Zhang Yi's diplomatic genius is second to none in the Zongheng family, and of course, his ability to deceive in diplomacy is also second to none. His most famous deed was to deceive King Huai of Chu three times and twice.
When King Huai of Chu served as Chancellor of Wei, he already hated Zhang Yi quite a bit, and had planned to ask the King of Wei to expel Zhang Yi. After Zhang Yi returned to Qin and was restored to the state of Qin, the state of Qi assisted the state of Chu in attacking Qin, and Zhang Yi intended to destroy the Alliance of Qi and Chu, so he personally entered the "Tiger's Den" to lobby King Huai of Chu.
Stills of King Huai of Chu
Zhang Yi was accustomed to playing a two-sided trick in front of the King of Chu Huai, and he cleverly tricked the King of Chu Huai into breaking off relations with the State of Qi with "six hundred miles in the land of Commerce", and in the end Zhang Yi was only willing to give six miles. King Huai of Chu was furious and defeated Du Ling.
King Huai of Chu could be said to hate Zhang Yi to the bone, and he only wanted Zhang Yi to be ashamed, but he did not want to get the land. The image of this pair of wrongdoers in the "Warring States Policy" jumped on the paper.
It can be seen from this that what the "Warring States Policy" wants to present to us is: an emissary of an enemy country who is sincere on the surface but actually harbors a ghost fetus, and a dimwitted monarch who is happy and does not know that disaster is coming.
In fact, the most vivid image of Zhang Yi in the "Warring States Policy", in addition to "Qi Assisting Chu to Attack Qin", there are also "Zhang Yi's Chu Poverty", "Chu Xu Wei Six Cities" and "Zhang Yi's Residual Li Disease", which the author will describe separately.
Zhang Yizhi was poor
Zhang Yi's dilemma when she first arrived in the Chu state was "poor". For he had run out of possessions, and the people who followed him were angry and wanted to leave him. Zhang Yi entered the palace to meet King Huai of Chu, and at first he was snubbed by king Chu.
Zhang Yi threw herself into the favor of King Huai of Chu, used "color" as bait, and pretended to search for beautiful women in the land of the Three Jins, deceiving King Huai of Chu with a large amount of pearls and jade. Not only that, when King Huai of Chu's favorite concubines Nanhou and Zheng Gui heard about this, they quickly bribed Zhang Yi - "Nanhou occasionally has gold thousands of pounds, and enters them left and right", "Zheng Gui also uses five hundred pounds of gold".
When it was time to leave, Zhang Yi specially came to the King of Chu Huai to drink and say goodbye, and he said falsely: "The world is closed, and the unknown sees the sun." May the king give you a good look", and then specially asked the king of Chu Huai to call a few close beauties to drink together, and the king of Chu Huai summoned Nanhou and Zheng Gui. Zhang Yi saw these two beauties, and quickly prayed again: "Yixing is biased in the world, and I have never seen people so beautiful."
Because of this, Zhang Yi brazenly defrauded a large amount of property from the King of Chu Huai and the beauty, and instantly turned from poor to rich.
Zhang Yi stills
The characters created in this article are distinct and witty. It can be seen that Zhang Yi is a scheming person, and the King of Chu Huai and the beauties are trapped in his schemes, and the whole text runs through a witty and feminine atmosphere.
Chu Xu Wei Six Cities
Zhang Yi often cheated in terms of diplomatic tactics, such as the "Six Cities of Chu Xu and Wei".
The State of Qi took advantage of the loss of the State of Yan to cut down Yan, and the State of Chu promised to give the State of Wei six cities and jointly cut down Qi. Zhang Yi wanted to sabotage this matter, so he first started from the situation of various countries, intending to persuade the King of Wei to retreat. Unfortunately, the King of Wei did not heed his advice.
As a result, Zhang Yi created the illusion that the Qin state and the Republic of Korea wanted to join forces to attack the State of Wei. He said, "Qin wants to save Qi, and Han wants to attack Nanyang." Qin and Han wanted to attack Nanyang, which was no different."
Zhang Yi took advantage of the famine in Korea to persuade the King of Han to transport grain outside the river for the starving people to eat. Because the land outside the river was close to Korea, the King of Wei thought that Korea would gather an army. Taking advantage of this incident, Zhang Yi again deceived the King of Wei and said, "Han wants to attack Nanyang."
Zhang Yi then lied to the King of Wei, saying: "The King of Han will use whether the State of Wei and the State of Qin are good friends as the basis and prediction of his actions. If the State of Wei does not make peace with the State of Qin, then Korea will unite with the State of Qin to attack Wei."
The King of Wei was frightened by Zhang Yi, and he quickly ordered the withdrawal from the alliance of Chu, Zhao, and Qi. We all know that among the seven heroes of the Warring States, the Qin state is the strongest, the Chu state is the largest, and the Qi state is the richest, and the situation at this time is that "the Qin state is called emperor, and the chu state is called king."
It is conceivable that the State of Qin certainly did not want to see the State of Chu unite its allies to attack the rich State of Qi, otherwise it would be to watch the State of Chu continue to expand its power.
Zhang Yi destroyed the opponent's alliance for the sake of the Qin state, but when Ming failed, he used secret means to deceive, and finally succeeded in tricking the King of Wei into submission.
Zhang Yi's crippled disease
What we see most from the "Warring States Policy" is the image of Zhang Yishan making tricks and cheating repeatedly. For example, he once designed to frame Kirito.
Zhang Yi first pretended to respect Li Li and asked him to send an envoy to the Chu Kingdom, so that King Huai of Chu could also respect him. Then he asked King Huai of Chu to make a request to King Hui of Qin: to use Li Li as the Xiangguo of the Qin State.
At this time, Zhang Yi took action, and he began to frame Li Li in front of King Hui of Qin, and he made up a rumor: "I heard that Li Li Yi once said to the King of Chu: 'Do you want to make Zhang Yi in trouble in the Qin Kingdom?'" Please let me help you. ’”
Next, Based on rumors, Zhang Yi launched a reasonable deduction and confirmed the charge of "treason" by Li Li. He said, "If he appoints Li Li as xiangguo, then he will definitely take the qin state to serve the king of Chu." And what persuaded King Hui of Qin was this sentence.
Just imagine, at that time, Zhang Yi was Qin Xiang, and if King Hui of Qin agreed to King Huai of Chu's request to take the Li Li disease as the phase, then Zhang Yi would be deposed. Therefore, in order to maintain her position, Zhang Yi did not hesitate to spread rumors that the King of Chu was secretly colluding with Li Li.
Zhang Yi's trap made King Hui of Qin furious, and Li Li had to flee the Qin state in a hurry. Basically, Zhang Yi framed political enemies such as Chen Yi, Gongsun Yan, and Gan Mao, all following this pattern.
Unrighteous and rich and expensive, to me is like a floating cloud
Confucius once said: "Unrighteous and rich and expensive, to me is like a floating cloud", compared with the above Zhang Yi's plan to hunt for personal wealth, it can be said that "it is not the way of all worlds". Therefore, Zhang Yi is criticized for people in this.
Confucius stills
Zhang Yi often provoked wars for selfish interests, causing the destruction of life, the lack of peace in the country, and the people's uneasiness in their homes, just as posterity evaluated him: there was neither a lofty moral ideal nor an important position in the history of thought.
From a modern point of view, if a country is to stand firm and endure for a long time, it is impossible without strategists. But the counselor must have the concept of loyalty, not to use the talent of long-sleeved dancers for his own benefit and ignore the country and the people. Otherwise, people like Zhang Yi only have a small self and no big self in their hearts, and what they do is just to add chaos to the world.