In the eighteenth year of Goujian, King of Yue (479 B.C.), on the 15th day of February, the outer Guo of Wucheng, which had been besieged for two years, finally fell, and only less than 1,000 people were left to retreat to Guxu Mountain in the southwest corner. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 20,000 Vietnamese troops cheered and entered, but they saw that the houses and walls in the city were generally devastated, which was caused by the Vietnamese people using the "flying stones" made by Fan Li to attack the city.

But even so, they don't intend to let go of the people of Wu who will live for the rest of their lives.

The feud between the Yue and the Wu was too deep, the Zhou family divided the children, and the descendants of the Taibo established a state in the Danyang area, and later migrated to Meili, known as "Ju Wu", and since then they have been constantly invading the Taihu Lake basin and encroaching on the land of the Yue people. 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 of Zhejiang Huiji. Now it's good, the land of Jiangdong is not big, but it squeezes two countries. From the memory of the oldest old man in the two countries, they fought among the three rivers and five lakes under the leadership of their respective kings, and there was no Wu people who had not been stained with the blood of the Yue people, and there was no family tribe of the Yue people who did not have enmity with Wu.

Back then, the husband broke through Huiji and plundered the property of the Yue people, and now the Yue people also plan to take revenge and completely destroy this city!

However, the imminent slaughter of the city was stopped by Fan Li.

He pulled the carriage of Goujian, the king of Yue, and admonished: "When Fucha wanted to go north to the Central Plains, Wu Zixu persuaded him, saying that compared with Wu, the Central Plains has different customs and language barriers, and even if he defeats Zhao, he cannot occupy the north for a long time, and it is difficult to drive the local people after conquering Lusong. However, compared with Wu, the Yue State is close to the land, the transportation is convenient, the customs are the same, and the language is the same, so if the Wu State can destroy the Yue, it is also quite convenient to govern the Yue people. The more so is for Wu, and the same is true for Wu. ”

He said frankly: "From the perspective of a Chu person, there is not much difference between the Wu people and the Yue people, they speak the same language, have broken hair, vertebrae, tattoos, rice and soup, like swords, have an excited personality, and are prone to death......"

"The reason why Wu State can't annex Yue State is not because he can't, but because he missed the opportunity. Now that the Yue Kingdom has occupied the entire territory of the Wu State, if the king wants to annex the Wu State and rule over hundreds of thousands of Wu people, he cannot slaughter the city today! What's more, the husband is still retreating to Guxutai, inside and outside Wu City, how many Wu people are more than 20,000? If the slaughter of the city makes the Wu people fight to the death, I am afraid that it will give the husband a chance......"

Fan Li was thinking about it for a long time, and Gou Jian thought it was reasonable, so he forbade the soldiers to slaughter the Wu people, and instead began to appoint those Wu doctors who surrendered to him, so that they could help stabilize the order in the city, and prepare for the Vietnamese army to gain a firm foothold and continue to besiege Guxutai.

Although Wu Cheng was built very reasonably by Wu Zixu, it also had a huge treasury, and during the period of being trapped, it was able to grow food in the open space in the city, but it was a drop in the bucket, and the city was hungry for two years, everyone was skinned and bone-like, and they were weak, if the Vietnamese army did not rush to kill them all, they were naturally willing to surrender.

Fan Li handed over the siege of Guxutai to the Yue generals such as Chu Yong, Chou Wuyu, and Euyang, and he hurried to the north of Wucheng.

Although the slaughter of the city was stopped by Fan Li, it would be foolish to think that the Vietnamese army would really treat the common people in the city as the same race. Along the way, Fan Li could hear the cries of women and children on all sides, although the Yue people were ordered not to kill people indiscriminately, but it did not prevent them from breaking into the streets and alleys and committing violence against women.

It is true that the morale of the Yue people is very high, but the psychology of being ashamed of the king and the country can only be maintained for a while.

In addition to Fan Li's imitation of the Zhao State system to implement the military merit lord to grant land and slaves, Gou Jian also gathered up the widows who had no husbands and children in Wu and Yue, and set up a women's battalion in the camp of the Vietnamese army.

This was probably the earliest system of comfort women, and the Yue people had become accustomed to it, and every time they attacked a city, there were generals who organized soldiers to loot women. Therefore, Fan Li didn't expect the Yue people to really be able to do nothing in the autumn, so he could only turn a blind eye to this, three years of prisoner life in Wu State, and ten years of cruel war with a salary and courage, had made his blood cold.

He can even abandon the people he admires, not to mention these Wu people, sparing their lives is already a great gift.

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

From a distance, the doors of the storage room were opened, the walls collapsed, and the beams and tiles of the house were gone.

Fan Li suddenly felt worried, there are documents and books of the Wu Kingdom in the past dynasties, which is the purpose of his trip. Fortunately, Fucha and the last nobles of Wu were in a hurry when they retreated to Guxutai, and they didn't have time to burn it down.

Ignoring the crazy robbery of a box of silk on the ground by a team of Yue soldiers outside the official office, Fan Li stepped inside, picked up a roll of bamboo slips that had been trampled on by many people, flipped through them and sighed, and said to the Yue Guo doctor Ku Cheng: "Compared with the treasures and money silk remaining in the palace, for the Yue Kingdom, these cold slips are the real priceless treasures!" ”

Although Wu and Yue spoke a very different language from the Central Plains, they did not have their own writing, and their bird seal script was introduced to Chu from the Central Plains and spread from Chu. It can even be said that in addition to the witches and ghosts and dragons and snakes worshiped by the tribe, the Wu and Yue countries did not have their own upper-class culture, and they were completely grafted on the culture of the Central Plains and Chu.

Compared with the Wu State, which is a descendant of Ji Zhou and has cultivated a knowledgeable "gentleman" like Yanling Jizha, the Yue Kingdom is much more backward, and in the official office of the Yue Palace, ninety percent of the doctors are illiterate, and there are very few who can speak elegant words, and even fewer can read and engrave words on the brochure.

Fan Li went north to Zhao State, deeply shocked by the popularization of Zhao State official culture in the second year of high school, the people took officials as teachers, and the children of the Chinese family could enter the Mongolian literacy from childhood, and the outstanding people further rose to primary school to understand etiquette, music, books, and mathematics; Through the internal examination of the primary school, the most outstanding young people can be promoted to the university, enter the Linzhang School Palace, and learn more complex things, and some grassroots officials of the Zhao State, in addition to recruiting scholars, are basically selected from the primary schools of various counties and the Linzhang School Palace, and also respond to the words of Zixia of Zhao State: Learn and excel......

Therefore, although Fan Li suggested that Gou Jian follow the changes of the Yue Kingdom, he could only learn the form, not the reality. In the process of implementation, he found that the system of Zhao State could only be established if it had a mature scholar class, otherwise the officials would not be illiterate, the officials would not understand the law, and the county guards would not understand the numbers.

Therefore, Yue Guo can only implement military merit in the army, but most of the generals can't even figure out which twelve knights they have, not to mention the shortage of officials who count heads, count military merits, and set rewards and punishments.

The current system of the Yue Kingdom is a system similar to that of the early Zhou Dynasty: the Yue King is high, as the co-owner of the Yue people, in fact, he can only manage the surroundings of Huiji, and the so-called generals, officials, and doctors below are actually the tribal chiefs scattered among the mountains, forests, and streams......

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

Therefore, in Fan Li's view, if the Yue State wants to have a future after the destruction of the Wu State, it can only start from scratch and inherit the relatively mature code system that the Wu State learned from the Central Plains, and at the same time appoint the scholar class of the Wu State to realize the unity of Wu and Yue, and also cultivate a group of officials who adapt to the new era within the Yue State, accelerate the disintegration of feudalism and tribes within the Yue State, and become a state with real monarchy and centralized power. Wu Zixu and Ji Za did this back then, and it took twenty or thirty years to achieve results, otherwise, relying on primitive brute courage alone, it would be impossible for Wu to build a foundation that dominated the south.

So Fan Li didn't care that the war was not over, and he first took a group of people to sort out the most valuable heritage of Wu in his opinion......

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

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A burst of footsteps and noisy sounds sounded, and when the Yue people who were on guard outside shouted that there was an assassin, Fan Li didn't care about letting the bitter city who was buried in the documents with him discuss countermeasures, and blew out the lights and candles as soon as possible.

He let the bitter city hide aside, and he drew his sword, clinging to the wall and remained motionless, holding his breath, looking at the big hole above his head - the beams of the storage room and the tiles of half of the roof were all lost in the war, if someone wants to assassinate, it is naturally the most convenient to come in from there, and it is really good to pick the time, the Yue people have just entered the city, and the city is in chaos, it is really a good opportunity to assassinate, the land of Wu Yue, Zhuzhu, Yaoli, Wu Zixu Sheren, there has never been a shortage of fierce assassins.

In the darkness, sure enough, a figure passed by, hesitated for a moment and then jumped off the beam, although it was dark all around, but the outline could still be seen clearly, but now they were in the dark, and the enemy was in the light.

Fan Li saw the moment the man landed, suddenly drew his sword and jumped up, raising his sword to stab the man in the back.

With a crisp sound, the man reacted quickly, and blocked the sword with his backhand, but Fan Li raised his foot and kicked him in the abdomen, and someone in the dark snorted lightly, and then fell to the ground!

By the time the candle was lit again, the tip of Fan Li's sword was already aimed at the assassin's neck.

Ku Cheng stepped forward, and after carefully taking off the hat on his head, he revealed a woman's pretty face, and Fan Li couldn't help but be slightly startled by the person in front of him.

"Zheng Dan?"

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening