In August of the twelfth year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty (234 AD), Zhuge Liang, the chancellor of the Shu Han Dynasty, died of illness on the front line of Wuzhangyuan. Before his death, the Shu lord Liu Chan sent Shangshu's servant Li Fulai Wuzhangyuan to ask who could succeed Zhuge Liang as his prime minister? Zhuge Liang said that Jiang Gongyan could pay for things, and after Gongyan, Wen Wei also. The so-called Gongyan is the shu han famous minister Jiang Huan, Wen wei is another Shu Han famous xiang Fei Yi character, Shu Han has four phases, namely Zhuge Liang, Jiang Huan, Fei Yi, Dong Yun. Some people may have found that as Zhuge Liang's designated successor in the next generation, both Jiang Huan and Fei Yi were jingzhou people, and they were from the jingzhou family with Zhuge Liang. As for the Yizhou native system, it has never entered the core class of Shu Han power.
Jiang Huan is a native of Xiangxiang County, Lingling County, Jingzhou. In fact, there is no need to introduce where Lingling County is, most people are familiar with Xiangxiang County in Xiangtan City. In modern times, the area with Xiangxiang as the radius has produced too many heroes to come out, reversing the sinking situation since the end of the Qing Dynasty and saving the ancient empire that was considered incurable by Westerners at that time. Lingling County is one of the four southern counties of Jingzhou, which includes parts of Shaoyang City in southwestern Hunan Province, Yongzhou City, and Guilin City in Guangxi. The terrain of Lingling County is more complex, located in the north of Wuling, southeast of the famous Xuefeng Mountain, and the north-central part is the plain terrain, where the Xiangjiang River passes north.
Although historical data is lacking, Jiang Huan's defection to Liu Bei's clique should have been after Chibi, liu bei sat in Jingzhou, but it is not clear whether Jiang Huan surrendered during Liu Bei's southern conquest of the four counties. At that time, Jiang Huan was obviously not an important person, and when he followed Liu Bei into Xichuan, his identity was nothing more than Jingzhou Shuzuo. Because he was also in Jingzhou, presumably the number one military master Zhuge Liang still had a certain understanding of Jiang Huan and also greatly appreciated Jiang Huan's talents.
After Liu Bei received Xichuan, Jiang Huan was given a new position, Guangdu Chang. In the Han system, the top manager of a county with a household registration of more than 10,000 is called a county order, and the top manager of a county with a household of less than 10,000 households is called a county chief. Obviously, Guangdu County (the old county, the seat of government in the Shuangliu District of present-day Chengdu, Sichuan Province) was not a large county in Shuzhong, but Guangdu County belonged to Chengdu, the capital of the Shu State, and was only "a stone's throw away" from Chengdu. This means that as long as Jiang Huan makes a career in Guangdu, there is a high probability of getting the attention of the Shu lord Liu Bei, the so-called near the water tower platform first to get the moon, and the flowers and trees in the sun are easy to spring.
But Jiang Huan was obviously very disappointed in this position, and perhaps he thought that he should at least be a county-level taishou, and he had only been the head of a small county. As a result, since Jiang Huan took office in Guangdu, "everything was ignored and sometimes drunk." Are you familiar with these eight words? In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei asked Pang Tong, who had defected, to go to Leiyang as a county order, and Pang Shiyuan thought that he was a condescending talent, and he was drunk all day long, and Liu Bei was furious. It is seriously suspected that the plot of Pang Tong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was copied by Luo Guanzhong from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Biography of Jiang Wan", while the "Biography of Pang Tong" has only a simple four-character record, "in the county is not ruled".
As mentioned above, Guangdu is close to Chengdu and is extremely easy to attract Liu Bei's attention. Sure enough, Liu Once made a cruise to Guangdu to see the development results of the area, only to see that the governor of Jiang County was drunk every day and wanted to kill Jiang Huan in anger. Zhuge Liang, who had long been concerned about Jiang Wan's talent, came forward to intercede, saying that Jiang Huan was not able to serve in a small county, and that he was serving as Zaifu. In fact, liu bei did not necessarily give face, but Zhuge Liang's face, Liu Bei must give, "The first lord Ya Jingliang, is not guilty." ”
Jiang Huan was promoted shortly after he was dismissed from office, which is estimated to be Zhuge Liang's operation, serving as Shifang Ling, this time in more than 10,000 counties. Shifang was not subordinate to Shu Commandery (Chengdu), but to Guanghan Commandery (廣汉郡), but it was one of the northern gates of Chengdu, and the northeast of Shifang was Mianzhu (the county seat was some distance from the mianzhu city of Present-day Deyang).
After Liu Bei established himself as the Queen of Hanzhong, Jiang Huan went to Chengdu to serve as Shang Shulang, and did not leave Chengdu for a long time. Zhuge Liang had been paying attention to Jiang Huan, and in the first year of Jianxing (223 AD), after Zhuge Liang became the father of Shu Han, he immediately transferred Jiang Huan to his side as Eastern Cao Tuan. Zhuge Liang, in order to repay the favor of the former lord, poured the strength of the Shu state into the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei. However, Jiang Huan did not follow Zhuge Liang north to Hanzhong to cut down Wei, but stayed in the government to govern, which was obviously Zhuge Liang cultivating Jiang Huan's Zaifu talent. Zhuge Liang "died before he was born", and the secret cousin Jiang Huan could succeed him, and Jiang Huan officially became the Shu Han Chancellor. In terms of residence, from 219 AD when Liu Bei was proclaimed king of Hanzhong to 234 AD when Zhuge Liang died, Jiang Huan basically stayed in Chengdu for 15 years.
Due to the Shu Han's "new mourning marshal, far and near danger", the internal situation was not very stable. In this case, even if Jiang Huan had the ambition to inherit Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, it was not appropriate to go far at this time. In the first few years, Jiang Huan stayed in Chengdu and stabilized people's hearts with a tolerant mind. After the situation stabilized, in December of the second year of shu han Yanxi (early 240 AD), Shu Han's de facto chancellor Jiang Huan went north to Hanzhong and waited for the opportunity to go north.
Hanzhong is not used as too much introduction, since ancient times, it has been a famous place of contention for soldiers in the country, and a military town. Located south of the Qinling Mountains and north of Micang Mountain, Hanzhong is the throat of transportation between the Guanzhong Plain and the Sichuan Basin, and the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, hanshui, runs through Xiangyang in the middle of the Han Dynasty, and eventually joins the Yangtze River in Wuhan. Those who have divided the Shu land since ancient times must seize Hanzhong, otherwise Chengdu will have no danger to defend. This is also the reason why after Cao Cao destroyed Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, the Shu lord Liu Bei also wanted to retake Hanzhong at any cost. Without him, the Northern Army controlled Hanzhong, and the Sichuan Basin had no danger to defend, which was equivalent to a vault being occupied by someone, and the gold and silver treasure inside would be robbed.
Zhuge Liang also sat in Hanzhong all year round, but Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition has always taken the land route, the roads of lofty mountains and mountains are difficult, the transportation of grain is quite inconvenient, and the cost of war consumption is too large. Jiang Huan changed the route of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, but instead prepared to follow the Han River east from Hanzhong to attack the shangyong and Weixing counties that had been controlled by Shu Han but returned to Cao Wei. Weixing was the city of Ankang in present-day Shaanxi Province, and Shangyong was located in the west of Zhushan County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province. Wei Xing and Shangyong are in the triangular belt of the junction of Shu Han, Cao Wei, and Eastern Wu, which is the transition zone between the western mountainous area and the eastern plain area, and it is not far from luoyang, the Wei capital, to the north out of Nanyang. If Shu Han controlled the Shangyong counties, it could pose a major threat to Luoyang, and even if it did not send troops north, it could greatly contain Cao Wei's troops in Guanzhong and Longxi, and at least to a large extent alleviate the pressure of Cao Wei that Shu Han was under in the direction of Hanzhong and Wudu.
Just when Jiang Huan was preparing to make a big fuss in Hanshui, he suddenly fell ill and had to retire to Fuxian County to recuperate. Fuxian Zhishou is now the mianyang city of Sichuan Province, located on the bank of the Fu River, and is one of the gateways of Chengdu in the northeast direction. Jiang Huan did not return to Chengdu, apparently not wanting to abandon his plan to attack Wei by water, but due to his aggravated illness, Jiang Huan died in 246 AD, and Fei Yi took over the post of "prime minister" of Shu Han until he was assassinated by The Wei general Guo Xun (or Guo Huan) in 253 AD.