According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang commented on Jiang Wei as follows: "Jiang Bo is loyal to current affairs, thinks carefully, and considers all of them, and Yongnan and Ji chang are not as good as they are." Its man, Sergeant Liangzhou also. 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. ”
Zhuge Liang had many northern expeditions in his life, and he had more or less gained some gains. In Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, perhaps the biggest gain was the young general Jiang Wei, who made him suffer some hardships.
At that time, Jiang Wei was just a young nameless young general, but it was this nameless young general who eventually became the successor designated by Zhuge Liang, and was also an important member who affected the fate of the Shu kingdom. So why was Jiang Wei able to gain the approval and trust of Zhuge Liang, the think tank of the Three Kingdoms?
Forced to surrender, a bit of work
Jiang Wei, one of the four surnames from Tianshui, his father Jiang Ran was killed in battle to protect the county guard during the Qiang Rebellion, so Jiang Wei was even more martyred. The blessing of his father,coupled with his own literary and martial arts integrity, made him famous in Liangzhou.
On the one hand, Jiang Wei studied the mainstream Confucianism of the time, Zheng Xuanzhi. He has a tendency to move from the armed Hao clan to the cultural warrior clan, but on the other hand, he also upholds the shangwu style of the Liangzhou Hao clan, raises the dead soldiers, and wants to kill the enemy and make meritorious achievements.
During Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, Jiang Wei served as a general in Tianshui County. When the Shu army was approaching the city, Jiang Weizheng accompanied Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, and Ma Zun, the Taishou of Tianshui County, to patrol various places.
However, Ma Zun and others doubted Jiang Wei's loyalty, and eventually Jiang Wei was forced to surrender to Shu Han. After Jiang Wei entered Shu, Zhuge Liang could be said to have obtained the most precious treasure, and placed high hopes on him - "We must first teach five or six thousand Tiger infantry." Jiang Boyo was very sensitive to the military, and he had both courage and righteousness, and deeply understood the military intentions. This man's heart is in the Han room, and he is also a man, who teaches the military, and when he is sent to the palace, he sees the Lord. ”
Therefore, under the arrangement of Zhuge Liang, the 27-year-old Jiang Weijia was a general of Fengyi, the Marquis of Fengdangyangting, the supervisor of Shengzhong, and the general of the Western Expedition.
It can be seen how much Zhuge Liang attaches importance to Jiang Wei, so what is Zhuge Liang's purpose? Do you really only appreciate Jiang Wei? The answer is no, Zhuge Cheng's approach naturally has other considerations.
He is both literate and martial, and his ability is outstanding
First of all, Jiang Wei's level of Zheng Xue was not low, and the reason why Zhuge Liang called him "Liangzhou Sergeant" was that he thought that Shu Zhou, Ma Liang and others were inferior to him, and even thought that Jiang Wei could be compared with the famous central plains zhuge and Xiahou Xuan.
It can be seen that Jiang Wei has a high reputation among the celebrities in Liangzhou, and after Jiang Wei surrendered to Shu, Cao Wei only captured his entire family but did not kill him, which is the reason for this aspect.
Secondly, Jiang Wei is also very good at military combat. He was an important helper for the Shu Han to fight for Liangzhou, so that after he was able to surrender to Shu, he was given the title of Marquis at the age of twenty-seven, and he was also heavily cultivated by Zhuge ChengXiang.
Jiang Wei's wisdom and strategy are exactly what distinguishes him from other generals. In terms of military strategy, Zhuge Liang can be said to have rarely lost his footing, and when he came out of Qishan, he was even more smooth.
However, Zhuge Liang wanted to take down Tianshui Pass with a little trick, but he did not want to be recognized by Jiang Wei. Even Zhao Yun, who was one of the Five Tiger Generals, repeatedly praised Jiang Wei's outstanding marksmanship. It can be described as a talent with both culture and martial arts, both wisdom and courage.
More importantly, the local people in Yizhou are very easy to form party forces, while Jiang Wei is a foreigner and has no pro-party relationship in Yizhou. Zhuge Liang has always cultivated some outsiders to become the pillars of Shu Han, and with both talent and no family power, the threat to Shu Han will be greatly weakened.
This is Zhuge Liang's consideration of Jiang Wei's emphasis on cultivation. In addition to Jiang Wei, Wei Yan was actually a good candidate, but Zhuge Liang did not consider Wei Yan.
Abandon Wei Yan's political plan to choose Jiang Wei
During the Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang was already old, and for the sake of the long-term stability of the regime, he inevitably had to promote new people.
In addition to being brave and strategic, Jiang Wei is still young and is a real "young general".
Zhuge Liang had already realized at the time of Wuzhangyuan that the weak Shu and the strong Wei must be a huge project to attack the strong with the weak, and it was difficult to achieve success in the short term. If one is not careful, it is very likely that the Shu Han people will lack wealth, and eventually they will bury the foundation laid down by themselves and the former emperor Liu Bei and others.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang conceived of a strategic blueprint for the post-Shu Han Dynasty and the Kong Ming era very early. He first recommended Jiang Huan and Fei Yi as his political heirs, because both were partial talents, and the fierce general Jiang Wei was Sima (vice marshal).
Zhuge Liang's premise was that Jiang Wei and Fei would rule again, restrain the belligerent Jiang Wei, and launch a limited Northern Expedition against Cao Wei; and once there was a war in Shu Wei, Jiang Wei's talent and loyalty would also be able to turn the tide.
If it was replaced by Wei Yan, who was eager to make meritorious contributions to the Northern Expedition, Wei Yan, who was willing to take risks and dared to take risks, had already learned the lesson of "the strategy of the Meridian Valley" in the past. Zhuge Liang was cautious all his life, and with Guan Yu's blood training of carelessly losing Jingzhou, he would certainly not let Guan Yu's tragedy repeat itself. Moreover, Wei Yan's age was also a problem, because he was older than Zhuge Liang.com.
Failing to live up to Zhuge Liang's expectations? Too many constraints
Although Zhuge Liang had great expectations for Jiang Wei, in the era presided over by Jiang Wei and Fei Yi, Jiang Wei never had the opportunity to fight independently. It was not until Jiang Wei died of illness and Fei Yi was assassinated that Jiang Wei began the vigorous Northern Expedition.
However, Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition was not successful, because the national strength of the Shu Han dynasty had gradually declined. In Liu Bei's time, the reason why Shu Han was able to fight with Cao Wei and Eastern Wu was because Liu Bei's army was elite capable of conquering the four sides, not weaker than the State of Wei and the State of Wu.
By the time Jiang Wei was able to fight independently, these elites who used to follow Liu Bei to fight the world had withdrawn from the battlefield. Jiang Wei only had a source of troops available in Sichuan Province, and the quality was even worse, and "there was no general in Shu" was the best explanation of the military strength of the Shu state at this time.
In the post-Three Kingdoms period, the strength of the Shu Han was undoubtedly the weakest. In terms of population alone, the population of Shu Han was less than half that of Eastern Wu, and less than a quarter of Cao Wei. In ancient society, the size of the population directly affected the strength of a country, and the strength of the Shu Han Dynasty can already be seen.
In addition, there were many constraints in the Jiang Wei period, the biggest of which was the eunuch Huang Hao, as well as the civil officials in the imperial court. Because they were dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's approach, they often criticized Jiang Wei's poor military skills.
Internal dissonance in the people's minds led to Jiang Wei's lack of efforts in all the Northern Expeditions, but only piecemeal. Zhuge Liang's strength in the second half of his life was not yet successful, Jiang Wei's inability to do his best, and his failure was obvious.
But even so, Jiang Wei still had a lot of merit in the Northern Expedition. First of all, when he was in Didao City, Jiang Wei achieved a great victory in Taoxi and annihilated tens of thousands of Wei troops, making everyone in Yongliang afraid. However, judging from the number of enemies annihilated, this was a great victory that even Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition had not achieved, and it was also the biggest victory achieved by the State of Shu against the State of Wei since the Northern Expedition.
Moreover, Jiang Wei relied on his limited strength to keep the Sword Pavilion airtight, and zhong hui, the main general of the Wei state, lost confidence.
Unexpectedly, when Jiang Wei was preparing to withdraw his troops and return, he was desperately taken by Deng Ai's desperate attempt to take Jiangyou by taking the Yinping Trail and breaking Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan, thus approaching Chengdu, and finally forcing Liu Chan to surrender, and the Shu state was destroyed.
In this situation, Jiang Wei used his last strategy, the false surrender of Zhong Hui, and tried to provoke civil unrest among the Wei generals to restore the country. Despite his ultimate failure, he was martyred.
brief summary
Throughout Jiang Wei's life, even if he inherited Zhuge Liang and was both literate and martial, he also had the ambition to complete the unification of the Shu Han Dynasty, but he still could not get a happy ending, and finally he ended his life by drinking and hating suicide.
Jiang Wei's death was only the inevitable development of history, at that time, the general trend of the Shu Han Dynasty had gone, there were eunuchs provoking and mediocrity on the inside, and there was a strong enemy on the outside, even if Jiang Wei was a disciple left by Zhuge Liang, there was no way to avoid it.
When Jiang Wei was on the verge of desperation again and again, he used his ability to save the Shu kingdom, whether he was stubbornly guarding the Sword Pavilion or surrendering falsely, he was already a patriotic and loyal man.
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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