Ganluo, the grandson of Xi Ganmao, was a young man, and the descendants of famous people were all known to all the princes. - Lü Buwei
Gan Mao, the left minister of the Qin state. In his early years, he made meritorious contributions to Pingshu and was highly used by King Wu of Qin, and from then on he became the left chancellor and became famous for a while. Later, Gan Mao also designed to make King Wu of Qin firmly attack Yiyang in Korea, and then made a great contribution to the Qin state to seize the city, and his reputation was even greater.
Therefore, later prime minister Lü Buwei would call Gan Mao a "famous artist", but after this famous artist became famous, he also encountered trouble. The so-called tree big trick, after Gan Mao became famous, he was ostracized by the Qin court, plus the merit of the lord, and at the same time, it also caused the King of Qin to be very displeased.
So the King of Qin made an excuse to punish Gan Mao, saying that he had a special disease, and although the medicine was ready, he still lacked a medicinal introduction, and this medicinal introduction was the egg laid by the rooster. The King of Qin asked Gan Mao to find and present the male egg within three days, or else kill his head.
Gan Mao was suddenly confused, where did he go to find the eggs laid by the rooster! If you use a mother egg instead, once it is discovered, it will definitely fall into the crime of deceiving the king, and naturally it will be killed, and the King of Qin can give such an order, he must have sent someone to monitor it. Therefore, for a moment, Gan Mao was helpless, and could only frown and sigh.
At this time, Ganmao's grandson Ganluo walked in, saw that his scheming grandfather would be so embarrassed, so he was busy asking the reason, ganmao said it, Ganluo did not worry at all, just let Ganmao's three-day period not go to the dynasty.
Although Gan Mao was suspicious of the letter, but the matter was over, he could only choose to believe. Three days later, Ganluo, who was not yet ten years old, went to the palace in place of Ganmao. King Lian of Qin asked Ganluo where his grandfather was, and Ganluo said that Grandpa Ganmao was giving birth to a child at home!
When King Qin heard this, he said angrily, "How can a man have children!" Ganluo immediately took over and said, "But if a man can't have children, how can a rooster lay eggs?" When the King of Qin heard this, he realized that he had been put together by Ganluo, but he was not angry at all, not only did he not blame Ganmao, but he also praised Ganluo for his cleverness and wit.
Although this incident is only a folk story, it can explain two facts, one is that Gan Mao was really excluded as a left minister, so Gan Mao would later leave the Qin state and go to the Qi state to save his life. The other is that although Ganluo is young, he is very wise, so after Ganmao left, Ganluo, who was only 12 years old, replaced his grandfather.
At that time, Lü Buwei was already the prime minister, and Yingzheng was still under the jurisdiction of Lü Buwei at a young age. Lü Buwei felt that his fiefdom between the rivers was too small, so he wanted to attack the State of Zhao to expand his fiefdom, so he asked Zhang Tang to send an envoy to the State of Yan, hoping to unite the State of Yan to attack left and right.
However, Zhang Tang had previously offended the king of the State of Zhao, and when he went to the State of Yan, he had to pass through the State of Zhao, and Zhang Tang said that he would not go to the State of Zhao in order to save his life. So Ganluo took the initiative to ask for help, and decided to send an envoy to Zhao Guo to open the way for Zhang Tang, and Lü Buwei saw that although Ganluo was young, he was Ganmao's grandson, and later he still agreed.
After Ganluo arrived in the Zhao Kingdom, he was personally received by the King of the Zhao Kingdom. Ganluo immediately went straight to the point, saying that now that the State of Qin intends to unite with the State of Yan to attack the State of Zhao, with the strength of the State of Qin, the State of Zhao will certainly be unable to resist, it is better to send the 5 cities of the State of Qin as a surrender, and he will take these five cities and pools to ask the King of Qin to send back Prince Dan of Yan, so that the two countries of Qin and Yan will not owe each other, and the State of Zhao can also destroy the weakest State of Yan without scruples to protect the State of Zhao.
After weighing the pros and cons, the king of the State of Zhao gave five cities to the State of Qin. Ganluo returned to the Qin state with 5 cities and persuaded Lü Buwei to release the Prince dan of Yan, so the Zhao state began to attack the Yan state without scruples. In the end, a total of 30 cities in the Yan state were taken by the State of Zhao, and 11 of them were given to the State of Qin.
As a result, the State of Qin absorbed 16 cities without spending a single soldier, and although the State of Zhao annexed another 19 cities of the State of Yan, its overall national strength was still much weaker than that of the State of Qin, and the territory of the State of Zhao was still within reach of the State of Qin. Therefore, Lü Buwei and Yingzheng were both very happy, so they let Ganluo serve as the left chancellor, completely sitting in the position of grandfather Ganmao, and the name of the young genius Ganluo was also famous in the world.
Unfortunately, there is no record of Ganluo's deeds after that, perhaps only because the relevant historical materials have not yet been discovered, or it may be that Ganluo has taken the road of "hurting Zhongyong" after that, and since then there has been no highlight and everyone has disappeared. But from the above story, we can still understand that Ganluo's intelligence is completely worthy of his genius teenager.