Brief introduction of Yang Hu’s life What is Yang like?
During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wu of Jin Sima Yan was able to achieve the great cause of destroying Wu Dong and unifying the world, and that was Yang Hu. Even Emperor Wu of Liang himself said that although Wu was destroyed only two years after Yang Hu's death, it was all Yang Hu's!
Yang Hucheng is like Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty. He devoted his whole life to Wei and died. Compared with his loyalty, absolutely no one can surpass him. When Yang Hu was young, a Feng Shui expert once looked at his family's ancestral tomb and said that the ancestral tomb of Yang Hu's family looked like an emperor. If the tomb was dug, the child would be cut off. Knowing that digging the ancestral grave might lead to the death of his descendants, Yang Hu still sent people to dig the grave, so Yang Hu never had a son and a half in his life.
Later, Xiang Muren looked at Yang Hu’s ancestral tomb and said, alas, the emperor’s feng shui in this tomb is broken, but its feng shui still looks excellent. There will be another Sangong with a broken arm in the future! Later, Yang Hu did reach Sangong, but he also broke his arm because of falling from a horse, which was exactly the same as the prophecy made by the man.
After seeing what Yang Hu did, can you still say that he was disloyal to the Jin Dynasty? People are willing to take the risk of offending their ancestors, annihilating their descendants, and are willing to destroy the ancestral tombs of emperors. Can ordinary people do it?
The Yang Hucheng family has been an aristocratic family since the Han Dynasty. Starting from nine generations back, the Yang family has produced two thousand stone officials from generation to generation, and they all have a good reputation during their tenure. Yang Hu's mother is the sister of Cai Wenji, a famous talented woman in ancient times, and the daughter of Cai Yong, a famous Confucian scholar and Zuo Zhonglang general in the Han Dynasty. When Yang Hu was more than ten years old, someone showed him a fortune teller who predicted that Yang Hu would make a huge contribution to the world before he was 60 years old!
When Yang Hu grew up, he was handsome, knowledgeable, and eloquent, and was known as the contemporary Yan Hui. Xiahou, the general of the county at that time, met Yang Hu and thought that this person would be very successful in the future, so he persuaded Yang Hu to marry his brother Xiahou Ba's daughter, which would be regarded as a good marriage as soon as possible.
Fang of Qi State was only 8 years old when he succeeded to the throne. There were two major forces competing for power over state affairs. One is Cao Shuang, the general of the Cao Wei clan, and the other is Sima Yi, and Cao Shuang obviously has the upper hand. At that time, Cao Shuang specifically attacked Yang Hu and Wang Shen. Wang Shen generously accepted the call, but Yang Hu rejected Cao Shuang. At that time, Yang Hu was young and lacked political experience, but he had great vision and brains. He concluded that Cao Shuang was no match for the wily Sima Yi. Later, Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion, and Cao Shuang and Cao Shuang's forces were completely wiped out. Yang Hu luckily escaped.
Yang Hu had such a vicious political vision at a young age and should have had a prosperous career. But Yang Hu had been in mourning for more than ten years because of the death of his mother and eldest brother, and had made no achievements in the court. It wasn't until Sima Zhao came to power that Yang Hu's career gradually improved. During the reign of Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, Yang Hucheng was highly regarded for his firm support for Sima Yan and became Sima Yan's confidant. He told the secret to Xun Xu, another confidant of Sima Yan, and became a general in the Chinese army.
Sima Yan was the unified emperor in Chinese history. During his reign, it was his long-cherished wish to annex Wu Dong, and he was finally able to realize this wish. Yang Hu really deserves credit. At that time, Wu Dong sent Lu Xun's second son Lu Kang as the governor of Jingzhou, and the governor of Jingzhou in the Western Jin Dynasty was Yang Hu. The Western Jin Dynasty and Sun Wu each had a Jingzhou, forming a confrontation between the north and the south. The geographical scope of Wu's Jingzhou was obviously larger than that of the Western Jin Dynasty. This was a great test for Yang Hu, because the key to the war between the Western Jin Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty was in Jingzhou!
Later, Yang Hucheng led an army of 80,000 to fight against the Wu army with less than 30,000 land resistance, but failed and Yang Hucheng was demoted. This war is not that Yang Hu is weak, but that the other party is too strong. Yang Hu realized that although the monarch of Wu was fatuous and ignorant, his national power and the strength of his generals should not be underestimated, so he should adopt a two-sided strategy of military cannibalization and advocating loyalty. Since then, Yang Hu has been stationed in Jingzhou for many years, and his reputation for virtue on the border has become better and better. But he was jealous in the court and was reported many times. When Yang Hu believed that the time was ripe to destroy Wu Dong, these brats stood up to oppose it, although Sima Yan strongly agreed with Yang Hu's "Invitation to Attack Wu Shu".
It has always been a pity that Yang Hu could not kill Uncle Wu in his life. In 278 AD, Yang Hucheng fell seriously ill. On his deathbed, he recommended Du Yu to his generation. Two years later, Du Yu killed Uncle Wu.