Later, the King of Yue sent Wen Zi to Wu for peace. Wen Zi said to the king of Wu, "We can't send talented people from Yue, so we send incompetent officials like me. I dare not tell your king directly. I told your officials in private that our troops in Vietnam were no longer worthy of humiliating the king to make a crusade. The state of Yue is willing to dedicate its treasures and children to the King of Yue as a reward for his humiliation. And please allow the daughter of Yue King to be the king's maid concubine, the doctor's daughter to be Dr. Wu's maid concubine, and the scholar's daughter to be Wu Xiucai's maid concubine, and bring all the treasures of Yue State. King Yue will lead the whole country into Wang Jun, and everything will be under his command. If King your thinks the fault of King Yue can't be tolerated, then we will burn the ancestral temple, tie up our wife and children, throw them into the river with Jinyu, and then lead the remaining 5,000 people to fight to the death with Wu. At that time, one person can certainly use two, which is equivalent to taking an army of 10 thousand people against your king. In this way, the people and property of Yue will inevitably suffer losses, which does not affect the kindness and compassion of the king who loves Yue. " Are you willing to kill all the people in Yueguo, or do you want to get Yueguo without blowing off dust? Would your majesty please weigh which is better? "
Fu Cha, the king of Wu, is ready to accept Wen Zi's suggestion and conclude a peace treaty with Yue. Wu Zixu, the doctor of the prince of Wu, dissuaded him and said, "No! Wu Tongyue is a country that has hated and attacked each other for generations. Three rivers surround the territory of the two countries, and the people of both countries are reluctant to move to other places. Therefore, there can be no Yue without Wu, and there can be no Wu without Yue. This irreconcilable situation cannot be changed. I also heard that people in dry land are used to living in dry land, and people in water towns are used to living in water towns. Even if those countries in the Central Plains are defeated, our people are not used to living and using their vehicles there. If Yue is defeated, our people will get used to living there and using their boats. This advantage should not be missed! I hope that the King will destroy Yue State; If you give up these advantages, you will regret it. "
Yue dressed up eight beautiful women and gave them to Wu Taizai Hao. He said to him, "If you can forgive Yue's sins and agree to make peace, there will be more beautiful women for you." So Taizai Hao remonstrated with the King of Wu and said, "I heard that in ancient times, when others attacked other countries, they all surrendered." Now that the state of Yue has surrendered, what else do you want? Fu Cha, the prince of Wu, adopted the opinion of Taizai Hao, concluded a peace treaty with Yue, and sent Wen Zi back to Yue.
Gou Jian, the King of Yue, explained to the people, "I didn't estimate my own strength, and I made enemies with the powerful State of Wu, which caused our people to die in vilen. This is my fault. Please allow me to correct it! " Then bury the remains of the dead soldiers and express condolences to the injured soldiers; For families with funerals, the King of Yue personally mourned and those with happy events personally celebrated. Those who go far away will see them off in person, and those who return home will meet them in person; Anything that the people hate will be removed, and anything that the people urgently need will be done in time. Then Gou Jian, the King of Yue, condescended to serve Fu Cha and sent 300 scholars to Wu as servants. Gou Jian also personally acted as the pawn of the prince of Wu.
The territory of the State of Yue stretches from Wuzi in the south to Yu 'er in the north, Yin in the east and Xi 'an in the west, with a total area of * * * a hundred miles square. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, summoned his father and brother to take an oath and said, "I heard that in ancient times, people from all directions joined him, as if water were flowing downwards. Now I can do nothing but lead men and women to reproduce. " Then he ordered young and strong men not to marry old women, and old men not to marry young wives; If a girl doesn't get married at the age of seventeen, her parents will be convicted, and if a man doesn't get married at the age of twenty, his parents will also be sentenced. When pregnant women are in labor, they report to the government and the government sends doctors to take care of them. If you have a boy, you will be rewarded with two pots of wine and a dog. Give birth to a girl, two pots of wine and a pig; Three children were born in one child, which was given to the wet nurse by the government, and two children were born in one child, and the government provided rations. Di Zi died for state affairs and was released from the family's three-year corvee; If an illegitimate child dies, he should be relieved of the corvee of his family for three months and buried with tears like his eldest son. The government adopts children who are lonely, old, widowed, sick, poor and helpless. For those famous people, the government provides them with clean accommodation, beautiful clothes and enough food, and encourages them to do their best for the country. Celebrities from all walks of life who come to Vietnam should meet in the temple to show their respect. Gou Jian also personally patrolled all parts of the country with a boat full of food and meat. When he met young people who were wandering outside, he provided them with food and asked their names. Gou Jian takes part in labor by himself, never eats what he grows or wears the cloth woven by his wife. No taxes were levied on the people for ten years, and every family among the people has stored grain for three years.
At this time, the elders and brothers from all over the country came to ask Gou Jian, the King of Yue, and said, "In the past, Fu Cha, the King of Wu, humiliated our monarch among the princes, but now we are on the track of crossing the country. Please allow us to take revenge for this! " Gou Jian declined politely and said, "It was not the people's fault that we were defeated by Wu in the past, but mine. How can a person like me know what it means to be humiliated? Please don't hit Wu for the time being! " A few years later, my father and brother asked Gou Jian, the King of Yue, and said, "People in the four borders of Yue are close to our King of Yue, just like their parents. The son will avenge his parents, and the minister will avenge the king. How dare he not try his best? Please allow to fight with Wu Zaizhan! " Gou Jian, the king of Yue, agreed to everyone's request, so he called everyone to take an oath: "I heard that the wise monarch in ancient times was not worried about the shortage of troops, but worried that the soldiers in the army were shameless. At present, there are 103,000 soldiers in Fu Cha, the king of Wu, wearing armor made of rhinoceros skin, but Fu Cha is not worried that his soldiers don't know what shame is, but only worried that they are short of troops. Now I want to help heaven destroy Wu. I don't want my soldiers to have the courage of ordinary people's blood, but I hope my soldiers can advance with orders and retreat with orders. Go forward, you think you will be rewarded, go back, you think you will be punished. In this way, you will get regular rewards. If you don't obey orders when you attack and don't care about shame when you retreat, you will get the usual punishment. "
So the state of Yue made a decisive decision and the whole country encouraged each other. Father encourages his son, brother encourages his brother, and wife encourages her husband. They said, "How can a monarch like us not want to die on the battlefield?" Therefore, in the first battle, Wu suffered defeat in the fields. Later, they were frustrated in the land, and Wu Jun was defeated in the countryside of the capital city of Wu.
Fu Cha, the King of Wu, sent someone to make peace with Yue, saying, "My army is not worthy of the crusade of the King of Yue. Please allow me to comfort the humiliation of King Yue with my precious child! " Gou Jian replied, "In the past, God gave Yue to Wu, and Wu refused to accept his destiny. Now that God has sent Yue, how can Yue obey you without obeying your destiny? I want to send you to Yongjiang and east of Gouzhang. You and I are like two kings. What do you think? " Fu Cha replied, "I did a little courtesy to the King of Yue. If the King of Yue gives Wu some shelter for the sake of Wu and Zhou's surname, that's my wish! If the King of Yue says,' I want to destroy the land of Wu and the ancestral temple of Wu', please let me die! How dare I meet people all over the world? The Vietnamese army can enter Wu! " So the State of Yue destroyed the State of Wu.