During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao cao of Cao Wei was known as a "traitor", one was because he was capricious and suspicious of gods and ghosts; the other was because he was fierce and resourceful, he once said the words "I would rather bear the people of the world, hugh teach the people of the world to bear me", so the people who betrayed him were all trembling, but there was such a "negative man", not only lived well, but also became the first counselor under Cao Cao, became the founding hero of Cao Wei, he was Jia Xu. Who is Jia Xu? What was done? Why has it been so much achieved?
Cao Cao
Jia Xu played for Dong Zhuo in the early days. Jia Xuren said that "there are many plots and exhaustive strategies.".
After Dong Zhuo's death, Li Yu and Guo Feng panicked and hurriedly packed their luggage and returned to Xiliang to escape for their lives. At this time, Jia Xu rushed to offer li yu and Guo Feng: In Chang'an City, it is under discussion to kill all the Liangzhou people, and your excellencies abandon your subordinates and go alone, and a pavilion chief can catch you. It is better to lead the troops to the west, collect soldiers along the way, and then attack Chang'an to avenge Dong Gong. If it is lucky, it can conquer the world; if it fails, it is not too late to escape."
Under Jia Xu's strategy, Li Yu was able to control the government. Li Yuguo believed that with Jia Xu's merits, it was not too much to be crowned a "Hou". However, Jia Xu did everything he could to refrain from it and resolutely refused. At this time, it was so dull that Li Yu guo feng was also afraid of Jia Xu.
Jia Xu
After Jia Xu's mother died, Jia Xu resigned and went home. When Jia Xu left, the contradictions between Li And Guo intensified, and they even began to fight.
In the second year of Jian'an (197), Jia Xu defected to his fellow villager Zhang Xiu, and at Jia Xu's suggestion, Zhang Xiu united with Liu Biao, a mu of Jingzhou. Since then, they have become a thorn in Cao Cao's eye and a thorn in his flesh, and they must be removed quickly.
In March of the third year of Jian'an (198), Cao Cao marched south to zhang xiu, and Zhang Xiu was defeated. Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao with Jia Xu, and due to Cao Cao's unique interests, Zhang Xiu was humiliated and regretted sneaking up on Cao Cao with his army, which led to the death of Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang and the famous general Dianwei, and Cao Cao was also beaten and helpless.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao wanted to recruit Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu was about to agree, but was rejected by Jia Xu in front of him. He also said the reason for the refusal: Yuan Shao could not tolerate people. It can be seen that his vision is poisonous.
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Then he said the advantages of surrendering to Cao Cao: first, Cao Cao was now holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes, and there was no more justified than him; second, Cao Cao's military strength at this time was weaker than Yuan Shao's, and Cao Cao was now more willing to win over allies and must treat it with care; third, Cao Cao was ambitious and would certainly be able to ignore the previous suspicions.
Zhang Xiu followed Jia Xu's advice and surrendered to Cao Cao. When Cao Cao learned of this, he personally received Jia Xu, and at the same time paid tribute to Zhang Xiu as the general of Yangwu, and asked his son Cao Jun to marry Zhang Xiu's daughter, and the two sides married as relatives.
After that, Jia Xu really began to serve under Cao Cao. With the addition of Jia Xu, Cao Cao can be described as a tiger. Five years after Jian'an, the most crucial battle in the history of the Three Kingdoms occurred: the Battle of Guandu. Yuan Shao did his best to duel with Cao Cao, and at this time, Cao Cao was far inferior to Yuan Shao in terms of strength and strength, but he held out with Yuan Shao for half a year.
Jia Xu, Cao Cao
From the overall situation, if the war situation continued like this, Cao Cao would definitely lose. Cao Cao asked Jia Xu, and Jia Xu hit the nail on the head, pointing out that Cao Cao did not need to take into account the overall situation, and only needed to seize a small opportunity to show a "burning trend" and would definitely be able to win.
Cao Cao listened to Jia Xu's advice and seized the opportunity. Under the help of Xu You, Yu later sent a small group of cavalry to sneak into Wuchao in The rear of Yuan Shao, burning the military food of Yuan Shao's army with fire, and the yuan shao army that had lost its grain quickly collapsed, and Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in one fell swoop. After Hebei was pacified, Cao Cao led Ji Prefecture Mu and changed jia xu to taizhong dafu.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao developed most rapidly among the princes. Cao Cao wanted to take advantage of his superiority to conquer the south in one fell swoop, without giving the southern people a chance to breathe. This move is correct from the overall situation, but after all, the north and the south are different, the water army is different from the army, Cao Cao ignored a lot of important details, and these are all in Jia Xu's eyes, so Jia Xu offered a plan, thinking that the time has not come, please Cao Cao be patient for some time, and will definitely be able to conquer the south in one fell swoop. At this time, Cao Cao, who was eager to unify the world, could not listen to these rebuttals, so he did not take Jia Xu's advice.
Burning Chibi
Thus there was the later Cao Cao's crushing defeat in the Battle of Chibi, laying the foundation for the situation of three divisions of the world. After learning the lesson, Cao Cao knew that "outside must first be inside", so after many years of repairs, he moved his mind to the Western Liang army led by Han Sui and Ma Chao.
The ten coalition forces led by Han Sui and Ma Chao were not persimmons at hand, and they united at Tongguan to resist Cao Cao. Cao Cao and Ma Chao fought many battles, most of which ended in Ma Chao's setback. Ma Chao was good at rapid confrontation, and Cao Cao, who found out Ma Chao's weakness, could not hold out, making Ma Chao impatient.
In September 211, Ma Chao, whose intentions had not been realized, again made a request to demarcate the land as a boundary, and sent his son as a hostage. Jia Xu believed that it was possible to superficially pretend to agree, paralyze the other party, and then actively prepare for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy. Cao Cao asked Jia Xu how to break the enemy, and Jia Xu only said four words: "Alienate them." ”
Cao Cao adopted Jia Xu's scheme and wrote a handwritten book to alienate Ma Chao and Han Sui. Ma Chao easily bit the hook, and Cao Cao saw that the time was ripe and crushed the ten allied troops like weeds in the harvest and sold the land, and returned with a great victory.
Cao Cao's distribution of family property was arranged by Jia Xu, who told Cao Cao that he should make his eldest son crown prince, and also told Cao Pi that he could not violate the zi Dao to win the crown prince, and in the end, Cao Pi won, and Cao Pi called the empress dowager the favor of Jia Xu, and Bai Jia Xu was made a lieutenant and ranked third duke.
Jia Xu's wisdom in life is also higher than ordinary people, Jia Xu calculated everything, knew that Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, and also knew that he was not Cao Cao's old subject, so in his later years he adopted a self-protection strategy, closed the door, did not have private contact with anyone, and successfully lived to the age of 77, becoming a person who was highly respected by the strategists in the world at that time.