Cao Wei alone occupies the second of the three points in the world, which makes the talent of the Wei Kingdom continue to pour, and even if Wu and Shu have the intention to chase the Central Plains, they are also stretched in terms of manpower and material resources. Among them, the most affected by talents is the State of Shu.
Under the exhaustion of the Shu state, Zhuge Liang also had to implement strict laws to stabilize the military and politics, which indirectly led to the situation that in the later period of the Shu state, only "Liao turned into a vanguard".
Zhuge Liang's biggest failure was to easily dispose of the three generals, and if the three did not die, it was very likely to improve the situation in the later period of the Shu Kingdom. Who are these three?
Tears cut the horse
After Liu Bei was orphaned in White Emperor City, the future direction of the entire Shu Kingdom fell on Zhuge Liang. On the one hand, the grand wish of the first emperor Liu Beiguang to restore the Han Dynasty, on the other side, the immature later lord Liu Chan, and the local literary and martial arts gentry with different minds, Zhuge Liang's start can be described as difficult.
Liu Bei's entry into Shu itself was criticized in terms of its righteous reputation, plus he devoted his national efforts to attack Eastern Wu in order to avenge Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's revenge, and was burned by Lu Xun for 700 li, and his family was lost. The local group in Bashu, which had been stopping to watch, lost confidence in the Shu Han regime.
In order to alleviate the contradiction, what Zhuge Liang could do was to expedition north to conquer Cao Wei in the name of restoring the Han court. After all, if it is really restored, Shuzhong will be infinitely glorious from top to bottom. This is a big gamble, but also a helpless move.
During the First Northern Expedition, Ma Chen asked for orders to garrison the street pavilion. Because he did not listen to the adjutant general, arrogant and arrogant, stationed the army on the hill. In the end, the water source was cut off by the Wei army, and the defeat returned, completely disrupting Zhuge Liang's deployment.
Ma Chen was willing to submit to the law, and Zhuge Liang tearfully ordered to be beheaded. There are two levels to this "tear", one is regret for using Ma Chen to guard the street pavilion, and the other is to regret Ma Chen's talent, and lament the friendship between the two.
Ma Chen has actually been by Zhuge Liang's side all along, and he is a staff officer. Since Jingzhou followed Liu Bei's clique, Ma Chen's ability has become stronger and stronger, and he has received a lot of mature advice and help from Zhuge Liang when he is marching south to Meng Yu.
However, staff officers are staff officers after all, and execution is not as simple as on paper, so when Ma Chen is really entrusted with heavy responsibilities, the result is not satisfactory.
It can be said that Ma Chen is a mature staff officer, no matter which main general he is equipped with, Ma Chen can use him to the greatest extent, but it may not necessarily let him directly command the army. With the experience and quality of Ma Chen, it is possible to bring out more talents.
Yizi Liu Feng
As early as when Liu Bei was in exile, his righteous son Liu Feng followed him. At that time, Guan Yu did not like Liu Feng, because Liu Bei already had Liu Chan, but Liu Feng led the army to fight with courage and strategy, which Liu Bei greatly appreciated.
Later, Guan Yu defeated Maicheng to save Liu Feng and Meng Da, and the two refused to help, which indirectly caused Guan Yu to be different. Meng Da was thinking that Shangyong had just occupied it, and it was likely that the way back to rescue Guan Yu would be cut off, and he would not be able to escape death.
But Guan Yu was nominally Liu Feng's second uncle, and in order to dissuade Liu Feng, he infinitely magnified the fact that Guan Yu could not see him, which made Liu Feng resentful in his heart and agreed with Meng Da's view that he would not send troops, which eventually led to Guan Yu being killed.
Liu Bei was naturally furious when he learned the news, and Meng Da was afraid that Liu Bei would be punished, and began to persuade Liu Feng to join him in Cao Wei, who knew that Liu Feng decisively refused. Meng Da, on the other hand, directly led his men and horses to join Cao Wei, and led the Wei army to turn around and attack Liu Feng, in addition, he also expressed his intention to Liu Feng again.
Liu Feng did not want to refuse again, but the two brothers Shen Yan and Shen Yi in the city also wanted to defect to Cao Wei, causing Liu Feng to suffer the defeat of Meng Da. Liu Feng fled all the way back to Chengdu, and just as Liu Bei rebuked him and thought about what to do with it, Zhuge Liang suddenly spoke.
"Liu Feng, this person is too strong, after a hundred years of His Majesty, who can control him?" Liu Bei thought of Liu Chan, who was still young, and gave Liu Feng to death. After Liu Feng's death, the news of his two refusals to surrender Wei reached Liu Bei's ears, and Liu Bei was remorseful and wept.
As an auxiliary minister, Zhuge Liang was right to take this opportunity to eliminate the future troubles for the future lord Liu Chan. It's just that Liu Feng did not have the opposite intention, and he fought in the south and north for Liu Bei's group all his life, and his death also indirectly led to the situation that after the death of veteran generals one after another, Shu Han was green and yellow.
"Anti-bone" Wei Yan
Among the three, Wei Yan can be said to be the most pity, why do you say so? First, Wei Yan's military quality was the highest among the three, he was younger than generals such as Guan Zhang, Zhao Mahuang, and later Guan Xing, Zhang Yuan, and other "second generation generals".
The significance of Wei Yan to the Shu Han was on the one hand the successor of the Five Tiger Generals, and on the other hand, it could be the cultivator of the young generals of the Shu Han. However, Wei Yan was not liked by Zhuge Liang due to his extreme personality.
During the first Northern Expedition, Wei Yan proposed to send troops out of Meridian Valley, captured Chang'an with surprise troops, and attacked Zhuge Liang back and forth, taking the northwest of the Wei state in one fell swoop. Looking at the map, we can see that Wei Yan's scheme is indeed worth a try, if it fails, Shu Han will lose thousands of men and horses, but once it succeeds?
Unfortunately, Zhuge Liang rejected Wei Yan's proposal on the grounds that Wei Yan was too radical. Wei Yan was unwilling and often complained with the soldiers, and these news all reached Zhuge Liang, which also laid the groundwork for Wei Yan's downfall.
After that, Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan without success, and finally fell ill in Wuzhangyuan. When he handed over to later generations, Zhuge Liang delegated power to Wei Yan and Yang Yi, who was very discordant with Wei Yan. At this time, Zhuge Liang had a feeling of "two peaches killing three soldiers", which really intensified the contradiction between the two.
Yang Yi led the army to march first, leaving the unsuspecting Wei Yan behind. Wei Yan learned of the rage and led his troops to burn all the plank roads before Yang Yi's army. The latter two separately reported each other to Liu Chan, the later master, for rebellion.
At this time, Wei Yan's withdrawn and fierce flaws were exposed, and the ministers of the dynasty all favored Yang Yi, believing that Wei Yan was plotting rebellion. Wei Yan was white and difficult to snow, occupying Nangukou to face Yang Yi. Yang Yi sent people to scold Wei Yan's troops with the words "the corpse of the prime minister is not cold".
The soldiers did not know the details of Zhuge Liang's entrustment, and they all felt that Wei Yan was at a loss, and they dispersed one after another. Wei Yan panicked and could only flee with his son, and was eventually killed by Ma Dai's pursuers.
It can be seen that Zhuge Liang once again made the wrong decision against Liu Feng at that time. From the standpoint of Prime Minister Cheng, Wei Yan's solitary and rigid martyr is indeed difficult to manage, and being able to design and kill Wei Yan does guarantee Liu Chan's power to a certain extent.
However, after all, Shu Han was not as vast as Cao Wei, and the turnover of talents was smooth. After Guan Chang's death, Liu Bei's entrepreneurial group that began in the Xuzhou period had long since withered, and after the death of Ma Chen and Liu Feng, only Wei Yan was left in the later Jingzhou Group.
Now the backbone of the two major start-up groups has fallen, leaving Liu Chan's only local Bashu Group. However, Zhuge Liang was able to balance the various forces during his time, and after Zhuge Liang's death, his successor Jiang Wei could only carry out a more radical Northern Expedition to ease the internal contradictions of the Shu Han.
To sum up, these three people are all transitional forces of the Shu Han, which could have continued to develop, but were erased by Zhuge Liang one after another, which is really sighing.
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