Is Jiang Gan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms really ridiculous?

In the romance, Jiang Gan was portrayed as a complete idiot, and handed over Zhou Yu's forged surrender letter to Cao Cao after the group meeting, which led to a counter-plot and mistakenly killed two naval generals, but there is no such paragraph in the official history, he was just a debater, and he went to Jiangdong to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender without success.

Obviously, it's ridiculous in the romance. But in "Three Kingdoms" it's a different story.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is **, and it narrates the history that has been processed and modified, or exaggerated, or reduced.

The real Jiang Gan in the history of the Three Kingdoms was a famous man in the Jianghuai area, he was handsome and eloquentGood rhetoric, in the Jianghuai region, his eloquence is unmatched.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Gan is a rhetorical, nominal mediocrity, and even the first sinner of Cao Cao's defeat in the Battle of Chibi, he crossed the river twice, was teased by Zhou Yu in the palm of his hand, and the first time he fell into Zhou Yu's counter-plot, brought back false information for Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao, who was already lacking in naval talents, mistakenly killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the commanders of the Jingzhou Naval Army. The second time he crossed the river, he fell into Zhou Yu's pre-arranged strategy, brought back the phoenix chick Pang Tong for Cao Cao, and presented a series of plans to Cao Cao, laying the root cause for the burning of Cao's army.

But in the official history, Jiang Gan has little to do with the Battle of Chibi, he and Zhou Yu are just from the same state and county, The history books did not write that they were classmates and friends, Jiang Gan was indeed ordered by Cao Cao to cross the river to lobby Zhou Yu, but it should not be in the Battle of Chibi, maybe the time will be a few years earlier, because in the official history of the "Three Kingdoms" Pei Songzhi notes that Cao Cao heard that Zhou Yu was very young and talented, so he quietly went to Yangzhou and sent Jiang Gan to persuade Zhou Yu to return to Cao Cao, Zhou Yu guessed his intention as soon as he saw Jiang Gan, first arranged for him to live in the post house for three days, and then took him to visit the barracks equipment, At the banquet, he expressed his determination to live and die with the Sun family, Jiang Gan saw Zhou Yu's resolute attitude, so he was very interesting, just smiled and didn't persuade him again. When he returned to see Cao Cao, he claimed that Zhou Yu had an elegant bearing and could not change his ambition with words.

It can be seen from thisJiang Gan himself is also a person who understands current affairs and knows how to advance and retreat, and he is not as stupid and self-righteous as described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"., about Jiang Gan only appeared in the Three Kingdoms Pei Note a few words, he was a famous man of the Three Kingdoms, but he did not have much achievement, so the details of his life are not too much recorded in the history books.

In history, Jiang Gan was a person who knew the times, and he was very eloquent and good at defending. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Gan's statement is not very good, saying that he was the first sinner in the defeat of the Battle of Chibi, but the description of him in the official history is more positive.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the only thing Jiang Gan came out of was Jiang Gan's book theft, and after the interpretation was completed, he disappeared.

"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" describes Jiang Gan as "well-groomed, known for his talent and argument, and alone between the Jiang and Huai, and Mo is not right", Jiang Gan crossed the river twice, and was in the middle of the plan twice. Not only did Cao Wei's 830,000 horses be buried, but even Cao Cao himself almost died in Huangquan. Later generations commented that Jiang Gan was a corrupt Confucian who had not achieved enough and had more than enough failures.

Jiang Gan in the Three Kingdoms is a very eloquent and talented strategist in real history.

Stupid and cowardly, he pretended to be a smart person, Jiang Gan stole books, causing Cao Cao to behead Cai Mao and Zhang Yun by mistake.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Gan is portrayed as a talented, but a bit self-serving. There are very few descriptions of him in real history.

is relatively stupid, and his courage is still very small, but his eloquence is still very good, which makes Cao Cao like him very much for a while.

Jiang Gan is a person who has not achieved enough and has more than enough bad things.

After receiving Cao Cao's letter of challenge, Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu, destroyed the book and beheaded the envoy to confess his determination to resist. This led to a battle between Cao Cao and Eastern Wu at the mouth of the Sanjiang River. Zhou Yu won the battle, but he was still able to be cautious, conduct investigation and research, and spy on Cao Ying overnight.

Zhou Yu found that the commanders of Cao Cao's navy were Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who had surrendered to Cao Cao from Liu Biao's subordinates, and these two people were "deeply miraculous" and were the main obstacles to the Eastern Wu Dynasty's breakthrough of Cao. When Cao Cao was worried about the helplessness of Eastern Wu, Jiang Gan, a staff member in Cao's camp, suddenly recommended himself, saying that he was willing to go to Eastern Wu to persuade Zhou Yu to come and surrender, and said that he promised to complete the task. When Zhou Yu heard that his old classmate Jiang Gan was visiting, he decided to use the counter-tactic.

Zhou Yu first set the rule of "friendship with friends" and not mentioning "military affairs" at the banquet of the heroes of the conference, and sealed Jiang Gan's mouth. Then Zhou Yu showed Jiang Gan the strength of Jiangdong's heroes and "soldiers", showing off his status of "meeting the master of his confidant" and being trusted and reused, and cut off Jiang Gan's idea of surrendering. At night, Zhou Yu and Jiang Gan "fell asleep on their feet", pretending to be drunk and asleep, inducing Jiang Gan to steal a letter forged by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to surrender to Soochow, and also arranged for Jiang Gan to secretly contact Jiang Gan with the plot of "someone from Jiangbei is here", so that Jiang Gan was convinced of the letter.

Jiang Gan was worried that he had not completed the mission of surrendering Zhou Yu, but fortunately he got this important "information" and slipped back to Cao Ying overnight to report his merits. Cao Cao was furious when he read the letter, and ordered to kill Cai and Zhang. Zhou Yu's counter-plot finally succeeded.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang ** was killed by random arrows in the Battle of Chibi.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes Jiang Gan as Cao Cao's lobbyist before the Battle of Chibi, in an attempt to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender. At that time, I didn't want Zhou Yu to worry that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun would help Cao Jun train the navy, so he would plan and set up a group of heroes to induce him to steal the fake surrender documents of Zhang and Cai, and get rid of these two people by counter-strategy. Later, he thought he had made meritorious contributions and became a laughing stock.

In 193, the Battle of Chibi ended the situation of strife since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and laid the foundation for the three-legged tripod. For this war, many people at that time could not have imagined that Yuan Shao would be defeated in the battle of Guandu, and then Cao Cao, a generation of heroes who took advantage of the situation to seize Jingzhou, was defeated by Zhou Lang, the son of Huangkou. Although there are many reasons for Cao Cao's failure, it has a lot to do with Jiang Gan, a corrupt Confucian who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures, to cross Jiangdong.

Stupid.

Jiang Gan, whose name is Ziyi, was a figure in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, and a native of Jiujiang (now Shou County, Anhui). Jiang Gan in history was a famous scholar and debater at that time. A well-looking celebrity and debater, standing alone in Jianghuai, no one can debate him.

And Luo Guanzhong portrayed Jiang Gan as a clown who was fooled by Zhou Yu in the historical ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Jiang Gan in history is rarely known, and after the great interpretation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Jiang Gan has become a very famous person.

Jiang Gan, the reason why he was considered stupid was not because he did not persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, but because he not only did not persuade Zhou Yu but fell for Zhou Yu's counter-plot. It makes people feel that he is stupid but thinks he is smart.

If Jiang Gan just didn't persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, he was just a failed persuasion lobbyist, and it didn't hurt. There is no shortage of people in history who were assigned the task of persuasion to surrender because of their childhood friends with the enemy master.

Jiang Gan, is he really a stupid person? If so, how did he become Zhou Yu's friend? In fact, Jiang Gan just wanted to collect more information about the Wu army and obtain more useful information.

It's like fishing: if you want to catch 1 carp and you don't catch it, but you catch 1 crucian carp in the process, will you release the crucian carp? Therefore, from Jiang Gan's point of view, it was not wrong for him to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender, and it was not wrong for him to steal books.

The key is that Zhou Yu is smarter than him, and Zhou Yu is wiser than him.

Jiang Gan was originally a mediocre talent, and it is really sad that Cao Gong used it again.

Eager for quick success, self-made clever.

self-righteous and exaggerated, used to set off Zhou Yu's scheming.