Wu Wang Fu sent troops to attack the Yue kingdom, and Yue Wang Gou Jian sent troops to meet Wu Bing. The Yue Guo Grand Master Wen Zhong offered a plan to the Yue King, saying: "Both the Kingdom of Wu and the State of Yue were given by Heaven, and the Great King did not have to fight against the State of Wu. That Wu Zixu and the Wu soldiers selected and trained by Hua Deng fought, and they had not yet encountered any setbacks. In the state of Wu, when one person was good at archery, a hundred people picked up archery tools to show their learning. We are not sure that we will defeat Wu Bing. Whoever plans something must be able to foresee that it has the possibility of success before carrying it out, and cannot be killed without certainty. It is better for the king to send troops to fortify on the one hand, and on the other hand to send people to ask for peace with the state of Wu with humble words, and use this method to make the people of the state of Wu happy and to expand the pride of the king of Wu. We take this matter to heaven
B: If Heaven abandons the Kingdom of Wu, the King of Wu will certainly allow us to negotiate peace, and he will think that our crossing of the kingdom is not enough to worry him, and he will boldly expand his ambition to dominate the princes; if he wants to dominate the princes, he will exhaust his people, and with the natural disasters that will rob them of their grain, then we will be able to clean up its mess in peace, and the Kingdom of Wu will no longer receive the support of Heaven. The King of Yue allowed it, and ordered the grand master Zhu Jiyin to go to the state of Wu to seek peace. Zhu Jiyin said to Wu Wangfuchai: "Our monarch Gou Jian sent a small minister like Zhu Ji Yin to come, and did not dare to openly display gifts and directly salute you, but only dared to privately tell your officials who were handling affairs: Once upon a time, the Yue kingdom suffered calamities and offended the great king, and the great king of Laoyou personally led an army to defeat the yue kingdom, and originally planned to destroy the gouge, but pardoned him." In this way, the great king was like resurrecting the dead to the kingdom of Yue, and white bones grew flesh. The Yue King did not dare to forget the calamities that had fallen from heaven, and how could he dare to forget your generous gifts from the Great King? Now that he has suffered another calamity, and has no good virtue, he is just a contemptible man in the grass, where he dares to forget the great kindness of the king and think of the small grievances on the border, so as to offend the officials under your command? Gou Jian is now leading several old courtiers, personally bearing the grave sin and prostrating himself to you on the border. The Great King, you do not understand these situations now, and you are still throwing a tantrum and gathering an army, planning to fiercely attack the Country of Vietnam. The Kingdom of Yue was originally a city to pay tribute to the Kingdom of Wu, and the Great King, instead of driving it with a whip, condescended to your sergeants and carried out your orders to resist the invasion of the enemy! Gouging asks for a covenant: first send a daughter with a dustpan and a broom to serve you in your palace; then send a son who will serve you behind the eunuchs with a tray and a dagger. Every year in the spring and autumn, we send tribute to your palace, and we will not slacken off. In this way, Heavenly King, why do you have to condescend to use troops to sanction the Vietnamese country? This is also the etiquette of the Son of Heaven to collect taxes from the princes.
"As the saying goes, 'The fox buries something, and the fox digs it out, so it can't work.'" Now that the Heavenly King has already supported the Kingdom of Yue, this has clearly heard the rumors of the world, but he wants to destroy it, so that the Heavenly King will be in vain, and on what basis will the princes of the four sides of the world serve the Kingdom of Wu in the future? The young minister boldly said everything, hoping that the king of heaven would measure it in terms of both profit and righteousness. ”
