The King of Yue Goujian destroyed the State of Wu. How did the State of Yue disappear in the end? In this article, the author will come to talk about this topic with you.
Yue State was a vassal state in the southeastern region during the Spring and Autumn Period. There are very few historical records about the origin of Yue State. Initially, Yue State was a small country in the southeast corner, and it had almost no contact with the vassal states of the Central Plains, only communicating with the outside world. The link is Wu Guo.
In the middle and late Spring and Autumn period of the Jin and Chu hegemony, Wu began to rise thanks to the help of Jin. At this time, the Yue State was still a barbarous country that was blocked and backward, until Wu captured the Yingdu of Chu State and after the epicenter of the Central Plains. , Yue Guo gradually entered the stage of history. However, this time the Yue country was on the stage of history as a weak person. At that time, Wu Zixu was still in power. After Wu broke down, Wu Zixu believed that the country should first go south to destroy the Yue, and wait until the rear is stable before going north to Tudou.
The territory controlled by the State of Wu at that time was today's Jiangsu and western Anhui, while the territory controlled by the State of Yue was mainly in the north-central part of Zhejiang today. In Wu Zixu's view, if the State of Wu went northward, the State of Yue would definitely take advantage of the vacancy. Enter, then Wu Guo is in danger.
has to say that Wu Zixu's strategic vision is very long-term, so under Wu Zixu's planning, Wu Yue started the period of Wu Yue hegemony that lasted more than two decades.
In the past two decades, Wu and Yue have won each other's victory and defeat. Although Wu Wang Fuchai once captured Yue Wang Goujian, because of his own arrogance, Goujian's forbearance, and the language of the Yue Kingdom minister and Fan Li's strategy, Goujian finally He was able to survive, and later Gou Jian was able to destroy Wu in twenty years.
After the demise of the Wu State, the Yue State swallowed its land, and under the governance of Goujian, it became a powerful country at that time. After that, Goujian crossed Hebei and allied with the traditional Central Plains Congress such as Jin and Qi, and accepted the canonization of the King of Zhou, Goujian The dominance is now.
Goujian moved its capital north to Langya ( now Lianyungang, Jiangsu ) after Goujian became hegemonic, so that it could strengthen ties with the Central Plains countries and maintain the hegemony of Vietnam.
Gou Jian died in 465 BC. At this time, the traditional power of the Central Plains, Jin, was caught in the rebellion of Liuqing, on the eve of the three divisions of Jin; Qi was in the rebellion of scholar-officials, on the eve of Tian’s generation of Qi; After Wu State broke Chu, Yue State took the initiative to make good relations with Chu State. Therefore, after Goujian passed away, Chu State did not restrict the development of Yue State, and Jin and Qi did not have the energy to restrict Yue State’s development, so he passed away in Goujian After a long period of time, the country of Vietnam has maintained a strong state.
Until 375 BC, the Yue country also began to have civil strife, and the country’s national strength began to decline. The Yue country’s internal turmoil lasted for 10 years. By 363 BC, the country was gradually restored to peace without Zhuan [zhuān]. However, at this time both Qi and Chu have completed their rejuvenation, and their national power has greatly increased. The strategy of the Yue country to go north to hegemony has been impossible to achieve. In addition, the old nobles of Wu have been secretly trying to restore the country, and they have no choice but to move the capital again. Go back to Kuaiji to stabilize the old land in Vietnam.
In 342 BC, Wujiang succeeded to the throne. In order to rejuvenate the hegemony of the Yue country, Wujiang decided to reinforce the army. At this time, Qi was during the reign of King Qi. Although King Qi Wei relied on Zou Ji, Sun Bin and others reformed Qi. It was prosperous for a while, but Qi was fighting against Wei and had no time to worry about Yue. King Qi Wei sent people to Yue to persuade Yue to conquer Chu.
In this way, under Qi's persuasion, the Yue Kingdom decided to attack Chu, but at this time Chu was also in a stage of strong national power. After Yue Kingdom sent troops, it was quickly defeated by Chu, and the King of Yue died in battle without borders.
Since Wujiang did not designate a successor before his death, after Wujiang’s death, Yue Kingdom fell into civil strife again. Wujiang’s eldest son, second son, and other noble children claimed to be orthodox and established the country one after another. Chu State took the opportunity to move eastward and occupied the old land of Wu and Yue, and Yue State ceased to exist as a unified vassal state.
