Since it is about the Three Kingdoms period, before entering the main topic, we may wish to review ge Cheng xiang's "Table of Teachers" with you.
Zhuge Liang mentioned in the "Table of Renunciation" that there were many civilian and military generals of the Shu Han regime, and Fei Yi was one of them. Zhuge Chengxiang's evaluation of him was as follows: "Shi Zhong, Shi Lang Guo Youzhi, Fei Yi, Dong Yun, etc., all of which are good and honest, and who are loyal and pure in their ambitions, are his majesty who was left behind by the former emperor Jian Ba; Shi Zhong, Shang Shu, Chang Shi, and joined the army, and this is the subject of the Death Festival of Zhen Liang." ”
In 234 AD, a generation of famous ministers Zhuge Liang "died before he was born", and died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, after which Jiang Huan, whom he recommended to his successors, became the head of the government of Shu Han and ruled until his death due to illness in 246, Jiang Huan's successor was Fei Yi, who was deeply appreciated by Zhuge Liang, and in military terms, the years after Zhuge Xiang's death were mainly responsible for his disciple Jiang Wei.
History is sometimes very strange, and this is also reflected in Zhuge Liang, one of which is his relationship with Jiang Huan and Fei Yi--Zhuge Liang attaches great importance to these two reserve high-end talents, but neither of them actually approves of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition strategy. I wonder if Zhuge Liang, who is known as "Zhi Jie", has a good idea in mind?
When Jiang Huan began to govern, the economic situation of the Shu state had been greatly affected by the war, so he gradually shifted his main energy from the Northern Expedition to the Wei state to attack and defend to governing internal affairs and developing the economy. After Fei Yi succeeded to the post, Xiao Zhicao followed and tried not to launch excessive offensive military activities.
However, Jiang Wei, who was deeply favored by Zhuge Liang's knowledge, was different from Jiang Huan and Fei Yi, and he had always adhered to Zhuge Liang's strategic policy and repeatedly asked Jiang Wei and Fei Yi to order the Northern Expedition. Jiang Huan and Fei Yi were not willing to attack Jiang Wei's enthusiasm for destroying Cao Xinghan, and at the same time they were worried that years of conquest would cost them national strength, so they had always been very conflicted about the military operation of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
Later, the clever Fei Yi came up with a compromise solution--every time Jiang Wei asked for the Northern Expedition, he would only give him 10,000 horses.
In 250 AD, Jiang Wei sent troops to the Central Plains for the fifth time, this time the main battlefield of the Wei and Shu wars was in Xiping County, west of the Xihe River. At that time, the opponent against Jiang Wei was Guo Huai, a famous general of the State of Wei, and as a result, the two of them met each other, and the general met Liangcai, and played a draw, and no one took anyone down.
Although Jiang Wei did not capture Xiping as expected, he did not achieve nothing, and he captured Guo Xun, the general of the Wei state, which was an extraordinary figure.
Guo Xun, also spelled Xiaoxian, was a native of Xiping, and their family was a large family of Hao who lived in Xiping. Although Guo Xun was a "rich N generation," he was not a clumsy brother who could only race cars and bubble girls, but a very talented person who was quite prestigious in the western part of the Wei Kingdom.
Someone like Guo Xun was exactly what Fei Yi needed.
Although Fei Yi did not approve of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition policy, he, like Zhuge Liang, hoped to firmly establish a firm foothold in the Longxi region, which was a military stronghold, so that when the Shu Han regime was strong in the future, he would use this as a base to launch an attack on Cao Wei, so he always attached great importance to wooing the powerful families in Longxi.
Therefore, Jiang Wei recommended Guo Xun, who was willing to surrender, to Fei Yi.
With the recommendation and promotion of Fei Yi and Jiang Wei, Guo Xun, who abandoned the dark and cast the light, soon became the high general of the left general, and became a trusted general around Fei Yi, who was held by Ma Chao, Wu Yi, Xiang Lang, and others, and they were all generals who were very trusted by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, which shows the importance of the Shu state, especially Fei Yi, to Guo Xun.
Fei Yi's unusual promotion and excessive trust in Guo Xun, the general of the State of Wei, aroused the special attention of the Shu general Zhang Ling, who felt that although Fei Yi's deeds could show his broad-mindedness and elegance, he was suspected of fraternity and wantonness, and he was in danger of being in danger, so he used the stories of the ancients to persuade him: "In the past, Cen Peng and Lai She were killed by assassins, and the generals who were in charge of major state affairs should learn a lesson and be a little more vigilant. But Fei Yi, who was full of self-confidence and informality, did not take Zhang Ling's words to heart, and perhaps secretly laughed at Zhang Ling's narrow-mindedness and jealousy.
Regrettably, the subsequent development of events was unfortunately caught by Zhang Lingyan.
Under Fei Yi's new policy, the number and scale of wars against Wei decreased, and the national economy of shu and Han developed rapidly. Fei Chengxiang was very satisfied with this, and he was overjoyed that he decided to hold a feast and a new year's meeting at Hanshou (present-day Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province) on the day of the Sixteenth New Year of Yanxi, and all officials in Hanshou, regardless of their official position, could receive an invitation from the minister.
The first meeting of the hundred officials was finally held as scheduled. Because the later lord Liu Chanyuan could not participate in Chengdu, Fei Yi, the minister who was above ten thousand people under one person, naturally became the biggest focus of the banquet, and the military generals of the wenchen and courtiers toasted to him one after another, and Fei Yi, who was in a good mood, did not refuse to raise a glass frequently, and unconsciously he was already drunk and drunk
At this moment, a member of the warrior general walked up to Fei Yi with a wine glass and said that it was too late and fast, only to see that the warrior general took out a dagger with a cold and shining dagger and stabbed it into Fei Yi's chest fiercely. By the time the officials present woke up, Fei Yi had already collapsed in a pool of blood, and the Assassin had already committed suicide.
This assassin was Guo Xun, a Wei general who was deeply trusted by Fei Yi.
Afterwards, someone reported that Guo Xun "wanted to stab the Han Lord (Liu Chan), but was not allowed to get close, and every time he went to shou, and worshiped before, he was restrained by the left and right, and nothing was fruitful."
The later lord Liu Chan was deeply saddened by the loss of such a heavy minister of the Sheji, and ordered that a state funeral be held for Fei Yi and buried him in the south of the Ji altar of the Ximen Xibu Sheji in Hanshou City, and presented him with the title of "Honorable Marquis of Urban and Rural Areas" to commemorate his outstanding contributions to the Han Dynasty.
It may be that the Shu Han blocked the news that the chancellor Fei Yi had been assassinated, so it was eight months after the Wei court knew about this major political event. In order to commend Guo Xun for his "heart in the Han camp in Cao," for not forgetting his homeland, and for his revolutionary spirit and indomitable will to serve the country loyally, Wei Guote issued an edict to the world, but for some unknown reason he miswrote "Guo Xun" as "Guo Xiu" -- "The late Guo Xiu, a native of Zhonglang Xiping, had noble conduct and could not be returned."
Before the Shu general Jiang Weikou plundered Xiping County, Guo Xiu was taken captive. Last year... Guo Xiu assassinated Fei Yi in public, his courage surpassed Nie Zheng's, his merit was better than that of Jiezi, and he could really be described as a person who killed himself and sacrificed his life for righteousness..." In this book, Guo Xiu was posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Changle Township, Eat yi Ganhu, and posthumously honored as the Marquis of Wei; his son was given the right to inherit the title, and was given the title of Fengche Du Wei, and also received a rich reward of silver dry cakes and silk thousands of horses.
The impact of Fei Yi's assassination on Shu Han was not only the loss of a highly respected and capable minister, but also a huge turning point in the country's political direction, and his fate also underwent a major change.
After Fei Yi's death, Jiang Wei became the second-in-command of Shu Han (the first in command, of course, Liu Chan), and he was bent on inheriting Zhuge Cheng Xiang's legacy to unify China in the Northern Expedition to unify China in the Central Plains, and the policy toward Wei naturally changed from the defensive-oriented to offensive and defensive during the Jiang and Fei Yi periods—specifically, in the twenty years before he came to power, Jiang Wei launched five Northern Expeditions, and in the ten years after his reign, at least four wars were launched, and the strength of the Shu Han state, which was already weak compared with the Wei state, was greatly weakened, to a certain extent After the loss of land and the fall of the country, the root of the disaster was laid.
The assassination of Guo Xun by the Wei state was a very important political event in the late Three Kingdoms period, and unfortunately, luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" did not have this earth-shattering and legendary storyline written, and I don't know whether it was a momentary negligence or an intentional act.