Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 584

"The high platform of the palace?"

Qing Ji narrowed his eyes, noncommittal.

"Exactly!"

Shen Baoxu beckoned, motioning for an attendant outside the Zide Hall to enter, then opened a scroll map, and asked the CRRC official who was standing aside to hand it over.

When Qingji was looking at the blueprint, Shen Baoxu said again, "My lord, this is the blueprint of the high platform."

"This platform is three hundred feet high and 84 feet wide, and there are nine winding roads to climb up the stairs."

"After it is completed, the king will be able to enjoy the scenery of lakes, mountains and countryside within a radius of [-] miles from the towering high platform.

"Flowers of the four seasons and fruits of eight festivals should be planted around the high platform, spanning five miles. There should be a spiritual hall, a heavenly pond dug, a river opened, a dragon boat built, and prey surrounded for the king's leisurely enjoyment..."

To be honest, Qingji was a little bit moved.

Who doesn't want their house to be resplendent?

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Chu has ordered three thousand carpenters to go to the mountains to cut wood, and they didn't return for a year. They felled a large amount of high-quality wood."

Shen Baoxu continued to confuse, saying: "Among them there is a pair of giant trees that are twenty meters wide and forty feet high. One is a spotted catalpa tree, and the other is a stalked nan tree. The wood is strong and straight."

"The Duke of Chu ordered the craftsmen to carve it into a large pillar with a dragon pattern, painted with blue paint, inlaid with white jade, and carved with gold in different colors. The golden light is shining and bizarre."

"In addition, the Duke of Chu also ordered people to process all the harvested good materials, and it was the ministers who offered them to the king to build magnificent palaces and high platforms."

"If your majesty doesn't use it, wouldn't it be a waste of everything?"

Can't be wasted!

Don't waste it!
Qingji was still quite hesitant.

He knew that all the Chu people did was to consume their national power, indulge in wine and sex, and indulge in traveling in the mountains and rivers.

How could Qingji be fooled?

In other words, the same is true of Goujian's nine techniques of defeating Wu used by Goujian in history.

Gou Jian knew well that Fu Chai, the king of Wu, liked to build palaces and pavilions, so he used the "strategy of defeating Wu" in the language of Fuguo Dafu.

Dedicating a lot of money to the king and his officials of the state of Wu made them obsessed with money and lose their vigilance against Yue.

Send beautiful women to wear down the will of King Wu, send skilled craftsmen and good building materials, let Wu Guoda build palaces and high towers, exhaust his resources and exhaust his people's strength.

Goujian, the King of Yue, used these methods to win by strategy, and did not spend much effort to fight tough battles, so that Fu Chai, the King of Wu, fell into the trap designed by him unknowingly, and fell deeper and deeper...

King Fuchai of Wu once built a resplendent Gusu Terrace.

Fucha spends his days drinking and drinking there all day long, ignoring the government affairs. Wherever he goes, there are pavilions, towers and pavilions.

Wherever you live, there are concubines, maids, and court prostitutes to serve you. In order to make it easier for the King of Wu to visit at any time, he "made a winding road to climb up" from the mountain to build a special winding road to Xumen in Wucheng, the capital.

I don't know how much blood and sweat of the Li people were spent on building this high platform, and how much money was plundered from the people.

"Wuyue Spring and Autumn" Volume [-] "Goujian Conspiracy Biography" contains: It makes the roads often have dead people, the streets and alleys are crying, the people are sleepy, and the soldiers are suffering...

When Fuchai, king of Wu, was indulging in joy and luxury with the beauties, the state of Yue attacked Wu.

Three years before and after, the Vietnamese army besieged Wu Guocheng, causing Wu Guocheng to cut off food and cooking, the people of the country were famine, and the soldiers were unable to fight and were vulnerable.

The Yue soldiers entered easily and quickly occupied the city of Wu.

Just when the Yue soldiers attacked, Fu Chai, king of Wu, led his cronies and fled to Mount Gusu in embarrassment.

When they were dying, they were besieged in the mountains by the Yue soldiers who were chasing them. There was no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. Wu Wangfu ordered Sun Luo to seek peace but failed.

Fu Chai, the king of Wu, looked up to the sky and sighed, regretting that he had not listened to Wu Zixu's advice, which led him to such a situation, so he covered his face with a large scarf and killed himself.

Gusu Terrace, built by Fu Chai with eight years of hard work, was burned by the Vietnamese soldiers and turned into ruins...

How could Qingji not take it as a warning?
"Shenzi, please express my gratitude to Duke Chu on behalf of the widow. I appreciate his kindness."

Qingji finally overcame the huge temptation, waved his hands and said: "However, my country of Wu is now full of various projects, and the people's strength has already been exhausted."

"The widow is the king of Wu, the king of a country. Don't just care about your own enjoyment and let the people of the country fall into dire straits."

Hearing this, Shen Baoxu could only look complicated, and sighed, "King Rende!"

To be honest, Qingji was also thinking about building some detached palaces like Gusu Terrace while the Wu Palace was being expanded.

What is "Li Palace"?
The Li Palace is a palace outside the main palace for the emperor to live in when he is on tour.

The monarchs of the Chu Kingdom successively built a large number of palaces and gardens, such as Zhu Palace, Qiangtai, Paoju Terrace, Wuren Terrace, Layer Terrace, Diaotai Terrace, Xiaoqu Terrace, Wule Terrace, Jiuchong Terrace, Jing Terrace, and Zhanghua Terrace. , Qianxi Terrace, Jiantai, Yangyun Terrace, Lantai Palace, etc.

Among them, the most famous is the Zhanghua Palace built during the period of King Ling of Chu.

This grand building, which was "run by the whole country and completed in a few years", was hailed as "the first platform in the world" at that time!
Zhanghua Terrace is 10 feet high and 15 feet wide. It climbs up the curved railing and has to rest three times in the middle to reach the apex, so it is also called "Sanxiu Terrace".

And because King Ling of Chu especially liked thin-waisted women singing and dancing in the palace, many court ladies ate less and endured hunger in order to flatter the king, so it was also called "Slim-waisted Palace".

If Qingji wanted to build Gusu Terrace, it would be even more exaggerated.

Lutai and Zhanghuatai, in front of Gusutai, are just insignificant!

……

Qingji, who returned to the harem, brought Zheng Dan and Yuanluo to the palace where his younger sister Mrs. Jiang lived.

They are all old Yue people, and when the villagers see the villagers, their eyes are full of tears.

Especially Yi Guang, after meeting Zheng Dan, whom he hadn't seen for many years, couldn't help crying...

The two played together since they were young, but they escaped each other in the battle of Wu Miyue and never saw each other again.

In the past ten years, how can we not feel sorry for each other?
As for Yuanluo, she turned out to be the daughter of the great Sima Shimai of the Yue Kingdom, and she didn't have much hatred for Qingji.

After the fall of the Yue Kingdom, Qingji never killed the nobles of the Yue Kingdom like Shi Mai, and treated them with courtesy and did not treat them badly.

"Your Majesty..."

Zheng Dan, whose mood had stabilized, couldn't help wiping away his tears, and said to Qing Ji, choked with sobs: "This time Chu State dedicated me and Yuan Luo to your Majesty, it was actually out of good intentions, please be careful, Your Majesty... "

"Everybody knows."

Qing Ji chuckled lightly and said, "It's just a beauty trick. As for whether to accept it or not, that is the widow's own business."

"Zheng Dan, you and Yuanluo are living in the Wu Palace, if you need anything, just tell the queen."

"Thank you king!"

Want to seduce Qingji with a beauty trick?
The people of Chu are still fantasizing.

Qing Ji, who is already in his thirties, has completed his transformation, how can he be so easily confused?

(End of this chapter)