To say that Fan Li is very famous in Chinese history, he was originally a strategist of the Yue King. Yue Wang Gou Jian was the heroic figure who was paid to taste courage, when the Yue Kingdom was invaded by the State of Wu, he was captured by the Wu King Fuchai.
The state of Wu is roughly the area of today's Jiangsu, and the state of Yue is roughly the area of today's Zhejiang. At that time, Wu Wangfu was torturing him in every way, but he pretended that he had obeyed and would never rebel again, and legend has it that he was a stepping stone when he helped Wu Wang get on the car in wu.
When King Wu was ill, he also helped him taste it to judge his illness, and this performance made Fu Cha believe him, and King Wu put him back, and after returning to China, Gou Jian was determined to destroy Wu Guo.
The first thing Gou Jian did after returning to China was to find two counselors, one Fan Li and one language. Fan Li was brilliant at that time, he suggested to Gou Jian to paralyze Fu Cha, and offered two strategies, one was to send gold and silver jewelry to Fu Cha every year, on the other hand, to sacrifice two beautiful women, one Xi Shi and one Zheng Dan let them confuse Fu Cha. To say that Fan Li is also really cruel, Xi Shi is said to be his favorite woman, and he can give it directly to King Wu first. Goku adopted his plan.
After Xi Shi arrived in the State of Wu, he had Fu Cha kill his most powerful minister, Wu Zixu, destroy the Great Wall, and eventually destroy the State of Wu.
But Gou Jian this person is a person who can only suffer together and definitely cannot be rich and noble, the first thing he did after he destroyed Wu Guo was to kill the heroes, but Fan Li was very clever, he did not wait for the Gou Jian rabbit to cook the dead dog and ran away first. What did he do when he ran away? - Doing business. Fan Li left the State of Yue and ran to the north of the State of Qi to do business, and his mind was that he would soon become a super rich man, and the first giant rich man in Chinese history, known as Tao Zhugong. However, Fan Li left three sentences before his death, and his descendants would no longer be in business and no longer be officials.
Before his death, Fan Li recalled his life, when he assisted in destroying the State of Wu and achieving hegemony. Giving up his favorite woman Xi Shi, and then becoming a huge rich, can be described as a brilliant life. But he knew that his success was no longer replicable, so he said three words to his descendants;
1. After his death, his descendants cannot do business, the world is in chaos, and more wealth will be targeted.
2. Descendants cannot become officials, and the prince will eventually be empty, and once the power declines, there is a danger of exterminating the family.
3. If you violate this precept, you will no longer be my descendants, and you will not see me under the Yellow Spring.
Therefore, Fan Li's descendants did not engage in business and become officials, and it is precisely for this reason.
However, Fan Li did not let his descendants become monks, and before he died, he not only left a large amount of land for his descendants as a foundation. He also left behind a craft – cooking. Fan Li himself was a master chef, and he carefully passed on his unique skills to future generations. At that time, Fan Li's descendants were proficient in cooking, so the court chefs of various countries in the later Warring States period had the figure of Fan Li's descendants, and Fan Li's descendants naturally starved to death with this craft. It can be said that Fan Li is also far-sighted.