Chapter 177: King Zhao's Death

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Among the sons of the Chu State, there are Zixi, Ziqi, Zilu, etc., all of whom are the brothers of King Zhao. Watermark Advertising Test Watermark Advertising Test King Zhao was a young king, and he relied on the help and support of these brothers, plus the planning of his mother Meng Huan, to sit firmly on the throne. Later, He Lu, Wu Yuan, and Sun Wu led the army to attack Chu, and the Chu State was defeated; King Zhao fled west with the country, and returned to the country after hardships, thanks to the strength of several sons.

And in the line of the city father, King Zhao has dried up the lamp.

He leaned back on the wooden couch and gasped for breath, his face was burnt yellow, and his eyebrows were still dark blue. The maids on both sides looked frightened, and Qi Qiran looked at this monarch who was once young and strong, and now he was tortured so dying by monsters from nowhere.

On the brown floor of the solid wood, there was a long kneeling person, dressed in a wide robe and scarlet robe, with a bucket-shaped crown on his head already touching the ground, and his buttocks stubbornly pouting high.

"You, why don't you agree! Why are you ......" King Zhao pointed to the people on the ground tremblingly, a little angry, it seems that the two have already had a war of words.

"Although the king has not set up a prince, Xiong Zhang is old, and his mother is Yue Ji, so he can be the king. The old minister is willing to assist him with all his heart! ”

"Hey! The widow can sit in the position of the monarch of Chu State, all of which rely on the power of Brother Wang. In the past, the king was wrongly loved, and this throne was originally the king's brother's, and now the widow has returned the throne to you, what's wrong? ”

"One state has a system, and one family has rules; The first prince was deposed, and the king was the crown prince who was personally ordained by the first king. In this case, it is the master of my son Xi and the king of Chu! ”

"Why is Brother Wang so stubborn? The widow has no intention of being pretentious. If a widow is a king at the age of eight, don't you know the disadvantages of being a king at a young age? "King Zhao cheered up, he must arrange these things, or else. This country is going to be in chaos.

"Brother Wang, you see, to the south of us is the wolf-like Wu Kingdom, and the husband is subdued South Vietnam, and now it has the intention of going north. Wu Chu's feud. The state of Chu was once defeated at the hands of the state of Wu. This vengeance has not yet been avenged. Also, the Jin Kingdom is now gradually regaining stability. As long as the Jin Kingdom is united within itself. This will be an even more formidable opponent! No other country in the Jin Kingdom can defeat it, except for itself! ”

The state of Chu has not yet completely come out of the shadow of defeat, and this time King Zhao's personal expedition has passed a battle with the Wu army. Regain the self-confidence of the Chu State, wash away the fear of the Wu people from the hearts of the warriors, and let the lion of the Chu State stand up again. But providence made people, and King Zhao failed to succeed, but he was seriously ill.

King Zhao weighed the pros and cons, and for the early revitalization of the Chu State, he hoped that his brothers would take over the authority of the Chu State. And not their own young sons.

"If the minister does not want to be the king, the king will not say any more. So, what does the king mean by asking the sub-period? ”

King Zhao waved his hand helplessly and said, "Brother Wang, go." Summoning the child, he said that the widow was going to see him soon! And call it Tai and Tai Shi together! "King Zhao's body was weak, and his whole body was paralyzed, and it was very difficult for a critically ill person to say a word and take a breath.

When Taishi and Ziji came to see King Zhao, King Zhao couldn't sit up, so he lay on his back on the wooden couch, looking around with a pair of teary eyes.

As soon as he grasped the hand of the child in front of the bed, it was like pulling a life-saving straw.

"The widow wants to pass on the elder brother, and the elder brother cannot be shirked!" King Zhao summoned Taishi to come to the front again: "You must record it truthfully and write down the will of the widow!" ”

When Ziqi heard this, he was so frightened that his soul flew out of the sky, thinking that King Zhao was seriously ill and confused, and hurriedly said: "King, why did the king say this?" ”

Taishi was also confused, and he didn't know what to do.

King Zhao did not want to say the reason again, but only the result: "The widow wants to pass on the throne to the son." Taishi listened to the metaphor: After being widowed for a thousand years, the prince of Chu State became the king during his son. ”

Seeing that King Zhao was conscious, he was not confused. He shook his head and said, "No matter what the king wants, the minister will not give advice." The national lineage is inherited, natural and orderly, why does the king have to buck the trend? ”

It seems that King Zhao's hard work was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs.

"The king is still in his old age, and he has been afflicted with a disease, but in a few days he will be cured. Besides, the establishment of the country's prince is a major military event, affecting the foundation of the Chu State, how dare the minister say it lightly? The minister swears that he will not dare to obey his fate! ”

King Zhao saw that the son period was like this, so he had no choice but to give up.

The weather is getting milder, and as the weather warms, King Zhao's condition stabilizes.

The military report from Chen Guo said that Wang Sun Luo, the general of Wu State, had led an army of 50,000 and was stationed in Lucheng; But it has not been moved. It seems that Wu Jun has no doubts about the determination of Chu to rescue Chen Guo.

Seeing the spring flowers blooming, everything is recovering. On this day, King Zhao sent an order to Taishi to divinate the evil fortune of the army to save Chen.

Before King Zhao's sickbed, Zixi led several important ministers to watch the period of Taishi's divination.

So Taishi bathed and changed clothes, sacrificed heaven and earth, eulogized auspicious words, burned the turtle shell, and the mysterious pictures and texts on the turtle shell in the school examination. The divination said: "War, bad luck; Retreat, it's not lucky! ”

When King Zhao heard the words, he said angrily: "A battle with the Wu army is unlucky. That is, we will be defeated again at the hands of Wu Jun? Rather than be defeated by the Wu people again, it is better to die than to die! ”

"But we can't ignore Chen Guo, right? After all, the Chen State is our alliance country, if we don't rescue them, will the other subject countries still trust our Chu State? Zixi frowned.

"The outnumbered want to fight, and the way to defeat is to lose. But it is better to let the outnumbered retreat and turn their backs on the alliance than to die! Since the widow has no physiology, let's go, let's go, let's go! So the king of Chu ordered that the city father be temporarily garrisoned, and since the result of divination had appeared, he had to face this result.

At this point, King Zhao's illness turned critically serious, and the situation of the next life gradually appeared.

King Zhao summoned Gongzi Lu, Ling Yin Zixi, Zuo Yin Ziqi, and several important ministers accompanying the army to hold a brief court meeting in Xingyuan.

In order to break this curse of not being able to fight and retreating, the king of Chu has to choose to hand over power, he is dead, and he cannot let the state of Chu be in such a dilemma.

King Zhao leaned on the side of the wooden couch, looking at several brothers and ministers who assisted him, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Now the widow is under the wonso of heaven, and he cannot fight, nor can he retreat; But Chen Guo must go to the rescue, and Chu State cannot lose its national interests because of its widowhood!

Therefore, the widow has a way, which is to pass the throne to Gongzi Lu. With Gongzi Lu as the king, we can send troops to fight the Wu army! This will break the spell! ”

Except for Zixi and Ziji, the ministers were stunned when they saw that King Zhao was thinking of such a method.

Gongzi Lu hurriedly kowtowed and pushed back, and he was unwilling to obey his fate, and he had his own rhetoric: "The king is mandated by heaven to be the king, and victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers." How could the succession to the throne of Chu be affected because of the gains and losses of the first battle? If the throne is stable, the country will also be stable. The king can't cause turmoil in the country because of ringworm and scabies! ”

"But the widow must not be defeated again under the hands of the Wu people! If Brother Wang could understand the widow's intentions, he would naturally not reject the widow's proposal. ”

"Even if the king is right, but before Zilu, there are still two brothers here. Zilu has no great talent, why doesn't the king pass on the throne to Zixi? ”

King Zhao had to smile bitterly: "Your two brothers, if they can agree, will the widow still be so anxious?" ”

Gongzi Lu did not allow it. King Zhao had no choice but to persuade him. I talked to Zilu five times in a row, but Zilu refused five times.

On the sixth time, Zilu saw that his younger brother was so persistent, he couldn't bear to be rejected by himself again and again, and then looked at him with disappointed eyes.

He gently put King Zhao's cold hand back into the futon and said to King Zhao: "Please rest assured, the king, Zilu accepted the arrangement of the king's succession today, and the king will recuperate." We've been sending troops for too long. Fortunately, until now, the Wu army has not launched a decent attack on the state of Chen. Maybe we have been garrisoning the city father, and the troops are not moving, which makes the Wu army deeply jealous, so the Wu army has not dared to attack Chen on a large scale. ”

Seeing that Zilu responded, King Zhao nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. The heavy heart in my heart finally settled, and I could go without worry.

That night, King Zhao drove to his father in the city and died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve four.