Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 226: The Fall of Chu
In the 23rd year of King Zheng of Qin, Wang Jian attacked the State of Chu, occupied the area from Yingchen to Pingyu in the south, and captured King Fu Chu of Chu.

Before that,
Using the excuse of "quelling the riot in Chen Ying, the old capital of Chu State", Changping Jun's brothers returned to Chu State.

When they left Xianyang,
King Zheng of Qin personally saw him off, and Hei Zhuang also followed beside him.

Four friends who grew up together reunited in the suburbs of Xianyang, and then they were about to separate.

King Zheng of Qin did not say anything, but just watched the two brothers go away quietly.

After the prince of Chu's carriage reached the end of the sky and the background could no longer be seen, the King of Qin raised his head and looked at the dead vines and old trees in the suburbs.

A black bird was squatting on a tree, causing the old tree to bend over and breathe heavily, looking very tired.

And when he felt the King of Qin's gaze,
The black bird also turned its head and stared at it.

The King of Qin's expression changed a little, and he seemed to want to say something.

But soon,
He saw a few fledgling birds sticking their heads out from under the blackbird, chirping loudly.

So the King of Qin thought:
It turned out to be a female bird!
It certainly wouldn't be the same one from that year.

He shifted his gaze to the flowing water beside him.

He was thinking a lot, and finally said, "Hei Zhuang, you say..."

"Will Xiong Qi and the others come back?"

Hei Zhuang was silent for a while, and shook his head, "I don't know."

The origin of Hei
They were just civilians who hunted and farmed along the Zhang River.
Only after moving to Qin did he gradually become a minister of a country.

So for black,

The country he recognized was Qin, not any other place.

Unlike Xiong Qi and others, he was not a member of the royal family of Chu. He enjoyed the favor of the country from birth and received corresponding education.

The other's bloodline,
It is the source of their nobility, but also the chains that bind them.

Most of them,

We must give everything we have for the country and the ancestral temple, and for the inheritance of our ancestors!
Because "kings, princes, generals, and ministers also have their own kind"!
King Zheng of Qin was also silent.

Finally he asked Hei Zhuang, "Will you betray me too?"

Hei Zhuang immediately kowtowed to him and said, "If I betray the Qin State, let me die by a thousand arrows through my heart!"

King Qin nodded calmly and then closed his eyes.

He wanted to trust Heizhuang.
I want to trust the Changping Jun brothers.

But he has lost many times.

"Let's go back!"

After standing for a while in the bleak wind,
The King of Qin's carriage returned to the Xianyang Palace.

The blackbird watched him go away, and the chicks beneath it were still chirping loudly, as if they had suffered a great injustice.

"Well, if you can't do it, just take a few sips. I don't really mind."

He Bo moved his heavy body and straightened his chest full of chicken, indicating that although he had turned into a bird, he was still a mammal in essence.

There is no way to feed them insects, so I can only feed them milk.

But he doesn't have any milk.

Faced with this shameless man who had usurped its nest, the young bird felt even more aggrieved and cried even louder.

"Jie—"

When the mother bird came back from hunting, she was furious to see that her nest had been occupied by a strange black bird and her own child was pinned under its butt, stretching its neck and screaming.

It let out a sharp cry, then swooped down from the air, extending its sharp claws.

Under pressure, He Bo quickly ran away.

The mother bird landed on the nest, and with heartache, she gathered her children under her body with her wings, and looked at the strange black bird with disdain as it left.

……

Shortly after,
Along with the news of the capture of King Fuchu of Chu, the news was sent back to Xianyang.

It was about Changping Jun Xiong Qi who was supported as the new King of Chu and led a large army to continue the resistance against Qin in Huainan.

When King Zheng of Qin heard about this, he just coldly handed the document over and held it in his hand.

He thought to himself:
really!

It turns out that he will never come back!

Who else can he trust?

Who in this world wouldn't betray himself?

"Lord Dingyang!"

The King of Qin called out.

He originally thought that he had anticipated this and should be very calm.

But there was still gnashing hatred in his voice.

He called Hei Zhuang and ordered him, "Go and kill everyone who has anything to do with Xiong Qi!"

"I don't want to see those guys again!"

Then he summoned the historians and asked them to erase all records related to Changping Jun Xiong Qi.

The King of Qin hated them.
I hate it so much that I cannot allow his name to be recorded in history.

The historian said, "Changping Jun was a minister who was once enfeoffed in the Qin State. I cannot help but record him."

So the King of Qin ordered the execution of the historian and summoned another one.

The other party still refused, "His name has been recorded in the history books, and I cannot erase the iron pen of history."

The King of Qin killed him again.

By the third time,

I can't stand seeing the dark situation anymore.

He asked the King of Qin not to bother about this matter any more, and that he would immediately execute all the relatives of Changping Jun left in Xianyang to vent his anger. When Fusu heard about this, he also hurried over.

He not only pleaded for the historian, but also pleaded for Changping Jun's relatives.

He said, "What is wrong with the wife of Lord Changping staying in Qin?"

"When Changping Jun set out, he only said that he was going to the State of Chu to quell a rebellion, using the identity of a Qin official."

"How do they know what Changping-kun is thinking?"

The King of Qin scolded him, "If I don't kill them today, it will not only make me hate them, but also leave hidden dangers for the future!"

Today, the wife of Changping Jun,

Isn’t she the wife that Ying Yiren left in Zhao State back then?
How could King Zheng of Qin not know what the latter has become now and how much pain he suffered during his growth?

Just kill him!

Let all the hatred and pain,
Stay at this moment and don't let it spread.

Fusu failed to dissuade his father from his decision.

Dingyang Jun finally carried out the King of Qin's order.

And within a few days,
The Queen of Qin also died.

She was already on her deathbed, and after hearing the news about Changping Jun, she fainted and never woke up again.

For this woman,

The King of Qin also issued an order not allowing historians to record more about it.

Upon hearing this command,
This time the historian chose to obey.

First of all, the stubborn ones had been brutally killed by the King of Qin.

Secondly, historians have recorded very little about women, especially those who lived deep in the palace and did not interfere in political affairs.

How difficult it is to leave your name in history.

After thousands of generations,

Even kings will lose their names and experiences and be lost in the long river of history, let alone a woman who depends on her husband?
In order to preserve more experiences and give more inspiration to future generations, historians must abandon many things and only focus on other major events.

So the history turned a page,

The queen of Qin Shi Huang lost her own experience.

Fusu was immersed in the sorrow of losing his mother and kept crying.

he knows,
His father ordered the erasure of his mother's records, which would have a great negative impact on him, the original "eldest son".

When someone mentions him later,
At most he can be called the "eldest son", but he cannot be called the "legitimate son".

so what?

Fusu did not attach much importance to these things.

He was sad about his father's determination and his mother's departure.

"Why cry!"

When the King of Qin saw Fusu crying, he asked him, "Is losing your mother worth your grief?"

mother,

Is it something very important?

His biological mother, Zhao Ji,

After the Lü Buwei Rebellion, he was imprisoned in the palace in Yongcheng and died two years ago. Before his death, he still insisted on cursing his own children.

King Zheng of Qin did not feel sad for her.

right now,

The departure of his queen, whose name he could not reveal, only made King Zheng of Qin feel that his son Fusu was more like himself.

Since then,

Fusu was completely his descendant.
No one will ever mention where the other half of Prince Fusu's bloodline came from.

The King of Qin looked at the lonely Fusu and couldn't help thinking:
He wanted to give Fusu a chance to reform himself.

He disobeyed me before because of the instigation of his evil uncle.

Now they are the closest father and son in the world.

He should accept his own teachings and be forged by himself.

He will grow up to be an heir that suits his own wishes.

His father abandoned him.

His mother abandoned him.

His friends deserted him.

It can't be until the end,
Will his son abandon him too?

Standing in the majestic Qin Palace,
The monarch who dominated the world gave up everything in the past.

He issued a new order to Wang Jian who was fighting on the front line:
Continue to attack Chu!

Kill Changping Jun who betrayed Qin!
Soon afterwards,

Xiong Qi, the King of Chu and a traitor to the Qin State, surrendered his head and sent it to Xianyang, where he was buried with his wife.

Chu State,

This powerful vassal who had been enfeoffed since the Western Zhou Dynasty and had long refused to obey the orders of the Zhou emperor, and who had made great achievements such as "killing King Zhao" and "challenging for the Central Plains", expanding the territory countless times and annexing fifty countries, soon announced his own demise.

Countless Chu people who missed their homeland were displaced, and in secret, they swore, "Even if there are only three households left in Chu, Chu will be the one to destroy Qin."

A child less than ten years old was taken away by his elders and hurriedly fled to other places.

Before he left his hometown, he pointed to the city where he was born and grew up and said, "I will definitely retake this place in the future!"

"As the Qin people trampled on it, I will trample on the cities and capital of the Qin people in the same way!"

(End of this chapter)