Khuong Duy can be considered a disciple of Zhuge Liang, but for some reason, before his death, Zhuge Liang did not recommend Khuong Duy to be Prime Minister.
Why didn’t Zhuge Liang recommend Jiang Wei to become chancellor?
After all, Zhuge Liang always considered Khuong Duy a disciple. Khuong Duy’s talent is also unquestionable. But why did Zhuge Liang himself not think about recommending Khuong Duy as prime minister in his place?
From the perspective of this article, there are three main reasons why Mr. Gia Cat did not arrange for Khuong Duy to take over when he passed away:
First, a general is always a general. Khuong Duy was originally a general of Cao Wei. Because he was abandoned by the Wei army, he had to surrender to Zhuge Liang. After all, any noble dynasty or monarch will be kind to such people, but at the same time will never give them supreme military power. The problem is simply one of inherent belief.
Second, Khuong Duy is good at fighting, but his political capacity is actually quite weak.
Khuong Duy did not have the political skills of a prime minister as he could never handle court relations well. Regarding the righteous path, he did not know how to form a siege, could not demonstrate the “prime minister’s stomach that could support a boat like Quan Trong, even in the evil direction, he did not dare to decisively deal with opposing villains.” As a result, when you have power, you don’t worry about doing anything. When you lose power to forces that can manipulate the court like Hoang Hao, you can only cry and hate.
Even with his strong military abilities, Khuong Duy is not very good at strategic vision, he is only good at fighting small battles!
The specific manifestation is that after Zhuge Liang passed away, the weakened Shu state was forced to switch to Chiang Uyen’s defense policy. Of course, compared to Zhuge Liang, he’s not as good as his defense, but it’s not bad either. The evidence is that Thuc is still stable in the face of Wei’s relative attack power.
However, when he actually took over as general, Khuong Duy bluntly broke this considered correct strategy and sent troops to attack Wei countless times in the hope of using war to eliminate internal political instability. As a result, you cannot follow Zhuge Liang’s extraordinary ways if you don’t have Zhuge Liang’s talent. The country of Shu weakened rapidly, while Wei grew stronger and stronger.
Furthermore, when indulging in attacking, Khuong Duy almost “forgot” about his defensive duties. Determined to fight with Wei in Long Tay but ignored the defense of the important gateway of Hanzhong. The final consequences are clear to everyone.
It was Khuong Duy’s limited political ability, lack of overall vision, and not being a particularly meticulous person that caused the entire Shu Han to be completely disrupted. As a teacher, Zhuge Liang certainly couldn’t help but see these shortcomings. Therefore, his unwillingness to entrust responsibility to Khuong Duy when he passed away was clearly the correct choice of the idol of the intellectual world for thousands of years.
What a pity if you look at it, so what? There are no buffaloes or horses that can pull a plow on this Thuc land, dogs eat cockfights and eat gravel?