陆贾 / Lu Jia

陆贾 / Lu Jia enters the wiki through Qinji 138 part 2 as one of the persuaders 张良 tells 刘邦 to send against the Qin generals defending 峣关. He works alongside 郦食其, so his first role here is not an independent biography but a piece of Zhang Liang’s pressure-and-persuasion design.

The episode uses Lu Jia to show that negotiation is part of the attack sequence. Zhang Liang has the Liu Bang side raise banners in the hills, then send Li Shiqi and Lu Jia to tempt Qin generals with heavy rewards. When the generals are willing to talk peace, Zhang Liang still warns that soldiers may not follow the generals’ private defection preference, turning persuasion into a way to create laxity before an attack rather than into a final settlement.

Key Claims

• Lu Jia appears as a Liu Bang-side envoy in the final Yaoguan-Lantian phase of Qin’s collapse.
• His mission belongs to 招降示范级联, but Zhang Liang treats successful persuasion as tactically incomplete until the army’s obedience is known.
• The source pairs Lu Jia with Li Shiqi, linking elite persuasion to Liu Bang’s broader westward campaign rather than to battlefield force alone.

Connections

• 刘邦 and 张良 - patron and strategist using Lu Jia in the Yaoguan plan.
• 郦食其 - fellow persuader sent to the Qin generals.
• 峣关 and 蓝田 - final defensive setting.
• 招降示范级联 - surrender mechanism Zhang Liang both uses and limits.