Although Fang Xuanling was jealous all his life, his Confucian integrity and resolute sense of justice were never shaken. Confucianism is also a method of cultivating both the inner and the outer. Even when he was alive, the weak Fang Xuanling only used the Wu Gou to protect himself, and never used a sword. However, he had been on the battlefield for a long time, and the resolute aura in his bones never changed.
This Wu Gou is also a symbol of masculinity. If you are not an ordinary person, it is difficult to use this thousand-year-old artifact with the righteous manliness. After all, this Wu Gou was created by Wu Wang Kelu, who was also an emperor more brutal than Qin Shihuang in thousands of years. A small country like Wu was able to attack the capital of the great country Chu with only 30,000 soldiers and resist the 200,000 soldiers of Chu. This is also inseparable from the Wu Gou created by Wu Wang Kelu.
The famous King of Wu, Qielü, was not a simple person. Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao was planned by Qielü and Wu Zixu, who assassinated King Liao of Wu, which made Qielü the monarch of Wu.
King Kelu of Wu was originally the son of King Zhufan of Wu, Prince Guang. King Zhufan of Wu was also a wise monarch. According to the calendar of Wu, the throne of Wu was originally passed to Zhufan's younger brother. Zhufan had three younger brothers, the eldest was Yuji, the second was Yimei, and the youngest was Ji Zhazi. Zhufan knew that Ji Zhazi was wise, so he did not appoint a crown prince, and passed the throne to his younger brothers in turn.
However, when the throne was passed to Ji Zhazi, he did not want to be the king and fled. The people of Wu then recommended Liao, the son of Yi Mei, as the king of Wu. Prince Guang held a grudge against him and secretly recruited talented people and made them senior ministers.
One day, King Liao of Wu was discussing the matter of attacking Chu in the palace. Wu Zixu came to advise. Wu Zixu was originally from Chu. Because his father and brother were killed by the King of Chu, Wu Zixu fled Chu and came to Wu. He used the benefits of attacking Chu to persuade King Liao of Wu. Seeing that Wu Zixu was capable, Gongzi Guang said, "Wu Zixu was originally from Chu. His father and brother were killed by the King of Chu. He wants to use this as revenge."
King Liao of Wu heard this and put aside the matter of attacking Chu. Wu Zixu had long seen that Prince Guang, who later became King Kelu of Wu, had a feud with Liao and wanted to destroy Liao's dynasty, so he joined Prince Guang's school. He also recommended Zhuan Zhu, a loyal and brave warrior of Wu, to Prince Guang.
This Prince Guang was also waiting for an opportunity. In the ninth year of King Liao of Wu, King Ping of Chu died. Liao sent his two younger brothers to attack Chu while the country was holding a funeral. Unexpectedly, they were besieged by the Chu army and their lives were in danger.
At this time, Young Master Guang also realized that the opportunity had come, so he invited Liao to his house under the pretext of hosting a banquet to discuss how to rescue Liao.
King Liao of Wu was also very cautious. Although he was invited by Prince Guang, he was still on high alert. The warriors lined up from the palace all the way to Prince Guang's door.
This Young Master Guang is not a good guy either. He has secretly ambushed elite warriors in the underground palace.
During the banquet, Young Master Guang walked out of the palace on the pretext of convenience and went to the underground palace, where he handed a sharp knife to Zhuan Zhu. The sharp knife was originally the Yuchang Sword, one of the three famous swords made by the swordsmith Ou Yezi.
Zhuan Zhu was a famous chef in this area. Following the instructions of Prince Guang, he presented a Taihu carp to King Liao of Wu. The Taihu carp was also a top delicacy in Wu. However, the Yuchang sword was hidden in the belly of the fish.
Zhuan Zhu had just walked in front of Liao, when suddenly a huge eagle flew into the palace where the banquet was held. The huge eagle flew so fast that it hit the beam of the palace. The joyful atmosphere was suddenly disturbed by this sudden incident, and everyone was extremely surprised. In the midst of everyone's surprise, Zhuan Zhu also saw the will of heaven. He opened the belly of the fish, pulled out the Yuchang sword, and stabbed Liao to death with the sword.
The personal guards of King Liao of Wu were unwilling to let him go, so they rushed forward and stabbed Zhuan Zhu to death. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the elite warriors of Prince Guang rushed out and killed all of Liao's guards. After Liao's death, Prince Guang established himself as the king. He treated Zhuan Zhu's family well and made Zhuan Zhu's son a senior minister. He sealed the Yuchang sword in the Taimiao and never used it again.
Zhuan Zhu was a man of both loyalty and filial piety. As a result, the alley where Zhuan Zhu lived became a celebrity's hometown and was deeply worshipped by people. To this day, Zhuan Zhu Alley is still vivid in the southwest of Suzhou City. The ancient monuments still exist. This is the story of Zhuan Zhu assassinating King Liao.
This Gongzi Guang proclaimed himself as King of Wu, Kelu, and he also expanded the territory and created the invincible weapon. Because the land of Wu and Yue is located in the deep mountains and dense forests, rivers and lakes, people use machetes to go up the mountains and down the rivers. Based on this, King of Wu Kelu created this willow-like curved knife, Wu Gou.
This Gongzi Guang, King Wu Qielü, got the help of the gods to kill the brothers of the grandson of the grandfather, but he was also extremely cruel. However, the gods' will was difficult to deprive. Qielü had already produced the Wu Gou weapon, and he was invincible in the battlefield. He won five battles and captured the capital of Chu in one fell swoop. If it were not for the help of Qin, Chu would have been in danger of being destroyed. Even so, although Qielü later withdrew from Chu, he also took over the Yue land of Chu and moved the capital of Chu to the south.
This Kelu was not afraid of the powerful Chu State, and his barbarity was rare in ancient and modern times. This Kelu was not only a belligerent national army. The thing in his hand was the most famous for Sun Wu. The thirteen chapters of Sun Wu's Art of War were feared by all the vassal states.
This powerful military advisor, with his divine and invincible sword Wu Gou, enabled the State of Wu to grow and develop to its peak.
During the heyday of the Wu Kingdom, the brave King Qielü of Wu was seriously injured in the Battle of Zhuli when he was pacifying the Yue area, and he died in the army.
This emperor on horseback was also very tough, which can also be seen from the fact that he lured the people to bury his daughter alive.
The daughter of King Wu Kelu saw her father's cruelty and his outrageous treatment of the people, so she hated him so much that she committed suicide. King Wu Kelu saw his daughter's death and was filled with hatred. He mobilized countless people to dig the ground into a pond, pile up the earth into a mountain, carve stones into a coffin, and bury his daughter with countless gold tripods and jewels. When his daughter's funeral was extremely serious, he also used the name of the heavenly general and the crane to lure the people to watch.
This Kelu was full of magical colors, so why wouldn't the people not want to see it? This Kelu attracted tens of thousands of people to his daughter's tomb, blocked the tomb door, filled up the underground palace, and caused countless people to be buried alive. Its cruelty was even worse than that of Qin Shihuang.
It was also this King of Wu, Kelu, who made this brave man famous in the land of Wu and Yue, and made the magical weapon Wu Gou famous through the ages. (To be continued)