Under Zhao Dun's painstaking arrangement, Hao Que naturally and smoothly took over the post of "General of the Chinese Army" after Zhao Dun's death, and he was unstoppable in his administration from then on, which can also be described as "under one person, above ten thousand people".
However, Hao Que made some adjustments in the personnel arrangement: "Abolish Xu Ke and make Zhao Shuozuo go down to the army."
Stills of Zhao Dun in "Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Chapter"
Xu Ke was the grandson of Xu Chen, and Zhao Shuo was the son of Zhao Dun. Xu Chen and Zhao Dun can be said to be the most important figures in the early and late stages of Hao Que's career, and they can also be called the "benefactors" of Hao Que.
Then, the promotion of Zhao Shuo by Hao Que is an understandable behavior. Because this move is exactly the favor of Hao Que in returning Zhao Dun's reuse, Zhao Shuo is also listed among the "Six Qings". In other words, the behavior of The Lack of Defects is the normal sentiment of man. However, what is puzzling is that Hao Que actually "removed" Xu Ke - he replaced Xu Ke's position with Zhao Shuo.
Since the Zhao clan and the Xu clan are both the benefactors of Hao Que, then what is the reason for him to be so replaced?
This must begin with the banishment of Xu Ke's father, Xu Jia.
"Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, Spring and Autumn Chapter" Zhao Pu stills
In order to avenge the "Battle of Linghu", the State of Qin sent troops to attack the State of Jin. The Qin and Jin armies confronted Hequ.
Because it was not easy for the Qin army to penetrate deep into the Jin region to supply, the Jin state intended to drag down the Qin army with a "protracted war", and as a result, this plan was discovered by Shi Ji, and the Qin state made a plan to lure Zhao to go to war. Zhao Pu of the Jin Dynasty was indeed in the plan, and Zhao Dun led the whole army to save Zhao Pu. However, the Qin and Jin armies did not formally clash, and for their own reasons, they both collected their troops.
The Qin army came to scold the front that night, and seeing that the Qin army was about to cross the river to return to the Qin state, he offered a plan to Zhao Dun: If the whole army raided while the Qin army crossed the river, it would surely cause the Qin army to suffer heavy casualties. Unexpectedly, Zhao wore and Xu Jia, but believed that going out at this time was equivalent to abandoning the soldiers who died on the battlefield and were wounded, so they wanted to send troops in advance, intending to force the Qin army into danger. In the eyes of the two of them, in this way, even if the Jin army wins, there is no need to bear the charge of "unkindness and injustice". So the two led the army to make a loud noise in front of the camp gate to prevent the Jin army from advancing, so that the sneak attack that the Jin state had originally won was finally aborted.
In this way, Zhao Pu and Xu Jia can be said to be the culprits of the Defeat of the Jin State in the "Battle of Hequ". However, the final fate of the two is very different. "Zuo Biao": "The Jin people do not need to be killed, let Xu Jia's father yu Wei", and it is because of this that Xu Jia was convicted and fled to Weiguo. On the other hand, Zhao Pun's sins in the war were far more than one, so why was he unscathed?
Because Zhao wears both Zhao Dun's relatives and the son-in-law of the Duke of Jinling. Zhao Pu, who has the dual identity of "honorable", compared with Xu Jia, who only serves as a "subordinate military adjutant", it is inevitable that the two will have different endings.
In the "Left Biography", It is recorded that Xu Jia fled, and the word used was "put". It can be inferred from this that Xu Jia's chances of getting involved in the internal struggle of the Jin state were quite high, and he unfortunately became a loser, although the crime did not lead to death, but was forced by the victors in the country and eventually fled to weiguo.
Then, Xu Jia is a "subordinate military adjutant" and a henchman of Zhao Dun, which victor can actually force Xu Jia to flee? This person is most likely the Duke of Jin Ling. Because the struggle between the monarchs and subjects of the Jin Dynasty has not stopped as early as the beginning of the "Three Armies" of the Jin Dynasty. Not only that, the hatred of the Jin Linggong against the nobles was definitely the "most" of the Jin monarchs - Zhao Dun had originally excluded the Jin Linggong from other Jin Jun candidates, and later hindered by the situation, and finally compromised, and the Jin LingGong would inevitably know the reason for it when he became an adult. Therefore, as Xu Jia, a henchman of Zhao Dun, the reason why he went out to defend the country must be that he had a handle that fell into the hands of Jin Linggong, so he had to flee.
After Xu Jia fled, Zhao Dun, based on the psychology of taking care of his old department, still placed Xu Jia's son Xu Ke in the position of "Lower Army Zuo". However, after Zhao Dun's death, Hao Que became a "Chinese general", but faced a thorny problem, that is, Zhao Dun's son Zhao Shuo did not have the position of Liuqing to be placed!
Hao Que was forced to make a decision, on the grounds that Xu Ke was ill, to remove him from his position as "subordinate military adjutant" and "make Zhao Shuozuo go down to the army".
So, what exactly is Xu Ke's disease? In the "Left Biography", there are two big words - "disease".
According to today's words, it is a disorder of nervous disorder, which can be divided into two situations: "food poisoning" and "ghost obsession". This disease can cause the patient to lose his mind. Xu Ke, as a secretary of state with military power, if he was delirious, he would certainly not be able to command the army on the battlefield. This is indeed a major hidden danger for the Jin Dynasty.
Then, if Xu Ke was deposed by Hao Que because of his "disease", at first glance, it seems excusable, but things are not so simple.
"Disease" is not an incurable disease, and Han Wuji, the son of Han Que, also suffered from this disease, but it did not prevent the Jin Dynasty from making Han Wuji the head of the Gong clan. Moreover, when Hao Que learned that Xu Ke was suffering from a "disease", he could ask the famous doctor Shu Shi for treatment, after all, Shu Shi had a successful case of treatment - "palm to remove poison clams". However, Hao Que did not do this, he directly removed Xu Ke and appointed Zhao Shuo to replace him.
As a result, Hao Que's motives were clearly presented on the table. Although He Que was able to return to the Jin court smoothly as a descendant of a "criminal subject", all of which depended on Xu Ke's grandfather Xu Chen, this was compared with Zhao Dun's repeated promotion and reuse of Xu Que, And Xu Chen's favor was somewhat "insignificant".
Although he saved Xu Ke's face, his methods were still very sloppy and crude, and it is no wonder that Xu's descendants have resented the Hao family since then.
This move can be said to have buried the hidden danger of "the demise of the Three Hao".