Jia Xu, known as the first "poisoner" of the Three Kingdoms, how many "poisonous schemes" he has sacrificed in his life
Later generations of scholars referred to Xun Yu, Xun You, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, and Guo Jia as the "Five Great Strategists" of the Cao Cao Clique, and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms passed on Xun Yu, Xun You, and Jia Xu together, which shows Jia Xu's important position in the history of the Three Kingdoms. Recently, many people have called Jia Xu the first "poisoner" of the Three Kingdoms, believing that he has insight into the weaknesses of human nature and has no bottom line for advice. So what "poisonous schemes" did this "poisoner" sacrifice in his life?
Dong Zhuo marched into Luoyang, and Jia Xu was made a lieutenant in Dong Zhuo's army as the governor of Pingjin, and later promoted to lieutenant of the Shuyu School. After Wang Yun joined forces with Lü Bu to kill Dong Zhuo, he began to liquidate Dong Zhuo's Yu Party. At that time, Dong Zhuoyu's party was leaderless, and Li Dai, Guo Feng and other generals planned to flee to Liangzhou. If we continue at this pace, the war in the Kwantung Clique will not end immediately, but Guanzhong will at least be at peace.
At this time, Jia Xuzhan came to speak: "I heard that chang'an city is discussing the extermination of the Liangzhou people, and you abandon the people and go alone, and a pavilion chief can catch you." It is better to lead the troops to the west, gather soldiers along the way, and then attack Chang'an to avenge Dong Zhuo. If you succeed, you will conquer the world on the orders of the state; if you fail, it is not too late to flee. After hearing this, Li Dai, Guo Feng, and other generals seemed to have found a straw to save their lives—instead of sitting and waiting for death, it was better to break the cauldron and make a move, so they collected the old troops and quickly captured Chang'an.
After Wang Yun killed Dong Zhuo, he prepared to clear Dong Zhuo's remnants. Both Li Dai and Guo Feng were dong zhuo's subordinates, so they were very frightened and planned to disband the people and flee separately. Jia Xu heard Li Dai and Guo Feng's plans and said, "If you abandon the army and flee for your lives alone, only one pavilion chief will need to arrest you, so it is better for everyone to work together to attack Chang'an and avenge Dong Zhuo." If things succeed, you can support (kidnap) the emperor to command the world, and if this does not work, it is not too late to escape. ”
Li Dai and Guo Feng adopted Jia Xu's suggestion, spread rumors that "Wang Yun was preparing to clean up the people of Liangzhou", contacted the generals of Liangzhou, and led an army to attack Chang'an day and night, and to the city of Chang'an, which had gathered more than 100,000 people. In June of the third year of Chuping, Lü Bu's soldiers from Shu County rebelled and opened the city gate to let Li Dai and others enter the city, but Lü Bu was defeated and only led more than a hundred people to escape. The reason why Jia Xu gave Li Dai and Guo Feng a plan to attack Chang'an. It was because Wang Yun adopted an "unforgiving" attitude toward Dong Zhuo's remnants after getting rid of Dong Zhuo. Kill the famous soldier Cai Yong first, and then eliminate The generals under Dong Zhuo such as Li Dai and Guo Feng. Causing panic in the entire Xiliang region, Li Dai and Guo Feng both wanted to scatter and flee for their lives.
The second thing that can show Jia Xu's strategy is during Dong Zhuo's period. He was a strategist under Dong Zhuo at that time, and Dong Zhuo was killed in a war, and Dong Zhuo's subordinates were very afraid and thought about disbanding it. As a result, Jia Xu had always encouraged everyone to continue to the west, and expanded the team, directly attacking Chang'an to avenge Dong Zhuo. The matter went surprisingly smoothly, and Li Dai killed Wang Yun and others and drove Lü Bu away. He took control of the government. It is precisely because of this matter that Li Dai trusts Jia Xu even more, and the high-ranking official Feng Lu raises him. But the clever Jia Xu will not be bribed by the immediate interests, he knows where he is suitable, standing tall will fall to pieces. Therefore, he only chose to be a mediocre Shangshu, and then helped Li Dai come up with ideas behind his back, welcoming the Emperor of Han and balancing the relationship between the courtiers. I have to say that he is a good counselor.
The Battle of Guandu entered a stalemate phase, and Yuan Shao began to actively woo Zhang Xiu. But how to correctly "take sides", Zhang Xiu is very cautious. Zhang Xiu's original intention was to throw himself at Yuan Shao, who at that time had many generals, abundant grain and grass, and the strongest strength. Jia Xu disagreed, and directly pointed out: Yuan Shao is narrow-minded, and even his brother Yuan Shu cannot tolerate it, let alone you are a foreigner. It was Cao Cao who Jia Xu wanted to defect to, but Zhang Xiu was worried—after all, he had surrendered once before and had lost credibility; and Cao Cao and him also had a "vendetta of killing children" and "hatred of taking wives".
Jia Xu advised Cao Pi not to be ostentatious in doing things, but to do a good job in the duties of sons and courtiers, and the key is to "filial piety to parents." The subtext is that you are worse than your brother in writing articles, and you must learn to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, and work harder on "filial piety". When Cao Cao consulted, Jia Xu also did not say it explicitly, but thoughtfully "opened his mouth": I just remembered that your old classmate Yuan Shao and the old acquaintance Liu Biao came (Yuan Shao and Liu Biao were divided because they did not stand up, and finally they were "stewed" by Cao Cao). Jia Xu did not directly express his position, but after such a knock, Cao Cao determined that the final candidate was Cao Pi, who was older and more stable in his work. Jia Xu's side is wise, and the harvest is also significant. Later, Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, and in order to repay Jia Xue's help, he was made a lieutenant and made the Marquis of WeishouXiang. More importantly, Jia Xu was one of the few people in the Three Kingdoms who could die well.
When Jia Xu saw Zhang Xiu's embarrassed look, he said to him, "After the lord repairs today, he can pursue Cao Jun again, and he will win!" Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao were both surprised and said, "Today has been defeated, why chase again?" Jia Xu pretended to be profound and said: "The lord only has to lead the army to pursue him, and if he is not victorious, I am willing to accept the disposition of military law!" Sure enough, just as Jia Xu said, Zhang Xiu defeated Cao Jun and returned triumphantly! Jia Xu was able to ponder Cao Cao's mind so clearly, which could be described as the exquisiteness of his mind and the poisonousness of his vision. The nickname of the "poisoner" sent on the rivers and lakes was not in vain.