang stepped forward to help him untie the rope, he never took a step like a thousand pounds. In fact, he wanted to go back to Chengdu to meet relatives he hadn't seen for so many years. But he didn't expect that going home to visit relatives would be in this way and identity. Tang Shi frowned and asked, "You won't let me go back in this capacity, right? Then I might as well die in your hands now. I can't afford to lose the Tang family."
Chapter completed!