Master Archaeologist

Chapter 128 product, detailed product.

Although it is said that Suiguo helped King Cheng of Chu win the throne of King Chu.

However, after King Cheng of Chu came to the throne, he paid tribute to Zhou Tianzi to consolidate the throne and suppressed the Yiyue tribes.

On the one hand, it is also vigorously expanding its territory, successively destroying small countries such as Xian, Huang, Ying, and Kui, showing its great ambitions.

Obviously, King Cheng of Chu is a king who is almost in line with King Wu of Chu, and a king who wants to dominate Chu.

As a result, Sui Guo, who was just next door to Chu State, was naturally terrified.

Just look at the map.

The territory of Suiguo is roughly half of modern Xiangyang, half of Jingmen, one third of Xiaogan, plus one of Suizhou.

And the territory of Chu State is almost connected with Sui State, and the location of Chu Duying is in the present Jingzhou.

If there was not a Han River separating Sui from Chu, Sui would have no way to resist the invasion of Chu.

In the face of aggressiveness, he wanted to wantonly annex the Chu State of the surrounding princes surnamed Ji.

In the 32nd year of King Cheng of Chu, Sui Guo relied on the power of the princes east of the Han River to betray Chu State.

However, this betrayal was quickly put down by Chu State, and Suiguo's last struggle was also unsuccessful.

After that, with the decline of the country's national power, it can only completely surrender to the Chu country.

Coincidentally, Chu State also produced three generations of outstanding monarchs.

King Cheng of Chu, King Mu of Chu, King Zhuang of Chu.

In the hands of these three kings of Chu, the national power of Chu reached its peak in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The last King Zhuang of Chu was also one of the Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period. He once watched soldiers in Zhoujiang, demonstrated in the capital of Zhou, asked the weight of the emperor's tripod, and slammed the face of the Zhou royal family to the ground.

Calculate the time, when the three monarchs of Chu State were in power.

It was also about the time when Zeng Gongqiu's father, Zeng Gongqiu and Zeng Houbao, the three generations of Zeng Guojun were in power.

Of course, the state of Chu has a king with a super long standby model.

King Cheng of Chu has also been on the throne for 46 years, and it is possible that two or even three generations of Zeng Hou died.

All in all, it should be during the period from King Cheng of Chu to King Zhuang of Chu that Sui (Zeng) State completely fell to Chu State.

Before becoming king, Sui Guo would make gestures with Chu State every now and then.

After Chu became king, Suiguo completely surrendered to Chu and did not communicate with "China".

In the past, historians couldn't figure out why Suiguo was still rebellious when he was King Wu of Chu, and fought many battles with Chu, showing the spirit of Han Dongbo.

How come after King Cheng of Chu, he honestly became the younger brother of Chu State.

Everyone can only generally think that the power of Chu State is getting stronger and stronger, and several generations of kings are becoming more and more powerful, so that Sui State is overwhelmed.

Now that the tombs of the two generations of princes at the Zaoshulin cemetery have been unearthed, the inside story becomes clear.

It turned out that King Cheng of Chu played the familiar method of marriage.

Successive generations of Marquis Zeng have married the daughters of the royal family of Chu, relying on their bloodline + power, they have completely conquered Suiguo from the inside out.

This kind of routine is also an old routine for King Chu Cheng.

Why did Qin and Chu have good relations from generation to generation, and why was King Chu Zhao able to borrow soldiers from Qin later?
I have to thank King Chu Cheng for his great law of marriage.

The history of the alliance and marriage between Qin State and Chu State can also be traced back to the era of Duke Mu of Qin and King Cheng of Chu.

During the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, from 1056 to 1063 AD.

In today's Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, a stone carving of the Qin Dynasty was unearthed. It was engraved with simple and simple characters, a total of 320 six characters.

This stone carving was made in the 12th year of Gengyuan, King Huiwen of Qin Dynasty, that is, in 313 BC.

At that time, Chu State sent troops to attack Qin State, so in the text, King Qin Huiwen cursed King Huai of Chu.

In this article, there is such a sentence.

"In the past, my ancestor Mu Gong and Chu Chengwang worked together with one heart, and the two countries were like one. Marriage was the stumbling block, and the fasting alliance was the stumbling block. It is said that thousands of descendants should not harm each other."

This sentence means that in the past, Mu Gong, the ancestor of Qin State, and Cheng Wang, the king of Chu State, worked together, and the relationship between the two countries was as close as one country, and they became married again. .

In the stone carvings, there is another sentence.

"Concurrent with the curse alliance of the eighteenth generation, lead the soldiers of the princes to join me."

This sentence accused King Huai of Chu of blasphemy, betrayed the curse oath of the eighteen generations of Qin and Chu, and led the armies of the princes to attack Qin.

"The Curse Alliance of the Eighteenth World."

The "eighteenth generation" in this sentence is not a false reference, unlike the eighteen generations of ancestors that are often said, it just describes a lot.

The eighteen generations here are really eighteen generations.

From Duke Mu of Qin to King Huiwen of Qin, except for the two generations in the middle who passed away when they were princes and did not have time to succeed to the throne, there are exactly eighteen generations!
That is to say, since Qin Mugong, the monarchs and wives of the old Qin family all came from the Chu royal family, spanning the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods for 300 years, and the marriages of generations!
Moreover, King Qin Wu, the son of King Qin Huiwen, ascended the throne, although the marriage between Qin and Chu was temporarily interrupted.

But when the next generation of King Qin Zhao began, the marriage between Qin and Chu was restored.

It can even be speculated that although Qin Shihuang's wife was not recorded in historical data, she most likely came from Chu.

This kind of marriage that has lasted for hundreds of years should not be easily changed.

And the mother of the son Fusu may be the princess of Chu.

It was also because of this that when Fusu, who had the blood of the Chu State, received the edict ordering him to commit suicide in Shangjun, he would accept it calmly and die calmly.

Moreover, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted at the end of the Qin Dynasty, it was under the banner of revenge for Xiang Yan and Su!

It is understandable to avenge Xiang Yan. He is the last general of Chu who resisted Qin, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are from Chu, so it is normal to avenge him.

But why did Chen Sheng and Wu Guang want to avenge Qin's son Fusu?

Goods, fine goods.

Chen Han, who tasted the taste, kept shaking his head and sighing.

This King Chu Cheng is really a king who is good at marriage.

Qin State has been married for generations, and Zeng State was also taken by him through marriage.

Don't forget that two Zeng Ji shirtless pots were unearthed in the tomb of King Chuyou in the 70s.

King You of Chu was the king of Chu during the Warring States Period, which means that from the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, until the Warring States Period, and even until the Sui Kingdom perished, there were marriages with Chu.

The two marriage routes formulated by King Cheng of Chu can be said to have influenced the state of Chu for hundreds of years.

Even Chen Han is a little uncertain now.

Previously, domestic scholars speculated that Zeng State should have been annexed by Chu State in the middle of the Warring States Period and completely perished.

But King Chuyou was already the king of the late Warring States period, and there are still "Zeng Ji" Teng vessels in his tombs.

This shows that at least when King Chu You was in power, the relationship between Chu State and Zeng State was still very good, and they could marry each other.

After the death of King You of Chu, the State of Chu existed for another six years, and then it died in Qin.

"I'm afraid, Zeng (Sui) country did not perish in Chu, but in Qin."

"At the end of the Warring States period, when Qin and Chu continued to fight for decades, Zeng, who was caught between Qin and Chu, might have been wiped out by Qin."

"Maybe Zeng Guo died at the hands of Bai Qi. The battle of Yan and Ying led by Bai Qi once broke through Yan and Ying, the capital of Chu State, and severely damaged Chu State."

"Perhaps during the battle of Yanying, Zeng State, which was next to Yingdu of Chu State, was also destroyed by Bai Qi."

"The king and family of Zeng fled to Chu to seek protection."

"Then the last daughter-in-law of Zeng Guo married King Chu You, that is, Zeng Ji!"

"Time, year, age, basically can be right!"

The marriages, origins, mutual influences and outcomes among Chu, Qin and Zeng were sorted out more and more clearly in Chen Han's mouth.

Standing aside and listening to Chen Han's reasoning quietly, Professor Zheng Xian, the more he listened, the more he felt that Chen Han's reasoning was very organized!
Logical while also explaining a lot of historical mysteries.

This young man is indeed not bad!
Now, even Professor Zheng Xian is interested in Chen Handa.

How could such a good seed be snatched away by Kong Jianwen!

(End of this chapter)