In the words of the soldiers of the State of Wu, "A man of the State of Wu will never beg to surrender," in the tragic and loud shouts, in the face of the humiliation of Wu Ju, Zhufan finally chose to draw his sword and kill himself.
Again, he cannot live up to his "identity", let alone the centuries-old reputation of the Wu Kingdom.
Wu people would rather die than surrender!
This is what Zhufan can think of, the best belonging he can have, and the best ending of his life.
Then, more than a thousand Wu soldiers picked up their swords and halberds and committed seppuku. But seeing them fall one after another in the cold rain, the scene shocked all the Chu people.
When Sun Wu saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel admiration for his current opponent.
Perhaps many years later, he would still be able to think of everything that happened today, and of Zhu Fan's heroic spirit of preferring death to surrender.
In contrast, Li Ran's eyes were filled with endless anger at this moment.
Of course he knew that with Zhufan's strong temper he would never be able to withstand Wu Ju's ridicule and humiliation, which is why he asked Sun Wu to lead his troops to capture Zhufan alive.
But Wu Ju's sneaky arrival disrupted his entire plan.
Once Zhufan dies, the Central Plains countries with the surname Ji will definitely regard him as their chief enemy, and Zheng will also become the target of reviling by the Central Plains countries, so Li Ran's reputation in the Central Plains will inevitably plummet.
By then, if Shu Niu, Feng Duan and the forces entrenched in Qi State that have been secretly fighting with him are taken advantage of, how will he deal with himself in the future?
Therefore, as far as he is concerned, Zhufan cannot die!
Li Ran suddenly turned his head to look at Wu Ju, his sharp and sharp gaze as if he was going to chop Wu Ju alive.
"Hahahahaha, Zhufan's son died here today. It is really a great blessing for our country of Chu!"
"Sir, you have accomplished this extraordinary feat, please accept it and pay homage!"
But at this time, Wu Ju directly raised Li Ran up again.
Not only did he turn a blind eye to Li Ran's sharp and angry gaze, he even directly placed all the credit for Zhufan's death on Li Ran.
It was you, Li Ran, who killed Zhufan. It was you, Li Ran, who made this unparalleled contribution to our country of Chu!
You, Li Ran, are the great lucky star of our Chu country!
"doctor!"
Li Ran roared fiercely, and the anger in his eyes could no longer be hidden, and it burst out instantly.
"Oh? What's wrong, sir?"
Wu Ju frowned and looked at him pretending to be confused.
"What's wrong?"
"Why did the doctor appear here? And why did he say something to force the King of Wu to die? Doesn't the doctor know that my plan, Li Ziming, is to capture the King of Wu alive?!"
In Li Ran's original plan, "capturing Zhufan alive" was actually a lie, but letting him recognize the reality and letting him stop fighting and go back to recuperate was the ultimate goal and his only goal.
"Haha, what sir said is wrong."
"If King Wu doesn't die today, our country in the east of Chu will never have peace!"
"Shouldn't he die? How many people from our Chu country died in the Battle of Shujiu? Over the years, he has come to harass our Chu country again and again! If he doesn't die, do you still hope... Sir, please respect yourself, Sir now
You are my guest from the Kingdom of Chu! Since you are a guest, you should know what you can do and what you cannot do!"
How can you, a guest of Chu State, speak for Wu State? Or are you speaking for Zhufan, the instigator of this war?
Isn’t this eating the inside out?
Wu Ju did not give Li Ran a good look, but used the sharpest words to fight back against him.
But this time, Li Ran was completely angered.
His expression suddenly darkened, his eyes sparkled with fire, and his whole person suddenly became filled with murderous intent!
"Today the doctor forced the King of Wu to death, and the whole country of Wu will definitely regard Chu as their world enemy. In the future, if Chu is in trouble, Wu will take advantage of the chaos to rise up, and the war between Wu and Chu will resume. I don't know how many Li leaders will die, or how many people will die.
Knowing how many people will be displaced by this, is this what the doctor wants to see?"
"Furthermore, with the death of Zhu Fan today, all the countries in the Central Plains with the surname Ji will definitely blame the Chu State. However, 'In ancient times, a warrior would not be seriously injured, nor would he capture two hairs'! Now the Chu State has just
Having obtained the position of leader of the alliance, but now forcefully forcing the king of a country to death, isn't this despicable means despised by the world?"
"Don't you know, doctor, that even though the doctor is enjoying his quick talk today, he has already caused a hundred years of disaster for the Chu country?! Not only has he caused a hundred years of disaster for the Chu country, but even the doctor's family will not be spared by then!"
It is obviously impossible to speak for Wu Guo from Li Ran's perspective.
But speaking from the perspective of Chu State, or even from Wu Ju's perspective, it is natural.
Today's death of Zhu Fan seems to be the return of the Chu State with a great victory. It seems that from now on, it will be difficult for the Wu State to gain power in the southeastern border of Chu State.
But when I think about it, is it really that simple?
Yes, for the death of Zhu Fan, the countries in the Central Plains will definitely blame Li Ran and scold Li Ran, thinking that Li Ran betrayed the country with the surname Ji and extended his hand to help the country with the surname other than the barbarians.
But the monarchs and ministers of the Central Plains countries are not fools. Of course they know that the biggest enemy of the Wu State is your Chu State.
It was because of the great war between Wu and Chu that Zhu Fan lost his life. Over and over again, this debt will eventually be blamed on Chu.
As the leader of the world, it is okay to attack the enemy, but from ancient times to the present, I have never heard of someone who attacked the enemy's country and ended up killing the king of the other country.
After committing such an act, can Chu's position as leader of the alliance still be recognized by the Central Plains countries?
Let alone approval, they may even stop believing everything you Chu people say in the future. If they don’t unite together to boycott your Chu country, it’s already considered a good thing.
Also, who can guarantee that nothing will happen to you in Chu State again in the future?
In the future, once civil strife breaks out in Chu State, will the Central Plains countries still sit back and watch? If they don't take the opportunity to knock you down, will they become the next kings of Wu State?
What's more, there is now a feud with the Wu Kingdom. Will they just give up?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If you do not know how to "deny oneself and return to propriety", the difficulties your Chu country will face in the future will eventually come one after another, even the hundreds of years of foundation.
I'm afraid it will also be destroyed!
And this is exactly what Wu Zixu and Sun Wu will do in the future.
Now that things have happened, Li Ran finally understands Wu Ju's superficiality.
Originally, he thought that Wu Ju was cunning enough and could be said to be a leader in Yangmou.
But today, what Wu Ju did has completely put Chu State on the precipice of danger. It can be called extremely stupid!
"Sir, you are dedicated to the country of Ji, so why are you talking alarmist here?"
"It's just the Kingdom of Wu. In the future, it will only take a raise of hands to destroy the Kingdom of Wu!"
Wu Ju is so confident now that he has even forgotten the Battle of Shujiu that just happened not long ago, and even the painful experience of being walked like a dog by Wu in the Jianghuai River Basin.
As soon as Zhufan died, he even thought that the Chu State had enough strength to overthrow the Wu State!
At this time, he was even more conceited than Zhufan!
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
"This is the funniest joke I have ever heard in my life!"
"The doctor has not reflected on himself until now. The Wu family is in danger, and the Chu country is in danger!"
Li Ran said no more, he only needed to wait for historical events to continue to happen, and then everything he said today would naturally become reality.
So, he and Sun Wu quickly left Chaoyi, cleaned up briefly, and hurried back to Yingdu.
Of course Wu Ju didn't know that what Li Ran said today would one day become a reality. Therefore, his reaction to Li Ran today was still attributed to Li Ran's love for Ji.
And he also deliberately mentioned this in his victory report to the King of Chu, so that the King of Chu could give him a good beating when he met with Li Ran, so that Li Ran could completely give up these delusions.
After victory and triumph, the army returned home.
At this point, Wu Ju has accomplished such extraordinary feats. Naturally, they and their party will receive congratulations from the kings and ministers of the Chu Kingdom.
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Chapter 253_The teacher returns to the court
Zhufan was the first king of a country to die on the battlefield in history.
His death will also directly cause Wu State to not dare to touch the land of Chu State in the next ten years.
In this way, Chu King Xiong Wei could relax and continue to develop his grand hegemony, and no longer had to worry about the Wu Kingdom in the southeastern border.
For the King of Chu, this is a happy event, a huge happy event!
When the news came back to Yingdu, the king of Chu, who was already very concerned about the war on the front line, was overjoyed when he heard such good news. He issued three royal orders to inform the whole country that the guilty should be pardoned.
Xiong Wei, King of Chu, only one year after he took the throne, he severely damaged Wu State, the powerful enemy in the east, and even took the head of Zhu Fan, the king of Wu State!
What kind of magic is this?!
And how could he, the King of Chu, not show off?
Of course, this must also mean that the King of Chu wanted to frighten the old nobles who secretly opposed him.
After all, he was not in the right position. Some of the old nobles in the country, such as the Jiang family, which he had severely suppressed, and the remnants of the Ruo'ao family, still had some objections to him on the grounds that the death of the late king Jia Ao was unclear.
A lot of slanderous remarks.
This time he was able to achieve such great achievements when he first came to the throne. How could it have been so smooth without the blessing of destiny?
Since he has a destiny, he should be able to silence these people!
Following the announcement from the King of Chu, everyone in the Chu State also knew that King Wu Zhufan was dead, so they were full of praise for Li Ran, Wu Ju, and Sun Wu. They all thought that the Chu State had these three people, and they, the Chu State,
It will be easy to dominate the world.
But what they didn't know was that Li Ran, who was on his way back to Yingdu, was in an extremely depressed mood at this moment.
With Zhufan's death, all his plans came to nothing. He had never felt such a sense of frustration.
In the past, his calculations were always accurate and his plans were always right.
But this time, his strategy fell short, and even directly affected the situation of the entire world.
This traumatized him, who had always insisted on maintaining stability in the world, and made him unable to sleep or eat well for a long time.
"Chang Qing, now that the matter has come to this, am I still too smart for my brother? Or am I too smart for my brother's sake? Or have I underestimated the others?"
Li Ran can now understand why Zhu Fan committed suicide and why the Wu soldiers followed their master to death together. After all, in this ancient era, human dignity was their focus, as for their own lives
, but it seems so insignificant.
But what Li Ran couldn't understand was why Wu Ju had to force Zhu Fan to death?
At that critical moment, if Wu Ju could bend down and stay consistent with him and Sun Wu, Zhufan would never commit suicide because of this.
At that time, if Zhufan stops his troops and makes peace with Chu, wouldn't that be much better than the current situation?
Why did Wu Ju drive Zhufan to death so recklessly?
Just for military exploits?
Li Ran couldn't believe that Wu Ju was familiar with "Zhou etiquette" after all. Could it be that he really didn't understand the wonderful effects of these "self-denials and restoration of etiquette"?
However, it didn't matter whether he believed it or not at this moment. What mattered was that Wu Ju might really think so.
Because the life and death of Wu King Zhufan is the biggest bargaining chip for the Wu family to establish their clan!
As mentioned before, Wu Ju volunteered to fight in order to gain military exploits and improve the status of the Wu family in the Chu State, thereby consolidating the power of the Wu family, and even becoming a super family like the Chun family. In order to
His children and grandchildren paved the way.
Therefore, when faced with Zhu Fan's head on his neck and such unparalleled achievements, Wu Ju, who had always been scheming and well versed in Zhou rites, would become so eager for quick success and become more reckless.
From this, it is not difficult to see what is the culprit for the "corruption of etiquette and the collapse of music"? When the vested interests in front of you are powerful enough to drive people crazy, those "invisible and intangible" people are often
The real "foresight" will seem to be in vain and people will no longer pay attention to it.
This was the case with Wu Ju. He did not consider at all what kind of disaster Zhufan's death would bring to Wu and Chu, and what kind of hidden dangers it would bring to his Wu family.
Just because Zhufan's head is too important to him now.
However, at this point, Li Ran's plan was completely in vain, and the storm he had to face next was obviously more serious than the military disaster between Wu and Chu.
Sun Wu obviously knew this, so he also understood the question Li Ran asked very clearly.
"Why did you say this, sir? Your plan is perfect. If Wu Ju hadn't been reckless and interfered, the matter would never have developed to this point!"
"If you want to blame it, you can only blame Wu Ju for being too ignorant. He turned Wu State into Chu State's old enemy. From now on, the world may not be stable."
As a direct participant in the whole thing, Sun Wu saw it most clearly.
However, Li Ran smiled self-deprecatingly.
Just listen to Sun Wu continue:
"At this moment, if you continue to think about blaming yourself, I'm afraid it will be useless."
"From a military point of view, sir, you should think about how to respond to the accusations from Dr. Zichan and the other countries in the Central Plains."
"The death of King Wu will definitely implicate Sir, and become the basis for those people to criticize Sir!"
Sun Wu frowned, obviously thinking about this issue as well.
After all, Zhufan's death was irreversible. How to face the verbal and written attacks from the monarchs and ministers of the Central Plains countries was what Li Ran needed to consider most at this time.
But who would have expected that Li Ran let out a long sigh, opened the car curtain and looked outside.
The cold and rain-drenched Chu Land was filled with smoke, and the surroundings were gloomy and silent. There was no rooster crow, no dog barking, and few people.
Looking at this world, Li Ran remained silent.
He originally thought that with his thousands of years of historical experience and modern people's logical thinking, he would be able to deal with anything in such a world with ease.
So when he first attended the township school assembly in Qufu, he regarded everyone as "stupid students".
In short, in Li Ran's opinion, no one in this era can be his opponent.
But now, he realizes how stupid and arrogant he was back then.
In any era, there are characteristics that cannot be changed. Even if Li Ran is a latecomer and the first person to gather five thousand years of historical experience, he cannot change the characteristics of this era.
Moreover, in such an era, there are still many things that he cannot do and cannot accomplish through the channels he wants.
As the saying goes, only by never forgetting your original intention can you achieve success.
But now, Li Ran was very doubtful about the correctness of this sentence.
He is always just one person.
A person who is also made of flesh and blood is not a saint who does not eat the fireworks of the world.
What is ordinary to him is what is ordinary to all living beings.
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After half a month of turbulence, Li Ran and Sun Wu finally returned to Yingdu together.
What awaited them was the King of Chu's servants.
Under Zhang Hua's stage, the King of Chu came down from hundreds of stairs for a rare occasion, and led a group of civil servants and generals of the Chu State to personally greet Li Ran and Sun Wu.
This scene is truly spectacular.
Thousands of King Chu's bodyguards surrounded Zhang Huatai, and all the ministers and officials from the Chu Kingdom stood in two rows behind King Chu. The King of Chu wore a crown on his head, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and had a majestic face.
There is an excitement that has not faded yet.
"We sincerely welcome Mr. Ziming back after his victory. Your Majesty and your ministers are respectful, and I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Ziming for his merits in Chu!"
As Prince Qiji's voice sounded, in front of Zhang Hua's stage, the kings and ministers of Chu State simultaneously bowed to Li Ran.
Even Prince Qiji was envious of such honor, his gloomy eyes full of inexplicable expressions.
When Li Ran faced the courtesy of the King of Chu, he naturally wanted to return the courtesy. He quickly came to the King of Chu and knelt on the ground.
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original:
In the twelfth month of the twelfth month, all the Fans of Wu Zi attacked Chu in retaliation for the battle of the boat master. The gate was in Chao. Chao Niuchen said: "The king of Wu is brave and light. If you open it, you will marry him. If I catch him, I will die. This is your king."
He will also die, and his territory will be safe!" From then on, when Wu Zimen was about to leave, Niu Chen hid in a short wall to shoot at him, and died. - "Zuo Zhuan: The Twenty-Fifth Year of Duke Xiang"