The original meaning of the Infernal Affairs is actually one of the four paths of "preparation, non-interference, liberation, and superior advancement" that Buddhism believes, namely the Avici Hell. According to Buddhist teachings, people in the world can pass these four paths to

What is the Infernal Affairs?

Infernal Way is actually one of the four paths of "preparation, non-stage, liberation, and superior advancement" that Buddhism believes, namely the Avici Hell. According to Buddhist teachings, everyone in the world can reach Nirvana through these four paths. It comes from the 19th volume of the Nirvana Sutra, "The Buddha said: I will never die in the body, and longevity is the great disaster in the Avici Hell." It is also the "Avici Hell" in Buddhist scriptures such as the Lotus Sutra, " Abhidharmakosha ", and "Xuanying Yinyi", and is also the bottom layer of the so-called eighteen levels of hell.

Modern with the rise of the Infernal Affairs series of movies, especially the huge influence of the movie "Infernal Affairs", Infernal Affairs has become synonymous with espionage activities, and even given the undercover, a new term - Infernal Affairs Walker. To describe the undercover as Wujian, we can see the cruelty of the undercover activities. Today we will take a look at the best of infernal Affairs in history.

The earliest infernal Affairs

Many people think that the earliest infernal Affairs traveler was the beauty Xi Shi, but in fact it is not. The earliest infernal Affairs recorded in history was the two brothers of the State of Defense during the Spring and Autumn .

"Spring and Autumn Zuo Zhuan" records that "the Wei people were about to attack Xing, and the rites said : 'If they cannot defend it, the country cannot be obtained. I ask my brother Kun to serve here.' Then I went and got an official position. "

Although the Wei State was the vassal state that had the longest existence in Spring and Autumn Warring States Period (because it was the mother country of Shang Yang and Lu Buwei , so Qin Shihuang did not conquer the Wei State after destroying the six kingdoms, and it did not perish until Qin II succeeded to the throne), it has always been one of the weakest vassal states. There have been several times in history that the country almost died, but they all survived with the help of a great country. The most dangerous time was the Wei Yigong period.

Dong Yi of Wei was a famous foolish monarch in history. He liked to raise cranes, and his love for cranes exceeded his concern for the country. In 660 BC, Chidi joined forces with Xing State to attack Wei State, Duke Yi of Wei was preparing to send troops to resist, and the ministers and soldiers said that your cranes have high officials and generous salaries, but we have little food and no clothing, so let them resist the enemy! As a result, Wei State was captured by the enemy, Wei State was killed, Wei State was forced to migrate to the east of Yellow River . According to reports, there were only 730 people left in Wei State at that time. If it weren't for the later Duke Huan of Qi, the State of Xing State would have to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Wei State would face the danger of national destruction and extermination.

So, later Duke Wen of Wei succeeded to the throne and remembered the feud of Xing State. In 642 BC, Duke Huan of Qi passed away, and Xing State joined forces with the Di people to attack Wei State. This time, the Wei State is no longer the same as before. Although it is still weak, under Duke Wen of Wei, the Wei State united and did not allow Xing State to take any advantage. Finally, the enemy retreated and left.

Three years later, Wei State recovered its national strength and planned to attack Xing State to avenge the revenge of that year, but Xing State had already formed an alliance with Qi State at that time, and Wei State returned in vain.

In 636 BC, Qi was in chaos in the country, and Wei State decided to attack Xing State again. In order to ensure victory, Wei State held a pre-war military meeting. The doctor Li Zhi said the above passage, which means that if you want to win in one battle, you must first send someone to Xing State undercover, and it is best to be their city-guarding general. At that time, the inside and outside will be able to destroy Xing State. He also recommended himself, "I have a brother who is resourceful and brave, and we two are willing to serve as this undercover." So Duke Wen of Wei handed over this important figure to the two brothers.

"Zuo Zhuan of the Spring and Autumn Period" and "Records of the Grand Historian" do not record the detailed process of their lurking in Xing Kingdom, but they did lurk successfully and played a key role.

"Spring and Autumn Zuo Zhuan" records that "In the spring of the 25th year of th, the Wei people attacked Xing, and Erli came from the Imperial City to patrol the city, went out, and killed him. In the first month of Bingwu, the Marquis of Wei destroyed Xing... Li Zhi was inscribed with the inscription: "Yuye killed the Imperial City, and I dared not stop it." " means that in the spring of

5th year, Wei launched a general attack on Xing State. The prime minister of Xing State led his subordinates to patrol the city. th year of th year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieth year of twentieIn order to show their achievements, the two brothers made a bronze tripod with an inscription engraved on it: "I held hostage and killed the kingdom, no one dared to stop it."

This history should be the earliest and most successful infernal Affairs in history.

The most "obvious" infernal Affairs

" Sun Tzu's Art of War " has five thousand words. To put it bluntly, it is just three words: "calculation" before the fight, "deception" before the fight, and "forbearance" after the crushing defeat. King Goujian of Yue perfectly practiced this.

In 494 BC, King Wu Fuchai sent elite troops to attack Yue Kingdom. Wu army defeated the Yue army in Fujiao. Goujian only retreated to the capital with only 5,000 troops, and the Wu army chased and surrounded it. At this time, the Wu Kingdom is definitely capable of destroying the Yue Kingdom in one fell swoop. Therefore, Gou Jian sighed, "Is my end point here?"

Fortunately, Gou Jian has two demon-level existences around him - Wen Zhong and Fan Li . If you compare the military strategy and battle formation, these two are naturally not the opponents of Wu State Sun Wu Wu Zixu, but if you make all kinds of efforts in emergency response, you may be better. Wen Zhong first took out the stories of King Wen of Zhou and Duke Huan of Qi to inspire Goujian, and then the monarch and ministers conspired to jointly set up a big game of "infernal Affairs". There are three core elements of the chess game:

2, "Discrimination technique", kill Wu Zixu. In view of Fuchai's pride and complacency, jealousy of Boshu and Wu Zixu's strong character traits, while spreading various rumors, he spared no effort to alienate the relationship between Fuchai and Wu Zixu, and finally forced Wu Zixu, who advocated the destruction of Yue, to eliminate the great troubles of his heart.

3. "Beauty Scheme" weakens Fuchai's will and spys on the intelligence of Wu.

The above three methods are on Bo Zhu, Wu Zixu and Xi Shi, but the key is on King Fuchai of Wu. Therefore, the key to this chess game is to solve Fuchai.

At that time, Fuchai was still more inclined to destroy Yue Kingdom once and for all. After all, with father's revenge in the front, let alone expand the territory and strengthen strength and eliminate future troubles. Now it seems that Gou Jian was personally hostage, Xi Shi used the Wu beauty plan, and Fuchai was paralyzed step by step, as if it was natural, but under the circumstances at that time, this was indeed difficult, and Fuchai's idea of ​​destroying Yue was not so easy to dispel.

So if you want to break the deadlock, Wu State can only throw out a "scented bait" that Fuchai could not refuse, and this bait was that King Goujian of Wu personally went to Wu as a hostage. Wen Zhong and Fan Li firmly corrected this point. No matter whether they are sincere or not, they must express their attitude as ministers.

However, Gou Jian saw clearly. He believed that Fuchai was very proud of his face. If he acted low-key and humble enough, he would not only not be in danger of life, but he could also become an undercover agent and spy on the foundation of Wu.

Therefore, Goujian entered Wudu with courage and tenacity, and on the surface he was a hostage and slave that everyone could trample on, but in fact he became the highest-level undercover agent in history. He wants to completely paralyze King Fuchai of Wu with his impeccable perfect acting skills and win the last movie champion in the Spring and Autumn Period.

So we met Goujian, the King of Yue who transformed into the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles":

Fuchai was of course not polite to Goujian at the beginning. He asked Goujian and his wife to live next to the grave of their father, Helu , and asked Goujian to feed him horses during the day, and asked Goujian to guard the grave for his father at night. Of course, in addition to the rough work of feeding horses and pulling horses, the most unbearable thing is to be rolled and ridiculed by the Wu Kingdom. A dignified king of a country has become a groom, and this kind of gap is absolutely tolerated by people. But Goujian not only endured it, but also accepted it without complaints. He didn't even have a negative emotion like a sigh.

Fchai is not a mediocre person. Of course, he knows the truth that "you can tolerate what ordinary people cannot tolerate and what you plan is not small", so Goujian's forbearing and low-key behavior did not make Fu Chai relax his vigilance, nor did he intend to let Goujian go back to China, so Goujian needs another dose of strong medicine.

According to "The Spring and Autumn Period of Wu Yue: The Biography of Gou Jian's Entry to the Minister", in the third year of Gou Jian's entry into Wu, Fuchai fell ill once. Gou Jian accepted Fan Li's suggestion and entered the palace to taste Fuchai's excrement, so as to judge that he was about to recover. Fuchai was greatly moved by this and immediately improved Goujian's living conditions. Not long after, he ordered Goujian to be released and returned to China.

So Goujian returned to China in a low-key manner with Fuchai's sympathy and Wu's intelligence. Later, there was a story about sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, beauties, and Wu Zixu's eyes hanging on the city gate. After "ten years of birth gathering" and "ten years of lessons", the Yue Kingdom finally defeated the Wu Kingdom in 481 BC. Fuchai committed suicide in the Wu Palace in Gusu Mountain, and Goujian became the powerful overlord.

The most "wonderful" infernal Affairs

ming Cao Guogong Li Jinglong is a teammate of pigs or Zhu Di Undercover agent placed next to Jianwen Emperor , but it is hard to believe that he can be fooled like that.

Li Jinglong is the son of Li Wenzhong, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, with such a father who is both civil and military, no matter how bad Li Jinglong is, he should be no less bad. However, his performance in Jingnan Campaign was shocking, making people have to suspect that he was Zhu Di's undercover.

Let’s look at a few examples. Li Jinglong used a 500,000 army to attack Zhu Di's nest, which had only tens of thousands of defenders - Beiping . At that time, two officers had already led their men to attack the city wall, and a breakthrough was about to be formed. What was surprising was that Li Jinglong actually ordered the withdrawal of his troops. The explanation given in the history books is that Li Jinglong is jealous of others for winning the merits, which is too nonsense. Li Jinglong is the head coach, and as long as he wins, the first merit is his. As for the first merit, he can't even grab it even if he wants to. How could the head coach lead the suicide squad to attack the city himself? So there is obviously a problem with this explanation.

Let’s talk about Li Jinglong’s 600,000 army against Zhu Di’s 100,000 troops Battle of Baigou River . The battle situation was tense at that time, and the situation gradually developed in a direction that was unfavorable to the King of Yan. However, at this time, Li Jinglong's commanding flag was broken and the situation reversed instantly. Li Jinglong once again performed a big escape show, and less than 30,000 troops returned to Nanjing. What material is the flagpole of the handsome flag? No matter how strong the wind is, it cannot be blown off. If you take a step back, even if there is no coaching flag, will Li Jinglong have no other way to prove that the coach was not killed? This cannot be simply described as the word "scratch".

Finally, let’s look at the treatment of Li Jinglong after Zhu Di’s success in Jingnan. After Zhu Di became emperor, Li Jinglong was admitted to having the “silent contribution of being accused of”, which was accused of Li Jinglong of being accused of: Li Xiao Li is not a living bait, but an underground worker fighting in the heart of the enemy. Therefore, Li Jinglong was awarded the title of Fengtian Supplementary Movement and Rewarding the Power of the Military Minister, Special Advancement of Guanglu Dafu, Zuozhu Kingdom, and the annual salary increased by a thousand stones.

Moreover, whenever there is a major event in the court, Li Jinglong will discuss it with the leader of the class, which even makes the heroes of Jingnan who followed Zhu Di through life and death envious and jealous.

So, we would rather believe that Li Jinglong is really Zhu Di's undercover agent. He deceived everyone with his successful acting skills than believe that he can be like that.

The most "depressed" infernal Affairs

Yuwen Xuzhong original name Yuwen Huangzhong . He was a Zhongshu Sheren of the Huizong Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was highly valued by Song Huizong and was given the name "Xuzhong". After the Jingkang Incident, he took the initiative to go to Jin Dynasty twice for peace talks. When he went to the Jin Dynasty for the second time, he took the initiative to stay. Yuwen Xuzhong's goal is to welcome the "Two Saints" back. If he fails to achieve his goal, he will never return.

So, Yuwen Xuzhong began his undercover career in the Jin Dynasty. Later, with his own ability, he gradually climbed to the power center of the Jin Dynasty - the Hanlin Bachelor and the Minister of Rites.

Yuwen Xuzhong took advantage of his position to convey a large amount of confidential information to the Southern Song Dynasty, and also secretly divided the Jin Dynasty and blocked the Jin Dynasty's attack on the Song Dynasty.

However, Yuwen Xuzhong also exposed his identity because of this information and eventually suffered a murder. The one who betrayed him was the undercover agent of the Jin Kingdom - Qin Hui .

Qin Hui learned about Yuwen Xuzhong's identity through Zhao Gou , and then he passed these situations to the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom asked his family from the Southern Song Dynasty. Yuwen Shiyuan, the son of Yuwen Xuzhong, who was in the Southern Song Dynasty, refused because Yuwen Xuzhong once told him not to move north, but Qin Hui still sent Yuwen Xuzhong's family in the Southern Song Dynasty to the Jin Kingdom without leaving any of them.

After Yuwen Xuzhong's death, his undercover identity was declassified. Song Xiaozong posthumously awarded him the third sect of Kaifu Yitong, with the posthumous title of "Su Min". During the reign of Song Ningzong, he was given the title of Shaobao, and his son was given the surname Zhao.

The most "free" infernal Affairs

Chen Deng is a famous double-faced spy in history. At the beginning, Chen Deng and his son followed Tao Qian , persuaded Liu Bei to be the Xuzhou Mu, then turned to Lu Bu and finally followed Cao Cao , and he changed hands almost at any time. Until now, we can't figure out whether his master is Liu Bei or Cao Cao?

First, Chen Deng fooled Lu Bu. After Lu Bu took Xuzhou, Chen Deng worked under Lu Bu's hands, but after Chen Deng went to Cao Cao's place, he cooperated with Cao Cao inside and outside to take Lu Bu off.

At this time, Chen Deng was Cao Cao's undercover.

Next, Chen Deng fooled Cao Cao. After killing Lu Bu, Xuzhou belonged to Cao Cao. However, when Liu Bei returned to Xuzhou from Cao Cao, Chen Deng almost repeated the same trick and returned Xuzhou to Liu Bei.

At this time, Chen Deng was Liu Bei's undercover again.

Although Chen Deng was swaying from side to side, Cao Cao and Liu Bei treated him well. Later, Cao Cao took Xuzhou back from Liu Bei. Not only did he not pursue Chen Deng's fault, he also made him the prefect of Guangling. It’s amazing that undercover agents can be like Chen Deng like this!

The most successful infernal Affairs

Qin Hui is undoubtedly the most successful undercover in history. He not only completed the task assigned to him by Jin people , but also became the second-person of the Southern Song Dynasty. He served as prime minister for more than ten years, and even let Zhao Gou hide his sword in his boots when he went to court. Qin Hui's power can be seen.

Qin Hui is an undercover agent, and there are two most successful points:

1. Go with the flow. He knew that Zhao Gou wanted to be harmonious, so he made a move and contacted the Jin people. When he knew that Zhao Gou had the idea of ​​removing Yue Fei , he also laid the charges, and killed Yue Fei and his son, which not only satisfies the Jin people, but also makes Zhao Gou feel relieved.

2. It is difficult to distinguish between true and false. He made the Southern Song Dynasty, and even those who have the perspective of God, could not tell whether he was a Jin man undercover. This is exactly what Qin Hui is so brilliant. When it is true, it is true and false!

But as historian Li Xinchuan believes, Qin Hui has too many suspicious points, proving that he is the undercover agent of the Jin people.

doubt point 1: Qin Hui was detained together with officials such as He Li , Zhang Shuye , and other . Why can he escape? And can you escape with your wife? According to Qin Hui, he was bribed the brother of the financial owner, Talai, and was able to follow the Jin soldiers to fight south, thus escape halfway. Could it be that the Jin people were so stupid that they would not take their wife as hostage? Let him go with him?

Question 2: 2,500 miles from Yanshan to Chuzhou, and a thousand miles from Chuzhou to Beijing. Is there no one to guard against? Qin Hui was a scholar, and his wife was powerless. The two of them could cross the river and the sea, and they returned to Lin'an without any obstacles!

has other details, such as according to what Qin Hui said, he had visited Dingjiazhai several times to visit the guard general Ding Si, but was rejected, and the deputy general Liu Jing wanted to seek money to kill him, but fortunately he could see through the conspiracy and escape. However, when Qin Hui returned south, he had no things, so where did Liu Jing want to make money?

all show that Qin Hui is a successful infernal Affairs!