楚国 / Chu State

楚国 / Chu State appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》06丨魏文侯选谁当宰相呢（2） through the death of 楚声王 and the accession of 楚悼王. The source makes Chu the main example of a compact annalistic phrase that may hide more political complexity than it states.

The episode says Chu Sheng Wang was killed by “bandits,” then treats that wording as possibly opaque. That makes Chu a bridge between ordinary succession chronology and Bandit Assassination Attribution / 盗贼行刺归因.

《资治通鉴·周纪》07丨两起刺杀（1） adds Chu as a great-power pressure source against 郑国. The episode infers from 清华简《系年》 that Zheng’s Jin alignment, including help around 王子定, likely explains Chu’s siege of Xinzheng.

《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（2） makes Chu the arena for 吴起’s reform career after he flees 魏国. With 楚悼王’s support, Wu Qi centralizes law and resources, strips privileges from nobles and distant royal kin, removes idle officials, strengthens military training, and opposes peace with 秦国. Chu becomes stronger, but the episode treats elite hatred of Wu Qi as the core case of Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬.

《资治通鉴·周纪》08丨一代名将吴起惨死（3） completes that branch. When 楚悼王 dies, nobles immediately attack Wu Qi; after Wu Qi is killed against the ruler’s corpse, 楚肃王 punishes the attackers because their arrows also damaged the dead king’s body. Chu therefore becomes the setting where reform backlash, ruler protection, aristocratic violence, and legal retaliation all collapse into one succession moment.

《资治通鉴·周纪》09丨战国时代的世界大战 moves Chu into the interstate-war frame under 楚肃王. Zhao seeks Chu help after being attacked by Wei and Qi, but Chu attacks Wei’s border instead, making Chu’s intervention both relief for Zhao and opportunistic pressure on Wei. The source also records a brief notice of Shu attacking Chu and occupying Zifang.

《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（2） adds two later Chu notices: 魏国 attacks Chu and takes Luyang in 371 BCE, and 楚肃王 dies without a son, so his younger brother 楚宣王 succeeds.

《资治通鉴·周纪》14丨齐威王 不鸣则已一鸣惊人 adds a Qin-Chu marriage notice. 右尹黑, a senior Chu official, goes to 秦国 to receive a bride, and the episode reads the bride as likely intended for 楚宣王. The notice becomes a case of 战国联姻外交 whose limits are clear because marriage ties do not prevent later conflict.

《资治通鉴·周纪》15丨酒不醇引发的世界大战 makes Chu the state whose honor reaction opens the Handan chain. 楚宣王 resents 鲁共公’s late attendance and poor wine, attacks 鲁国 with 齐国, and then sends 景舍 to aid 赵国 after 魏国 surrounds 邯郸. The source uses this to explain how ritual insult, alliance behavior, and strategic distraction produce 鲁酒薄而邯郸围.

《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战 adds Chu’s chancellor branch. The ruler appoints 昭奚恤 as chancellor, and 江乙 then uses stories against him, making Chu a court-rhetoric case through Chancellor-Centered Governance / 宰相中心治理 and Political Parable Weaponization / 寓言式政治挑拨.

《资治通鉴·周纪》17丨韩昭侯和申不害 adds 景舍 as a Chu-associated channel in a Wei-Qi peace notice from 《竹书纪年》. The episode does not develop Chu policy here; it uses Jing She to show how diplomacy around 襄陵 can route through a third-party figure.

《资治通鉴·周纪》21丨邹忌下阴招 田忌国外避难 makes Chu the refuge for 田忌 after the 马陵之战 aftermath. The episode does not develop Chu’s reception of him; it uses Tian Ji’s flight to show how valuable displaced military talent could move between Warring States courts.

《资治通鉴·周纪》23丨魏惠王 悔不用公叔之言 adds a compact succession notice: 楚宣王 dies and 楚威王 succeeds. The source does not make Chu part of the main causal chain, but the notice keeps Chu in the same crowded 340 BCE annalistic field.

《资治通鉴·周纪》28丨韩昭侯的快乐你想象不到 develops Chu Wei Wang’s active role. Chu defeats 越国 in the 334 BCE cluster without immediately destroying it, then 楚威王 attacks 齐国 at 徐州 after 徐州相王. The episode makes Chu the leading power enforcing 名分秩序反弹 against Qi’s elevated title posture.

《资治通鉴·周纪》29丨苏秦励志爽文：知识改变命运 continues Chu’s leverage after the attack. Chu Wei Wang demands that 田婴 be removed from Qi, but 张丑 redirects him by arguing that an expulsion could let 田斑 or another stronger Qi figure rebuild resistance.

《资治通鉴·周纪》32丨“史上首位联合国秘书长”苏秦 makes Chu the final state in 苏秦’s completed 合纵 circuit. The episode summarizes the Chu persuasion more briefly than Han, Wei, or Qi, but 楚威王’s acceptance completes the six-state chain and lets Su Qin become the covenant leader.

《资治通鉴·周纪》34丨秦国总理如何玩转六国 adds the next succession turn: Chu Wei Wang dies in 329 BCE, and 楚怀王 succeeds. The episode keeps the notice compact but previews Chu Huai Wang as a more dramatic ruler, widening the branch beyond the Qin-Wei pressure story.

《资治通鉴·周纪》39丨历史上张仪是怎样怒怼强敌的 makes Chu a receiving and return court in the Zhang Yi branch. 惠施 / 惠师 flees there after losing to Zhang Yi in 魏国, and 冯浩 advises 楚怀王 to send him to 宋国 rather than offend Zhang Yi. Later, 陈枕 uses 左爽’s advice to regain Chu favor, making Chu the court where a blocked Wei path can be repurposed.

《资治通鉴·周纪》45｜以史为鉴，君王到底该不该杀人成性？ makes Chu the named leader of the 318 BCE anti-Qin coalition. 楚怀王 is alliance head when Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Yan reach 函谷关, but Qin cuts the Chu army’s grain route, Chu withdraws first, and the rest collapse. The same episode later makes Chu both a target of Song Kang Wang’s expansion and a participant in Song’s destruction.

《资治通鉴·周纪》50丨张仪是怎样把楚怀王忽悠瘸的 turns Chu from failed coalition leader into the direct target of Qin’s alliance-breaking diplomacy. 张仪 promises 楚怀王 商於 if Chu breaks with 齐国, while 陈枕 warns that the Qi tie is exactly what makes Chu valuable to Qin. Chu breaks with Qi first, receives only the six-li reversal, and then attacks 秦国 from anger rather than from a protected alliance position.

《资治通鉴·周纪》51丨 楚怀王：秦小儿看舅舅如何灭了你！ follows Chu’s resulting military collapse. 丹阳之战 costs Chu eighty thousand soldiers and 屈匄 is captured; 汉中 is lost to Qin. Rather than making Hanzhong the recovery objective, Chu Huaiwang mobilizes again toward Shangyu, is drawn through 武关, and loses near 蓝田之战 while 韩国 and 魏国 threaten Chu’s rear. The source makes Chu the clearest state-level case for 因怒兴师.

《资治通鉴·周纪》53丨秦惠王用张仪换地皮 shows Chu trying to convert that anger into personal revenge against 张仪. 楚怀王 refuses a land exchange for 黔中 and asks 秦国 to hand over Zhang Yi instead, then imprisons him. Chu’s court does not process the decision only through formal state interest: a favorite and 郑袖 make 宫廷后门自救 decisive, while fear of Qin retaliation and the 不斩来使 norm make release the less costly exit.

《资治通鉴·周纪》60丨 中国第一位把持朝政的太后竟是她？ moves Chu from Zhang Yi aftermath into a temporary Qin-aligned phase. 芈八子 / 宣太后 arranges a Chu bride for 秦昭襄王, Qin and Chu meet at 黄棘, and Qin returns 上庸 to Chu. That shift makes Chu a target for 齐国, 韩国, and 魏国, so 楚怀王 sends crown prince 芈横 as a hostage and receives Qin help through 客卿通. The alliance then breaks when Mi Heng kills a Qin official and escapes, making Chu the central case for 质子外交破裂 and 战国同盟转向.

《资治通鉴·周纪》62丨稷儿，诓你舅舅的“腿”啊 shows Chu’s leadership crisis after that rupture. 秦昭襄王 traps Chu Huaiwang at 武关 and detains him in 咸阳, demanding 巫郡 and 黔中. Chu’s internal response centers on succession because 芈横 / 楚顷襄王 is in 齐国; 昭雎 opposes installing a different prince, and Chu asks Qi to send Mi Heng home. The episode makes Chu a case where diplomatic isolation and 君臣反馈失灵 leave the state able to continue the throne but unable to rescue the trapped king.

《资治通鉴·周纪》63丨 德高望重孟尝君是伪君子？ records the next consequence. Chu sends envoys to Qin announcing that it already has a new king, making 楚怀王 less useful as a hostage. Qin then attacks through 武关, killing fifty thousand Chu troops and occupying sixteen cities. Chu therefore survives the succession problem but still pays a military price for Qin’s failed coercive plan.

《资治通鉴·周纪》70丨喜欢花样作死的齐国君主 adds Chu indirectly to the fall of 齐国. The episode says Chu does not join the main anti-Qi coalition but sends 卓齿 toward Ju as an apparent rescue force for 齐湣王. Zhuo Chi then arrests and kills Qi Min Wang, and the host leaves open whether Chu’s role reflects righteous punishment, opportunistic spoils, or a tacit understanding with Yan.

《资治通鉴·周纪》74丨还原完璧归赵真相！ adds an origin branch rather than a policy branch. 卞和 discovers the raw stone that becomes 和氏璧, but successive Chu courts misjudge it until the jade is finally cut open and named after him. Chu’s role here is the setting for 识宝风险 before the object later moves into Zhao-Qin diplomacy.

《资治通鉴·周纪》75-3丨古代的经济战争能有多可怕？ adds a Spring-Autumn economic-war anecdote against Chu. 齐桓公 wants to punish Chu, but 管仲 proposes buying Chu live deer at extremely high prices. The episode says Chu people shift effort from farming to catching deer while 齐国 quietly accumulates grain; when Qi later closes the border, Chu’s food prices rise and people flee, making Chu submit without a direct campaign.

《资治通鉴·周纪》76丨谁给了楚顷襄王的自信？ returns to Chu’s late-Warring-States position under 楚顷襄王. The notice says Chu wants to join 齐国 and 韩国 against 秦国 and may also plot against the 周王室, but the host doubts the plausibility of such boldness after Chu’s earlier fear of Qin. 东周武公 then persuades Chu that Zhou land, people, and 九鼎 are not worth the symbolic cost, so Chu abandons the Zhou target.

《资治通鉴·周纪》77丨廉颇与蔺相如 史上最著名的一对“好基友” follows with a concrete Qin southern-pressure sequence. The episode says 司马错 moves Longxi forces through 巴蜀 toward Chu’s Qianzhong region, forcing Chu to give up territory around the Han River and 上庸, while 白起 later attacks and takes places rendered as Yan, Deng, and Xiling. Chu’s role here is mainly as the target Qin chooses when attacking Wei might reawaken eastern coalition rescue.

《资治通鉴·周纪》82丨大秦的核武器：白起来了！ turns that pressure into a capital-region catastrophe. Bai Qi takes the Chu capital rendered as Ying, burns Yiling, and Qin establishes 南郡 in the conquered area; in the following year Qin also takes 巫郡 and 黔中. The episode then qualifies Chu’s collapse by showing 楚顷襄王 moving toward Chen, recalling 庄辛, and recovering some territory through the space-and-time logic of 战略纵深防御.

《资治通鉴·周纪》84丨防止秦国灭楚竟用这招？ gives Chu a diplomatic rescue after that strategic-depth survival. 黄歇 / 春申君 does not claim Chu can defeat Qin directly; he argues that attacking Chu would make Qin depend on resentful Han-Wei routes or accept poor gains through difficult terrain. Chu’s survival therefore comes from converting its geography and Qin’s corridor risk into 利益重构式说服, after which Qin stops 白起 and seeks Qin-Chu friendship.

《资治通鉴·周纪》85｜宣太后为何私通30年后暗杀了老情人？ gives the immediate price of that friendship. 楚顷襄王 sends the Chu crown prince to 秦国 as hostage, and 黄歇 / 春申君 accompanies him. The episode treats this as a familiar but risky Warring States guarantee: it stabilizes the Qin-Chu relationship for the moment, while Huang Xie’s proximity to the hostage prince becomes the source of his later rise.

《资治通鉴·周纪》92丨历史上第一位著名舔狗是谁？（1） returns to that hostage cost nine years later. Mi Heng is gravely ill while 太子完 remains in 秦国, so Chu’s continuity depends on whether the hostage heir can return before another prince is installed. 黄歇 / 春申君 first tries to persuade 范雎 that returning Mi Wan serves Qin’s interest, then proposes a disguised escape when Qin insists on verification.

《资治通鉴·周纪》92丨历史上第一位著名舔狗是谁？（2） completes the succession repair. Mi Wan reaches Chu, succeeds as 楚考烈王, and turns Huang Xie’s risk into chancellorship and the Chunshenjun title. The same episode also turns Chu from a military-diplomatic case into a literary-memory case through 宋玉, 巫山神女, and 襄王有意，神女无心.

《资治通鉴·周纪》93丨在梦里藏着偷天改命？（1） makes the succession repair look limited. In 楚考烈王’s first year, Chu cedes substantial territory to 秦国 without fighting. The episode uses this as another sign that 黄歇 / 春申君’s rise and the successful return of the hostage prince do not halt Chu’s downward strategic trend.

《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（1） brings Chu back as the requested rescue state during the 邯郸 siege. 赵国 turns to Chu because Wei and Qi are unreliable, sending 平原君 with a retainer delegation. The episode stops before Chu’s court response, so Chu’s role here is source-scoped setup for rescue diplomacy rather than a completed intervention.

《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（2） completes that court response. 平原君 cannot move 楚考烈王 after a full day of argument, but 毛遂 presses the king through proximity, Chu’s memory of 白起’s devastation, and dignity-based persuasion. Chu agrees to 合纵 and sends 黄歇 / 春申君 north with troops.

The source then immediately limits Chu’s rescue capacity. Chu does not border Zhao, so aid to 邯郸 depends on passage through 魏国; when 晋鄙 stops at 邺城, the episode turns Chu from willing ally into distant ally constrained by transit dependency.

《资治通鉴·周纪》97-1丨白起之死 records the practical release of that constraint after 信陵君 seizes Wei command. Once Wei’s army moves, Chu’s aid can contribute to the relief of 邯郸, making Chu part of the working anti-Qin coalition rather than only a pledged but blocked ally. The episode’s strategic reading treats this as one reason Zhao survives as a barrier against 秦国.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-2｜明明一脸“败相”的蔡泽 凭什么拜相 adds Chu as an occupier of culturally important former 鲁国 territory. 黄歇 / 春申君 appoints 荀子 to 兰陵 / Lanling, making Chu’s post-conquest problem administrative and cultural as well as military.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-4｜谁是孔子后最伟大的思想家？ continues that Chu-Lu-Xunzi branch. The source says Chu occupies Lu more fully, exiles Lu’s ruler to Ju, and leaves Lu only nominally present. It also dates Xunzi’s return to Lanling to 251 BCE under 楚考烈王’s reign, then says 黄歇 / 春申君 is killed during Chu turmoil in 238 BCE, ending Xunzi’s ability to hold the office.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-1｜吕不韦是姜子牙后人？ gives the terminal Lu notice in sharper political language. Chu destroys 鲁国, moves Lu Qing Gong from Ju to Biancheng, and makes him a commoner. The episode uses the notice to stress Lu’s surprisingly late survival rather than to develop new Chu strategy, so Chu’s role here remains the final absorber of an old Zhou enfeoffed state.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》102-2｜孔子在鲁国的身世之谜 supplies that missing strategic explanation. The episode argues that Chu has both the ability and the attention to destroy Lu because Qin and the Three Jin are absorbed by western pressure, Qi is weakened and isolationist, and Yan is too distant. Chu’s final absorption of Lu therefore becomes a case of 小国因大国无暇而存续 ending when one great power has room to move.

The same source then turns inward to Chu’s own elite geography. 黄歇 / 春申君 asks 楚考烈王 to move his fief from the Huai north border to 江东, presenting the old borderland as too exposed to 齐国 while the host questions whether Chu’s true main danger is still 秦国.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》104｜阴谋失算让秦国版图又又又膨胀了 adds Chu as the final refuge of 廉颇 after his exclusion from 赵国 and uneasy residence in 魏国. The source treats his move to Chu less as a Chu strategic initiative than as evidence that late Warring States talent can survive physically outside its home state while losing the political fit needed to act.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》107｜最后一次合纵伐秦 伐了个寂寞 gives Chu the aftermath of the final anti-Qin 合纵 attempt. In the Chunshenjun-version tradition, 楚考烈王 is nominal leader and 黄歇 / 春申君 commands the coalition, but the campaign fails and damages Chunshenjun’s standing. 朱英 then argues that Qin’s pressure through weakened Wei makes the Chen-centered capital geography unsafe, leading Chu to move to 寿春 and call it Ying.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》109-1｜历史上最著名的皇帝被“绿”了 turns Chu’s late pressure from external defense to internal succession. 楚考烈王 still has no son, 黄歇 / 春申君 fears the loss of his long-time patron’s protection, and 李源 plus 李源妹妹 exploit that fear through 孕身继承替换. Chu’s problem is therefore no longer only that Qin pushes from outside; the court’s own unresolved heir question lets private paternity, ministerial fear, and royal-in-law ambition reorganize the future throne.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》109-2｜春申君被皇帝大舅哥全族灭门 completes that internal collapse. 朱英 sees that the succession will give 黄歇 / 春申君 both regency opportunity and mortal danger, but Chunshenjun ignores him. When 楚考烈王 dies, 李源 / 李元 kills Chunshenjun at the palace gate, destroys his household, places 楚幽王 on the throne, and lets the Li siblings control court politics. The source treats this as the point where Chu’s decline shifts from external Qin pressure plus defensive relocation into a succession regime compromised at birth.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》111-2｜我与吕不韦的隔空对话 adds a terse external-pressure notice after that succession collapse. In a year also marked by drought in the host’s reading, 魏国 attacks Chu and 秦国 supports Wei with four armies. Chu is not the episode’s main subject, but the notice reinforces the late-Warring-States pattern that even vulnerable states keep fighting one another instead of rebuilding effective 合纵 discipline.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》112-1｜姚贾是如何凭一张嘴破四国合纵？ keeps Chu in the post-terminal-hezong coalition residue. The source names Chu as one of the four states in the Zhao-Han-Wei-Chu anti-Qin plan that 姚贾 breaks. It does not add a new Chu ruler or internal episode, but it shows that Chu remains necessary to any late anti-Qin alignment while also vulnerable to Qin-backed bribery and court-level division.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》114-1｜今天聊聊 嬴政都有哪些残忍手段 returns Chu to internal succession instability while Qin is destroying Zhao. 楚幽王 dies, Chu people install his younger brother 熊昊 / 熊犹 / 楚哀王, and then the older half-brother 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍 has him killed and takes the throne. The source also preserves a name variant, 熊昊 in one Shiji table tradition and 熊犹 in the Chu hereditary-house tradition, so the event belongs to both late Chu succession collapse and textual-variant caution.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》116｜史上最惨太子：被父王亲手斩杀？！ makes Chu the next major Qin target after Yan is largely broken. 王贲 has already taken more than ten Chu cities, and 嬴政 / 秦始皇 asks 李信 and 王翦 how many troops are needed for conquest. The source leaves the campaign result for later, but frames the initial decision through 锚定效应: Li Xin’s 200,000-person answer makes Wang Jian’s 600,000-person requirement look excessive.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》117-1｜啪啪打脸！历史上“爽文”的开山鼻祖 keeps Chu as the concurrent southern front rather than the episode’s main battlefield. The source says 李信 and 蒙武 go south against Chu while 王贲 attacks 魏国 and destroys it. Chu therefore remains the large unfinished conquest problem beside the completed Wei endpoint.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》117-2｜学着点！秦朝武将竟然如此高情商？ gives Chu a successful defensive counter inside that unfinished problem. 项燕 turns Qin’s first 200,000-person campaign into a trap by using peace signals and a diversion against 南郡, defeating Li Xin and 蒙恬. Chu remains large enough, and its command active enough, that Qin must return to 王翦’s 600,000-person scale for the next phase.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》118-1｜王翦率六十万大军 对战项燕！好戏开场了！ follows that next phase to Chu’s terminal battlefield collapse. Chu mobilizes nationally under Xiang Yan, but Wang Jian and 蒙武 refuse to fight until Chu’s provisions and morale fall. The source then has Xiang Yan defeated near 蕲南, 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍 captured in 223 BCE, and 昌平君 reopened as a source-critical problem through 李开元’s 《秦谜》 reconstruction.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》118-2｜吃瓜了！王室的瓜 包甜！ completes that collapse as both family history and territorial conversion. It reads Changping Jun / Xiong Qi through 先秦姓氏身份 as a Chu royal figure inside Qin, challenges the earlier claim that 楚考烈王 had no sons, and narrates Xiang Yan’s retreat, Changping Jun’s brief kingship, Changping Jun’s death, and Xiang Yan’s suicide. Qin then creates a temporary Chu commandery before later dividing the region, while officials and noble families from Chu and the Three Jin are imagined as possible refugees into 齐国.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》119-2｜咱们都冤枉了背负2000多年黑锅的“叶公好龙” jumps back to a Spring-and-Autumn Chu backstory used by the Qinji 119 moral comparison. In 479 BCE, 子西 recalls 白公胜 despite 叶公’s warning, Bai uses a victory over 吴国 to enter the capital armed, kills Zi Xi, seizes 楚惠王, and is then defeated in the 白公胜之乱. For Chu’s page, the episode adds an older personnel-judgment and court-violence case rather than a new step in the late-Qin conquest sequence.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》120-1｜谁是皇帝中的妈宝男？ adds Chu to Qin’s post-unification justification list. The source-scoped Qin story says Chu broke covenant and attacked 南郡, recoding the southern conquest as punishment and self-defense within 兼并自卫叙事 after Chu had already fallen militarily.

《资治通鉴·秦纪》122-3｜秦始皇竟和神仙撕起来了！ adds a post-conquest Chu sacred-geography aftershock. Although Chu has already been conquered, Qin Shi Huang’s reaction at 湘山祠 treats 湘君 and the surrounding landscape as a local authority that can be humiliated. The episode’s contrast with Qin’s respect for Qi rites makes Chu not only a military opponent but also a conquered cultural world where Qin rule can create resentment through religious insult.

Connections

• 楚声王 and 楚悼王 - ruler pair in the source.
• 叶公, 白公胜, 子西, 楚惠王, and 白公胜之乱 - Qinji 119-2 Spring-and-Autumn backstory used for the renyi-grounded virtue comparison.
• Bandit Assassination Attribution / 盗贼行刺归因 - concept attached to Chu Sheng Wang’s death.
• 战国时期 and 《资治通鉴》 - broader setting and text frame.
• 郑国, 晋国, and Small-State Buffer Diplomacy / 小国夹缝外交 - episode 07 great-power pressure branch.
• 吴起, 楚悼王, 楚肃王, and Warring States Reform Backlash / 战国变法反噬 - Zhouji 08 reform, death, and retaliation branch.
• 楚肃王, 赵国, 魏国, and Early Warring States Interstate War / 战国早期诸侯混战 - Zhouji 09 opportunistic intervention branch.
• 楚宣王, 周烈王, and 魏国 - Zhouji 10 part 2 attack and succession notice.
• 右尹黑, 秦国, 楚宣王, and Warring States Marriage Diplomacy / 战国联姻外交 - Zhouji 14 Qin-Chu marriage notice.
• 鲁共公, 鲁国, 齐国, 景舍, 邯郸, and 鲁酒薄而邯郸围 - Zhouji 15 wine-insult and rescue-Zhao setup.
• 廉颇, 赵国, and 魏国 - Qinji 104 late-career exile branch.
• 昭奚恤, 江乙, Chancellor-Centered Governance / 宰相中心治理, and Political Parable Weaponization / 寓言式政治挑拨 - Zhouji 16 chancellor and parable-politics branch.
• 景舍, 齐威王, 魏国, and 襄陵 - Zhouji 17 third-party peace channel.
• 田忌, 孙膑, 齐国, and Treason Accusation Trap / 谋反指控陷阱 - Zhouji 21 exile and talent-mobility branch.
• 楚宣王 and 楚威王 - Zhouji 23 succession notice.
• 越国, 越王无疆, 徐州, 徐州相王, and 名分秩序反弹 - Zhouji 28 Yue defeat and anti-Qi backlash branch.
• Qinji 122-3, 湘山祠, 湘君, and 皇权与地方神冲突 - post-conquest sacred-geography conflict with Qin.
• 田婴, 张丑, and 田斑 - Zhouji 29 post-victory expulsion-demand branch.
• 苏秦, 合纵, and 尊严激将式说服 - Zhouji 32 final-state acceptance branch.
• 楚怀王, 惠施 / 惠师, 冯浩, 陈枕, 左爽, and 因事立道式政治转身 - Zhouji 39 refuge, onward transfer, and return-to-Chu maneuver.
• 函谷关, 联盟自保失灵, and 宋康王 / 宋君偃 - Zhouji 45 anti-Qin coalition and Song-destruction branch.
• 张仪, 齐国, 商於, and 未验地先断交陷阱 - Zhouji 50 alliance-breaking deception branch.
• 丹阳之战, 汉中, 武关, 蓝田之战, 屈原, and 因怒兴师 - Zhouji 51 military loss, court-capture, and rage-war branch.
• 黔中, 郑袖, 上庸, 宫廷后门自救, 可交换功臣, and 不斩来使 - Zhouji 53 revenge, palace persuasion, and release branch.
• 芈八子 / 宣太后, 秦昭襄王, 黄棘, 芈横, 客卿通, 质子外交破裂, and 战国同盟转向 - Zhouji 60 Qin-Chu repair, rescue, and rupture branch.
• 昭雎, 芈兰, 武关, 咸阳, 巫郡, 黔中, and 君臣反馈失灵 - Zhouji 62 captive king and succession-continuity branch.
• 芈横 / 楚顷襄王, 秦昭襄王, and 质子外交破裂 - Zhouji 63 new-king announcement and Qin attack after coercive leverage fails.
• 卓齿, 齐湣王, 燕国, and 帝王非命死法类型 - Zhouji 70 rescue-turned-regicide and ambiguous Chu role.
• 卞和, 和氏璧, and 识宝风险 - Zhouji 74 jade-origin and failed-recognition branch.
• 管仲, 齐桓公, 需求诱导式弃农, 粮食与封边胁迫, and 跨国经济战 - Zhouji 75-3 deer-purchase economic-war branch.
• 楚顷襄王, 东周武公, 九鼎, 合纵, and 周王室象征威慑 - Zhouji 76 questioned anti-Qin plan and abandoned Zhou target.
• 司马错, 白起, 巴蜀, 黔中, 上庸, and 联军战后利益失衡 - Zhouji 77 southern pressure and target-selection logic.
• 南郡, 巫郡, 庄辛, 战略纵深防御, and 战国战争残酷化 - Zhouji 82 fall of Ying, commandery incorporation, and partial recovery.
• 黄歇 / 春申君, 秦昭襄王, 白起, and 利益重构式说服 - Zhouji 84 diplomatic prevention of a follow-on Qin campaign.
• 楚顷襄王, 秦国, 质子外交破裂, and 战国同盟转向 - Zhouji 85 crown-prince hostage sequel after Qin-Chu repair.
• 芈完 / 楚考烈王, 黄歇 / 春申君, 范雎, and 秦昭襄王 - Zhouji 92 hostage succession, disguised escape, and Chunshenjun’s rise.
• 宋玉, 巫山神女, and 襄王有意，神女无心 - Zhouji 92 part 2 Chu literary afterlife.
• 秦国 - Zhouji 93 first-year Chu Kaolie Wang land cession.
• 平原君, 毛遂, 赵国, 邯郸, and 合纵 - Zhouji 96 requested rescue mission and successful court commitment during Qin’s siege of Handan.
• 楚考烈王, 尊严激将式说服, 联盟救援借道依赖, 魏国, and 晋鄙 - Zhouji 96 part 2 court persuasion and route constraint.
• 信陵君, 邯郸, 赵国, 魏国, and 合纵 - Zhouji 97 part 1 Chu aid becoming operational after Wei’s army moves.
• 黄歇 / 春申君, 荀子, 兰陵 / Lanling, 鲁国, and 占领区怀柔治理 - Qinji 99 part 2 post-conquest cultural administration.
• 楚考烈王, 周王室, and 战国时期 - Qinji 99 part 4 Lu absorption and Xunzi’s final Chu-service endpoint.
• Qinji 102-1 and 鲁国 - final destruction of Lu and demotion of Lu Qing Gong.
• 小国因大国无暇而存续, 江东, and Qinji 102-2 - explanation for why Chu, not Qi or Qin, becomes Lu’s destroyer and why Chunshenjun relocates his fief.
• 末次合纵失败, 朱英, 寿春, and Qinji 107 - final anti-Qin coalition failure and defensive capital relocation.
• Qinji 111-2, 魏国, 秦国, and 弱国相争强国得利 - drought-year attack by Wei with Qin support.
• 姚贾, 韩国, 魏国, 赵国, 合纵, and 利益瓦解合纵 - Qinji 112-1 Chu as a target in the four-state coalition disruption.
• 李源, 李源妹妹, 孕身继承替换, and Qinji 109-1 - childless late-reign succession plot and internal court danger.
• 朱英, 楚幽王, 史评当代性, and Qinji 109-2 - ignored succession warning, Chunshenjun’s death, and Li-family court control.
• Qinji 114-1, 熊昊 / 熊犹 / 楚哀王, 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍, and 史书异文政治重量 - post-Chu Youwang succession coup and name-variant caution.
• Qinji 116, 王贲, 李信, 蒙恬, 王翦, and 锚定效应 - southern-front pressure and the troop-estimate decision before Qin’s Chu campaign.
• Qinji 117-1, 李信, 蒙武, 魏国, and 水攻围城 - Chu as concurrent southern front while Qin completes Wei’s destruction.
• Qinji 117-2, 项燕, 南郡, 诈降麻痹, and 战场信息控制 - Chu counterstroke against Li Xin and Meng Tian before Wang Jian’s return.
• Qinji 118-1, 坚壁耗敌式耐心, 蕲南, 楚虽三户式反秦记忆, 昌平君, and 《秦谜》 - terminal Chu campaign, anti-Qin memory, and late-source reconstruction problem.
• Qinji 118-2, 先秦姓氏身份, 灭国后的郡县化过渡, 楚考烈王, and 齐国 - Chu royal genealogy, final extinction, administrative breakup, and remnant-refuge risk.
• Qinji 120-1, 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍, 南郡, and 兼并自卫叙事 - Qin’s retrospective claim that Chu broke covenant and attacked Qin territory.