"The ancients said, the country will prosper, listen to the people; Dying, listen to God. ”

"But now, the people have all been captured by Qin, and the gods have abandoned Chu, so what should I do about it?"

The king of Chu stood on the palace with his hair scattered, and watched that within a day and night, the eight land gates and eight water gates of Shouchun had been broken, and the banner of the Qin army appeared in the prosperous "Yingshi" in the north of the city. Waiguo's resistance was getting weaker and weaker, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians poured into the inner city, while the rest were locked outside by the closed palace gates, leaving them to the Qin army.

Nowadays, between the king of Chu and the Qin army, there are only high palace walls, as well as a moat surrounded by the left and the west of Shaobi. Many years ago, Chun Shin Jun, who was ordered by King Chu Kaolie to build Shouchun and Miyagi, seemed to have been worried that there would be such a day, and in addition to taking care of the magnificence, he also built the palace into a strong fortress.

But even if it is impregnable, it is useless, there are no people around him, and there is no god above his head, the king of Chu, with this lonely city, in the face of the attack of 100,000 Qin troops, will hold on for a day or two at most.

The king of Chu didn't want to look any further, turned his head, threw down the Zuo Guang guard on the palace wall, let the long pendant of his clothes drag him to the ground, and staggered towards the lotus platform where he liked to drink and feast and play the most.

The southern Chu people love lotus very much, and the king of Chu often lets the concubines take lotus as their clothes and play in the water. It was the beginning of May in the summer calendar, and the lotus flowers in the pond under the high platform were blooming, and the light fragrance was refreshing, but the king of Chu had long lost the mood of appreciation.

The country is also like a lotus, there is prosperity and decline, and when it is in its heyday, it overflows the pond, and when it declines, there is not a single leaf on the water.

In the summer of the next year, the lotus leaves will still bloom, but when the sun rises tomorrow, the state of Chu may cease to exist.

Tears flowed from the eyes of the king of Chu: "It has been eight hundred years since the ancestor Xiong Xiong and Xiong deduced that King Wen of Zhou was crowned a prince, and forty-two monarchs have been in the past, but today, eight hundred years of Sheji, will die in my hands!" ”

Cai Ci, who has been following closely behind, and Cai Ci, the "Gate Yin" who is in charge of the entrance and exit of the palace gate, wept and bowed down: "Chu Shi died in King Huai, Qingxiang, the king has tried his best to save it!" ”

But he shook his head: "Yan Yan is thick with lotus, but he can't take it." is both proud and beautiful, and bears the left and right Geng Jie"

"At that time, Song Yu thought that although the short clothes made of lotus leaves were beautiful, they were too loose to be tied; This is just like King Huai boasting of his martial arts and martial arts, thinking that he is decent, but in fact he relies on his ministers and dislikes loyal ministers. I am the same, reusing Wu Ling, Zuo Tu and others, but I am suspicious of Xiang Yan and Changping Jun, if they have been cheering up since the beginning of their accession to the throne, I wonder if they can change the outcome of the fall? ”

Now, he has also begun to reflect.

"I knew that today, I didn't have to kill my brother to seize the throne a few years ago, or when my brother Xiong Qi returned to Chu, I didn't send him to Jiangdong, but gave up this throne! I can be a carefree boy, sailing far away, and be alone......"

Not to mention, half a year ago, he actually tried his best to send rumors about the life experiences of the two brothers, King Chu You and King Chu Ai, and in the end, it became a joke.

But at this time, it was too late to say that it was all too late, and the king of Chu wiped away his tears, turned around, and asked Cai Ci: "Is everything ready?" ”

"The firewood and the anointing oil are ready."

Cai Ci raised his head, although the king of Chu had many shortcomings, at least he was still determined to die for the community.

"The ministers should try their best to block the Qin people and bid farewell to the king!"

After that, Cai Ci made three heads and hurried away.

Outside, the sound of the Qin army's battle and siege lasted for a long time, and after the king of Chu bathed in the lotus pond, he put on a court dress and staggered away towards the stage, but saw that the stage was full of jewels and jade, and his concubines and palace maids were all crying under the stage.

The king of Chu wanted to die, but his concubines all wanted to live and did not want to obey him.

"I once heard that when King Wu of Zhou entered the dynasty song, the king of Shang was in Lutai, clothed in pearls and jade, and burned himself to death in the fire, but I didn't expect that I would have such a day......"

The king of Chu laughed at himself: "Even if he dies, he has no shame to see his ancestors, but he doesn't know, where is the unruly Daji?" ”

"Ji Mi is willing to be Brother Wang's Daji!"

A delicate girl dressed in a bright and gorgeous costume stood out from the Yingying Yanyan, and fell to the ground and paused: "Ji Mi is willing to die with Brother Wang, and not be a Qin prisoner!" “

This is the youngest daughter of King Chu Kaolie, only sixteen years old, which is the best year, but her originally soft eyes are full of resolute will to die, even more decisive than King Chu.

This sister has always been strong, because she killed the king of Chu Ai, she didn't say a word to him for five years, and today Jing Chu is about to be destroyed, so she will release her suspicions.

"Good ......"

The king of Chu was stunned for a moment, laughed, and let her follow him to the high platform! and took the torch handed over by the palace people tremblingly.

"King!"

At this moment, there was a shout behind him, it was the Zuo disciple and others who were favored by the King of Chu on weekdays who kept sneering on the high steps, urging the King of Chu not to do such a foolish thing.

"Wang Jian outside has sent someone to shoot a book inside, saying that Qin and Chu are in-laws of the twentieth generation, if the king descends, the king of Qin may be able to make the king worry-free, be a rich man, and even have a feudal ......"

The concubines and palace people under the high platform also wept and persuaded the king of Chu that it was better to die than to live.

"Villain! Shechen! If you don't go to death with the king, you are still here to persuade the king to surrender! Don't you see how King Chu Huai was humiliated by King Qin after he entered Qin? ”

Princess Ji Mi of Chu is young and naïve, although she is a woman, she grew up listening to Qu Yuan's stories since she was a child, and regarded Qin as an enemy, so she spoke out angrily at this moment and reprimanded Zuo Tu and others.

"However, Chu has a king who has fallen to the country, but there is no king who has been captured, there is no need to say anything more, those who can die with the dead will die together, and those who can't will go to ......"

The king of Chu held the torch and walked towards the highest place of the high platform, where there were all the treasures in the Chu palace to play, full of dazzling, looking at the rivers and mountains that were only a square inch under the high platform, looking at the treasures that the kings of Chu had painstakingly collected in the past dynasties, listening to the unstoppable retention behind him, and the eyes of the negative man flickered.

When death is imminent, people hesitate.

"It is said that the phoenix burns itself to ashes every 500 years, and then reborn from the ashes, and the cycle is endless, and it becomes an eternal ......"

Ji Mi raised his chin and said, "I don't know if today, Brother Wang can ignite a raging fire like Ancestor Zhurong!" ”

The king of Chu listened, but he didn't think of Zhu Rong and Fengniao, but saw two charred corpses.

He shuddered and let go of the torch in his hand.

But instead of throwing it on the pile of firewood and grass, it was thrown into the lotus pond below, and the fire in his heart was extinguished, leaving only a few wisps of green smoke......

"You can't die if you don't die."

"I don't want to die either!"

He left the high platform with a pale face, threw down Ji Mi who couldn't believe it, climbed the ground with a roll, and ran towards the bottom of the stairs in embarrassment!

……

Men Yin Caici organized the last thousand kings of Zuo Guang, trying his best to resist the tide of attacks of the Qin people, and buy a little time for the martyrdom of the king of Chu.

However, he sensed that something was wrong, because the fire in Hetai had not been ignited for a long time......

Just when he was puzzled, the second door behind him suddenly opened, and the King of Chu, accompanied by Zuo Tu and others, walked out unscathed.

Cai Ci was dumbfounded.

"Open the door, descend to Qin!" The king of Chu was silent, while the Zuo disciples were elated, and he had been advocating peace talks to surrender Qin.

Seeing this scene, Cai Ci understood, and began to scold: "Wang, where did the courage of the first king Xiongqu not to fight with China, and the pride of King Chuzhuang winning the Central Plains?" ”

"Open the door and descend, then the widow can get the wealth of Xiaoyi and grow old, and the second and third sons can also survive......"

The King of Chu muttered, not even daring to look directly at Cai Ci and Zuo Guang's guards.

Cai Ci was sad and indignant, but the attitude of the king of Chu had demoralized the palace guards, and he tried to stop it, but he was pressed to the ground by Zuo and broke his head.

Looking at the slowly opening palace gate, looking at the left disciple who knelt on the ground with a lowering table in his hand, Cai Ci could only grab the ground with his head and cry bitterly:

"Sadly, the royal family of Chu was also a phoenix bird (yuān chú) back then, and if it didn't sing, it was already a blockbuster, how majestic and wise. His descendants have become timid and afraid of death, and they can be satisfied with the rotting rats of the King of Qin! ”

……

"Inside this gate, it is so luxurious and magnificent."

As the first batch of Qin troops to be ordered to follow Wang Jian into the palace of Chu to take over the defense, Heifu was amazed to hear the two hillbillies behind him, Dongmen Leopard and Ji Ying, pointing to the tall gate above their heads and the phoenix bird sculpture with wings spread on it.

On the side of the long palace road, there were groups of Chu people Zuo Guang palace guards waiting silently for them to enter the city, and then they went out to enter the Zuo disciple who offered the surrender table, and a middle-aged man with a cloak kneeling at the front, facing Wang Jian and the generals to surrender, probably the king of Chu.

But Heifu's attention was attracted by the Chu people on the left and right, and he saw that there was a Chu official with a bleeding head, who was still being pressed by someone at the moment, this person raised his head with difficulty, looked at the Qin army that had entered the city neatly, and burst into tears.

Looking back at the majestic gate behind him, and comparing the scene in front of him, Hefu suddenly remembered a World War II photo he had seen in his previous life: the French weeping tears along the way when the German army entered Paris through the Arc de Triomphe.

Despair, grief, and helplessness, this is the mood of the Chu people.

Heifu has some sympathy for these unfortunate people who were born in Jingchu and in this era, but he does not sympathize at all with this self-contained, failed Qu Yuan, and fell from an advanced and powerful country to a country of decline and withering.

"The people are not the people of the country, and the king is the king of the country!"

He straightened the bronze crown on his head and looked at his subordinates, everyone's eyes were full of pride and pride, and they were all full of expectations for the Chu Palace in front of them. Unlike the last time Wei died, this time, as an army soldier who made more contributions in the battle to destroy Chu, he was allowed to enter the palace to take over the defense and carry treasures.

The war is over, and Wang Qian, who has already had the experience of destroying the country several times, secretly took some things on his subordinates and turned a blind eye......

Eight hundred years of collection, forty-two years of management, the elite of Jing Chu, Ding bell jade, gold nuggets and beads, several generations of years, plundering their people, leaning on the mountain......

An unimaginable treasure trove has opened its doors to the black man for them!