He Lv, King of Wu, was the monarch of Wu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. His surname is Ji, and his name is Mingguang, also known as Gongziguang. The son of King Wu and the father of Fu Cha became King Wu in 5 14 BC and died in 496 BC.
Zhu Fan didn't have a crown prince before his death, but after his death, he passed the throne on to his younger brother, not his son He Lv, and set a strange ancestral rule. My brother is the heir of my brother, and my brother's eldest nephew inherits the throne. Finally, the throne passed from one generation to another, reaching the hands of Zhu Fan's third brother, Yumei. I want to pass the throne to my brother Ji Zha. These people are for Ji Zha, but Ji Zha still refuses to accept the throne.
Originally, I died and refused to be a prince, so the throne should be He Lv's, but my son Liao actually stood on his own as the prince, and He Lv passed the position of the prince.
He Lv was resentful and intended to assassinate Wu Wangliao, so he found the assassin Zhuan Xu, hid the dagger in the belly of a fish, killed Wu Wangliao, and made him sit on the throne of the Prince.
He Lv has great political courage. He not only took Wu Zixu, an old minister of Chu, as a prime minister, but also took Sun Wu, a Qi man, as a general. He dared to confront the powerful Chu State, and even beat the Chu State to death! He Lv determined the political strategy of first breaking the strong Chu and then serving the country.
In 496 BC, in the Battle of Li between the State of Wu and the State of Yue, He Lv was chopped and seriously injured by the doctors of the State of Yue and died.
In order to build his father's mausoleum, Focha recruited 654.38 million migrant workers to carry earth and stone with elephants. It took three years to build He Lv's tomb. According to records, He Lu's tomb is "three floors, with mercury as the pool and gold and jade as the geese", thus attracting countless grave robbers to find out.
However, He Lu loved swords before his death. When he was buried, Fu Cha buried 3,000 famous swords such as "Zhu Bian" and "Fish Intestine" in He Lu's tomb. Yue Jue Shu records: "He Lu's tomb is at the foot of Huqiu Mountain, with a pool of 60 steps and a water depth of 10 feet and 5 feet." He Lu's main tomb is hidden under the pool of three thousand swords.
It is said that Fu Cha was worried that craftsmen would reveal the secrets of He Lv's tomb, so he killed thousands of people. Their blood dyed the stones there red, and they are still purple-brown, so they are called "Thousand Stones" by the world.
Presumably, the primary purpose of Fu Cha burying He Lu under the sword pool must be for his father, so that he can have his favorite sword after his death, and the second purpose is to stop grave robbers. Maybe feng shui.
When Helv was killed by the Yue people, Fu Cha firmly remembered the revenge of killing his father. Later, he led the troops to defeat the state of Yue and captured Gou Jian, the king of Yue. In order to make Gou Jian atone, Fu Cha specially punished him for washing and cooking for the craftsmen who built He Lv's tomb and doing all kinds of coolies. Until three years later, when He Lv's tomb was built, Fu Cha thought that Gou Jian had no fighting spirit, ignored Wu Zixu's dissuasion, and let him go back to Yue, which led to the disaster of national ruin and death.