He is one of the few geniuses in the Wumiao group who has opened up the two veins of politics and business. He was born in a declining family, from the end of Qingping, helping the general to pour the ancient Yue, endure the unbearable humiliation, lie down and taste the gall, outwitted the strong Wu. After the victory, he did not admire the position of power, resigned under a pseudonym, let go on a boat on the five lakes, made money because of the situation, and scattered and enriched the people. He is transparent, indifferent to fame and fortune, and proud of the world. He is the Yue Xiangguo, the general, and the Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li, who are respected as the "Shang Sheng" by later generations.
The author has previously detailed the great deeds of the eleven gods of the martial temple, and from this article onwards, the author will recount the style of the martial temple group of philosophers with a clumsy pen. Because the ranking and name of Wumiao Qunzhe have changed over the years, in order to seek the original flavor, the author only takes the sixty-four ancient and modern famous generals who were originally enshrined in the third year (782) of Tang Dezong Li Shijian, the great-grandson of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, as the Lanpu, and describes them in the following order. I hope that readers will continue to pay attention to and support, continue to the wind of ancient heroes and martyrs, and protect the beautiful homeland of China.
Nanyang, known as "Lingshan Xiushui, the ancient city of the southern capital", is located in the southwest of Henan Province, connecting Henan Province, Hubei Province and Shaanxi Province, and has been the main road in and out of the Central Plains and Guanzhong since ancient times, and is the political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, science and technology, logistics and transportation center of southwest Henan, known as the "Southern Capital" and "Imperial Township". Zhong Lingyuxiu's landscapes have given birth to the "Five Sages of Nanyang" such as "Mousheng Jiang Ziya, Shangsheng Fan Li, Kesheng Zhang Heng, Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing, and Zhisheng Zhuge Liang", which have made great contributions to promoting the progress of Chinese culture. The protagonist of this article, Shangsheng Fan Li, is not only one of the "Five Saints of Nanyang", but also the first person to be listed on the sixty-four generals of the Martial Arts Temple, so the author bears the brunt of his magnificent and colorful life.
Different from other military celebrities, Fan Li's biggest impression on later generations is the extremely pleasing God of Literature and Wealth. It is also said that the prototype of the God of Literature and Wealth was Bigan, an important minister of the royal family at the end of the Shang Dynasty. In the author's opinion, it is more difficult than the country and cannot be saved, the king is faint and cannot be persuaded, and it is useless to die in vain. And if you only talk about business ability, Jiang Ziya and Wu Qi are thousands of miles away from Fan Li, but unfortunately because Tao Zhugong's name is too loud, and Yue Guo is in a remote corner of the Central Plains has not won the Central Plains public opinion, so Fan Li has to be subordinate.
Go to Chu to help more far-sighted
Fan Lizi Shaobo, born in 536 B.C., was a native of the three households of Wandi in Chu (in the southwest of Xichuan, Nanyang, Henan). Regarding Fan Li's origin, it is generally believed that he came from Fan, one of the six secretaries of the Jin State. The ancestor of the Qi surname Fan has a long origin, which can be traced back to the ancient Emperor Yao, whose descendants avoided trouble and entered the Jin Dynasty, and accumulated merit to become the Zhengqing of the Jin State, but unfortunately lost in the power involution, fled to the Qi State, and since then withdrew from the ranks of the Six Qings. At that time, it was 490 B.C., and Fan Li was already nearly half a hundred years old. It can be seen that even if Fan Li is a member of the Fan family of the Jin Kingdom, he is by no means a descendant, and Fan Li's family was poor when he was a child, which shows that this Fan family, who did not know when he was in the Chu State, was really not good, and he urgently needed a son of destiny to counterattack and change his life.
Due to the long history of the times, people today really do not know about Fan Li's childhood experience, and the author does not dare to be far-fetched, so he can only say one or two things from the auspicious light of history.
Fan Li is a good young man with ideals, and he once studied under Lao Tzu's high disciple Jiyan (Xin's, Mingyu, Ziwenzi). Although Ji Yan is a Taoist, but he is good at calculation, he is also a good hand for the economy, the descendants will be he and the Han Wu Emperor when Sang Hong Yang and said, to "study Sang scheming" to describe good at business and get rich, from the performance of Fan Li later, it is not difficult to see that the influence of the master on Fan Li is profound.
Fan Li, who has studied under the Jiyan sect for many years, is erudite and talented, both civil and military, and could have made a good job in the Chu State, which was influenced by Taoism, although he was not as rich and noble as the hereditary nobles, but he would not have lost his fame, but he refused to follow the rules and be a good workplace novice, and he had to do some strange things in the eyes of others to see himself willing to fall, so that the township party was very tired and disgraced, and his life was worse than Wang Xiaoer.
Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. Seeing that Fan Li, who was a "Taoist" student, was difficult to meet Bole, his family was in a hurry, but they were helpless. Fortunately, Fan Li, who was stumbling day by day, met a parent official who saw through his presumptuous behavior, Wan Lingwen.
In 516 B.C., Fan Li, who had met a bosom friend, no longer pretended to be forced, and began to have a heart-to-heart relationship with the literary genre, and the two soon crossed the class gap and became close friends. Fan Li, who was in the year of the weak crown, thought that although the state of Chu was once a "bear", the country was strong and the princes were afraid, but since the king of Chu Ling, Xiong Wei came to the throne, the monarch was violent, and all kinds of nonsense provoked the resentment of the people, and the fatigue became increasingly apparent. Fan Li hoped to try his luck in Yueguo, and also persuaded Wen to go with him.
In 511 B.C., Fan and Wen entered the Yue Kingdom successively (one said that the two went to the Yue Kingdom to send treasures to the Yue Kingdom to help the Yue resist Wu). Yun Chang, the monarch of the Yue Kingdom, couldn't ask for these two wise men from Dachu and immediately appointed them as doctors. The two of them took root in the Yue State and helped the wild and backward Yue people to govern the people and train the soldiers, making it a major disaster in the rear that the Wu State had to face.
Fan Li really attracted the attention of King Yue in 494 BC, when King Yue had been replaced by an ambitious Goujian. After Gou Jian narrowly defeated Wu in the Battle of Maoli (southwest of present-day Jiaxing, Zhejiang), he was a little drifting, turning a blind eye to Wu Wangfucha's various actions of revenge, still immersed in the mythical realm of the invincibility of Yue, and even planned to preemptively attack Wu. In this regard, Fan Li saw it very thoroughly and said it very mysteriously: "Soldiers are murder weapons, war is against morality and a last resort. We can't raise a division for no reason to fight against a strong enemy that is difficult to defeat, that is purely to find trouble for ourselves! It's a pity that Gou Jian didn't listen, but instead accelerated the pace of cutting Wu.
Gou Jian has to die, and the husband is famous. With the ability of three years of hard training and the resentment of serving the monarch's father, the Wu army attacked the weak with a strong force, and severely damaged the Vietnamese army in the battle of Fujiao (in the north of present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and in the present-day Mashan, Taihu Lake, Wuxi, Jiangsu), and Gou Jian could only retreat to Huiji Mountain with more than 5,000 remnants. Wu soldiers then pursued and besieged the Vietnamese army. At this critical moment of the collapse of the country, Gou Jian understood a truth that "foreign monks can chant scriptures", and Mr. Fan from Chu is more transparent than his own soil buns who have never been far away. This laid the groundwork for him to reuse Fan and Wen in the future.
The burning eyebrows looked in front of him. Facing the overlapping Wu army at the foot of the mountain, Gou Jian, who had woken up, humbly asked Fan Li: "If you didn't listen to Mr. at the beginning, you would have today's disaster." How can I get out of trouble now? Fan Li first used a profound way of "holding the full and the sky, the inclined and the people, and the festival to the earth" to show that the success is in the sky, the people are in the people, and the rich country is in the people, and then it is suggested that Gou Jian humbly bowed to Wu, if Wu refused to agree, he would go to Wu as a slave, as long as he was alive, the people of the Yue Guo Sect were still there, and there was a way to recover his vitality.
I don't know if Fan Li's Taoist skills are so solid, can he still play tricks at this time? Just let Gou Jian go to Wu to fight for sympathy as a slave, why do you have to say so many hard truths? In fact, this is exactly what Fan Li's cleverness is, for the same uneducated Goujian, if he doesn't pretend to be unfathomable, why should people listen to him, especially if he puts a dignified king and doesn't do it, he has to be a slave to others? Fortunately, Gou Jian was impressed by Mr. Fan's foresight at this time, and believed that he still had a chance, so he would resolutely embark on a humiliating and difficult road to recovery.
When he heard that the king of Wu accepted the begging and let himself be a slave in Wu to atone for his sorrows, Gou Jian asked Fan and Wen who could go together, Fan Li immediately said: "To appease the people and develop production, I am not as good as literature; Bao is ashamed and shameful, improvised, and the literature is not as good as the minister. "A god of literature and wealth who was revered as a "merchant saint" by later generations still can't grasp the economic production of the projectile Yue country, do you believe it?
Fan Li took on the drudgery of being a slave to himself in one sentence, and this responsibility made Gou Jian couldn't help but be moved.
In 493 B.C., Gou Jian and Fan Li, the two monarchs and ministers, embarked on a long road of enslavement with an uncertain future.
There is a strong technique to destroy Wu
Being a slave is not a glorious thing, and a slave like Gou Jian is full of humiliation and risk. The husband who has a grudge against Gou Jian for killing his father is by no means a fool without intelligence, he just makes a series of victories so proud that he can't see the danger that is imminent. The husband always observes Gou Jian's every move, as long as Gou Jian shows the slightest dissatisfaction with him, he will never spare Gou Jian. The proportions in this, if it weren't for Fan Li, who has been experienced in the world since childhood, and Gou Jian's drama endowment, it would be really difficult to handle the slave role to death.
The husband took a fancy to Fan Li's ability, and couldn't help but have the intention of soliciting. However, how could Fan Li, who had fully entered the drama in this Wu-Yue dispute, give up his previous achievements? He politely rejected the kindness of his husband: "When the minister hears that the minister of the dead country is gone, he does not dare to speak about politics; The general of the defeated army did not dare to speak bravely. The ministers were disloyal and untrustworthy, so that the king of Yue did not follow the king's orders, and used soldiers to hold on to the king, until the order was convicted, and the monarch and ministers surrendered. Meng Wang Hongen, the monarch and the minister are protected, and they are willing to be prepared to sweep away, and they are willing to go, and the minister's wish is also! "I couldn't help but be a little moved.
In 490 BC, just when the Fan clan was shattered, the Fan branch in Wuyue ushered in the day of great prosperity. This year, Gou Jian and Fan Lijunchen, who had completed their slavery period, successfully soothed the little hearts of their husbands and returned to Yue with infinite humiliation.
Gou Jian, who is bent on revenge, thinks hard, lies on his salary, and vows to repay the shame of the meeting. He asked Fan Li, who shared the hardships with him, to preside over the national affairs, but Fan Li pushed it to the literary species, and said: "The matter of the soldier is not as good as the Li; Attaching to the people and benefiting the country, it is better to plant it. Gou Jian had no choice but to hand over the state affairs to Wen Chong to take care of, and then send Fan Li to Wu to fool his husband and take him as a hostage. Fortunately, the husband who admired Fan Li did not make too many difficulties, and let him return to China the next year.
Fan Li passed on the improved version of the Taoist policy of recuperation to Gou Jian. Gou Jian listened to Fan Li's suggestion, persuaded farmers to accumulate grain, not to abuse the people's power, and not to go against the sky. While doing a good job in economic production, we should further coordinate the relationship between the monarch and the minister, do more good governance, reduce taxes and levy forced labor, vigorously encourage childbirth, and strive to alleviate social contradictions so as to gain more support from the people. Of course, the implementation of these proposals is mainly the responsibility of the literary genre, and Fan Li's main task is to do a good job in army building.
Fan Li knew that Wu Guo would never allow the Yue people to enrich the country and strengthen the army, so he made the training of the army very secret, and later generations found that the training of the Yue people was mostly in the mountains and forests. Under Fan Li's day and night drills, the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army rose sharply, and a death squad was formed, promising the highest reward, coupled with the emotional incentive of revenge for Wu, so that the Vietnamese army was eager to go into battle and fight again to strengthen Wu.
In order to better confuse the ever-expanding husband. Fan Li also made a small move in building the city. When presiding over the construction of two cities, one large and one small, he deliberately built the big city incomplete, and did not build the city wall in the direction of Wu State, which is self-evident. This is not enough, Fan Li also voted for her husband's favor, and there was no excuse to create an excuse to send all kinds of good goods to her husband to satisfy his appetite, and even specially found the beautiful Xi Shi from the bank of Huansha Creek in Lai Luo Mountain and sent it to Wu Palace, which further made his husband indulge in enjoyment and alienate the relationship between monarchs and ministers, so that he had no time to take care of Yue Guo.
Facts have proved that Xi Shi from the moment he entered the Wu Palace, did not carry out any espionage activities that made future generations extremely fascinated, nor did he have any palace fighting scenes, her "natural carving, clear water out of hibiscus" made Wu Wangfu almost messed up, and there was no longer the sobriety and judgment of the past, and soon crippled the Wu State in a series of abuse of national strength, sacrificing the original and chasing the end, and reckless military force.
Xi Shi is the beauty that Fan Li met, and he also got along with him day and night in the beauty training class opened by Fan Li, and it is not known whether the two have been in love for a long time. If it weren't for Xi Shi's serious "Electra complex", Fan Li, who was already a middle-aged greasy uncle at this time, would not have attracted the attention of the little girl so much, no matter how attractive he was. Of course, if Fan Li admires Xi Shi very much, it is another matter.
Seeing that the situation in Vietnam is getting better and better, Gou Jian is a little uneasy. In 486 BC, Gou Jian planned to raise an army to attack Wu, and Fan Li immediately dissuaded him not to be in a hurry. Two years later, Fucha won a big victory again, and Gou Jian immediately went to the Wu Dynasty to see him, and frantically distributed red envelopes to the monarchs and ministers of Wu, which made Fucha very happy and became more and more carried away. Soon, the news of the killing of Wu Zixu, an important minister of Wu who had been neglected by his husband for a long time, came to Yue, and Gou Jian summoned Fan Li again to ask if he could kill Wu, Fan Li replied: "Although Zixu is dead, Wu Jun is still there, and it cannot be taken lightly!" It is not difficult to see that Fan Li, who is well versed in the Taoist art of war, values "breaking a thousand catties by chance", and does not like to wrestle directly with a strong opponent, because that kind of victory is not cost-effective.
In 482 B.C., Fucha's ambition to become the overlord exploded, and he led the elite of Wu to join the princes of the Central Plains in Huangchi (in present-day Fengqiunan, Henan). Just when Wu Jun was in full swing to show off his military appearance, Gou Jian asked Fan Li for the third time, and Fan Li nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice: "Okay!" Soon, Gou Jian took Fan Li as the general, and led the army of more than 50,000 people (2,000 Xi Liu, 40,000 priests, 6,000 gentlemen, and 1,000 princes) trained by him, and slaughtered Wu in a mighty manner.
The husband and minister, who were dreaming of the overlord, heard the news of the backyard **, and his eyes fell to the ground in shock. Fucha was worried that the princes of the Central Plains would attack him in groups after hearing the news, and on the one hand, he kept the attack of the Vietnamese army secret, and on the other hand, he sent people to make peace with Gou Jian.
Seeing that Wu Envoy, who used to be high-minded, is now courteous like a grandson, Gou Jian's little heart is so excited that it seems to jump out of his chest. Fan Li next to him was also very excited, but he was also very sober after many years of cultivation, knowing that this time the Yue Kingdom was not martial, but only defeated the left-behind veterans of the Wu State, and failed to shake the elite of the Wu State, so he suggested letting Wu Guo go for the time being.
Readers will ask, isn't Fan Li afraid that Wu Guo will also stage an inspirational drama with a salary? The author thinks that Fan Li has already seen through the essence of the husband's poor appearance, and the decline of the Wu State is difficult to return, how can a dying old husband be saved? Sure enough, the husband who returned to Wu Realm did not make any hard moves, but broke the jar and broke it, and continued to hand over the state affairs to Bo Yao and other ministers, while he and Xi Shi hid in the deep palace in an attempt to enjoy their old age. The decline of the state of Wu has since been irreversible.
Since then, the Yue State has repeatedly raised troops to attack Wu, just like the Wu State repeatedly attacked the Chu State back then, which made the Wu army exhausted. Those Wu Jun, who had long been resented by Wu State, were no longer willing to serve their husbands, and often collapsed without a fight. Under the command of Fan Li, the Vietnamese army marched all the way, accumulating small victories into big victories, and constantly weakening the sound power of the Wu army.
Finally, in 473 B.C., that is, twenty years after Gou Jian entered Wu, the Yue army entered Gusu (in present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu), and the husband was ashamed and hanged himself, and the Wu State, which had been inherited for more than 700 years, was desolate and curtain call under the joint calculation of Gou Jian, Fan Li, and Wen Chong, and the battle between Wu and Yue ended with the defeat of Yue Guo.
Yue Xiangguo, the general Fan Li led by his own hands to build the victorious army, in the report of Wu imposed on the shame of the Huiji, north across the Huai River, the army in Qi Jin, in those old Central Plains powers have asked for peace, only to play Kai back Yue. The name of Fan Li has also become famous all over the world from a corner of the Yue country, and has become a hot generation of famous generals and virtuous ministers.
Investigate the false name and retreat bravely
Looking back on the past, Fan Li, who is not in the heart of the Tao, is full of emotion: the immortal feat of helping the weak and defeating the strong has finally been completed, and it is time to consider the second spring of life. He has been friends with the big boss Gou Jian for many years, and he knows each other the deepest, knowing that his people can share weal and woe, but they can't share honor. With the cultivation of hegemony, Gou Jian has become more and more difficult to communicate, and is keeping up with the "Lord of Xiongchai Likes to Kill", he and his companion are like a tiger, how can they live a happy life?
For this reason, Fan Li wrote to Gou Jian to resign: "The lord worries about the minister's labor, and the lord humiliates the minister's death." In the past, because of the incompetence of the ministers, the king was humiliated in the state of Wu. The reason why the minister does not die is for today. Now that the Yue country has a great enmity, the minister begs to die! This diplomatic rhetoric-like confession made Gou Jian embarrassed first, and hurriedly said: "If it weren't for the general, how could I be alone today?" Lone is about to share the glory with the general, and the general must not refuse! Otherwise, Lone will be very unhappy, and the consequences will be very serious! Fan Li replied: "The king, you can give an order, please forgive the ministers not to go against their will!" The dialogue of the former intimate monarch and minister CP with such a hidden edge made Fan Li more determined to retire.
Fan Li returned to the house, came to a roll of bread with lightning speed, took the treasure jewel and jade and relatives and private soldiers, and went away on a boat on the waves, and never returned to the Yue country where he had lived for more than 40 years. Gou Jian looked at the empty Fan Mansion, thinking of the unforgettable years spent together, he was also full of emotion, and finally forced himself to press the hatred of the rivers and lakes to chase and kill, and ordered Jishan to be Fan Li's Fengyi.
At this time, Fan Li, who was over sixty years old, naturally would not have any ambiguities with Xi Shi anymore, let alone carry Xi Shi on the five lakes as said in countless romantic legends.
Xi Shi, the initiator of the beauty scheme, is mostly seen in the pre-Qin princes, Mozi once said that "the sinking of Xi Shi, its beauty is also", from which it is not difficult to see the pitiful fate of Xi Shi. Because Gou Jian or Mrs. Gou Jian was worried about repeating the mistakes of the past, she sank Xi Shi into the river after destroying Wu. The poor generation of stunners really turned into a "sinking fish". As for Xi Shi's death of Wu Zhi, it is just a fig leaf for the patriarchal society, and Wang Anshi, who is afraid of internal fame, once reported the grievances, "The ministers are in danger, how can the concubines be the foundation of trouble?" I hope that the king will punish Ya Ya and not worry about Xi Shi in the palace."
Besides, even if Xi Shi is not dead at this time and his face is old, will he still be so attractive to Fan Li? Even if the charm of Xi Shi still exists, the boss is not a small wise man, will he make such an unwise choice for Xi Shi? As everyone knows, Fan Li, a master with a tight mouth, ran away, and he had to add a beautiful woman Xi Shi to run together, so many troubles in Gou Jian were not popular in the world (there are many beauties in front of the door)? If Gou Jian's deeds are not enough, but at this time, Gou Jian has already conquered Huaxia, how can you let them go (the victor is not allowed to have a little flaw, and the fewer people who know the details of the winner, the better)?
The reason why future generations talk about the year-old love between Fan Li and Xi Shi is that in addition to expressing deep regret for the two heroes of Wu and Wu, of course, Li Shi's love is more eye-catching, which can satisfy the infinite imagination of the people who eat melons.
Gou Jian couldn't help Fan Li, so he stared at the literature of the master with resentment. You must know that during Gou Jian's trip to Wu, the major and small affairs of the Yue country were all controlled by the literary species, and the forty years of dedicated dedication have made the Yue people regard the literary species as a part of their own family, and countless Yue fans are only the first to look forward to the literary stallions. The Yue people were eager to defeat Wu and to be able to enjoy the fruits of victory. But after the destruction of Wu, Gou Jian embarked on a road of domination of the world, and vowed to use non-stop war to inflict the humiliation of Wu on the nations, which made the good life that the people of Yue longed for unexpected, and they had to express their hearts to Gou Jian with the help of literature. In the past, Gou Jian, who obeyed the words of the literary genre, had a serious line divergence with the literary genre, and in the eyes of some new favorites of the Yue Kingdom who were jealous of the literary genre, the opportunity to overthrow the literary genre had come.
At this time, Wen received a letter from his friend Fan Li from Qi State, which only wrote a few sentences: "The birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden; The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. The king of Yue is a long-necked bird with a beak, and he can share hardships and hardships, but not prosperity and happiness with him. Why don't you go"? After reading the literature, I had mixed feelings in my heart, and then I thought of the discord between the monarchs and ministers in the court, and decided to call it sick from now on, hoping to fade out of the Yue country**.
However, those guys who didn't like him didn't want to let it go, but slandered the literary conspiracy to rebel, and Gou Jian took the opportunity to give the sword and Wenchong: "At the beginning, you taught Gu Wu the seven techniques, and the lonely only had three techniques to successfully destroy Wu, and the remaining four techniques, please take it underground to help the Yue State Xianjun defeat the Wu State Xianjun!" Wen Chong regretted that he did not listen to Fan Li's advice, and retired early, so he had to commit suicide with hatred. The year was 472 BC.
There is a way to get rich and leave it to future generations
Fan Li got rid of the fetters of the dispute between Wu and Yue, and since then he has been at large. In order to draw a line with yesterday's me, he changed his name to Ouyi Zipi. Why is it called such an awkward name, it is said that "Ouyi" is a bag made of leather, just like the stinky skin that the Buddhists say, "Ouyi Zipi" is the sub-skin hidden in the stinky skin. Some people say that "Zipi" is the real name of Xi Shi, implying Fan Li's infinite pain and nostalgia for Xi Shi who was not rewarded for his merits but was sunk in the river. This may be a bit far-fetched, how can a beautiful woman's name be so tasteless (Shi Yiguang is about the same)? But perhaps it was precisely because of Xi Shi's tragic death that Fan Li could better see Gou Jian's true face and make his intentions more resolute.
Fan Li did business in Qi State, and within a few years, he accumulated huge assets. When the people of Qi, who have always valued business, heard about it, they let him be the prime minister. Fan Li, who was old and strong, didn't work for long for Qi to serve, and sighed: "Business is ten thousand gold, and the official is the prime minister, which is the ultimate of the cloth man." It is ominous to be so honored for a long time! So, he returned Xiangyin, scattered all his wealth, and then secretly went to the pottery land that belonged to the Song Kingdom at that time (in the northwest of present-day Dingtao, Shandong).
Fan Li takes advantage of the geographical advantages of pottery in the world, in accordance with the laws of the market, according to the season, climate, people's feelings, customs and other different factors to govern the industry, people abandon me to take, people take me to give, go with the flow, standby and move, widely carry out **, small profits but quick turnover, and soon become a famous rich man in the world. People respectfully call him "Tao Zhu Gong", and they have asked him for a way to get rich, and his "Eighteen Rules of Management" have become popular all over the world, leaving a legacy for future generations. This article is mainly military content, so I will not expand on it at this time.
Fan Li, who got rich first, still does not change the nature of the rich boy, and from time to time takes out money to help the people around him, and will continue to carry forward the virtue of being rich and benevolent. This also won him more fans in later generations, and won many honors such as God of Wealth and Shang Sheng.
After Fan Li successfully became the richest man in the world, an unexpected thing happened, that is, the second son of the Fan family had a big event in Chu State. Because of the crime of homicide, Fan Er will also be killed. Fan Li is old, and in ancient times with inconvenient transportation, he really couldn't go to Chu to save his son, so he had to let Fan Da go to the rescue, but as soon as Fan Dacai went out, Fan Li said that Fan Er was not saved. Because Fan Li felt that Fan Da had followed him to create a business, suffered hardships, and was a commodity who sacrificed his life and money, so he would not use real gold ** to save Fan Er. If Fan San, who has been clothed and fed since childhood, is allowed to save him, he will definitely spend a lot of money for the second brother. Unfortunately, Fan Li, who was smart for a lifetime, became an afterthought this time, and he had to send Fan Da to save people, and the result can be imagined.
The story is too dramatic to sound reliable. First of all, the time is wrong, the son of Fan Li at that time, no matter how young he was, he would have to be forty miles away, why is he still so impulsive? Secondly, the IQ is wrong, with Fan Li's deep wisdom, how can he be so intelligent in the face of his son's life and death this time, is it not his own business, and his own chaos is chaotic? Again, the result is wrong, Fan Da is reluctant to give up money, and he is also a person who has accompanied his father to start a business, he should know the reason for asking for gifts first when asking for things, and then begging for money after things can't be done. Fan Li is really going to give birth to such a few sons, then the rest of his beautiful life should end early.
In 448 B.C., Fan Li, who was a symbol of wealth, died suddenly at the age of 88.
Fan Li left behind two articles of "Fan Li's Art of War", which have now been dispersed. In the book, Fan Li expounded the simple materialist strategic outlook, advocating that "if you are strong, you will guard against arrogance and be prepared; If it is weak, it will be strong, and it will be on standby". He put forward a flexible and changeable tactical concept, advocating that "the latter should use yin, and the first should use yang; Near is soft, far is rigid", that is, to adopt preemptive tactics must be firm and fast; If you want to strike later, you must be cautious and thorough; When the enemy approaches, you can take the initiative to show weakness first, and then surprise to win; When the enemy is far away, it can be used to scare the enemy with a powerful momentum. He also particularly emphasized the concept of national defense of a rich country and a strong people, and advocated that "if you know how to fight, you will be prepared, and when you use it, you will know things, and if you do both, you will be able to obtain the feelings of all things and observe them." That is, in order to win a war, it is necessary to do a good job in preparing materials for war, but the issue of war preparedness involves all aspects, and first of all, it is necessary to develop production. It was under the guidance of this theory that the Yue Kingdom, under the auspices of Fan Li and Wen Chong, promulgated a series of measures to develop production, enrich the country's military training, and finally defeat the strong with the weak.