raise a tripod

officer official, who was guarding the censer, "Has anyone ever lifted this kind of censer?" He replied, "Each one weighs more than a thousand pounds. Who could lift them?" King Wu of Qin said to Ren Zai and Meng Shuo, two strong men, "Try it." Although Ren Zai was a warrior, he was still careful. He knew that King Wu liked to show off his strength, and if he encouraged him, he might make a mess, so he replied, "How can I lift it? What is there to play with such a stupid thing?" Meng said he was not as brainy as Ren Zai and was trying to be a hero himself, saying, "I'll try!" He asked his men to take a big rope made of hemp and tied it to the two ears of the tripod, tightened his belt, and put his arms like iron bars in the loop tied by the rope, and with a red face and thick neck, he shouted "Ah Ha" fiercely, and the tripod actually lifted half a foot high for him and hurriedly put it down. However, he exerted himself so hard that his two eyes burst out and blood flowed all over his face. King Wu of Qin laughed and said, "Why did you exert so much effort? Look at me!"

Seeing that Meng had been seriously injured, Ren Zai hastened to stop him and said, "Your Majesty is a nobleman, how can you play with this?" King Wu of Qin did not listen to him, so he took off his royal robe and put his arm in the ring. He took off his king's robe and put his arm in the loop. Ren Zai held him back and begged him. But King Wu of Qin got angry and scolded him, saying, "Oh, you're not capable of doing it yourself, and you're stopping me!" Ren Zai had no choice but to go with him. King Wu of Qin lifted the tripod half a foot high. He thought, "If I could only take one more step, I would be better than Meng." He slowly moved his left foot with all his strength and tried to lift his right foot again, but he didn't expect that his strength wouldn't catch up and the tripod fell and hit his right foot. Qin Wu Wang cried out and his bones were broken. Ren despised him and saved him in a hurry. King Wu was in pain and couldn't support himself, and he was injured in his organs.

When King Hu of Zhou heard that King Wu of Qin had died, he was so frightened that he asked people to prepare a coffin and sent people to pay tribute to him. The coffin was transported to Xianyang by the right minister Simarouba. King Wu of Qin had no son, so the ministers made one of his uncles the king of Qin, King Zhao Xiang of Qin. Simarouba asked King Zhaoxiang to investigate and punish the person who had caused the trouble. Everyone knew that it was King Wu himself who was in trouble, but the king could not be faulted, so he had to find someone unlucky to be the scapegoat to finish the job. The one who burst out his eyes, Meng said he suffered, and even his family was killed. The king was not only not convicted but was also promoted to be the governor of Hanzhong.

Simarouba and Gan Mao had been a little bit bullying me and I was oppressing you. The last time Gan Mao told the story of "Zeng Shen's murder" to King Wu of Qin, Simarouba was already quite unhappy. Now when King Wu died and Simarouba was in sole charge of the power, he deliberately announced at the court, "It was Gan Mao's idea to fight against Korea and to open the three rivers." Gan Mao knew that Simarouba was trying to squeeze him, and since King Zhao Xiang did not trust him as much as King Wu did, he fled to another country and hid. Gan Mao, who compared himself to Zeng Shen, later died in the state of Wei.

After the reign of King Zhaoxiang, he tried his best to draw in Chu and made an alliance with King Huai of Chu. The King of Qi, who was the head of the alliance, therefore made an appointment with Korea and Wei to attack King Huai of Chu, who had withdrawn from the alliance against Qin.