Chapter 787: Playing with the Princes by Beacon Fire is a Story
"Disciple, disciple..."
Blessings were coming from heaven, and for a moment Sun Wu didn't know which one to choose.
Logically speaking, it is better to learn more, but Sun Wu always felt that those thirty-six strategies were destined for him, and if he gave up, it would be as uncomfortable as losing something important in his heart.
Sun Wu was hesitant and troubled.
Li Yunze, who was behind the desk, wordlessly picked up the wine cup in front of him and took a sip of wine. Then he picked up the dried fruits on the pottery plate and threw them into his mouth.
Eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.
Sun Wu looked at Li Yunze eating and drinking with a slightly different look. After a moment, a bright light flashed in his mind.
He immediately saluted respectfully, "Master, I would like to learn all about martial arts."
Since there is wine and food, why bother to stick to just one thing? Wouldn't it be better to have everything you need to eat and drink?
Li Yunze smiled, put down the wine cup in his hand and signaled, "Come here and pour wine for me."
Sun Wu was overjoyed and hurriedly came forward and knelt down, picked up the jug and carefully poured wine for Li Yunze.
But his eyes kept looking back and forth over the two piles of books on the desk.
Naturally, this action could not escape Li Yunze's eyes.
He raised his chin slightly to indicate Thirty-Six Strategies, "This book is about strategy. You should take it back and study it carefully."
"Thank you, Master."
Sun Wu, who was smiling from ear to ear, respectfully picked up the book of thirty-six strategies, and then asked, "Master, what is strategy?"
"The so-called strategy is the method of planning a country, and it is called the struggle between men and women for a lifetime."
Facing Sun Wu's eager gaze, Li Yunze nodded and said, "It's like the Chu State coming to fight the Lu State. If you are a teacher and the Prime Minister of Chu, your early strategy is to find ways to weaken the strength of the Lu State and enhance your own national and military strength.
Diplomatically, try to isolate Lu as much as possible, find ways to cause civil strife in Qi, or lead other countries to attack Qi, forcing Qi to be unable to rescue Lu."
"At the same time, suppress Wu State and design to let Jin State beat Qin State again."
“When we strengthen ourselves and weaken our enemies, and achieve the required results in our diplomatic strategies, we have achieved our strategic goals.”
Having said that, Li Yunze gestured to a stack of books on the other side of the desk, "These seventy-two methods of war are for tactical purposes."
Sun Wu, who was still digesting Li Yunze's previous words, asked eagerly, "Master, what are tactics?"
"The so-called tactics are the methods of planning a battle, and they refer to the length of the dispute."
"Selecting and training troops, organizing logistics, marching and lining up, setting up camps, etc. are all tactics."
Sun Wu, whose eyes were shining, said respectfully, "Please master, please explain in detail."
"The so-called selection of soldiers means that individuals cannot be recruited into the army, but must be selected. Those with stable income should be given priority, as the saying goes, those with stable income have perseverance. Those who are tainted with the spirit of the market must never join the army.
They will only spoil the morale of the army."
Li Yunze explained to Sun Wu, "As for military training, it mainly focuses on training the technical and tactical level of the sergeants, formation formation, battlefield fighting ability, etc."
Having said this, he reached out and picked up a book on the art of war and handed it to Sun Wu, "This book should be respected in terms of military training."
Sun Wu hurriedly took it and used the light to see clearly the handwriting on the book.
"New Book of Ji Xiao"!
"What are we fighting for? We are fighting for grain and grass supplies!" Li Yunze's voice continued, "As the saying goes, before the troops are moved, grain and grass go first. Proper collection, transportation, storage, distribution, and transfer of grain and grass supplies are related to the outcome of the war.
Not only must the arrangements be made properly, but one must also be able to do arithmetic and know how to calculate how many days of food and grass will be needed.”
"The one who can make a profit in a hundred miles can defeat the general; the one who can make a profit in fifty miles can only reach half the army."
Li Yunze explained for Sun Wu, "The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. When it is necessary to march urgently, if half of the sergeants arrive after running fifty miles, it will be considered a success. But if you run away for a hundred miles, even the generals may be lost."
"This aspect mainly lies in troop training, sentry reconnaissance, arrangement of marching troops, utilization of water source terrain along the way, and setting up camps..."
After recounting the details of the tactics, Li Yunze handed over the wine baron in his hand: "Nowadays, when countries fight, they all fight face to face at an agreed time and place. This way of fighting is too outdated. What I teach you is for
Win without resorting to any means."
The wars in the Spring and Autumn Period seem like a lively farce to people in the modern world.
If the two countries want to fight, they first send envoys to agree on a time and place, and then the armies of both sides arrive on time, and then face-to-face combat begins.
Even when the enemy crossed the river, no one chose to attack halfway across the river. Instead, they waited for the enemy to complete their formation after crossing the river, and then began the face-to-face battle.
As for the enemy's chariot's wheel being broken during the pursuit, and having to help repair it before continuing the pursuit, I can't say much about this kind of thing, but it does happen.
Why during the Warring States Period, all kinds of tricks were used on the battlefield, and all kinds of conspiracies and tricks emerged one after another. The root cause was Sun Wu who was sitting opposite Li Yunze at this time.
It was this Lao Liu who started a new war mode.
Li Yunze's lecture continued until daylight. Then he returned to his room happily with a thick stack of military books to continue studying.
For Sun Wu, these things opened up a whole new world.
In winter, the Chu army attacked Wu but failed.
On the way back to the capital, Wu Zixu smiled and read the latest storybook leaked from the State of Lu.
Prince Qiji came to his tent and saw Wu Zixu laughing while holding a book. He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Why are you laughing?"
"There is a new script from the State of Lu."
Wu Zixu handed over the book in his hand, "It's really interesting."
"oh?"
Gongzi Qiji, who is also a lover of storybooks, found out that the cover of the storybook read "Fenghuo Opera Princes".
In this era of scarcity of entertainment items, the only entertainment available to the savage Chinese and even the soldiers was to fire artillery fire, and the prerequisite was to have a wife.
Only when you reach the level of a doctor or aristocrat can you enjoy the enjoyment of fine wine, music, singing and dancing.
However, if there are too many of these things, it will taste boring.
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Prince Qiji also liked it very much and even learned official script specifically for it.
"...King You was obviously two kings side by side. He was defeated in the crusade against the Kingdom of Shen and died... How could King You be so stupid to play tricks on the princes... This beacon tower has no such thing... The one who killed King You was obviously the Kingdom of Shen, and Quan
What's the point of military affairs... Bao Si? To destroy the world for a woman? How is that possible!"
After reading the story, Young Master Qiji stuffed the book into his sleeve with a smile, "It's really a random fabrication, but it's quite interesting."
Sima Qian wrote the story of the beacon fire opera among the princes in the historical records with a strong personal subjective consciousness.
But in "Bamboo Chronicles", there is another version, a version that is truly close to the truth.
King You's queen is a princess from the Kingdom of Shen...
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the daughter of the Emperor of Zhou became a princess, and the highest title of the princes was duke, so their daughters were called princesses.
King You and Princess Shen had a son, Yijiu, who was made the prince.
But later Baosi entered the palace, and her youth and beauty naturally won the favor of King You, and she gave birth to Prince Bofu.
Then there is the familiar story of abolishing the elder and establishing the young.
The difference is that Queen Shen was not one to swallow her anger, and immediately ran back to her hometown of Shen with Yijiu for help.
Duke Shen was overjoyed and immediately contacted many countries that had long been dissatisfied with the emperor, and together they supported Yijiu as the new emperor, who was the founder of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Ping of Zhou.
This is the parallelism of the two weeks in history.
Of course King You gave up and took his troops to attack the State of Shen.
As a result, King You was defeated by the coalition forces of Shen, Zheng and other countries during the crusade, and died on the spot.
As for Quanrong, they were indeed involved in this matter, but what they mainly did was plunder. Taking advantage of the emperor's death in the battle and the chaos in the world, they looted Haojing and burned the city with fire.
This story about beacon fire and the princes is known to be false just from the name.
Because beacon towers only appeared in the early Han Dynasty. Hundreds of years ago during the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were no beacon towers at all.
Bao Si competed for favor and for her son to ascend to the throne, which was the cause of the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but to tease the princes just to make her laugh...this was simply treating the emperor of Zhou and the princes as nothing more than nothing.
Seeing Young Master Qiji starting to leave, Wu Zixu hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, "Young Master, please leave the storybook, I haven't finished reading it yet."
"Script? What script?"
Young Master Qiji shook off Wu Zixu's hand and ran out in a hurry, "I have never seen any script before!"
Because the art of papermaking had not yet become popular, and the only story writer was Li Yunze, these storybooks circulated from the State of Lu were highly sought after in various countries, and they were the kind that even the richest people could not buy.
Wu Zixu had spent a lot of effort to buy the latest storybook, so of course he didn't want it to be taken away like this.
He chased him all the way out, tugging and tugging with Young Master Qi Ji until his sleeves seemed to be cut off.
There is no other way, being able to read a book during a boring march is the ultimate enjoyment.
Young Master Qiji firmly stated that he had never seen any scripts, and later stated that he had not been to Wu Zixu's tent today.
How could Wu Zixu be willing to follow him? He was already a bad-tempered person, and when he got angry, he started to fight and quarrel with Young Master Qiji.
The movement here quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people.
"What is this for?!"
King Chu, whose tent was not far away, got the news and came over to see this scene, and his face became dark.
I was already in a bad mood since I failed to defeat the Wu Kingdom. These two guys are still arguing and arguing here...angry!
Seeing the king coming, Wu Zixu and the young master Qiji did not dare to argue anymore, and stood aside with their hands tied and their heads bowed.
"What's the quarrel about?"
Facing the king's inquiry, the two of them did not dare to hide anything, so they had to tell the whole story.
"take it out!"
Prince Qiji did not dare to neglect, so he took out the storybook from his sleeve and handed it to the King of Chu with a resentful look on his face.
"Ah."
King Chu, who had also studied official script in order to read the script, laughed when he saw the cover, "It's the story of Emperor Zhou again. First King Mu, and now King You. I don't know if Emperor Zhou of Luoyang has ever read it."
King Chu turned over the script, turned around and walked towards the king's tent.
Young Master Qiji sighed repeatedly. He wanted to look at it carefully a few more times.
Wu Zixu was stunned, "This is my script!"
When the King of Chu returned to his tent, he sat on the couch and read the storybook.
When I saw it, I was mesmerized.
After closing the script, King Chu took a breath and called Yang Youji, who was guarding the king's tent, to come in.
"Call the ministers to discuss matters."
Yang Youji saluted and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you discussing?"
"Turn your troops around and go to the State of Lu!"