Friends who have read the Three Kingdoms must know the name Zhong Hui, because it was this person, as a general of the State of Wei, who presided over the affairs of cutting down Shu, and in the Battle of Wei to destroy Shu, he cooperated with Deng Ai to divide the troops and forge ahead, and finally destroyed Shu Han.
Zhong Hui was from the Zhong clan of the Yingchuan Clan, and was the younger son of Taifu Zhongxuan and the younger brother of Zhong Yu of Qingzhou. It can be said that the bell will be born with a golden spoon. He received a good education from an early age, which made him well-read at a very young age, proficient in riding and shooting, and had a reputation for being a minhui. In addition, he was both literate and martial, and he had the style of Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei. He was also praised by the people of the time, such as Jiang Ji, an old minister of the Four Dynasties, who successively commented that he "looked at his eyes, enough to know people" and "extraordinary people".
At the age of twenty, Zhong Hui became a Shangshu Zhongshu attendant, and at the age of twenty-nine, he was given the title of Marquis of Guannei. After the change of Gaopingling, Zhong Hui really stepped onto the stage of history and began to strategize for him as a confidant of Sima Shi. Later, Sima Shi died suddenly at Xuchang, and Zhong Hui advised Sima Zhao to crush the Wei emperor Cao Xian's plan to regain Sima Shi's military power. The imperial court had no choice but to worship Sima Zhao as a general and assistant to the government, and Zhong Hui as a waiter at the Yellow Gate.
Later, Zhuge Zhi rebelled, the Eastern Wu army came to the rescue, Zhong Hui designed, secretly wrote letters for Quan Hui and Quan Yi, and used the life of his family to divide the relationship between Quan Yi and wu Guo, so Quan Yi and others were afraid in their hearts, Kaesong surrendered, and Zhuge Shi began to turn his heart away. Because of Zhong Hui's ability to make suggestions, he became more and more favored by Sima Zhao, and people at the time compared him to Zhang Liang, a strategist of the Western Han Dynasty.
During the JingYuan Dynasty, Sima Zhao wanted to send a large army to cut down Shu, but all the courtiers were unable to do so, but Zhong Hui said that Shu Han could take it. Therefore, he planned a strategy with Sima Zhao in advance, surveyed the terrain, and discussed the situation. Four years later, the State of Wei raised an army to attack Shu Han, and Deng Ai, Zhuge Xu, and Zhong Hui's troops marched in three separate routes. Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei confronted each other at the Sword Pavilion, Deng Ai led his troops to Chengdu, Liu Chan led the crowd to surrender, and Shu Han was officially destroyed. Liu Chan sent people to order Jiang Wei to surrender to Zhong Hui.
At this time, Zhong Hui rebelled. He seized on Deng Ai's private appointment of Shu officials and granted Liu Chan the post of official, and reported to Sima Zhao that Deng Ai was suspected of rebellion, causing Deng Ai to be taken back to Luoyang by prison. Before that, Zhuge Xu was denounced by him in the name of fearing the enemy and was also escorted back. Therefore, at this time, in Shudi, he was the only one, and the credit for destroying Shu also fell to him alone. After joining forces with the surrendered Jiang Wei, Zhong Hui planned to use the Shu state as a position to attack the state of Wei in reverse, imprisoning the officials of the state of Wei who were on the expedition with the army, and pretending to have the empress dowager's will to attack Sima Zhao. Unexpectedly, the relatives of these officials united and launched a mutiny, and Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei both died in it.
In addition to the story of the Three Kingdoms, Zhong Hui also held a grudge because the famous scholar Ji Kang refused to associate with him and had an arrogant attitude, and when Ji Kang angered Sima Zhao, he framed Ji Kang, resulting in Ji Kang being ordered to be executed.