Chapter 24 Born to know
Students studying in the school can only go home at the end of the year, but now because of the king's order, Xiong Jing returned to the palace after only two months of leaving. The hall is still majestic, and the brightly lit palace has more tranquility than the school. At this time, Xiong Jing realized that he had nostalgia for this place, including his mother, mother, mother, maid, temple servant, son... After years of time and night, these people have become part of his life.
"Where is the bride? Where is she?" When someone arrived at Qiuhua Palace, Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel puzzled. As a result, she was curious and should have greeted her long ago and asked her how she had been in the school for more than two months.
"The king is here." The temple man standing down the street was a close servant next to his mother's wife. He answered quietly after the ceremony.
"Father... is here." Xiong Jing paused, but he returned to normal after a while.
"Yes." After answering, the temple man glanced at Ge, and the two met. "The king came here in the afternoon and entered the dormitory again..."
When he got closer, Xiong Jing saw some palace guards standing in the dark on both sides of the stone steps. The voices of the temple's people became quieter, but Xiong Jing was still a little surprised by the news that the King of Chu went to his bedroom. It was difficult for the King of Chu to come to Qiuhua Palace several times a year. Although the father and son would meet each time before meals, the meeting time was very short, and the answer was only a few words. Today he summoned himself back. Isn't it for the water truck?
Like other bedroom palaces, Qiuhua Palace is like a short and thick cross. The place where horizontal and vertical intersections is the atrium, with rooms on all sides of the atrium, and on both sides of the room are called houses, outside the room is a hall, and outside the hall is stone steps. The so-called entering the hall means that to enter the atrium, you must first advance into the hall, and then pass through the hall. The atrium is in the middle, with rooms in the east, south, northwest, and north, rooms on the room, and hall on the outside, and there is a hall on the side of the hall. Who can live in the room and who can only live in the house, all have custom-made ones.
Xiong Jing came to the hall from the south. He thought there would be singing and dancing in the atrium, but he didn't expect the whole bedroom to be silent. When he entered the room, he saw the bright fire under the King of Chu sitting alone on the side of the west room drinking. His mother knelt beside him to serve, and there were many temple people and palace maids standing outside the table.
"The child pays homage to the father and mother." He stepped forward and Xiong Jing bowed and bowed.
Seeing his son, Concubine Zhao's eyes lit up and her kindness suddenly appeared. She had not seen her son for nearly three months. The King of Chu seemed a little drunk. He looked at his son who was bowing to him and said, "No gift." Seeing that his son raised his head, he asked again, "Can you drink?"
"Yes." Xiong Jing looked up at his father at this time. The people of Chu have many beards. His father has a beard with white beard and fat face. Fortunately, his eyebrows are thick, and he has a round eyes for a long time. Hearing that his son said he could drink, Xiong Yuan immediately handed over the wine that Zhao Concubine poured over.
"King..." Concubine Zhao was happy to get close to her father and son, but Xiong Jing was young and Chu Li was very strong, so she was worried about her son's body.
"Why do you become a king if you are not kind or brave?" His father actually retelled his answer in the "Spring and Autumn Annals" class. Xiong Jing, who took the wine, couldn't help but be stunned. Xiong Yuan said, "The father told you to drink this title."
"Yes." Xiong Jing bowed his head first, then tilted his head and drank it. He was not in a hurry, but Chu Li still burned his stomach and intestines.
"Drink another one." Concubine Zhao pulled her husband's sleeve, but her husband insisted on asking her son to drink another one. When his father poured the wine, Xiong Jing finally saw that his fingers were a little purple.
"...Cough cough... drink this lord all over." Xiong Yuan did not pay attention to his son's gaze. He suppressed his cough and handed the lord to his son.
After this rank, Xiong Yuanfang looked at Zhao Fei: "Get off, beloved concubine."
"Which." This is not to let Concubine Zhao retreat alone, it is to ask everyone to retreat. After everyone left, there were only father and son left in the huge atrium. The prelude to their conversation was a series of coughs. When Xiong Jing was a little nervous, Xiong Yuan's cough stopped, "Is the son bullying your father?"
Xiong Yuan still called his son Shuzi, but his tone was not angry. He asked his son who was apologizing for guilt to get up and said, "Doctor Song said that you have the kindness of King Zhuang and the courage of King Wu. In today's Chu State, what should you do if you are king?"
From returning to the palace to now, Xiong Jing was thinking about how to make a water wheel. Unexpectedly, the first thing his father said to his father alone was, "If you are king," and his body couldn't help but stiffen, and he said in a daze: "Child... I don't know... what."
My son's 'Don't know what' did not make Xiong Yuan angry. He drank the wine in the lord and said to himself: "In the past, my former king Xiong Yi was in Jingshan, struggling to the mountains and forests to serve the emperor. He has been in the world for four years. Although there are foolish kings and virtuous kings for eight hundred years, the tyrant Qin rose up and seized my old Ying, forcing me to move eastward. The prosperous Chu no longer exists, and the country is in danger."
Speaking of this, Xiong Yuan looked at his son: "You are born with a fierce son at the same time, and cry at the same time. Although you have no choice between elders and young people, you must not choose your eldest son. When you are young, the danger of the country cannot be saved by a virtuous king, and the virtuous king cannot appear over time. However, the matter of the court is urgent. My father wants to make you the eldest son and order you to resolve the danger of the country. Is it okay?"
The father and son answered in the atrium. Concubine Zhao, who had left, did not return to the room, but hid behind the curtain of the western chamber. When the King of Chu asked Xiong Jing, "If you are the king," she almost screamed out in shock. Now the King of Chu said directly that she wanted to make Xiong Jing the crown prince. Her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and only her body was trembling constantly. The mother was honored by her son and made Xiong Jing the king, and she was the queen.
Xiong Jing did not tremble, but felt that the hotness in his stomach had burned all over his body, and every cell on his body was burning and jumping. With the help of alcohol, he said: "The rise of the strong Qin Dynasty and the unification of the world will be long ago. If a child is a king, he can only protect the country of Great Chu. In the future, the Qin Dynasty will die and the country will be destroyed, and the hometown will be restored."
"Qin State is strong, why did the king die and the country die?" Xiong Yuan no longer regarded his son as a child, and he answered like a monarch and his subject. In the northern room beside him, Zuo Shi Zhuyuan wrote quickly behind the curtain - the king's words of choosing to establish the crown prince, and he had to remember it.
"The strength of Qin State is that people all say that the achievements of reform are actually because of the simple style of the people and the bravery is still alive. The people are willing to be sent to the army, or they do not understand the strategies to avoid. Therefore, Qin can gather the strength of the people to attack the six countries, and they will be invincible in battle and defeat all the attacks. The six countries are not like this. Jin is divided into three. Han and Wei are located in the Central Plains, and the people are tired at the earliest. Zhao State takes over Donghu, and they are brave in many battles, so they support it to this day. Qi State monopolizes salt and iron with Guanzi, and Henggong dominated the Central Plains, but was replaced by the Tian family in the middle. The people are tired and brave in fighting to the death and are afraid of national war..."
It is said that reform determines the strength of a country, but one fact is often forgotten selectively, that is, Qin State was established at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and its national life was only more than 500 years old, the shortest of the nations. The SC Tanxian, who claims to be the "I am the yellowest in the military, and I am the most military in the Huangtan" summarized a rule: a nation is always the best at fighting when it transforms from tribalism to kingdom. The Huns, Xianbei, Vikings, Liao people, Jin people, Mongolians, Swedes, and Manchus are all like this. The strength of Qin State is not completely strong in reform, but the strength in its transformation from tribalism to kingdom system is far later than that of the nations, and its courage and barbarism are not over.
If it was a crossbow, the world map made Xiong Yuan feel that this son might be a sign of heaven and the reincarnation of the Holy King, and the many reports sent from the academy made him feel that his son did have the ability to govern the country. But now his son analyzes the causes of strength and weakness of various countries from another perspective. His feeling is like a enlightenment - the customs and character of the people are the foundation of the country's strength. First, King Wu's stone spear and bone spear, he still attacked the country three times and destroyed more than ten countries. Which of the destroyed countries has excellent weapons and advanced culture, but do they dare to fight? Are they happy to die?
"How about my State of Chu?" Xiong Yuan forgot his previous question and hoped that his son would talk about the State of Chu.
"The Chu State was so powerful that the king was in power, and he was pursuing the barbarians and conquering the South China Sea." Xiong Jing did not waste his life in the school for more than two months, and he also said that the Chu State had a good word. "Our Chu State frequently fought in the spring and autumn, and established counties first. The officials had long ruled, and the people did not believe in officials, and the officials did not believe in the people. Fortunately, the county was the earliest, and the control was the most relaxed, and the witch style was very strong, and he believed in gods, but..."
"How?" Xiong Yuan asked.
"To gather the people's strength to public will be like the Qin State's reform; to promise civil rights to private affairs, we should change the old system today. However, the Qin State's destruction of Zhao will be within ten years. If a child becomes king, he will not be able to govern without a crown." Xiong Jing stopped here and said.
He knew why his father talked about the great Chu country without asking about the water wheel - it was too late. Although he had not entered the palace to pay his respects during this period, he probably guessed from the mouth of the Jade Guanzi and the book in the library that his father's disease should be a congenital heart disease. If he were to change his heart in the future, he might have to wait for death in this era.
He coughed constantly, his fingers were hypoxia and purple, and he probably coughed up blood from time to time. The doctor said that life was this year's life was not without basis. If his father died, how could he be in power? The old example of Chu was to be crowned at the age of 20. By then, maybe the Qin army had already been in the Huai River and looked at Yingdu from afar.
Xiong Yuan was still thinking about how the State of Chu should change, but his son said, "If you don't have any crowns, you can't do anything to govern." He suddenly thought of his concubine's son Fu Chu. He had already crowned them in the year, but why did he have Jing'er's talent?
"Zhao State is weak, but how could Qin destroy its country for ten years? Han Dynasty is afraid of Qin like a tiger, and Wei State still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers. How could Qin destroy Wei?" Xiong Yuan felt that his son thought the situation too severely. Zhao State and Wei State are both great powers, and it takes more than twenty years to destroy a country.
"My father must know that Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, with tigers and wolves cunning. After Changping, Qin attacked Zhao twice, and Qin occupied three of the eight paths of the mountain. He lost this natural danger and could not defend himself. Zhao could not breathe, attack fiercely, and do his best to rob the country. Although Wei State had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the people had been exhausted for a long time and were cunning and deceitful, and lured the Wei people to benefit. The Wei people regarded the King of Wei as the King and the King of Qin as the King of Qin as the King of Wei, what is the difference?"
Xiong Jingyue said that Xiong Yuan's brows became tighter and tighter. When he heard that the Wei people regarded the King of Wei as the King of Wei and the King of Qin as the King of Qin as the King of Wei, what's the difference? He finally understood why his son said, "Fortunately, he established a county first and had the most relaxed control." It was because people had selfish thoughts. Since they could not survive under the rule of Wei, why should they go to Qin? Since the Wei people were all thinking about joining Qin, why would the Wei army fight?
Xiong Jing didn't know what his words could make his father think. He had to use his only historical knowledge to predict: "As far as the child knew, the King of Qin would rebel, and he would be punished if he rebelled, and the Prime Minister Lu Buwei was dismissed. At that time..."
"Where did Jing'er know?" Xiong Yuan knelt down suddenly, his eyes wide open, and his eyes looked at his son in a panic.
Chapter completed!