Song Xianggong is a very miserable person in history, why is he said to be miserable? The main thing is that he cares too much about benevolence and morality. It should be known that fighting, killing, and killing during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was a common thing, and each country had its own careful thinking and tried its best to achieve victory, and even some countries specially sent some detailed work to the enemy country to inquire into military information in order to achieve victory.
However, Song Xianggong obviously did not realize that he was in an era where the weak and the strong were strong, and he had always adhered to his bottom line. To a certain extent, his behavior is of high moral character, but in the eyes of many people, it is stupid. However, he did not care what the outside world thought of him, and insisted on sticking to his inner bottom line. Perhaps the group owner himself is very polite, and the cultural atmosphere of the Song Kingdom is very good, and it is called the state of etiquette.
However, because he was too obsessed with benevolence and morality, he ended up harming himself, and people laughed at him for paying for his stupidity. However, he had been stupid all his life, but when he was dying, he was shrewd, and the prince and the ministers felt that his brain had finally opened.
Song and Chu were at war, and Song Xianggong insisted on ancient military etiquette and did not take advantage of the danger of people. Originally, the State of Song was to attack the State of Zheng, but the State of Zheng was not strong enough, so it sought assistance from the State of Chu, so there was a war between the State of Chu and the State of Song. The Chu army was numerous, and the Song state did not have the advantage at all. However, the Chu army wanted to cross the river, and this was a good time for the Song army to change the situation, but this kind of behavior could be regarded as a sneak attack.
Song Xianggong has always paid attention to benevolence and etiquette, and if he sneaks up on the Chu army when they cross the river, it is undoubtedly a villain. He felt that fighting a war should require a fair confrontation, and should not sneak in when others were not ready. So he waited for the Chu army on the shore, and after the Chu army came ashore, he prepared the relevant matters of the war, and Song Xianggong and the Chu army officially went to war. The result was no accident, itself did not have an advantage in numbers, and it had to wait for the other side to be ready and then confront the enemy hard, and finally could only end up with a defeat, he himself was hit by an arrow in the leg and forced to retreat.
Song Xianggong's leg was injured and infected, and the injury became more and more serious. When fighting against the Chu army, he insisted on waiting for the Chu army to come ashore to confront the enemy, obviously inferior to others, but unwilling to carry out a sneak attack, and finally paid the price for this, resulting in an arrow in the leg. Originally, just being shot in the leg did not pose a threat to his life, and even if the injury was more serious, it was likely to leave a disability at most. However, as he grew older, wounds healed more slowly, and the medical conditions at the time were not so advanced, he was injured and defeated and was busy retreating, and his leg injuries became more and more serious along the way.
Later, there was an infighting in the State of Qi, and the crown prince was exiled to the State of Song, and The Duke of Song Xiang gave him great help, so that he could later return to the State of Qi again and become the Duke of Qi. But he did not expect that Qi Xiaogong was so reckless and righteous, and when the Song Kingdom was in difficulty, he not only did not help, but also suppressed the Song Kingdom. Song Xianggong was so angry that he vomited blood, and his injuries were even more serious. Until later, the wound became infected, and he could not save his life.
After a lifetime of stupidity, I finally got smart before I died. When he was about to breathe, his wife and children, as well as his courtiers, came to his bedside to send him off. The prince cried and asked him if he had anything to say? He said that let them not forget that the State of Chu was their enemy, and now that the State of Chu was strong and powerful, it would one day kill the State of Song, and the best way was to rely on the heavy ears of the State of Jin, and to protect the State of Song while also avenging itself. The prince and his courtiers were also very pleased to hear that the monarch had been stupid and confused all his life, and finally did a shrewd thing before dying.
Song Xianggong did not attack the Chu army when the Chu army crossed the river, which was indeed something that only a gentleman could do. But this kind of thing that only a gentleman can do is a stupid thing he does, and marching and fighting is too much of a good thing. Perhaps Song Xianggong, who had been confused all his life, reacted when he was infected in his own leg, became more and more seriously injured, and immediately lost his life, so he would warn the prince to rely on the Jin state to avenge himself before he died.