Xiong Huai was stunned for a moment, and frowned, Xingyue's contribution to the destruction of Wu, among the ministers of the Yue Kingdom, is there anyone who has greater credit than the literary genre?

Thinking about it, he looked at Wen Que hesitantly: "Could it be that Xianqing is talking about Fan Li?" ”

Wen Que shook his head and immediately explained: "King, although Fan Li's merit is great, the ancestors don't have to be Fan Li's bad, what the minister is talking about is that Fan Li's teacher treats each other with courtesy." ”

"Fumiko! Daxian plan? Xiong Huai was stunned, Ji Ran this great sage, he naturally knew, in the past, Ji Ran declared outside, the first king of Chu King Ping also specially invited him to go to Yingdu to give lectures, and later Ji Ran traveled to Jiangdong, was recommended by Fan Li to Goujian, the king of Yue, and was appointed as a doctor.

However, Xiong Huai also knew that Ji Ran was indifferent to fame and fortune, and had long seen that Gou Jian could share weal and hardship, but not wealth and prosperity, so he did not get too close to Gou Jian, the king of Yue. Therefore, his status in Yue Guo is not as high as Fan Ligao, Ji Ran is just an ordinary doctor, and the two Wen are two of the five doctors with the highest status in Yue Guo, and moreover, Wen Chong presides over the national politics of Yue all year round, and his status is equivalent to Ling Yin.

However, the book "Wenzi" written by Ji Ran is a Taoist classic, praised by the world, and respected as Wenzi by later generations.

At this point, Fan Li is far inferior to him.

But the credit for the destruction of Wu by Xingyue...

At this time, Wen Que saw the doubts of the King of Chu, and explained: "The king doesn't know, when the Yue Kingdom was defeated by the Wu State, and when the Yue King retreated to Huiji, the soldiers were less than 5,000, the people were only tens of thousands, the land was less than 100 miles, and the situation was dangerous. Moreover, these situations are not the worst, what is worse is that the land of Huiji is indeed the land of bad water, even if Dayu ruled the water back then, it has not solved the flood of Huiji.

At that time, the east of Huiji was the sea, and the west was the Qiantang River, and the rivers and seas were staggered, and the waves were high and the water was urgent, day and night. The vast sea, the morning and evening tides rise and fall, the waves are monstrous, and the sound is louder than thunder. This is not a big deal, but it is worrying that the sea water pours down the river into the mainland, and then overflows the riverbed and spreads all over the Huiji.

From the time of Dayu, hundreds of miles around Huiji, are swamps all over, and the water flow is turbid and salty, the people drink these brine morning and evening, the body is swollen, and the disease is riddled with diseases. Moreover, the cultivation of rice in the brine, the yield is low, and the people are in danger, and there is no spare strength to strengthen the Yue State, let alone attack the powerful Wu State.

It was precisely because the Huiji where the Yue Kingdom was located at that time was so bad that Wu Wangfu at that time did not follow the advice of the soldiers to destroy the Yue Kingdom, and after that, he relaxed his vigilance against the Yue Kingdom. ”

Xiong Huai couldn't help but nod when he heard this, it turned out that the place of Yue Guo was really so bad. In his early years, he often saw how bad the place of Huiji was in various ancient books, and even Dayu, who was good at controlling water, couldn't figure it out, and finally died in Huiji and was buried on Huiji Mountain to suppress floods.

As a result, this is still useless, so the meeting can be called a model of bad water.

But as he went, he didn't find out how bad Huiji was, on the contrary, he went all the way south, but he saw that the plains were endless, and the ground was full of rice, like a fertile field.

Originally, he thought that Huiji was remote, and the ancients may not have been to Huiji at all to see what was going on, but they just spread false rumors about how Huiji was.

Now I hear Wen Que say this, but the ancients are not wrong, the place of Huiji is bad water, and the reason why it is fertile for thousands of miles now is that people will win the sky.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai said in surprise: "Wen Qing, could it be that the thousands of floods in the land of Huiji are solved by Wenzi?" ”

Wen Que nodded: "That's right, back then, King Goujian was defeated by the Wu State, and his intention was to be ashamed, but he was worried about the bad environment of Huiji, so he specially asked Wenzi for advice. At that time, Fumiko's suggestion was to build a pond to block the water. ”

"Blocked water?" Xiong Huai was stunned, and instantly remembered the allusion of Dayu's father and son to control the water, and left a famous saying through the ages, it is better to be sparse than blocked.

"Yes, it's the water blockage." Wen Que nodded, with a strong look of worship in his eyes, and then explained: "The flood in Huiji is not anything else, it is because the sea water flows down the Qiantang River into the mainland, causing all the water around Huiji to be salty. However, the water in Huiji Land itself is not salty, whether it is the rain from the sky, or the spring water flowing down from the mountains, or even the water of the Qiantang River itself, it is all sweet and delicious fresh water, but it is polluted by the sea.

Wenzi noticed this, so he suggested that Goujian, the king of Yue, build a large number of stone ponds to intercept fresh water on the one hand and prevent seawater from polluting the fresh water in the interior. Goujian, the king of Yue, listened to Wenzi's suggestion and took the lead in building a stone pond at the foot of Huiji Mountain, so as to reject saltiness. As a result, the pond was a great success, and the soil and water in the pond soon became normal under the flushing of fresh water, and rice could be grown.

Moreover, after the stone pond was repaired, the people could not only get enough fresh water to drink in the stone pond, but also a large amount of fresh water for watering rice. Five years later, the rice fields, which originally yielded less than one and a half stones, quickly grew to five stones and one acre, and the Yue country became rich. not only has a strong background, but also has the confidence to fight with Wu State.

When Goujian, the king of Yue, returned from the state of Wu, after seeing this scene, he praised the merits of Wenzi and strengthened his determination to build the stone pond.

Therefore, Gou Jian, the king of Zhongyue, has been vigorously building stone ponds, until the coastal stone ponds were built with Wu captives, and the whole Huiji became a fertile land. ”

After speaking, Wen Que sighed for a while, and then arched his hand and said: "Therefore, the minister thinks that within the land, the most suitable sacrifice, except for Dayu, I am afraid it is Wenzi." In particular, Wenzi, who calmed down the flood disaster, was deeply grateful by the people. If the king worships Wenzi and commends Wenzi's merits, the people of Yue will definitely feel the same and be proud. ”

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Xiong Huai's eyes showed a wave of admiration, and he praised: "The merit of Wenzi is in the future." However, Wenzi should certainly be sacrificed, and when King Yue was not in the country, Dr. Wen still comforted the people and ministers and stabilized the country until King Yue returned from Wu. This kind of feat, the widow also admires it very much, and it is worth going to the sacrifice to repeat. ”

When Wen Que heard this, he knew that this was a means for the King of Chu to win over the Wen family. Of course, the special relationship between the Wen family and the Chu State, he did not refuse this time, but directly bowed: "Thanks to the king for not giving up, the minister is grateful." ”

Xiong Huai smiled and nodded.

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On the same day, the edict of the king of Chu on the arrest of the Lu brothers began to be transmitted from Huiji City to all places.

As expected by the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State, as soon as the news that the King of Chu was only wanted by the Lu brothers came out, the nobles who crossed the land gradually returned to normal within two days.

And those ordinary people who were not affected, but were deeply influenced by the aristocracy, also settled down.

Then, the news that the king of Chu was going to sacrifice Dayu came out, which immediately caused a sensation in Yuedi.

Although the people are still suspicious of the Chu people, after getting the king of Chu to sacrifice their ancestors Dayu, everyone, whether they are nobles or commoners, is full of expectations.