This is the 297th original article of Shi Shuoxing
It is said that both the State of Wu and the State of Yue were once vassal states of the State of Chu, and the King of Wu, relying on his alliance with the State of Jin, was the first to rise and defeat the State of Chu several times. Then the rising Yue kingdom was caught off guard by the State of Wu, and even king Wu was forced to go to prison and became a prisoner of the State of Wu.
Gou Jian served in Wu for three years. Wen Zhong was ordered to stay behind to preside over the affairs of the Yue State, and he "repaired the battle of sealing the territory internally, cultivated the preparation for the war outside, and left no land behind, and the people were close to him."
In the twenty-ninth year of King Jing of Zhou (491 BC), Gou Jian was released and returned to China. He "tasted the guts of the salary" and worked hard to cure the problem.
Internally, adopt measures such as respecting talents, developing production and rewarding fertility, so as to unite internally, enhance national strength and abundant military resources;
Externally, in view of Wu Wangfu's arrogance and contempt for the enemy and his eagerness to seek hegemony, on the one hand, he pretended to be loyal, and on the other hand, he secretly "formed a combination, pro-Chu, and attached himself to Jin", and tried his best to promote Wu to fight against the great powers of the Central Plains, in an attempt to destroy Wu after being weakened in the war.
After Wu Wang Fuchai conquered the Yue Kingdom and relieved his worries, he immediately switched to the north in an attempt to dominate the Central Plains. In August of the thirty-first year of the reign of King Jing of Zhou (489 BC), he first attacked Chen (present-day Huaiyang, Henan) to relieve the flank threat of his northern advance. In the 33rd year of Zhou Jing's reign (487 BC), he attacked Lu (present-day Qufu, Shandong) to open the gate to the central plains from the north.
In order to establish a strategic base for the northward advance and open up the communication line for the northward advance, the following year a large number of manpower and material resources were mobilized to build a large-scale Hancheng (present-day Yangzhou, Jiangsu) on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and excavated the Hangou ditch from present-day Yangzhou to Huai'an through Sheyang Lake to the present, so as to connect the two water systems of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, and then connect Surabaya with Yishui and Jishui. This is the earliest artificial canal in China and the world.
In the spring of the 35th year of King Jing of Zhou (485 BC), the armies of Wu Lianlu, Qiu, and Tan attacked Qi and advanced to the southern border of Qi. At the same time, Wu sent the doctor Xu Cheng to lead the boat division from the sea into Qi. The Qi army defeated the Wu army, and the Wu army returned to China. The following year, Wu Wang Fuchai attacked Qi again. Before leaving the division, The King of Yue came to Wu to see him, and both Fu Cha and the doctors thought that Yue was dead set on obeying Wu.
Only the soldiers still advocated destroying the Vietnamese first and then advancing north. He said, "If a subject does not taste the taste of food and eats, but rejoices with the people, he will not die, but he will suffer for the country." Wu Youyue, Heart Disease, Qi and Wu, Scabies (xuǎn xuan) also. May the king release Qi first. Fu Cha could not listen at all, and ordered the soldiers to send an envoy to the State of Qi. Wu Yuan, feeling that Wu would be destroyed by Yue, took his son Qi and entrusted it to qi dafu Bao (Fu Cha later learned of this matter after returning from the war in Ering, and gave Wu Ren suicide for the crime of adultery with the enemy country).
Wu WangFuchai's chief strategist Wu Yuan was forced to commit suicide in this way, but Fuchai's road to dominating the Central Plains has not stopped, he first attacked Qi, and then fought with the Jin, which is the topic that the author wants to talk to you about in the next article!
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