According to the "History of the Yue King's Sentence Practice Family", Fan Li quietly left the Yue Dynasty Hall after helping the Yue King to Gou Jianping Wu to dominate. After Fan Li left, he also brought a letter from the State of Qi to the doctor Wen Zhong, in which he said: "The birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden; the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked." The Yue king is a long-necked bird with a beak, and can share suffering with him, but not with pleasure. Why don't you go?
However, Wen Zhong did not heed Fan Li's advice, and eventually suffered from the poisonous hands of GouGe. Then, since Fan Li had already seen through the people who were practicing, why did he still have to help such a vicious person to achieve some hegemony? The author believes that there may be the following possibilities.
First, Fan Li was a Chu person, and the State of Chu and the State of Yue were strategic alliances, so they helped to achieve hegemony. The main theme of the Spring and Autumn Period was the Struggle for Hegemony between Jin and Chu, and in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, both countries were very tired. In order to contain the State of Chu, the State of Jin supported the State of Wu in the southeast of the State of Chu and taught the State of Wu to disturb Chu. After the State of Wu became stronger and stronger, the State of Chu could not withstand its attack, so it supported the State of Yue in the south of the State of Wu and taught the State of Yue to cut down Wu.
Wu and Vietnam were originally relatively backward, but the Jin and Chu countries, for their respective hegemony, not only directly guided the military reform of Wu and Vietnam, but also provided talent assistance from all walks of life. For example, the "Zuo Biography" records: Wu Chen (Chu State Judge, Qu Wu) please envoy Yu Wu, Marquis Xu of Jin. Wu Zishou meng said. Naitong Wu Yujin. Take one of the two to fit Wu, and give up one of the two. Instead of shooting the Royal, teaching Wu to ride, teaching the battle of Chen, teaching the rebellion of Chu. Leave his son Fox mediocre and make it a pedestrian (equivalent to a diplomatic liaison officer) in Wu.
When Wu Yue was fighting for hegemony, Fan Li and Wen Zi, who were active in the Yue Dynasty, were all Chu people, or came to Yue because of the strategic alliance between Chu and Yue. Fan Li and Wen Xiang helped to go through the practice, although they achieved the hegemony of the Yue state, but they could also avenge the Wu state's attack on the mother country (the state of Chu).
Second, according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, people have high-level needs for self-actualization. Fan Lixiang helps to practice, but also for self-realization. According to the "Records of History", Fan Li floated out of the sea, changed his name, called himself a bird's skin, cultivated on the shore of the sea, worked hard, and the father and son ruled the property. There is no geometry, resulting in hundreds of thousands of production. The Qi people smelled his sage and thought it was a picture. Fan Li sighed: At home, it will give thousands of gold, and the resident officials will be the qingxiang, and this cloth is also extreme. And Fan Li, as a man of unparalleled wisdom at that time, could not be willing to be silent. Although Gou Jian is cruel and vicious, he listens to Fan Li in order to make Fan Li "realize himself".
Third, there is also a possibility that Fan Li did not see through the gouge and was also poisoned by the gouge. History is difficult to investigate the truth, and Sima Qian, when composing the "Records of History", also wrote: I also want to investigate the time of heaven and man, through the changes of ancient and modern times, and become a family.
There is a historical view that Fan Li did not escape in the end, and also suffered from the poisonous hands of the hook. And analyzed from Fan Li's pseudonym "Yizi Pi" (leather sac), according to the "History of Wu Zi xu lie biography" recorded: ... When King Wu heard this, he took the corpse of Zi Xu and took it to the river of The Owl, floating in the river. It is believed that Fan Li's method of death is the same as Wu Zixu's burial method, which was loaded into Yiyi Leather and thrown into Taihu Lake. It is speculated that the place where Fan Li died was in the inner lake of Taihu Lake - Li Lake.
Fan Li and Tao Zhugong, on the other hand, were two completely different people. It's just that Fan Li is the top strategist in history, and people don't want to believe that Fan Li's wisdom has also suffered from the poisonous hand of deception, and has attached various legends. Its own ending, perhaps like Xi Shi, is more likely to be sunk into the river, and the end of the boating with Fan Li is more of a beautiful vision.