The story of the Three Kingdoms War in this issue is found in the thirteenth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which takes place during the infighting between Li Dai and Guo Feng, and the relevant characters are Emperor Xiandi of Han, Zhu Juan, Yang Biao, Li Dai and Guo Feng. The gist of the story goes something like this:
After Li Dai and Guo Feng took control of the imperial government, they ran amok and caused strong dissatisfaction from Emperor Xian of Han. The lieutenants Yang Biao and the grand si nong Zhu Juan made suggestions, using Guo Feng's wife to use a counter-plot to provoke the relationship between Li Dai and Guo Feng, create infighting between the two, weaken their strength, and then recruit Cao Cao to eliminate the two. This suggestion was immediately adopted by Emperor Xian of Han.
Soon after, Yang Biao sent his wife to lie in front of Guo Feng's wife that Guo Feng had an affair with Lady Li Dai and remind Guo Feng's wife to prevent Li Dai from taking advantage of the opportunity to take revenge. Guo Feng's wife believed it to be true and deliberately poisoned the food sent by Li Dai. Guo Feng, who did not know the truth, did suspect that Li Dai wanted to kill him, so he sent troops to attack Li Dai. Li Dai was furious and raised his troops to resist, and the two armies immediately engaged in a scuffle under Chang'an City. Li Dai took the opportunity to kidnap Emperor Xian of Han, while Guo Feng held many ministers hostage, and the situation in Chang'an became increasingly chaotic. Seeing the failure of the plan, the Great Si Nong Zhu Was indignant and died of depression at home.
The infighting mentioned in the novel in Chang'an City is indeed true in history, but the cause is not the strategy of Yang Biao and Zhu Juan. According to the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Dong Zhuo", the commentary on the "Classic Strategy" records: "A number of wines are set up to be drunk, or stay and stay." The wife is afraid of the concubine and the concubine and takes away her love, and thinks of it with separation. Therefore, Guo Feng's wife deliberately poisoned the food sent by Li Dai, and then framed Li Dai for so-called, which led to this infighting between Li Dai and Guo Feng.
However, the infighting, which was ostensibly triggered by Guo Feng's wife, actually had another reason. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Jia Xu's biography, quoted in the Chronicle of the Emperor Xian: "Guo Feng, Fan Chou, and Dai violated each other, and there were many people who wanted to fight. He blamed it with reason, and he was quite praised. The Later Han Shu Dong Zhuo Biography quotes the Xiandi Ji as saying: "When he saw the thick fruit and bravely won the hearts of the people, he was ill and drunk, and he made the alien riding lieutenant Hu Feng sit in the seat and kill the thick." Combined with these two records, the root cause of the infighting between Li Dai and Guo Feng lies in Fan Chou.
Like Li Dai and Guo Feng, Fan Chou was also one of the leaders of Dong Zhuo's remaining department, deeply supported by his subordinates, and closely related to Guo Feng. After Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others took control of the government, the power of the dprk was controlled by Li Dai, Guo Feng, and Fan Chou, and Guo Feng's close relationship with Fan Chou caused Li Dai's dissatisfaction. In the end, Li Dai assassinated Fan Chou, which in turn triggered Guo Feng's anger, which immediately triggered later infighting.
As for the storyline of Zhu Juan being killed alive described in the novel, it is the truth of history. According to the Later Han Shu Zhu Ju Biography, "Emperor Xian and Yang Biao, the grand lieutenant, and more than a dozen other people, including Guo Feng, Ling and Li Daihe. He refused, so he left the hostage and so on. Jun Sugang, who became ill on the same day. ”
Some people may ask such a question: why did the resourceful Jia Xu not stop this infighting in time? The answer is very clear. After witnessing what Li Dai, Guo Feng and others did in Chang'an, Jia Xu's attitude towards them had a fundamental change. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Jia Xue says: "As Zuo Fengyi, Dai and others want to make meritorious contributions... (Jia Xu) stubborn words are not subject to... It is more worshipful of Shangshu, canonical elections, many Kuang ji, dai and other relatives and fear. ”
The "dai and others who are close to each other and fearful" mentioned here shows that when Jia Xu first suggested that Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others invade Chang'an, he did not want Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others to control the government, but wanted to leave a way for Dong Zhuo's remnants to live. However, after witnessing Li Dai and Guo Feng's troubles in the government, Jia Xu was disgusted and tried his best to restore imperial power. This became the reason why Li Dai, Guo Feng and others were jealous of Jia Xu.
Jia Xu's attitude towards the infighting that broke out between Li Dai and Guo Feng was also very clear. He, like Emperor Xian of Han and many courtiers, wanted to use this infighting to weaken the strength of Li Dai and Guo Feng in order to restore imperial power as soon as possible. To this end, Jia Xu also took the initiative to persuade thousands of Qiang Hu who intended to defect to Li Dai to leave, further weakening Li Dai's strength. Therefore, the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Jia Xu is justly mentioned: "Protector Of the Ministers, the Power of The Emperor." This fully shows the great change in Jia Xu's position after Li Dai and Guo Feng took control of the government.
Reference Books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty