The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 587: Civil War Begins
On the contrary, the butcher's knife evokes fear, but more anger.

The subjects give up their own power in order to live a better life and to survive, not to make free contributions to the king or willingly allow themselves to be killed!

In just two months, more than 2,000 people were killed in Shouchun, and countless people had their homes confiscated and their families exterminated.

Any political struggle without a clear specific enemy is bound to expand rapidly and disorderly.

People who wanted to take advantage of the situation quickly joined in. In the process, there were many people who took the opportunity to frame the enemies, take advantage of the situation, rob, and profit from the situation. Order soon fell into chaos.

Under high-pressure rule, rulers will always find a problem, that is, no matter how hard they try, they can never kill all the "enemies", and the more they kill, the more there are!

God knows where so many traitors willing to risk their lives would come from.

King You of Chu and Li Yuan also discovered that something was wrong. Something was not right!

There are traitors, but there can't be that many! If we keep killing them, I'm afraid the whole Chu State will be filled with traitors!

The two hurriedly called for a stop, trying to control the situation, but it was too late.

Fu Chu watched the situation develop helplessly. Although some of his own people were killed, there were more innocent people killed.

It was not until everyone was complaining and public outrage was boiling that he contacted his confidants, armed his own soldiers, and decided to launch a brazen attack!

King You of Chu's killing was the best assist to Fu Chu. If King You of Chu had not left people no chance to live, it would have been difficult for anyone to follow him in such a rebellion that could result in the death of the entire family.

But just after the agreement was reached and before the action was to be taken the next night, in such a short period of time, King You of Chu received a message that was sent to him by a kind-hearted person who went through many twists and turns.

When the men of the Inspection Department were blackmailing a minor noble, they actually got important news: Nanwu Lord Fuchu was plotting a rebellion! He was about to take action!
Although this little noble had only heard about it and didn't know the exact details, the news was shocking enough and should not be taken lightly.

Having accomplished a great deed, his subordinates, overjoyed, reported it to Li Yuan immediately. Li Yuan was a person who would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go, and Fu Chu posed such a great threat, so he went to the palace in person to report to King You of Chu immediately.

Fu Chu was already under surveillance as a major suspect, so King You of Chu immediately sent people to investigate. He was horrified to find that the person he had sent to secretly keep an eye on Fu Chu had disappeared.

There have indeed been unusual movements in Fu Chu Mansion in the past few days!
King You of Chu was shocked and angry, but he forced himself to calm down. He first carried out an emergency rotation of the imperial guards in the palace today, placed under house arrest all the imperial guards and middle-level officers leading the troops today, and urgently transferred other trusted commanders who were on leave.

Then he sent his trusted men to take over the defense of Yingdu City, as well as important facilities such as the armory and granary. Fearing that Fu Chu might escape, he sent his trusted men to capture Fu Chu and also sent someone to summon Lord Changping.

Summoning Changping Jun was both a way to play it safe and to get Changping Jun's cooperation. King You of Chu wanted Changping Jun to kill Fu Chu. After all, killing one's brother was not a good name, and this blame needed to be shared by multiple people.

Fu Chu had already made preparations at home. His personal guards, retainers and confidants had all been ready and dressed in armor, ready to launch an uprising together at night and break into the palace with the help of both inside and outside forces.

Then someone sent a message, Li Yuan rushed into the palace urgently, and then a large number of imperial guards were replaced. Things had changed!
Fu Chu was shocked and realized immediately that the plan was exposed. Now that his elder brother was prepared and had the upper hand, a forceful attack would definitely not work.

Fu Chu gritted his teeth and made a prompt decision. He immediately sent people to notify all those who were preparing for a rebellion, to start a rebellion, to rush out of the city while the chaos was going on, to return to their respective fiefdoms, to quickly assemble the troops in their respective fiefdoms, and then to storm Yingdu and restore order!

When Changping Jun received the summons from King You of Chu, he didn't know what the matter was. As the uprising was imminent, he was hesitating whether to go or not. Then he received news from the secret guards of Xuanyu Guard that Fu Chu's conspiracy was exposed!
Although Changping Jun has not been discovered yet, with such a large-scale attack, it is only a matter of time before he is discovered.

Changping Jun acted promptly and killed the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict. He was about to go find Fu Chu. But before he even left the house, he received a message from Fu Chu, asking him to leave the city first and then gather a large force to fight back!

Changping Jun also agreed. It was basically impossible for a group of scattered people to storm the defended palace. Since ancient times, the most important thing about a palace coup was to take the enemy by surprise. Now that the king of the palace was prepared, that would be impossible.

Changping Jun led his men to kill without hesitation.

King You of Chu wanted to catch the turtle in the jar, but he was ultimately unpopular and the news leaked out. Many people did not put in any effort, and the people of the Qin State were also trying to maintain a balance in the middle. Zuo Sima Jingjie, who was in charge of the city defense, was secretly a traitor.

In addition, King You of Chu was still afraid of accidents, so he focused on stability and put most of his strength on guarding the palace.

With tacit understanding, Yingdu was in chaos for a while, and Fu Chu, Changping Jun, and most of their men took advantage of the chaos to kill their way out.

However, Changping Jun was not with Fu Chu.

Things have come to this point, if I stay with Fu Chu, I will be easily controlled by others.

Fu Chu fled to Yunyang (Danyang) in the southeast of Chu State, which was the base camp of the Jing family. He distributed proclamations in Yunyang to recruit troops and prepare to attack King You of Chu.

Changping Jun quickly ran to the control area of ​​Daqin, Shangcai, which is located in the northwest of Chu State and on the border between Qin and Chu. It is now a major city of Daqin. He first received the protection of Daqin, and then spread the letter to respond to Fuchu and summon his supporters to fight against King You of Chu. As for King You of Chu, although he realized it later and had not caught anyone, he was sure who was behind the rebellion. He was not surprised that it was Fuchu, but he was surprised that there was also Changping Jun.

King You of Chu was furious and sent troops to hunt them down without hesitation. At the same time, he conducted a strict investigation to see if there were any accomplices in Yingdu. However, he did not dare to kill them this time. He asked Li Yuan to personally investigate all the people involved and not to kill them indiscriminately. Even if they were confirmed, they would have to be arrested first and wait for his decision.

Of course, King You of Chu's pursuit failed, because in the end, the person who was trying to escape ran faster.

King You of Chu became even more angry after sending troops to hunt down the rebellion but failed. However, he also calmed down. He immediately issued a proclamation to recruit nobles and subjects from all over Chu to come to Yingdu to serve the king. He also wanted to recruit a large army to suppress the rebellions in the two places.

All of a sudden, the three forces in the entire Chu State and the three sons of King Kaolie of Chu were fighting each other, making the entire Chu State a mess.

As for the many nobles within the Chu State, they were already powerful and had a great deal of autonomy. They had their own private soldiers in their own fiefdoms. They owned land, economy, and military forces, and were real local tyrants. The rumors that had long spread throughout the world were well known to everyone in the Chu State aristocratic circle.

After all, nobles are nobles, and they all have their own information channels. Many of these nobles, as long as they are not stupid, naturally do not believe these messy and full of loopholes rumors.

However, most of these people really don't want to be associated with King Chu You anymore.

As I said, people are with you to make their lives better, not to make things worse and worse. Even if it can't get better, stability is enough.

But now, with domestic chaos, political turmoil, development regression, and endless killing, stability is a luxury. It can be said that except for a small number of people who seek class transition in the chaos, everyone else is dissatisfied, and these dissatisfied people account for the majority.

After all, what nobles like most is always stability!

As the greatest nobleman in Chu State, the noblest among nobles, the King of Chu was supposed to lead everyone to a better life, to occupy cities and land, and to develop them well so that everyone could live better and better.

Only when everyone gets better and better will they obey the King of Chu.

As a result, things started to go wrong for the entire Chu State since Chunshen Jun was killed.

In foreign wars, the North was losing ground against the Central Plains, with no success and no progress; the South was stuck in a quagmire against the Baiyue, and its unbridled toughness and cruelty led to a hostile relationship with the Baiyue people, making it difficult to develop. As for the internal affairs, the internal political situation was chaotic and the fighting was endless. Development was no longer stagnant, but had begun to regress significantly.

This growing dissatisfaction is entirely due to high-pressure rule and powerful suppression, but when there is no progress either internally or externally, the more powerful the suppression, the more dissatisfied people will be, and it becomes a vicious cycle.

Now even your brothers can't stand it anymore and want to rise up in rebellion, so why should everyone still work for you?
Changing the king can't be any worse, right?
Anyway, no matter who you support, it is your Xiong family's kingdom, and everyone recognizes you, the Xiong family.

However, it would be better for you, the king, to change.

Anyway, Nanwu Jun has already found the reason, so of course everyone should support the bloodline of the late king. As for that bastard, they definitely can no longer support him.

Moreover, this is also an opportunity to go one step further.

Faced with the three-party manifestos, the bold ones have already started waiting for the price, while the timid ones are just waiting and watching.

Anyway, those who were originally neutral and loyal to the King of Chu are no longer in a hurry to rush to Yingdu, and there are really not many people who immediately take sides.

Apart from the die-hard fans of each of the three parties, the majority are watching.

Even if you don't want to follow the current king anymore, the fight for the throne is too cruel. No matter who wins or loses, there will be a purge afterwards. The situation is unclear and you can't vote casually. If you are not careful, your family will be destroyed.

In this case, it is always a good idea to be loyal to the King of Chu on the surface but wait and see in reality.

Being loyal to the king is natural, no matter what anyone says. In fact, waiting and watching, not really confronting the other two, is to show one's attitude, even if it can't go any further, but in the end it won't be purged by the other two afterwards.

Among the three parties in Chu State, King You of Chu is still the strongest. After all, King You of Chu occupies the reputation of righteousness, and the inertia of power is not so easy to be erased.

The nobles also had to consider the consequences if the other two princes failed in their rebellion. Rebellion was different from other things and it would really result in the death of the entire family.

Although the actions are slow and wait-and-see, at present, at least on the surface, the majority of people are still loyal to King You of Chu.

The second is Fu Chu. After all, Fu Chu has been in the State of Chu for so many years. He has always been ambitious and worked hard. Most of the ambitious people and those who are dissatisfied with King You of Chu have joined Fu Chu's school. Even the Jing family announced their support for Fu Chu and cheered for him.

(End of this chapter)