King Chuzhuang was the son of King Chumu, and during his reign of three years, he lived a life of idleness, drinking and having fun all day long, and severely punishing courtiers who dared to admonish.
During these three years, only two courtiers bravely proposed to him to revive the dynasty.
One is Wu Ju, who once explained to the king of Chuzhuang that "a bird does not fly in a tree for three years, and it flies amazingly". The other was the doctor Su Cong, who deeply moved the king of Chuzhuang by admonishing him with his death.
At the suggestion of Wu Ju and Su Cong, King Chuzhuang began to change his behavior, revitalize the dynasty, punish a large number of ** filthy officials, and reward meritorious officials.
He even reused Wu Ju and Su Cong, who had been admonishing each other with death in the past three years, so that their wisdom and courage were fully displayed.
King Zhuang of Chu, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, quickly became powerful under his rule in just five years, annexing the states of Yong and Shu, and beating the states of Chen and Zheng. His reign made the state of Chu extremely powerful.
In the eighth year of King Chuzhuang, he returned to the dynasty after attacking Hun Rong, passing through Luoyang. In order to show Zhou Tianzi his strength, he held a military parade on the outskirts of the Zhou Dynasty, exhibiting his "Million Male Division".
Although the Zhou Dynasty had declined, Zhou Tianzi sent Gongsun Man to comfort King Chuzhuang.
However, the king of Chuzhuang did not know what to do, and relied on his troops to ask Gongsun Man about the treasure of the Zhou Dynasty, symbolizing the weight of the nine tripods in Kyushu, and forcing Gongsun Man to say the weight.
Gongsun was in a hurry, and used the story of Ji and King Xuan to persuade King Chuzhuang, and secretly hinted to King Chuzhuang that the Zhou Dynasty had not yet fallen to that point. When the king of Chuzhuang saw that Gongsun Man was so tough, he withdrew his troops and returned to China.
This is the origin of the famous "Winning the Central Plains".
King Chuzhuang became famous in the first war, dominated the Central Plains, and crisscrossed the land of China, but in his twenty years of rule, the Song State did not know whether he was alive or dead, and dared to kill the envoy of Chu State, openly provoking the King of Chuzhuang.
Since King Chuzhuang ascended the throne, he has been feared, but this time, someone dared to challenge his authority.
In February, the angry King of Chuzhuang immediately sent troops to surround the capital of the Song Kingdom, and within five months, not a drop of water could enter the city, and the people were so hungry that they even began to eat human flesh and use human bones as firewood.
In the end, the Song State had to send his courtier Hua Yuan out of the city to intercede with the king of Chuzhuang, and after the king of Chuzhuang learned of the situation in the city, he felt that he had acted too seriously, so he ordered the withdrawal of his troops, and thus the last battle of the king of Chuzhuang was over.
King Chuzhuang, the overlord who once made a splash and won the Central Plains all his life, passed away quietly three years later. Unlike Qi Henggong's unnatural death, his death was peaceful and normal.