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In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the story of the Yue King's practice of lying down and tasting his guts is well known, after the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, annexed the land of the State of Wu, and the sphere of influence extended from Qilu in the north to Minyue in the south, to Poyang Lake in the west, and to the East China Sea in the east, with a vast area, coupled with the fact that the Yue people were fierce and brave, and the military quality was good, the Yue State became a first-class power at that time, and Gou Jian also became the last overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the princes of the Central Plains feared it like a tiger. However, in the Warring States period, the Yue Kingdom was destroyed in a war with the Chu State, why did the Yue State become so vulnerable?
The destruction of the Yue state of Chu occurred during the borderless period of the third generation of yue monarchs after the Gou Jian. In order to contain the state of Qi, the state of Wei formed an alliance with the state of Yue and persuaded the king of Yue to attack the state of Qi, and the king of Qi Wei, fearing the state of Yue, wanted to lead the misfortune to the west, so he sent a lobbyist to lobby the king of Yue, persuading the king of Yue to attack the state of Chu first, unify the Yangtze River valley, and then go north to fight for hegemony.
The main reason why the Vietnamese state will lose so quickly is because of the immaturity of its own system. In the Warring States period, starting from the State of Wei, the princes completed the transformation from slavery to the centralized system through the reform of the law, and the national strength was qualitatively improved, and the political immaturity caused by the long-term departure from the cultural core area of the Central Plains and the remoteness of the southeast not only made the land of the State of Wu obtained by the State of Yue unable to digest at all, but also contributed to the expansion of local strength, and the State of Vietnam also fell into a situation of internal division. Those sons of the royal family, in addition to competing for the throne, are even more self-respecting, dividing the entire country into several pieces, and this backward system of the Vietnamese country can only make them decline before the war in the geopolitical game. At this time, Yue Guo was a paper tiger, the appearance was quite scary, in fact, it was not vulnerable at all.
At the same time, due to the defeat of the State of Chu in the Battle of Lantian with the State of Qin, and was attacked by Han Wei and greatly weakened, in line with the idea of losing the East Corner to harvest the Mulberry Yu, the State of Chu has also been actively plotting to restore its strength by annexing the State of Yue, and for the active attack of the State of Yue, the State of Chu is really unable to ask for it. As a result, it can be imagined that the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, the elite were lost, the Yue king was ambushed by the Chu state without borders, the soldiers were defeated and died, the sons competed for the throne, the country was divided, and the Chu state swallowed the Yue kingdom in one mouth and became the southern hegemony.
There has always been controversy as to whether the Yue state was destroyed, because the State of Chu did not occupy all the lands of the State of Yue, and later the royal descendants of the State of Yue established a series of states such as Ouyue, Minyue, and Nanyue in the two Guangdong regions of Fujian and Zhejiang, collectively known as the "Land of Baiyue", from this point of view, the Yue state did not die. However, the Yue Kingdom has indeed withdrawn from the historical stage of the Warring States Competition for Supremacy and returned to the ranks of barbarians, and from this point of view, the Yue Kingdom has died.
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