Gong Fei Ji

Chapter 241

In addition, although the vassal king must be loyal to the court, the court must also show a certain amount of respect to the vassal king.They are all royal blood. They are all princes or county kings who were proclaimed by the first emperors or the first emperors. As a result, the court can attack the vassals at will, so it’s okay. It is conducive to the harmonious relationship between the court and the vassals.

So this time, your Majesty, without conclusive evidence to prove that the King of Chu has the intention of treason, you rashly sent troops to the King of Chu's territory.

The emperor listened to them arguing for several days, neither getting angry nor expressing his opinion.Then at this time, the daughter of King Chu and Princess Chu, Princess Xuancheng who was sent up as a hostage at the beginning, came out to prove that her father really had the intention of rebellion. When she was at home, she heard the King of Chu insulting the court more than once, Said that the emperor is not qualified to be an emperor at all, he will pull him down sooner or later.

Well, now that the family's own daughters have come out to prove it, the officials should have nothing to say.However, some courtiers said that the princess of Xuancheng hated the king of Chu for sending him to Beijing as a hostage, and deliberately slandered the king of Chu.

Since the words of Princess Xuancheng are not credible, but after Princess Xuancheng, other daughters of the King of Chu also came out one after another to prove that the King of Chu did have the intention of rebellion.In addition to the testimony, he also handed over a lot of things, such as the evidence of the collusion between the King of Chu and some officials in the court, the private weapons of the King of Chu, the collusion of the King of Chu with foreign barbarians, and so on.Listing out all the crimes is enough to make the King of Chu die a hundred times.

In the end, the army of hundreds of officials swept out several officials with ambivalent intentions, and the king of Chu was still convicted of treason, and he should have been executed for the crime.But the emperor claimed to rule the world with benevolence and filial piety. Although he was heartbroken for such a rebellious thing, as a nephew, he really couldn't bear to see the death of the king's uncle.

So for the sake of the first emperor, the emperor did not take the life of the king of Chu, but demoted him to a commoner, removed from the clan, and imprisoned in the stone room of the imperial mausoleum.It’s just that the king of Chu probably knew that he was a hero, his wife and son died again, and the remaining daughter and son-in-law “destroyed relatives with righteousness” personally came out to prove that he rebelled, so what’s the point of his life like this.So on the second day after he was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum, he bumped his head to death in the stone room while the guards were not paying attention.

(End of this chapter)