In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xu Shu is undoubtedly an impressive character, he was the first strategist to defect to him during Liu Bei's founding, and also recommended Zhuge Liang for Liu Bei, but later because Cao Cao captured Xu Shu's mother, Xu Shu was forced to go to Cao Camp and thus left Liu Bei.
In the novel, during the Battle of Chibi, Xu Shu creates rumors that Xiliang Ma Teng rebelled, secretly attacked Xuchang, and then led three thousand soldiers and horses to leave Chibi to leave this land of right and wrong. So far, Xu Shu has no news.
Xu Shu, who was in Cao Ying's heart in Han, why did Cao Cao still raise him? And what happened to it? Let's witness the real Xu Shu, in the history, Xu Shu defected to Liu Bei stationed in Xinye in 201 and became his adviser, and in 207, it was under Xu Shu's recommendation that Liu Bei personally went to Zhuge Liang's place and asked him to come out of the mountains to help.
It is worth mentioning that when Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei, Xu Shu did not leave. In 208, Cao Cao led a large army south, and Liu Biao fell ill and died, Xu Shu fled south with his family and Zhuge Liang Liu Bei, his mother was chased and captured by Cao Jun during this time, so Xu Shu was pressured to bid farewell to Liu Bei and go to Cao Ying. (Leading his people to the south, Liang and Xu Shu were chased by Cao Gong and obtained Shu's mother.) Resignation precedes the Lord. ）
In Cao Cao's lifetime, he never saw any news of him again, which is most likely because Xu Shu was not valued, did not become a minister, or held a meager official position that was not recorded in the history books, and when it appeared in the public eye again, it was already 220 years, and several major events occurred in this year, Cao Cao died, Cao Pi called the emperor, and the Han Dynasty collapsed. And Xu Shu also used a xu fu name to enter Cao Pi's persuasion table.
What is the Persuasion Table? When the ancients were emperors, they paid the most attention to a righteous name, such as Liu Bei, who claimed to be the successor to the Han Dynasty, and Cao Pi could only force The Han Emperor to take the throne, this throne came naturally, and the courtiers naturally had to be sensible on the "persuasion table", indicating that it is the meaning of all of us to let you be emperor! to reflect the monarch's expectations.
Apparently, Xu Shu was also one of the people who persuaded Cao Pi to claim the title of emperor, and he also became the founding minister of the Wei Dynasty, and in 223, Xu Shu was appointed to the position of Right Lieutenant General and Yushi Zhongcheng.
This image is still a bit different from the image of the indomitable Cao Cao in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right? In fact, at that time, many literati clans still regarded the Cao family who accepted Zen concessions as orthodox, so there was nothing to blame for who they were loyal to, but Xu Shu's official position was not high, in 228 AD, Zhuge Liang led the Northern Expedition, Xu Shu was just a county guard, when Kong Ming heard that his old friends Xu Shu and Shi Tao were mixed up, he said with emotion, "Is it that there are too many people in the State of Wei?" Why not reuse Xu Shu and Shi Tao? ”
"Wei Luo": Capturing Dahe Zhong, Zhuge Liang came out of Long Right, Wen Yuanzhi and Guang YuanShicai were like this, sighing: "Wei Shu Duoshi evil! Why don't the two of them see the use?
A few years later, Xu Shu died in Pengcheng, and because of the relationship between the novel's interpretation, Xu Shu was often associated with the State of Shu, but in the final analysis, Xu Shu should be counted as the Camp of the State of Wei.