Zhuge Ke was Zhuge Jin's son and Zhuge Liang's nephew. He enjoyed a good education from an early age and radiated wisdom from an early age. The genius teenager of the Zhuge family. However, such a person ended up in a miserable end and was wiped out of the three tribes. What's going on? Listen to me in detail.
Teenage genius
When Zhuge Ke was young, he once accompanied his father to a banquet for the Eastern Wu courtiers. During the banquet, Sun Quan teased Zhuge Jin in order to enliven the atmosphere, because Zhuge Jin's face was relatively long, so he wrote "Zhuge Ziyu" on the head of a donkey, and the courtiers saw that Zhuge Jin was laughing, Zhuge Jin was sitting there very embarrassed, at this time Zhuge Ke stood up and asked Sun Quan for a brush, and wrote "Donkey" under the sign with "Zhuge Ziyu", which cleverly resolved his father's embarrassment.
Another time, Sun Quan saw Zhuge Ke and asked, "Who is smart about your father and your uncle Zhuge Liang?" In fact, everyone in the world knows that Zhuge Liang's ability is stronger. But Zhuge Ke said, "My father is smart, because my father knows better who to assist." Such a superb horse ass made Sun Quan very happy in his heart.
Show your edge
In order to show his ability, Zhuge Ke repeatedly asked the leader to quell the rebellion of the Shanyue people, and boasted that in just three years he could recruit forty thousand soldiers, at that time the courtiers did not believe that he could do it, but Sun Quan still entrusted the task to him, and the people of Shanyue did not obey the king, and would use the advantages of the terrain to negotiate with the Wu army, to put it bluntly, it was to fight guerrilla warfare.
Zhuge Ke skillfully implemented the "Three Lights Policy", and when the Shanyue people began to harvest crops, they sent troops to harvest first, and if they were too late to harvest, they would directly burn them, and as long as they obeyed the king, the Shanyue people would get the land and grain. This move was immediate, and soon the local people were turned into kings, fulfilling their promises in a year's time. Since then, the road to career promotion has begun.
Reach the pinnacle of power and prestige
Zhuge Ke often attacked wei border towns while stationed on the Wei-Wu border, causing Sima Yi to send troops to suppress it, Sun Quan saw that Zhuge Ke loved to engage in border friction and transferred him elsewhere, and a few years later, When Lu Xun died of illness, Sun Quan appointed Zhuge Ke to take charge of Eastern Wu's soldiers and horses and promoted him to the rank of general.
A few years later, Sun Quan died of illness, and Zhuge Ke was appointed as the governor of the imperial government and assisted the young lord Sun Liang. There was an episode during this period. Before his death, Sun Quan discussed with Sun Jun who should assist his son, Sun Jun said, "Zhuge Ke." Sun Quan was not satisfied with this candidate, Sun Jun said, "The old ministers who once fought with His Majesty are no longer there, and looking at the court, only Zhuge Ke can." Sun Quan finally agreed.
After Zhuge Ke oversaw the state administration, he reformed sun quan's governance shortcomings in his later years. His policies have won the hearts and minds of the people. In the same year, the State of Wei took advantage of Sun Quan's illness and death to launch an attack on the turmoil in the Eastern Wu court, and Zhuge Ke led an army to resist and won a great victory at Dongxing. At this time, Zhuge Ke's power and prestige reached the peak of Eastern Wu.
Tough and self-absorbed, the soldiers were defeated and cursed
After the victory of the Great Victory of Dongxing, Zhuge Ke began to become arrogant, in 253 AD, Zhuge Ke took advantage of the Sima style dictatorship and the unstable power to lead 200,000 people to attack the State of Wei, although the ministers strongly opposed the sending of troops, but Zhuge Ke used his prestige and power to resolutely send troops, and finally defeated the new city. At this time, the weakness of his personality began to gradually reveal. Because of the defeat, he felt that this was very detrimental to the face of the general, and he was not willing to admit his mistake. So he began to rebuke his subordinates, and expelled some people, lost the battle, labored and hurt the people, the people complained, and the prestige established by Zhuge Ke was lost for a time.
Zhuge Ke, who returned to the court, was inevitably rebuked by his colleagues, but he did not take them seriously in his capacity as a trusted and important minister, and attributed the defeat in the battle to these people.
Sun Jun, who recommended Zhuge Ke at that time, saw the opportunity at this time, and he secretly conspired with Sun Liang, saying that Zhuge Ke would work hard to hurt the people's wealth, and Eastern Wu would let him manage it again, and sooner or later it would be finished. So at a cocktail party held by Sun Liang, Sun Jun killed Zhuge Ke and was exterminated of the three tribes.
From this we can see that Zhuge Ke's end was precisely caused by his own self-sufficiency, his lack of understanding of human feelings and sophistication, and his inability to unite the courtiers.