Zhong Hui is indeed a rare all-rounder, from governing the country to intrigues.
In October of the sixth year of Jiaping, Emperor Cao Chao was located in the front hall of Taiji, and Zhong Hui was mixed with the ministers to identify the talent of the little emperor. After the strike, he said eight words to Sima Shi: "Only Chen Si and Wushu Taizu." This sentence directly raised Sima Shi's vigilance. After that, many Zhong Hui participated in the literati rally held by Cao Chao, pretending to talk about **, which was actually a sitting probe.
In the second year of Zhengyuan (255), Wuqiu Jian launched a mutiny in Huainan. Sima Shi, who had just had his eye tumor removed, painfully enlisted, and Zhong Hui accompanied the army staff officer. In less than a month, the mutiny was quelled, and Sima Shi died in Xuchang, handing over military power to his younger brother Sima Zhao, who had come to Xuchang from Beijing.
At that time, the imperial court issued an edict to Shangshu Fu Yan, on the grounds that the southeast had just been pacified, let Sima Zhao stay in Xuchang and be responsible for internal and external reception, and Fu Yan led the army back to Korea. Emperor Cao Chao of Wei moved to regain Sima's military power. Obviously, once the army returns to Beijing, military power will inevitably return to the royal family, and the situation will be decisively reversed. This is undoubtedly a critical moment in the life and death of Sima Group.
After Zhong Hui and Fu Yi secretly plotted, they decided not to carry out the orders of the imperial court and led Sima Zhao back to the capital. When the troops were stationed on the south bank of Luoshui again, Cao Chao had to admit the successes and failures of the Sima clan's transfer of power.
This time, Zhonghui couldn't hide his proud expression. Fu Yi hurriedly persuaded: "You are a person whose ambition is greater than his ability, and it is difficult to establish meritorious deeds. Why are you so careless? ”
Unfortunately, Zhonghui did not listen carefully to this friend's opinion.
In the second year of Ganlu (257), the imperial court appointed Zhuge as Sikong and summoned him back to Beijing. When the clock will be mourned at home because of the death of the mother. He decided that Zhuge would not die, so Ma Chi reported to Sima Zhao. Sima Zhao believes that the matter is over and will not be pursued. Later, Zhuge rebelled, and it was also the last of the famous "Huainan Three Rebellions".
Sima Zhao led the Wei Emperor to command 260,000 troops in person, and Zhong Hui accompanied him again. At that time, Quan Yi, the son of Sima Quancong, the right great of Eastern Wu, led an army of 30,000 to rescue Zhuge Sheng. The sons of the Quan Yi brothers, Quan Hui and Quan Yi, stayed in Jianye. They surrendered to Sima Zhao because they filed a lawsuit and crossed the river with their mother and dozens of songs.
Zhong Hui designed, imitating the handwriting of Quan Hui and Quan Yi, and sent Quan Yi and Quan Hui's family members to the city to send a letter to Quan Yi, saying that Lord Wu was angry because Quan Yi and the others could not win Shouchun and wanted to kill his family, so he fled to the north. Jeon Yi and the others heard the fear in their hearts, so they began to surrender. Shouchun was panicked for a while. Being good at imitating other people's calligraphy, this is a skill that Zhong Hui has known since he was a child, and he doesn't think that it will affect the outcome of a war now.
Later, when Shouchun was broken, Zhong Hui gave the most advice, so he was more and more favored by Sima Zhao, and the people of the time compared him to Zhang Liang, a strategist of the Western Han Dynasty.
At that time, Zhonghui was not yet forty years old, and the affairs of the imperial court were intervened, and the scenery was infinite for a while.
Therefore, Sima Zhao dared to hand over the important task of pacifying the southwest to Zhong Hui.
Almost everyone opposed Sima Zhao's plan to appoint Zhong Hui to destroy Shu.
Sima Zhao's wife, Wang, often warned her husband to be wary of the Zhong Society: "(Zhong) will be oblivious to good deeds, but spoiled will be chaotic, and cannot bear great responsibility." Zhong Hui's brother Zhong Yu also intensively used Sima Zhao, saying that Zhong Hui was "difficult to protect, not full-time".
Later, the famous coach Yang Hu was talented and had a high prestige among the scholars, and he was also afraid of Zhong Hui's **. Yang's uncle and mother, Xin Xianying, were very disgusted with Zhonghui. When he heard that Chung would be appointed as General Zhenxi, he said, "I will indulge things and not in an eternal way." I'm afraid of other ambitions. Therefore, she is very afraid that her son Yang Xiu will also be implicated.
Most importantly, Deng Ai, the most prominent general of Cao Wei at that time, did not approve of the destruction of Shu.
Deng Aijiu was on the front line of Guanlong and was familiar with the situation in Shu and Han. He was the best candidate for coach Vashu, but Deng Ai himself was adamantly opposed and repeatedly raised written objections. In the end, Sima Zhao had to send a teacher to write Sima for Deng Ai to persuade and monitor Deng Ai.
It can be seen that Zhonghui is the only main battle faction at the decision-making level. Although he is overbearing and arrogant, it is clear nonsense to say that his heart is rebellious from here. The deeper reason was the reluctance of the imperial court to fight against Shu.
In fact, until the day of the oath to go on the expedition, there were still voices in the army against the Shu. General Deng Dun publicly stated that Shu could not be destroyed, and Sima Zhao had to kill Shu to ensure the smooth development of the battle against Shu.
Sima Zhao's personnel arrangements can be described as painstaking.
Zhong Hui surpassed Deng Ai, who was one of them in terms of status and seniority, and became an Overseer. After a long period of battlefield, Commander Deng Ai was a part teacher, responsible for controlling the mission. Of course, Sima Zhao didn't fully trust Zhong Hui. He also sent Wei troops to spy on Deng Ai and Zhong Hui and gave thousands of soldiers.
A complex relationship of mutual restraint has been formed between the three of them, namely Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, and Wei Geng.
Therefore, under the interweaving of suspicion, doubt, and ambition, Zhong Hui led the army to the southwest.
Zhonghui's plan was to launch a pincer offensive: the main force of the commander-in-chief Shu army exceeded 100,000 and directly entered Hanzhong; Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu attacked more than 30,000 people from Longxi and carried out strategic containment.
However, due to Zhuge Xu's hesitation in action, the one-day trip failed to stop Jiang Wei, who successfully led his army to retreat to the Sword Pavilion, relying on natural danger to hold on to the main force of the Wei army led by Zhong Hui.
Deng Ai was supposed to be led by Zhong Hui, but he found that no matter how many people went to the Sword Pavilion, it would be difficult to break through this natural danger. It's better to find another way. Therefore, Deng Ai decided to change the Yinping Trail and traverse 700 miles of uninhabited mountainous areas to avoid the natural dangers of the Sword Pavilion and go directly to Chengdu.
Just when Zhong Hui was powerless at the Sword Pavilion and wanted to retire, Deng Ai took a successful risk and led the army to break through Mianzhu and approach Chengdu. The frightened Liu Chan Kaicheng surrendered and ordered Jiang Wei to put down **.
Zhong Hui, as the overseer of this battle against Shu, ultimately failed, which was undoubtedly a big setback for Zhong Hui, who had always been arrogant and complacent. He was a man with a strong desire for power and utilitarianism. After the destruction of Shu, Deng Ai acted arbitrarily, he never asked what Zhong Hui meant, and the contradictions between the two sides became more and more intense.
Finally, Zhong Hui gave a speech on Deng Ai's rebellion with Wei Du and Shifu. Zhong Hui also used his skills to imitate calligraphy to forge letters, which deepened Sima Zhao's suspicions. In addition, the master was the one who Sima Zhao ordered to spy on Deng Ai. His testimony led Sima Zhao to order Deng Ai's arrest.
This is the famous "two soldiers fighting for merit" in history.
Deng Ai's murder was unjust. Maybe Sima Zhao knows this.
Deng Ai, who was from a low background, was unable to integrate into the upper class society at that time. This high society was the cornerstone of Sima's regime. As a result, Deng Ai, who occasionally hangs outside Sima's political power network, will inevitably be liquidated.
After tackling Deng Ai, Zhong Hui reached the pinnacle of his political career. However, he quickly moved towards a rebellion and was quickly defeated and killed, leaving a small mystery in history.
Wei Jun thought that Zhong Hui rebelled because of his "domineering", as if overnight, Zhong Hui was suddenly ambitious, and felt that he could no longer stand others, so he resolutely embarked on the road of rebellion.
However, judging by his character, it is almost impossible for Zhonghui to take risks because of the so-called "emperor's desires". In addition, the Wei State has always implemented a quality appointment system. Any army that goes out to conquer, from commanders to soldiers, their families are left behind as hostages. The Shu army had already returned like arrows after the victory. I can't see it at all.
I'm afraid the most fundamental reason is Sima Zhao.
Who is Sima Zhao? Zhong Hui knew it very well in his heart. After Jiang Wei landed, Zhong Hui once praised Jiang Wei as follows: "Boyo is better than the famous Chinese scholars who can't win in public rest and in the beginning. He regarded Zhuge Sheng and Xiahou Xuan as famous Chinese scholars, and he has not forgotten that they were all killed by Sima. These people and Cao Shang's death reminded Sima Zhao of his repeated thirst for killing.
Zhong Hui will never gain Sima Zhao's true trust. Especially when he is far away from the center of power and making an unparalleled contribution, the fear in his heart only grows day by day.
Until one day, Sima Zhao wrote that he led 100,000 soldiers and horses to Chang'an, and the meeting was imminent. This is a bad sign. At this point, Zhong Hui might have thought that even if he returned to Wei, he might not be able to protect himself, so he said, "Since Huainan, I have no strategy for painting, and the whole world knows it. I've earned so much fame, would there be a good destination? ”。
He is not an evasive person. Jiang Wei once took retreat as advance, and persuaded Zhong Hui to follow the example of "Tao Zhu Gong is extinct by boating, and he will do his best to protect himself", and Zhong Hui replied, "Jun Yanyuan, I can't do it, for the sake of today, or not here." Perhaps it was because of the elite soldiers in his hands, the danger of Shu, or his own talent that he could have the strength of the First World War.
Unfortunately, Zhong Hui is not only a brilliant and erudite scholar, but also a political vulgar, but he is not a hero who can achieve great things. In the face of mountain pressure, his wits didn't seem to work. He panicked.
At the first time of the rebellion, Zhong would run to ask the general for advice, but no one responded. In the end, he was embarrassed and had to imprison the general, exposing his isolated and helpless situation. Then it leaked, and Sigui's soldiers immediately attacked Zhonghui. Surrounded by Wei soldiers, he fought with Jiang Wei and finally died together.
What if he first expressed his "loyalty" to Sima Zhao, and then seized the time to arrange relevant matters and make some preparations before starting? What if he took advantage of Shu's army reduction? What if he replaced some of the generals of the Wei army with his own cronies? There's still a lot he can do and he won't lose so quickly.
This just shows that Zhong Hui's determination to oppose Sima was not firm, but after the destruction of Shu, he was unwilling to be destroyed by Sima Zhao in fear, so he hastily started an incident.
The rotation and rotation of Zhonghui, like the aftermath of the Battle of Wei and Shu, was just a splash of water under the waves. The scribbled events did not shake Sima's rule, nor did it establish a new separatist regime in Yizhou. The real consequence was simply the burial of Zhonghui himself and hundreds of people.
The protagonists of the Battle of the Southwest, Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, and Jiang Wei all lost, and the only winner was Sima Zhao.
He destroyed the Shu Kingdom, quelled Zhonghui's rebellion, and gave him the confidence to change the dynasty. When the first battle of the Battle of Shu was successful, he immediately accepted the fate of Xiangguo, Jin Gong, and Jiuxi, and had resigned many times before. After the pacification of Shu, he was immediately awarded the title by the King of Jin, Sima Yi was awarded the King of Jin Xuan, and Sima Shi was the King of Jin Jing.
Although Sima Zhao had not yet had time to complete the evolution, that is, he died in August of the second year of Xianxi (September 265), the trend of the Wei, Jin and Ding revolutions was unshakable. His son, Sima Yan, was proclaimed emperor by Wei Chan in December of that year (February 266) and established the Western Jin Dynasty.
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