Wu Qi, a Defender of the Nation, a military figure, politician, reformer, and representative of the warrior family in the early Warring States period, has received mixed evaluations, let's take a look at this legendary soldier.
Wu Qi's family is also a wealthy family, idle at home when young, fencing and martial arts, not doing the right thing, often blamed by his mother. In order to seek an official and a half-job, he ran everywhere to find a way, spent a lot of money, ruined his family, and did not get an official and a half-job, and was ridiculed and slandered by the townspeople. Wu Qi was indignant about this and killed more than thirty people who slandered him. As he was about to flee, he swore to his mother, "If you don't look like a minister, you will never return to your guard." Wu first went to The Confucian disciples zeng to study Confucianism. Zeng San, knowing that Wu Qi's family had an old mother, asked Wu Qi why he never went home to visit, Wu Qi said of his oath to his mother, Zeng San said: "You can swear to others, how can you swear to your own mother?" Soon, a letter came from Wei Guo, saying that Wu Qi was now dead, and Wu Qi cried three times in the sky, immediately collected his tears, and began to read. After Zeng San knew, he said that Wu Qi was currently dead, and he did not go to the funeral, he was a person who forgot his roots, and he was very dissatisfied with Wu Qi. After Zeng's death, Wu Qi began to abandon the Confucian art of war.
When Wu Qibing was completed and went to the State of Lu to seek an official, The Duke of Lu, Knowing that Wu Qi had a general, he recommended Wu Qi to the Duke of Lu Mu, and Wu Qi was able to become the Doctor of the State of Lu. At this time, the State of Qi Xiang Guo Tian He was preparing to usurp the throne and wanted to expand his authority by attacking the State of Lu, and Gong Yixiu proposed that Wu Qi be the general to meet the enemy, but Duke Lu Mu was worried that Wu Qi would rebel because Wu Qi's wife was a Qi state and was worried about Wu Qi's rebellion, so he did not use Wu Qi as a general for a long time, and after Wu Qi learned of this, he found his wife to inform him of this matter, and for the sake of fame and fortune, he directly drew his sword and cut off his wife's head to prove his loyalty. Although Lu Mugong felt that Wu Qi was cruel, he was also worried that Wu Qi would defect to other countries, so he worshiped as a general to meet the Qi army. Wu Qi and the generals shared weal and woe, ate in the same cauldron, and advanced and retreated together, and the sergeant was grateful to Wu Qi and swore to fight to the death. Tian He heard that Wu Qi was so leading the troops, believing that Wu Qi had no power to be convinced, and sent the lieutenant Zhang Qiu to pretend to seek peace and listen to the truth, and Wu Qi hid all the elites, so that Zhang Qi could see all the old and weak, and told him that he was willing to reconcile. Zhang Qiu had just left, Wu Qi secretly dispatched troops to attack the Qi army in three ways, Zhang Ug told Tian He of the military situation, Tian He even more relaxed his vigilance against Wu Qi, and when the Lu army killed, the Qi army could not resist, so it had to flee in a big defeat, and Wu Qi led his troops to pursue the Pinglu Caiban Division. Wu Qi was given the title of Secretary of State for his merits, and Tian He believed that Wu Qi's talent was no less than that of Tian Yong Tho, the former minister of the State of Qi, and deliberately arranged for Zhang Qiu to give gifts to Wu Qi, and after Wu Qi accepted it, Zhang Qi publicized in the State of Lu that Wu Qi had accepted bribes from the State of Qi, and Lu Mugong wanted to punish Wu Qi, and Wu Qi had heard that he had fled to zhai Huang's house in the State of Wei overnight.
Because xihe was a necessary place for the Qin state to go to the state of Wei, it was necessary to send capable generals to guard the town, Zhai Huang recommended Wu Qi, Li Wu said that Wu Qi's character was not good, but the use of troops was above Tian Hoang Tho, Wei Wenhou summoned Wu Qi to ask about the way to win the "Wu Zi Art of War", Wu Qi replied: "There are not many soldiers, to rule is to win, build a army of soldiers and horses, give it grace, make it happy to fight, happy to die, according to different national conditions, adopt different tactics", Wu Qi proposed that Wei Guoshan has few people, the population is dense, and the grain is barely maintained, but wei has a large amount of salt industry , can be sold to the surrounding countries, profit to raise soldiers, Wu Qi with his own strategy to become the county guard of Xihe. Wu Qi built a new city in Xihe, trained soldiers and horses (special soldiers), cared for soldiers, gave Wei Wuzhu high treatment, exempted Wei Wushu from military service and tianzhai tax, and could obtain knighthoods by virtue of military merit. When the army was strong, Wu Qi sent troops to attack the Qin state and capture five cities west of the Yellow River. The State of Qin wanted to retake the city, but wu qi and Wei Wu were guarded and could not succeed. Wu Qi and Wei Wuzhu ate the same clothes, Wei Wuzhu had a life sore, Wu Qi personally helped him suck sores, this Wei Wuzu's mother knew and cried, others asked her why she cried so much, this mother said that when the county guard sucked sores for my husband, my husband fought forever, died on the battlefield, and now I don't know where my son is going to die. The State of Qin mobilized an army of 100,000 to attack the city of Yin and Jin, and Wu Qi led 10,000 Wei Wu pawns to defeat the Qin army, and Wu Qi's Xihe County was as stable as Mount Tai.
After the death of Marquis Wen of Wei, Marquis Wei Wu of Wei returned to China to succeed to the throne, because Li Wu of Xiangguo was dead, And Marquis Wu of Wei worshiped Shang Wen as Xiang Guo, and Wu Qi came from Xihe to praise himself for his military merits, believing that Xiang Wen must be in the bag, and when he heard that Shang Wen had become Xiang, he was very dissatisfied. After retiring from the dynasty, Wu Qi stopped Shang Wen and accused Shang Wen of being inferior to himself, why he could be a Xiangguo, and someone informed Wei Wuhou of this matter, and Wu Hou was worried that Wu Qi had an accident, so he sent another person to Xihe Town to guard, Wu Qi was worried about being killed after hearing about it, and fled to the Chu state overnight.
King Mourning of Chu knew of Wu Qi's talent, and directly worshiped Ling Yin, Wu Qi was grateful for the grace of the King of Chu, combined with the form of the State of Chu, believing that the State of Chu now needed to abolish redundant officials, cut off the distant relatives of the royal family, and use the money to raise troops, and the State of Chu would certainly be able to greatly enhance the prestige of the country. The King of Chu adopted Wu Qi's suggestion and began to reform, and Wu Qi laid off redundant officials in the Chu State, mobilized the distant relatives of the royal family, Feng Lu, levied taxes according to the mu of land, regardless of public land and private land, and implemented the method of conscription and training of Wei Wu pawns. In this year, Wu Qi was sixty years old, King Chu mourned his illness and died, the clan and other factions who had suffered from interests in the reform began to rebel, everyone killed the Chu King's palace, Wu Qi held the body of the King of Chu and was also shot by the rebels, before he died Wu Qi said: "My death is nothing, you shot the body of the King of Chu with arrows, it is a great rebellion, you cannot escape the punishment of the law", everyone rushed out of the palace, after Chu Su Wang Qizang succeeded to the throne, he took pity on Wu Qi's talent, investigated the rebellion in the palace, led the troops to exterminate the rebels, and destroyed more than seventy families.
This is Wu Qi, a good military man, a reformer, a soldier, a greedy and lustful man!!!