In the third year of Chuping (192), Wang Yun and other ministers murdered Dong Zhuo, the nemesis of the Han Dynasty, in one fell swoop, so that the originally shaky Eastern Han Dynasty once again ushered in a ray of revival, but at this critical juncture of historical turning, a person jumped out of the horns, just a casual word, they blew away the dawn of this revival, and sent the Eastern Han Dynasty into the abyss of eternal disaster. This strange man is called by Yi Zhongtian: probably the most intelligent person in the Three Kingdoms period, Jia Xu.
Jia Xu (147–223), courtesy name Wenhe, was a native of Guzang County, Wuwei County (present-day Liangzhou District, Wuwei, Gansu). Perhaps it was the remoteness of the gudi, or perhaps it was hidden but not revealed, and when he was young, Jia Xu was rarely known, and only the famous scholar Yan Zhong believed that Jia Xu was the reincarnation of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping.
The so-called gold, always shining, about twenty years old, Jia Xu was promoted by the magistrate as filial piety, in today's parlance, that is, excellent Houlang, and soon after was recruited by the imperial court to beijing to become a senior secretary in the Xiang Mansion. A year later, Jia Xu resigned due to illness, and on the way back to his hometown, he encountered a group of gun-wielding people on the road, and Jia Xu was captured along with dozens of people accompanying him. At this time, Jia Xu was bare-handed and helpless, it can be said that he had reached the end of his life, and he saw that his head was about to move, but Jia Xu was not pessimistic, but he raised his head and confidently fooled the leader of the People: "I am the grandson of Duan Gong (Duan Jiao), you don't rush to bury me, then my family will definitely redeem it with heavy money." At that time, duan jiao, the lieutenant of the time, was a border general for a long time, "threatening to shake the western soil". Therefore, Jia Xu pulled up a big banner to make tiger skins, pretending to be Duan's grandson to scare the people. This trick really worked, and when the people of Jia Xu heard it, not only did they not dare to do harm, but they got close to Jia Xu, about brothers, and then arranged a special car to send Jia Xu on the road, while the dozen or so people who were captured at the same time as Jia Xu were all clicked by the People of Jia Xu.
In September of the first year of the Yonghan Dynasty (189), Dong Zhuo, who had taken the throne, saw that the young emperor Liu Xie was not quite pleased, so he deposed him and installed his brother Liu Xie the Prince of Chenliu as emperor. In November, Dong Zhuo unceremoniously promoted himself to Xiangguo and wholeheartedly began a series of defeated operations. At this time, Jia Xu had recovered from his illness and was re-promoted to the post of Du Wei (equivalent to regimental battalion commander) in Pingjin (in present-day northwest of Gong County, Zhengzhou, Henan Province), and later promoted to lieutenant colonel (equivalent to division brigade commander), under the control of Niu Fu, the son-in-law of Dong Zhuo, the zhonglang general of Zhengtun Army in Shaanxi (present-day Xi'an).
Three years later, the invincible Dong Zhuo walked into the gates of hell and was murdered by Wang Yun, Lü Bu and others, and his son-in-law Niu Fu also assisted his father-in-law Dong Zhuo to go to the Western Heavens. Wang Yun planned to strike iron while it was hot and thoroughly liquidate Dong Zhuoyu's party. After Dong Zhuo's subordinates Li Dai and Guo Feng heard this, they panicked and wanted to pull out their legs and slip away. At this time, Jia Xu, who had just switched to Li Dai's army, was quite unwilling, and out of consideration for his own livelihood and future, he immediately intervened to stop it: "I heard that Chang'an City is planning to kill all the Liangzhou people, and if you abandon your subordinates and go alone, a pavilion chief can tie you up." Now it is better to lead the army to the west, collect scattered troops along the way, and wait for the opportunity to attack Chang'an and avenge Dong Gong. If you can get lucky and successful, you can 'serve the country to conquer the world', 'if it doesn't help', it is not too late to go. When the crowd heard it, it was as if they had grasped a life-saving straw in the ocean, and they all nodded their heads and said yes. Jia Xu's few "broken words" seemed like gossip, but they completely sent the Eastern Han Dynasty into the abyss.
Soon, Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others contacted the generals of Liangzhou and led their troops to attack Chang'an day and night, and when they arrived at Chang'an City, they had gathered more than 100,000 minions. Li Dai and Guo Feng besieged Chang'an. Wang Yun, Lü Bu and other ministers and generals in the city were caught off guard, and soon Chang'an City was breached, and after another confrontation that was not fierce, Wang Yun, Lü Bu and other soldiers were defeated. Li, Guo, and others then plundered the army, resulting in more than 10,000 deaths of the city's officials and corpses. Subsequently, Li and Guo, who had killed the red-eyed, led their troops to the palace gate and threatened Emperor Xian and Situ Wang Yun, and made Li Dai the general of Yang Wu, Guo Feng the general of Yang Lie, and Fan Chou the general of Zhonglang. As soon as the edict of appointment was issued, Li, Guo, and others clicked all the ministers, including Situ Wang Yun and Lieutenant Huang Wan, with lightning speed. For a time, there was chaos in the government and the wilderness, and the whole capital was full of bloody storms, and ghosts cried wolf howls.
After Li Dai and others gained power, they were quite interesting enough, and soon learned of Entu's report and promoted Engong Jia Xu to Zuo Fengyi (quite a county sheriff in Chang'an Dongcheng District), but Guo Feng thought that this reward was a cup of water and salary, and suggested that Jia Xu be made Hou. But at this time, Jia Xu behaved like a humble gentleman, insisting on not resigning. Seeing that Jia Xu's attitude was resolute, Li Dai and others changed jia xu to Shangshu (equivalent to the head of the organization). Although Li, Guo, and others superficially respected Jia Xu, they also knew that Jia Xu had teeth in his belly, so they secretly also secretly felt jealous of Jia Xu. Soon after, Jia Xu's mother died, and Jia Xu took the opportunity to resign from his official position and return to his hometown.
Not long after, Li Dai and Guo Feng showed their superiority, because they competed for power and profit, they were jealous of each other, and developed from a quarrel of words to the addition of fists and feet, so that they beat each other in groups. In order to cross Guo Feng, in a hurry, Li Dai thought of Jia Xu, who was unemployed at home. Therefore, he sent someone to invite Jia Xu to his battalion, and appointed Jia Xu as the general of Xuanyi on the same day. After Jia Xu arrived at his post, he neither helped Li Dai nor secretly assisted Guo Feng, but was impartial and mediated in the center. After Jia Xu's ideological work, Li and Guo temporarily shook hands and made peace. Later, Jia Xu saw that Li and Guo Erwu did not grow in the slightest, only ate and fought for power and profit, and all day long except for drinking and stringing bubble girls, they did not do anything, so they concluded that both of them were rabbits whose tails could not grow. At this time, several upright ministers of the court also secretly came to contact Jia Xu, hoping that he would help Emperor Xian to escape from the magic cave under Li and Guo, Chang'an City. Perhaps feeling ashamed of Emperor Xian of Han, Jia Xu immediately agreed and eventually helped Emperor Xian escape from Chang'an. Subsequently, Jia Xu did not do anything, and did not stop, ripped off the black veil on his head, dropped the big seal, and did not quit - to his mother's run.
At that time, Jia Xu's compatriot, Duan Shengzheng, who was already a general, led an army stationed in Huayin (present-day Huayin City, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province) on the edge of Chang'an, and Jia Xu felt that Duan Xuan was more reliable than Li and Guo, so he ran to Huayin and defected to Duan Sheng.
Jia Xu's "glorious deeds" of encouraging Li and Guo to defeat and chaos in Chang'an had already spread all over the world at this time, how could Duan Simmer on the edge of Chang'an not know? Seeing Jia Xu come to vote, Duan Simmer was quite uneasy in his heart, although on the surface he called Jia Xu a brother, a waiter of wine and meat, and a salary of the top, but from time to time a few strands of cold fierce light were revealed in his eyes. What kind of person is Jia Xu, how can he not see it?
At that time, Zhang Xiu, who was stationed in Nanyang (present-day Nanyang, Henan Province), was also a fellow villager of Jia Xu, and when he was young, he had drunk wine and skewered with Jia Xu several times. Zhang Xiu is a martial artist, although his head is not as big as Jia Xu's, but his luck is particularly good. At that time, Zhang Xiu's men were lacking a competent chief of staff. When Jia Xushang was in Chang'an, Zhang Xiu wrote many letters inviting Jia Xu to join him. However, at that time, When Jia Xu was proud of the spring breeze, he couldn't look at the local tycoon Zhang Xiu at all. But now a new situation has emerged, the so-called one time, the other time also. After some consideration, Jia Xu decided to leave the section and throw himself. When Jia Xu was about to leave, some people were quite puzzled: "Duan Gong treats you not thinly, but why do you want to leave?" Jia Xu looked around and whispered, "Duan Jun is suspicious and suspicious of me." Treat me like a guest now, but I will be harmed by it for a long time. And now that I'm choosing to leave, he'll be happy. Besides, he also counted on me to connect with foreign aid and ask for me, so he would definitely treat my family kindly. After saying that, he added with unfinished thoughts: "And Zhang Xiu is currently lacking counselors, and he also wishes to have me, so that I and my family can be safe." "This mind and this means are worthy of being the first head of the Three Kingdoms." After Jia Xu arrived in Nanyang, Zhang Xiu was really overjoyed, and regarded Jia Xu as his own uncle and obeyed his words. After Jia Xu left, Duan Simmer also laughed in his heart, and sent people to Jia Xu's house many times to ask for warmth, send money and grain to send warmth.
In March of the third year of Jian'an (198), Cao Cao felt that Zhang Xiuren was stupid and had a lot of money, weak and deceitful, so he personally led his troops to besiege The city of Rangcheng (穰城, in modern Dengzhou, Nanyang, Henan). Soon after the war began, Cao Cao was informed that Yuan Shao wanted to take advantage of the false attack to take Xu Du (徐都, in modern Xuchang, Henan Province). Cao Cao was taken aback and immediately withdrew his troops from Rangcheng. Where Zhang Xiu was willing to let go, he led his troops to pursue him, and Liu Biao also sent the Jingzhou army to occupy Anzhong (安庄, in present-day Dengzhou, Nanyang, Henan), in an attempt to cut off the Cao army's retreat, in an attempt to attack the Cao army with Zhang Xiu. Cao Cao took the plan into account, shook his spirits, and sent a surprise army to defeat Zhang and Liu Erjun. After the Cao army won, it did not love war, that is, quickly retreated north. Zhang Xiu saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and personally led his troops to pursue, and Jia Xu dissuaded: "You can't chase, and if you chase, you will lose." Zhang Xiu did not listen and insisted on pursuing, but unfortunately was defeated by Cao Cao after Jia Xue's words, Zhang Xiu was personally cut off. Who knows, at this time, Jia Xu actually said to Zhang Xiu, who had a frustrated face: "Hurry up and chase again, this time will definitely win." Zhang Xiu asked weakly with a pair of confused eyes, "I didn't listen to your advice to fall into this kind of field." Now that you have lost, why should you chase it again? Jia Xu didn't say much, and said quickly: "The situation has changed, and this time we will definitely win." Zhang Xiu was suspicious, collected scattered troops, and then pursued, and indeed destroyed Cao Cao's rearguard troops.
After the victory, Zhang Xiu humbly asked for advice, and Jia Xu said, "Isn't this a lice on a bald head, obviously?" Although the general was good at using troops, he was by no means an enemy of Cao Gong. Although the Cao army withdrew, Cao Cao would personally go to the palace, so I knew that the general you would be defeated. After saying that, Jia Xu further explained: "The reason why Cao Jun retreated at the touch of a touch must be that something big happened in the rear, so after breaking the pursuing soldiers, Cao Cao will definitely retreat with all his strength on fire, leaving others behind." Although the generals he left behind were also powerful, they were not as good as the generals, so I knew that the generals could win with defeated soldiers. Zhang Xiu sighed after listening. At that time, there was neither a network nor a computer or mobile phone, and Jia Xu only relied on the small representation of Cao Cao's rapid withdrawal of his troops after his victory, that is, he concluded that something big had happened in his rear.
The so-called no smartest, only smarter, witness Jia Xu's smarter moment has come again. A year later, Yuan Shao sent someone to recruit Zhang Xiu and specially showed favor to Jia Xu. Zhang Xiu thought about it again and again, and felt that this was a good deal that could not be lost. However, what Zhang Xiu did not expect was that Jia Xu took it upon himself to directly rebuke Yuan Shao's envoy in front of Zhang Xiu's face: "Where are you coming from, thank you Brother Yuan for us." Then the words turned sharply: "Brothers can't be compatible, but can they tolerate the world?" Zhang Xiu was shocked and stammered, "That... that... Can that be? After sending Yuan Envoy away, Zhang Xiu hurriedly pulled Jia Xu: "If this is the case, where should it be?" "At this point, who should we attach to?" Jia Xu turned to Zhang Xiu and said, "It is better to follow Cao Gong!" Zhang Xiu's head shrank: "Yuan Qiang Cao is weak, we have beaten Cao Cao again, how about it?" "By implication, isn't this looking for death?" Jia Xu smiled slightly: "Cao Cao blackmailed the Heavenly Son to order the princes, and his name is justified; Yuan Shao is now strong, and I will not take me seriously if I follow the few people; Cao Cao's military strength is weak, and I will be happy; besides, Cao Cao has always had great ambitions, and now is the time for him to employ people, he will certainly be able to ignore the previous suspicions." May the general be unmistakable! ”
Zhang Xiu listened, clapped his hands and said he was fast, so he followed Jia Xu's advice and led the crowd to submit to Cao Cao without hesitation. Cao Cao was overjoyed, dropped his rice bowl, and personally received Jia Xu, who took Jia Xu's hand in both hands and said, "He who makes me believe more than the world, Zi Ye." Cao Cao then made Jia the governor of Jinwu (commander of the Janissaries in the capital), the Marquis of Fengduting, and the governor of Jizhou (at that time, the first of the nine prefectures, including present-day Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, northern Henan, and parts of Liaoning and Inner Mongolia). Since Jizhou was occupied by Yuan Shao at that time, he left Jia Xu to join the Sikong military (a senior military staff officer of the Xiangfu), and at the same time worshiped Zhang Xiu as a general of Yangwu and married him to his children and daughters—his son Cao Jun married Zhang Xiu's daughter.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), a battle that determined the pattern of the Three Kingdoms, Guandu (present-day Zhongmu County, Zhengzhou, Henan Province), broke out. During the battle, Cao Cao ran out of food for the army, and Cao Cao asked Jia Xu, who first sent a message of chicken blood: "You are better than Yuan Shao in the four aspects of shrewdness, bravery, employment, and determination." Then he offered advice: "The reason why you can't win for half a year is because you have too much scruples." As long as you can seize the opportunity, you can win immediately. Cao Cao said yes, and later Cao Cao seized the opportunity to sneak into Wuchao (武巢, in present-day Yanjin County, Xinxiang City, Henan Province), and defeated Yuan Shao in one fell swoop.
Eight years later, Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou without firing a single shot. With many guns, Cao Cao's ambitions also rose, and he wanted to take the opportunity to go down the river and take Eastern Wu in one fell swoop. Jia Xu dissuaded, saying that the people should be appeased and wait for the opportunity. However, Cao Cao, who was earnest in his efforts, insisted on not complying, and as a result, he was defeated in the Battle of Chibi.
In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), ten coalition armies led by Han Sui and Ma Chao gathered more than 100,000 men and horses to defend Tongguan (north of Tongguan County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province) against Cao. In the battle with Han and Ma, both sides had their own victories and losses, and then due to the urgency of grain and grass, Ma Chao proposed a proposal and conditions for demarcating the river as a boundary, and wanted to send his son as a hostage, at first, Cao Cao wanted to refuse. However, Jia Xu believed that he could superficially agree and paralyze the other party, while secretly preparing for war and waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. Cao Cao asked Jia Xu again, how to break the enemy? Jia Xu only spat out two words: "Separation." The wise man Cao Cao knew a little, so he adopted Jia Xu's strategy and repaired the book to separate Ma Chao and Han Sui. Seeing the success of the division, Cao Cao took the opportunity to launch an attack on the combined forces of Ma and Han, and finally won a great victory.
After becoming famous, Cao Cao has always had a heart disease that has not been removed, that is, the belonging of the prince. Once, Cao Cao privately asked Jia Xu for his opinion, but Jia Xu did not answer, and Cao Cao asked him why he did not speak. Jia Xu said solemnly, "I was thinking about Yuan Shao and Liu Biao." "Yuan Shao and Liu Biao both lost their lives because of their young age, which led to chaos and defeat. Cao Cao froze, then laughed. Soon after, Cao Cao made Cao Pi crown prince.
After Cao Pi ascended the throne, in order to repay Jia Xu's favor, Bai Jia Xu was made a lieutenant (minister of national defense) and the Marquis of Shouxiang.
After taking the throne, Cao Pi was full of ambition and eager to make meritorious achievements. Three years later, he wanted to lead an army to conquer Eastern Wu. Before the war, Cao Pi had asked Ji Yu Jia Xu: "I want to unify the world, who will come first in Wu and Shu?" Jia Xu neither advocated the conquest of Wu nor the cutting of Shu, but suggested that it was not too late to use force after the country was strong and the people became rich. However, at this time, Cao Pi, who had already fallen into the fire, turned a deaf ear and insisted on moving troops against Sun Wu, and the result was fruitless.
In June of the same year, Jia Xu died at the age of seventy-seven, with the posthumous title of Marquis Su. A generation of wise men said goodbye.
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