This article is written with reference to historical sources and personal opinions, and the relevant literature sources have not been indicated.
(Turbulent Times)
During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a very unpopular and mysterious figure whose name was Yin Fan.
How mysterious is this hidden and unpopular? This guy only has a name, and he doesn't even have a name.
Not only is the words unknown, but any of the deeds of his childhood, youth, and youth cannot be found in the history books.
Through the existing history books, we can only know that Yinbo was a native of Qingzhou, Shandong, and lived in the era of Cao Rong, Emperor Wei Ming of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
When Yinbo first entered the stage of the Three Kingdoms, he was in his early twenties, and the initial impression he left on the people at that time was that this young man was very eloquent, able to speak well, and could speak well.
Of course, the Three Kingdoms is a gorgeous troubled era, with many talents, many staff, and being able to speak can only be regarded as a basic configuration, but Yinbo is different, Yinbo is very eloquent, and is extremely good at sophistry, it can be said that this young man is very personal in the field of language arts.
It is precisely because of this that Yinbo was quickly noticed by the Wei court, and Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming personally received Yinbo.
No one knows what the two talked about when they met this time, but after Yinfan and Cao Rong chatted in the morning, he defected to Soochow in the afternoon.
Yinbo is a Wei person, he defected to Dongwu, of course, it is a defection, after he ran to Wu, the social response of Wu is very good, because there are many defectors from Dongwu to Cao Wei in these years, but there are few people who take the initiative to defect to Dongwu from Cao Wei, Yinbo is of course not a big man in Cao Wei's political arena, but he is known as a talent among the people, which is equivalent to Cao Wei's young talents defecting to Dongwu, so Dongwu defines Yinbo's defection as "returning to righteousness".
(Hidden Image)
The Eastern Wu court recognized Yinbo very much, but Sun Quan, the emperor of Eastern Wu, was not interested in Yinbo who came to defect, and even Yinbo had been in Dongwu for a while, and Sun Quan did not plan to meet Yinbo.
It stands to reason that the Three Kingdoms is actually a battle for talent from a certain point of view, although Yinbo is not very famous, who can say for sure, he will not be the next Wolong and Phoenix Chick?
Therefore, Sun Quan's reaction is really a bit strange.
Not only did the author find it strange, but Yinbo also felt very strange after waiting in Dongwu for a while, I had long heard that Dongwu cherished talents, and was extremely friendly to scholars, and he was a figure of his own size, risking his life to come all the way to you, and you had a careless attitude towards me, which made me very dissatisfied.
Yinbo was very angry, and he immediately wrote a letter to Sun Quan, which probably went something like this:
This king has no way, Weizi fled, Gaozu Lixian, Chen Ping came to vote, with my ability to hide Tibet, isn't it easy to get an official position in Wei State?
The reason why I want to give up the glory and wealth in Wei and defect to Soochow is because I think that the mandate of heaven will be attributed to the king of the Tao, who is the king of the Tao? Of course, it's you Sun Quan.
However, let's say that you have a way, I have been in Soochow for so long, and you have not summoned me, which makes me have a lot of exquisite strategies and good ways to govern the country that I cannot tell, so I think it is necessary for us to have a good talk between our monarchs and ministers.
You see, Yinbo's words are very particular, he wants to suppress the first Yang, first praise Sun Quan is the master of the Tao, and then the conversation turns, and then since you are the master of the Tao, then you should do what the master of the Tao should do, you are not polite corporal, then you are the master of the Tao, the destiny of heaven, you are flawed.
(Ming painting Wu lord Sun Quan portrait)
Facts have proved that this kind of agitation method is very effective for Sun Quan, and it is simply tried and tested, and it reminds the author of Zhuge Liang's words when he lobbied Eastern Wu during the Battle of Chibi.
At that time, Zhuge Liang said to Sun Quan, now Cao Cao is going south, Sun Quan, you can fight if you can, but if you can't fight, it's better to surrender as soon as possible, Sun Quan said Since Cao Cao is powerful, why don't you surrender your lord Liu Yuzhou? Zhuge Liang's face changed and said that my lord is the uncle of the Han Emperor, how can he stoop to be a thief, and he must fight to the end, when Sun Quan heard you, didn't you squeeze me? Without saying a word, he decided to join forces with Liu Bei to fight against Cao.
This Sun Quan was afraid of a run, so as soon as Yinbo squeezed him, he couldn't stand it, and immediately summoned Yinbo to see what kind of character this Yinbo was.
After meeting Sun Quan, Yinbo really talked eloquently, with a beautiful demeanor, and also put forward a lot of constructive suggestions for the development of Soochow, which couldn't help but make Sun Quan's eyes shine.
After sending Yinbo away, Sun Quan immediately found the minister Hu Zong and asked Hu Zong what he said about Yinbo.
This Hu Zong's official position in Soochow at that time was equivalent to Sun Quan's confidential secretary, and the edicts, edicts, official letters, internal canonizations, and external letters were all presided over by Hu Zong.
Hu Zong was a very pure literati, and he didn't have much affection for Yinbo's clever words, and he replied to Sun Quan as follows:
Yinbo is a person who is very similar to Dongfang Shuo in the Western Han Dynasty in terms of eloquence, and is very similar to You Heng who beats the drum and scolds Cao, but it is only similar, if it is about true talent and real learning, I am afraid that he is not as good as Dongfang Shuo and You Heng, so he can't be entrusted with important tasks, let alone delegated to the local government to govern the people, it is better to leave him in the central court, give him a petty official to do, and inspect his performance at any time.
(Hu Zong's image)
Dongfang Shuo, is a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, well-read and knowledgeable, able to speak well, others are trembling in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, only Dongfang Shuo is very relaxed and natural in front of the emperor, and often talks and laughs for fun.
You Heng is a person from the Three Kingdoms, this person has a genius, unruly, and is quite unruly, the first Cao Cao scolded Cao Cao, and then Liu Biao scolded Liu Biao, and later Huang Zu scolded Huang Zu, of course, this is also the reason later, and was finally killed by Huang Zu.
Hu Zong's comparison of Dongfang Shuo Youheng with Yinbo has actually given Yinbo a lot of face, which is a disguised recognition of Yinbo, but although Hu Zong recognizes Yinbo, he doesn't want Sun Quan to use Yinbo, which is probably considering that Yinbo is from Cao Wei, and he still has a sense of distrust in Yinbo in essence.
Sun Quan thought about it again and again, and finally followed Hu Zong's advice, but he didn't fully listen, because after some conversation, Sun Quan still admired Yinbo's talent, and liked Yinbo's conversation.
After becoming a court lieutenant, Yinbo is equivalent to officially entering the political arena of Eastern Wu, and his position, in charge of criminal and prison, is really not an idle position, not a high position, but he also has a head and a face, plus Yinbo is an outgoing, talkative, and able to speak, so he quickly made a lot of friends in Dongwu, such as the then Dongwu Zuo General Zhu Ju, Tingwei Hao Pu, in public commented that Yinbo is a big man, there is Wang Zuozhicai, and Pan Zhu, the captain of the cavalry, has directly become Yinbo's fan brother, If you have nothing to do, you will run to the house of Yinbo, and from time to time there will be generous gifts.
Sun Quan appreciated him, his colleagues praised him, and he had contact with many high-level officials in Soochow at work, as well as the secrets held by the high-level officials.
That is, when the development of Yinbo in Soochow was in full swing, an unexpected event occurred.
(Battle of Red Cliffs)
We know that the regime of Eastern Wu, the most favorite set of tactics on the battlefield, is the trick of deception, the most classic of which is the battle of Chibi Huang Gai's deception, it can be said that Cao Wei was miserably deceitful, but Cao Wei does not seem to have learned lessons, in 228 AD, twenty years after the Battle of Chibi, Poyang of Eastern Wu was too guarded to cosplay Huang Gai, and Cao Wei was deceived again, and Cao Wei was fooled again, deep in the encirclement of the Wu army, and was defeated by the Wu army on the frontal battlefield.
It stands to reason that you have been fooled twice, and you can't be fooled again if you are not smart, but not long after, Dongwu Zhonglang made another trick on Sun Bu, wanting to deceive Cao Wei again.
Sun Bu wrote a letter to Wang Ling, the assassin of Yangzhou in Cao Wei, of course, it was still the same set, he said to Wang Ling that I couldn't do it in Eastern Wu anymore, and I wanted to defect to you, so you should come and pick me up quickly.
Wang Ling is a martial artist, and he should be in a hurry to make contributions, so he didn't think about it, and he easily sent troops to meet Sun Bu.
You know, Yangzhou this place, has always been the most fierce military strategic area of Wei and Wu, from Guangling to Jianghuai, the two sides have been sending heavy troops to fight, if Wang Lingju all the troops to meet Sun Bu, it will inevitably be ambushed by Sun Bu, and the annihilation of the whole army is expected, and then the Yangzhou area will also be opened by Eastern Wu to open a breakthrough, so that Cao Wei fell into a great passivity on the frontal battlefield.
Seeing that Sun Bu's deception plan was about to succeed, the ministers of Eastern Wu were very happy, and only one person was unhappy, and this person was Yinfan.
(Sun Bu image)
Because, the true identity of Yinbo is actually an undercover agent sent to Eastern Wu by Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming.
He has been in Dongwu for more than a year, and he has already climbed to a high position, and has gained a lot of trust from Dongwu, especially Sun Quan trusts him, and he is extremely capable, at that time he was already able to master this high-level military secret of Sun Bu's deception of Cao Wei, and even he may have stolen a lot of confidential documents of Dongwu, and passed back to Cao Wei, if he is allowed to lie dormant for a few more years, he will be more favored by Sun Quan, even if he can't worship the governor, there is no problem to mix with an important central position or a local guard.
In this way, Yinbo will become a nail lurking in the heart of Soochow.
As an undercover agent, Sun Bu surrendered, and his first reaction was, of course, to pass on the news and warn Cao Wei, at least Wang Ling, so that he would not be fooled.
But the problem is that at that time, in order to take Yangzhou and deceive Wang Ling, the whole country was under martial law, and Yinbo had no ability or opportunity to transmit news to the outside world.
The information can't be transmitted, if Wang Ling becomes the one, the gap in Yangzhou will be opened, and everything will be over.
At the last moment, Yinbo chose to launch a rebellion in Eastern Wu on the spot, and directly raised troops in Jianye, the capital of Eastern Wu.
Of course, the temporary uprising, Yinbo's rebellion was quickly suppressed, and he himself was captured alive, but he made a disturbance to remind Cao Wei that the purpose had been achieved - Sun Bu's army was originally ambushed, just waiting for Wang Ling to take the bait, but Wang Ling was halfway through and heard that there was a rebellion in Eastern Wu, and he didn't feel quite right, so he withdrew his troops directly.
Wang Ling would not know that it was Cao Wei's intelligence officers, whom he had never met, who saved him at the cost of his life.
Yin Fan was arrested, and the saddest thing was not Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming, but Sun Quan.
(Wang Ling's image)
Because, Sun Quan used to trust Yinbo so much, he really thought that Yinbo was the talent sent to him by God Wang Zuozhicai, and entrusted him with important tasks, but it turned out to be a long time ago, Yinbo was a solid spy, and he came to Dongwu to sabotage.
If it weren't for the fact that Yinbo exposed his identity in order to pass on information this time, even if Yinbo sold himself, he would still count the money for others.
Moreover, Sun Quan also realized that when a hidden bo was exposed, it meant that there were countless hidden hidden treasures in Eastern Wu.
Yes, your Dongwu deception plan has been tried and tested repeatedly, but you don't know how many spies Cao Wei has sent over the years.
Facing Yinbo, Sun Quan was angry and annoyed, he questioned Yinbo, and said Why did you betray me? Why do you want to give Cao Wei his life?
Yin Fan didn't say a word, Sun Quan was even more uncomfortable, and he asked again: If you confess your comrades now, maybe you can atone for your crimes.
It's okay not to say this, but after finishing speaking, Yinbo sneered and replied:
Of course I have allies, but I will never implicate them, so I just want to die quickly.
Sun Quan was helpless and speechless, so he had to kill Yinfan.
The original text of "Wu Lu" is recorded as follows: "Sun Jun, her husband is trying to do things, how can he have no companion!" The death of martyrs is not enough to connect with each other. ”
Note that Yinbo's title for Sun Quan here is Sun Jun, what does Jun mean, either the meaning of the king, or the meaning of the lord, even if it is not the above two, in the context this is also an honorific title for people.
So in other words, it is not only Sun Quan who has the regret and sadness that Cao Cao had for killing Chen Gong, but from a certain point of view, Yin Fan seems to have gratitude and guilt for Sun Quan's courtesy to him at the beginning.
It's just that they have different positions, different fates, and different missions, even if the monarchs and ministers know each other, they will definitely take different paths and usher in different endings.
(Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rong image)
We also can't know what Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming talked about back then, and what kind of relationship and friendship the two people established, it is worth letting a person with an infinite future like Yinbo sneak into the enemy camp alone at the cost of his life, and finally die in such a way.
Knowing that it is extremely risky to break into Soochow, and knowing that there will be death in a hurry, this is ridiculous and stupid in the eyes of many people, it is a mayfly shaking a tree, and a mantis arm is a car, but Yinbo still did it.
Because, there is an ancient philosophical thinking flowing in Yinbo's body, that is: although tens of millions of people have gone to me, although they have died nine times, they still have no regrets.
In the gorgeous troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, Yinbo did everything he had to do.
The story of the Three Kingdoms is the coat, and the fate that cannot be escaped is the core.
Resources:
"Jiankang Record: Wu Shang"
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, and The Biography of Hu Zong
WANG Dongliang,GAO Junbin. On the Yangtze River Defense System of the Sun-Wu Regime during the Three Kingdoms Period. Heilongjiang Historical Chronicles, 2014
WANG Lu. Archaeological investigation and preliminary study of the Gaoping Mausoleum of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming. Journal of Yellow River University of Science and Technology, 2015