In the middle of the night, Chu Hou Xiong Jin suddenly woke up from his dream. In his dream, he saw Xiong Qi's eyes staring at him again.
Xiong Jin woke up and wiped his sweat. He was even more angry when he thought about Xiong Yun's escape.
In addition to his own reasons for Xiong Yun's escape, Huai Guo's spies also played a role in this. After Xiong Jin launched the coup, Huaiguo's spies told Xiong Yun the news, and Xiong Yun fled directly without hesitation.
Assisting Xiong Yun to escape is also one of Huai Guo's plans, with the purpose of causing constant chaos in Chu. But Xiong Yun is still young now. In another three to five years, when it grows up, you can try it. Judging from his temperament, the current Chu Hou Xiong Jin is not a peaceful person. The Chu Kingdom will definitely not be calm in the past few years.
The last person to enjoy this kind of treatment was Qi State.
Since the death of Duke Huan of Qi, the Duke of Qi has experienced a lot of fighting. Gongzizhao succeeded to the throne. However, Gongzizhao was not a wise monarch. He only reigned for ten years before he died of illness. His son came to the throne, but he was too young to take on a big responsibility.
But Duke Huan's other son, Prince Pan, had already been eyeing him. Before the others could react, he killed She and established himself as king.
Moreover, this young master Pan was not a kind person. After he killed his nephew, he gave his brother a good posthumous title. Said: Filial piety.
You must know that his elder brother originally fought for the position of the Marquis of Qi, but he ignored the armor and attacked, and later failed and escaped. Duke Huan's body was left for sixty-seven days, and it was all rotten. He actually gave his brother a posthumous title. The name is filial piety.
At this time, the posthumous title is not given casually, but there is a strict system. It is not easy to get the posthumous title of "filial piety". The five principles of peace are called filial piety; being kind and loving to relatives is called filial piety; being virtuous and not returning is called filial piety; Xie Shi Zhao Xiang is called filial piety; being considerate and ethical is called filial piety; being kind and caring to the people is called filial piety; being kind and forgetting about work is called filial piety; obeying orders without disobeying is called filial piety; doing good things to parents is called filial piety, etc. Twenty-six conditions.
Of course, as long as you can do one or two things, you can get the posthumous title of 'filial piety'. But the key point is that Qi Houzhao did not do any of this, and he also did the thing of mortuing a corpse and ignoring each other in armor. If you show him filial piety, are you praising his filial piety? This is to say that he is a filial piety.
This is really a filial son.
After this series of turmoil, Qi's national power has declined rapidly, and it has fallen from a first-rate power to a second-rate power. Of course, its foundation is still good.
As long as the monarch works hard, he will be promoted again soon. However, Qi's actions have now made civil strife in the office a routine practice. The inheritance system of Qi State should be changed to the Wu Palace Succession Law...
The State of Chu is also facing similar troubles. Several generations of Chu princes have not ascended the throne normally. What do you want the princes of Chu State below to think? Nagisa Palace Succession Law?
The civil strife between Chu and Qi is what Huai wants to see. These two countries are also the greatest threat to Huai. As for Jin, they are still far away.
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After Huaiguo controlled the floods in the Huaihe River, food became increasingly abundant, while Zhongguo was also affected by the floods in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. After Wang Zhong heard that the Huai State relied on Sun Shuao to control the floods and had great success, he sent an envoy to ask Sun Shuao to help Zhongguo control the floods.
Zhong State is located in the upper reaches of the Huai River. If the upper reaches of the Huai River continues to flood, it will also affect the Huai State. Wang Yong invited Sun Shuao to ask: "Zhonghou wants to ask you to govern the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. I wonder if you are willing? If you are not willing, I will refuse."
"Your Majesty, Zhongguo and Huaiguo are brotherly countries. Zhongguo is also a vassal state of Huaiguo. It is the key to Huaiguo's fight against Chu. It cannot be disposed of at will." Sun Shuao said solemnly.
"Moreover, Zhongguo is located in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. If the upper reaches are not peaceful, how can the lower reaches be safe? Please go to Zhongguo to control the water!"
Wang Yong stood up and stepped forward and said, "Your great achievements are second only to those of King Yu! You should build a temple to offer sacrifices!"
"My merits are only small, I dare not compare with King Yu!"
Wang Yong sent 3,000 elite soldiers and dozens of academy students to follow Sun Shuao to Zhongguo. Zhonghou Wang Zhong led his ministers ten miles away to welcome him, and
Sun Shuao was also appointed as the Prime Minister of Zhongguo. Sun Shuao directly served as the seal of the two countries.
Next, Wang Zhong ordered 50,000 people from the country to be assigned to Sun Shuao to control the floods. When Cai Guo heard that Wang Zhong had invited Sun Shuao to control the floods, he hurried over and asked Sun Shuao for advice. After a conversation, Cai Hou was also impressed by him. , immediately announced that Cai Guo would also join in flood control, and also invited Sun Shuao to serve as the prime minister.
On the other side, Huang and Jiang, who were also often invaded by the Huaihe River, personally invited Sun Shu'ao to join them and expressed their willingness to appoint Sun Shu'ao as prime minister. In the end, Sun Shuao was able to match the seal of the five kingdoms alone.
After the four kingdoms of Zhong, Cai, Huang, and Jiang discussed together, they each assigned 50,000 people to be commanded by Sun Shuao. At the same time, the four countries prepared food and fodder and obeyed Sun Shuao's dispatch.
After being appointed as the Prime Minister of the Four Kingdoms, Sun Shuao gained great power. Next, Sun Shuao led 200,000 people from the four countries to start flood control. This time, because of the experience of flood control in the Huai Kingdom, we have more experience in controlling floods in the Zhong, Cai, Jiang, and Huang Kingdoms.
The upper reaches of the Huai River are mountainous and have narrow waterways with many tidal flats and rocks. After some measurements, Sun Shuao began to dredge the rivers and build ditches and reservoirs.
With the help of many academy students, the management of the upper reaches of the Huai River is much faster than that of the Huai Kingdom. At the beginning, water control in Huai State often required a lot of calculations, and many people learned it from scratch.
Nowadays, many things can be calculated easily when managing the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. Under the command of Sun Shuao, 200,000 people dug ditches, dug rivers, and built artificial lakes in lower areas. After three years, the upper reaches of the Huai River were finally managed.
And an irrigation system covering the four countries of Zhong, Cai, Jiang and Huang was built in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, which was called Anfengtang, also called Shapi.
The entire Anfengtang irrigation system will not only connect the Huaihe River, but also introduce the tributaries of the Huaihe River into it. The water sources gather into lakes, which can be used to irrigate farmland in Shikoku. When floods come, water can be stored and released, and during droughts, it can be used to irrigate farmland.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland in the four countries have benefited from this. The four countries that were originally ravaged by the Huaihe River no longer have to worry. For this reason, the four countries of Zhong, Cai, Huang, and Jiang also became Huai's staunch allies and had the capital to compete with Chu.
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Anfeng Pond is another outstanding water conservancy engineering masterpiece by Sun Shuao. It is also one of the oldest grand water conservancy projects in the world that is still in use today. It makes full use of the topography and water veins of the surrounding mountains, rivers and valleys, and takes advantage of the situation, so that it has systematic functions such as water storage, irrigation, flood control, sand discharge, and flow control. Qianli Zeguo was transformed into fertile farmland.
Realizing Sun Shuao's idea of "promoting rivers and valleys, guarding springs, irrigating fertile swamps, embanking lakes and rivers to turn into swamps, appreciating the love of heaven and earth, harvesting the benefits of nine marshes, nourishing the country with Yin, making the family rich and people happy."
Its emergence can be said to have changed the direction of history to a certain extent, preventing the four countries of the Huaihe River from being invaded by floods, and turning the flooded areas into fertile fields. Since then, the population of the Four Kingdoms of Huai River has greatly increased, and their food and grass have been abundant, which gave the Four Kingdoms of Huai River the ability to compete with Chu and provided important strength for Huai to destroy Chu. .
Anfengtang is among the third batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country, and was included in the World Cultural Heritage, World Natural Heritage, and World Irrigation Engineering Heritage in 2005. ——"100 People Who Influenced the Process of Human History·Sun Shuao"
