Spring and Autumn 295 (28) King Wen of Chu destroyed Cai Guo and married Lady Xi

After the defeat at the Battle of changspoon, Duke Huan of Qi was not discouraged, and turned his head in March of that year to lead troops to attack the Song state, and occupied a lot of the Song state's territory, and the Song state had no choice but to move the old people in those places to the accommodation. In this war against the Song Dynasty, the history books do not elaborate on the before and aftermath of the war, but from the results, the Duke of Qi Huan not only won the war, but also won or coerced the Song MingOng to his own camp through the war. Subsequently, in June of that year, duke Huan of Qi united with his defeated general Song Min Gong and once again sent troops to conquer the state of Lu and garrison Langdi in the state of Lu.

Only a few months after the Battle of the Long Spoon, the Qi army made a comeback in conjunction with the Song army, and Gongzi Yan, the grand master of the Lu State, analyzed that from his observation, the Military Appearance of the Song Army in the Qi and Song Coalition Army was not neat and could be defeated by me. Gongzi Yan said that as long as the Lu army defeated the Song army, the Qi army would definitely retreat. Gongzi Yan was very confident in his judgment, so he took the initiative to ask The Duke of Luzhuang to lead an army to attack the Song army. However, Duke Lu Zhuang did not approve Gongzi Yan's application for combat.

Gongzi Yan saw that Lu Zhuanggong did not listen to him, and was afraid of missing the best fighter, so he carried Lu Zhuanggong on his back, privately asked someone to clothe Ma Du with tiger skins, and then secretly led his army out of The Gate and quietly approached the Song army. (There is still some controversy about whether the tiger skin is for horses or for people.) But my focus was on the ease of obtaining tiger skins in that era. If a team, even a relatively small team of horses or people can be equipped with tiger skins, the basic material reserves are also necessary. Our people today live in the era of industrialization and post-industrialization, the environment has been destroyed and vigorously transformed by human beings too much, and it is often easy to ignore the environment of the era in which the ancients lived when looking at historical events, which is not the same as today. At that time, the ecology was relatively primitive, people and animals were relatively more like a state of intermingling, and there were many species and numbers of wild animals and animals. Therefore, many animals that seem very rare today, such as tigers, rhinos (the ancients called it goons) and the like, the ancients not only used their skins as war materials, but also used their bodies to make medicines, such as traditional Chinese medicine tiger bone paste, rhinoceros powder and the like, today in order to protect animals, we have artificial compounds or other similar things instead, and the ancients are real. Without him, much more. ）

Gongzi Yan took the initiative and reported the news of taking people to attack the Song army to lu zhuanggong, who quickly took action and led his army to chase him behind, hoping to chase Gongzi yan back in time. Of course, Gongzi Yan set off early, Lu Zhuang Found Out Late, and finally Lu Zhuang Gong did not catch up with Gongzi Bu Yan. However, fortunately, everything was as Gongzi Yan had analyzed and predicted, and after the Lu army defeated the Song army in Chengqiu and the Song army lost to the Lu army, the Duke of Qi Huan did withdraw his troops.

This time, although the Duke of Qi Huan once again gained nothing in the State of Lu, on the way back to the State of Qi, the Duke of Qi Huan took the hand and destroyed the State of Tan in October of that year. Destroying Tan is nothing else, only because in the spring, when Qi Huangong led his army to pass through Tan Guo, Tan Guo did not fulfill the courtesy of Qi Huan Gong, and when Qi Jun returned in winter, all the princes came to congratulate him, and the King of Tan Guo did not come. Therefore, Qi Huangong used this as an excuse to destroy the Tan Kingdom. After the fall of the Kingdom of Tan, the king of the State of Tan went out of the Kingdom of Ju.

This matter is very strange -- the Qi army obviously did not win, what did the princes come to congratulate?

Perhaps Qi Huangong had already made up his mind to destroy Tan Guo, saying that anything was just an excuse. The fate of the small country was in this way in that era, and as long as the big country had an ambition for it, whatever it did was wrong. Therefore, the small countries that could preserve their own countries in that era had to have superiority. Because the curtain of the times has been opened, the era of people not offending me and not committing crimes has ended, and the conquest of paying attention to points is still an excuse. Sima Qian said, "In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were thirty-six kings and fifty-two kingdoms, and there were countless princes who could not protect their society. "Therefore, the demise of Tan Guo is too normal, and it is just an inconspicuous little splash in this era."

In September of the same year (684 BC), the State of Chu defeated the Cai army at Xindi, and after capturing the Marquis of Cai (Dedication Dance) before the battle, Banshi returned to China.

Cai Aihou was captured, and it was entirely self-inflicted. It was all caused by a frivolous act that he did not care about.

What's going on? It turned out that Cai Aihou's wife was a Chen Guoren, and this year the monarch of the state of The State of Qihou married his wife Concubine From Chen Guo, and when the convoy of Concubine Xie marrying into the Country of Interest passed by Cai Guo, Cai Aihou heard about it and said- "This is my sister-in-law coming, hurry up and stop it, I want to see you." After seeing Concubine Xie, Cai Aihou could not keep the number of etiquette for Concubine Xie.

After this matter was known to Hou Shihou, Hou Xihou was furious and sent someone to the Chu kingdom to ask King Wen of Chu for help. Hou Xi even gave King Wen of Chu a good idea—you sent troops to attack me, and then I went to my brother-in-law Cai Laihou for help, and then he would definitely send troops to help me, and then you could take the opportunity to send troops to attack him.

Cai Aihou promised King Wen of Chu that as long as King Wen of Chu helped him with this favor, he would certainly not return empty-handed.

When King Wen of Chu heard this, this idea was good, so he obeyed the plan of The Marquis of Qi, and sent troops to pretend to be a crusade against the Marquis of Qi. Subsequently, things developed in the direction of Hou Xihou's plan, the Chu army defeated the Cai army in Xindi, and Cai Aihou was captured.

After Marquis Cai Aihou was brought back to the Chu state by King Wen of Chu, Sima Qian said in the "Cai Shijia" of the "Records of History" that he "stayed nine years old and died in Chu", but also said in the "Chu Shijia" that "it has been released"; since there is no relevant record in other historical books such as "Zuo Chuan", it has become an incomprehension about the direction after the Battle of Cai Aihou Xin.

Let's go on with the statement that Marquis Cai Aihou was captured, since the defeat of Xin, after Marquis Cai Aihou was captured by King Chuwen, in order to take revenge on Hou Xihou, he constantly praised in front of King Chuwen how beautiful his wife, Princess Xi, and finally touched King Chuwen's heart. Therefore, King Wen of Chu took the opportunity to go to the Country of Rest to reward and comfort the Prince of Qi, and destroyed the Country of Peace, and then snatched the Concubine back. Concubine Xi later bore King Wen of Chu two sons, Tuoba Ao and King Cheng of Chu (Xiong Yun). After the extinction, cai guo did not have to be retained, so King Wen of Chu destroyed cai guo again. Therefore, Cai Aihou was busy for half a day, although he avenged himself, but the price of revenge was inevitably too great, in the past he was only captured, Cai Guo's Jiangshan Sheji was still there, and after the revenge was over, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed.

The "Zuo Biography" says that after Lady Xi entered Chu, she was in a period of mourning and never spoke to King Wen of Chu first. King Wen of Chu asked Concubine Xi why she did not take the initiative to speak, and Lady Xi replied to King Wen of Chu that she was a woman and a Taoist family, a woman and a husband, even if she could not die, what else could she say. Judging from this record, it is very unavoidable for Lady Xi to commit herself to King Wen of Chu after the fall of the country, and her personality is also relatively strong. Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty said in the "Biography of The Daughters of Lie" that Lady Xi and Xi Hou committed suicide together, and this ending is obviously different from the record of the "Left Biography". However, Liu Xiang's "Biography of the Daughters of Lie" was to persuade the palace to be ironic, to feel the Son of Heaven, and to promote feudal ethics and morality, so there were many things that were different from the facts and even fictional, so the "Biography of the Daughters of Lie" said that Lady Xi committed suicide, and the credibility was relatively low. Moreover, the history books say that the mother of King Chu Cheng was Lady Xi, which should not be wrong, which also shows that Lady Xi did indeed enter Chu after the State of Chu was destroyed by the State of Chu, rather than killing herself.

However, there is another version of the whole thing, according to the "Lü Shi Chunqiu", king Wen of Chu wanted to destroy the state of Shi and the state of Cai, so he first pretended to make friends with The Marquis of Cai Aihou and discussed the plan to destroy the state with the Marquis of Cai Aihou; then the Marquis of Cai Aihou offered a plan to the King of Chuwen: Lady Xi is his sister-in-law, and I will go to the banquet of the State of Chu to invite the Marquis of Qi and his wife, and take you with me, and then you will take the opportunity to lead the army to sneak into the country. In this way, the State of Chu used the strategy of Marquis Cai Aihou to destroy the State of Sui, and after destroying the State of Qi, it also destroyed the State of Cai when it returned. Since "Lü's Spring and Autumn" belongs to the miscellaneous family and is not a canonical history, this statement is only for one look. However, from a practical point of view, if I am king of Chu Wen and want to destroy the two countries of Xi and Cai, I do not rule out the use of such strategies and methods, after all, the chu wen king's nickname is "Wen".

Regarding the destruction of the State of Chu and the State of Cai, although there are such differences in the literature, it does not affect the final result, that is, whether it is the State of Chu or the State of Cai, both were destroyed by the State of Chu at the time of King Wen of Chu, and the State of Chu increased its territory and strength a lot with the destruction of these two countries.