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In late May, the capital of Chu State was carried out, and outside the newly built royal temple, a huge "building wood" was erected. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fusang, Ruomu, and Jianmu are the three sacred trees in the legend of Chudi, among which Jianmu is considered to be a bridge between heaven, earth, man and god, and even ** and soul. Therefore, this building wood is also the magic instrument used by the witch of Chu to summon the soul, its appearance is black lacquer, the main trunk and branches are decorated with red and black two-color intervals, the green leaves and purple stems, Xuanhua yellow fruit, in fact, such as hemp, its leaves are like mangs, and the treetops are respectively carved and placed with dragons, phoenixes, birds, beasts, hanging dragons, divine bells, etc.

At this moment, the white smoke of countless wormwood and cypress leaves lingered around Jianmu, like a fairyland, and the entire temple was filled with the sound of selanges, bells, drums, wind music, and jingling chimes......

Beyond the bells and drums, there is the sound of the conjuring.

"Soul Return! There is no east and no west, no south and no north......

The east can not be in the past, there is the sea in the east, the soup valley is lonely, the weak water is muddy, and the dragon flows side by side.

You can't go to the south, there are deep forests in the south, thousands of miles of fire, mountains and dangerous passes, and pit vipers meandering.

The west can't be awkward, there are thousands of miles of quicksand in the west, with pigs and long claws and teeth.

You can't swim in the north, there are cold mountains in the north, the people are extinct, the sky is white, and the dripping water becomes ice.

The Soul Returns! Return to the Soul! ”

After Chu Guobu Yin watched his father's thick and heavy male voice solo, a large group of people shouted in unison: "The soul is back!" Return to the Soul! Self-indulgence, peace and stability only ......"

Its voice is sad, as if it can penetrate the Yellow Spring of the Nine Heavens and spread all over the six poles and eight wildernesses.

Yin Zixi, the commander of the state of Chu, was also in the crowd of chorus to summon spirits, and he was very sad about the loss of the king and his younger brother, but fortunately, King Zhao's coffin finally arrived in the national capital and was properly arranged in the palace, and the new monarch had inherited the unification.

With the deepening of the ceremony, the young new king Xiong Zhang appeared, he was only five or six years old, but he was very well-behaved, learning to watch the appearance of his father and sing "The Conjuring" one by one, worshiping King Zhao, which made people pity, Zixi couldn't help but let out a light sigh......

It has been a long time since King Zhao of Chu died violently on the way to the north in April, but the pain brought to the people of Chu by this incident will not be able to subside for a while.

"King Chu Zhao knows the road, and he will not lose the country, it is appropriate!" Even Confucius, who was in Yedi, gave such a high evaluation to the king of Chu, not to mention the people and nobles of Chu?

In the eyes of the Chu people, King Chu Zhao was tolerant and kind-hearted, he changed the miasma of the court during the period of King Ling and King Ping, expelled the villains in the court, handed over the state affairs to the virtuous ministers, and restored the benevolent government.

In Ling Yin Zixi's eyes, King Zhao's greatness is more than that, he was an ignorant younger brother when he was young, until he was broken by Wu Jun, the national capital was broken, and he was separated from his mother, and he could only take a few people into exile in Yunmengze, suffered a lot, and was in danger of being betrayed at any time, which matured.

Generally speaking, people who have had this experience become suspicious and suspicious when they are restored. However, after the restoration of the country, King Chu Zhao reflected on himself more than he blamed others, he forgave those who had turned his back on him, rewarded the meritorious ministers, and completely cut off the chain of mutual hatred and vigilance between the monarchs and ministers of Chu State! He also let Zixi, Ziqi and other royal brothers take charge of the government, and appointed Shen Zhuliang, the son of a meritorious hero, to guard Ye Di as Ye Gong and regard them as humerus shares. So Chu's government and military politics are on the right track day by day, the land is being recovered piece by piece, and in the hands of King Chu Zhao, the state of Chu has signs of rejuvenation!

However, everything came to an abrupt end north of Santu Mountain, the king of Chu, the Chu army retreated, he failed to win back the status of a great power for the Chu state, but became another victim of the family curse.

However, for the Chu people, the dead are long gone, and the living should be like this, and they must wipe away their tears and inherit the business of the previous king, in order to live up to the life of this Ming monarch who has done his best.

The first thing was to completely withdraw from the Central Plains War, and with the support of the Chu army, the combined forces of Qin, Wei, and Zheng were completely in a desperate situation, and the entire army in Hedong was annihilated. In Zixi's opinion, since the rising rise of the Zhao clan could no longer be stopped, at least Zhao Wuxian should not be allowed to make enemies of the Chu State and move south.

Fortunately, Zhao Wuxian is also a mature politician, realizing that the contradiction between Zhao and Chu is not at all to the extent of fighting each other, after the end of the Hedong War, he immediately sent people to Chu to mourn, and said that he is a civilized state and will never take advantage of the funeral to hang.

This is equivalent to giving the state of Chu a step down, which made Yin Zixi overjoyed, and decided to send an official envoy to the state of Jin to reconcile with the Zhao family. This candidate, he fell in love with Wang Sunyu, who is good at words and is familiar with the Central Plains etiquette, Wang Sunyu is choosing gifts these days and preparing to go north.

However, Ling Yin Zixi did not relax his vigilance against the northern Qiangqing, Ye Gongzi Gao intended to escort the coffin of the King of Chu back, but Zixi refused, so that he could not leave Fangcheng for half a step. Because although the Great War in the Central Plains has come to an end, the Zhao clan still has frequent military operations in Luhun, Shangluo and other places adjacent to the Chu State, and the possibility of Zhao Wuxian suddenly invading the Chu State cannot be ruled out.

Old and serious, this is Ling Yin Zixi's governing style, there may not be anything eye-catching, but it is what the Chu State needs most now.

The north has been settled, and as for the country, in addition to determining the name of the king of Chu and summoning the soul at the funeral, the most important thing is naturally to select a new monarch......

For the choice of the new monarch, although Gongzi Qi said that King Chu Zhao had said before his death, "the country relies on Changjun", so that Yin Zixi, Sima Ziqi, and Gongzi Qizhong succeeded to the throne, which is also a tradition of Chu State, except for King Chu Zhao, but whenever there is a young monarch to succeed to the throne, it is basically replaced by his uncle.

Thanks to the tolerance of King Chu Zhao, his three elder brothers were also selfless, and after the three of them discussed, in order not to set a bad example and convince the people, they still set up the son of King Chu Zhao as the king.

Among the few sons of King Chu Zhao, the three uncles without exception all supported Wang Zizhang to succeed to the throne!

Not only because this son is young and intelligent, quite similar to his father, but also because Wang Zizhang's mother, Yue Ji, did a feat after learning that King Chu Zhao died: suicide and martyrdom!

Yue Ji is the daughter of Gou Jian, the king of Yue, although she gave birth to a son for King Chu Zhao, she is not favored, and King Zhao prefers his new beauty Cai Ji. There is also a story in it, a few years ago, King Chu Zhao rarely put down government affairs, and went to Yunmengze with the two ladies to play, and when he played to the rise, the sentimental he had a budding affection, and he agreed with them to "live and die together, and Huangquan will be husband and wife again". Cai Ji had a sweet mouth and immediately agreed, but Mu Ne's Yue Ji did not nod, which made King Zhao dislike......

However, when King Zhao really died, Cai Ji didn't say anything, but Yue Ji came out of the queue and was willing to go to Huangquan together to expel the fox demon for the king.

Zixi, Ziqi and others were very shocked, Chu and Yue had a common enemy, Ju Wu, and they had also sent Wen Chong to assist Gou Jian before. Yue Xi's existence is an indispensable link between the two countries, so he strongly persuaded her not to do so, and the barbaric tradition of killing the wives and concubines of the ancestors of the Chu State has long been abandoned for many years.

However, Yue Ji has made up her mind, she said: "In the past, the king asked the concubine to live and die together, although the concubine did not speak, her heart has promised it. There is a saying in the country of Vietnam, the believer does not live up to his heart, the righteous do not deserve it, since the concubine has agreed, she must do it! ”

After that, Yue Ji took medicine and died, and all of a sudden, Wang Zizhang lost his father and mother at the same time......

As compensation, he was given a throne!

Xiong Zhang, the king of Xiaochu, did not disappoint Zixi, although he was sad for a long time after losing his mother, he behaved appropriately at the funeral ceremony and had the potential of the British lord, which reassured the ministers a lot. But after all, he was only five or six years old, and it would take ten years to be pro-government, so Chu Ting pressed on Ling Yin Zixi no matter how big or small.

After the funeral of King Chu, at least Zaiying's people's hearts were relatively stable, but the central government's control over the feudal monarchs in various places would definitely be a little weaker, and the external situation was not optimistic.

One day in June, Yin Zixi held a court meeting instead of King Xiao Chu, and after the retreating ministers dispersed, he couldn't help but sigh again......

"Alas......"

This sigh happened to be heard by Lan Yin Kang (wěi), the doctor who was left behind to assist Zixi in handling government affairs.

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Lan Yin Kang is also a person who was favored by the king of Chu Zhao, when the Wu army invaded the Chu State, the king of Chu Zhao fled, crossed the river in Chengjiu, and saw Lan Yin Kang carrying his wife and children in a boat and was about to leave, so he begged him: "Lan Yin crosses the river alone!" Lan Yin Yan didn't turn around, but accelerated off the shore and abandoned King Zhao.

However, after King Zhao returned to the country, he did not dismantle Lan Yin into eight pieces, but forgave him.

King Zhao's original intention was probably to emulate the Jin Wen Gong to release his enemy, Li Yansu, in order to seek reconciliation with the many Chu feudal lords and doctors who were cold eyes during the war. But for Lan Yinqing, this forgiveness is undoubtedly the grace of recreation, he has been reserved for more than ten years, and has become an important minister of the imperial court, after the death of King Chu Zhao, he cried so much that he fainted, and then wiped away his tears, swore allegiance to Xiong Zhang, and assisted Zixi to govern the Chu State.

Now that Zixi had just retired from the dynasty, he sighed for a long time, and Lan Yin Yan suddenly couldn't stand it anymore, so he criticized him unceremoniously: "I have heard that a gentleman only sighs when he thinks about the rise and fall of the previous generation, or when he is sad about the funeral, because there is nothing to sigh about the above things. Ling Yin sighed lightly when Xianjun came out of the funeral, I didn't say anything at the time, but now I am in the court and sigh, dare to ask why? ”

"Let Lan Yin see a smile." Zixi said: "I've been worried about the trouble of Wu recently......"

"If it weren't for the help of the Qin State, I and Wang Disciple Period would not have been able to drive the Wu people out at all. Now although He Lu is dead, his son and husband are even better than him, not only defeated the Yue Kingdom, but also took Yue as a vassal, and was also aggressive in the competition between Chen and Cai. Last month, taking advantage of the commander of the first monarch to rescue the Chu State, the Wu people gathered at the border again, and there was a great tendency to enter the Chu State. Although Sima had already gone to the East to preside over military affairs, I was worried that he was not Fucha's opponent, after all, fifteen years ago, when Fucha was still the crown prince, he had defeated the Chu State Boat Division and captured eight Chu doctors...... Hence the sigh. ”

At that time, the Chu people thought that the battle of Baiju was going to be repeated, so they hurriedly moved the capital to Yancheng, which is far away from Jianghuai, which is now Zaiying, and there is still no danger.

Now that King Chu Zhao has just died, the lord Shaoguo is suspicious, and the feudal monarch is waiting and seeing, and the decrees of Chu are not as unimpeded as before, and if Wu attacks on a large scale at this time, it is indeed a matter of concern.

Lan Yin Yan smiled and said: "What else should I do, what should Yin worry about is that the domestic political affairs and virtues are not done well, don't worry about Wu Guo!" The current state of Chu is very different from fifteen years ago, and the state of Wu is no longer the sentence Wu of the time of Lu, I dare to assert that even if the husband can succeed for a while, it is not enough to be troubled! (To be continued.) )