In the chaotic times of the Three Kingdoms, people are like grass mustard. During the melee of warlords, they often slaughtered cities and cannibalized people, and when the fighting subsided, Wei Shuwu also attacked his own people. During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many unsolved cases that were puzzling, four of which were particularly interesting, and there is still no widely accepted explanation.
Today we will talk about these four unsolved cases, namely the murder of Zhang Hao, the defection of Wei Yan, the case of Liu Yan's wife beating, and the case of Peng Yi's rebellion, Zhuge Liang, as an important party, he knows a lot of insider information, but he cannot explain that this is to maintain the morale of the people of Shu Han.
This article will reveal the causes and consequences of these four unsolved cases in chronological order, as well as the measures Zhuge Liang had to take, as well as his original intentions and bitterness in doing so. In 220, Peng was executed on charges of treason. Peng Yi's death makes people think that he was very wronged, because only Ma Chao at that time reported it, and the report was a private chat, and no third person testified.
However, Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to kill him. Zhuge Liang had long been dissatisfied with Peng Yi, and just by virtue of Ma Chao's report, he got rid of this unstable factor. Although Peng Yi did not plead guilty, he wrote to Zhuge Liang in prison to defend himself. Zhuge Liang knew that Peng Yi was just complaining and talking big, but he did not defend Peng Yi, so Peng Yi's killing became an unsolved case.
Both Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang believed that the purpose of killing Peng Yi was to set an example and warn Ma Chao not to have different intentions. In 231, Zhang was shot. At that time, Zhang Hao did not want to chase Zhuge Liang, and the injury was not serious. This unsolved case raises questions, whether Zhang Hao's death was bad luck, or was it calculated by Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi?
Zhuge Liang knew that Zhang Yi's injury was not serious, and how could an arrow in his knee be fatal, which had to be asked to Sima Yi and Cao Wei's military doctors. In 234, Liu Yan was sentenced to abandon the city for beating his wife. Liu Yan was Liu Bei's junior and a high-ranking general, but he was killed on unprecedented charges. This verdict surprised many people, and why Liu Yan was killed became an unsolved case.
Zhuge Liang turned Liu Yan's case of beating his wife into a suspicious case, an unsolved case, or even a wrongful case, in order to maintain the stability of the overall situation and avoid causing chaos between the government and the public after the matter is exposed. In the same year, Wei Yan was captured while defecting. Whether Wei Yan defected or not is still an unsolved case. If he really wanted to defect to Cao Wei, why did he report Yang Yi's rebellion to Liu Chan? If Wei Yan didn't want to defect, why would he burn the plank road and cut off his way back?
Zhuge Liang fought Wei Yan and Yang Yi endlessly, and made them lose both sides in the fight in order to eliminate the potential threat. These four unsolved cases have some unsolved mysteries, is there a pair of invisible hands behind them? Does Zhuge Liang know this? Isn't his response very clever?
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