The Warring States period was an era of masters, there were famous masters Ghost Guzi, there was a famous general Li Mu, there was a strategist Zhang Yi, there was a god of war Bai Qi, there was a soldier Saint Sun Wu, there was a reformer Shang Martingale, and there was a great poet Qu Yuan... It was really a wealth of talents, brilliant as a galaxy, they crisscrossed and crisscrossed, influenced and dominated the fate of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, under the cover of the light of these famous masters, there were many celebrity strategists who were unknown, and the character we want to talk about in this article is Ju Wu, a famous strategist of the Yan Kingdom during the Warring States period.
Speaking of Ju Wu, few people can remember him, he also had a high-light history, once achieved the Jing Ke assassination of the King of Qin, the wise eye recommended Tian Guang, once served as the teacher of Dan, the prince of the Yan Kingdom, and once had a great influence on the fate of the Yan Kingdom. Ju Wu was a descendant of Ju Sheng, a famous minister of the Yan Kingdom, and what kind of person was Ju Sheng? Just as Shang Martin assisted Qin Xiaogong, Ju Sheng was the one who assisted King Yi of Yan, and even more the famous courtier left behind during the change of law of King Yan Zhao; Ju Wu was very unique in his family's edification and vision from childhood, but unfortunately he was a person who was not born at the right time.
He was born at the end of the Warring States period, in one of the most lonely eras of the Yan Kingdom. Ju Wu's own analysis and insight into the affairs of the world were very appropriate, but even his teacher as Prince Dan was unable to pull Prince Dan back to the wrong path, and his ideas were never recognized, until ju Wu completely lost track in history after the final fall of the Yan Kingdom.
By the end of the Warring States period, the State of Yan was already a surviving state, and the then Crown Prince Dan, because of his involvement with the State of Qin and the hatred between him and the King of Qin, secretly fled back to the State of Yan in an attempt to take revenge on the King of Qin. Ju Wu, as Prince Dan's teacher, asked his teacher about his revenge plan; at that time, Ju Wu believed that the State of Yan was a very weak state, and simply opposing the State of Qin was tantamount to a soft cornerstone, and he also told Prince Dan that if the State of Yan wanted to fight against the State of Qin, it must unite with several other countries, and it was necessary to borrow troops from the Northern Xiongnu to be able to deal with the State of Qin.
Prince Dan thought that his teacher was very correct, but the time experienced by this method was also quite long, and he felt that the Yan Kingdom at that time had reached a state of imminent annihilation, and such a long time yan guo could not afford to wait. Therefore, Prince Dan chose to send assassins to assassinate Qin to fight against the Qin state; as a result, everyone knew that not only failed to cause the Qin state to collapse, but also brought the disaster of the Yan state to the country.
In fact, not only was Prince Dan very unhappy about Ju Wu's claims, but Prince Dan's father, Yan Wangxi, was also indifferent to Ju Wu. At that time, Yan Wangxi originally wanted to unite with the State of Zhao against the State of Qin, but later found that the warriors who could fight in a depression in the State of Zhao were basically slaughtered by the State of Qin, and King Xi of Yan moved his mind to attack the State of Zhao.
At this time, Ju Wu could be said to have taken the lead in opposing it; he counted the disadvantages of attacking the Zhao state to King Xi of Yan, and clearly told King Xi of Yan that the state of Zhao and the state of Yan should be the same enemy, and if the state of Zhao was completely destroyed at this time, then the state of Yan would not be far from the fall of the country. However, King Xi of Yan was not able to listen to Ju Wu's words, and in order to suppress Ju Wu, he also invited the famous minister Of Yan Zhao's period to take out As a symbol for himself, and in the end, the State of Yan was defeated by the State of Zhao, and not only did he cut the land and pay compensation but also lost two generals.
If King Xi of Yan could heed Ju Wu's advice and abandon attacking the State of Zhao and unite with it against the State of Qin, the State of Yan might be able to exist for a longer time; if Prince Dan could heed Ju Wu's advice and join forces with other countries to fight against Qin, and like the Xiongnu in the north who borrowed troops to pull the Xiongnu into their camp, it would be more difficult for the State of Qin to destroy the Six Kingdoms of Shandong; unfortunately, history cannot be assumed, and Prince Dan and King Xi of Yan paid the price of national subjugation because of their faults. And Ju Wu lived his life in loneliness.
Most of Ju Wu's roles in life were Taifu (Emperor Shi), that is, the prince's teacher; throughout history, there were many emperors who changed the fortunes of the country, Jiang Ziya of Western Zhou helped King Wu to win the world, Guan Zhong assisted the prince Jiang Guo to make the Country rich and strong; Zhu Yunjiao's teacher Fang Xiaoru iron skeleton Zheng Zheng left a name for everything, the Ming Dynasty's first assistant Zhang Juzheng extended his life for the imperial court for fifty years, and the Great Qing Emperor Tang Ruowang had a great influence on the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties, in summary, rather than saying that Ju Wu was a person who was born at an inopportune time, It is better to say that Bo Le did not meet LiangJu, and Nengchen did not meet Ming Jun! If the King of Yan wanted to listen to him, perhaps there would be no Qin State to unify the world!