Jiang Wei served Shu Han for decades.
He has also met many opponents over the decades.
Among Jiang Wei's opponents, the readers should be most familiar with the Cao Wei su general Guo Huai Guo Boji, who was active in the northwest all his life, and Deng Ai Deng Shizai, who finally destroyed Shu Gongcheng.
So do readers know that Jiang Wei also met a general named Chen Tai during his military career?
Let me take stock of his background and life today.
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The son of Chen Qun, Pingbu Qingyun
Cao Wei had an unwritten custom that the children of high-ranking and important people often had the opportunity to enter the palace as the emperor's close attendants. The environment is very good.
For example, Zhong Yu's eldest son, Zhong Yu, served as a Yellow Gate Attendant (not a eunuch) at the age of fourteen. This is a close official held by a scholar). Today is a departmental-level cadre, and the debut is the peak. Having a good dad is cool.
As the son of the Third Duke (Chen Qun was serving as Sikong at the time), Chen Tai naturally had this opportunity. As a result, Chen Tai became a loose rider.
Within a few years, in the early days, Chen Tai was promoted to a guerrilla general. The guerrilla general was one of the most important military attaches in Cao Wei's forbidden army, commanding the guerrilla battalion.
Obviously, Chen Tai's career path is very smooth, much faster than most officials climbing their resumes. All the official positions held are also important and important.
The reason why his career is so smooth, on the one hand, is because of the strength of his family, which provides him with a lot of political resources;
On the other hand, it was also because Chen Tai had a big backer at that time, Sima Yi.
Speaking of which, the relationship between the Chen and Sima clans has always been friendly. Chen Qun and Sima Yi have always been political allies and private friends.
When Chen Tai was young, he had more opportunities to contact Sima Shi and Sima Zhao's two brothers. Chen Tai also has a deep friendship with the two.
From this point of view, the connection between the two of them is relatively close.
During the reign of the young emperor Cao Fang, the power of the state was actually entrusted to two orphan ministers, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi.
Sima Yi took the opportunity to support a group of his own henchmen. The young nephew Chen Tai is one of them.
Chen Tai, under Sima Yi's arrangement, went out to serve as a state assassin and went to the local area to mix seniority and political achievements. The prefecture was located on the outskirts of the prefecture, and there were a large number of foreign peoples such as the Xiongnu living in the area at that time.
Chen Taiben's biography records that when he was in the state, he was "very powerful" and was deeply loved and supported by foreign tribes. But this is not the case.
According to the time recorded in the "Biography of Sun Li", the former official who assassinated Sun Li was Chen Tai. Records say that Sun Li's former officials could not effectively restrain the foreign tribes, resulting in the Xiongnu king Liu Jing gradually becoming stronger and stronger, and the Xianbei clan repeatedly violating the situation.
Hezhou was in a very unstable state, so the imperial court planned to arrange for Sun Li to replace Chen Tai.
Chen Tai's ability to deal with foreign nationalities and govern the people is obviously insufficient. However, it is understandable that as a young man, Chen Tai at that time naturally lacked political experience.
But the failed political experience did not affect Chen's future. After all, there were still people above Chen Tai. Chen Tai stepped down from office and returned to the dynasty to enter Shangshutai as Shangshu.
Since the beginning of Chen Taishi's official, there has always been a powerful backstage covering him, which is really sour, sour, sour, sour.
Sima Yi was of great help to Chen Tai, and Chen Tai naturally returned the favor. In the change of Gao Pingling, he did not hesitate to side with Sima Shi. Help Sima Yi persuade Cao Shuang to surrender and abandon resistance.
After seizing power, the Sima clan began to arrange a group of close associates who were officials in the central government to serve as local assassins and taishou chiefs, and slowly infiltrated and controlled local power.
Chen Tai was assigned to Yongzhou as an official and served as the assassin of Yongzhou. Militarily, he was the deputy of Guo Huai, the governor of Yongliang at that time. Cao Wei's Yong and Liang Prefectures were the area around present-day Shaanxi and Gansu. Since then, Chen Tai and Jiang Wei have fought many times.
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Fighting with Jiang Wei, however, became the most embarrassing place governor of Cao Wei
At first, because Jiang Wei was constrained and suppressed by Fei Yi, the ruler of the imperial government, the number of troops that could be mobilized at each Time did not exceed 10,000 people. The strength is relatively weak. Guo Huai and Chen Tai could easily deal with Jiang Wei.
After Guo Huai's death, Chen Tai took over as the general of Zhengxi and the governor of Yongliang.
On the Shu Han side, Fei Yi was assassinated, and Jiang Wei no longer had any restraints, and could finally shake off his arms and fight.
It is conceivable that Chen Tai will not be as relaxed as before.
Chen Tai first lost his master in the Battle of Xiangwu, resulting in the death of the defender Xu Qian and the relocation of half of the population of Longxi County to Shu Han by Jiang Wei.
Soon Jiang Wei launched another Northern Expedition. To the west of Taoshui, tens of thousands of troops led by Wang Jing of Yongzhou were annihilated. This was one of the worst defeats suffered by Cao Wei in decades, and it was also the most fruitful Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Many historical sources push the pot of the great defeat of Taoxi to Wang Jing, believing that it is because Wang Jing did not obey Chen Tai's command. But is it really that simple? I'm afraid not.
After the end of the war, Wang Jing returned to Luoyang to serve as a lieutenant and a shangshu, but was not demoted or dismissed. You must know that Wang Jing was only an official from a peasant background, and his birth was extremely humble and inferior at that time.
Wang Jing did not have any strong backers in the dynasty, and he was not even a henchman of the Sima clan. Even his mother thought that it would be good for Wang Jing to be an official at this level, and it would be very dangerous to climb up again.
But if Wang Jing really made such a big mistake and caused such a serious loss to Cao Wei, why was he not dismissed from his post and demoted?
Then there is only one explanation - the Wang Jing is not actually the main responsibility for the defeat of this war. Who is to blame? I'm afraid it's on Chen Tai.
Chen Tai's biography likes to boast about Chen Tai's talents and achievements, and boast about his performance in fighting Jiang Wei.
However, there was one thing it could not hide, that is, this Yongliang Governor had only been in office for less than a year before he was dismissed by the imperial court and transferred back to the dynasty to serve as a Shangshu servant.
Chen Tai was the shortest-serving of any of Cao Wei's local governors, and he was also the one who suffered the most losses when defending against enemy attacks.
Although the transfer from local governor to Shangshu servant was not a demotion, this showed a signal that after Yongliang's heavy defeat, Sima Zhao no longer believed in Chen Tai's military talents, so he quickly dismissed Chen Tai.
But after all, Chen Tai was still a close confidant of Sima Zhao, and he was also a close friend of Sima Zhao. Sima Zhao did not have an embarrassment for Chen Tai, but did not let him be the governor of Yongliang again.
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The events of the Wei and Jin dynasties caused his faith to collapse and he died of grief
After the first year of Ganlu, Sima Zhao continued to invade the Wei emperor Cao Zhao, and finally made Cao Xian intolerable, and in May of the fifth year of Ganlu, he led the palace guards to attack Sima Zhao's mansion.
However, before even the palace gate could go out, Cao Xian was attacked and killed by the army led by Jia Chong. The evil deeds of the emperor caused strong repercussions at that time. Sima Fu and Chen Tai wept bitterly as they held the emperor's corpse and demanded that Sima Zhao execute Jia Chong.
During the Han and Wei dynasties, the scholars established a fairly solid sense of identity and belief in the emperor. Therefore, at that time, in order to manage Zen and change the dynasty, it was often necessary to operate steadily and for a long time like Cao Cao for n years, and it was difficult to achieve it overnight.
The act of killing the emperor challenged the cognition and bottom line in the hearts of many scholars.
Chen Tai's request that Sima Zhao execute Jia Chong was not excessive. But this made Sima Zhao feel embarrassed. Although Jia Chong killed the emperor, it was a great achievement for Sima Shi. Without someone like Jia Chong, Sima Zhao's head would probably be taken away by the emperor.
If Sima Zhao executed Jia Chong, it would undoubtedly chill the hearts of these lackeys, causing them to lose their loyalty to themselves.
In a dilemma, Sima Zhao still chose to keep Jia Chong. Cheng Ji, who personally killed the emperor, became a scapegoat.
This made Chen Tai extremely dissatisfied. Chen Tai was extremely disappointed in Sima Shi. He died of hematemesis shortly after.
During this period of history during the alternation of Wei and Jin, there were many people like Chen Tai. Out of their own interests, they helped Sima Yi defeat Cao Shuang and seize power over Cao Wei.
At first, they did not think that Sima Shi would replace Cao Shi. Sima Shi invaded Cao Shi step by step, and they only continued to anesthetize themselves through self-deception.
When Sima Shi unveiled the most vicious features, the values and morals of these people had a fierce contradiction with their own interests in the world.
If you oppose the Sima clan, the result may be that the whole clan will be condemned. If you do not oppose Sima Shi, you will deviate from your spiritual pursuit of loyalty and filial piety and morality.
Chen Tai was angry that the emperor had been killed, but did not dare to oppose Sima Shi head-on, and finally died in grief at home;
Sima Fu, who had been helping his family seize power, insisted on presenting himself as Wei Chunchen in the Jin Dynasty;
Ruan wrote the "Persuasion Table" for Sima Shi, but always kept a distance from Sima Shi and refused to marry Sima Shi. And in ordinary days, behavior, speech and debauchery, passive avoidance.
They all lived painfully and died in agony in times of contradiction.
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