"Wuqi" lived in an era when many governors were killing each other. His ancestral home is "Weiguo" and he was born in a relatively rich family. "Wuqi" is ambitious. Teenagers spend a lot of money to study everywhere, but they still don't get any decent fame. Because of this, "Wuqi" was ridiculed by fellow villagers, saying that he was the black sheep, uneducated and uneducated; Although "Wuqi" didn't get any fame after studying abroad for many years, his martial arts was so successful that he killed more than 30 people who laughed at him. Killing more than 30 people in a rage is also extremely rare in real historical materials, from which we can also see Wu Qi's martial arts. But more embodies his "biting" character.
"Wuqi" escaped crime, left Weiguo and fled to "Lu", worshiping the famous scholar "Zeng Shen" to learn Confucianism; But at this time, the news that "Wuqi" old mother died of illness came from Weiguo. "Filial piety comes first" is the basis of Confucianism, but "Wuqi" refused to go home to attend the funeral in the face of the death of his mother at home; Perhaps it was for other reasons, perhaps because the May 7th Movement was afraid to go home for sin, but the teacher "Zeng Shen" decided that he was an unfilial person, so he cut off the mentoring relationship between them.
If the unfilial behavior of "Wuqi" can be understood as "excusable", what happened next made the world even more disgusted with him. "Wuqi" abandoned Confucianism and studied the Art of War with famous scholars in Lu, and made certain achievements in several years. It happened that Qi attacked Lu. Mu Gong wants to use Wuqi, but he is afraid that his wife is Qi. At this time, the vicious nature of "Wuqi" revived, and he actually killed his first wife to show his loyalty to Lumugong; Perhaps the war was urgent, and "Wuqi" finally became the commander-in-chief of Lu, and soon defeated the army of Qi.
But things are not so smooth, "Wuqi" has made great contributions to Lu and deserves to be rewarded; But what he didn't expect was that Lu Mugong thought he killed his wife for fame. This insatiable man ignored him after the war. Later generations are quite controversial about this point. Some people say that "Lumugong" did the right thing. Although Wu Qi is active, he is cruel and vicious. He can even kill his wife for fame and fortune, and he will revolt against Lu in the future. Some people say that "Wuqi killed his wife" is right. A gentleman is determined to be in the world and should abandon his wife and children.
These two views have been debated for thousands of years. As for who "Wuqi" is, it depends on the viewer's personal understanding. "Wuqi" is also a wise man. Knowing that his career in Lu came to an end, he resolutely took refuge in Wei. At this time, there are many governors, and it is common to attack each other. "Wei Wenhou" activated Wuqi and ordered him to train foot soldiers to attack "Qin"; In 4 12 BC, "Wuqi" fought in the south and won many battles, so it gained great fame and won the trust of "Wei Wenhou". With the support of Wei Wenhou, "Wuqi" embarked on the road of reform for the first time, but this time it only reformed the "military system" and created the first "new standard" army in history-Wei Wuzu.
"Wuqi" led the army to fight in the north and south, expanded its territory for the "Wei State" for thousands of miles, and fought against the princes 76 times, of which 64 won and none lost; Such a record is extremely rare in history, and of course it is also due to the bravery of Wei Wuzu in killing the enemy. Wei Wuzu's heroism also depends on Wuqi's management of the army, especially his love for soldiers like children. For example, Wuqi personally sucked pus from a soldier, and the soldier's mother cried when she heard about it. At that time, someone didn't understand and said, "Your son is just an ordinary soldier, and' Wuqi' is the marshal who leads the troops. You should be proud of your son taking drugs in such a high position. Why are you crying? " Mother cried and said, "Wuqi used to take drugs for my husband, and my husband died for him;" Today, May 7th gave my son drugs again. I wonder where he will die this time! "
Although it is an episode, it has caused criticism and controversy for thousands of years. Obviously, this episode reflects the frequency and cruelty of the war at that time. Of course, "Wuqi" played a great role in it, and at the same time caused future generations to doubt the belligerence of "Wuqi". This is just one of them. Later generations' criticism of "Wuqi" focused more on "Wuqi took drugs and recruited people to buy hearts". Although Wei Wuzu is a strong man in troubled times, from a certain point of view, it is precisely because of Wuqi's "love of soldiers as children" that this army bravely killed the enemy for him; "Wuqi" only paid a small price for "condescending" and established its own fame and fortune with the lives of countless soldiers. In this regard, the evaluation of "Wuqi" by later generations was almost one-sided, perhaps because too many innocent lives were lost in the wars of the governors at that time, and these endless wars were actually just the selfish desires of the governors.
Wuqi became famous in Wei, especially in 383 BC, when 500,000 troops of Qin attacked, Wuqi led 50,000 troops, and Wei Wuzu defeated ten times more than himself. The prestige of "Wuqi" reached its peak in this war, and it also reached the level of "high reputation for merit" in Wei State. At this time, Wei Wenhou and the old country "Tian Wen" died one after another, and the new country "Gong Shu" succeeded; However, the new minister of state is very afraid of Wuqi. He is "a senior official". In fact, not only the new minister of state, but also the whole Wei government and the public are very afraid of Wuqi.
Since the "Wei State" has been suspicious of Wu Qi, persecution will follow. "Wuqi" had to reluctantly give up fame and fortune and fled to "Chu" again. At this time, "Wuqi" has become famous all over the world, and Chu certainly respects him as a guest of honor and entrusts him with an important task; "Wuqi" once again embarked on the peak of life and began drastic reforms. This is the famous "Wuqi Reform" in history.
The so-called "Wuqi Reform" can be simply understood as: 1, all the nobles who sealed the monarch have been handed down for three generations; Stop the regular supply of alienated aristocrats and enrich domestic aristocrats to remote places with vast territory and sparse population. 2. Eliminate and reduce unimportant officials, cut their salaries, and use the saved wealth for Qiang Bing. 3. Correct the bad atmosphere of harming public interests and personal interests and loyalty in the officialdom of Chu, so that the ministers of Chu can serve the country wholeheartedly regardless of personal honor or disgrace. 4. Unify the customs of Chu State and prohibit private assistance. These four reforms are all reasonable today, and it is precisely because of these four decrees that "Wuqi" greatly increased the national strength of "Chu", and then began the war of conquering the south and expanding the sphere of influence of Chu to Dongting Lake in one fell swoop; After that, "Wuqi" sent troops to help Zhao and defeated Wei Jun, which was founded by himself, which was also the revenge of Wei.
On the surface, the "Wuqi Reform" did greatly increase the strength of Chu, but in fact, there was an undercurrent inside Chu, especially the interests of the nobles were trampled by Wuqi, which laid a curse for him. The nobles of Chu hated Wuqi, which coincided with the death of King Chu. The nobles of Chu took this opportunity to rise up and attack Wuqi. No matter how powerful the "soldier saint" is, it can't stand the siege and anger of many people. "Wuqi" can only be defeated and flee; He fled in the direction of going straight to the mortuary of King Chu. At this time, Wuqi was shot by an arrow. He pulled out an arrow, inserted it into the body of King Chu, and then shouted, "The ministers rebelled and murdered my king."
The move of "Wuqi" is obviously a larger foe. In a rage, many noble soldiers and horses shot "Wuqi" with arrows. Because many disorderly arrows were directly nailed to the body of "Mourning for the King of Chu", according to the laws of Chu, destroying the body of the monarch is a heinous act, and its crime can destroy three families; As a result, Su, the newly succeeded king of Chu, knew that Wuqi was the first person to destroy the body of the old monarch, but for the sake of "royal dignity", all the people involved in shooting Wuqi were executed, including more than 70 families who were exterminated, and the number of people killed could not be counted.
From this, we can also see the ruthlessness of Wuqi. Although in desperation, I still don't forget to drag others with me; This move also caused criticism from later generations. After all, when "Wuqi" was convicted, it was really vicious to deliberately implicate hundreds of people to be buried with him. However, it is an indisputable fact that "Wuqi" ruled the army all his life, and the book "Woods Art of War" has become a wonderful book through the ages; For this reason, later generations listed Woods' The Art of War and Sun Wu's The Art of War as "Sun Wu's Art of War". "Wuqi" has also become a military sage who has been praised for thousands of years. Cao Hong once said: "Sun Wu Bai Han is also the sage of fighting."
However, the viciousness of "Wuqi" was criticized by later generations. Bai Juyi once said, "Once upon a time, there was Wu Qizhe, and my mother died. Hey, I am a disciple, and my heart is not as good as a bird. " And Ding once said, "Wuqi, a famous soldier. It is said that virtue is neither dangerous nor dangerous, but it is also heard. It's a thief to kill his wife in a hurry for fame! "