"How are you, King?" Li Qiu asked nervously.

Once the king of Chu has something, the bad luck is all these waiters, so they can't help but be nervous.

"It's okay, pass on the Imperial Doctor."

Xiong Huai, supported by everyone, came to Wei Meiren's bed and lay down, smelled the smell of Wei Meiren on the bed, thought of Wei Meiren again, and asked, "Have you ever found Wei Meiren." ”

“···” There are only a few breaths before and after, and Chu Gong is not small, and he doesn't know where Wei Meiren is, how can it be so fast.

Of course, Li Qiu wouldn't say this, but just nodded and said, "King, the minister will send someone to invite Wei Meiren again." ”

"Well, go ahead." Xiong Huai nodded, knowing that he was in a hurry.

It wasn't long before there was a rush of footsteps outside, stopping outside the palace.

Li Qiu turned his head slightly, and saw that it was the eunuch he had just sent to find Wei Meiren, and he was the only one who was coming back, anxiously staring at the door, but not seeing Wei Meiren's figure.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of King Chu to close his eyes and recuperate, Li Qiu came to the door.

"What's going on, Wei Meiren? The king was anxious to see her. ”

"Back to the palace, the minister has already found Wei Meiren, but after Wei Meiren heard that the king summoned him, no matter what the minister said, he just didn't want to come back to see the king."

"What!" Li Qiu was taken aback first, and then reacted, it was understandable that Wei Meiren was reluctant to come back at this time, after all, it was inconvenient for her to see the King of Chu in broad daylight.

At this time, the king of Chu was still sick, and it would not be good if Wei Meiren's appearance frightened the king of Chu.

But the crux of the problem is not that she is inconvenient, but that the king of Chu is anxious to see her.

"What's going on? Is Wei Meiren back? ”

Xiong Huai heard movement outside and hurriedly asked.

Li Qiu walked back to the bedside and had to answer truthfully: "Back to the king, Wei Meiren has been found, but she doesn't want to come back to see the king." ”

Xiong Huai was stunned when he heard this, and then realized that the reason why Wei Meiren was unwilling to see him was that he was ashamed. How can a person who even stays alone in his palace late at night wear a silk scarf to cover his face, how can he easily get out of the shadow in his heart.

Thinking of Wei Meiren's first reaction when she learned that she was standing behind her last night, it was not excitement, not joy, not resentment, not complaining, but blowing the lamp.

This...

It is indeed difficult for a strong man.

"Since Wei Meiren doesn't want to come back, forget it."

Hearing that the King of Chu was relieved and no longer asked to summon Wei Meiren, Li Qiu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"The widow saw that this place was too lonely, so someone came to serve Wei Meiren." Xiong Huai paused and spoke again.

When he first arrived at this palace last night, the desertion and loneliness of the palace left a deep impact on him. Thinking of Wei Meiren living alone in such a big palace, and not even having a person to serve, I felt uneasy for a long time.

"Yui." Li Qiu responded, and then asked: "Wang, I don't know what kind of specifications to arrange Wei Meiren?" ”

During the Warring States Period, most of the harems of the princes adopted the system of the Zhou Dynasty, with one queen, three ladies and nine beauties, and there were many other levels of treatment in the back.

"Restore the original treatment of Wei Meiren." Xiong Huai thought for a while.

"Yui."

Soon, the imperial physician of the state of Chu came to the palace, and after treating Xiong Huai, he confirmed that it was a symptom, prescribed a prescription, and left to prepare a decoction for the king of Chu.

For two days, due to a cold, Xiong Huai did not go to court, and completely devoted himself to recuperation. It's not laziness and depravity, but Xiong Huai has a shadow in his heart, and he is worried that he can't cure his illness too much, so he will play big hair.

Facts have proved that the medical skills of the imperial physician of Chu State are still good, and on the third day, Xiong Huai felt that the cold was gone, and his health was very good, and there was no such situation that the fever and cold would kill people as later generations said.

In fact, the rise of ancient Chinese medicine in China is very early, the earliest is the Yan Emperor Shennong's, the legend of Shennong tasting herbs is very widespread, not only grains but also medicines.

The two medical classics, "Shennong's Materia Medica" and "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", are based on Shennong's Yellow Emperor, formed very early, and were compiled into books in the Han Dynasty.

During the Warring States Period, and even in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was typhoid fever that was really deadly, not a cold. Typhoid fever in Chinese medicine is actually a general term for all external diseases, and it also includes plague, an infectious disease. Zhang Zhongjing in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was a divine doctor specializing in typhoid fever, and finally became a saint of medicine with the book "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases".

On the third day, after Xiong Huai was completely ill, he summoned Qu Yuan as soon as possible.

Since Xiong Huai instructed Qu Yuan to understand the situation three days ago, Qu Yuan fell into a state of euphoria, thinking that the king of Chu had changed his attention again, changed his mind, and began to reconcile with him.

For this reason, Qu Yuan wholeheartedly investigated the things that Xiong Huai ordered, so as to keep abreast of the dynamics of the matter.

Today, after the king of Chu recovered from his illness, he was the first to summon him, which made him very excited.

"How's the investigation going?" As soon as Xiong Huai saw Qu Yuan coming in, he immediately asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister has investigated clearly in the past two days." Qu Yuan said with a frown.

Thinking of the content of the bamboo slip in his hand, Qu Yuan's heart was very heavy.

"Let's talk about it." Xiong Huai said expressionlessly.

"Yui." Qu Yuan didn't open the bamboo slip, sighed, and said: "Great King, according to the minister's investigation, when the great general Qu Kuo set off yesterday, he led more than 2,000 people to the front line to join the main force of the Chu State of Jingcui of the Pillar Kingdom. ”

"Among the two thousand people, two hundred are the personal soldiers of the great general Qu Kuo, and among the remaining more than 1,800 people, more than three hundred are nobles of the Chu State, and the rest are generals led by nobles."

"Among the more than 300 nobles, more than 100 people have positions, most of them are nominal official positions in the feudal monarch's territory, and a small number are the nominal courtiers of the king, and the rest of them are all white, and they are the experienced children of major families."

"And during the general's march yesterday, there were still many feudal lords who led troops to join in. From Yingdu to the front line, there are more than ten feudal monarchs one after another, large and small, depending on the situation, there will be many of these feudal monarchs who plan to join the general's army. ”

"The feudal monarchs in the Huaisi region, due to their remoteness, there is no news yet, and the feudal monarchs south of Yingdu have already set off, intending to chase after the general's army."

Listening to Qu Yuan's introduction, Xiong Huai thought about it, it seemed that his predecessor had been the king of Chu for more than ten years, and he didn't figure out how many feudal monarchs there were in Chu State.

As for the nobles, there are too many, and I'm afraid Qu Yuan can't figure out how many nobles there are in the country.

The hierarchy of the state of Chu is the king of Chu, followed by the king, followed by the king, and then the feudal king, and the next doctor level belongs to the nobles, and their titles can be hereditary

And from the memory of the predecessor, I know that the fief of the feudal lord of the Chu State can also be hereditary, and he enjoys all the great powers in the fief, including administrative, financial, military, and judicial powers.

There are only two obligations of the feudal monarch to the state of Chu, one of which is to offer money and grain, and the other is that the state has something to do and needs to send troops to help the state of Chu in the war.