200 years ago, the Zhou Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and in 771 BC, King You of Zhou was killed, and the Western Zhou Dynasty fell. After the king of Zhou You was killed, the princes of Shen, Xuan, Wei, Jin, Zheng and other princes established the prince of Zhou You, Yijiu, as the king, for the king of Zhou Ping, the royal family moved eastward, and the capital was Luoyi, at this time the Zhou Dynasty had already existed in name only.

In the 10th year of King Hui of Zhou, in 667 BC, King Ji Lang of Zhou Hui, the son of King Xi of Zhou, inherited his father's fine tradition and continued to eat, drink and be merry. The so-called plaything is demoralized, that is, this monarch is very fond of pets, and the important thing is that in order for his pets to eat well and sleep well, he also occupied the garden of the country of Wei and the vegetable garden of the concubine country to raise wild beasts, rob the ministers' houses, fields, and even money, which made the vassal states and ministers gnash their teeth, which directly led to the "five doctors making a rebellion".

At this time, the Zhou royal family was suffering from internal and external troubles. King Hui of Zhou has an uncle, named Ji Yuan, who is the concubine of King Zhou Zhuang and the younger brother of King Zhou Xu, and is deeply favored by King Zhou Zhuang. After King Zhou Hui succeeded to the throne, seeing that King Zhou Hui had offended all the princes, he thought that his time had come, and united the concubines, the Wei and the offended nobles to launch a rebellion, including Bian Bo, Shi Su, Zhan's father, Zi Yu, Zhu Knee, and other five doctors. King Hui of Zhou was defeated and driven out of the royal city.

The prince thought that things were safe, but he didn't think that the princes would buy it. Zheng Guoli Gong first came forward to mediate the dispute between King Zhou Hui and the prince of Zhou, and welcomed the fleeing King Zhou Hui back to Zheng State, and protected it well, quite a bit of coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes, even the Duke of Qi Huan at that time felt that he had fallen behind, and later led a large army to crusade against the country, winning a face for the Son of Heaven.

However, the opportunity was already occupied by Zheng Guo, and Zheng Guo took King Zhou Hui back to the royal city and killed the prince and the five doctors. This turmoil is the "Five Doctors Rebellion", and the ultimate winners are Zheng Ligong and Zheng Guo. After King Hui of Zhou stabilized the overall situation, he gave the land east of the Tiger Prison to Zheng State, and the land of the Zhou royal family became smaller and smaller, not even as good as a large town in the vassal state, and the Zhou Dynasty was even more nominal and dead.

Hua Long thought, this King Zhou Hui is also a master of eating, drinking and having fun, as long as he brings him status treatment and lets him play casually, he can do it, now he is trying to find a way to get close to him and let him know Xiang Yu's strength.

When everyone had dinner together in the evening, Hua Long said: "Chen Sheng, now I and Brother Xiang's money are almost used, we still have 5 horses, 2 of which are carriages, we will leave a carriage to facilitate errands, Xia Xueqin, Li Tingting and the two girls sometimes need to go out, and leave another horse for Brother Xiang to use, and the rest will be sold." During this time, you take people outside, and those who have nothing to do, homeless, and those who ask for food, as long as they are in good health, will take them in; If you are not in good health, you will also be taken in if you have a skill; Those who have special talents will be accepted if they have bad conduct, especially those who have special talents, no matter what aspect they receive, even if they have committed crimes and are lustful, it doesn't matter. ”

Xiang Yu also said: "Sell my sword, my sword is more valuable, and I usually use it to command the army, but I can't use it now, and the weapon I used before was not a sword, I need to get another one in the future." ”

Chen Sheng said, "Well, we'll do it tomorrow." ”

Li Tingting said: "Brother Xiang, how old are you this year?" The two girls have never dared to talk to Xiang Yu, and today Li Tingting plucked up the courage to ask.

"31 years old." Xiang Yu said that in fact, Xiang Yu was 30 years old, but in ancient times, it was calculated according to the imaginary age.

Hualong thought: The ancients liked their fathers more, and the age was counted from the father's body, and now people like their mother, so the age is counted from the mother's body.

Xia Xueqin also asked, "Brother Hua, what about you?" ”

"33 years old." Hualong also reported the empty year, thinking of following the local customs.

"Then why do you call Brother Xiang Big Brother?" Xia Xueqin was puzzled.

"I don't want to, you also know that your big brother Xiang, martial arts are so high, I don't scream, he will beat me, and say that I am a head shorter than him, and my martial arts can't be compared with him, so he can only be the eldest brother. Being beaten and beaten by him is called getting used to it, what do you think I can do? After Hua Long finished speaking, he spread his hands and made a very helpless expression.

Xia Xueqin was amused by him and laughed, everyone knew that Hua Long was joking, and they all laughed out loud together, Xiang Yu couldn't help but want to laugh a little, no one dared to talk like this in front of him before, after so many things, he also felt that it didn't matter, it was okay to be relaxed, for so many years, he had not been easy.

And then everyone started joking with each other. Hua Long was thinking: Obviously there are two beauties in front of him, but he can't flirt.

In a flash, after coming to Luoyi, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, for more than ten days, 18 of the previous 22 soldiers came, and the 4 who had not yet arrived may have changed their minds temporarily, or encountered something, but these 18 people who came all the way should have followed Xiang Yu Hualong with an iron heart.

Chen Sheng and they also received more than 20 people outside, Hualong assessed them, and found no special talents, so they picked 12 people who were in good health to stay, so that there were 30 people together, plus a few of them, there were 39 people, and it was a lot of money to feed these 39 people.

Hua Long said to Xiang Yu: "Big brother, why don't you pick one of these 30 people with good martial arts, let him manage this team, and Chen Sheng will be in charge of the family, let's take the initiative and find a chance to meet King Zhou." ”

Xiang Yu said: "It's okay, I'm going to meet King Zhou." ”

Through the competition assessment, a person named Liu Hu won, he temporarily became the leader of the 30 people, he was one of the original 18 soldiers, Hua Long explained them some discipline, especially not to disturb the people.

Xiang Yu Hualong and the others were originally going to find a way to get to know a minister under King Zhou, and then introduce him through the minister, but they thought that the time was too slow, mainly because they didn't have much money and food on their side, and if they didn't succeed, they would delay time.

Through historical understanding, King Zhou likes animals very much, and in the first two years of becoming king, he used gardens and vegetable gardens from other countries to raise wild animals, and lost the throne for this reason, and later Zheng Guo helped him get it back. So I found King Zhou's zoo, on the outskirts of the city, on the first day, I didn't wait for King Zhou to come, I went for a few days, I didn't wait, and on the fifth day, I finally saw King Zhou Hui bring a group of people over, there were hundreds of guards, followed by more than a dozen people, dressed luxuriously, it is estimated that it is his wife and concubines and children.

Hua Long thought that if he waited for them to enter the zoo, and the gate was guarded by soldiers, it would be difficult to enter at that time, so the two of them simply went directly to the middle of the road to stop them, and the guards hurriedly stepped forward and said to the two of them with weapons: "Daring: what are you going to do?" ”

"We have something to ask to see King Zhou, and my eldest brother and I want to get an errand under King Zhou." Hua Long said.

When King Zhou saw that there were only two of them, there were no weapons and they were not afraid, so he stepped forward and said, "What skills do you two have?" What kind of errand do you want to do? ”

Hua Long: "My eldest brother is strong in martial arts, and he wants to enter the king's military camp to help the king defend the country." ”

"How can the widow know that you have the skills?" King Zhou said.

"Your Majesty, you call out the one with the best martial arts among the guards. And my big brother Bibi knows. Hua Long said.

"It's okay, the widow is here to play today, and it's exciting to see the competition." King Zhou was still a little interested, and said directly to the captain of the guards, you call someone to come out and compare with him.

The chief captain called a sub-captain next to him to come out and said Captain Gao, you go and compare with him, this person can be ranked in the top five in the entire royal guard.

Captain Gao walked in front of Xiang Yu, Hua Long said to Xiang Yu, shoot lightly, don't hurt people, and then let go of the side.

Captain Gao said to Xiang Yu, what weapon do you use?

Xiang Yu said no.

Captain Gao said: Okay, then you be careful, after speaking, he stabbed Xiang Yu with a sword, Xiang Yu turned sideways, grabbed his wrist holding the sword with his backhand, and then kicked a side kick on his foot, kicking Captain Gao's thigh, Captain Gao's whole body flew backwards, fell and fell to the ground. Xiang Yu didn't use any force at all, otherwise he would have kicked somewhere else and killed him at once.