In the mobile version of the Three Kingdoms Kill, Wang Ji is actually a very entertaining warrior, not to mention the intensity, playing a card to change a card is really happy. And his lines are also very "chewy", but do you really know what is the story of his line "Tongchuan Gathering Grain, Cutting Wu's Industry, and Being a Step-by-Step Camp"? And why is it said that Wang Ji is not a great Wei loyalist? Let's start with Wang Ji's life.
Wang Ji (王基), zi Bo you, a native of Donglaiqu City. When Wang Ji was seventeen years old, he served as a governor of Donglai County, and later the imperial court recruited Wang Ji as a secretary Lang, but his superior Wang Ling was impeached by Wang Lang because he coveted to take advantage of Wang Ji's governance ability and relied on him. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, The Biography of Wang Ji, Wang Lang said this at the time:
"The goodness of all the courtiers is elevated to the rank of gongfu, and the goodness of the public servants is entered into the royal office, which is the courtesy of the ancient Hou Bo. Imashu took the guard's minister, the official of the secret cabinet, and so on. ”
In general, it means, "All local officials who are excellent should be promoted to the county government; if there are excellent officials in the county government, they should be recommended to the imperial court." But Wang Ling still wouldn't let anyone go.
Later, Wang Ji was recruited by Sima Yi and promoted to Zhongshu Shilang. Later, he served as the Taishou of Anfeng. Because the governance of the prefecture and county was strict and the defense was strict, Sun Wu did not dare to invade.
Sun Wu gathered a large army at Jianye and threatened to attack Yangzhou. And Wang Ji said that now That Lu Xun and other veteran generals are dead, Sun Quan is also old, there are no able ministers and heirs inside, and there is a lack of wise military divisions in the army. Sun Quan wanted to personally lead the army to attack, but he was afraid of internal chaos, the veteran general was almost dead, and the new general did not trust him. He just wanted to use this to arrange his cronies and attack and defend. Later, Sun Quan really did not attack. The record of the Three Kingdoms ends here, and it is not known why Chen Shou did not record Wang Ji's later life.
Wang Ji soon became the Assassin of Jingzhou, the general of Jiayang Lie, and followed the General Wang Chang of Zhengnan in his campaign against Sun Wu. Wang Ji pretended to pose as an attacking frame, but in fact he divided his troops to attack Xiong's father's granary, captured more than 300,000 grain, captured Sun Wu'anbei's general Tan Zheng, and received thousands of surrenders, and he placed these surrenders in Yiling County.
Wang Ji also urged Wang Chang to make Jiangxia the head of the country and press Xiakou. Since then, Wu Jun has not dared to cross the river lightly. He affirmed the etiquette system, straightened out the order of the army, and restored school teaching, which was praised by the southern scholars. At that time, the imperial court was discussing preparations for a large-scale attack on Wu, and Wang Ji was ordered to discuss how to attack.
Wang Ji held a different view on the dispatch of troops, and if he sent troops but could not win, he would not only lose his prestige, but also consume money. Now Jiangling has thousands of acres of fertile land, anlu around, there are also fertile fields, if agriculture is the mainstay, nourish the strength and storage, and then lead the army to attack Jiangling and Yiling, occupy Xiakou respectively, and transport grain along the depressed water and Zhangshui.
The enemy is bound to be difficult to attack, and more and more people will abandon the dark and cast the light. If you unite the rebel forces within Eastern Wu, the strongholds above Xiakou will certainly be able to be captured, and the prefectures and counties outside the Yangtze River will not be able to hold it. Since then, Wu Shu's traffic has been cut off, and isn't Wu Guo the turtle in an urn?
Next is Wang Ji's highlight, the Three Rebellions of Huainan. After the Gaopingling Incident, the Cao clique lost all power in the central government. However, its local power was not greatly affected, especially at that time, the local military power was mostly controlled by pro-Cao forces. The central government was mainly stolen by the Sima clan, so the central government was bent on weakening local forces, and the three rebellions in Huainan were born in this context.
And Wang Ji did not show any performance in the first rebellion against Wang Ling, so we started with the second rebellion of Yuqiu Jian. In the second year of the Reign (255), Yuqiu Jian and Wen Qin rebelled against Sima Shi, and the imperial court appointed Wang Ji as the overseer of the army, commanding the Xuchang army and joining sima shi. Many people believe that Yuqiu Jian and Wen Qin are brave and invincible, and it is difficult to compete with them.
However, Wang Ji believed that the rebellion in Huainan was not a rebellion by the local officials, but was threatened by Yuqiu Jian, who was afraid of being killed in front of him, and that Yiqiu Jian's army did not drive straight in, which meant that his army was alienated from Germany. At this time, it was a bluff, showing the prestige of the army. Nanton should be occupied quickly, with the help of the large granary supply of Nanton, creating a pioneering momentum.
Wang Ji repeatedly asked for war, and the imperial court let him occupy Haoshui, Wang Ji once again attacked Nanton, but Sima Shi hoped to wait for all the armies to arrive before sending troops. So Wang Ji took matters into his own hands and captured Nanton, and Yuqiu Jian saw that Nanton had been lost, so he had to retreat to Xiangdi. And Yuqiu Jian went to attack Deng Ai again, wang Ji knew that they had dispersed their forces, so he led his troops to attack Xiangdi, and Yuqiu Jian failed.
Yuqiu Jian failed, and Sima Shi continued to divide the Qiang domain, at this time, Zhuge Zhi of Huainan became a major problem for Sima Shi's confidants. Originally, although Zhuge Shi was a force of the Cao clan, he helped the imperial court quell the first two rebellions, but sima shi did not let him go. At this time, Sima Zhao was sitting in the imperial court, and his biggest trouble was that he could not find a reason to kill Zhuge Birthday. Jia Chong returned from Huainan and said to Sima Zhao:
"Born in Yangzhou again, there is prestige, and the people are looking forward to it." This march will not come. The misfortune is shallow; if it is not levied, the matter is delayed and the disaster is great. ”
To put it simply, give him sweetness, promotion, let him come to the central government, he certainly does not dare to come. Sure enough, Zhuge Zhi immediately rebelled against the water, at this time, Sun Wu sent the general Zhu Yi to rescue Zhuge Shi and garrison Ancheng. Wang Ji was asked to lead an army to transfer and occupy The Northern Mountains, but he could not hold on, because he believed that if he moved to hold on to dangerous places, people's hearts would be shaken and the established situation would be destroyed.
Zhuge Shi ultimately failed, and Sima Zhao wrote to Wang Ji saying:
"The general deeply calculates the stakes, holds firm in his will, disobeys the edicts, rejects the public opinion, and finally controls the enemy birds and thieves, although the ancients said, it is not excessive."
That is to say, "the original speakers were cloudy, and there were a lot of people who asked for the transfer of troops." At that time, I did not come to the front and listened to their arguments. His Excellency the General, with his deep interests and determination, struggled to withstand the pressure of the generals, and even disobeyed the commandments, and finally defeated the enemy. ”
In Cao Wei, Zhuge Shi was loyal to the State of Wei, dissatisfied with the Sima brothers' abuse of power, rebelled against Wei and defected to Wu, and as a result, he fought a bloody battle with Sima Zhao in Shouchun, where he was defeated and killed, and Sima Zhao destroyed the three tribes of Zhuge Zhao. Similarly, the three rebellions in Huainan were actually rebellions initiated by people loyal to the Cao clan, who had long ago guarded Huainan and defended the frontier for the Cao clan, but the central government had long been out of their center.
Therefore, loyal to the monarch, they rebelled, and when Chen Shou wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he did not judge them and Sima Shi as loyal or adulterous, but only wrote about their lives.
For Wang Ji, from the moment he left Donglai County, it was always Sima Shi's people who pulled him. First sima yi, then Sima Shi, and finally Sima Zhao, it can be said that Wang Ji's Great Wei was not Cao Cao's Great Wei, but Sima Shi's Great Wei. In other words, Wang Ji was not actually a member of Cao Wei, but a member of the Sima family, and Wang Ji was never loyal to the State of Wei.
The concept of loyalty played a more or less role in the rise of Wang Ling and Wu Qiujian, while the rise of the army of Guan Zhuge was entirely due to the coercion of the Sima regime against it, and the concept of loyalty to the king has become a child's play in the hearts of the scholars. It may be that since then, the concept of loyalty has ceased to exist, the scholars have parted ways in the concept of loyalty, the rebellion of the Eight Kings at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the clans of the gate valves and the imperial power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the bloody political struggles during the Southern Dynasty are all greatly related to the further dilution of the idea of loyalty during the Wei and Jin dynasties.
However, to tell the truth, the three rebellions in Huainan actually had little to do with Wang Ji. Because the equality of these three rebellions does not depend on the decisions of the generals, but on the disparity in strength between the two sides. The Huainan side had fewer troops, and they were all centrifugal, and the Central Army crushed the enemy with twice or more of its numbers each time. However, the general was not Wang Ji, and it was very difficult for Sima Shi to lose.
Unless Zhuge Shi chose to resist at the beginning, unfortunately, Zhuge Shi may have thought that Sima Shi would not attack him. There are many interesting things about the three rebellions in Huainan, such as why are the rebellions in Huainan? Huainan rebelled, so why not remove Cao's people? Why was Sima Shi able to gather so many troops? If you are interested, we can break it down next time.
If you were Wang Ji, would you be on the side of the Sima clan, who had the grace of knowing you, or would you be on the side of the cao clan, the true monarch of the country?
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