Familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, we have to admit that although Zhuge Liang, the Shu Emperor, has been praised by the world for thousands of years, he is a man rather than a god after all, and there are many places that should be criticized. For example, he lacked the wisdom to know people, not only misused a lot of mediocre talents like Ma Mo, but also buried or even wrongfully killed many great talents, such as Wei Yan, Liu Feng, and so on. The protagonist we want to talk about today is also one of the great talents who was unjustly killed by Zhuge Liang. He was none other than Peng Xi.
Peng Xi was a famous scholar in Yizhou, because his emotional intelligence was very low, and he was reduced to a slave as early as Liu Zhang's time. Later, liu bei entered Yizhou, and he was jointly recommended by Pang Tong and Fazheng, and was appointed by Liu Bei to serve in zhizhong. Liu Bei greatly recognized his ability, "counting orders to propagate the military, instructing the generals, giving the envoys the will, and meeting Rijia." However, Zhuge Liang felt that Peng Xi was a madman with a "big heart" and could not be reused, so he often made small reports to Liu Bei. After following Zhuge Liang's advice, Liu Bei began to alienate Peng Xi and even demoted him out of Yizhou.
This made it difficult for Peng Xi to accept, so before he left, he went to find Ma Chao, who was also undesirable, to drink alcohol, and finally said a sentence "Qing is outside, I am inside, the world is not determined", there is a suspicion of rebellion, ma Chao was denounced, so he was finally executed. Peng Xi was only a strategist, and he was also a strategist who would leave the center of power, and he could not make any waves at all. Moreover, since he took the initiative to defect to Liu Bei, he probably did not have any thoughts of rebellion, but just wanted to reflect his own value. However, no one thought about this, and Peng Xi was eventually killed, so we said that his death was an unjust killing. So, who is primarily responsible for his wrongful killing? Next, let's analyze it together.
1. Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang's influence on Peng Xi's unjust murder ran through the whole process--he first proposed that Peng Xi's "great ambitions and broad ambitions were difficult to protect", which led to Liu Bei alienating him and even ordering him to be demoted from Yizhou; after Peng Xi was imprisoned, he wrote to Zhuge Liang to explain the matter and asked for forgiveness, Zhuge Liang was indifferent; even peng Xi was eventually executed, perhaps there was also Zhuge Liang's "credit", so Zhuge Liang was very responsible for Peng Xi's death.
Second, Ma Chao
In this matter, although Ma Chao's responsibility was not as good as Zhuge Liang's, it was not much--Peng Xian came to him to drink alcohol, and originally he might have just wanted to complain, but he took the initiative to arch his fire, saying, "Qing cai has a beautiful pull, the lord and the prince treat each other most seriously, saying that Qing should be in harmony with Kong Ming and Xiao Zhi, and it is better to be a foreign county, and lose people's expectations." "This means that you are capable of excellence, and the lord also values you, and feels that you are inferior to Zhuge Liang and Fa zheng, and now you are actually going to demote you out of Yizhou. His words seemed to be completely on Peng Xi's side, so Peng Xi also used the strength of wine to "speak freely", first saying that Liu Bei might be confused, and then saying that there was a suspicion of rebellion.
At this time, Ma Chao did not dare to continue to answer, after all, he seemed to be in a high position in Shu Han, but he had no real power, and he could not be trusted by Liu Bei, so he could only "always be worried". Therefore, in order to protect himself, he chose to betray Peng Xi. That is to say, he "induced" Peng Xi to say a great disrespectful word, and then betrayed this "ally", and eventually caused Peng Xi to be imprisoned and killed.
3. Liu Bei
Liu Bei seems to have not participated in this matter from beginning to end, but he also has to bear a lot of responsibility, after all, whether it is Zhuge Liang making a small report and dividing his relationship with Peng Xian; or Ma Chao reporting that Peng Xi is suspected of rebellion, how to make a decision in the end, he needs to make a decision. That is to say, the person who really decided the tragic fate of Peng Xi was actually Liu Bei.
4. Peng Xi
Of course, the person who bears the main responsibility for this matter must belong to Peng Xi himself, so why do you say this? First of all, Peng Xi's own emotional intelligence is very low, and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms mentions that Liu Bei had just begun to reuse him, and he began to drift, and even "all kinds of arrogance, self-conceited to meet the trouble", when Zhuge Liang planned to strictly grasp the officials of Yizhou, he himself bumped into it, how could Zhuge Liang let it go?
Secondly, although he and Ma Chao are not ambitious, but the two do not have too deep friendship, and Ma Chao's disloyalty and injustice have long been known, but he took the initiative to find Ma Chao to say these easy to misunderstand things, and finally was reported, which is really self-inflicted. Moreover, although he did not have the conditions for rebellion, what he said was indeed very disrespectful, and he did not know how to be careful in his words and deeds in the official field, even without Zhuge Liang and Ma Chao, it would probably not last long.
All the information in this article comes from books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Notes on the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms", and the editor guarantees the authenticity of the content, without any innuendo or politics.