There are many famous generals during the Sixteen Kingdoms and Wei Jin North and South Dynasties.
There are many very good generals such as Chen Qingzhi, Yang Daeung, and Gao Changgong, and it is very difficult to choose the best general among them.
Although it is a Chancellor rather than a shogun, a person named Wang Meng will be one of the participants in this strongest debate.
Magnificent idealists and cold practitioners
Wang Meng, who was born as a child of the Han Chinese in China, which is dominated by a different ethnic group called the Five Barbarians, loved studying from a young age and had a good appearance. I was waiting for the Lord to serve.
A person named Huan Wen, who was the most powerful person of Eastern Jin, came to such a king. Eastern Jin is a Han Chinese dynasty and is a huge nation that occupies the southern half of China. Nowadays, it may be close if Toyota and Mitsubishi Corporation say that they are our executives and the president or the general manager of the personnel department has come to bow their heads.
Huan Wen enthusiastically talked about the nation of the world, loved Wang Meng very much, and offered his car and his subordinates as gifts.
However, Wang Meng refused to say that he didn't like Huan Wen very much.
By the way, at this time, Wang Meng talked while wearing rags and taking the louse on his head. It's an interesting story that a powerful person in a great power wants to welcome such a person, but it's also an interesting story that he refused to do so.
It was Fu Jian, a Tibetan tribe, who could use such a royal hero.
Fu Jian and Wang Meng, who have a dream of "Ichimoku Dojin" in the turbulent world of the Warring States, met through a person named Luo. Fu Jian said he was delighted at this time, saying, "It's like when Liu Bei Gentoku met Zhuge Liang!"
Wang Meng was also pleased to finally meet someone with the "Aspirations of Sayo."
Third-class humans move with money, but first-class humans move with aspirations.
It can be said that Fu Jian's idealism moved the heart of Wang Meng.
Five transitions during the year
Fu Jian eventually took the position of Tenno, the prince of Former Qin, and used Wang Meng heavily. The preferential treatment was said to be "five transitions during the year", that is, he was promoted five times in a year.
Wang Meng once executed a powerful member of the Di tribe.
The reason is that he plundered his territory.
As expected, Fu Jian had no choice but to question Wang Meng.
"Politics must be virtue. It should be prioritized. Isn't it too terrible to put anything to death?"
Wang Meng responded as follows.
"It takes gratitude to control a peaceful country, and law to control a disturbed country. My role is to wipe out the villains, and it still exists for all. I would be guilty if I couldn't eradicate those bad guys, but otherwise I wouldn't be punished. "
Fu Jian was convinced and eventually appointed Wang Meng to the position of Chancellor.
The royal family and former vassals strongly opposed this.
That's right. Wang Meng had no track record at this stage. Even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were jealous of Zhuge Liang's hospitality.
However, Liu Bei had the talent to alleviate the dissatisfaction of his subordinates. Unfortunately, Fu Jian does not have such a talent, which eventually leads him to ruin.
Fu Jian ignored the dissatisfaction of his subordinates and empowered Wang Meng one after another. If there was anyone who opposed it, Fu Jian mercilessly relegated or demoted himself, and in the worst case, even dismissed him as unofficial. There was even a person who slashed and abandoned Fu Jian himself.
There is still a description that "everyone is a group vassal, and everyone sighs when they see the fierceness", and no one complains on the surface until then.
But I think. It's still good when you're complaining superficially. The problem is smoldering dissatisfaction inside. After the death of Wang Meng, all of Fu Jian's subordinates betrayed him one after another.
Consecutive wins
It can be said that Wang Meng was worth it. When Huan Wen of Eastern Jin led a large army and attacked Former Yan, he asked for help from Former Qin. Many opposed the dispatch of reinforcements, but Wang Meng insisted that they should be dispatched. As a result, Former Yan promised to hand over the land west of Hulao Pass to Former Qin.
However, before Qin dispatched his army, the army of Eastern Jin was defeated by the shogun Murong Chui of Former Yan. So Former Yan doesn't try to fulfill his promise.
Wang Meng immediately marched toward Luoyang.
When he attacked Gyo, the capital of Former Yan, with that momentum, he destroyed it, and here Former Qin succeeded in putting most of Hebei, about half of China, under its control.
At this time, Fu Jian placed the royal family of Former Yan in Chang'an, and relocated the Di tribe of his origin to Luoyang. He also increased the hate by one.
And Wang Meng died five years later in 375.
At the time of his death, he left two points as his will:not to attack Eastern Jin easily and not to trust the Xianbei and Qiang tribes too much.
However, Fu Jian does not keep this will, attacks Eastern Jin with overwhelming force, and experiences a historic defeat in the Battle of Fei River.
If Wang Meng had lived a little longer, China's history would have changed a lot.
Personal evaluation of Wang Meng
Although not well known in Japan, he is probably the strongest Chancellor and Commander in China's history.
It can be said that his talent goes far beyond Zhuge Liang and even surpasses the legendary commander Yue Yi.
In fact, after losing Wang Meng, Qin's strength was weakened like a lie, and it soon perished.
Fu Jian made him hold all the official positions such as Grand Chancellor, Chushokan, Shosho Ordinance, Taishi Tadashi, Slave School Lieutenant, Envoy, General of Chariot and Cavalry, General of Chariot and Cavalry, Qinghe County Hou, and Dujun. , And Wang Meng responded well to it.
But he probably worked too hard. At that time, there was no concept of overwork, so I wouldn't have expected that an unreasonable schedule would shorten the lifespan.
There are many excellent people in this area, and Trajan of Rome and others died prematurely due to too hard work, and Zhuge Liang did not live long. Japanese manga artists Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko F. Fujio didn't live long either.
By the way, Wang Meng is a minor in Japan, but has been highly evaluated in China since ancient times, and has been selected as one of the "64 generals of the Wu Mausoleum" compiled in the Tang dynasty. , Establishing a family register system, improving roads and encouraging agriculture, and other achievements in enhancing domestic affairs.
He was so active in combat in domestic affairs that he was like a super warrior using cheats.