Guo Xiu 郭脩

Guo Xiu was a man of Xiping and a Gentleman of the Household in Wei. The Wei edict said of him that he honed his integrity, refined his conduct and held to his purpose without wavering. When the Shu general Jiang Wei raided Guo Xiu's commandery, he was captured and carried off. Records, Wei 4 §36

Shu's General-in-Chief Fei Yi went north again in the winter of the 14th year of Yanxi (251) and stationed himself at Hanshou, and in the 15th year of Yanxi he was ordered to open his own headquarters. Earlier, when Fei Yi first became General-in-Chief, Zhang Ni saw that he indulged his inclination to be fond of everyone and trusted newly submitted men too much, and sent him a letter saying that in former times Cen Peng and Lai Xi had both been killed by assassins, and that the enlightened general, whose rank was high and whose authority was heavy, should take warning from those past events and be at least a little on guard. Records, Shu 14 §26–27Records, Shu 13 §57

At the great banquet on New Year's Day of the 16th year of Yanxi (253), Guo Xun, who had surrendered from Wei, was among those present. Fei Yi drank merrily until he was very drunk and was stabbed to death by Guo Xun's own blade. The Annals of the Later Sovereign record that the General-in-Chief Fei Yi was killed at Hanshou by Guo Xun, who had surrendered from Wei, and the biography of Zhang Ni records that Fei Yi was indeed killed by Guo Xiu, who had surrendered from Wei. Records, Shu 14 §27Records, Shu 3 §33Records, Shu 13 §57

In Wei an edict was issued in the 8th month of the 5th year of Jiaping (253). The edict said that when the false General-in-Chief Fei Yi, driving his hosts before him and secretly scheming to spy out Wei, passed through Hanshou and invited many guests to a gathering, Guo Xiu struck Fei Yi with a blade by his own hand in the midst of the crowded assembly; that his courage surpassed Nie Zheng's and his achievement exceeded Fu Jiezi's; and that he could be called one who gave his life to fulfil humaneness and cast aside life to choose righteousness. Records, Wei 4 §35–36

Saying that posthumous rewards and honors serve to display and extol loyalty and righteousness, and that letting blessings reach one's descendants serves to encourage those to come, the edict posthumously enfeoffed Guo Xiu as Marquis of Changle District with a fief of 1,000 households and gave him the posthumous title Marquis Wei. His son was made to inherit the rank and was additionally appointed Chief Commandant of Imperial Carriages, and 1,000 cakes of silver and 1,000 bolts of silk were bestowed. Records, Wei 4 §37