King Chu Ling (date of birth unknown - 529 BC), surnamed Mi, Xiong, first name Wei, was the second son of King Chu Gong, killed his nephew Chu Jiao Ao Zili, that is, changed his name to Qian after the throne. In 541 B.C., he established himself as the monarch of Chu and was a well-known king of poverty and luxury and tyranny in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The efforts of the State of Chu in Zhang Gong and others caused great chaos. Taking advantage of King Ling's absence, he killed King Chu Ling's son (his nephew) Prince Lu and Gongzi to defeat the enemy, and set up his other elder brother Gongzi as king.

abandoned the disease, it turned out to be the younger brother of King Chu Ling, and later King Chu Ping.

Abandon the disease! That is, the abandoned disease that was defeated by Fang Jishi, and the abandoned disease that destroyed Chen Guo and Cai Guo.

In 529 BC, the people of Chu finally overthrew the king of Chu Ling and drove him out of Shangying, the capital of Chu. His retinue departed one after another, and was finally hanged in the suburbs.

The life deeds of King Chu Ling are worth mentioning.

Humiliated by the failure of Zhu Fang's battle, Wu raised troops to attack Chu. In retaliation, the Spirit King went to attack Wu again, but failed. In order to cover up the defeat, he did not put the military affairs in order. But he ordered the construction of the palace room, built a palace, called "Zhanghua Palace", covers an area of 40 miles, builds a high platform in the middle, the platform is 30 feet high, called "Zhanghua Terrace", also called "three rest platforms", take its tall, climb to the top of the middle to rest three times; A large number of pavilions and pavilions were built around the platform, which were extremely exquisite.

After the high platform was built, King Ling sent envoys to the vassal states to gather the princes to celebrate the completion of the project, and lived in the Zhanghua Palace to enjoy themselves.

In 534 BC, in the eighth year of Lu Zhaogong, in March of the seventh year of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Chu Ling built Zhanghuatai and summoned Lu Zhaogong. Lu Zhaogong went to congratulate him, and King Chu Ling gave him a treasure. After that, King Chu Ling repented and deceived the treasure weapon back.

When King Chu Ling heard that his son had been killed by abandonment, he fell to the ground and cried loudly, shouting to heaven and earth. He said to the two remaining attendants: "I am not sad for myself, I am sad for my son." How good I am to my son, how can I be punished like this? ”

At this time, one of the attendants said: "You have killed too many other people's sons, can you not reach this point?" The Spirit King was robbed of this sentence by him, and immediately stopped his tears.

After the death of King Chu Ling, the news of his death did not spread for a while. At that time, Cai Gong abandoned his illness, listened to his subordinates' suggestions, and pretended that the Spirit King had come back, which scared Gongzi Bi and Gongzi Heiqi to commit suicide, so he himself ascended the throne and became the king of Chuping.

At that time, King Chu Ling's body had not been found, only the clothes discarded by King Chu Ling had been found. In order to stabilize people's hearts, King Chu Ping found a nameless dead body near the place where King Chu Ling was killed, put on the clothes of King Chu Ling, and pretended to have found the body of King Chu Ling.

Three years later, King Ping visited King Ling's body again, and Shenhai came out to find King Ling's body and re-bury it with royal rites.

"The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace", the king of Chu refers to the king of Chu Ling.

King Chu Ling prefers people with thin waists, so! The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee reduced the number of meals a day to only one. Then get up and get dressed, hold your breath, then tighten your belt and stand up against the wall. A year later, the faces of the Manchu civil and military officials were all black, yellow, and black.

The allusion of orange over Huai for citrus orange is also related to King Chu Ling.

Yan Zi was about to send an envoy to the State of Chu, and after King Chu Ling found out, he asked the ministers and guards: "Yan Ying is a person who is good at rhetoric in the State of Qi, and now he is coming to the State of Chu, I want to humiliate him, what is the best way to do it?" ”

The minister replied, "When Yan Ying comes, please allow the ministers to bind a man and pass in front of the king." Then you ask, 'Who is he?' ’。 The minister replied, 'It's from the Qi country. 'O king, you ask, 'What crime has he committed?' He replied that he had committed theft. ”

Yan Zi came to the state of Chu, and the king of Chu gave Yan Zi wine to drink, and when he was drinking happily, two soldiers tied up a man to see the king of Chu.

The king of Chu asked, "Who is the person who is tied up, and what crime has he committed?" ”

The official replied, "He is a native of Qi and has committed the crime of stealing." ”

The king of Chu said to Yan Zi: "Are the people of Qi good at stealing in the first place? ”

Yan Zi replied: "I have heard that orange trees that grow south of the Huai River are orange trees, and they are born and grown north of the Huai River to become orange trees. Why? It's because the water and soil are different. The people live in the country of Qi and do not steal, but when they enter the country of Chu, they steal, is it because the water and soil of the country of Chu make people good at stealing? ”

King Chu Ling smiled awkwardly and said, "Saints can't be teased casually, I'm bored with myself." ”

King Chuping became the king of Chu, and in order to reconcile with the vassal states, he appointed Gongsun Wu, the grandson of Chen Aigong, as the monarch of Chen, and Gongsun Lu, the grandson of Cai Linghou, as the monarch of Cai, to restore the two countries. The states of Chen and Cai existed in name only, and became vassals of the state of Chu.

The restoration of Chen Guo and Cai Guo is just to give Zhang Gong and others a comfort and calm down the people's grievances.

Zhang Gong and others have "meritorious" in the previous abandonment of illness by King Chuping. King Chuping also saw that if the two countries were not restored, it would be difficult to calm down the people's grievances, so he had to do it as a last resort.

King Chuping took Wu Hao (Wu Zixu's father) as the crown prince, and Fei Wuji as the prince and young master.

King Chuping sent Fei Wuji to build a plan for the crown prince to the Qin State to welcome the Qin daughter Meng Yinglai to marry the prince. Meng Ying was very beautiful, and Fei Wuji persuaded King Ping to marry her himself, and was favored.

Wu Hao was later persecuted by Fei Wuji and died, and his son Wu Zixu fled to Wu State, and successively raised troops to attack Chu five times, and repeatedly defeated Chu State. The national strength of the Chu State is declining, not only losing the strong strength of the Jin and Chu hegemony, but also being repeatedly violated by small countries. The vassal states all rebelled against Chu and returned to Jin, and the king of Chuping died of depression.

Zhang Gong and his wife returned safely, reunited with their son, and rebuilt their home, and they were all happy.

Chen Guo returned to the country, and Lao Tzu could preach openly again.

In fact! Since Fang Jishi defeated the abandonment disease, Lao Tzu was able to preach semi-publicly. It's just that! Lao Tzu learned to be obedient and still kept preaching in public, so as not to cause trouble.

In 528 BC, that is, the fourteenth year of Lu Zhaogong, Fang Jishi took Zhang Shanfeng and returned to Lu.

Before coming back, he took Zhang Shanfeng to Chen Guo first, visited Lao Tzu, and then asked Zhang Shanfeng to go home to visit his father.

This year! Lao Tzu received an edict from King Jing of Zhou and returned to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Furthermore! Lao Tzu's mourning period is over, and it's time to leave.

During the mourning period, Lao Tzu took Chen Guo as the center and spread Taoism widely.

Although Zhang Gong and his wife returned safely, they looked much older than before. Due to the unscrupulous means for revenge, Zhang Gong was injured, and one leg was not very convenient. But! His work on horseback is still as good as it was back then. Even! More powerful than before.

The father and son tried again, and Zhang Shanfeng sighed to himself: Dad's strength has not decreased, and he is more experienced and vicious in terms of skills.

Of course! Now Zhang Shanfeng is sensible, so he naturally gives face to his father.

Zhang Gong saw that his son was flattering him, and a wry smile appeared on his face.

The baby mother didn't talk as much as before, she became calm and taciturn, and she no longer cried and shed tears at every turn.

"Daddy! Mother! I'll come back when I'm full, and I'll honor you! ”

"Hmm!" The baby snorted in a choked voice.

(End of chapter)