Chapter 40: Passage
It happened suddenly.
At that time, the banquet was happy, after the death of the king of Zhou, the clan of the king of Zhou escaped, some were caught by the court soldiers and horses, and some were caught by the Zhou nobles and reported to the court, and the court soldiers and horses were like broken bamboos in the Zhou terrain.
The magnates of Wu were shocked by what happened to the Zhou State, when Gaozu was crowned king, the King of Zhou was the youngest son, and now he is the oldest surviving prince, who has experienced the rebellion of the Five Kingdoms, and he is also extremely powerful, although the Zhou State is not as rich and easy to defend as the Wu State, but in the past few decades, there have been many more battles than the Wu State, and the soldiers and horses have always been fierce, but I didn't expect to be defeated -
The princes and kings can really lose to the imperial court, and the imperial court is really not the imperial court it used to be.
The magnates of Wu looked at the emperor sitting next to the king in fear, and they were a little lucky, fortunately the imperial court had made peace with the state of Wu, otherwise the first state of Wu would have been destroyed.
So some people went to congratulate the emperor on his victory, but the emperor cried, and everyone who was crying was at a loss.
It turned out that the emperor was sad for King Zhou, he didn't want to get rid of Zhou, but he didn't know why King Zhou treated him like this.
"The princes and kings are my own uncles, and I also keep in mind the holy teachings left by Gaozu." The emperor said sadly to King Wu, "When Gaozu was the princes, it was the princes who helped the court stabilize the world, and then my father died suddenly, the eldest prince and the second prince tried to kill me several times, it was the king of Zhou and your father, who assisted me in a critical moment, and I have today, and now the king of Zhou has done a great rebellion, and I don't want to kill him, but I just want to ask him, if he is willing to admit his mistake, how can I be willing to kill my uncle, my heart hurts." ”
King Wu and the emperor cried together: "Your Majesty, don't be sad, your brother is still there." ”
The emperor took King Wu's hand: "King Zhou is gone, and the State of Zhou is gone?" How can I go to see my grandfather, Brother Wang, you may worry about me? ”
In this situation, where would King Wu say that he was unwilling, the emperor said that you should go and be the king of Zhou, and I handed over the Zhou Kingdom to you.
The king of Wu and the magnates at the banquet were stunned for a while, did this mean that the fiefdom of the Zhou State was handed over to the Wu State? Is it like when Wu Zhouqi divided the Three Kingdoms into Yanlu? This good thing from the sky?
The emperor didn't explain much, only said that the Zhou State was too chaotic now, and asked Wu to go and stabilize the Zhou State first.
"Brother Wang, you have governed the Wu Kingdom so well." The emperor held King Wu's hand and said solemnly, "I expect you to turn the Zhou Kingdom into the Wu Kingdom." ”
Then the emperor wrote the holy decree at the banquet, covered the jade seal, and conveyed the holy decree to Kyushu.
King Wu received the decree in a daze, and on the second day, he woke up and convened the courtiers to discuss what was going on, and how to deal with it, who to send to the Zhou State, of course he couldn't go, and the courtiers became excited again, the Zhou State became the King of Wu, and the King of Wu didn't go, they went as courtiers on behalf of the king, and when they arrived in the Zhou State, wouldn't it be their own decision-
The monarch and ministers were discussing and planning, and the emperor sent the iron-faced general with his troops to urge King Wu to set off.
King Wu was shocked and asked if he wanted him to leave Wu and go to Zhou, and the iron-masked general said of course, you will be the king of Zhou in the future, of course you have to leave Wu, and then the cold gaze behind the iron mask swept over the Wu ministers who were doing it, and said that you are too, and you will be the courtiers of Zhou in the future, let's go together.
At this time, everyone finally reacted, and was deceived by the emperor, where did the emperor want to rebuild the Zhou State, and it was clear that he had destroyed the Wu State!