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This time to tell a famous revenge story, the protagonist of this story is named Wu Zixu. He was born in a family of loyal liang in the Chu state for generations, and his grandfather Wu Ju and father Wu Hao were both famous ministers of the Chu state. To whom does Wu Zixu, such a noble-born prince, want to take revenge? The target of his revenge was his own country, the Chu Kingdom! In order to avenge, Wu Zixu almost single-handedly destroyed the Chu state. What kind of deep hatred is this? In traditional values, didn't Wu Zixu betray the motherland and rebel in doing so? But Sima Qian's Wu Zixu was a brave and fearless tragic hero, and his revenge story was even adapted into a drama and passed down from generation to generation. Why would Sima Qian praise this seemingly treasonous man? Today, let's first look at the legendary story of Wu Zixu in the "History", and after reading the story, I will tell you the deep meaning of this. #伍子胥传奇 #
Our story begins with the struggle for favors between the traitors. The Wu family, who had been loyal for generations, was destroyed by a traitorous courtier. This traitor's name is Fei Wujie. He was a colleague of Wu Zixu's father, Wu Hao, and king chuping appointed them both as teachers to Crown Prince Xiong Jian, with Wu Hao as Taifu and Fei Wuji as Shaofu. However, the crown prince did not like Fei Wuji at all, and Fei Wuji was worried that in the future, when the prince ascended the throne, he would not have good fruit to eat, so he devised a treacherous plan and tried to separate the relationship between the prince and his father, King Chuping.
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Zhang Luo, the king of Chuping, sent Fei Wuji to the Qin kingdom to give a dowry to the crown prince when he married his daughter-in-law. The welcoming party walked to the halfway point, and Fei Wuji rode a fast horse to come back to report to the King of Chuping: The princess of the Qin Kingdom looks like a heavenly immortal, rare in the world, and the little one feels that it is better for the king to take her as his concubine, and then find another daughter-in-law for the prince. This ridiculous idea was to let King Chuping marry his daughter-in-law. However, as soon as King Chu Ping saw this new daughter-in-law, the real person was even more beautiful than Fei Wujie said, and he really did not shy away from smiling. Since then, he has also looked at Fei Wujie differently and has a lot of trust.
Fei Wuji also took advantage of the situation to fabricate evidence, saying that the crown prince was secretly contacting the princes of various parties to prepare for rebellion because he had a grudge against King Ping's wife. King Chuping was furious and sent people to kill the prince, and arrested The Prince as a party of the prince.
Wu Hao has two sons, the eldest son is called Wu Shang, and the younger son is called Wu Yuan, that is, Wu Zixu, both of whom are outstanding talents. Fei Wuji was bent on cutting the grass and removing the roots, and deceived Wu Hao and said: If you call your two sons back from the fiefdom, you will let your whole family have a way to live. Wu Hao said: The eldest Wu Shang is a benevolent and filial piety person, and will definitely come back for me; the second wu member has a hard heart, he is a person who can achieve great things. Certainly not listen to me. Sure enough, the brothers received a letter from their father, and Wu Zixu immediately saw through Fei Wujie's plot and advised his brother not to go back. Wu Shang said: I understand that going back is a death, but if I don't go, I don't have the ability to avenge my father, but I will fall into a name of filial piety. Revenge and hatred will be handed over to you, you hurry up and escape, and the brothers will live and die from now on. After Wu Shang returned, he was killed along with his father Wu Hao, and Wu Zixu escaped alone to defect to the crown prince Xiong Jian, who had already gone into exile in the Song Kingdom. Wu Hao heard the news that his son Wu Zixu had escaped and sighed: In the future, the monarchs of the Chu State will be unlucky.
Since then, Wu Zixu has followed Prince Jian to live a turbulent life of exile. Unfortunately, Crown Prince Jian was involved in the Jin state's conspiracy against Zheng Guo, and was finally executed by Zheng Guo, leaving only one son. Zheng Guo also had to cut the grass and remove the roots, and Wu Zixu had to take the child to hide his name and flee everywhere. Where can they be sheltered in the vast land?
At this time, the southern State of Wu gradually became stronger and constantly clashed with the State of Chu. Wu Zixu decided to defect to the State of Wu. However, after thousands of miles from the hinterland of the Central Plains to the southeast of the State of Wu, it was not easy to avoid the pursuit of the State of Zheng and the wanted of the State of Chu, and also to cross the rough and choppy Yangtze River. Wu Zixu's escape journey is full of thrills. Wu Zixu took the two men of the little lord and grandfather to climb the mountain on foot and came to a place called Zhaoguan on the border of the Chu State, trying to bypass the pass, but they were still discovered. Wu Zixu desperately fled to the Yangtze River, and there were pursuing soldiers behind him, there was no way forward, and his life was on the line. Fortunately, there was a fisherman on the river who saw Wu Zixu on the shore carrying the children on his back and was cornered, so he quickly docked and picked them up on the boat, and Wu Zixu escaped to heaven.
Wu Zixu untied the sword worth one hundred taels of gold on his body and gave it to the fisherman. The fisherman estimated that he guessed wu Zixu's identity from this precious sword, and he laughed and said: The Chu kingdom captured Wu Zixu, rewarded with 50,000 stones of grain and the official position of the doctor, I don't want it, do you still covet a sword? Thanks to this righteous fisherman, Wu Zixu was able to get rid of the pursuit of the Chu state. However, seeing that the capital of the State of Wu was in front of him, Wu Zixu fell ill on the road. In the dying breath, all supported by the thought of revenge and blood hatred, the coils on his body were spent, he begged for food, and finally came to the capital of the Wu Kingdom, and met the most important person in his life- the Gongzi Guang of the Wu Kingdom, that is, the later Wu King Lu.
At that time, the relationship between the State of Wu and the State of Chu was getting worse and worse, and the war between The two countries was on the verge of breaking out. Wu Zixu, through GongziGuang, was given the opportunity to approach Wu Wangfu, and he persuaded Wu Wangfu to take advantage of this battle to attack the Chu state in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly, he was blocked by Gongziguang. Wu Zixu understood that if he wanted to attack the State of Chu with the power of the State of Wu, he must gain the absolute trust of the State of Wu and should not rush for a while. He saw that Gongzi Guang had ambitions and wanted to murder King Wu and establish himself as king. If you can help Gongzi Guang ascend to the throne, isn't this a good opportunity? Therefore, Wu Zixu recommended to Gongzi Guang the heroic warriors he knew when begging for food, and designed to let Him sacrifice himself with a fish intestine sword at the banquet to stab King Wu to death, clearing the way for Gongzi Guang to ascend to the throne of King Wu. Gongzi Guang ascended the throne as the King of Wu, and Wu Zixu finally ushered in the day of his debut and became a major subject of the State of Wu.
However, just as Wu Zixu was preparing to show his fists, the King of Chuping, who had killed his family, fell ill and died in this year, and was succeeded by King Chuping, the son of King Chuping and the Princess of Qin. The traitorous minister Fei Wuji, because he had always been unpopular, was also executed after King Zhao ascended the throne. Both enemies are dead, so will this vendetta be repaid?
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Wu Zixu also recommended Sun Wu to Lu as a general of the State of Wu, and this Sun Wu was the grandson of Wu Sheng, the great military master who wrote sun tzu's art of war. Under the meticulous planning of Sun Wu, the King of Wu united several princes to jointly attack the Chu state. The Wu army fought five major victories in a row, directly attacked the Yellow Dragon, and killed the capital of the Chu state, Yingdu.
In the first half of Wu Zixu's life, he hated such a thing in order to avenge Xue. Although the defeat of the Chu state was not all the credit of Wu Zixu, without his assistance to Lu Lu to ascend to the throne, there would be no such war. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is Wu Zixu's revenge battle. The State of Chu, which had once frightened the various princely states, was defeated because of Wu Zixu.
Wu Zixu waited for seventeen years, and finally attacked the State of Chu with the help of Wu's troops. The first thing he wanted to do now was to kill King Chu Zhao, and pay off the debt of his father and son. However, King Chu Zhao hid in the deep mountains and old forests, Wu Zixu could not find anything, and his vengeful anger had nowhere to vent, so he ordered the tomb of King Chuping to be opened, and dragged out the body of King Chuping and whipped him fiercely for three hundred whips.
At first, Wu Zixu did not obey his father's orders and fled; seventeen years later, he dragged the old master's body out of the grave and whipped it. This kind of behavior, according to traditional ethics, is called "no father and no king", which is a great rebellious behavior.
But how did Sima Qian view Wu Zixu as a person? Sima Qian said that if Wu Zixu had died with his father and brother, what would be the difference between this and the ants that were crushed to death? What a tragic and magnificent thing it is to abandon the feelings of father and son, and finally repay the great vengeance of the destruction of the family and the death of the people, and the fame will be passed down to future generations!
Do you think there is anything wrong with Sima Qian's words? In order to avenge the revenge of killing his father, he destroyed his own living motherland, is this not because of private waste, can this really be regarded as a tragic hero?
To understand this matter, first of all, we can not use the current concept of the state and the nation to set the ancients, in the Spring and Autumn Period, a nobleman left his hometown to re-take root in other countries is a common thing, Confucius's ancestors fled from the Song kingdom to the Lu country, and from then on they regarded themselves as Lu people; once the courtiers and nobles and the monarch broke off their righteousness, there was no effective obligation to be loyal to death.
In addition, Sima Qian will positively evaluate Wu Zixu, which is also the embodiment of his own ambitions in life.
Wu Zixu did not care about the death of his relatives because he was afraid of death, he was measuring whether such a death was worth it. "Man is inherently mortal, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hong Mao," Sima Qian said when he explained to his friends why he would endure humiliation and secretly accept palace punishment. For Sima Qian, although it was better to die in reputation than to be humiliated by palace punishment, but he died in obscurity, what is the difference between him and the ants? After completing the "Records of History", so that his father Sima Tan and himself could go down in history under the name of "Taishi Gong", Sima Qian also completed his personal revenge with words.
Well, this lecture is about the first half of Wu Zixu's revenge and hatred, his fate is closely linked to the fate of Wu Guo, and in the end, it is the Yue Wang Gou Jian who is lying on the salary and tasting the guts, why do some people say that yue Wang Gou Jian is a conspirator? Let's talk about it next time. Well, thanks for reading, see you next time!
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