Students studying in the palace can only return home at the end of the year, but now because of the king's order, after only two months of absence, Xiong Jing has returned to the palace. The hall is still the same, the brightly lit palace is more quiet than the school palace, at this time Xiong Jing found that he has a kind of nostalgia for here, the mother concubine, Xuan Xiao, and the maids around the mother concubine, the temple people, and the ...... of the erectors, have been getting along day and night for several years, and these people have become a part of his life.

"Where's Xuan? Where is she? When people went to Qiuhua Palace, but they didn't see their sister, Xiong Jing couldn't help but be a little puzzled. According to her, she should have come out as a curious person and asked herself how she was doing in the school palace for more than two months.

"The king is here." The temple man standing under the street was a close attendant beside the concubine, and he answered quietly after the ceremony.

"Father...... Here it comes. Xiong Jing looked stunned, but after a while, he returned to normal.

"Yes." After the temple man answered, his eyes swept over Ge, and the two knew each other. "The king came here in the afternoon, and went into the bedroom again......"

Walking closer, Xiong Jing saw some palace guards standing in the darkness on both sides of the stone steps, and the voice of the temple people was quiet, but the news that the king of Chu went to his bedroom still made Xiong Jing a little surprised. It is difficult for the king of Chu to come to Qiuhua Palace several times a year, although the father and son will meet before the meal every time, but the meeting time is very short, and there are few words. Isn't it for the waterwheel that he summoned himself back today?

Like the other dormitories, the Qiuhua Palace looks like a stubby cross when viewed from below. The place where the horizontal and vertical intersect is the atrium, the four sides of the atrium are called rooms, the two sides of the room are called rooms, the outside of the room is the hall, and the outside of the hall is the stone steps. The so-called entering the hall means that in order to enter the atrium, you must first ascend to the hall and then pass through the hall. The atrium is in the center, there are rooms in the southeast, northwest and northwest, there are rooms on the side of the room, there is a hall outside, there is a hall on the side of the hall, who can live in the room, who can only live in the house, all have customization, and the lady of the main room comes from this.

Xiong Jing ascended from the south, he thought that there would be singing and dancing in the atrium, but he didn't expect the entire dormitory to be silent. When I entered the room, I saw that under the bright fire, the king of Chu sat alone on the side of the east room to drink, and the concubine knelt next to him to serve, and there were many temple maids standing outside the table.

"The child visits his father and mother." Moving forward, Xiong Jing bowed his head.

Seeing her son, Concubine Zhao, who poured wine for her husband, couldn't help but light up in her eyes, she hadn't seen her son for three months. The king of Chu seemed to be a little drunk, he looked at his son who was worshipping in front of him, and said, "No courtesy." When he saw his son raise his head, he asked, "Can you drink?" ”

"Yes." Xiong Jing only then looked up at his father. Chu people have a lot of beards, and their father is a beard, with a white beard and a fat face, but fortunately, his eyebrows are thick, and his round eyes are not angry and threatening. Hearing that his son said that it was drinkable, Xiong Yuan immediately handed over the wine poured by Concubine Zhao.

"The Great King......" Concubine Zhao is happy to be close to father and son, but Xiong Jing is young and Chu Li is fierce, and she is worried about his body.

"If you are not benevolent or brave, how can you be king." His answer in the "Spring and Autumn" class was actually retold by his father, and Xiong Jing, who took over the wine, couldn't help but be stunned. Xiong Yuan said: "Father made you drink this lord." ”

"Yui." Xiong Jing bowed his head first, and then raised his head to drink. He was not in a hurry to drink, but Chu Li still burned his stomach hotly.

"Drink again." Concubine Zhao pulled her husband's sleeve, but her husband insisted on asking her son to drink again. As his father poured the wine, Xiong Jing finally saw that his fingers were a little purple.

“… Ahem... Drink this knight. Xiong Yuan didn't pay attention to his son's gaze, he forced a cough and handed the wine to his son.

After drinking this time, Xiong Yuanfang looked at Concubine Zhao sideways and said, "Concubine Ai, step aside." ”

"Yui." This is not to let Concubine Zhao retreat alone, this is to ask everyone to retreat. After everyone left, only father and son were left in the huge atrium. The prelude to the conversation between the two was a series of coughs, and when Xiong Jing, who was a little flustered, was about to summon the doctor Yin, Xiong Yuan's cough stopped. "Is the son deceiving your father?"

Xiong Yuan still called his son a vertical son, but his tone was not angry. He asked his son to get up, and then said: "Doctor Song said that you have the benevolence of the king of Xianzhuang and the courage of the king of Xianwu. In the current Chu country, if you are the king, what should you do? ”

From returning to the palace to the present, Xiong Jing still thinks about how the waterwheel is and how it is made, but he didn't expect that the first thing the father and son said to their father was 'If you are the king', his body couldn't help stiffening, and he opened his mouth and said: "Child...... Ignorance... How is it. ”

His son's 'I don't know how' didn't make Xiong Yuan angry, he drank all the wine in Juezhong, and said to himself: "In the past, I was the king of Xiong Yi, and I was in Jingshan, with blue wisps on the road, and I was reckless everywhere. Trekking through the mountains and forests, in order to do things for the Son of Heaven, there have been four in eight hundred years so far. In the past 800 years, although there have been faint kings, there are also virtuous kings, but the violent Qin Que rose up, seized my hometown, forced me to move east, Sheng Chu is no more, and the society is in danger. ”

Speaking of this, Xiong Yuan looked at his son: "You and Han'er are born at the same time, and cry at the same time, although there is no way to distinguish between the eldest and the younger, but you can't choose the eldest son." You are young, the danger of the society is not the virtuous monarch can not be saved, the virtuous monarch is not a long time can not appear, but now the situation is urgent, the father wants to make you the eldest son, and ordered you to solve the danger of the society, but what? ”

The father and son answered each other in the atrium, and Concubine Zhao, who had retreated, did not go back to the room, but hid behind the curtain in the east room, and when the king of Chu asked Xiong Jing 'if you are the king', she almost screamed, and now the king of Chu directly said that he wanted to make Xiong Jing the prince, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and only her body was trembling constantly. The mother is precious by virtue of the son, and Xiong Jing is the king, and she is the queen.

Xiong Jing did not tremble, but felt that the heat in his stomach burned all over his body, and with the strength of wine, he said: "The rise of Qiang Qin, the trend of dominating the world will be achieved early, if the child is the king, he can only protect the great Chu society, and he will die and the country will be destroyed, and he can return to his homeland." ”

"The Qin State is strong, why is the king dead and the country destroyed?" Xiong Yuan no longer treats his son as a child, and at this time he answers like a monarch. In the north room beside him, after the curtain, Zuo Shi Zhuyuan worked hard to write - the words of the king who chose to establish the prince had to be remembered.

"The strength of the Qin State, the world is said to change the law, it is actually the simple customs of the people, the courage and martial arts still exist, the people are willing to accept the envoys, or do not know how to avoid the strategy, so Qin can gather the people's strength to attack the six countries, invincible, invincible. The Six Kingdoms are not, Jin is divided into three, Han Wei is located in the Central Plains, the people are tired of the earliest, Zhao State is connected to Donghu, many battles and bravery; The State of Qi monopolized salt and iron with pipes, and Heng Gong dominated the Central Plains, but he was replaced by the Tian family on the way, and the people were so tired that they had the courage to fight to the death and were cowardly in the national war......"

It is said that changing the law determines the strength of the country, but one fact is often selectively forgotten, that is, the Qin State was at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Guozuo has only been more than 500 years so far, which is the shortest among the nations. Throughout history, a nation has always been the best at fighting when it enters civilization from barbarism, and is as timid as a lamb when it is culturally splendid and vassally elegant. The strength of the Qin State, although there are changes, but the real strength is strong in the late and barbaric.

If it was the ballista and the world map that made Xiong Yuan feel that this son might be the reincarnation of Shangying Tianzhao and the Holy King, then the many reports sent back from the Academy Palace made him feel that his son was indeed capable of governing the country, but now his son analyzed the reasons for the strength and weakness of the countries from another angle, and he felt like an empowerment - the people's customs and quality are the foundation of the country's strength. Which of those destroyed countries is not well-armed and culturally advanced, but do they dare to fight? Are they happy to die?

"How is my Chu State?" Xiong Yuan forgot about the previous question and hoped that his son would talk about Chu State.

"The country of Hehechu, and the king is here, there are barbarians, and he is dying in the South China Sea." Xiong Jing's more than two months in the school palace were not in vain, and when it came to the state of Chu, he also spoke a chapter. "My Chu State has frequent wars in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is the earliest to set up counties, and the officials have ruled for a long time, and the people do not believe in the officials, and the officials do not believe in the people. Fortunately, the county was the earliest, the control was the loosest, the witch wind was very heavy, and he believed in the gods, but it was just ......"

"How?" Xiong Yuan asked.

"Gathering the people's strength to serve the public is bound to be like the Qin State changing the law; Promise civil rights for personal gain, and change the old system today. However, within ten years of the destruction of Zhao by the Qin State, if the child is the king, Fu Jiaguan will not be able to govern. Xiong Jing said and stopped here.

He knew why his father didn't ask about the waterwheel and talked about Da Chu Sheji - it was too late. Although he did not enter the palace to ask for peace during this time, from the mouth of the crown and from the books in the library, he probably guessed that his father's illness should be congenital heart disease. If in the future life, maybe you can change your heart, but in this era, you can only wait for death.

Coughing constantly, fingers purple due to lack of oxygen, and it is estimated that he will cough up blood from time to time. If his father dies, how will he govern as an uncrowned child? The old practice of Chu was to be crowned at the age of twenty, and by that time, maybe the Qin army would have been in Huaishui and looking at Yingdu from afar.

Xiong Yuan was still thinking about how the Chu State should change, but his son's sentence of 'Fu Jia Guan is incapable of politics' pulled him back to reality, and he suddenly thought of the concubine, he was crowned in the year, but what did he have Jing'er's talent?

"The state of Zhao is weak, but Qin Yan can destroy his country in ten years? South Korea is afraid of Qin like a tiger, and there are still hundreds of thousands of armor soldiers in Wei, why did Qin spin around to destroy Wei? Xiong Yuan felt that his son thought that the situation was too grim, Zhao and Wei were both big countries, and it would take more than 20 years to destroy a country.

"Father must know that Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, tigers are fierce and wolves are cunning. After Changping, Qin frequently attacked Zhao, the eight paths of the mountain Qin according to its third, there was no way to prevent this natural danger, Zhao could not breathe, and attacked fiercely, and tried his best to rob the country and destroy it; Although there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Wei State, the people have been tired for a long time, cunning and deceitful, luring the Wei people to benefit, and the Wei people take the king of Wei as the king and the king of Qin as the king, what is the difference? ”

Xiong Jingyue said, the tighter Xiong Yuan's brows became, and when he heard that 'the Wei people take the King of Wei as the king and the King of Qin as the king, what a difference', he finally understood why his son would say, 'Fortunately, the county is the earliest and the control is the most relaxed'. It's that people have selfish thoughts, since they can't live under the rule of Wei, why not go to Qin? Since the Wei people all wanted to defect to the Qin State, why did the Wei army fight?

Xiong Jing didn't know what kind of thoughts his words could make his father, so he had to use the only historical knowledge to prophesy: "As a child knows, the crown of the King of Qin will rebel, and the rebellion will be punished, and Xiangbang Lü Buwei will be dismissed because of this, and he will ...... at that time."

"How did Jing'er know?" Xiong Yuan stood on his knees suddenly, his eyes wide open, and he looked at his son in disbelief.

"Children are born to know." Xiong Jing only laughed, unable to explain.