An ambitious kingdom is jealous of the once-hegemonic kingdom. On a clear day, the sunset by the clouds is magnificent, but it always haunts a barbaric atmosphere. Forested mountains, endless marshlands, and birds perched here and the red sun in the sky, this is the spiritual home of the Chu people, and the monarchs of the Chu state often hunt here.
At that time, the ancestor of the Chu State, the Bear Bear, because he was the teacher of King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, he had the opportunity to get close to the Zhou royal family and prepared for the future development of the family. In the era of King Cheng of Zhou, Xiong Xuan, the great-grandson of Xiong Xiong, was "sealed in Jingman, and the field of the son and man was all in Danyang", Xiong Xuan brought his clan to Yun Mengze, but not for sightseeing, they came here to cut thorns and thorns, to take root.
The ambitions of the Chu people have a long history, and the Chu state Xiongqu established itself as king during the zhou yi king's era. Later, because Zhou Tianzi produced a good and fierce King Zhou Li, Xiong Qu was afraid of his sharp edge, so he cancelled the title of king, but the kings of Chu in successive dynasties had sustenance for this. As the strongest vassal state in the south, the State of Chu had the confidence to compete with Zhou Tianzi in the north. More than a hundred years later, the Zhou royal family's control over the princes had been greatly weakened through the chaos of the Hojing Dynasty, and most of the princes who had only promised Zhou Tianzi were pregnant with ghost fetuses and began to stir.
Zheng Zhuanggong defeated King Huan of Zhou in the Battle of Lingge, which discredited Zhou Tianzi, and the reign of Xiong Tong of the Chu state in the south was also known as Wang Zhizhi. It is just that the combat strength of the princely states in the Central Plains during this period is still unknown, although the Chu people have thought about it for hundreds of years and read it for hundreds of years, in the middle is only that Jing Man has fought several battles with King Zhou Zhao, among which there are victories and losses, and it is really necessary to directly start a war with the northern princely states at that time, and the Chu people still seem to have no idea.
One thought is born, ten thousand thoughts are born, and the ambitions of the Chu people were completely ignited in the Xiongtong era. The Chu state ordered Yi DouBobi to believe that it had been a hundred years since the Chu people had gone from Xiongqu to the king,At this time, although Zhou Tianzi's status was weak, but the hundred-footed insect was dead and not stiff, moreover, zheng Zhuanggong won the battle of Lingge, and still had to send someone to ask Zhou Tianzi for peace, indicating that Zhou Tianzi was at least recognized in the eyes of the princes, and it seemed that it was not time for the Chu people to openly confront Zhou Tianzi.
What Dou Bobi said was that "the princes must first be subdued with might", that is, to use war to publicize the power of the Chu state. This Dou Bobi was probably a military man with considerable strategic ideas, and the area he valued was precisely the Hanyang Zhuji south of the Taihang Mountains deployed by the Zhou people, which not only had a large amount of copper ore, but could be used as weapons. As long as you control this place, you can use it as a springboard to directly insert military forces into the southern end of the Central Plains. Dou Bobi valued the Suiguo that unearthed the Zenghou Yi chimes.
In fact, when Hanyang Zhuji was enthroned, it was probably at the same time as Xiong Xuan, so later generations also believed that in addition to stationing copper mines, The other role of Hanyang Zhuji was to curb the development and growth of the southern forces of chu and Dongyi that were not relatives of the Zhou people. The position of the Hanyang Zhuji is also about parallel to the Yanqilu and other countries, which can be described as a super deep defense line deployed by the Zhou people in the east, the big country is the Surname of Ji, the hero is a small country, and the old clan of the former dynasty is a vassal state, these princely states are intricate, interlaced, interlocked, and isolated from each other, for example, hanyang Zhuji isolated the Jin, Song, and Lu spheres of influence in the north from the Chu state in the south and even the land of Wuyue.
These non-Ji vassal states were to ally with each other, often needing to cross the territory of the Ji feudal states. Therefore, the Chu people wanted to push their political influence to the north, and the route through Hanyang Zhuji was the best route. This strategy may not be unique to Dou Bobi, but the experience gained by the chu royal family and nobles for more than a hundred years. "The kingdom of Handong is great... If you follow the clothes, then the Hanhuai kingdoms will not be smooth. "Dou Bobi chose the strongest of the Hanyang Zhuji, which was to make a splash and destroy the confidence fortress of the Hanyang Zhuji.
At that time, between suiguo and chu, in fact, they did not know each other's true strength, that is, they had heard about it, and it was only empty, so when Suiguo found that the Chu state was coming, the Suiguo monarchs and subjects had differences, among which the arrogant and belligerent Young Division faction and the cautious Ji Liang faction had the most serious conflict, but the Suiguo monarch also seemed to have made the mistake of despising the Chu people, agreed to the strategy of the young division and rushed to war with the Chu State.
In fact, at that time, the attitude of the Feudal State of Ji to the State of Chu was always regarded as a barbarian, called Barbarian Chu, and believed that the ancestor of the Chu people, The Bear, was just a teacher of the Second King of Wenwu for several years, and was not worthy of being listed as a feudal state with himself. Later, xiong tong successfully defeated Suiguo and then sent people to the king of Zhou Huan to apply for the kingship, but the king of Zhou Huan refused, and then Xiong Tong also said a paragraph, "My ancestor Xiong Tong, who had the labor of counseling the second king, only sealed the micro kingdom, far away in Jingshan, now the people, the barbarians do not submit, and the king does not add the throne, it is no reward... Establishing himself as the King of Chuwu, he allied himself with his followers, and the kingdoms of Eastern Han sent envoys to congratulate him. ‘’
The envy in the hearts of the Chu people may have begun from the time of the bear, passed down from generation to generation, and by the time of XiongTong, it became an excuse for the Chu state to be the king, and the Chu people thought that the Ji clan was ungrateful, so the Chu people's northward entry into the Central Plains, tracing back to the source was just a kind of revenge psychology.