Por razões que não vêem ao caso agora, Ch'u executou seus ministros chefes Hsi Yüan e Po Chou-li, o que resultou na fuga do neto deste último, Po P'i. Seu destino também foi Wu, onde foi estabelecido como alto oficial, talvez por orientação do próprio Wu Tzu-hsü.
Isso tudo aconteceu mais ou menos pelo ano 514 AEC (isso tudo também deve corresponder mais ou menos ao começo da história que escrevo).
XXVII Ano de Zhao:
Par. 3. Guliang has 郄 for 郤. The Zhuan says:——'Xi Yuan was a man upright and peaceable, but he was hated by Fei Wuji, and Yan Jiangshi commander of the Left, who was a partizan of Wuji. The chief minister, Zichang, was fond of gifts and lent an ear to slander. [Accordingly], Wuji, to calumniate Xi Yuan, said to Zichang, "Zi'e (Yuan's designation) wishes to invite you to drink with him;" and then he said to Zi'e that the chief minister wished to come and drink with him in his house. That officer said, "I am of low rank, and unworthy of a visit from the chief minister. If he insist on paying me a visit, the kindness is extreme; wherewith shall I recompense him?" Wuji replied, "The chief minister is fond of buff-coats and sharp weapons. Bring forth what you have of these, and I will make a selection from them." In this way he took five of each, and said, "Place these at your gate. When he comes, he is sure to see them, and you can then present them to him."
'On the day for the feast, [Yuan] erected a tent on the left of his gate, [with those things in it]; on which Wuji said to the minister, "I had nearly brought misfortune on you. Zi'e is intending evil to you, and has got men-at-arms at his gate. You must not go. Moreover, in the recent expedition, we should have got our will upon Wu, but for Zi'e who took bribes and returned. He also imposed on the other commanders, and made them retire, saying that it would be inauspicious to take advantage of the disorders [in Wu]. As Wu had taken advantage of our mourning, would it not have been proper to take advantage of its confusion?" The minister sent a messenger to look at Xi's house, and there were the buff-coats. He did not go [to the feast] therefore, but called for Yan Jiangshi, and told him the circumstances. When Jiangshi retired, he gave orders to attack Xi's house, and to burn it. When Zi'e heard of it, he killed himself. [Meantime], the people would not burn the house, and an order was issued that all who would not burn it should be held as equally guilty with Xi. On this some took a rush rope, and some took a handful of straw, but they threw them down [again], and would not burn the house. The chief minister then caused it to be done, and extinguished all the branches of the Xi family and its partizans, putting to death Yang Lingzhong with his younger brothers Wan and Tuo, and Jin Chen, with his sons and younger brothers. The kindred of Jin Chen cried out in the city, "Yan and Fei are making themselves kings, and by their own authority working calamity to the State of Chu; weakening and thinning the royal House, and deceiving the king and the chief minister for their own gain. The chief minister believes them entirely;—what is to become of the State?" This distressed the chief minister.'
On this paragraph again we have much speculation, to explain the ascription of the death of Yuan to Chu.
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