It can be seen from the fact that he dared to refuse to open the door for King Wen of Chu, who fled back after defeat, that the doctor of Chu was a loyal minister with a strong temperament who dared to commit offenses and speak out. It is precisely because of the existence of such a group of courtiers that King Wen of Chu can avoid impulsiveness and mistakes when making decisions, and lead the state of Chu on the right track.

He was a descendant of the Chu clan, an official under the command of King Wen of Chu, he was loyal and upright, devoted to the country, followed King Wen of Chu, and died. His actions as a human being are very similar to the famous Qu Yuan, and in his life, there are two things that reflect his righteousness as a person and as a minister.

First, it was during the period when the king of Chu destroyed Cai. King Wen of Chu attacked Cai under the pretext that Cai sent troops to save him, and captured Cai Aihou and returned home. Mourning Marquis Xianwu sensed the plot of Chu and Xi, and immediately became angry, scolding the monarch of Xi for being vicious and King Wen of Chu for being unreasonable. How could King Wen of Chu endure such an insult, so he decided to cook the cauldron of Cai Aihou to sacrifice to the Taimiao.

He judged the situation and felt that it was inappropriate, so he admonished King Chuwen. He stated his opinion to the king of Chu, believing that he could not be executed in such a brutal way because of the rudeness of the Marquis of Cai, because the state of Chu was about to enter the Central Plains, and in addition to military conquests, it was necessary to compete for the support of many small states in the Central Plains as much as possible. Therefore, we should let go of Cai Guojun and form an alliance with him, so as to not only strengthen our own strength, but also leave a generous and open-minded image of King Wen of Chu, and lay a good foundation for Chu's future diplomacy.

The analysis of the fist is reasonable, and the state of Chu, as a latecomer to the land of the Central Plains, is not as favorable as his biggest potential opponent in all aspects, the state of Qi. The state of Qi has been operating for many years, laying a deep foundation in the Central Plains, echoing with other countries and forming military alliances. The state of Chu is in a state of having many enemies, and in the future hegemony, it must divide the camp of the state of Qi and form its own alliance to compete with it. However, before King Wen of Chu officially entered the Central Plains, he left behind a reputation for cruelty and unreasonableness, which would make the vassal states shy away from Chu, and even throw themselves into the camp of Qi, strengthening the enemy's power and bringing endless threats to the expansion of Chu. It is really unwise for King Chu Wen to relieve his temporary hatred, but he may leave such a big trouble.

King Chu Wen may not be aware of this, but the majesty of being a king is inviolable. If Cai Aihou, who was already a prisoner of the ranks, dared to be so debauched and wanton, then who would take King Wen in his eyes in the future? So King Wen ignored the hard work of the fist, and insisted on ordering Cai Aihou to be pulled out and thrown into the boiling oil tripod.

Seeing that King Wen insisted on going his own way, he couldn't help but be angry, and the interests of the country and the king's personal spirit had a sharp conflict at this time, and as a courtier, he could not lose his principles, and he must make a choice that is beneficial to the king and the country. He went to the palace with a knife, put the blade across the neck of King Chu Wen, opened his eyes angrily, and threatened that he would rather the two monarchs and ministers go to Huangquan together, rather than the prince and the prince to do this unrighteous thing to make the prince lose his trust and the country to be disgraced.

King Wen was shocked and frightened when he saw that Manquan was so persistent, so he had to take back his life and forgive Cai Aihou. Immediately, he threw up his sword and knelt in front of King Wen to ask for death, saying that it was a blessing for the country for King Wen to obey the advice, and it was disrespectful for the ministers to coerce the king with a horizontal sword, so he asked for punishment for the crime. King Wen was shocked, but he didn't think he was angry, he was loyal, and there was a reason for this radical act, so his sins could be forgiven.

But he insisted on his own opinion, and in front of everyone, he held an axe and cut his knees, and said that he would never dare to forgive his sins, and shouted that if any minister ignored the courtesy of the monarch and minister, he could learn from this. King Chu Wen was shocked and rushed to save him, and then offered his legs cut off by his fist to the Taimiao Temple for self-reflection. Fist is a crippled man, and he has been appointed to guard the city gates, which can be said to be the supreme honor for Fist.

Another incident occurred when King Wen led his army to quell the joint rebellion of the Ba State and the Yan Ao people. Pakistan and Chu used to be allies, but they have always been inseparable, and the contradictions between the two armies were open when they jointly conquered the Shen State. As a result, the rift became bigger and bigger, and finally in the seventeenth year of Luzhuang Gong (677 BC), the Ba people rebelled and attacked the territory of the doctor Yan Ao, and Yan Ao fled back to the capital in a hurry, but was sentenced to death by King Wen. The Yan Ao people were furious, so they united with the army of Pakistan to resist the Chu State, and the momentum was huge.

King Wen of Chu led the army to quell the chaos, and did not want to suffer a defeat because of arrogance and contempt of the enemy, and he was even wounded by an arrow, so he had to fight and retreat, intending to withdraw to the capital and regroup. Who knew that King Wen came to the city after hardships, but was rejected by the gatekeeper Fist, who thought that the Chu army had been invincible and invincible since King Wen succeeded to the throne, but suffered a big loss in front of the weak Ba State, which was really damaging to face. And King Wen failed in the battle, and the army returned with a feather, not only did he not think of turning defeat into a victory, but rushed into the city, wanting to avoid it, and he was so weak that he was so weak, where was the face of Chu State! So he insisted on refusing to open the door, and asked King Wen of Chu to lead his troops to attack the weak Huang State, so as to win a victory and return to China.

Even if the king of Chu Wen had the wrath of thunder, he had no choice but to turn his horse's head and lead the army to attack the Huang State. However, the will of heaven is unpredictable, King Wen unfortunately contracted the disease, and died in the army, the victory of the Yellow State, for his accumulated meritorious deeds drew a successful end.

The bad news soon spread to China, and he fell into self-blame, and he turned King Wen away and forced him to work hard to fight, undoubtedly bearing unshirkable responsibility for King Wen's death. He buried King Wen in the tomb of the king, and then committed suicide to show his loyalty.

Throughout his life, he has no regrets about being a minister and living up to his inner nature. The straightforward admonition, the fierceness of the form, and the resoluteness of the intention are rare throughout Chinese history, which not only reflects the loyalty of the minister, but also reflects the difficulty of being a minister. The loyal ministers of the ancients often fell into the situation of believing and being suspicious, and being loyal and slandered, because they often hovered between "loyalty to the king" and "loyalty to the country". Once the king is mediocre, there will be a sharp confrontation between the "king" and the "state", and the courtiers will be in a dilemma, often leading to tragedy. With the spirit of the fist, not only was not abandoned by King Wen, but also ended up with a heroic name, which cannot but be said to be a kind of luck, and it also reflects the virtuous man of King Wen of Chu.

After the death of King Wen of Chu, his son Xiong Yun ascended the throne as King Cheng of Chu, and under his rule the state of Chu annexed many small states in the Jianghan valley and became a great power in the south. Later, Chu Mugong ascended the throne, further annexed the small southern states, and extended his power to the Central Plains. Mu Gong ascended the throne after killing his father, so during his reign, the Chu country was seriously divided. After the death of Duke Chu Mu, King Chu Zhuang ascended the throne. He was a new overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period after Duke Huan of Qi and Duke Wen of Jin.

At the beginning of the reign of King Chuzhuang, the Jin State took advantage of the national mourning of the Chu people to sign an alliance with seven countries including Song, Lu, Chen, and Cai, and regained the position of the leader of the alliance. Faced with this situation, King Chuzhuang did not compete with the Jin Kingdom, but lived an arrogant and lascivious life, ignoring political affairs for three consecutive years, not issuing orders, and looking for fun all day long. He hated the minister's admonition very much, and ordered: "Whoever dares to come to admonish, die!" ”

Later, a doctor named Wu Ju couldn't get used to what the king did, so he risked his life to come to advise. According to the "Historical Records", when Wu Ju entered the admonition, the king of Chuzhuang was holding Zheng Ji on his left and Yue Nu on his right, playing in front of the court band, surrounded by singers and dancers. When Wu Ju saw this scene, although he was dissatisfied, he did not attack directly. He calmed down and asked King Zhuang: "There is a bird in Fu, which has not flown or song for three years, what kind of bird is it?" King Zhuang heard that he was here to admonish, but he did not have a seizure, but just told him: "If you don't fly for three years, you will soar to the sky, and if you don't fly for three years, your song will be amazing." ”

However, surprisingly, in the next few months, King Chuzhuang remained the same, did not make the slightest change, and even indulged in pleasure even more. At this time, another doctor, Su Cong, couldn't help but come to admonish. He was ready to be executed, and only begged to "kill himself to Ming Jun". Unexpectedly, King Chu Zhuang listened to his advice this time and immediately began to rectify internal affairs. He dismissed a group of incompetent private people and promoted a group of officials who were loyal to the monarch and loved the people, and Wu Ju and Su Cong were also promoted.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the reason why King Chuzhuang did not ask about political affairs and indulged in wine was not because he was blindly obscene, but because he disguised himself with a wine-colored coat and observed everything around him in silence. When the emperor is mediocre, the ugly face of the villain is more easily exposed. He used lewd pleasure to distinguish loyalty and adultery, and was fully prepared for "soaring into the sky". The ambitious monarch then embarked on his journey to foreign hegemony, and Chu soon became a rival to such a great power as the Jin state.

After quelling the rebellion of the Ruoao tribe, the state of Chu ordered Yin Ziyue Jiao to be killed. Sun Shuao stepped onto the political stage of Chu at this time. He is a very talented and courageous person, his grandfather Bao Luchen was once the Ling Yin of King Chu Cheng, and his father Bao Jia was the Sima of Chu and was killed by Zi Yuejiao. After his father was killed, he fled with his people. According to the record of "Huainanzi Human Training", he once "decided to think about the water, and irrigated the field of clouds and pheasants". There are many rumors about how Sun Shuao became Ling Yin. "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" believes that he is good friends with Shen Yin, and the king of Chu wants to seal Shen Yinzhi as Ling Yin, and Shen Yinzhi recommends Sun Shuao to him. The "Historical Records" records that Sun Shuao was recommended by Yu Qiuzi, who resigned from the phase and let Sun Shuao replace him.

During Sun Shuao's governance of the Chu State, on the one hand, he implemented a governance model based on education and supplemented by punishment, "teaching the people and harmonizing the upper and lower levels"; On the other hand, it is "ordered to follow reason, and sympathize with the human body and the country". Sima Qian said in the "Records of the Historians" that decrees are used to guide the people, and punishments are used to prohibit traitors. He believes that "dedication to duty is the first in politics; Compassion for the human body and the country, good history is recounted", and called Sun Shuao the head of the "biography of the officials". There is a record in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" that "King Jing then made people welcome Shu Ao with Wang Yu, thinking that Ling Yin, twelve years and Zhuang Wang Ba", which shows Sun Shu Ao's outstanding ability in governing the country.

Sun Shuao formulated a sound system of rules and regulations for the state of Chu, but he did not blindly punish heavily and despise morality. When Sun Shuao was the prime minister of Chu State, "choose the order of Chu State, march the army, the right side, the left chase, the front is not worried, the middle power, the stamina, the hundred officials are like things, the military and the government are not guarded, and they can use the codex." The sound legal system enabled the whole state of Chu, the military, the people, the peasants, and the merchants to have laws to follow, and each performed its own duties. Under his rule, the people of Chu lived a stable life, the country became stronger and stronger, and King Chu Zhuang became a generation of overlords step by step. After Sun Shuao became the prime minister, "Zhong Tiandi is beautiful, and the benefits of Jiuze are collected to run the country, the rich and the people are happy, and the entertainment industry is good."

Sun Shuao made great contributions to the achievement of the hegemony of King Chuzhuang, in addition to his achievements in governing the country, he also made remarkable achievements in other aspects. In the battle of Jin and Chuyi, when the king of Chu Zhuang went to meet the enemy and the dragons were leaderless, he ordered the Chu army to attack the Jin army, so that this extremely important war in the process of the king of Chu Zhuang won the hegemony. In addition, he also built water conservancy, in addition to the irrigation projects he built in the early days, he also built many large reservoirs in Gangneung.

He also sent people to build Yicheng. Yicheng was the base of Chu's northward advance, and the construction of Yicheng made Chu's strength in fighting against Jin, and prepared the conditions for Chu to compete with Jin. It is said that the king of Chu Zhuang once thought that the coins of Chu were too light, so he asked to mint larger heavy coins when minting coins, but the people could not use such a large amount of money in their lives, so they felt very inconvenient and seriously affected their social and economic life.

So Sun Shuao sent advice to the king of Chuzhuang, asking for heavy coins, and the king of Chuzhuang accepted his advice and restored the coins to their original shape, and the people's lives soon returned to normal. The king of Chuzhuang was ready to raise his army to attack Jin, saying that there would be no mercy for killing those who admonished him. Uncle Sun Ao risked death to admonish, and in the end, "the state of Chu was not destroyed, and Jin Yining". Under the governance of Sun Shuao, the national strength of Chu State has developed rapidly, and King Chu Zhuang, who "does not make a sound, is a blockbuster", soon sat on the throne of the overlord.