Zhuge Liang
In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang, who commanded the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Shu Han Dynasty at Tuntian in Wuzhangyuan, foresaw that his limit was approaching, and wrote several suicide notes with trembling hands. One of them was written to his brother Zhuge Jin, who was far away in Eastern Wu.
In addition to recounting his thoughts, Zhuge Liang said: "Zhuge Zhan is eight years old this year, especially smart and lovely, but I am afraid that he is too precocious and will not become a great instrument in the future..."
Between the lines, zhuge liang's contradiction of both happiness and worry is reflected. But no one expected that in a word, Zhuge Zhan's fate could not escape Zhuge Liang's expectations after all.
In 224 AD, such an incident occurred in Eastern Wu, Zhuge Jin's son, Zhuge Liang's nephew, Zhuge Ke Nian Fang Twenty, served as the left auxiliary capital of Eastern Wu. One day, Sun Quan held a banquet and asked Zhuge Ke, "Who is better, your father Zhuge Jin, or your uncle Zhuge Liang?" Zhuge Ke said without hesitation, "Naturally, my father is more excellent." ”
Sun Quan was shocked to ask why, and Zhuge Ke said, "My father knows how to choose the Lord, but my uncle doesn't!" Zhuge Ke skillfully answered the question, and also patted Sun Quan's horse ass, and Sun Quan immediately laughed and asked Zhuge Ke to toast the courtiers.
When he paid homage to the old minister Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao said: "I am old and do not drink. Sun Quan took the opportunity to be embarrassed and said, "If you can make Zhang Zhao drink, I will reward you heavily." ”
Zhuge Ke smiled slightly and said to Zhang Zhao, "When Jiang Ziya was ninety years old and still led soldiers to fight, he didn't dare to say that he was old. Nowadays, the matter of leading soldiers to fight does not require your efforts, this drinking and eating meat is first of all, and some people toast but say that they are old, what is the reason? Zhang Zhao's old face turned red when he heard this, and he hurriedly drank the wine glass in front of him.
Zhuge Ke's talent and quick thinking were applauded in Eastern Wu, and the news reached Shu Han, and Zhuge Liang was also extinct: "There is no shortage of sages in the Zhuge family! But after being happy, Zhuge Liang's heart was infinitely lonely.
It turned out that the elder brother Zhuge Jin had three sons and a daughter, and each one was famous outside, which was enviable. Zhuge Liang is 45 years old this year, living in the Shu Han Dynasty, but there is no child around his knees. Seeing that he was about to enter his twilight years, Zhuge Liang knew that he urgently needed an heir.
After careful consideration, Zhuge Liang made a request to Zhuge Jin to adopt his nephew Zhuge Qiao as his son, and Zhuge Jin also understood his brother's helplessness and agreed to this matter.
Zhuge Qiao's reputation is not inferior to Zhuge Ke,the world says that his talent is inferior to Zhuge Ke's, but his character and morality are far behind. Zhuge Liang was also very satisfied with this "son", renamed him "Bosong", named him a general of the defending army, and also let him participate in the Northern Expedition to transport grain and grass, gilding his resume. Zhuge Liang really cultivated him as an heir.
But if you don't say that life is uncertain, before Zhuge Qiao came, Zhuge Liang tried his best to give birth to heirs, but in the second year after Zhuge Qiao arrived, Zhuge Liang grew old and had his own blood and bones- Zhuge Zhan.
Zhuge Zhan's birth made Zhuge Liang ecstatic, holding it in his hand for fear of shattering, and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting. However, because of the Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang could not accompany Zhuge Zhan for a long time, so he extended his invitation to shuzhong Daru to carefully educate. Zhuge Zhan showed a super high IQ from an early age and became a prodigy known throughout the country.
Zhuge Liang was overjoyed but worried about this, and in 234 AD, Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, and before his death he wrote the famous Book of Commandments to fulfill his last responsibility as a father.
The journey of a husband and a gentleman is to cultivate himself quietly and cultivate virtue by thrift. Non-indifference is not clear-sighted, non-tranquility is not far-reaching. Husbands must learn quietly, only then must they learn, non-learning can not be widely talented, non-ambition can not be learned. Sexual immorality cannot be exerted, and dangerous and impatient cannot cure sex. The year and the hour, the intention and the day, the withering, the many do not inherit the world, the sorrow of the poor, will be restored!
Zhuge Zhan
When Zhuge Liang died of illness, Zhuge Zhan had just turned eight years old, and his elder brother Zhuge Qiao had also died of illness six years earlier. At this time, he was considered an orphan, but fortunately, Jiang Huan and Fei Yi, who were ruling later, had received great favor from Zhuge Liang and had a lot of support for Zhuge Zhan, so that Zhuge Clan was still honorable and would not let people go to tea.
Zhuge Zhan was young and diligent and studious, and the world praised his talent, and at the age of seventeen, under the recommendation of Jiang Feiyi, the later lord Liu Chan married the princess to Zhuge Zhan, and Zhuge Zhan became a donkey, worshiped as a riding lieutenant, and entered the career path.
In the early days of his career, Zhuge Zhan Qingyun went straight up, successively serving as a senior officer such as Yulin Zhonglang General, Shooting Sound Lieutenant, Waiter Zhong, and Military Division General, which can be called a rising star of Shu Han. Moreover, because of the reputation left by Zhuge Liang, whenever there was any good policy in the DPRK, the people would rush to tell each other that Zhuge Zhan had proposed it.
This kind of false name makes Zhuge Zhan's prestige rise higher every day, and this feeling of not having to do anything to get praise makes Zhuge Zhan flutter.
After the death of Jiang Huan and Fei Yi, Jiang Wei took power, because of the perennial expeditions, the government was gradually controlled by Shang Shu Ling Chen And the grand eunuch Huang Hao. Zhuge Zhan's background after being a meritorious man was not taken seriously, and it was naturally difficult for him to advance half a step in his official position, and this stop lasted for ten years.
Zhuge Zhan is a strong man, he does not want to live in the shadow of his father all his life, he also wants to have his own stage, to establish his own work. But in the political arena of the Shu Han Dynasty at that time, Zhuge Zhan had no hope at all.
Shu Han officials
But it also happened that at that time, Shang Shu made Chen Qi suddenly die of illness, there was a vacuum in the power center of the imperial court, and the eunuch Huang Hao began to look for officials in the court who could cooperate. Zhuge Zhan felt that this was an opportunity, so he gave up his dignity and threw an olive branch at Huang Hao.
Being able to cooperate with Zhuge Zhan, a hero who was a red miao, Huang Hao was naturally ten thousand willing. With the help of Huang Hao, Zhuge Zhan was able to rise to the top again and became a Wei general and a Pingshang scholar, this year, he was only thirty years old. One of the two controlled the inner court, the other controlled the outer court, and the history books recorded that the two "protected each other" and became a hardcore alliance.
How powerful was Zhuge Zhan at that time? Liao Hua, a veteran general who was nearly seventy years old, had to personally ask Zhuge Zhan to help him with his affairs, which showed his power. However, for Zhuge Zhan, if he wants to tilt power to the opposition, there is still a big problem in his heart that needs to be solved urgently. Who? Jiang Wei!
Jiang Wei has always hated Huang Hao and wants to get rid of him quickly, but this will inevitably touch Zhuge Zhan's interests, coupled with the military power struggle between Zhuge Zhan and Jiang Wei, Zhuge Zhan naturally wants to overthrow Jiang Wei.
Therefore, Zhuge Zhan and Huang Hao privately rebuked Jiang Wei in front of the empress dowager Liu Chan and persuaded Liu Chan to replace Jiang Wei with the general Yan Yu. But before Liu Chan could make a decision, Jiang Wei got the news and immediately took tens of thousands of troops and horses from Hanzhong to the northwest of Tuntian in Puzhong.
Jiang Wei's move called the self-respect of the soldiers and the general's order to be exempt from the foreign monarch, and the intention was naturally to protect himself. Zhuge Zhan really did not dare to fight Jiang Wei's idea again.
However, this strategy has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that Jiang Wei successfully saved himself, the disadvantage is that the troops are in Tuntian, and Hanzhong is defensively empty, which also lays the groundwork for the loss of Shu Han and Hanzhong.
Jiang Wei
In 263, when the State of Wei attacked Shu Han, Zhong Hui Deng Ai led an army of 200,000 men from Xiegu into Hanzhong, and Jiang Wei learned of the news and hurriedly led his army back from Puzhong.
At this time, the Hanzhong army was empty, only Seoul and Lecheng were placed in Jiang Wei with heavy troops, as long as the two cities were not lost, the Battle of Hanzhong could be invincible.
But what Jiang Wei did not expect, Cao Jun's soldiers came to the city, and before they could do much, the Defender of Lecheng surrendered Jiang Shuxiancheng, and the general Fu You was killed. The situation in Hanzhong took a sharp turn for the worse, and Jiang Wei knew that Hanzhong was no longer defended, so he went directly south to enter The Sword Pavilion Pass. The terrain of Jiange Pass was precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, blocking the footsteps of the Wei army.
The Wei army could not be attacked for a long time, and Zhong Hui planned to withdraw his troops, but Deng Ai learned that there was a Yin Ping trail that could be detoured to the rear of the Sword Pavilion, so he proposed to march there. Zhong Hui also knew about the Yinping Trail, but the name "Trail" was actually a variety of cliffs, and if he wanted to walk through it and it was difficult to ascend to the sky, Zhong Hui rejected Deng Ai's proposal.
Deng Ai was not reconciled, so he set out alone with two thousand men and horses of his headquarters, and after unimaginable tribulations, he finally crossed successfully, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jiangyou.
JiangYoushou was as timid as a rat, and did not dare to resist and surrendered to Deng Ai. Deng Ai used Jiangyou to replenish his military strength, and soon developed from thousands of remnants to tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
Deng Ai became a serious problem for Shu Han's confidants, and if he was not eliminated, the country would face a catastrophe. Therefore, who to lead the crusade against Deng Ai became Liu Chan's biggest headache.
At that time, the ministers recommended veteran generals with rich combat experience to go on the battlefield, but Huang Hao, in order to make Zhuge Zhan go further, said: "Zhuge Zhan is after Wu Hou, and he is your son-in-law, and at the time of the country's peril, only he can be trusted!" ”
Liu Chan trusted Huang Hao and was naturally willing to listen to him, so he ordered Zhuge Zhan to lead tens of thousands of soldiers from Chengdu on the expedition.
This was also the first time that Zhuge Zhan led the army to fight, and along the way he was arrogant and arrogant, vowing to turn the tide for the country. However, due to the lack of experience, the coordination of the whole army is not good, and the speed of travel is slow.
At this time, staff officer Huang Chong suggested: "Taking advantage of the fact that Deng Ai's army has not entered the plains, we should send light troops to seize the pass, so as to gain the advantage." ”
However, Zhuge Zhan's intelligence at that time was that Deng Ai only had two thousand remnants of soldiers, so he did not think so, believing that once the army arrived, Deng Ai would naturally disappear, and there was no need to worry. Huang Chong hurriedly knelt down and wept bitterly: "If you don't seize the pass, the country will be in danger, please think deeply!"
In the end, Zhuge Zhan did not take Huang Chong's advice, and sure enough, after they slowly came to Mianzhu, they found that Deng Ai had already entered the plains, pulled up a cavalry, and his power had swelled to tens of thousands more than Zhuge Zhan. Zhuge Zhan regretted at this time that he did not follow Huang Chong's advice.
Zhuge Zhan could not fight with Deng Ai, he could only change from attack to defense, and Deng Aibing came to Mianzhu City and sent a letter of surrender: "As long as you surrender, you will be crowned the King of Langya!" ”
Although Zhuge Zhan was in cahoots with Huang Hao, he was still not lacking in the integrity of the country's great righteousness. He directly beheaded Deng Ai's emissaries and swore to defend the country with death.
The two sides eventually fought a decisive battle in Mianzhu, but Zhuge Zhan was immature after all, not Deng Ai's opponent, and was finally defeated. Seeing that the general situation had gone, Zhuge Zhan finally repented: "I can't get rid of the traitor Huang Hao internally, nor can I balance Jiang Wei externally, nor can I lead the expedition to protect the country. ”
After saying that, Zhuge Zhan resolutely charged and died in the steel torrent of the Wei army, at the age of 36. Zhuge Zhan's son Zhuge Shang saw his father die in battle, and he also resolutely rushed into the battlefield, and finally died heroically, at the age of nearly 15.
Mianzhu was defeated, the main force of Shu Han was lost, and Deng Ai's attack could no longer be stopped, and finally Liu Chan surrendered under the persuasion of Tan Zhou, and Shu Han was thus destroyed...
Throughout his life, Zhuge Zhan was unable to escape Zhuge Liang's prophecy and was useless. Just as he himself said, he can't get rid of Huang Hao, he can't make Jiang Wei, he can't defend the country, and he can't make the country strong, except that he has such a magnificent integrity, and he is really too mediocre as an adult.
Zhuge Liang was wise, and he didn't know how he would look at his beloved and unworthy son under the Nine Springs...