In 492 BC, King Goujian of Yue took his wife and minister Fan Li , endured the shame of the defeated country, and went to Wu State to humiliate the King of Wu Fuchai .
Why didn’t Fuchai cut down Goujian to get things done?
There are also hatred between Wu and Yue countries.
Let me briefly talk about it. In 497 BC, Chu State and Yue State targeted Wu State. At that time, Yue State was still a small country, and Goujian had just ascended the throne.
In 496 BC, King Wu Helu launched an army to attack Yue, and Goujian led his troops to fight with Helu in the area of Jili (today's Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Tongxiang, and Tongxiang). Yue State was not very strong, but Goujian also had a trick to " to challenge the three soldiers to Wu Zhen Hu and fight for ", which means that the criminals in the army committed suicide by striking the Wu army and winning by chance, and defeating the Wu army in the chaos. The King of Wu was unfortunately shot in that battle. The medical conditions at that time must be extremely poor, and the King of Wu was eventually injured and died.
Before leaving, King Helu of Wu asked his son Fuchai: "Don't forget Yue." This means it is definitely not to rush to take revenge, but to be vigilant of Yue and treat Yue as a mortal enemy.
However, Fuchai was young and energetic, and how could he let go of his revenge for killing his father? He did not avenge this revenge and had no intention of enjoying it. He trained his troops day and night, determined to avenge his father.
In 494 BC, King Goujian of Yue also heard that King Fuchai of Wu was immersed in the army all day long and vowed to avenge his father Helu.
Goujian couldn't sleep well, so how could he be able to guard against thieves for thousands of days? Goujian decided to start first, so as to save the night from long dreams and make Fuchai strong, and then he would be in endless troubles.
However, Goujian's idea was dissuaded by Wen Zhong. Goujian refused to listen to the advice and took the army to attack the boy Fuchai who wanted to take revenge all day long.
King Fuchai of Wu brought his carefully trained soldiers to fight. Goujian first suffered a crushing defeat at Fujiao (place name, now in Taihu Mashan, Wuxi), and retreated to Kuaiji Mountain (place name, now southeast of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang).
Fuchai took advantage of the victory to pursue the Vietnamese army.
, full of confidence, Goujian was stunned by Fuchai's surprise. He hurriedly adopted Fan Li's suggestion and bowed his head to admit defeat and asked for peace to save his life. So he prepared to send Wen Zhong a generous gift to Fuchai to ask for peace.
I heard that King Goujian of Yue sent someone to seek peace, Wu Zixu was anxious and said to Fuchai, "You must not agree." If you cut the grass and don't eradicate the roots, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows."
text, when you see that if you have a pro-war faction like Wu Zixu, you have to arrange an opponent for him.
So, Wenzhong changed his strategy. He found Dazai Bosho in Wu Kingdom and smashed it with beauties and rare treasures. There is always one that he likes. Sure enough, Dazai Bosho and Wenzhong became good friends with "communication and wealth".
With Bo Yan's strong help, Fuchai was persuaded and decided to agree to the sum request of the Wentian, but there are conditions.
Goujian also had to sign a treaty that was humiliated and humiliated, entrusting a number of domestic affairs to ministers such as Wen Zhong, and he took his wife and Fan Li to Wu to "atonate his sins."
In 492 BC, Fuchai saw his father-killing enemy in the palace. The country's hatred and family hatred will be repaid in one day. It's really a happy life!
Kill Goujian, wouldn't he let him die happily? Fuchai wouldn't do this?
He intentionally humiliated Goujian. He not only often humiliated Goujian in front of the Chinese people, but also asked Goujian to live in the small stone house in front of his father's grave to feed horses and guard the tomb.
Goujian really threw his face on the ground here, eating coarse grains, sleeping in horse houses, serving hard labor, raising horses, removing manure, and sweeping. Day after day, facing the grave, spring flowers bloom... No, facing the grave, and letting your heart go.
This is not counting. Fuchai was sick. Goujian personally tasted Fuchai's stool, found out the cause of the disease for Fuchai, won the favor of King Fuchai of Wu, and made his life a little more comfortable.
Three years have passed in a blink of an eye. During these three years, Goujian worked hard and suffered all the hardships, as if he had forgotten that he was the king of Yue, as if he was a slave of Fuchai.
There is Dazai Bosho, the "pro-Yue Sect", who keeps saying good things to Fuchai. Fuchai also feels that Goujian is convinced and he is venting his anger. It is no point to make Goujian goujian back to Yueguo and let Yueguo be his younger brother in his country. If he doesn't go back for a long time and there is something wrong with Yueguo, Goujian will lose value and finally decides to let Goujian and his wife return to Yueguo.
In 490 BC, Goujian returned to Yue Kingdom. In just three years, it seemed like a different life.
Goujian did not return to the palace to live, but lived in a broken house. He did not sleep in his own soft bed, but slept on the firewood and hung a bitter gall in the room. He tasted the bitter gall before every meal, and then asked himself, "Have you forgotten the shame?" Every night before going to bed, he told himself, "You must remember the humiliation you received in Wu!"
However, at this time, the Yue Kingdom had already been in sorrow that he had no money and no one. The first problem facing Goujian was revitalization, and Goujian issued a series of orders for this.
, especially the encouragement policies in terms of population, are very worth learning. At that time, the State of Yue stipulated that men and women must get married, otherwise their parents will be punished; older people cannot marry young girls; women must report to the government before giving birth to children, and the state will send a doctor to check and take care of them for free; women will be rewarded with a bottle of wine and a dog, and a girl will be rewarded with a bottle of wine and a pig; those who have two sons at home will be helped to raise one, and those who have three sons at home will be helped to raise two.
People have more strength, and only those have a future, and the population of Yue has gradually increased.
Strengthen yourself. This is only one aspect. You have to weaken the enemy, otherwise when will you catch up with the enemy's strength? Therefore, Goujian's "beauty plan" appears.
Yue Kingdom selected a large number of beauties from the people and conducted secret training. The content of the training is not only about how to win the favor of men, but also about destroying the relationship between the monarch and ministers of the Wu Kingdom and winning over the "pro-Quetrian" ministers. To put it bluntly, it is actually about sending spies to the Wu Kingdom. The beauty Xishi is the most shining one.
King Fuchai of Wu really favors Xi Shi, and he can meet any requirements. At the same time, Xi Shi also encouraged Fu Chai to continue to develop into the Central Plains, which consumed the national strength and military strength of Wu State, and was also diverting Fu Chai's attention and not to stare at Yue State all day long.
Goujian sent a large number of spies to collect a large amount of information about the Wu State, and at the same time spread rumors in the Wu State, alienated the relationship between the monarch and ministers of the Wu State, cracked down on the anti-Mioc factions of the Wu State, and supported the pro-Mioc factions of the Wu State.
This is not counting. Goujian also continued to borrow grain from King Fuchai of Wu on the grounds of suffering natural disasters, constantly reducing the grain reserves of Wu's state, while Yue State reserved a large amount of grain.
I heard that Fuchai was going to build Gusutai , Goujian strongly supported it and sent people to transport extra-large wood, advocating that it was a "sacred wood". Fuchai also liked it very much at first sight, and changed the design drawings to expand the construction area of Gusutai. In this way, this project will be even more costly.
Someone will definitely be dissatisfied with this, that is Wu Zixu. However, Fuchai had long lost himself and did not listen to Wu Zixu at all.
In 485 BC, the energetic Fuchai decided to go north to attack Qi. To be a overlord, you have to show your strength. The best solution is to overturn the overlord. However, Wu Zixu opposed it. He pointed out that the major concern of Wu's State was the Yue State on the side.
Fuchai didn't listen to Wu Zixu at all, insisted on attacking Qi, and eventually defeated Qi's army and returned after winning. Fuchai was very proud and felt that he was the next overlord.
Not long after, Bo Zhu, the "pro-Qiu-Sect" played a huge role. He said all the slander, and Fuchai forced Wu Zixu to commit suicide. Wu Zixu really died with his eyes open. He said hatefully: "After I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the East City Gate. I will see with my own eyes that the Wu Kingdom was destroyed by Yue Kingdom."
In the spring of 482 BC, Fuchai ushered in the highest moment of his life. He led the elite troops of Wu and went north to join the princes. Only the old, weak and remnants of Wu were left in the country with very poor combat effectiveness.
Goujian also ushered in the best time for revenge. He sent Fan Li to cut off Fuchai's way back to China, and himself led the main force to attack Wu by land and finally captured the capital of Wu.
Fuchai became the overlord as he wished, but the reversal came too suddenly, the country was gone, and the ups and downs of life were really surprising.
Fuchai, who was amused and crying, had to send Bosheng to ask for peace to Goujian. Seeing that the main force of Wu was still there, Goujian couldn't take it down for a while, so he simply agreed to make peace and withdrew from Wu.
House was raining all night. In 478 BC, the Wu Kingdom encountered severe droughts for many years. Fan Li and Wenzhong once again sent troops to attack Wu Kingdom and besieged the capital of Wu Kingdom. Three years later, King Fuchai of Wu King saw that the army was not strong enough in combat power and was trapped in the army, so he had to seek peace from Goujian.
However, this time, Goujian did not allow Fuchai to seek peace. Fuchai saw that his situation was hopeless and had no way to live, and he did not want to endure humiliation like Goujian. He finally decided to commit suicide. Before his death, he said, "I really have no shame to see Wu Zixu!"
Goujian avenged his revenge and finally became proud. He destroyed the Wu Kingdom, buried Fuchai, King of Wu, and later killed the "pro-Quota" Dazai Bo, which put an end to his story of enduring humiliation.
[Zixiao's insights on history reading]
Goujian is a ruthless person, he is cruel to himself and deserves to study hard.
1. As long as you are cruel enough, shame is not scary. defeat is not shameful, but the shame is forgetting failure, and living a drunken life and dreaming of death. Goujian is obviously a ruthless character. He can be cruel to accept shame and also be cruel to cleanse the shame.
2. As long as you are ruthless enough, you must have a way to do things. Goujian is very good at taking revenge, strengthening himself, weakening the enemy, letting the enemy relax, and then attacking him unprepared.
3. As long as you are ruthless enough, you will definitely get results when working hard. Goujian's efforts have been exchanged for the results. Although he paid a considerable price, he also told us a truth: It is easy to be cruel to yourself for a while, but the difficult thing is to be cruel to it for ten or twenty years, so that it can produce good results.
A seed, as long as it has the appropriate temperature and humidity, it is no problem to germinate, but to grow, it requires sufficient nutrition. Therefore, the same is true for us. First, we must have a source of continuous motivation (Goujian’s motivation is revenge). Next, we must have strategies to plan things, the right methods, the underlying logic and core playing methods, and finally we must have a long-term persistence.
In this way, it will not be too difficult to accomplish something. Do you think so?
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