Spring and Autumn I Am King - Chapter 1163

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Chapter 1163 Three thousand Vietnamese armor can swallow Wu

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In the eighteenth year of King Goujian of Yue (479 BC), on February 15, Wucheng Waiguo, which had been besieged for two years, finally fell, leaving less than a thousand people to retreat to Guxu Mountain in the southwest corner.

The 20,000 Vietnamese troops rushed in cheering, but they saw the houses and walls in the city were devastated. This was caused by the Yue people using the “flying stones” made by Fan Li to attack the city.

But even so, they did not intend to let go of the people of Wu who survived the disaster.

The enmity between Yue State and Wu State was too deep. The Zhou family was divided into children. Taibo’s descendants founded the state in Danyang, and later migrated to Meili, known as “Juwu”. soil of. The formation of the Yue Kingdom was largely due to the oppression of the Wu people to the south, which led to the union of the various tribes in Huiji, Zhejiang. This is good, the land of Jiangdong is not big, but it squeezes two countries. As long as the oldest old man in the two countries can remember, they have been fighting among the three rivers and five lakes under the leadership of their respective kings. Have a grudge with Wu.

Back then, Fuchai attacked Kuaiji and plundered the property of the Yue people, but now the Yue people plan to take revenge and destroy the city completely!

However, the slaughtering of the city was suddenly stopped by Fan Li.

He pulled the carriage of King Goujian of Yue and advised: “When Fuchai wanted to expedition the Central Plains, Wu Zixu persuaded him, saying that the Central Plains and the Wu Kingdom have different customs and language barriers. It is difficult to drive the local people. However, compared with the state of Wu, the state of Yue is close to the land, the transportation is convenient, the customs are the same, and the language is the same, so that if the state of Wu can destroy Yue, it will be very convenient for people to govern Yue. Yue is like this to Wu, and Wu is also like that to Yue. .”

He said frankly: “From the perspective of a Chu person, Wu people and Yue people are actually not much different, they speak the same language, have broken hair, vertebrae, tattoos, rice with rice and fish, like swords, personality Excited, easy to die…”

“The reason why the State of Wu cannot annex the State of Yue is not because Fuchai missed the opportunity. Now that the State of Yue has occupied the entire territory of the State of Wu, if the king wants to annex the State of Wu and rule over hundreds of thousands of Wu people, he cannot slaughter the city today! Still retreating to Guxutai, inside and outside Wu City, there are more than 20,000 Wu people? If the massacre of the city makes the Wu people fight desperately, I am afraid they will give the husband a chance…”

Fan Li was thinking about it for a long time. Gou Jian thought it was justified, so he prohibited the soldiers from slaughtering the Wu people. Instead, he began to appoint those Wu doctors who had surrendered to him. prepare.

Although Wu Zixu built Wu City very reasonably, it also has a huge treasury. During the period of being trapped, he could still grow food in the open space in the city. However, the city was hungry for two years. If they don’t kill them all, they are naturally willing to bow their heads and surrender.

Fan Li handed over the siege of Guxutai to Xie Yong, Chou Wuyu, Ouyang and other Yue generals, and he hurried to the north of Wucheng.

Although the massacre was stopped by Fan Li, it would be foolish to think that the Yue army would really regard the common people in the city as the same clan. Along the way, Fan Li could hear the cries of women and children everywhere. Although the Yue people were ordered not to kill people indiscriminately, they did not prevent them from breaking into houses in the streets and alleys and violence against women.

It’s true that the morale of the Yue people is very high, but the humiliation of the king and the state can only last for a while. The reason why Gou Jian has let these rebellious people of Caoze listen to orders in the past two years has taken a lot of time. Think less.

In addition to Fan Li imitating the Zhao State’s system, Gou Jian also collected all the widows who had no husband and no children in Wu State and Yue State, and set up a special women’s camp in the Yue army camp. The name is “The worried people of the envoys wander around to entertain the sergeants”, which means that these widows are used to comfort the sergeants, improve their morale, and at the same time make the best use of them, making them the reproductive tools of the country.

This is probably the earliest comfort women system, and the Yue people have become accustomed to it. Every time a city is conquered, generals and soldiers will organize soldiers to loot women. Therefore, Fan Li didn’t expect the Yueren to be truly innocent, so he could only turn a blind eye to this. Three years of Wu’s prisoner life and ten years of brutal war had made his blood cold.

He can even ignore the people he loves, let alone these Wu people, it is a great gift to spare their lives.

After bypassing a group of Vietnamese soldiers chasing the women, Fan Li’s car drove into the Wu State’s storage room.

Looking from a distance, the gates of the guard room were opened, the walls collapsed, and the beams and tiles of the house were also missing. It was probably demolished by the people of Wu to set fire to cook, or took it to the city head to defend against the enemy?

Fan Li was worried for a while. The documents and pictures from the Wu Kingdom’s past dynasties were placed here, which was the purpose of his trip. Fortunately, Fu Chai and the last group of nobles of Wu State were in a hurry when they retreated to Guxutai, and they didn’t have time to burn down the place.

Ignoring the frantic **** of a box of silk on the ground by a team of Yue soldiers outside the official’s office, Fan Li stepped inside and picked up a roll of bamboo slips that had been trampled by unknown numbers of people. The doctor of the country of Yue said bitterly: “Compared to the treasures of money and silk left in the palace, for the country of Yue, these cold slips are the real priceless treasures!”

Although Wu State and Yue State spoke a very different language from the Central Plains, they did not have their own script. Their bird seal script was introduced to Chu State from the Central Plains, and then spread from Chu State. It can even be said that, except for witches and dragons and snakes worshipped by tribes, Wu Guoyue did not have its own upper-level culture, and it was completely a graft of the Central Plains and Chu culture.

Compared with Wu State, who is a descendant of Ji Zhou and cultivated a knowledgeable “gentleman” like Yanling Jiza, Yue State is even more backward. Ninety percent of the doctors in Yue State’s court office are illiterate and literate. There are very few people who speak elegant words, and even fewer can read and engrave on the pamphlet.

Fan Li went north to Zhao State and was deeply shocked by the popularity of Zhao State’s official culture. Music, books, and math; through the internal examinations in primary schools, the most outstanding young people can go to university, enter the Linzhang Academy, and learn more complicated things, while some low-level officials in Zhao State, except for recruiters, basically start from The selection of primary schools in various counties and the Linzhang Academy also responded to the words of Zixia, a man of Zhao State: “If you study well, you will become an official…”

Therefore, although Fan Li suggested Goujian to follow the reform of the Yue Kingdom, he could only learn the form, not the reality. In the process of implementing it, he discovered that the system of Zhao State cannot be established unless there is a mature scholar class, otherwise the officials cannot read, the officials do not understand the law, and the county magistrates and county magistrates do not understand numbers. How to issue legal orders to the grassroots , How to govern the place?

Therefore, the Yue Kingdom can only promote military meritorious titles in the army, but most of the generals and officials do not even know which 12-rank titles are there, not to mention the shortage of officials who count people, calculate military merit, and determine rewards and punishments. How can the eight doctors who are still a little literate stay busy?

The current system of the Yue Kingdom is a system similar to the feudal system of the early Zhou Dynasty: the King of Yue is high above, and as the communist leader of the Yue people, he can only manage the surrounding areas of Kuaiji. The so-called generals, officials and doctors below are actually tribes scattered among the mountains, forests and rivers. Chief, thanks to some of Goujian’s talents, they can make them fall in love, but this type of attachment, without the guarantee of a system, will soon end with the passing of Goujian…

Such a state of Yue, even if it annexes the state of Wu, how far can it go?

Therefore, in Fan Li’s view, if the Yue Kingdom wants to have a future after the fall of the Wu Kingdom, it can only start from scratch, inherit the fairly mature rules and regulations that the Wu Kingdom learned from the Central Plains, and at the same time employ the Wu Kingdom’s scholar class. In order to realize the unity of Wu and Yue, a group of officials who were adapted to the new era was also cultivated within the Yue Kingdom, which accelerated the disintegration of feudalism and tribes within the Yue Kingdom and turned it into a state with a real monarchy and centralized power. That’s what Wu Zixu and Ji Zha did back then, and it took 20 to 30 years to see results. Otherwise, relying on primitive bravery alone, it would be impossible for Wu to build a foundation that dominated the south~www.mtlnovel.com~ So Regardless of the fact that the war was not over, Fan Li brought a group of people to sort out what he thought was the most precious heritage of the Wu Kingdom…

However, at night, an uninvited guest came to the door…

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There was a sound of footsteps and noise. When the Yueren who were on the post outside shouted that there were assassins, Fan Li didn’t care to let Kucheng, who was buried in the documents with him, discuss countermeasures, and immediately blew out the lights. candle.

He let Kucheng hide to one side, and he drew his sword, clinging to the wall, motionless, holding his breath, looking at the big hole above his head-the beams guarding the hiding room and half of the roof tiles were lost in the war. As for Fei, if someone wants to assassinate, it is naturally the most convenient to come in from there, and they really know the time. Yueren has just entered the city, and the city is in chaos. It is a great opportunity for assassination. Sheren, there has never been a shortage of fierce assassins.

In the darkness, a figure passed by, and after a moment of hesitation, he jumped off the beam. Although it was pitch-dark all around, he could still see the outline. Now it was them that were in the dark, and the enemy was clear.

Fan Li saw the moment the man landed, jumped up with his sword, raised his sword and stabbed at the man’s back.

With a crisp sound, the man reacted quickly and blocked the sword with his backhand. However, Fan Li raised his foot and kicked it violently in the abdomen. In the darkness, someone hummed softly and immediately fell to the ground!

When the candle was lit again, Fan Li’s sword tip was already aimed at the assassin’s neck.

Ku Cheng also held the dagger he carried with him, stepped forward cautiously, took off the hat he was wearing on his head, and revealed a pretty woman’s face.

“Zheng Dan?”

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