How good is Xun Yu in history

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many familiar counsellors, such as Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia, Zhou Yu, Xun Yu and other figures. Today we will talk about Xun Yu among them, and then Xun Yu who is known as "My Son" , How powerful is it?

Cao Cao has been boasting Guo Jia, but we must know that Cao Cao exaggerates people, it can be said to be technical. No matter who it is, as long as they can use it, it will be very boastful. Cao Cao really liked Guo Jia very much, but that was only because as long as Guo Jia knew Cao Cao's mind best, he accompanied Cao Cao for eleven years. But even though he had been with Cao Cao for so long, Cao Cao didn't give him a big position. It's just the military adviser next to Cao Cao. This is because Guo Jia's style is very bad and his integrity is not enough. Therefore, even if he knows Cao Cao well, Cao Cao did not promote him.

But Xun Yu was different. At first, he was made a Sima, and later he became a Shang Shuling. Later, he was given a greater official position, but he was unwilling to accept it. In the end, Cao Cao gave him two thousand fiefdoms. In the end, Guo Jia died with only a thousand households, which is nothing compared to Xun Yu!

Then how powerful is he? Let’s start with his family.

The early history of the Xun family is actually ambiguous. It was only from the generation of Xun Shu that it became an influential local family in Yingchuan County.

Xun Shu is noble and knowledgeable. He is the teacher of the famous party leader Li Yin, but he has no interest in Confucianism. Before his death, he served as the magistrate of Dangtu County and the Hou Xiang of Langling Hou State. Although he had not been in office for a long time, he was well-respected by the people of the two places. His greatest contribution to the Yingchuan Xun family was the birth of eight extremely outstanding sons, who were called "Eight Dragons" at that time. Xun Yu's father, Xun Su, was Xun Shu's second son, and the official to Jinan. Both Yu Yu's "Wei Lue" and Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han" stated that the eunuch in power, Tang Heng, wanted to marry his daughter to Fu Gongming, a native of Runan, but Fu Gongzi really didn't want to be the eunuch's son-in-law and rejected the marriage. At this time, Xun Su married Miss Tang for Xun Yu in order to curry favor with Father Tang.

Pei Songzhi expressed great doubts about this. The reason for Pei’s doubts is that Xun Yu, one of the “Eight Dragons”, is not a vain person. He is unlikely to covet Tang Heng’s power; second, when Xun Yu became Tang’s uncle, his The father-in-law has passed away for many years, and the Tang family is no longer the Tang family that was dominated by power in the past. Xun, or Wenruo, was born in the seventh year of Emperor Huan Yanxi. Although he showed outstanding talents very early, he was implicated in the second party slap and was not promoted as filial piety by Yingchuan Prefect Yin Xiu until he was twenty-seven years old. Chinese painting block, "Three Kingdoms: Xunyu Biography" says that Xun Or's time in the Central Committee was in the first year of Yonghan. Yonghan is the first year of Xiandi, from September to December 189 AD. During this period, Xun Yu's uncle, Xun Shuang, was forced to go into office under the pressure of Dong Zhuo, and under the control of Dong Zhuo, he was promoted three times in just 93 days, from a reclusive scholar to the imperial Sikong. Therefore, it should be Dong Zhuo's intention that Xun Or served as the guardian order.

Xun Yu was loyal to the Han Dynasty. Although he was willing to be the imperial court official, he could not tolerate Dong Zhuo's unscrupulous measures. Therefore, he did not stay for long in the position of the palace order, so he quickly asked for release. Yanzhou served as the magistrate of Kangfu County of Chengguo, and then resigned and returned to his hometown. Probably in the summer of the second year of Xiandi Chuping, he accepted the invitation of his fellow villager, Jizhou Mu Han Fu, and took part of his tribe to seek refuge in Jizhou. The key reason why Xun or Xun was willing to accept Han Fu's invitation was not the fellowship, but that they had worked together and liked each other. In Han Fu's eyes, Xun is a rare talent, while in Xun's impression, Han Fu is a conscientious Han loyal minister. However, Han Fu, who became Jizhou pastoralist, was no longer loyal to the Han family. In the first month of the second year of the first year of Ping, he and Yuan Shao proclaimed themselves a general and conspired to support Da Sima and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu. "Book of Wu" records that he once wrote to Yuan Shu to seek Yuan Shu's support. Han Fu is very ambitious, but his ability is quite limited. In July of the second year of Chuping, this squatter could not help Yuan Shao's threats and temptations, and gave Jizhou his hand.

Therefore, when Xun Yu arrived in Jizhou hopefully, it was not Han Fu who sent the invitation but Yuan Shao, the new Jizhou pastoralist, who came forward to receive him. Although Yuan Shao gave XunYu was paid very high, but he was ambitious, obviously not Xun Yu's ideal candidate. Moreover, Yuan Shao did not retain Xun Yu, who wanted to leave, although he also understood Xun Yu's talents. Not being able to appoint talents is the biggest problem for Yuan Shaosheng. Correspondingly, the reason why Xun Yu defected to Cao Cao, who was still weak at the time, was that Cao Cao's performance so far really deserved the title of loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. Putting aside the past, just as far as the director industry is concerned, Cao Cao's sincerity in trying to fight against the chaos is beyond doubt, and his performance in this movement is equally remarkable. At the age of twenty-nine, Xun Yu has enough reasons to believe that Cao Cao is the best candidate he expected to complete the task of settling chaos. Cao Cao was naturally overjoyed for Xun Yu's investment, and was so delighted that he compared Xun Yu to Zhang Liang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty. Although Xun Yu's talent is in the same position as Zhang Liang, Cao Cao's words are very inappropriate, at least for Xun Yu, it is very unpopular.

Xun Yu’s talent does not lie in the surprising victory of the two armies when confronting each other, but he has also played a cameo as the commander in command. It was during the first half of the year of Xiandi Xingping, when Cao Cao personally conquered Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian for the second time, his old friend Zhang Miao and his subordinate Chen Gong suddenly turned their faces and captured almost all of Cao Cao’s territory, and then supported Lv Bu to make Yanzhou’s new project. the host. In this sudden incident, Xun Yu, who stayed behind for Cao Cao, remained calm. Not only did he succeed in persuading the Yuzhou provincial governor Guo Gong, who was approaching the city and was ready to move, to remain neutral, he also appointed Cheng Yu to Fan and Dong'a to encourage the two places to defend. The general's fighting spirit allowed them to hold on to the city, which saved the three cities of Juan, Fan and Dong'e, and created conditions for Cao Cao to return to Yanzhou and regain lost ground.

Xun Yu is a master of strategy, good at making strategic decisions when situations change. Tao Qian died of illness in the summer of the second year of Xingping. Cao Cao, who was fighting against Lu Bu, wanted to take the opportunity to attack Xuzhou, and then turn around to clean up Lu Bu. Xun Yu clearly opposed it. On the one hand, he combined historical experience and lessons to demonstrate the necessity and significance of regaining the Yanzhou base area. On the other hand, he analyzed the pros and cons of fighting for Xuzhou from the current interests.

It was under his persuasion that Cao Cao gave up his immature idea, dealt with Lv Bu with all his strength, and finally drove Lv Bu out of Yanzhou.

The biggest mystery left in Xun Yu's life is the death of Xun Yu. This mystery is mainly the cause of death. So why did Xun Yu die?

Let’s first understand the background story of Xun Yu’s death:

Cao Cao dominated the north, from the official to the prime minister, "taking the emperor to order the princes" , It's time to be knighted. When Cao Cao first received the edict from the Emperor of Jin Wei and Jia Jiuxi, Xun Yu was the first to oppose it, and his attitude was firm. Xun Yu listed Cao Cao: "(Cao Gong) the prosperous and righteous soldiers used to conquer the country, uphold the loyalty and sincerity, keep retreating and concession; gentlemen love others with virtue, it is not appropriate to do so." "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" summed up this passage as "to be loyal and loyal, and to keep modest and retreat." This passage is soft and rigid, which really embarrass Cao Cao. You know, Xun Yu is Cao Cao’s direct line, and is Cao Cao’s most respected and relied veteran. Xun Yu’s opposition was not only shocked by the ruling and the public, even Cao Cao himself never expected it. Because of this, Cao Cao hated Xun Yu, and Xun Yu stayed away from the core of Cao Cao Group.

There are two versions of Xun Yu’s death. One is that Xun Yu was squeezed out and stayed in Shouchun and died of depression; the other version is recorded in "Wei Shi Chun Qiu" and Pei Song's note "Three Kingdoms" Sometimes it is quoted: Cao Cao gave Xun Yu a food box. Xun Yu opened it and saw that it was empty, so he took poison and killed himself (the dialogue between the masters, everything is really unspoken), at the age of fifty.

The core issue is not whether these two versions are true or not, but why Xun Yu jumped out to oppose Cao Cao? And is Cao Cao really going to die Xun Yu?

About these two issues , There are two opinions

Opinion 1: Xun Yu’s main purpose of assisting Cao Cao with all his heart is to help the Han room, and when Cao Cao’s true face was completely exposed and marginalized, Xun Yu also realized that he was unable to stop Cao Cao. , The fall of the Han Dynasty is a foregone conclusion. It was the person he had tried his best to help destroy his goal of Kuangfu Hanshi, and he became the main promoter of Xie Cao Mie Khan. His inner pain was imaginable, plus Cao Cao's hint, he committed suicide by taking poison. Therefore, Xun Yu's death was caused by frustration and by the hands of Cao Cao.

Viewpoint 2: At that time, the Han Dynasty had existed in name only, and Xun Yu was kingZuo Zhicai, it is impossible not to know Cao Cao's arrogant heart, so Xun Yu spared no effort to offer Cao Cao's original intention to help Cao Cao complete his hegemony. And Xun Yu's expression of opposition to Cao Cao’s addition to Jiu Xi is actually a kind of self-salvation, in order to cover up his own taint of helping Cao’s abuse of life.

The author personally prefers point one for three reasons:

1. Cao Cao was really passionate about his early years, and when his strength was far less than one-tenth of Dong Zhuo, he was determined to conquer it. Although Yuan Shao, Yuan Shuzhi and his like held heavy forces in their hands, the crusade against Dong Zhuo was only formal, all they thought was how to obtain their own interests, and they had no real intention to help Han. Therefore, Xun Yu abandoned Yuan to Cao’s move, largely because he helped the ideals of the Han Dynasty.

2. Cao Cao's heart of "replacement" changes with his own strength, and even Xun Yu cannot control it. So why didn't Xun Yu choose to leave Cao Cao? People at that time (especially famous officials) were very loyal, and the value at that time was: You can't serve the two masters without a last resort. Cao Cao didn't treat Xun Yu wrongly. Why did Xun Yu leave Cao Cao? You said Cao Cao wanted to usurp the throne. Did Cao Cao make a statement? So Xun Yu couldn't leave. In fact, according to Xun Yu's life record, Xun Yu gave Cao Cao some amazing strategies, mostly in the early days of Cao Cao's entrepreneurship. After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao had few records of Xun Yu's active contribution. Xun Yu mostly did his job. Only when Cao Cao asked Xun Yu, Xun Yu briefly expressed his opinion. In addition, Cao Cao tried his best to promote Xun Yu as the three men, but Xun Yu tried his best to refuse, which also reflected Xun Yu's mentality.

Furthermore, judging from Xun Yu’s expression against Cao Cao’s words, his words are soft with a knife and deeply expose the nature of Cao Cao’s integrity, enough to make Cao Cao want to find a place to get in. Xun Yu's doing this is undoubtedly putting life and death out of the question. It is really a posture to redeem the honor of the Han Dynasty and maintain his original intention, and make the last fight!

3. The price of fishing for fame by death is obviously too high and unreasonable. In fact, most of the people of high morals at that time had already "forgotten" the Han Dynasty and submitted to Cao Cao. Therefore, it is understandable that Xun Yu completely submitted to Cao Cao. There is nothing worthy of criticism from the world. As the so-called general trend, those who know the current affairs are outstanding. It is really hard to make sense to say that Xun Yu spared his life for the sake of his reputation.

Through the above analysis, we can see that "to be faithful and loyal, to keep the festival of humility and retreat" is exactly the way Xun Yu lives and abides by the world. We have reason to believe that Xun Yu is a true gentleman with both virtue and ability. !