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Today we talk about the controversial figure - Wu Qi.
Wu Qi, in the Zizhi Tongjian, Sima Guang gave him a "greedy and lustful" evaluation. Since then, Wu Qi has been nailed to the "pillar of shame".
But Wu Qi's life can be described as magnificent. Seventy-six battles, big and small, without a single defeat. In Lu Cunlu, in Wei Bawei, in Chu Qiangchu, even the final death contributed the last shred of strength to Sheji. Such a capable person can be described as a "heavy weapon of the country".
How can it be reduced to the point where no one cares about it in the future, and how much helplessness and sadness is there?
I. Wu Qi's main deeds (limited to the records of the Zizhi Tongjian)
1. The State of Qi attacked the State of Lu, and Wu Qi killed his wife to save the general, destroyed the State of Qi, and saved the State of Lu from danger. Later, he was ostracized because of his style problems such as not running for his mother's funeral and killing his wife and asking for a general, and defected to the State of Wei.
2. Li Ke, a major minister of the State of Wei, told Wei Wenhou that Wu Qi was "greedy and lustful", but had great military talent. Wei Wenhou appointed Wu Qi as a general.
3. Wu Qi loves soldiers like sons, eats and sleeps with soldiers, and has no shelf. The soldiers had sores on their bodies, and Wu Qi personally sucked them with his mouth. Therefore, Wu Qi's army was very effective.
4. During Wu Qi's reign in the State of Wei, he had been promoting the reform of the law. The state of Wei was unprecedentedly strong. During this period, the State of Wei launched several wars against the State of Qin, including two Battles of Hexi and the Battle of Yin and Jin. Almost destroyed the Qin state.
5. Marquis Wen of Wei died, and Marquis Wu of Wei succeeded to the throne. Wu Qi said to Wei Wuhou: "The security of the country is not in danger in Germany. Zhao Guangyi, the later Emperor Taizong of Song, said the same thing to his brother Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of Song Taizu, to prevent the Song Dynasty from moving the capital.
6. Compete with Tian Wen (a heavy vassal during the reign of Marquis Wu of Wei) for the position of Chancellor of the State of Wei.
7. Competed with Gong Shu (Wei Wuhou's uncle) for the position of Chancellor, and later, Gong Shu was afraid that Wu Qi would replace him, and used a ruse to frame Wu Qi, who had no choice but to flee to the Chu state.
8. The King of Chu admired Wu Qi's talents and immediately appointed Wu Qi as Ling Yin (Chu Chancellor), and Wu Qi immediately began to implement the change of law.
Raise the decree of the Law, donate officials who are not in a hurry, abolish the estranged people of the Gong clan, raise the warriors, strengthen the army, and break the words of lobbying. Therefore, the southern Ping Baiyue, the northern but the three Jin, the western Qin, the princes all suffered from chu's strength, and Chu's noble ministers complained a lot about Wu Qi.
The strength of the Chu state increased greatly, and Wu Qi also attracted the resentment of the pro-noble ministers of the Chu state.
9. When the King of Chu mourned was dead, the pro-noble ministers of the Chu state wanted to kill Wu Qi, and Wu Qi ran to the corpse of the king of Chu Mourning, and the pro-noble ministers killed Wu Qi, but the body of the king of Chu Mourning was also destroyed.
10. King Su of Chu succeeded to the throne and used the crime of rebellion to deal with the pro-noble ministers who participated in the rebellion at that time, and exterminated more than seventy clans.
Second, what is wrong with Wu Qi?
Wu got up to be a great talent, and only wanted to show his ambitions. What's wrong with him?
1. Leaving the country of Lu, because of the problem of style, those behaviors such as "not running for the funeral of the mother" and "killing the wife and seeking a general" are not in line with the traditional Confucian morality.
However, Wu Qi had just saved Lu Guo, and these people who could only say "great truths" squeezed him out and drove him away, which was in line with the Confucian concept of morality?
Besides, why did Wu Qi "kill his wife and ask for a general"? Isn't it because those people "have eyes and no pearls" and do not trust Wu Qi's loyalty to serve the country, and Wu Qi wants to exert his ambitions to force them out?
2. He left the State of Wei because the powerful ministers were jealous and the Marquis of Wei Wu knew no one. Wu Qi made a big splash in the Wei state of Changing the Law, and the Wei state at that time was like a day in the sky, and the limelight was no different for a while.
Just because Wu Qi was too capable, he was jealous of his uncle, and then used some tricks to hoodwink Wei Wuhou, and Wu Qi had no choice but to leave the Wei state.
Does Wu Qi really have two hearts? If there were two hearts, how could they do their best to change the Fa in the Wei Kingdom? If there are two hearts, how can they flee to the Chu state in discouragement, and in the Wei state, they are deeply rooted and high-powered, and it is not good to directly expose the pole?
Wu Qi had worked hard for so many years, but he was destroyed by the villain.
3. He died in the Chu Kingdom because he moved the "interest cake" of others. In order to display his talents and ambitions, he did not hesitate to be a "lone minister" to carry out reforms in the Chu state.
If Wu Qi is really "greedy and lustful", he will just mix in the Chu Kingdom until he retires, so why risk his life to change the law?
However, those "selfish" pro-noble ministers only care about their own interests and do not care about the security of the country. Impatient to kill Wu Qi, so that Wu Qi's change of law in the Chu state would "kill people and rest in the government." The Chu state also missed a great opportunity to rise.
However, Wu Qi used his own death to leave a good reason for King ChuSu to eliminate those "moths" of the Chu state, so that he could continue to implement the new law and return the land and resources belonging to those pro-noble ministers to the country.
It can also be regarded as "bowing down and dying after death".
Third, Wu Qi's life.
The author believes that Wu Qi's life is great and pure.
You could say he's unscrupulous in his quest for power, and I think he's being informal in his pursuit of ambition.
Wu got up to take on the talent, but his fate was uncertain, and he ultimately failed. Although the heart is concerned about the national society, there is no broad world.
The heavy weapon of the country is not something that the Lord cannot use! Unfortunately, the boy's career and ambition to learn are more important than those of his loved ones?