When the Shu Han was about to perish, Zhuge Zhan said at the end that "we cannot make Jiang Wei except Huang Hao" as the final closing remark, which undoubtedly conveys an important message: When shu Han perished, Huang Hao and Jiang Wei could not be blamed. So what responsibility did Jiang Wei Huanghao bear for the demise of the Shu Kingdom? The following is a brief analysis based on relevant information.
Let's start with Huang Hao.
Huang Hao, year of birth and death: Three Kingdoms period, details unknown. Occupation: Eunuch. This person did not play much in the early Three Kingdoms period, and only after Dong Yun's death did he begin to participate in the government politics, to be precise, he began to make waves. To summarize this person, we can turn to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to find out.
On his debut for the 113th time, he was a eunuch who was favored by Liu Chan and accompanied Liu Chan day and night to eat, drink and have fun. Deng Ai of the State of Wei ordered the party to enter the Shu state to bribe Hao with heavy money, spread rumors, and Hao played Liu Chan, so that Jiang Weiban, who was in the upper position at the front, returned to the dynasty.
The one hundred and fifteenth time, Liu Chan listened to Huang Hao's words, indulged in wine, and ignored the government. The Shu right general Yan Yu was defenseless, and He attached Huang Hao to the high-ranking official Houlu. Yan Yu heard that Jiang Wei was fighting in Qishan, and asked Huang Hao to let him replace Jiang Wei, and recalled Jiang Wei, who was in the ascendancy in the war, back to the imperial court. Jiang Wei was very angry and asked Liu Chan to kill Huang Hao, but Liu Chan disagreed and asked Huang Hao to apologize, but the matter was not resolved. In order to avoid disaster, Jiang Wei went out to Tuntian.
The one hundred and sixteenth time, Jiang Wei said that the Wei army was coming, but Huang Hao found a master. Shi Po called herself the god of Xichuan Earth, saying that after many years of wei territory belonged to Liu Chan, Liu Chan appreciated Shi Po and believed her words, and continued to have fun every day. Jiang Wei went to the military information again, and they were all hidden by Huang Hao.
On the 17th time, the Wei army invaded Fucheng, and Liu Chan summoned Huang Hao when he heard about it, and Huang Hao said that it was false news. Liu Chan announced the master's wife again, but the master's wife did not know where to go, and there was a lot of military information from near and far, so the military information could no longer be concealed.
On the 18th time, Deng Ai entered Chengdu and heard that Huang Hao was treacherous and sinister, and wanted to kill him. But Huang Hao bribed Deng Ai's men with a lot of money to avoid death. On the 119th time, Liu Chan moved to Luoyang, and Sima Zhao executed Huang Hao because he had caused disaster to the country and the people.
To sum up, Huang Hao's use of rhetoric to take charge of the government and manipulate authority is an out-and-out traitor. Sima Guang wrote in the Zizhi Tongjian Wei Ji Wei Ji Ten: "Hao treacherous and unscrupulous, will defeat the country, please kill it!" "It can be said that it is a high generalization of Huang Hao--the traitorous and defeated country!
Let's talk about Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei, Zi Bo Yue, Tianshui Ji Ren also. Yu defected to Western Shu in the sixth year of Jianxing under Zhuge Liang's counter-plan. Zhuge Liang promoted Jiang Wei to Cang Cao Tuan,who was in charge of Canggu's affairs, and added the general Fengyi to the marquis of Yangting, when Jiang Wei was only 27 years old, which can be described as a young man. What's more, Zhuge Liang always looks at Jiang Wei differently:
Loyal to current affairs, thoughtful and precise, Yongnan and Ji chang are not as good as each other. Its man, Sergeant Liangzhou also.
This is Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Jiang Wei in his book with Shi Zhangyi, the governor of the liufu province, and Jiang Wan, who joined the army. And, like Bo Le, he motioned for the courtiers to recommend Jiang Wei to Liu Chan:
Five or six thousand Chinese tiger infantry must be taught first. Jiang Boyo was very sensitive to the military, had both courage and righteousness, and deeply understood the military intentions. This person has the ability to be both a han and a man, a military teacher, a palace, and a visit to the Lord.
Soon after, Jiang Wei, who had just risen to the throne, was promoted to the rank of Commander of the Central Supervision Army and the General of The Expedition to the West.
After Fei Yi's death, Jiang Wei began to take sole control of the military and continued to lead the Shu Han army in the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei. He fought with Cao Wei's famous generals Deng Ai, Chen Tai, Guo Huai and so on many times, and won and lost against each other. Later, most of the ministers in Shuzhong opposed Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, and the eunuch Huang Hao also manipulated his authority, and Jiang Wei failed to kill Huang Hao and went to Tuntian in Puzhong to avoid trouble. After Sima Zhao's five ways to cut down Shu, Jiang Wei got rid of Deng Ai and others who were holding him back, retreated to the Sword Pavilion, and blocked Zhong Hui's army.
However, Deng Ai sneaked into Chengdu from Yinping, and after Liu Chan surrendered, he ordered Jiang Wei to surrender to the Wei army. Jiang Wei hoped to revive the Shu Han Dynasty on his own, and pretended to surrender to the Wei general Zhong Hui, intending to use the Zhong Hui to rebel against Cao Wei in order to realize his wish to restore the Han Dynasty. However, in the end, Zhong Hui's rebellion failed, and Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui were killed by the Wei army together.
For Jiang Wei, most of the historical evaluations are positive. For example, Hao Zheng's evaluation of Jiang Wei:
Jiang Bo agreed to the weight of the admiral and placed him on the right side of the group of subjects. The house is weak, the wealth is surplus, the side room has no concubines, and the back courtyard is silent. Clothing is given, public opinion is prepared, diet is tempered, there is no extravagance, and the expenses given by officials are eliminated at will; those who perceive the reason for it are not provoked and greedy, but also cut themselves off. To say that this is enough, not to ask for more. The talk of mortals is often praised as success and failure, supporting high and suppressing, Xian with Jiang Wei to throw nothing, death and extinction, to be degraded, not to be re-materialized, different from the "Spring and Autumn" praise and depreciation of the righteousness. Such as Jiang Weizhile is tireless in learning, pure and thrifty, and the appearance of the moment is also.
It is not difficult to see that Jiang Wei is indeed a great general in the late Three Kingdoms period. However, what cannot be ignored is that after Jiang Wei took control of military power, he exhausted his military strength and continued to carry out the Northern Expedition. As a result, the people within the Shu Han Dynasty were not happy, which led to the people's desire for peace even more.
It was precisely because Jiang Wei adopted the method of gathering troops to defend Hanzhong, resulting in the loss of Hanzhong and the throat of Shu Han being contained by the Wei army. It was precisely because of the loss of Hanzhong and the extreme scarcity of Shu Han's perennial conquests that the shu Han was destroyed when Cao Wei was cutting down Shu. And Jiang Wei's death is just a ripple in the tide of history. But in fact, Jiang Wei's death represents the demise of the Han Dynasty.
This era is not timely for Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei is indeed an accelerator for this era. But in any case, Jiang Wei's death did hasten the demise of Shu Han.
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