"Spring and Autumn Wind smoke, Warring States swords and guns sound", Spring and Autumn Warring States is an era full of war and chaos. It is said that one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, but during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a chaotic situation in which various princely states acted independently and fought each other and fought wars.
When there were more regimes, naturally no one would obey anyone, so the various regimes in that period were like a fierce tiger, looking at each other, always trying to find an opportunity to bite a piece of meat from each other. However, it is worth mentioning, though, that in that era there were often wars between countries. However, their kind of war is relatively civilized, and the war between countries is only to show their strength, and they do not think that they must destroy each other's countries.
However, the appearance of one person has completely changed this situation.
He single-handedly opened the precedent of destroying other countries in the wars of the princes, and he was a very traditional monarch in the history of our country: the Yue King. Speaking of this person, perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is the well-known allusion "lying down and tasting the guts"! It is true that most people have heard this story when they are very young, and usually the version we hear is: how this person worked hard in order to restore the country, endured humiliation and burden, and in the end, the bitter heart of the people did not bear the burden, destroyed the Wu kingdom in one fell swoop, and took revenge on the story of snow and hatred.
We cannot say that there is anything wrong with this story, nor can we say that the spirit it preaches is wrong, but we can only say that this statement is still relatively one-sided. If anyone who has really studied history has probably known that after the defeat of the "Battle of Huiji" in that year, in fact, the Country of Vietnam was not destroyed. Since then, the Yue kingdom has always existed well, and the King of Wu has not done anything else to bully the Yue kingdom. Therefore, the "theory of restoring the country" that is being practiced is completely nonsense.
Speaking of which, we have to talk about the enmity between Gou Jian and Fu Cha. The national hatred between the two people has to start from the previous generation.
When the great kings of the Kingdom of Wu and the State of Yue were still the fathers of the two men, Yun Chang and Lu Lu, wars often broke out between the two countries. The two old men had always been obedient to each other, so they always attacked each other. During this period, both sides have won and lost, in short, no one can absolutely overwhelm the other. In the long run, the two countries have naturally formed a lot of enmity. After the death of his father, Gou Jian became the new king of the Yue Kingdom.
When King Wu learned of the death of The Old Yue King Yunchang, he felt that this was a good opportunity, so he took advantage of the internal turmoil in the Yue Kingdom to attack it. Although Gou Jian has just ascended to the throne and the regime is unstable, Gou Jian is not a soft persimmon at will. Hearing the news that Wu Guo was coming, he immediately organized his men and horses to meet the battle. They were all bullied to the doorstep, and the soldiers of the State of Wu were naturally not easy to mess with. In the face of the high morale of the Vietnamese army, Wu Guo was certainly not an opponent, and soon the Wu army was defeated.
In this battle, King Wu was also seriously injured, and in the end, he could only flee back to Wu in a hurry. After this battle, King Wu can be said to have "lost his wife and folded his troops", not only did he not win the war against the Yue Kingdom, but he also seriously injured himself, and not long after returning to China, King Wu died of his wounds. Before dying, he warned his son Fu Cha that he must not forget this bloody vendetta. In this way, after the death of Old King Wu, Fu Cha ascended to the throne, and he never forgot his father's last words.
After he ascended to the throne, he always pondered how to avenge the one-arrow revenge of that year. So he recruited troops and trained his army to prepare for revenge. Gou Jian knew that the difference between the two was the revenge of killing their father, and there was no possibility of reconciliation, so one day fu cha would come back to avenge himself, and if he came to fight back at that time, then he would be too passive. Therefore, he chose to strike first, and in this way, he began to send troops to attack the State of Wu.
In fact, this act of his is quite reckless, normal people know that Fu Cha is holding his stomach full of anger, ready to seek revenge on him, he is going, Wu Guo's army will definitely do its best to fight back against him. However, he was probably already overwhelmed by the victory, and did not listen to the persuasion of others at all, insisting on sending troops to attack the State of Wu. This time, naturally, he was beaten to the ground and returned with a big defeat. After the failure, he naturally calmed down.
He knew that the grudge between himself and his husband was already deep, and if he didn't think of a way to eliminate King Wu's anger, he would definitely not let Yue Guo go. Therefore, he immediately asked the State of Wu for peace and submission, but Fu Cha did not agree at first, and threatened to destroy the State of Yue. At this time, the doctor Wenzhong gave him an idea, asking him to bribe the chancellor of the Wu kingdom with gold and silver jewelry and beauty, and asked him to help him intercede in front of the King of Wu. This trick really worked, and after interceding with the chancellor, Fu Cha agreed to his request to be a courtier.
In order to express his sincerity, he personally took his queen to the Kingdom of Wu to make a groom for Fu Cha. After several years of hard work, Fu Cha's anger was finally eliminated, so the two of them were released back to Vietnam. After returning to China, Gou Jian did not forget the shame of that year, so he chose to use the method of "lying down and tasting courage" to remind himself not to forget the national shame. Moreover, in the past few years of his absence, the doctor Wenzhong has made the governance of the country in an orderly manner.
It can be said that without the language, there would be no later powerful Yue kingdom. After several years of hard work, the King of Yue finally succeeded in destroying the State of Wu and washing away his shame. In the process of his revenge, there are two important heroes: Wen Zhong and Fan Li. When they fall, they can suffer and live and die together. However, now that the situation is different, and there is no longer a threat to the Vietnamese country, then these ministers who have made great contributions to the lord of the earthquake will naturally have to be removed.
The clever Fan Li saw the idea of Gou Jian, so he chose to fake death and escape. The dull language became the ghost of the Yue King's sword. It can be seen from this that Gou Jian is really a villain who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge.
After Wen Zhong's death, the people of Yue took pity on his suffering, so they buried him at the foot of the West Mountain outside huiji City, and changed the name of the west mountain to "Seed Mountain", and sacrificed it at four o'clock. To this day, in Wolong Mountain in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province today, there are still Wenzhuang tombs, although it is very likely that it is a crown tomb or a forged tomb, but it still makes everyone who searches for the ancients sigh.
Resources:
【Wu Yue Chunqiu", "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty"】