After the king-proclaiming ceremony, Qing Ji immediately sent an edict to Jizha, Sun Ping, and Sun Wu to the side hall for discussion.

When Qing Ji told the story that the Chu State did not respect martial ethics, brazenly tore up the alliance, and launched an army to attack Wu, both Jizha and Sun Wu couldn't help but change their minds!

Jizha said with a gloomy face: "I didn't expect Chu people to be so disrespectful of etiquette, justice and integrity."

"It has only been a month since the treaty between Wu and Chu was signed. How dare the Chu people tear up the treaty and send troops to attack Wu! Is it that the Chu state is not afraid of being criticized by thousands of people and ridiculed by everyone in the world?"

shameless!

This is the only feeling Jizha has about Chu at this moment.

Qing Ji and Sun Wu looked at each other and smiled bitterly!

Over the past hundreds of years, has the Chu State committed too many deceitful and shameless things?

Chuben barbarians!

This sentence was said by Chu people themselves.

Chu State was the first country among all the vassal states entrusted by the Emperor of Zhou to openly claim the title of king!

Just because the Chu culture is far away from the Central Plains culture, it seems incompatible. For example, Zhou people worship dragons and Chu people worship phoenixes, making it difficult to integrate.

The Chu State originally originated in the Central Plains. Its tribes used fire as their totem and claimed to be descendants of Zhu Rong. However, in the early days of the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, due to the expansion of the Shang Dynasty, the Chu tribe could not continue to move south and moved to the Jingshan Danshui area.

This process lasted for hundreds of years, and the people of Chu fought through many obstacles and obstacles. It was really not easy!

At that time, the Chu people were already far away from the Yellow River civilization and cultural circle in the north, but they still remembered that they were "descendants of Emperor Gaoyang".

However, merchants did not think that the Chu State was an old Chinese tribe, because at that time, the judgment of whether a tribe was a barbarian was not based on the tribe's bloodline, but more on whether the tribe's cultural customs were in line with the etiquette of the Central Plains!

There is no doubt that the Chu tribe, which has lived in the south for hundreds of years, although they treat the surrounding tribes with a kind of "I am not a barbarian" contempt, they are inevitably influenced by the surrounding tribes, which is far away from the development of the Central Plains culture.

In the eyes of merchants, Chu is undoubtedly a barbarian tribe!

The leader of the Chu people, Wu Xiong, always regarded Chu as a barbarian by Shang as a great shame and a great insult, but unfortunately the Chu people were weak and unable to resist the powerful Shang Dynasty.

Until King Wen of Zhou issued an invitation for the Chu tribe to join him in the crusade against the evil and unjust King Zhou of Shang, Wu Xiong readily agreed because he believed that this was an opportunity for the Chu people to return to the Chinese cultural circle and be recognized by the princes of the Central Plains.

So Wu Xiong led the elite Chu people to travel thousands of miles to help attack the merchants!

After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Wu Xiong was appointed as the fire master because he was a descendant of Zhu Rong.

After accepting the appointment, Huixiong worked hard and finally died of exhaustion as a fire master.

However, this is not the only bad news that has brought Chu people under Jingshan Mountain!

In the past, when the Duke of Zhou divided the Zhou Dynasty into enfeoffments, it was based on blood relations, and there were countless people named Ji.

However, because the Chu tribe was located in a remote area, was weak, and had no blood relationship with the Zhou royal family, they could not even get a small viscount!

This is undoubtedly a huge blow to the Chu people!

It was not until the period of King Cheng of Zhou that the Zhou royal family remembered the tribe that had given almost everything to King Zhou's expedition against merchants, and named Xiong Yi, the grandson of Huan Xiong, the Viscount of Shili.

Although he is a viscount, there is no doubt that this is of great significance to the people of Chu.

This means that the Chu people were finally accepted by the Central Plains culture, and finally recognized by their hometown and the cultural orthodoxy in their hearts!

Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking of the Chu people.

After Xiong Yi was made a viscount, King Cheng of Zhou ordered the princes to enter the court and hold the Qiyang Alliance, and Xiong Yi, the son of Chu, was also invited.

But Chu State was really too poor at that time!

Even the cattle that were offered to the ancestors of Chu when he was made Viscount were stolen from neighboring countries, and they only dared to secretly sacrifice them at night.

Helpless, Xiong Yi could only take the peach wood bow to drive away ghosts and thatch to worship the gods as gifts to the King of Zhou, and went to participate in the Qiyang Alliance.

Perhaps the carriage Chu Zi and Xiong Yi rode was too old, or maybe Chu Zi and Xiong Yi’s language was incompatible with the surrounding princes. In the end, he failed to enter the palace!

Xiong Yi was appointed as the fire master, and together with the king of Xianbei, he did three things outside the palace: offering sacrifices to the buds, setting up a watch, and burning fire to guard the fields.

To put it simply, you prepare wine for the guests, place them in order, and light the bonfire, just like a modern waiter!

But Xiong Yi had no choice. He believed that the Chu State was inferior and weak, so he had no choice but to surrender.

But this hurt the hearts of the Chu people. After hundreds of years of pursuit, they still could not be accepted by the princes of the Central Plains. Therefore, after Xiong Yi died, the succeeding kings of Chu were no longer keen on paying tribute to the Zhou royal family.

Later, King Zhao of Zhou used this as a reason to personally lead six divisions to attack Chu!

Of course, this is just a reason for the Zhou royal family. Their goal is to wipe out the tribes in the Yangtze River and control the copper mines in the Yangtze River Basin.

What King Zhao Zhao of Zhou did not expect was that the Chu people saw that the Zhou army was powerful and did not directly contact the Zhou army.

Instead, they united with surrounding tribes and fought guerrilla warfare against the Zhou army by relying on water!

Although the Zhou royal family had strong troops and horses, they were unable to do anything against the Chu people for a while.

During the Battle of the Han River, the Chu people disguised themselves as boatmen and tampered with the pontoon where King Zhou Zhao's boat and the Zhou army crossed the river. In this battle, not only the Zhou army was destroyed, but King Zhou Zhao also lost his life!

After that, several generations of kings of the Chu State no longer demanded that the princes of the Central Plains accept them, but continued to develop and wait for opportunities.

Finally, the Dog Rong army invaded and killed King Zhou You, and King Zhou Ping moved eastward, ushering in the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Period.

The State of Chu took advantage of the fact that the Central Plains princes were attacking each other and had no time to think about anything else. They conquered Yong in the west and Yangyue in the east. They became a behemoth that the Central Plains princes could not ignore!

In the end, King Wu of Chu not only proclaimed himself king, but also made several of his sons kings, and said the famous sentence, "I am a barbarian, and I do not have the same posthumous title as the Chinese."

Let me ask, without this shameless spirit, how could the Chu State transform from a small country with a radius of less than fifty miles to a country with an area of ​​thousands of miles, thousands of military chariots, hundreds of thousands of armor, and once aspired to dominate the Central Plains?

"Your Majesty, the most urgent task is to think of a strategy to retreat from the enemy."

Sun Wu said with a stern expression: "This time the Chu army invaded in large numbers, and Jun Han repeatedly caused trouble during the king's crown ceremony before Qiandang. I think these two things must not be accidental!"

Hearing this, Qing Ji frowned and asked: "Chang Qing, are you saying that Qian Dang's behavior may have been instigated by the Chu people? When Chu attacks Wu, Han's army will also go south?"

"Not impossible."

Sun Wu sighed and said: "Your Majesty, to be honest, this may not be the worst result!"

"If at this time, there is any change in the Yue State and Ji Guang in the south of our Wu State, then our Wu State will be surrounded by enemies on all sides. What can we do?"

"Then, before Wu is surrounded by enemies, defeat the strongest Chu army first!"

Qing Ji said with a cold face: "However, what I am most worried about now is Ji Guang, who is separatist in a corner. This large-scale invasion by the Chu army is most likely the plan of Ji Guang and his soldiers..."

No wonder the Chu people signed a non-aggression pact so easily the last time Jizha sent him to Chu.

In Qingji's view, according to the bad nature of Chu people's greed, how can they do everything they want?

It turns out that the people of Chu had a premeditated plan!
Chapter completed!