"The queen mother is here, I don't know what happened?" It was already dark, and Xiong Jing didn't go to Ruoying Palace again during dinner, and it was enough for him to say hello once a day. At lunchtime, Concubine Zhao meant to let him come back for dinner, and she had to get Xiong Jing's confirmation that he would complete the wedding tomorrow in an orderly manner. The queen is just a name, and Ying Nan is the queen and does not delay her son's favor with Mi Xuan.

"The king doesn't know why the queen mother came?" There was resistance in her son's tone, and Concubine Zhao not only endured this resistance, but also sat down.

"I don't know." Xiong Jing could only sit down, although he was reluctant.

"The courtiers and queen mothers of the Zheng Dynasty all want to make the princess of Zhao Kingdom the queen, does the king know?" Concubine Zhao didn't say it as tactfully and bluntly as at noon, she wanted to explain all the words that were not explained at lunch.

"The child knows. The courtiers and the queen mother want to make the princess of Zhao as the queen. Xiong Jing's face was expressionless, repeating that he knew.

Whether it is her own son, Concubine Zhao knows the meaning of Xiong Jing's words: it is known, it is only known, and knowing does not mean that it will be implemented. She stared at her son and said, "The king is unwilling? ”

Concubine Zhao delved the topic into specific actions, and Xiong Jing chose not to answer at this time.

"Why wouldn't the king?" Concubine Zhao continued to ask. "The king should know that the king is the king of the Chu state, and the king of the king of Chu will be subject to the ruling of the Chu state. The king set up the Ao system back then, and all major events were based on the decision of the dynasty, did the king want to do it? ”

Paradoxes can be seen everywhere in life. It is a great paradox that Xiong Jing must accept the constraints of the Ao system that he himself restored. accepts, he can't be the queen of Mi Xuan, and it is impossible for Mi Xuan to even be a wife, he can only be a concubine; If you don't accept it, you don't recognize the ruling of the court under the Ao system, which is tantamount to saying that the Ao system is invalid.

Faced with the paradox he created, Xiong Jing was silent for a long time. Suddenly, he got up and went back to his bedroom and took out the wedding dress that had been neatly placed in the room. Walking to the burning brazier in the hall, he looked at Concubine Zhao and said, "The child can not marry!" ”

"The king......" Concubine Zhao had a premonition of what her son was going to do, and before she could speak, Xiong Jing had already thrown a whole set of wedding clothes into the brazier. The brazier is not big, and the whole wedding dress is like a thick bedgown, which suddenly suppresses the flame to a minimum. The flames burned the bottom of the crown robe, and this gorgeous garment, which had taken a year to embroider, first emitted green smoke, then was scorched by the flames, and began to burn.

The moment the wedding dress is thrown into the brazier, the big wedding is impossible. There are many differences between the crown dress used for the big wedding and the crown dress used for the sacrifice, and Xiong Jing is growing taller every year, and the clothes have to be made new every year, and it is impossible for the clothing department to make another set of wedding clothes overnight.

Concubine Zhao stood up angrily, she no longer ignored her son's face and reprimanded: "Marriage is all on the orders of parents, the words of the matchmaker, how can the king not marry if he doesn't marry?" That Mi Xuan has the same surname as you, the same surname for men and women, and his life is not rich! Why did the king want to make Mi Xuan the queen? ”

"Good! The child is faint, and the princess of Zhao can also be made the queen. However," Xiong Jing said with a smile, "It must be a marriage report, in addition to the queen mother, the father's wife is the child's wife, and the father's concubine is also the child's concubine, is it?" ”

"Does the king want his mother to die?" Concubine Zhao suddenly burst into tears, she didn't understand why her son had to stand up.

"The queen mother raises the child, how can the child let the queen mother die." Concubine Zhao burst into tears, and Xiong Jing's clenched heart had to relax.

"Then the king will be the queen of Princess Yingnan." Concubine Zhao wiped her tears and said. "It's not the queen mother who wants to win the south, but the doctors who are in the dynasty want to win the south. Zhao is dead, and Li Yingnan is the queen so that the people of Zhao can know that Zhao is expected to restore the country, and the king ......"

The wedding dress is already slowly burning, what Concubine Zhao said is indeed right, but Xiong Jing has another understanding. He smiled bitterly and said, "It doesn't matter who is the queen, the child just wants to ask, what will be the system of the palace in the future?" Do you have a weekly ceremony? ”

"Why don't you do the weekly ceremony, the king's palace below the sky is all the weekly ceremony?" Concubine Zhao asked rhetorically.

"Chu State is not!" Xiong Jing waved his sleeves fiercely, "Chu State will never be!" If I were king, I wouldn't be! The child knows who is saying, 'Men and women have the same surname, and they are not born'. I will prove that they will not succeed! ”

Xiong Jing was resentful, so resentful that he called 'me' instead of 'widow'. It's not that he can't accept the result of Ying Nan as the queen and Mi Xuan as his wife, but he must not accept that someone can change the Chu Palace, and then change the Chu State, so that the Chu State becomes their Chu State.

It's not marriage, it's politics; It's not right or wrong, it's a subtle attempt to create a fait accompli.

"How could the king be?" Xiong Jing's sudden anger made Concubine Zhao tremble, she never thought that her son would be so angry.

"Why isn't that the child?" Xiong Jing was resentful. "If they have the courage to speak out, why is the queen so persecuted?"

"Why can't you do the weekly salute?" Concubine Zhao knew who her son was talking about, and someone did advise her, thinking that the palace should strictly implement Zhou etiquette. "If the state of Chu does not practice Zhou etiquette, how will it be the king of the world in the future?"

"Wang Tianxia?" Xiong Jing smiled, he could already determine which people it was. "What does the world have to do with my Chu country?!"

"The State of Chu is not for the world, why rescue the State of Zhao, how to rescue the State of Qi, why ......" Concubine Zhao was even more puzzled.

"The queen mother is a big mistake! If the King of Qin really does not die in the Chu State, the Zhao State, the Qi State, and the Wei State, why should I save the Chu State? Xiong Jing said disdainfully. Chu State rescued Zhao, Lianqi, and Lianwei, just for Chu State, how could it ever be for the world? What does the world have to do with the state of Chu?

They fantasize that the State of Chu will dominate the world on behalf of the State of Qin, and then use them as the national teacher to implement the Zhou ceremony, this is a dream!

If they want to implement the Zhou ceremony, then they will implement it themselves, why should Chu help them implement it? They can't carry it out, but if they don't believe in the barbarians who believe in the Zhou rites, it just proves that the kind of Zhou rites they believe in are rotten and useless, and they should perish!

In addition to talking and talking, have they ever killed a Qin person, but have they ever accepted a Chu coin? What qualifications do they have to demand that the State of Chu be like this, that they should be like that, that my Chu people are not their slaves!! ”

As long as the resentment is vented, the heart will be relieved. Xiong Jing has a mature side and a childish side. This is his character, and there are many elements of extreme rebellion in his character, as well as an element of contempt for the weak.

The rules are made by the strong, but now the weak want to use the rules that the weak believe in to influence and change the strong, which is certainly impossible under normal circumstances, so they take this kind of despicable and lowly way in Xiong Jing's eyes to try to achieve their goals - the Queen Mother Zhao Concubine is the most weighty chess piece they can use, and any resistance they make will hurt the relationship between mother and son.

The crown clothes were already burning in the brazier, and the firelight reflected the faces of Concubine Zhao and Xiong Jing red, and the mother and son saw each other clearly in the firelight.

Concubine Zhao suddenly had the same feeling for her son as her husband: although she was Xiong Yuan's wife and knew all of Xiong Yuan's preferences and habits, she never understood his thoughts. After all, she is just Zhao Ren.

Xiong Jing's gaze at the queen mother is like the screenshot that is often quoted in later generations: 'If you want to listen to xx, there is only one dead end'. Obviously, the queen mother was united in the united front. The reason why it was united was not because he wanted to make Yingnan the queen, but because Zhao was the mother country of the queen mother. The state of Zhao has died, and the intervention of the state of Chu in the world is beneficial to the restoration of the state of Zhao; The state of Chu is alone, and it is the most unfavorable to the state of Zhao.

As for the future drive of the Xiongnu to the north, the cooperation object of the Xiongnu in the north must be the Zhao people of Daidi rather than the Zhao people of Handan, and the Zhao people of Daidi will not be able to perform Zhou etiquette. The Zhao State they will reinstate in the future will definitely not be the Handan Zhao State that will perform Zhou rituals. It can be said that the fall of the Zhao State is not a bad thing but a good thing, which gives them the opportunity to be their original selves.

Before the state of Chu fought against the state of Qin and was completely safe, the Zhao people of Handan were allies of the state of Chu; After the state of Chu was no longer threatened by the state of Qin or the state of Qin was destroyed, the people of Dai Di became the allies of the state of Chu.

Even if there is no relationship with the Xiongnu in the north, the real nobles of the Chu State are more willing to deal with the Zhao people than with the Handan court. Only those who are not pure nobles of the Chu State will serve the Handan court as the right trace, and take the Zhao people as the Yidi. And the vast majority of Chu nobles do not want Mi Xuan to be the queen ...... the king of Chu, it is very simple, Mi Xuan is pro-Qin.

"It's late at night, please go back to the palace to sleep peacefully." Xiong Jing had regained his composure and sanity, and he knew what he was going to do.

"If the king does not get married, how will the queen mother sleep in peace?" Concubine Zhao was still crying.

"The child's wedding is." Xiong Jing took many steps back. "The dynasty is determined to establish Yingnan as the queen, and Liyingnan is."

"Really?" Concubine Zhao couldn't believe that her son was obviously against it just now.

"You don't joke." Xiong Jing nodded solemnly, in order to reassure Concubine Zhao, he also made an oath: "If you break this promise, if there is a day!" ”

Concubine Zhao finally came out of the main bed, the cold wind hit her face with snow foam, not only did she not feel cold, but she felt hot. She suspected that her son would resist in other ways, but he swore an oath. Don't say anything about the value of faith, she only remembers what her husband has sworn and will never repent.

"Go to the dresser's office." Thinking about this, Concubine Zhao came back to her senses when the chariot was about to arrive at Ruoying Palace. The son has already burned the wedding dress, and the top priority is to sew another set of wedding clothes.

"Summoning Dazai again, Taibu, Attack Yin, and Taifu ......." Sewing a wedding dress is a trivial matter, and the other thing to do is to postpone the wedding, which requires Dazai to notify the ministers of each country. After determining the date of the wedding dress, it is necessary to determine the wedding date.

It took a year to sew the wedding dress, and Concubine Zhao naturally couldn't wait a year, she summoned Yin and Taifu to let Yin and Taifu come up with a contingency strategy. For example, can the crown dress be used as a wedding dress for the wedding. If you can, that's great, and if you can't, then try to get the tiara out as soon as possible.

Everything seemed to be flustered, and Concubine Zhao, who had sorted out her thoughts a little, ordered the chariot to turn again, she didn't have to go to the clothes in person, and the temple people in charge of the clothes and clothes came to ask.