Jiang Wei’s three views seem to be at risk of being reshaped.
On one side, he listened to Pang Tong keep talking about how to become an official. On the other side, what Pang Tong said was completely different from what he usually interacted with and observed.
The fierce collision of three views gave Jiang Wei a headache.
Indeed, Jiang Wei cannot be blamed for this. The main reason is that Jiang Wei has been staying in Chengdu since he was valued by Liu Bei during the first Northern Expedition and stayed by his side.
At that time, Jiang Wei was only sixteen years old, which was a critical moment for young people to shape their outlook on life.
When he was in Jixian County, Jiang Wei could still fake Zhang Xi's military orders just to protect his goddess and his family, but since the kid arrived in Chengdu, his outlook has been completely changed.
In Chengdu, the first education Jiang Wei received was to abide by the "rules."
It's not just as simple as obeying the law. He has to know and understand the meaning of many various rules, both overt and covert. At the same time, as the prince, he must also learn to take the initiative to maintain these rules. .
There is no way, these days, if you don't follow these rules, no matter whether you are aristocratic or noble, you will not be regarded as one of their own.
This is actually not bad, because Jiang Wei himself is from a Liangzhou family. Although the Liangzhou family is looked down upon by the Central Plains people, the Shu family is not much better in the eyes of the Central Plains people. When he is in a good mood, he admits that he is a scholar. In bad times, we all belong to "border barbarians". Don't look down on anyone.
Therefore, for Jiang Wei, a son of a Liangzhou family, it was not difficult to get used to the rules of Shu when he arrived in Shu. It was just a matter of how many rules there were.
Jiang Wei can still adapt to it.
What happened after that began to deviate from Jiang Wei's original script.
Liu Bei really valued Jiang Wei. Not only did he give Jiang Wei the official position of Prince Sheren and let him have a good relationship with Liu Chan, he also often took him with him and taught him personally.
We also know that although Emperor Zhaolie had various minor problems and a lot of bad tempers, he could not express his emotions and anger, which was also Emperor Zhaolie's signature. Jiang Wei was more or less influenced by Emperor Zhaolie in this regard. , but can’t learn the essence.
Emperor Zhaolie's emotion and anger are invisible, which means that he can remain calm when facing anything, do whatever he has to do, and will not express his emotions out of the blue.
But when it comes to Jiang Wei, he hasn't learned how to show his emotions and anger, but he has learned about it by pretending to be paralyzed with a straight face. He looks like a little old man.
After Emperor Zhaolie became famous, Zhuge Liang also believed that Jiang Wei was a talent, so he transferred Jiang Wei to the Prime Minister's Mansion to serve as the secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion. At the same time, he also began to focus on cultivating Jiang Wei's military strategy and political skills. ability.
In this way, Jiang Wei began to study with Zhuge Liang again, not only learning all aspects of military and political abilities, but also starting to learn Zhuge Liang's style of action. Sometimes when he was serious, he was even more rigid than that dead fish head.
All of them have only learned the superficial and not the essence.
However, Jiang Wei is still young now. Although there are few big men and leading generals in the Mesozoic era at this time, they are all capable of fighting. There is no need for Jiang Wei to step up and take the lead for the time being, so Jiang Wei still has time.
In addition, Pang Tong is now idle and wants to win over Jiang Wei. Well, at least Jiang Wei will not be like in history, grandma does not love him, but his uncle does not love him.
However, Pang Tong found the process of breaking it off very interesting, but Jiang Wei found it a bit painful.
If it was just about Jiang Wei's political ability, Jiang Wei actually didn't react that much. After all, Jiang Wei himself was really not interested in government affairs, he just wanted to lead troops to fight.
But when Pang Tong said he was having fun and still made nonchalant comments about the famous generals of the Han Dynasty in recent years, Jiang Wei couldn't stand it anymore.
There are not only world-famous generals like Zhang Xi and Wei Yan, but also generals like Wu Yi and Chen Dao who are not famous but have outstanding abilities. Especially when it comes to Zhang Xi, Pang Tong comes up with one sentence.
"Yuan Chang's soldiers cannot be learned!!!"
Jiang Wei didn't like hearing this.
During Liu Bei's first Northern Expedition, Zhang Xi served as the vanguard. After leaving Qi Mountain, he pushed all the way. He captured Ji County in the first battle and completed the break of Long in the second world war. He also won a head-on duel with Guo Huai, Zhang He and other veteran generals. This is In the eyes of Jiang Wei, who was still immature at that time, he already looked like a being from heaven.
I don't know if Jiang Wei has a filter for Zhang Xi or for other reasons. In short, Jiang Wei admires Zhang Xi's use of troops.
Now I suddenly heard Pang Tong say that Zhang Xi's art of war cannot be learned. Really, if he hadn't been facing Pang Tong, Jiang Wei would have wanted to take action directly.
However, even though he was facing Pang Tong, Jiang Wei still expressed his dissatisfaction tactfully.
"Wei heard that Governor Zhang has been using troops for more than ten years without a single defeat. Why can't he learn from this?!"
This is Jiang Wei's way of expressing his dissatisfaction.
After all, the person who said this was Pang Tong, Mr. Fengchu. In terms of military strategy, Mr. Fengchu was even inferior to Zhuge Liang.
After hearing Jiang Wei's "rebuttal", Pang Tong was not dissatisfied. He just smiled and said, "The world's famous generals must start in the army, but the world's famous generals may not be trained in the army."
Pang Tong did not answer Jiang Wei's question directly, but changed his perspective and said to Jiang Wei, "People such as General Guan Da, Zhang Cheqi and others, who did not know the art of war when they were young, can still become famous generals after more than forty years of fighting. It is called a war general. Another example is Yuan Chang, Zhou Gongjin, Sima Yi and others. They were familiar with military books in their early years, and then experienced military training and learned from their strengths to make up for their weaknesses. They can also become famous at a young age and achieve great achievements. This is called a wise general."
Jiang Wei was confused when Pang Tong said this. This was not a special argument. Most of today's evaluations of famous generals in the world are based on this idea.
Some people have never read military books, but rely on their outstanding personal comprehension and learning abilities to continuously accumulate experience on the battlefield, and finally become a generation of famous generals. Such things are not uncommon no matter in history or now.
There are also people who have been familiar with military books since they were young, and then went through battle battles and accumulated practical combat experience, and eventually became famous generals.
In this era, because of the huge voice of the aristocratic families, the latter was somewhat respected, so what Pang Tong said could not answer Jiang Wei's doubts at all.
According to the standards of famous generals respected in this era, famous generals like Zhang Xi, Zhou Yu, and Sima Yi who were familiar with the art of war in their early years and later rose up through the ranks are the ones most worthy of being praised by aristocratic families.
How come you, Pang Tong, say it’s “unlearnable”? !
Facing Jiang Wei's hesitant gaze, Pang Tong smiled and said, "Bo Yue can be considered a person who has been familiar with military books since he was a child. He should learn from Zhou Gongjin, Sima Yi and others to become a generation of wise generals. However, Yuan Chang's soldiers, Bo Yue You can’t learn to make a date, and you can’t learn it.”
"How to say?!"
"Yuan Chang's knowledge is very complicated. It seems that each of them has learned something superficial, but they have their own way. If you learn Yuan Chang's soldiers and fail to learn what Yuan Chang thinks, but act according to Yuan Chang's military methods, you are just a person. He is just a mediocre general who looks forward and backward and hesitates."
Pang Tong gave the answer first, and then explained it to Jiang Wei seriously.
To put it simply, in Pang Tong's eyes, Zhang Xi's knowledge was too vast and complicated.
Although Zhang Xi claimed that he had only learned some superficial knowledge and was not a serious familiarity with military books at all, the range of military books that Zhang Xi dabbled in was really too wide.
Zhang Xi once borrowed "Six Tao" from Zhuge Liang, and it was understandable that he could understand the content in it. However, from time to time, Zhang Xi would still pop up a few records from "The Art of War", which was inappropriate. .
The military book passed down from Pang Tong's family is "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and these days, military books will definitely not be easily passed on to other people if the family is not mentally broken.
Moreover, Pang Tong also asked Zhang Xi sideways if he had read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu before, but Zhang Xi said that he had only read one or two sentences by chance.
At that time, young Pang Tong believed so. As a result, later on, the more time Pang Tong spent with Zhang Xi, the more he discovered that this guy had only read one or two sentences. He was a master of every article in "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Have you read a sentence or two? !
What is the difference between this and having seen it completely?
The scary thing is that Zhang Xi has not only read one or two sentences of "The Art of War", but also claims to have read one or two sentences of "Wu Zi", "Sima Fa", "Wei Liao Zi", and many more. Even Pang Tong had never heard of the art of war, but Zhang Xi had read a few words about it.
If this guy wrote down a sentence or two about all the art of war that he knew or read, and summarized it, he might be able to publish a new war book on the spot.
As for the pre-Qin war cases he knew, Pang Tong knew a thing or two about some, but for some, Pang Tong asked the great Confucians and historians in Jingyi and Jingyi, and even they didn't know about them.
But if you want to say that Zhang Xi's battle examples are made up, it's impossible for Pang Tong to listen to it. After all, the battle examples mentioned by Zhang Xi all imply the art of war, and they are very reasonable. If you can make it up, it will explain itself. The military level of the editor.
Therefore, based on the above summary and judgment, in Pang Tong's view, Zhang Xi's art of war is a genius who learned from hundreds of schools and then integrated it himself.
There is no way to learn from such a person.
If you want to learn from Zhou Yu, Sima Yi, Pang Tong or Fazheng, it is actually simple. You only need to teach Jiang Wei the ancestral military manual.
But if you want to learn from Zhang Xi, unless Zhang Xi can summarize all the military theories and military battle cases he knows and write his own military book, others will not be able to learn the essence at all.
Moreover, in Pang Tong's opinion, the most powerful thing about Zhang Xi's use of troops is not his rich theory, but combined with what Zhang Xi knows and learned. When faced with various battle situations, Zhang Xi can always find the most suitable way to break the situation.
To put it simply, Zhang Xi's method of using troops focuses on daily accumulation and sudden decision-making. It is useless to study hard.
As for Zhang Xi’s biggest shortcoming, well, let’s not mention that! ! !
I have never seen anyone more cautious than Zhuge Yutou. To put it bluntly, if Zhang Xi knew how to take risks, then the current general of the Han Dynasty would not be Guan Yu! ! !
(End of chapter)
