Can a person rely on his reputation and benevolent reputation to gain public praise, so that he can become rich and strong in life, and even achieve a hegemonic career? Yes, there really is, and we will look at Liu Bei's entrepreneurial road together today.
Liu Bei's reputation in the jianghu continued to rise with his defeats one after another. Kindness is where his wisdom lies. Surviving in difficulties and using strength is the characteristic performance of his stoicism and change of power in addition to benevolence. Compared with Cao Cao's great talent, Liu Bei was indeed willing to bow to the wind. However, he broadcast the letter of grace, "bending and not bending", and eventually achieved a hegemony of partial security.
Liu Bei was born in the military and held several low-level positions, such as lieutenant of Anxi County (east of Dingzhou City, Hebei), Xiapi (near Xuzhou, Jiangsu), Gaotang County (Gaotang, Weifang, Shandong), and county commander. The result is either being laid off, or being self-consciously bored, taking the initiative to leave the post, and being driven away by thieves. When he was cornered, Liu Bei had to go to his old classmate Gongsun Zhan.
Although Liu Bei was born in war, he actually could not fight. Cao Cao's men once said that Liu Bei was "clumsy in the use of troops, and lost in every battle." Gongsun Zhan sent Liu Bei to help Xuzhou Taoqian. Tao Qian was forced by Cao Cao to leave Xuzhou to Cao Cao, and before he died, he asked Liu Bei to take over Xuzhou, which was actually a pie in the sky. As a result, Liu Bei lost to Lü Bu and lost Xuzhou. Since then, he has lived under Lü Bu. Lü Bu was also unable to tolerate it, so he defected to Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao. Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang came out of the uprising at the age of forty-eight. When Liu Bei was forty-eight years old, he was still mixing rice and eating under Liu Biao, and he was depressed.
However, in the more than twenty years since his debut, Liu Bei's reputation in the jianghu has been continuously raised because of his repeated failures. Liu Bei has won talents, won the hearts of the people, and won the reputation of benevolence. Let's start with talent. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were his hardcore brothers before Liu Bei's debut. Zhao Yunzhong, who was loyal and good at war and had a humble temperament under Gongsun Zhan's account, Liu Bei fell in love with him at first sight and accepted him deeply, and from then on Zilong (Zhao Yunzilong) followed Liu Bei throughout his life and shared bitterness and bitterness.
The most famous is Zhuge Liang, Liu Beisan Gu Maolu, which has become a good story throughout the ages. Zhuge Liang was twenty years younger than Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was not only able to use Zhuge Liang, but also frankly entrusted himself with loneliness, so that Zhuge Liang bowed to exhaustion and died. Historian Chen Shou praised Liu Bei for being comparable to Gaozu Liu Bang in attracting talents, saying: "The Hongyi of the Ancestors is generous and knows people and treats soldiers, and is covered with the style of Gao Zu and the instrument of heroes." As for "the whole country is entrusted to Zhuge Liang, and the mind is undeterred, the sincerity of the king and the subject, and the grand track of ancient and modern times." It can be said that it is even higher than Liu Bang, and it is a rare beauty in ancient and modern times.
And then there's the human heart. Tao Qian asked Liu Bei to serve as the Assassin of Xuzhou, and liu Bei had previously done the most county orders, with no resume and no family background, so he was timid in his heart and had doubts about Yuan Shu who was not far away. However, Yuan Shao, Chen Deng, kong Rong, people from different backgrounds all agreed that Liu Bei was leading Xuzhou. In particular, the North Sea xiangkong rong, looking down on Cao Cao, but especially optimistic about Liu Bei.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Shu, and Biography of the Ancestors, Beihai Xiangkong Rong said that the Ancestors were known: Yuan Highway is worried about the country and forgets the evil of the family? Dead bones in the grave, He Zu mind. Today's things, the people and the power, the heavens and the unobstructed, the regret can not be pursued. Liu Bei led Xuzhou. This is liu bei's superiority, the heavens and the people and local powerful factions such as Chen Deng and Mi Fang.
Liu Bei was in Jingzhou, and was jealous of Liu Biao, and it was difficult to make a difference. But the people's hearts are on Liu Bei's side. After Liu Biao's death, the people of Jingzhou were all attached to Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang persuaded him to attack Liu Biao's orphan, the cowardly Liu Chun, but Liu Bei did not listen. Cao Cao went south to attack Jingzhou, Liu Chun surrendered, hundreds of thousands of people followed Liu Bei to flee south, and could only walk a dozen miles a day, some people advised Liu Bei to abandon the people, Liu Bei said: "Fu ji's great affairs will be people-oriented, and now that people return to me, I can't bear to abandon them!" At this point, the Historian of the Jin Dynasty, Xi Chiseled Teeth, could not help but exclaim: "Although it is difficult and difficult, the more the faith and righteousness are clearer, it is not unreasonable to force things to be dangerous."
Finally, benevolence. Liu Bei undoubtedly has a loyal side. Pei Songzhi said that Liu Bei "chased after Jingsheng's Gu, then the three armies of emotion; Those who fell in love with righteousness, then Gan and Tong defeated", saying that he was unwilling to attack Jingzhou and was ashamed of Liu Biao underground; Unwilling to abandon the people, they prefer to suffer with them. In fact, on the other hand, Liu Bei's benevolence is also where his wisdom lies, even if he intends to attack Jingzhou, can he ensure certain success? Even if the attack was successful, in the face of Cao Cao's army moving south, could he save Jingzhou? Liu Bei should be very clear in his heart.
In short, with the many Haojie mixed rivers and lakes, Liu Bei can play not many cards, and the capital he can rely on is also very small. Relying on his own image of a benevolent elder, he often has a desperate situation and a fierce auspiciousness. Liu Bei prides himself on Uncle Liu Huang at every turn, in fact, the most unreliable is this title of "Emperor Uncle".
Therefore, if we can start with kindness and kindness in dealing with people like Liu Bei and Song Jiang in our lifetime, and know that a good personal reputation can help us to gain momentum, maybe after accumulating thick and thin, the rivers and lakes will also have you and me!