This article is excerpted from my Himalayan audio VIP column "Witty Words on Heroes" "Vengeful Male God: Lie's Husband Wu Zixu" (VII)
In the last audio class, we talked about the tragedy of Wu Zixu's era and the landmark historical event at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, the struggle for hegemony between Wu and Yue. Today, our last article of Wu Zixu will tell in detail the thrilling spy war story between Wu Yue and Wu Yue. Because of Wu Zixu's tragic end, on the surface, he died at the hands of The Emperor, but in fact he died in a failed spy war. Wu Zixu, the powerful avenger and ancestor of espionage, eventually died at the hands of more powerful avengers and spies. This also made me deeply appreciate the fatalism of history. Everything cannot escape the cycle of history and destiny, and as an individual, you can only sigh a long sigh.
In fact, Gou Jian took Fan Li with him and was willing to be a slave in the State of Wu for three years, not only to confuse Fu Cha, but also to personally collect intelligence as a spy in order to understand the situation in the State of Wu, understand the weaknesses of Fu Cha and Wu Zixu, and take revenge on The Shame in the future.
And when Gou Jian learned that it was almost over, he was going to leave, in order to leave smoothly, he played his super acting skills at a super level, made great dedication to his husband, worked as a miscellaneous job every day, raised horses, boiled water, washed feet, chopped firewood, cooked, and even used his tongue instead of a microscope to check the stool of fu cha... Such disgusting acting skills finally deceived Fu Cha into tears, and Fu Cha felt that Gou Jian was too loyal, so he released him back to Yue Guo.
Gou Jian returned to The Kingdom of Vietnam and began to work hard to rule with his own spy mission, and then he needed to send more professional spies, one to collect more intelligence, the second to influence fu cha's decision-making, and the third to deal with Wu Zixu. The last point is particularly important, Wu Zixu, as the supreme leader of the intelligence department of the Wu state, can be said to be the biggest threat in the revenge plan of the Vietnamese country, and it must be eliminated quickly.
Such a heavy responsibility was handed over to Fan Li, the head of the Vietnamese intelligence department. Fan Li was born a civilian, and his actions were even more bottomless, he not only stepped up the corrosion of sugar-coated shells, but also further co-opted the inside line. At the same time, several beautiful female spies were creatively developed and sent to Wu Wangfucha to carry out the highest level of espionage.
This is the first organized spying on beautiful women in Chinese history, and it has also created Xi Shi, the first of the four beauties in China, who has the beauty of sinking fish.
According to the "Wu Yue Chunqiu" record, Fan Li carefully trained these beautiful women for three years for this espionage activity, including dressing, appearance, demeanor, how to spy on secrets, how to seduce the king, and so on. Three years later, the divine achievements were accomplished, and the best of them were carefully selected and dedicated to Wu Wangfuchai.
Du Fu Shiyun: "Yue Nu Tianxia is white, JianHu Lake may be cool." The water and soil in Hangzhou and Shaoxing are excellent, so the girls produced are also white and beautiful, and Xi Shi is the beauty of this group of beautiful women, born spy embryos.
As a result, an exciting political erotic spy war drama officially began. Although Wu Zixu repeatedly advised Wu Wangfuchai not to spoil the Female Spies of Yue, Xi Shi still gained the favor of Wu Wangfucha by virtue of his stunning beauty and charm skills. As a result, a series of classified political and military intelligence was transmitted from the pillow of King Wu to the side of Yue Wang's salary bed. At the same time, the purging operation against wu zixu, the head of the espionage department of the State of Wu and Xiangguo, was also carried out in an orderly manner.
In 494 BC, Wu Zixu was finally forced to make a dead move, that is, to take advantage of the opportunity of sending an envoy to the State of Qi to make a war book, and secretly entrusted his son to Bao Mu, the grand master of the State of Qi, so as not to destroy the State of Wu and follow him. As for himself, he was already too deep and could only go back to the funeral to repay the kindness of the previous king. The State of Qi is located in the area of today's central and northern Shandong, and although it is a large country in the Central Plains, the combat effectiveness of the army is not strong, so it has become the focus of the Wu State's struggle for hegemony.
By the way, this Bao Mu is a descendant of Bao Shuya, a famous minister of the State of Qi, who is also a martial artist, with ten chapters of the bing book "Bao Zi Art of War" and a volume of figures, and wu Zixu is listed in the "Book of Han YiwenZhi" in the military skiller faction. Maybe it was because of the exchange of military science that they became good friends.
It seems that Wu Zixu has completely despaired of Wu Guo, in the past he was far away, and now he is exhausted. Otherwise, they would not have made friends with the ministers of the enemy country when the two countries were at war, and they would have sent their sons into Qi, which was a great suspicion of collaborating with the enemy.
But what can Wu Zixu do? He and the State of Chu and the State of Yue were mortal enemies, and only the State of Qi had no grievances and could be entrusted. Moreover, he had done it extremely confidentially, and he felt that it would take some time to be discovered.
However, Wu Zixu did not expect that the intelligence network of the Yue country was so powerful that he had just sent his son away on his front foot, and his rear footman had already known.
Fu Cha could not bear his own country, and actually had an affair with the enemy country he wanted to fight for. Therefore, even for the sake of Wu Guo's hegemony, Wu Zixu could not stay, he must die!
In 484 BC, wu Zixu had just returned from an envoy to the state of Qi, and Wu Wang Fuchai sent him a sword and asked him to commit suicide.
Although he had been mentally prepared for it earlier, when the matter came to an end, Wu Zixu still couldn't help but be in pain, and the tears were like crazy: he was half lonely, half of his life was drifting, half of his life was determined to take revenge, and half of his life was loyal to Wu Guo; but in the end, in fact, no revenge was repaid, and nothing good was lost.
In short, Wu Zixu could not accept this fact, and he decided to do the last rebellion in his life. This is the so-called martyr husband, even if he loses, he will never bow to fate.
Therefore, before dying, Wu Zixu said the last last words, which can be said to be the most shocking famous sentence in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, this sentence is: Bishu Wu's tomb is on the Zi, so that it can be used as an instrument; and above the Wudong Gate of Wu Wu Eye County, to watch Yue Kou enter and destroy Wu Ye!
Meaning: After I die, you must plant catalpa trees next to my tomb, and when they grow up, they will be made into coffins, which can be used to bury the heroic spirits of the dead warriors of the Wu kingdom after the death of Wu; and then cut off my eyeballs and hang them on the east gate of the capital of the Wu kingdom, and I will watch in another world as the Yue kingdom destroys Wu, and Fu Cha dies at the hands of Gou Jian...
Of course, Wu Zixu's request could not be met, after his death, the body was thrown into the Qiantang River by the angry Husband, it is said that after that, his sword often appeared on the river, floating on the surface of the water in anger, people will get sick when they take it, and discarding it will immediately restore health, which shows how much resentment has gathered above.
Another person swore that he saw Wu Zixu wearing a plain dress, riding a white horse, holding a spear, standing in the tide of the Qiantang River hundreds of feet high, screaming in the sky, and his voice was angry, thunder and lightning, and swaying for thousands of miles.
People say that Wu Zixu is a vengeful male god, he has been taking revenge all his life, even if he dies, the soul must continue to take revenge, and the monstrous waves are his monstrous resentment, and he wants his husband to be unable to be at peace for a moment.
Therefore, Wu Zixu later became the tide god of the Qiantang River, and every time on the day of his death, the people would wrap rice dumplings and throw them into the river for sacrifice, and this day was the Fifth Dragon Boat Festival in early May, in fact, the "Duan" of the Dragon Boat Festival was the meaning of rehabilitation and Zhaozheng; the "noon" of the Dragon Boat Festival was Wu Zixu's Wu Tongfa character; so the "Dragon Boat Festival" originally meant to show the day of Wu Zixu's grievances.
Finally, I would like to mention the end of Xi Shi. According to the Mozi and Wu Yue Chunqiu and Jia Yi's New Book, Xi Shi Fan Li was finally given to Shen Jiang by the Yue King. To say that "Shenjiang" is "boating in the five lakes" is actually a tribute to people's sympathy and pity for them. After all, the truth of history is too cruel, as a spy, Xi Shi Fan Li knows too much inside, which may be the reason for their tragic death.
The above is the entire content of the Wu Zixu chapter of "Spring and Autumn Warring States Hero Dream". After talking about Wu Zixu's life, I still have a lot of feelings and feelings. As I learned more about this history, I became more and more frightened by the negative energy of hatred in the world. I have also gradually come to realize that the driving force behind the achievement of history may not only lie in the conspiracy of the great powers to deal with these platforms, but also from all kinds of inhumane espionage battles and conspiracies, and the driving force behind the achievement of those great figures in history may not only lie in the positive energy qualities of worrying about the country and the people, and pursuing blood, but sometimes it is more likely to come from stubbornness, paranoia, resentment, and forbearance, which is almost distorted in human instincts. In particular, Wu Zixu's bitter curse before his death, as well as the concealment and revenge of repeatedly breaking through the moral bottom line, have put a cruel and cold tone on the history that followed.
In fact, the revenge warriors in Chinese history are by no means just Wu Zixu's connivance, and more than three hundred years later, a more powerful avenger was born, this is also a Chu person, his name is Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu was even more exaggerated, in order to avenge his national hatred, he actually killed 200,000 Qin soldiers in one fell swoop, and set fire for three months, burning xianyang a world-class metropolis to ruins. The details of this, I will tell you in detail next season.
It seems that as long as there are human beings in this world, hatred will continue, continue to enslave, one after another, painful souls.