Wu Zixu was the second generation of officials of the Chu State, and his father Wu Hao was the Taishi of the Chu State, originally Wu Zixu's life was comfortable and happy, but he did not expect that the King of Chu Ping listened to the rumors and wanted to kill his family. Wu Zixu suddenly changed from a second-generation official to a fugitive, and his family died in the Chu Kingdom, how much do you say he hated King Chu Ping?
Wu Zixu's father, as the taishi of the Chu state, was responsible for teaching Prince Jian, but Prince Jian was framed by Fei Wujie, and Wu Hao, as the prince's teacher, naturally could not escape the disaster of imprisonment. Fei Wujie saw Wu Hao go to prison, remembering that Wu Hao still had two children, he knew the truth of cutting grass to remove the roots, so he proposed to King Chu Ping that these two children were talented people, and now that we want to kill their father, why not kill them together, otherwise these two children will definitely become a disaster for the Chu country. When King Chuping heard Fei Wujie's suggestion, he felt that it was very reasonable, so he asked someone to tell Wu Hao that as long as he deceived his two sons, he could let him live. Hearing this, Wu Hao took the initiative to say: "Wu Shang is a generous and benevolent person, and when he hears the news of my arrest, he will definitely come, and wu is fierce and fierce, and he can bear the burden of humiliation, he knows that when he comes, he will definitely be arrested and will certainly not come back." ”
King Chuping thought that Wu Hao was talking about a pretext, and did not pay any attention to it, still sent people to find the brothers to pass on the word, and the reaction of the two was just as Wu Hao said, Wu Zixu, who saw that it was a trap, wanted to stop Wu Shang, but Wu Shang said: "I know that this is a trap, and I am not ashamed of my father's behavior of wanting to sacrifice us and save my life, and I also resent my father's practice of exchanging our lives for a way to live, but if we don't go today, we can't take revenge later, it will not be laughed at by the people of the world." Wu Shang turned his head to look at Wu Zixu and told him, you can leave and look for a chance to take revenge, and I will tie my hands today. The messenger next to him heard this and wanted to go forward and grab Wu Zixu, but he did not expect that Wu Zixu had already taken precautions, and aimed his bow and arrow at the messenger, the other party did not dare to move, Wu Zixu took the opportunity to escape, and Wu Shang did as he said, just standing there, waiting for the messenger to arrest him.
When Wu Hao heard the news of Wu Zixu's escape, he sighed: "The monarchs of the Chu state are going to suffer from war!" King Chu Ping was furious when he heard this news, and as soon as Wu Shang arrived at the capital of the Chu state, he immediately executed the two. Wu Zixu, who escaped, was preparing to go to the state of Wu, but he could only give up because of the long distance, at this time Wu Zixu heard that the prince was built in the Song kingdom, thinking that everyone had a common enemy, I simply defected to the prince, and as a result, within a few days of the Song civil unrest, the two had to flee to the Zheng kingdom. When they arrived at Zheng Guo's two men, they felt that they should not only be pawns, so they cooperated with Zhongxingyin, the grand master of the Jin Dynasty, and wanted to overthrow Zheng Dinggong, but they did not expect to miss the wind, zheng Dinggong knew the plan of the two, and directly ordered someone to kill these two people. Wu Zixu, who had no choice but to take Prince Jian's son Gongzi Sheng with him to the State of Wu, and when he passed Chen Guo on the way, he found that he was wanted by Chen Guo and had to take a detour to leave Zhaoguan.
Wu Zixu, who had escaped from Zhaoguan, was afraid that there were pursuing soldiers, so he hurriedly continued to escape, and on the way he was blocked by a large river, and when he was having a headache, he saw an old fisherman on the river rowing a small boat to them, willing to pull him across the river. This made Wu Zixu feel grateful, and he took off the sword he carried with him and wanted to give it to the fisherman, but the fisherman just shook his head and asked Wu Zixu: "In order to hunt you down, the King of Chu gave out 50,000 stones of rice as a bounty, and also promised to seal the title of doctor of the informant." I don't covet bounties and titles, so why would I covet your sword? This made Wu Zixu, who originally wanted to thank the old fisherman, not know how to be good, and the old man did not say more, but just turned around and rowed away. Although Wu Zixu left the territory of the Chu Kingdom, he had to hide during the day, and only dared to come out at night to rush out, such a mentally tense life also made Wu Zixu sick, at this time Wu Zixu also used up the coils, and could only rely on begging for a living, so he walked all the way to the Wu Kingdom.
At that time, King Wu had just ascended the throne, Gongzi Guang became a general, and Wu Zixu, who came to the state of Wu, met King Wu through Gongzi Guang's relationship, but he did not propose revenge, but just managed to stay by King Wu's side and lurked. After waiting for a long time, the border city of the Chu State and the border city of the State of Wu were both raising silkworms, and the two women fought each other in order to compete for mulberry leaves, which seemed to be a trivial matter, but it was related to the dignity of the two countries, and neither side refused to give in, so that they sent troops to fight. And the State of Wu sent Gongzi Guang to attack the State of Chu, and Gongzi Guang also lived up to the expectations of the people, leading people to break through the Zhong Li of the State of Chu and return triumphantly after living in the nest. Wu Zixu also took the opportunity to advise Wu Wangfu, saying: "Since you can break through Zhong Li, then Gongzi Guang can also attack the Chu State." Gongzi Guang said: "That Wu Zixu's father and brother were killed by the King of Chu, and persuading the king to attack the Chu State was just to avenge his personal revenge." Attacking the Chu state may not be able to break through. Wu Zixu, who heard this, was not alarmed, he knew that Gongzi guang was an ambitious person, he wanted to replace the Wu king, he did not say anything about it, but only recommended it to Gongzi Guang, and left the imperial court to farm with Prince Jian's son for a living.
However, in 516 BC, something happened that Wu Zixu did not expect at all, and King Chuping actually fell ill and died, and Wu Zixu, who learned of this news, was sad and indignant. And The Wu king's staff was not idle, he took advantage of the void and sent two princes to lead troops to attack the State of Chu, and the State of Chu was not willing to show weakness, and sent people to cut off the back road of the Wu soldiers, so that they could not take care of both the end and the end. The internal strength of the State of Wu was empty, and Gongzi Guang, who had long been ambitious, sent people to assassinate the Wu king, and after winning the hand, he established himself as the king, known as the King of Wu. Just as the so-called heavenly son and a courtier, the newly enthroned Lu Lu immediately summoned Wu Zixu, who was a farmer, and first gave him an official, and then discussed state affairs with him. The two princes who were besieged by the Chu state heard that Lu Lu had killed the Wu king and established himself as king, and wanted to take revenge but had no chance, so instead of ending up with the Chu soldiers, it was better to surrender to the Chu state and find an opportunity to take revenge. The State of Chu was also happy to see this, so it accepted their surrender and sealed the Shu land to them.
This also made Lu Lu feel dangerous, the Chu State was already at odds with the State of Wu, and accepted two generals who wanted to kill him to avenge him, and there would be a war between the two countries. In the third year of his reign, he took the initiative to attack the Chu state with Wu Zixu and Bo Zhao, and also took Down ShuDi and captured the two sons who surrendered to the Chu state. When the crowd still wanted to attack Yingdu, the general Sun Wu said: "The people are too tired, or go back to wait for the time being" The crowd felt reasonable, so they led the troops back to the country. After another four years, the State of Wu attacked the State of Chu again, seizing six lands and one land after another, which made the State of Chu angry. In 509 BC, King Zhao of Chu sent his son Nangwa to lead an army to attack the State of Wu, thinking that he could retake a city, but was defeated by the State of Wu. The two countries also temporarily stopped the war, and in 506 BC, King Lu of Wu found Wu Zixu and Sun Wu again and asked them: "Originally, you said that Ying could not fight, can you fight now?" The two said: "General Nangwa of the Chu state is greedy for money, which has caused dissatisfaction in the Tang and Chu states, and if the king wants to attack, he must get help from the two countries." ”
Lu Lu also followed the advice of the two men and mobilized all his troops to attack the Chu state together with Tang and Cai, and the two sides confronted each other at Hanshui, and King Wu sent his 5,000 men to secretly attack the Chu general Zi Chang, and the other side was defeated. Taking advantage of the victory to pursue, King Wu fought with the Chu army five times and directly entered the capital of the Chu state, Yingdu, and king Zhao of Chu, who heard the news, ran away on the same day, and the next day, King Wu was stationed in Yingdu. Wu Zixu, who followed King Wu back to the Chu Kingdom, wanted to kill King Zhao to avenge him, but he did not expect that the other party had already run away. An enraged Wu Zixu cut open the grave of King Chu Ping, dug up his body, and whipped him fiercely for three hundred to end it. Although the later Wu Zixu was sent to die by his husband, he completed his plan for revenge, and he could be regarded as a death without regrets.
It is said that Because of the death of his brother and father, Wu Zixu's excessive grief led to a night of whiteheading, and he even saw Gao Gong and said, "I have a great vendetta to repay, live like a year, and these few days are delayed here, as if I died, what else can I do, Sir?" It can be seen how deeply he was obsessed with wanting to kill King Chuping, and when King Chuping died, he even angrily scolded King Chuping for his short life, and died without waiting for him to take revenge. If you also want someone to dig up the bones of King Chu Ping to whip the corpse, you can see that Wu Hao's evaluation of Wu Zixu is still very correct.