Why is Jia Fu, the macho man in the "gut war", not worthy of "Champion Hou"? Haha, I don't even know how to explain this topic, if I say "unworthy", someone is anxious with me, if I say "worthy", he really doesn't deserve, it's also a bit "water".
There have been several so-called "intestinal wars" (also called "intestinal wars") in history, but Jia Fu is "original". This story is that during the Battle of Kunyang, Jia Fu broke into the enemy camp alone, was seriously wounded, and his intestines flowed out. The young man used that thing as a hemp rope, tied it around his waist, and continued to fight, and actually defeated Wang Mang's first favorite general, "Big Mac".
Later, this plot was flooded, and many people stole the "copyright" to exaggerate the vigor of the protagonist.
Jia Fu is one of the "28 generals of Yuntai" who founded the country of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, ranking third, second only to Deng Yu and Wu Han. However, if you carefully take stock of the merits of the twenty-eight generals, Jia Fu really has nothing to do, and he is even inferior to some "unsuccessful students".
I have written a lot of stories about the founding generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and people always ask me: What about Jia Junwen (Jia Fu)? People are the original of the "Drag the Intestine War", how many people in history can do it?
Is Jia Fu really so violent? If we read that passage carefully, we will find that it is full of holes.
In that war, three "Yuntai heroes" appeared one after another, namely Deng Yu, Cen Peng, and Jia Fu. This is a big loophole, the Kunyang War broke out in 23 AD, at that time Liu Xiu was only a partial general (not even a general) under the first emperor Liu Xuan, playing soy sauce, and he was not qualified to lead an independent army at all.
Deng Yu joined Liu Xiu in the second year, and Liu Xiu invited himself to patrol Hebei in order to avoid Liu Xuan's persecution. At that time, Deng Yu was requisitioned by the original regime, but with his unique vision, he gave up the opportunity to become a leader, chased to Hebei alone, and became Liu Xiu's ninth follower.
Cen Peng joined Liu Xiu even later, and was the twenty-fifth follower on the list, and missed the opportunity to be on the list.
Jia Fu followed Liu Xiu earlier than Cen Peng and later than Deng Yu, and was recommended by Liu Xiu's cousin Liu Jia, Jia Fu rushed from Hanzhong to Hebei and became Liu Xiu's nineteenth follower.
In other words, during the Kunyang War, Jia Fu was not Liu Xiu's subordinate at all, he was still a lieutenant under Liu Jia at that time, and did not appear at the scene of the Kunyang War.
In fact, the so-called "Intestinal War" is not history, but "Historical Romance", which comes from Cai Dongfan's "Romance of the Eastern Han Dynasty", to put it bluntly, it is a "novel plot", a fake!
Therefore, taking this plot as Jia Fu's merit is similar to drawing a commendation order for himself.
But any famous general, at least have a famous battle, an independent leader's experience, and an irreplaceable record, does Jia Fu have it? The battle for fame is barely there, and the other two really don't.
It was two months before the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty in April 25 AD, Liu Xiu launched an operation to clear the Hebei Righteous Army, and when Zhending faced the Five School Army, Jia Fu took the lead in rushing into the enemy formation, invincible, and was accidentally seriously wounded.
Although Cai Dongfan's "Romance of the Eastern Han Dynasty" is a novel, it also has a reliable side, that is, Jia Fu is indeed a fierce general, the "intestinal war" is fake, but Jia Fu's bravery is real.
At that time, Liu Xiu's camp was divided into two factions, the so-called "Hebei faction" and "Nanyang faction", and Jia Fu was not treated well by the Hebei faction. As a native of Nanyang, he has no deep relationship with the Nanyang faction, so he is excluded everywhere.
In order to gain a foothold, Jia Fu can only show his housekeeping skills - playing with his life. On the battlefield, he took the lead everywhere, he was so fierce that he was in a mess, and he was injured many times, and he was really the heaviest this time, and he almost lost his life.
Liu Xiu was sad to hear the news and said: "Jia Fu took risks against the enemy, so I didn't dare to let him fight independently." His wife was pregnant, and I married her both boys and girls. ”
This is where the allusion of "finger for marriage" comes from.
Fortunately, Jia Fu's life was great and he was rescued, but Liu Xiu had a long memory, and from then on, he no longer let Jia come back to fight, but let him stay by his side as a military staff officer.
Therefore, Jia Fu has actually been a "green leaf in the army" all his life, and compared with Geng Yi, Wu Han, Feng Yi, and Cen Peng, he is several grades worse. So, how did he get the title of "Champion Marquis" with special meaning?
When it comes to "Champion Hou", friends who are familiar with history will immediately have a person in their minds - Huo Quai.
That's right, Huo Quzhi is the first "champion Hou" in history. In the sixth year of Yuan Shuo (123 BC), the 17-year-old prostitute Yao Lieutenant Huo Qubing went to the battlefield for the first time as an intern, and was appointed as a guerrilla by his uncle Wei Qing, leading 800 cavalry to the surrounding area to reconnoiter the enemy.
Huo Quai's illness was brilliant when he gave a little sunshine, and the young man actually traveled thousands of miles and took the Hun den. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went crazy and decreed:
"Plagiarize Captain Yao to go sick and behead 2,208 captives, and Xiangguo, Danghu, behead the eldest father's family Ruohou, give birth to Ji's father Luo Gubi, and then champion, with 1,600 households to seal the disease as the champion Hou."
In ancient times, the feudal marquis generally named the title after the fief, but Huo Qubing changed the place name because of the special meaning of "naming", and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty specially cut part of the land of Xiang County and Wan County in Nanyang County to establish the "Champion County" as the fief of the champion Hou Huo Quai.
Coincidentally, Jia Fu was born in Champion County. The ancients had the plot of "returning to their hometown", and Liu Xiu would naturally try his best to seal their hometown to them when he divided the heroes, so Jia Fu became the "champion Hou".
It turns out that the "Champion Hou" has shrunk, and the meaning of Jia Fu's "Champion Hou" and Huo Quzhi's "Champion Hou" cannot be compared at all, Huo Quzhi's "Champion" is an honorary title, and Jia Fu's "Champion" is just a "mark".
It is estimated that some "bar spirits" are not convinced: according to what you say, Jia Fu is a parallel import, so why is he ranked third on the list of Yuntai heroes? Feng Yi is only seventh, and Cen Peng, another person who has built "military merits", is only sixth.
First of all, there are conditions for the Yuntai Heroes List to be shortlisted.
There are two major conditions for being shortlisted for the Yuntai Hero List, first, they must join before Emperor Guangwu ascends the throne and becomes emperor, and second, the finalists cannot be related to the royal family. If it weren't for the restrictions of these two conditions, Lai She, Deng Chen, Yin Zhi, Ma Yuan and others would be far more qualified than Jia Fu to be shortlisted.
Secondly, the list of Yuntai heroes is not ranked according to the single factor of "military merit".
In fact, if you talk about military merits alone, I personally think that Cen Peng ranks first, Feng Yi ranks second, Geng Yi ranks third, Wu Han ranks fourth, and Jia Fu ranks last.
If the comprehensive contribution is taken into account, there is no doubt that Deng Yu ranks first. So, is Jia Fu's third ranking reasonable?
If you look at it purely from the records in the history books, it is definitely unreasonable, because it is difficult for us to find a "hard dish" that Jia Fu can handle. However, we can "figure out" the rationality of the ranking from the "invisible contribution".
In fact, in the list of heroes, the biggest controversy is Deng Yu, who is at the top of the list. Many people say that Deng Yu is a vase, and he lost half of the elite given to him by Liu Xiu during the Western Expedition.
It is obviously too shallow to say that, and it does not study that history carefully.
First of all, although Deng Yu's Western Expedition was wiped out, the first responsible person was not Deng Yu, but Liu Xiu himself. At the beginning, Deng Yu started the game, and grew from 20,000 to 1 million in a few months.
After entering Guanzhong, Deng Yu keenly discovered a fatal hidden danger, that is, a lack of food. So he proposed to operate the "three northern counties", namely Shangjun, Beidi County, and Anding County, and use these three counties as the base to slow down Tuguanzhong.
It's a pity that Liu Xiu was frightened by the name of "Deng Million". A subordinate who flies solo surpasses himself in a short period of time, which master is not afraid? It's easy to decouple! So Liu Xiu ordered: Don't delay, take Guanzhong immediately.
Deng Yu had no choice but to fight hard, and as he expected, the army fell into the dilemma of running out of food, and could only rely on wild fruits to satisfy hunger, so that there was a rebellion in the army.
Why is Feng Yi successful? Very simply, Liu Xiu learned his lesson and specially arranged logistics support troops for him. Therefore, the pot of the failure of the Western Expedition should not be borne by Deng Yu, it was caused by Liu Xiu's suspicion.
In addition, Deng Yu is Liu Xiu's "Zhuge Liang", he conquered Liu Xiu in one fell swoop with Deng Yu's version of "Longzhong Pair", and all of Liu Xiu's major strategies came from Deng Yu's planning. Deng Yu also has a specialty - knowing people, whenever it comes to deployment, Liu Xiu has to ask Deng Yu's advice.
These contributions are not visible to ordinary people, for example, Liu Xiu once hesitated, it was Deng Yu who pointed out the direction for him and lit up the future, which is called invisible contributions, and this contribution is often the key to determining fate.
Like Deng Yu, Jia Fu must have made a lot of invisible contributions, and my reasons are as follows.
First, there are often people in the army who slander Jia Fu, but Liu Xiu said: You don't know Jia Fu's contributions, I know it in my heart.
In other words, Jia Fu's behind-the-scenes work has been recognized by Liu Xiu, and these contributions are unknown to others, or even let people know. It can be seen that Jia Fu is Liu Xiu's confidant, and he tried to participate in confidential planning, and it is impossible for these things to be recorded in the history books.
Second, Liu Xiu's military talent is very likely to rub off on Jia Fu's "popularity".
The great man said that Liu Xiu was the emperor who was the best at fighting. In fact, Liu Xiu's talent is incredible, he is busy with government affairs, and he has to find time to go to the battlefield to wipe the butts of the generals. There has never been a founding emperor who has been so "hard", and it is up to the emperor to carry everyone across the river at the critical moment.
Obviously, the smearing marks in the historical records are too serious, and I think that Jia Fu is likely to be the hero behind Liu Xiu's military exploits. Who makes him unpopular? had to borrow the emperor's prestige to do things, and the credit naturally went to the emperor.
Third, after the unification of the world, Jia Fu, together with Deng Yu and Li Tong, became the only three retained personnel among the heroes.
After the unification of the world, Liu Xiu adopted the method of "redemption" to exchange long-term meal tickets for the military power of the heroes, so that the families of those heroes collectively retired, creating a good story of monarchs and ministers sharing the world.
However, Jia Fu, Deng Yu, and Li Tong were retained by Liu Xiu as "special advances", which was equivalent to consultants, and did not directly participate in court politics, but were actually the emperor's decision-making staff.
It can be seen that "brave" should not be Jia Fu's first label, "strategy" is his greatest specialty, otherwise Liu Xiu has no reason to keep him by his side. This treatment can't even be enjoyed by Liu Xiu's little hair Zhu You.
In short, according to the record of "Romance of the Eastern Han Dynasty", Jia Fu, the "champion Hou", should be comparable to Huo Quai, but unfortunately it is not true history. According to historical records, Jia Fu is not worthy of his name, and he is full of water.
But after careful analysis of history, I think Jia Fu is by no means a "king of idle rice", and his invisible contributions cannot be ignored.