Since ancient times, there has been such a saying in our country, called a good man three gangs, that is to say, if you want to make a career, then it must be inseparable from the help of a group of capable people, and this sentence can be described as vividly displayed in the history of the Three Kingdoms as we know it.
Liu Bei was able to establish the State of Shu and compete with Cao Cao because of the help of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang.
And Cao Cao's State of Wei was eventually able to unify the world, and it was inseparable from the good generals and advisers under his command. Even sun quan, who lives in the southeast, also has many good generals, such as Lü Meng, Lu Su, and Gan Ning.
And what we want to talk about today is the story of Guo Jia, a strategist under Cao Cao, why did he advise Cao Cao that he must kill a person before he died, so who is this person? Why did Guo Jia try so hard to make such a suggestion to Cao Cao?
First of all, let's review Guo Jia as a person.
At first, Guo Jia did not obey Cao Cao's orders, and in the early days, Guo Jia did things under Yuan Shao's hands, but he was not appreciated by Yuan Shao, and at the same time, Guo Jia also realized that Yuan Shao could not do great things, so he resigned his official position and returned to his home, and this idleness was directly spent for six years.
Cao Cao, on the other hand, wrote to Xun Yu after losing Xi Zhicai, hoping that he would recommend to himself a strategist to succeed Xi Zhicai to assist him in accomplishing his great cause.
So who did Xun Yu recommend to Cao Cao? Xun Yu recommended his undesirable friend Guo Jia. After meeting Guo Jia, Cao Cao talked with Guo Jia and concluded that Guo Jia could help him achieve great things!
Death of Guo Jia.
Guo Jia shined after defecting to Cao Cao, wholeheartedly assisting Cao Cao, and his talents were also fully displayed in this process, it can be said that Guo Jia expected many things, such as he had long foreseen the death of Sun Ce and the Battle of Chibi.
However, at the age of 38, guoguo eventually died of illness on Cao Cao's way to conquer Wuhuan, and his death brought a very big blow to Cao Cao, and Guo Jia made Cao Cao pay special attention to a person before his death, this person was called Sima Yi.
What Guo Jia said at the beginning was that Sima Yi used the scheming so deeply that the subject was far from being able to reach it, and after the subject died, he could use it immediately, and if he could not use it, he would kill him.
Why target Sima Yi?
Sima Yi's name was already very famous when he was very young, and Guo Jia also knew Sima Yi very well, before Cao Cao had hoped that Sima Yi could go out to the mountains to help him, but Sima Yi had always been reluctant to advise Cao Cao, so he always refused Cao Cao.
And Guo Jia thought that Sima Yi was too deep in the city government, and he could still suppress him when he was there, and if he died, then Sima Yi would probably have to dominate Cao Cao's army, so at that time, I was afraid that Sima Yi would influence the entire pattern of Cao Wei.
It is a pity to think that if Sima Yi is solved, although there will be one less outstanding figure in Chinese history, the tragic past of Wuhu Chaohua will not appear either.