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Seeing the disparity in numbers, the Yi countries submitted one after another. Before King Zhao of Zhou conquered Chu, 26 states from Dongyi and Nanyi came to submit to the court. The Battle of Dongyi strengthened the Zhou Dynasty's control over the Dongyi states and isolated the Barbarian Chu.

In the autumn of the same year, after stabilizing Dongyi, Prince Zhao of Zhou led a large army to the south to attack Chuman (Jingchu), which was the reign of Xiong Ai, the king of Chu.

Xiong Ai, the son of Xiong Yi, surnamed Xiong, the second monarch of the Chu State, ruled for years.

King Zhao's expedition to Chu has a very important relationship with the study of early Chu history and Chu culture, but such a major event in the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the history of Chu was shrouded in fog because of the concealment of the Zhou people, and even the object of King Zhao of Zhou's expedition was disputed.

The saying that the "Chu" of King Zhao's southern expedition was the state of Chu first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Wang Yi annotated "Chu Ci Tianwen". Later generations of scholars believed in this, and word of mouth was passed on from generation to generation, and King Zhao's southern expedition to Chu was almost a foregone conclusion.

According to the research of modern scholars, the "Chu" that King Zhao of Zhou felled was not the "Chu State (Chu Zi)", but the Chu Barbarians who stood side by side with the Chu State (Chu Zi) in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

"Chu" has two meanings, one refers to the surname Chu State, and the other is the guide Fang Chuman. In the nineteenth year of King Cheng of Zhou, Xiong Yi, the ancestor of Chu State, was named the son of Chu, and the fief was in the land of Chu Man, so Chu State and Chu Man intersected, and when it came to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Chu State rose and annexed Chu Man, and the two were mixed together. During the reign of King Zhao of Zhou, the title of Chu was only the son of Chu, with a fief of only fifty li, which was deserted and poor.

In this case, it is impossible for King Zhao of Zhou to use all his six divisions and go south to attack the little Chuzi, let alone gain a lot, and the big and small nobles are happy to make inscriptions. And if King Zhao of Zhou really died because of the southern expedition to Chu, then Zhou and Chu must be insoluble mortal enemies, and it is impossible for King Zhou Mu, the son of King Zhao of Zhou, not to take revenge, and it is even more impossible for Chu to participate in the battle of Xu as a feudal state of the Zhou Dynasty in the fourteenth year of King Mu of Zhou.

During the reign of King Zhao of Zhou, Chu Man occupied a vast area, about the Danjiang region in the upper reaches of the Han River and the Handong region in the lower reaches, and occupied the main copper ore producing area of Tonglu Mountain. In the pre-Qin period, copper was an extremely important strategic resource, which was widely demanded in politics, economy, and warfare. Although the Chu barbarians were large in number and widely distributed, they never formed a strong and unified political body like the former Sanmiao and the later Chu State, but only some scattered tribes, and the Chu barbarians in this situation were suitable as the target of King Zhou Zhao's southward expedition.

In order to ensure the smooth march of the army, King Zhao of Zhou appointed a person surnamed Nangong as the commander and a person named Zhongren as the vanguard.

King Zhao of Zhou ordered Zhongxian to go to the South Palace, and led the army to contact the princes surnamed Ji in Hanyang (north of the Han River), to open the way for the army, through Fang (Cheng), Deng, and Eshi (now the junction of Hubei and Henan), to Hanzhongzhou, and ordered Bai Jiafu to guard the ferry, and prepare the palace for King Zhao in Deng (Xiangyang, Hubei) and Zeng (Suizhou, Hubei), until he reached the palace of Changwang in Kui (Zigui, Hubei), and ordered Guisheng to report to King Zhao.

After receiving the report, King Zhao led his army all the way south, and was supported by the princes surnamed Ji in northern Han Tang (now northwest of Suizhou, Hubei), Li (now north of Suizhou, Hubei), Zeng (now Suizhou, Hubei), and Kui (now Ziguidong, Hubei). The large tribes and small Fang countries of Chu Man have returned to obedience. When crossing the Han River, you also meet the "big fish" (rhinoceros), which may be considered a good omen.

In fact, Chu Man was not a unified whole, but a collection of various large and small tribal forces, the most powerful of which was the Hubei Province located south of the Yangtze River.

The vanguard of the army reached the Yangtze River, and the rear army then arrived, Wang Shi captured the Hubei garrison, and the army moved south along the east bank of the Han River, and after reaching the Yangtze River, King Zhao left a group of men and horses to guard the ferry in the north of the river, and he personally led the army to cross the river to the south.

Yangyue's Ebe retreated the main force into the mountains to the south, and King Zhao occupied the Tonglu Mountain.

In September of the seventeenth year of King Zhao of Zhou, King Zhao of Zhou left a small number of royal divisions to guard Tonglu Mountain and led a large army to return. This was the first time that King Zhao of Zhou attacked Chu Man. In fact, the main forces of the two sides did not really go to war.

King Zhao crossed the river to the north, and held a meeting with the princes of Hanyang in the Tang Kingdom (northwest of Suizhou, Hubei, surnamed Ji, descendant of the Marquis Xie of Jin (爕父), the later Tang State; the aforementioned Tang State was the first feudal state of Tang Shuyu (Yicheng County, Shanxi)) of Xie's father (爕父)) to discuss meritorious deeds.

King Zhao distributed some copper to the nobles, and then shipped a large amount of copper back. Most of these coppers were used to cast bronzes, including the Anzhou Six Wares. The vanguard got a lot of horses and copper, and Marshal Nangong also got a lot of rewards.

Later, a batch of bronze ritual vessels were cast from the copper rewarded by King Zhao, and inscriptions were engraved on them, recording the war and the rewards he received.

As soon as the Hubei Department heard that the main force of the Zhou army had withdrawn, the main force immediately returned to the division and recaptured the Tonglu Mountain, which caused the displeasure of King Zhao, which laid the groundwork for King Zhao's second personal expedition.

In the spring of the nineteenth year of King Zhao of Zhou, there were stars in Ziwei, and the lord was not good for the people.

In the nineteenth year of King Zhao of Zhou, King Zhao once again personally commanded the Western Sixth Division of the Imperial Guard of Hojing to attack Chuman, and sacrificed to the prince and Xin Bo from the king to attack Chuman, which was the reign of King Xiong Huang (Dan) of Chu.

Xiong Huang (Dan), the son of Xiong Ai, surnamed Xiong, the third king of the Chu State, ruled for years.

"Lü's Spring and Autumn Period: The Beginning of Yin": "Prince Zhao of Zhou will conquer Jing, and he will be long and powerful, and he will be the right king." It was also involved in the Han Dynasty, Liang was defeated, and the king and the priest were in Hanzhong. This "Bamboo Book Chronicle": "The sky is great, the pheasants and rabbits are all shaken, and the six divisions are lost in the Han." ”

King Zhao of Zhou changed the route of the march this time, and the unified army set out from Qiandi, crossed the Sanguan Pass, and went down the Han River.

At that time, the sky was gloomy, there was a strong wind, the Zhou people erected a pontoon bridge on the Han River, at this time there was a sudden earthquake, the bridge collapsed, the river water soared due to the earthquake, and the soldiers of the Sixth Division were buried at the bottom of the river. King Zhao and the priest both fell into the water and died, and Xin Bo (Yu) swam in the water, found the body of King Zhao on the shore of the Han River, went ashore, and returned to save the priest.

After the remnants of the royal division returned to the north of the Zhou Dynasty, because the king had died, the Duke of Zhou (after the Duke of Zhou, not referring to the Duke of Zhou) became the country, and Feng Xin Yumi became the Marquis of Xizhai (now Longxian, Gansu).

Ji Fang ascended the throne at the age of twenty-seven, reigned for twenty years, died in the nineteenth year of King Zhao, died at the age of forty-six, and was honored as King Zhao of Zhou. The ancient book says that "the appearance is beautiful and Zhao", so he is called King Zhao.