Spring and Autumn I Am King

"Wumen..."

When he saw the person in front of the hall, Fuchai's face showed great displeasure.

From the beginning of his accession to the throne, Wu Zixu, the old minister of the old king's era, has been whispering in his ear. Before Poyue took revenge, Fuchai still insisted on letting it go, because not only was Wu Zixu extremely capable, but he was able to help him handle the state affairs properly. Old ministers from previous kings, such as Wei Li and Gongsun Sheng, were all "Wu Zixu's party". He also relies on these people to control the military and government of Wu State.

But after Fuchai became more and more defeated, he felt that his wings were hardened, and these old officials who had worked so hard to help him gain power suddenly became obstacles to stumbling.

As a new king, Fuchai really wanted to step out of the shadow of his father, King Helu, to establish his own team and build a Wu kingdom that only belonged to him, instead of kneading according to the plans of the old ministers. Taking advantage of the prestige of victory, Li Li and Gongsun Sheng, one after another old ministers were deprived of real power and retired, while Bo Xi and other newcomers who were obedient to Fucha's orders ascended to high positions, and a new court pattern was taking shape.

After a few years, Wu Zixu's "partners" were let go, and even he himself lost his position as a prime minister with more than 10,000 people, and was driven to build the canal.

Since then, Wu State has entered the era of Fu Chai's arbitrary rule.

However, when the smart people shut up, the stubborn Wu Zixu appeared again and again, breaking Fu Chai's ambition. It's like a half-old child is proudly boasting himself to the people around him, and suddenly an uncle pops out. With one sentence, he pierces the fragility behind his indomitable life, and wants to grab his ear and let him go home. It's too much. Lose face.

Therefore, Wu Zixu had already become the person that Fu Chai hated and hated the most. At this moment, seeing the members of the army again disturbing his grand banquet, and shouting something about "Wu State will perish", the boss suddenly became unhappy and asked with a straight face: "The doctor said this. What do you mean? Do you want to use the old saying that Yue is a trouble in the heart of Wu State, and you must first destroy Yue and then the Northern Expedition? You know, in this war, the Lord of Yue took the initiative to ask to send 3,000 Yue people to follow me north, as a help. Gou Jian His loyalty is evident, if Wu Zi wants to slander him, then there is no need to say it again."

Wu Zixu sighed and said, "This minister is here to speak of the destiny."

Fuchai frowned: "Destiny?"

Wu Zixu said: "I have studied the Book of Changes with Gongsun Sheng, and I know the art of the golden chamber. In March and April this year, the season is Xinhai Pingdan, and the great king Ruoshuai will go north. Although he won a small victory in the past, he will be defeated greatly in the future. Disaster, the disaster for the Wu Kingdom will soon be over..."

When the reasoning was unclear, Wu Zixu could only come up with the old trick of lobbying Wu Wang Helu, and began to talk about it with the destiny, hoping to wake up the husband.

However, this remark made Fu Chai furious. Bo Xi looked at King Wu's face so gloomy that he was about to drip water, he immediately understood his intention, and jumped out and rebuked:

"Absurd, extremely absurd! Because the virtue of the former king, the sincerity of the king, reaches God. Therefore, according to the signs given by the emperor, the boatmen of the Wu state have defeated the Zhao army in Langya, and will soon land on the shore to retake the state of Ju. It means that the destiny is in Ji, and the general will win the surname Ying. However, the doctor is dizzy and uneasy at his age. The soldier assassinated the King of Yue, and now he is blatantly confounding the public with evil words, trying to prevent the king from sending troops, what is your motive?"

Bo Xi said every sentence, Wu Zixu has always regarded himself as a loyal minister. How could he ever have been wronged like this? He immediately rolled up his sleeves, pulled out half of his sword, pointed at Bo Xi and said, "Sister Rat, if it wasn't for the protection of this old man, you would have even entered the State of Wu. If you don't come, but now you're turning black and white, I'll kill you first to make the courtroom!"

After speaking, Wu Zixu was about to throw a sword and hit Bo Xi. Where could the fat Bo Xi be his opponent? He quickly hid behind the pillar and shouted, "Your Majesty save me, Your Majesty save me!"

"It's so rude to the court, is it the widow who is the king of Wu, or is it you the king of Wu?" Fu Chai once relied heavily on Wu Zixu to give him the privilege of bringing his sword to the palace, but now he regrets it a lot, and immediately goes down to the palace to stop him and let him go. The guard took Wu Zixu's sword so that he would not be presumptuous.

"Your Majesty." Wu Zixu said bitterly: "The previous king was able to listen to his advice, so he was able to defeat Chu and become famous in Jianghuai. Now the king is stubborn, and the old minister's deepest words, the king has repeatedly ignored the words of flattery. ..." His eyes swept to Bo Xi.

"I believe in the words that seduce the Lord." He also glared at Zheng Dan, who was hiding behind Fuchai.

"Now the king is determined to go on the northern expedition, thinking that what he has achieved is the hegemony? Wrong, very wrong, the Central Plains is a road of no return, if the king listens to the old minister and reconciles with the Zhao family, first defend the Huai soil in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu The state can continue, otherwise, Wu state may be like Jin state Taishi Mo said, and it will perish within ten years!”

The words were powerful, but how could Fuchai hear Wu Zixu's words at this time? He saw that Bo Xi and the others were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak, and Zheng Dan, his favorite concubine, was also pale and hid in his arms tremblingly.

With a big wave of his hand, he said unceremoniously: "No need to say it again, the widow has seen it clearly today, the doctor stopped the widow from going north to the Central Plains, but just wanted to firmly hold the widow in the palace, unable to stand in front of the world, Hello, you are authoritative and arrogant, and you are alone in the state of Wu. Let's do the things of Duke Zhou!

As soon as these words came out, Wu Zixu was stunned, and said somewhat incredulously: "What did you say, Your Majesty?"

Fu Chai had already ignored it: "The widow has endured you for a long time, because you have made some contributions in the past king, so you can't bear to rectify you. Now that you are old and faint, it is better to resign from the court and return to the fief to live in seclusion. Don't stop the widow's hegemony, and leave a decent place for both the ruler and the minister..."

Birds hide their bows, rabbits die and dogs cook?

Although Wu Zixu didn't know this sentence, the feeling in his heart was almost exactly what it meant. Thirty years of dedicated duty for the Wu Kingdom came to the fore, especially after the death of King Helu of Wu, there was hardly a trace of what he did for himself, but for the country!

Now, he has suffered the worst betrayal by the monarch.

Wu Zixu was trembling with anger, and pointed his finger at Fu Chai, as if he wanted to scold the King Chu Ping's body, but in the end he hung down weakly, and sighed up to the sky: "Since this silence, the loyal ministers cover their mouths, and the slanderers are on the side; The government is corrupt and the way is bad, and the flattery is boundless; heresy and false words, using the song as the straight, abandoning the slander and attacking the loyal, will destroy the Wu state: the ancestral temple will be barbaric, the community and crops will not eat, the city's hills will be ruined, the temple will be full of thorns..."

His heart was ashes, and he bowed down and said with tears: "Your Majesty Mianzhi, please resign!"

After he finished speaking, he turned and left without waiting for his husband's permission. The moonlight in Gusu was like a mirror, and the loyal and traitor were all illuminated in it. On the brightly lit stage of Gusu, the shadow of Wu Zixu pulled the elders and elders. It seemed so lonely.

At this moment, he became the only loyal minister of Wu Kingdom...

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"The ancestral temple is barbaric, the community does not eat food, the city's hills and ruins, the temple grows thorns... all nonsense, all nonsense, Wu members are getting more and more presumptuous!" A good feast, an inspiring oath to go to war was so spoiled , Fu Chai felt disgusted as if he had eaten a fly, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

"Your Majesty..." Wu Zixu's political enemy Dazai Bo Xi took the opportunity to step forward and said with more jealousy: "Zixu is tough and vicious, ruthless, suspicious and vicious. He was able to abandon his father and brother and run away when he was young. Hatred can dry up the water in Yunmengze and burn up the gold and stone in Zhanghuatai, if you don't take precautions, it will only cause disaster."

Fu Chai said with awe: "What do you mean by this?"

At the beginning of the year, the king mourned for Jin and wanted to send troops to attack the Central Plains. Zixu thought it was impossible and blocked it for various reasons. Later, the king sent troops north by sea and won the great victory in Langya. The news came back, but Zixu was not adopted because of his own strategy. Feeling ashamed, in his heart, he was afraid that he hoped to use the failure of Wu State to prove that his strategy was better than that of the king. That's why he came to the Terrace of Gusu today to forcibly remonstrate and slander the king's hegemony. Now the king is wise, Seeing through his tricks and expelling him from the court is really heartwarming. However, the members of the army have been in Wu for many years, and there are many party members, and their relationship with doctors and generals is inextricably linked.

After all, Wu Zixu is his "sub-father", and he is also an important official. Fu Chai hesitates: "Is it a plot? Wu members are stubborn, but they are loyal, so it shouldn't stop there."

Bo Xi said: "There is one thing that this minister does not know whether to talk about it or not."

Fu Chai waved his hand: "Speak!"

Bo Xi leaned into his ear and said in a low voice, "To tell the truth, the king, the members of the army think that he is the advisor of the previous king, and that he is an indispensable figure for the rise of the Wu kingdom. Chen has always been worried about the members of the army, so he sent people to investigate secretly and learned that at the beginning of the year, he sent his son back to the fief..."

The husband was puzzled: "What's wrong with letting Wu Feng return to the fief to keep the money?"

Bo Xi sneered and said: "It's called Huifengdi, but it's actually going to the north, to the state of Zhao!"

"What!" Zhao Guo, Zhao Wuxi, and now he has become Fuchai's inverse scale, he immediately slapped the case and asked Bo Xi to speak clearly.

"Everything that the minister said is true, the king can summon the doctor to ask the same. Wu Zixu entrusted his son to Sun Wu, who fled to the state of Zhao, because of his resentment towards the king. "

He said coldly: "As a courtier, I am unhappy at home, and rely on other princes outside. It seems that the members of the army prevented the king from going north. I am afraid that it was the intention of the prince of Zhao. There is such a traitorous and loyal doctor. When will his dominance be realized? I also hope that the king will plan it soon, and don’t let Wu members sell Wu Guo’s intelligence in exchange for his son’s future…”

Fuchai was still a little unconvinced, but when he summoned the doctor in charge of the defense of Wucheng, Fengtong came to ask, only to find out that he had indeed sent someone to follow Wu Feng. After he left the city in January, he did not return to Shenyi, but went north to Chen Cai incognito. I went to Zhao State...

"The old thief is deceiving me! The old thief is deceiving me!" Fu Chai was really mad, he pulled out the Luou sword he carried around his waist and slashed randomly in the hall until he stabbed a palace servant to death, dripping with blood. just woke up.

He stared at his red eyes, exhaled and said to Bo Xi: "Even if you didn't say this, Gu would have long suspected the members of the army..."

A king cannot tolerate betrayers.

The more Wang Wu thought about it, the more angry he became, and finally let Fengtong come up and hand him the sword that was still stained with blood.

Feng Tong took it over tremblingly, but heard King Wu's dispatch: "You take someone to the Meiliwu house, give this sword to the members of the army, and pass on the decree of Guyi..."

The white-haired old man pretended to be loyal again. After the death of King Helu of Wu, he was like another "father" of Fuchai. Anyone who is a son always has a mentality of murdering his father and becoming independent. Wearing a pierced sword that exudes vicious reflections, he gritted his teeth and squeezed a few words out of his mouth: "Just say, you will die with this!"

…

In the early morning of the next day, the weather was surprisingly strange, without the warmth of Jichun at all, the sky was gray, and it was cold at first.

Fengtong stood under the eaves of Wu's house, staring at Wu Zixu more than ten paces away without blinking.

As Bo Xi's accomplice, Feng Tong participated in all the framing and calamity against Wu Zixu. At this moment, the political enemy who had been shrouded in their heads for 20 years was finally rejected by the king, and he was about to embark on the end of his life. In addition to the tone, there was also a hint of pity.

After all, except for Fu Chai who was blinded by his ambitions, everyone in Wu State could see that Wu Zixu was loyal to King Wu, so as long as Wu Zixu did not resist, they had to give this old minister a little respect.

When he received the will of "you die with this", Wu Zixu was heartbroken. He looked up at the rainy sky and sighed, "Alas! Fuchai, Fuchai, I once planned to break the Chu state for Wu, Nanfu Jinyue, Weijia princes, Let the late king dominate Jianghuai. And before you were determined to be the crown prince, all the sons fought to stand, and it was I who risked my life to fight in front of the late king to make you the heir. When you took the throne, you promised that if you could avenge your father, you would Divided the country with me, but I laughed at it and didn't expect anything in return. I only hoped that you could inherit the cause of the previous king and defend the state of Wu. But now, you listened to the bad words of the flattering villains and came to kill the elders, really... Really…”

Then he smiled wryly at Wei Li who came over: "As you expected, the king still couldn't tolerate me. He didn't listen to me and gave me a sword instead."

Bei Li also secretly persuaded him: "I heard the song of the state of Chu, the water in Canglang is clear, I can wash my ying; the water in Canglang is turbid, I can wash my feet. Why should Zixu commit suicide? , smash out of Wucheng, flee, and save your life."

"I am a Wu Chen, born as a Wu ghost, even if I am exiled, where can I go?"

Li Li and persuaded him to say: "Feng has already arrived in Zhao State, why don't Zixu also go to Zhao Hou?"

"The seal has the life of the seal, and the member has the life of the member." The white-haired old man stubbornly raised his zodiac: "My life is it."

After refusing the suggestion of being left, Wu Zixu sat in the pavilion and stared at the hollow sword in his hand, full of praise for its sharp blade and exquisitely crafted one-horned deer hilt.

"I thought that I would be killed by slaughter and car cracks like my father and brother, but I never dreamed that it would be such a small sword that took my life. Xia Jie killed Guan Longfeng and Shang Zhou killed him. Prince Bigan, now that the great king kills the old ministers, I am afraid that he will be compared to Jie Zhou and his like. It is nothing if Wu members die today, but it is a pity that the palace of Wu Kingdom will be turned into ruins soon, and the stage of Gusu is overgrown. creeping grass..."

As soon as he said this, Sheren who knelt on the ground in front of him all burst into tears, and Li Ye covered his face and wiped away his tears, because Wu Zixu's situation was not worth it.

Why is Wu Zixu angry? Thirty years after Wu State, he no longer regards himself as a native of Chu at all, and regards this emerging state as his hometown. For Fuchai, he also worked hard to support him on the throne and help him to take revenge, but he was unexpectedly betrayed by the most shameful betrayal.

The villain is in the hall, the loyal words are hard to hear, the whole world is cloudy and I am the only one who is clear, and everyone is drunk and I am alone.

Although he was distressed by the impending decline of the state of Wu, Wu Zixu's affection for his husband was completely exhausted. He didn't hate Wu Guo, but he hated Fuchai and those villains. He was never a tolerant person, and it was always his life principle to report his grievances directly and complain with them.

If it were changed ten or twenty years ago, perhaps it was another move to draw bows and arrows, pass Zhaoguan at night, and finally succeed in revenge for Fuchai's shocking feat, the words of the world, the pen of history? Wu Zixu didn't care, all he cared about was whether he felt comfortable in his chest, and whether he could make the world fear him.

It's a pity that he is already in his sixties, exhausted by the rise and fall of the Wu Kingdom, and no longer has the strength to do those things.

Wu Zixu finished his mourning, and after laughing for a while, he said to the deceased and the bereaved, "The deceased has already grown up, so the living should be like this. After I die, you must plant a catalpa tree on my grave to let it grow up. I can make a coffin. Then I will dig out my eyeballs and hang them on the north gate and south gate towers of the capital of Wu State."

He stood up abruptly, walked into the rain, turned his back to the sky, and let the rain mingle with his tears of grief and indignation.

"Even if my eyes are rotten and withered by then, I have to tell my son Wu Feng that on the day Wu State perishes, don't forget to hold a family sacrifice, so that Nai Weng knows that Wu State died in Zhao Hou. The teacher was still killed by a sneak attack by the Vietnamese bandits!"

After he finished speaking, he laughed and killed himself!

It is sharp, and the skin sees blood...

The corpse fell heavily to the ground, and the puddles were stained with blood.

"Congratulations to send off the head of the family!" Li Heshe people cried and rushed over, surrounded his corpse, and bowed and said goodbye in the rain.

"Respectfully send Wu Zi!" Even Fengli's subordinates couldn't help crying, and bowed their heads to Wu Zixu's body.

On the stage of Gusu, Fu Chai, who was going about the cloud and rain, shoved Zheng Dan away, and walked out of the palace without a word. Note flowing down, face tangled, UU reading www.uukanshu. com seems remorseful and fearful.

On the other hand, Dazai Hikari and his co-conspirators had a good time, celebrating that the political dispute for more than ten years had finally come to an end...

Only the heaven and the earth are silent, the rain is pouring, and it has been falling non-stop, as if weeping for Wu Zixu's death...

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In April and May, the rainwater spread from south to north under the blow of the monsoon, and it floated to the beam of Zhao State's new city in the east. Zhao Hou Wuxi had just arrived here, when he learned that Wu Wangfu had killed Wu Zixu, and then the handsome army went north to the Song Dynasty...

ps: 1. It is wrong to say that he was already dead in the previous article. Wu Yue was still alive when he was separated from the Spring and Autumn Period until Fuchai’s Northern Expedition. Too many characters are prone to mistakes. In case of inconsistencies, the following text shall prevail

2. Fengtong is one of the five masters of Yueguo in "Wuyue Chunqiu", and Bo Xi's comrade in "Yue Jue Shu". The plot requires the latter.

Five thousand words, well, in fact, this is the amount of two chapters. If the plot is not separated in the future, it will not be divided into chapters.

(To be continued.)