Nightmare...... Nightmare......

On the first day of the first month of the 41st year of the reign of King Zhou (479 B.C.), the city of the king of Zhou, the cold winter outside the palace is steep, but the palace is very warm because of the existence of various charcoal fires and incense, and there is a trace of sickly sweetness in the air. In the pen "Fun", a frail old man www.biquge.info lying under a heavy bedding, sweating profusely from the torment of nightmares, and he let out a painful gasp of uneasiness, as if he was about to die at any moment.

Next to his couch, the king's crown was neatly arranged, but it was old.

His name is Kuo, he is the king of the Zhou family, and he is the son of heaven who should be powerful. On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister......

However, the reality is as sour as bitter wine, the royal power is on the side, there are no loyal ministers in the world, and even he himself is dying.

All of this is thanks to those two people!

In Lu's life, there were two most terrible enemies, one was called Wang Zichao and the other was Zhao Wuxian, and they tortured him like a nightmare for the rest of his life......

With the help of the temple people, he turned over with difficulty, and Zhou Wangkuo fell into a coma in pain again, and the past appeared in front of him one by one.

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Nightmare...... Nightmare......

It was more than forty years ago, in the month of Ji Chun, on the shore of Luoshui, a banquet inside the royal family was being held, and at that time, he was just a very inconspicuous concubine among the many sons of King Zhou Jing, sitting at the last seat, respectfully pricking up his ears and listening to the speeches of his brothers.

This banquet was held to celebrate the crown prince Meng, he should have been the protagonist, but at this moment, the prince Meng could only be the same as the prince, blushing, clenching his fists and sitting still, because their father's eyes never took away from that person.

Wang Zichao, the eldest son of King Zhou Jing, was born in the wind of Yushu, brave and resourceful, polite and polite in receiving people and things, and was praised by others for having a royal demeanor, and was deeply supported by the people of Zhou Shi. But at the same time, he is also the object of common hatred of other princes, because the Zi Dynasty is too dazzling, no matter where he goes, every word and deed can steal the limelight from others.

This crown banquet of the crown prince has become a personal show for him to express his political opinions.

"The gentleman's ze, the fifth generation and beheaded, the royal descendants are the ministers, will also want to make the royal family humble because of selfish interests; And those scholars from the acres of acres, even if they are not related by blood, in order to be reused, they can be used by the royal family and the people! "Poetry" cloud: 'Yin Jian is not far away, in the world after summer. 'Father, Zhou can no longer continue to cover up the hidden dangers of the royal family because of the ancient system of 'respecting relatives and relatives', and making Cheng Sunday gradually decline! ”

These words were simply appalling to the conservative prince, but his father Zhou Jingwang was also an enterprising son of heaven, and he actually admired the prince dynasty very much, and felt that "this son is like me", and even gave birth to the idea of deposing the prince Meng and establishing the prince dynasty as the king, but it has not been implemented due to the opposition of the domestic ministers such as Shan and Liu.

The contradiction between the Son of Heaven and Qiang Qing is growing day by day in the dark, and King Zhou Jing has regarded Shan and Liu Erqing as ministers who hinder him, and he actually plots to remove Erqing to clear the way for the prince's dynasty. It's a pity that he has always been in poor health, and before he could make a disaster, he died of heart disease after an earthquake.

King Zhou Jing's sudden and violent death left Cheng Zhou with an unresolved throne and triggered a great split in the royal family!

In June of that year, the prince and the prince fought fiercely for the throne. Because the prince dynasty won the hearts of the people, it won the support of most of the scholars, Baigong, Lingwang and Jingwang clansmen, and soon gathered a large army to defeat the king.

King Zhou mourned and ran away and told him to rush to Jin. In October, the Jin Doctor and Zhisong led an army to escort the mourning king back to the royal city, but they were soon surrounded by the prince's dynasty. In November, the timid and fearful King Mourning died in terror, and Wang Zilu, who had always been a bystander, was supported on the throne by Liu and Shan, and he reluctantly stood on the opposite side of the prince's dynasty......

The war continued, Cheng Zhou had been completely divided, and there were only Liu, Shan and some nobles on the side of the Zhou Wanglu, but the prince had the support of the lower class people on the side, and the advantage was great, but he could not swallow the enemy in one bite. The two sides faced off in this way for several years, the prince dynasty occupied the royal city of Zhou, and the king of Zhou retreated to Diquan. Di Quan was in the east of the royal city, and the people of the time called him the king of the east; The prince's dynasty also called the king in the royal city, and was known as the king of the west.

There are no two heavens and no two people, and the king of Zhou at that time hid in the city every day and was afraid, for fear that one day he would be betrayed and killed by the prince's court. Fortunately, the Jin State was on the side of Zhou Wangkuo, and in the five years of the war, with the help of Zhiqi and Zhao Ying, Zhou Wangkuo finally drove the prince away and fled to Chu with his clan.

This victory came a little incredible, and the mediocre Zhou Wang Kuo couldn't even believe that he could defeat the prince dynasty that everyone thought was the "hope of the Zhou Dynasty". However, the king of Zhou was happy too early, although the prince dynasty fled, but after more than ten years, the Zhou room was still shrouded in his shadow, the influence of the prince dynasty was too great, and the rest of the party haunted all the cities and towns of Cheng Zhou, plotting to welcome back the Zi dynasty, and even planned several assassinations of the king of Zhou and Liu and Dan......

King Zhou still did not dare to take a step out of the palace, he was supposed to be the Son of Heaven who was supported by all the people, but he was always considered unorthodox. Until the spring of that year, the state of Chu was defeated by the state of Wu, almost lost the country, the territory was in turmoil, and the prince dynasty also lost its asylum, and the king of Zhou took the opportunity to send someone to kill him in Chu!

The prince sent back the two white heads with temples in a gift box, and after careful examination, Zhou Wangkuo was sure that this middle-aged man with a wrinkled face was his invincible royal brother.

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang, you are the one who can make Lao Tzu favor, and you have today!"

He laughed, then restrained his smile and gave a fake burial.

However, when he and Liu and Shan Erqing were celebrating with a banquet to get rid of the big trouble of their henchmen, Dan Pian, a henchman of the Wang Zichao, played the banner of revenge for the Zi Dynasty and raised troops. For a time, the rotten Saturday Division could not resist the angry people, and the king of Zhou fled in a hurry again, and it was not until the following year that he returned to Chengzhou with the help of the Jin State.

After these twenty years of tossing, the Zhou family has become more and more decayed, and even the princes look down on them, and the people's livelihood is withering, and the Son of Heaven can't find a horse with a coat color. But the king of Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, and after spending a whole generation, the people of the Zhou family finally began to forget about the prince's dynasty, and after coming out of the shadow of that benevolent brother, his life could be better, right?

However, in the year when the prince's rebellion was completely pacified, I don't remember from whom Zhou Wangkuo first heard the name "Zhao Wuxian......

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Nightmare...... Nightmare......

He dreamed that the banner covered the sky and the sun, the enemy was like a cloud, the arrows were falling, and the ragged people came forward trembling with their broken weapons. The whole Cheng Zhou's corpses were all over the field, and he was lonely and confused on the vast field, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and when he turned around, a tall divine horse had already roared, and the rider on the mount was covered in iron armor, holding a sharp blade, and the blade slashed towards the top of his head......

In the second half of his life, Zhou Wanglu had just crawled out of the shadow of the prince's dynasty, but he fell into fear of Zhao Wuxian again.

At the beginning, he was just an inconspicuous exiled son, who was at a loss between Song and Lu, and mixed up the position of a lord and a doctor. There are hundreds of lords and doctors in the world, and the Zhou family only paid a little attention to him because he was Zhao Ying's youngest son.

Gradually, however, just as Cheng was resting on his laurels day by day, continuing to crawl slowly according to the inertia of centuries, the East was turned upside down.

The events that happened in those years overwhelmed King Zhou, and for a while, Yang Hu was chaotic, and Zhao Wuxian and Sanhuan chased him together. For a while, it was Qi Guo Valu, Zhao Ying rescued Lu, and Zhao's father and son defeated Qi Hou. Unconsciously, a new force quietly rose on the border of Luwei, the Song Rebellion, the fall of the four capitals, under the impetus of the current situation, that small lord Zhao Wuxian actually succeeded in stealing Lu!

Although it is lamented that people's hearts are not ancient, outsiders are in charge of the country's life, and it is not the blessing of the country. However, this is a matter of the Zhou family, as early as three hundred years ago, the royal family could no longer control the crown prince of the Lu State, and now it is still possible to guide Zhao Wuxian to be the secretary of the Lu State.

Closing his eyes, Zhou Wangkuo continued to live his own small life in the palace, but when he turned over, he found that Zhou had unknowingly been involved in the civil war of the Jin Kingdom......

With Zhao's successive victories in Hebei, the civil war of the Jin State began to fall towards an uncontrollable situation, and the royal family was also dragged into the quagmire because of the in-law relationship between Liu Gong and the Fan family, but the Zhou Wanglu had little impact on the direction of the war except for an edict condemning Zhao as a traitor to the Jin State.

It wasn't until three years later that Zhao Wuxian, who defeated a strong enemy and became the secretary of the Jin State, came to Mengjin and asked for guilt, and King Zhou panicked.

Blame all the blame on Chang Hong, and handed over many classics, ceded several cities north of the Yellow River, and finally sent the killing god away.

It was the first time since the Prince Dynasty that Zhou Wangkuo was under such a serious threat, and Zhao's blade approached little by little in the days that followed, making his hair stand on end and making him feel like a pin.

"The Zhao family is insatiable, excessively demanding, blaspheming ghosts and gods, slowly abandoning etiquette, and doubling the alliance of treachery! How can a widow sit idly by? ”

Of course, a head-on confrontation was absolutely undaring, and King Zhou began to resort to the old routines of the past, secretly sending people to match the anti-Zhao alliances of various countries. However, the Zhao army once again fought out of the siege, destroying Wei, defeating Qin, retreating from Chu, and breaking Zheng, in front of their powerful power, the royal family's small means were like a joke, and the king of Zhou could only promise Zhao to be listed as a prince and replace the Jin state.

Zhao Wuxian's wings have been completed, after that, the idea of confronting him is almost gone, and the king of Zhou tried his best to please Zhao Guo, and it was the Son of Heaven who gave him the gloss, and he went to Huangchi in person to cheer for Zhao Wuxian's election as the overlord of the princes......

I hoped that Zhao Guo could be like the Qi State back then, hold high the banner of respecting the king and maintaining the status of the royal family, but at the banquet, the prophecy of "Hou Fei Hou, Wang Fei Wang, thousands of rides to the north" spread by Nanzi made King Zhou tremble!

After returning from Huangchi, King Zhou was unpleasant and couldn't sleep at night, and then heard that Zhao had annexed Wei, Lu, and Sanyi, and destroyed the news of Zhongshan, and wanted to stop it but was powerless, and it didn't take long for him to fall ill......

After a few months, he was once again shocked to hear that Zhao Wuxian had defeated the Hu people in Saibei, and he claimed to be the son of heaven outside the Saibei under the support of various ministries.

"Marquis Zhao has always been disobedient, and he has been called the Son of Heaven outside the Saiwai, will he be far away from being the king in the Central Plains?" King Zhou was worried, his condition was getting worse day by day, and it was from that day that nightmares began to haunt him and prevent him from living in peace.

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Nightmare...... Nightmare......

This time the dream was more real than in the past, he dreamed that Zhao Wuxian rode a war horse across the city of the king of Zhou, and did not dismount in front of the two ques, but trampled on the ancient palace on his horse, trampled on those solemn rui beast patterns, and walked to the deepest and most mysterious temple of civil and martial arts......

The king of Zhou is here, waiting for him pitifully, compared with the decayed and tired king of Zhou, the image of Zhao Hou in the dream is awe-inspiring, he is wearing gorgeous black armor, the eyes exposed in the armor are ruthless and cruel, and the fiery red is stained with snowflakes. The big stool covered half of the horse's body, but it didn't prevent the beast from pulling a bubble of steaming stinky in the temple of civil and martial arts.

Zhao Wuxian didn't look at King Zhou, he looked at the Jiuding listed in the temple......

"The weight of the tripod ......"

When Zhou Wangkuo heard Zhao Wuxian say this, the corners of his mouth showed his trademark smile, a smile that he was determined to get.

"May I ask?"

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"Ahh Yes! He's coming, he's coming! When he woke up from the nightmare, King Zhou's eyes were round, trembling, and shouting. Then he found himself still lying on the bed, the bedding was so heavy that he could hardly breathe, and with the help of the attendants, he straightened out his breathing, and a foul smell came from his lower body, and the people of the temple turned their faces away.

He had failed to control his bowel and bowel movements, which had been a common occurrence in recent months, and the doctor concluded that he would not survive this spring, and now that his condition was worsening, he was on the verge of dying.

The Son of Heaven has fallen to this, it is really sad, but Zhou Wangkuo did not let the temple people clean up for himself, he didn't even care about letting himself have a decent way to die, but eagerly called Prince Ren, and then held his hand tightly, and said word by word:

"After Bugu's death, you need to follow the rules, listen to the words of Liu and Shan Ergong, form a good alliance with Zhao Guo, and meet Zhao Hou's demands, don't ...... Don't be careless and be the king of the dead country of the Great Zhou! ”

The old tears flowed, and Zhou Wanglu couldn't cry anymore, crying and crying but laughing.

He can finally be freed from the two nightmares in the first half of his life and the second half of his life, and looking back at this time, he is still the happiest when he is still a prince who has never been put in the eyes of his father.

At three o'clock on the first day of the first month of the forty-first year of the reign of King Zhou, the Son of Heaven collapsed.

At the same time, lying on the north side of Luoyang, there are rumbling horses' hooves......

PS: Well, thinking about the follow-up plot, there is only one update today