In the last issue, I talked about Zhang Fei, the most powerful famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty, who is often a violent style in TV dramas, but in fact, he also has a cute side, that is, he loves the literati, such as having an interesting story with Liu Ba, a famous scholar of the Shu Han Dynasty, but Liu Ba is relatively tall and does not like to take care of Zhang Fei. Although Zhang Fei's historical records are not much, his life is full, it seems to be a big old man, in fact, he is a famous general with thick and thin, which was deliberately faced by Mr. Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Although Zhang Fei's ending is also lamentable, it is also the first person in the Shu Han Dynasty to be powerful. In the Shu Han Dynasty, there was not only Zhang Fei alone, but there was actually a special martial general. He was none other than the mainstay of the Shu Han Dynasty, Jiang Wei and Jiang Boyo. In the Shu Han Dynasty, he served as a Wei general and a great general, and was solely in charge of the military power of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Who is Jiang Wei? Why is He a special being?
Jiang Wei's particularity, he was originally a small general of Cao Wei Tianshui County, serving as a member of the Tianshui County Army, and the origin of this position was due to the dedication and sacrifice of his father Jiang Ran for Cao Wei. As a civil servant of Cao Wei, how did Jiang Wei become the mainstay of the Shu Han Dynasty, a generation of legendary celebrities?
This is thanks to one person, that is, Zhuge Liang, the Shu Han Dynasty Minister. When Liu Bei claimed the title of empress, he avenged his brother Guan Yu and raised an army to attack Wu, only to be burned by the Eastern Wu general Lu Xun for 700 miles, and died of illness in the White Emperor's City, and Zhuge Liang became a minister of trust and held the military and political power of the Shu Han Dynasty. In order to inherit the legacy of the former emperor, he launched an army to attack Cao Wei in the Northern Expedition, with the intention of supporting the Han Dynasty and unifying the Central Plains. Jiang Wei was also the person who had no choice but to turn to Zhuge Liang during Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, and some of the ugly words were: surrender the general.
Jiang Wei, who has the status of a demoted general, is supposed to have no chance to come forward, or it is difficult to have a chance to take power. However, he met Zhuge Liang, a wise man with considerable insight and a minister who needed talents. Zhuge Liang found that Jiang Wei was also a rare talent, so he quickly promoted Jiang Wei and directly made Jiang Wei a Cangcao Tuan, plus a general of Fengyi, and was made the Marquis of Yangting. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records: "Liang Peiwei was a cangcao tuan, a general of Jia Fengyi, and the marquis of Yangting, at the age of twenty-seven. At this time, Jiang Wei was only 27 years old, which seemed to remind Zhuge Liang of his own self at that time, and was invited out by Liu Beisan Gu Maolu and was also reused.
Zhuge Liang really valued Jiang Wei very much, and his successor, Jiang Huan, who first gave himself a heavy instrument, said that he was a sergeant in Liangzhou, and then let him command the elite troop of the Shu Han Dynasty, the Tiger Infantry Army. The road to promotion can be said to be very fast, during Zhuge Liang's military and political leadership of the Shu Han Dynasty, he once became Zhuge Liang's confidant and favorite general, and moved to the west. Zhuge Liang's weight and promotion laid a solid foundation for Jiang Wei to dominate the military circles of the Shu Han Dynasty.
After Zhuge Liang's death, Jiang Wei's path of promotion did not change, and during the reign of Jiang Wei Feiyi, he had already begun to lead troops to conquest, including many times to fight in the west into Qiangzhong and sweep away the Qiang barbarians. Liu Chan, the wise and foolish emperor, had deposed zhuge Liang since his death, dividing military and political affairs and avoiding the danger of being hollowed out. Politically, most of them relied on the efforts of Jiang Huan and Fei Yi to maintain, and militarily, they also began to rely on Jiang Wei, a rising star.
The specific symbol is that in the tenth year of Yanxi (247), Jiang Wei was officially promoted to a Wei general and became a high-ranking military general of the Shu Han Dynasty. General Wei was set up by Emperor Wen of Han, who led the northern and southern armies of the capital, and was the commander of the defense forces, the Shu Han Dynasty followed the Han Dynasty system, Jiang Wei served as a Wei general, with the same ability as the general of the Hun And the general of the Che Riding, and was in charge of the forbidden army in the capital, and the more important thing was to record Shangshu with the general at that time, jun FeiYi, that is to say, he had a certain administrative management power.
From then on, fei Yi was the main one inside, in charge of government affairs; externally, Jiang Wei was the main one who consulted the four parties. This year, Jiang Wei was 46 years old, and through just 19 years, Jiang Wei gradually grew from a demoted general to the mainstay of the Shu Han Dynasty, which can be called a legend of a generation. The reasons for Jiang Wei's ascension to the throne are diverse, whether it is the lack of talents in the Shu Han Dynasty, or the importance of Zhuge Liang, Liu Chan and others, in short, he has become one of the outstanding representatives of the famous generals of the Shu Han Dynasty.
After Fei Yi's death, Jiang Wei's military power was raised again, no one could suppress him in the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, each time tens of thousands of troops were sent, in the next ten years, the famous generals of Cao Wei, Deng Ai, Chen Tai, Guo Huai and others, the results of the battle were fruitful, but also controversial, especially the change of internal support, Liu Chan began to favor Chen Qi and Huang Hao in the later period, resulting in Chen Qi's power began to be too large, surpassing Jiang Wei, who was already a general at the time, and the eunuch Huang Hao began to interfere in political affairs, manipulate authority, and constantly persecute Jiang Wei.
Forced to be helpless, when the Shu Han Dynasty was unable to support the Northern Expedition, and when Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition was ineffective, he had to go to Tuntian in Puzhong to avoid disaster. This time of evasion, so that Sima Shi's control of Cao Wei saw the hope of destroying Shu, in 263 AD, Sima Zhao launched the War of Shu, Deng Ai smuggled yinping, then Zhuge Zhan was defeated, Liu Chan surrendered, Jiang Wei tried to turn the tide on his own, pretending to surrender, colluding with Zhong Hui to rebel. However, Zhong Hui was incompetent and was killed by Hu Yuan. Jiang Wei, after witnessing all this with his own eyes, knew that there was no hope of restoration, and swung his sword to kill himself.
A generation of legendary celebrities, so for his life, for his Shu Han Dynasty, shed the last drop of blood, this year 62 years old.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Literature Examination