Are Wu State and Yue State considered as the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period? Why did these two countries disappear during the Warring States Period? Where did they go?

The so-called five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period refers to the five vassal states that ruled China in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, due to the sharp decline of Zhou's power, it was impossible to manage and restrain the vassal state, so the powerful vassal state replaced Zhou to manage the world, and at the same time attacked foreigners, barbarians, Rong and Rong in all directions to maintain and respect Zhou's position.

There are many sayings about the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period, and different books have different sayings, but there is a saying like this: According to the historical book Xunzi Wang Ba, the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period were Qi Huangong, Jin Wengong, Chu Zhuangwang, He Lv, the king of Wu, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue.

At least two conditions can be called overlord:

First, it is strong.

Second, the princes formed an alliance and were recognized by them.

So, can Heyue, located on the southeast coast of China, be called the overlord?

Wu is a vassal state with the surname of Ji, and is the same clan, but it has not been enfeoffed. Wu's ancestor is uncle Taibo. It turns out that Zhou's inheritance system is the eldest son inheritance system. However, Zhou Wenwang's grandfather liked his grandson Jichang and later Zhou Wenwang, so he passed his position on to Zhou Wenwang's father. Since then, Zhou's throne has passed, and then his uncle and uncle left Zhou and went to Wuyuedi in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Wu was not formally enfeoffed as a vassal state until the fifth monarch period. Later, Wu gradually developed and expanded. The core territory of Wu tradition is today's Taihu Lake, including the Jiangnan area of Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province, as well as the northern areas of Zhejiang Province and Shanghai. The capital is in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province today, and the most prosperous period of Wu State is the Helu period.

Wu's system of succession to the throne is strange. After He Lv's grandfather died, He Lv's father, Zhu Fan, succeeded to the throne. /kloc-After Zhu Fan died in 0/3, his second uncle Lu acceded to the throne. After his second uncle died, his third uncle became king again. After his third uncle died, his fourth uncle refused to be the king. As a result, his uncle's son Wu Wangliao acceded to the throne, and Wu Wangliao was He Lv's cousin, He Lv.

During the reign of He Lv, the king of Wu, Wu Zixu, a famous minister, and Sun Wu, a famous strategist, were reused, which made the State of Wu rapidly powerful. Later, with the help of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, He Lv, the king of Wu, joined forces with Cai and Tang to defeat the powerful Chu State in the Battle of the White Horse. At that time, He Lv, the king of Wu, led 30,000 Wu Jun and defeated 20 Wan Chu armies, which was a famous battle in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

Subsequently, He Lv invaded the capital of Chu with Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, and fought with Chu five times, and Wu defeated Chu greatly. This is the first time since the founding of Chu, and it is not easy for Wu to defeat the capital of Chu with less. This battle was held throughout the Spring and Autumn Period, and the capital of a thousand cities was only broken once. So Wu was famous at that time and became a bully in the southeast.

Later, in the battle with Yue, he died of a toe injury. After the death of He Lu, his son Fu Cha became the king of Wu, and Fu Cha was regarded as the overlord in some historical books. At the same time, Fu Cha also has an identity, that is, the last monarch of Wu.

When Fu Cha became Wu Hou, he led the army to attack Vietnam for the first time, and Gou Jian was defeated by Fu Cha. At the suggestion of He, Gou Jian was forced to bear the humiliation and become a slave in exchange for Fu Cha's immortality. After Fu Cha defeated Yue, he began to fight for hegemony in the north. In 484 BC, Fu Cha led an army to the Northern Expedition of Qi, in the battle of Yiling.

After this battle, Qi was badly weakened and Wu became a world power again. In the second year after the war of Aileen, Fu Cha joined forces with the monarchs of Lu and Wei, and another year later, Fu Cha joined forces with the vassal states of the Central Plains again in Huangchi to dominate the princes. But at this time, after many years of recuperation, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, took advantage of the Northern Expedition Alliance of Wu, sent troops to attack Wu and killed Prince Fu Cha.

At this time, Wu has begun to weaken. A few years later, the State of Yue attacked Wu several times, and finally defeated Wu completely in 473 BC. Fu Cha didn't want to be humiliated, so he drew his sword and committed suicide. Later, the State of Wu was destroyed by Yue.

The main reasons for the demise of the State of Wu are: the belligerence of He Lv and Fu Cha. He Lu's life is a life of war, and so is his son Fu Cha. Although Wu always fought in the southeast, he overdrawn his strength. In addition, the fundamentals of Wu are not as good as those of Chu, Qi and Jin. After the military struggle of two generations of kings, the strength of Wu declined rapidly and the population was sparse. Wu's entire army.

If we must say that Wu was one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period, then if we add up the achievements of Lu and Fu Cha, we will have hegemony, that is, we will have an alliance and the strength of confrontation, which will defeat the great powers Chu and Qi as well as Yue, but this hegemony can only be regarded as partial hegemony.

Let's talk about Yue State first. It was the last overlord in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Yue is a vassal state with a surname of Si and one of the eight ancient surnames. Yue's ancestor was Wu Yu, the illegitimate son of Shao Kang, the sixth monarch of Xia Dynasty, who was also a descendant of Yu. It was sealed in Huiji and later created in Huiji. The Vietnam region is today's Shaoxing, Zhejiang, including the Zhejiang area south of Shaoxing and the whole Fujian Province.

When the State of Yue spread to Gou Jian's generation, it became powerful. In particular, Gou Jian put up with humiliation and used two famous players, Fan Li and Wen Zi. Although Gou Jian was defeated by Wu Wang Fu Cha in the Battle of Fujiao, Gou Jian endured humiliation, surrendered to Fu Cha on the surface, and made great efforts to develop Yue economy. Twenty years later, Gou Jian adopted seven strategies to conquer Wu.

After the demise of Wu, Gou Jian not only inherited the population and land of Wu, but also inherited the hegemony of Wu. Along the route of Fu Cha, the king of Wu, he also went north to Xuzhou, where he joined the princes of Qi and Lu, and was recognized by Zhou Yuanwang, the then King of Zhou. Zhou Yuanwang gave Gou Jian a piece of meat and admitted that Yue State was the "Bo" among China governors, that is, the length of governors, which means hegemony.

After Gou Jian, from his great-grandson, Zhu Gou, there appeared the phenomenon of his son regicide, which caused more and more serious civil strife. Zhu Gou killed his father and became the King of Yue. After Zhu Gou died, his son succeeded to the throne. In his later years, Zhu Gou was killed by his own son, and as a result, Yue Ren was killed again.

Wu Jiang, the sixth grandson of Gou Jian, wanted to restore Gou Jian's hegemony, but without Gou Jian's strength and ability, Wu Jiang led an army to attack Qi. However, he was deceived by the emissary of Qi, who tricked him into attacking Chu for various reasons, saying that Qi had led an army to prepare for the attack. Wujiang believed the words of the Yue emissary, so he personally led an army to attack Chu, and was finally attacked by Chu.

Later, Chu took the opportunity to attack, wiped out Yue State and occupied most of its territory, especially the territory of the former Wu State and the core area of Yue State. The King of Yue died without a prince, and the country fell into civil strife after he was killed. Coupled with the attack of Chu, the descendants of the King of Yue fled to the southeast coast, and established the regimes of wuyue, Yangyue, Dongou and Minyue. Later, after Qin Shihuang unified the world, he sent troops to attack.

The reason for the demise of Yue State is: arrogance. Gou Jian destroyed Wu with less than 50 thousand troops, almost all the troops of Yue State. Wuyue's biggest problem is that its population is too small, and its economy is even more backward. The king of Yue had no strength to compete with the vassal states of the Central Plains, so he had to attack the country of Chu, which was a thousand times his own, and more than 500,000 troops were available at any time. Not to mention Chu, even Qi was not easily defeated by Yue, just the population.

Wu perished in 473 BC, at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and Yue perished in 333 BC, at the middle of the Warring States Period.