After Jiang Wei's death, the Eastern Jin Dynasty general found a letter. What was written in it?

In 347 AD, the famous Eastern Jin general Huan Wen was ordered to attack Chengdu. Later, he successfully occupied Yizhou and found a secret letter with only 23 words. The content is: May your Majesty endure the humiliation for a few days. I hope that the country will be restored to safety after danger, and the sun and moon will be dim and bright again. There is a famous story in history about Jiang Wei plotting to harm the Three Sages, and this letter is the best proof of this allusion. This text message came from Jiang Wei, and the recipient was Liu Chan. It turns out that 83 years ago, Wei destroyed Shu and the latter surrendered.

However, Jiang Wei had the Han Dynasty in mind, and at the last moment he was still ready to use his wisdom to restore the Shu Han Dynasty, but unfortunately he failed in the end. The Western Shu Kingdom was small and weak, and it basically relied on Zhuge Liang to support it. Later, after the death of Zhuge Kongming, Shu could only rely on Jiang Wei for its military. Xiao Jiang Wei was originally from Wei, but later defected to Shu and became Zhuge Liang's successor. It is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Wei was Zhuge Liang's carefully selected successor. You must know that Western Shu is no better than Northern Wei: it lacks talents and its national power is weak.

The smart Zhuge Liang knew how much Liu Chan had, so he had to prepare for the future of Shu after his death. However, most of the famous generals of the Shu Han Dynasty were either dead or too old, and basically had no talents to build. However, the Northern Expedition brought Jiang Wei into Zhuge Liang's sight.

In 228 AD, Zhuge Liang personally led senior generals such as Zhao Yun and Wei Yan in the northern expedition to Cao Wei. In this battle to attack Tianshui City, a young man from Wei State amazed the Shu and Wei armies. In the description of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Yun was a rare tiger general throughout the Three Kingdoms period, and there were almost no people who could tie with him. But on the occasion of the Northern Expedition, the 25-year-old Jiang Wei defeated the fierce general Zhao Yun as soon as he took action. Although Lao Zhao was over 70 years old at the time, he easily killed five generals of the Han family in Xiliang in an instant.

In terms of martial arts, Jiang Wei has won Zhao Yun's recognition. Later, Zhuge Liang's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain was discovered by Jiang Wei, and the Shu soldiers were counterattacked. Jiang Wei was only in his 20s, with high martial arts skills and outstanding military talents, and was recognized by Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun. In this case, Zhuge Liang used a trick to conquer Jiang Wei and cultivated it carefully. Later Jiang Wei did not lose Zhuge Liang's face. This young man inherited Zhuge Liang's legacy and at the same time swore to be loyal to the Shu Kingdom and supported the Shu Kingdom for more than 20 years.

Liu Chan, the boss of the Shu Kingdom, often has a low IQ, the country is weak, and there are only a handful of available generals. The treacherous minister Huang Hao also made the court in chaos. In 263 AD, Deng Ai and Zhong Hui led troops to attack Shu. Later, Jiang Wei led the main force of Shu to confront Zhong Hui's army at Jiange, but Deng Ai secretly attacked Chengdu, and the queen of Shu also surrendered. In this way, Shu was destroyed in 264 AD.

Although Emperor Liu Chan surrendered, General Jiang Wei did not give up. Zhuge Liang's successor saw Sima Zhao's suspicion of Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, and also noticed the contradiction between Deng Ai and Zhong Hui. So Jiang Wei started to work on this complicated network of relationships, and he formulated a plan to use Zhong Hui's help to first get rid of Deng Ai and then Sima Zhao.

Zhong Hui admired Jiang Wei very much and believed in him. In addition, the Deng Ai brothers were a little distracted, and Sima Zhao also wanted to get rid of Zhong Hui, so Jiang Wei advised Zhong Hui to raise troops to protect himself. ?, and Zhong Hui also agreed. Zhong Hui has a large number of troops, and Jiang Wei also has tens of thousands of Shu troops. If he can take action, he will have a high chance of success.

In this case, Jiang Wei seemed to see "the hope of restoring the country", so he wrote a 23-word secret letter to Emperor Liu Chan and expressed that it was possible to restore the Shu Han regime. But ideals are often beautiful, but reality is always too cruel. To put it simply, Sima Zhao had the last laugh later: Zhong Hui was shot to death by random arrows from Wei soldiers, Deng Ai was beheaded by his subordinates, and Jiang Wei's corpse was chopped into pieces by Wei soldiers. Brother Adou is always so lucky. He was not implicated and was just moved to Luoyang.

Because Jiang Wei is very careful in doing things. Therefore, no one knew about the 23-word secret letter he wrote in 264 at the time. It was not until 83 years later that Huan Wen discovered Jiang Wei's text message in 347. This letter is enough to show Jiang Wei's loyalty to Shu, and it also demonstrates Zhuge Liang's ability to judge people from another angle. Although Jiang Wei's plan to restore the country failed, to this day, this text message has made people praise Jiang Wei and admire Zhuge Liang's vision even more.