At this time, Qu Yuan was happy and surprised in his heart, happy because the performance of the King of Chu today has been unexpectedly powerful, not only achieving the goal of abolishing corporal punishment to entrap Chen Zhen, but also opening a gap in the cutting of the knight, which is already a big victory.

At this point, Qu Yuan thought that it was already okay and could stop it, so as not to cause a backlash from the nobles of the Chu State.

But the king of Chu was not finished yet, and sighed again, attracting the hearts of the ministers.

This made Qu Yuan very worried, will the King of Chu get away with it?

Most people were frightened by King Chu's next move, the amount of information today was too great, and it had exceeded the sum of Qu Yuan's changes in the past few years, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

And for Zhao Ju

In the past few years, the situation in the Zhao clan has been very bad, and it has been suppressed by Yin Zhaoyang and Yin Zhaoyu, and it is no longer possible to gain the support of the Zhao clan.

For this reason, Zhao Ju's eyes skipped over the ministers and directly focused on the King of Chu, hoping to rely on the support of the King of Chu to regain the disadvantage of competing with Zhao Ju.

Today's court meeting Zhaoju did not get inside information, but before the king of Chu decided to convene the great court meeting, he had a long secret conversation with Qu Yuan, which is very clear.

The king of Chu and Qu Yuan are mixed together, what can they do, Zhao Ju, like the ministers of Yingdu, think that the king of Chu is going to change the law again.

But Zhao Ju is different from most of the courtiers of Chu State, that is, he was not confused by the smoke bomb released by the King of Chu, whether it was the King of Chu who was sick for ten days in a row and was not in the court, or the King of Chu cried bitterly after coming in today, Zhao Ju thought that this was the King of Chu playing with the truth and the truth, and the fundamental purpose was to change the law.

Therefore, the king of Chu went from crying bitterly to bringing out Wei Meiren, and after drawing out the waste meat punishment from Wei Meiren, Zhao Ju immediately realized that this was the prelude to the change of the law of the king of Chu.

On the one hand, in order to avoid disrupting the arrangement of the King of Chu, on the other hand, it is also to find out the direction of the change, and to express sincerity to the King of Chu again and to Qu Yuan, Zhao Ju directly recommended Qu Yuan to the King of Chu.

What he didn't expect was that Qu Yuan didn't say anything, and the specific suggestion of abolition of flesh punishment fell on Chen Zhen.

Zhao Ju immediately realized that the King of Chu and Qu Yuan had chosen Chen Zhen, and sure enough, Chen Zhen's answer did not disappoint.

At this moment, hearing the sigh of the King of Chu and about to make the next move, Zhao Ju seized the opportunity and took advantage of Chen Zhen's hesitation to think, and immediately asked: "King, why sigh, is there anything wrong?" ”

As soon as Xiong Huai's sigh fell, he immediately heard someone asking, so he avoided singing a one-man show, and couldn't help but look at Zhao Ju, who was asking, shook his head and said: "The widow just sighed not because it was inappropriate, but because he thought of the first king and the king." ”

"The king?"

Most of the ministers present were stunned, how could it be involved in the king again.

King Chu Gong is the King of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, it has been almost three hundred years since King Chu Huai, there are many legends left by King Chu Gong, and the ministers present can associate King Chu Gong with the King of Chu from the current situation of King Chu, there are very few, it seems that there is no common ground at all.

Hearing this, Zhao Ju asked again: "Great King, why do you sigh when you think of the Gong King?" ”

Because the age of the Gongwang is too old, and the Gongwang of Chu is the son of the King of Chuzhuang, he is still in the most powerful period of the Chu State, and he has left a lot of deeds, and Zhaoju did not understand what the King of Chu said.

Xiong Huai immediately sighed and said: "The widow is thinking about the teachings of the former king: the Chu people lost their bows, and the Chu people got it, so why ask for it?" ”

This incident is one of the more famous deeds of the Chu State in the past, the king of Chu once went out to hunt in Yunmeng, because he rode too fast on a horse, resulting in the loss of a beautiful bow on horseback.

The entourage felt pity and asked to return along the road to find it, but was rejected by the king of Chu Gong, who at that time said: "I am a Chu person who lost a bow in the territory of Chu State, and this bow was picked up by the Chu people, and it is still in the hands of the Chu people." The people of Chu have lost their bows, and they are still obtained by the people of Chu, so why is there any need to look for them. ”

This sentence of the King of Chu showed great open-mindedness and quickly spread abroad, and then Confucius heard it and added another sentence: "What the King of Chu Gong said shows that he is broad-minded, but he is not big enough." It should be said that if one person loses the bow and the other gets it, why does it have to be from the Chu State?"

For this sentence, everyone thinks that it shows that Confucius is more noble and benevolent than the king of Chu, but this is contrary to the Confucian view of intimacy and alienation, and it is also not in line with Confucius's spirit of seeking truth.

Compared with Confucianism, which has poor love, this sentence is only convincing if Mozi says that the Mohists pay attention to both love and love (for both love, everyone can only move towards this goal and improve, but even the disciples of the Mohists are difficult to achieve such greatness).

Getting back to the point, after Xiong Huai finished telling the story of Chu Gong Chude, he said to his ministers: "The first king Gaode never regarded himself as the master of Chu State, but regarded Chu State as his own responsibility, did not regard the people of Chu State as his servants, but regarded the entire Chu people as a part of himself, and regarded all Chu people as his own children. ”

"And now, although the widow can come up with a way to avoid the punishment imposed on him by the law of the country for his father and brother, in addition to these people with titles present, there are also many nobles in the public family, because of their age, they have lost their titles and become ordinary scholars."

"If they accidentally make a mistake, how can they be exempted from punishment?"

After listening to the words of the King of Chu, some people followed the train of thought of the King of Chu and thought about how to help the estranged clansmen from the side branches to avoid being punished.

Some shrewd courtiers were thinking about what the purpose of the king of Chu was, the monarch was too high-minded, and it felt very bad for the ministers.

And there are a very few people who are whimsical, does the king of Chu want to restore the titles of those people.

At this time, Chen Zhen thought of a possibility.

The meaning of the king of Chu is obvious, that is, to use the title to exempt from punishment, but where does the title come from, the fastest and most beneficial way for the Chu State is the Qin State, which is to bestow the knight on military merits.

However, the Qin State's military merit awarding knights is very inappropriate for the current Chu State, because the Chu State army, from the top to the middle and lower levels, are all held by the children of the nobles, and these people will not give the people at the bottom and the grassroots the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. In other words, even if the grassroots of the army make meritorious contributions, the children of the nobles will devour their merits cleanly.

In this case, if, like the Qin State, a clear system of title promotion is proposed and strictly examined, it is likely to be opposed by the majority of nobles.

The key to this is not this, the real reason that will lead to the opposition of the nobles is that the military merit knighthood will break the current political system of the Chu State and give others a chance to compete for the already scarce resources.

Is there a shortage of people in the state of Chu?

There has never been a shortage of people in the Chu State, don't you hear that among the noble children who followed the great general Qu Kuo this time, there are still many people who are white?

The current state of Chu has no place to be assigned to others at all.

With limited resources, it is impossible to satisfy all people.

In this case, of course, the fewer people who allocate resources, the better, and it is better to be monopolized by one's own monopoly.