People who are familiar with the Three Kingdoms should be familiar with Zhao Zilong, who is righteous and very upright. In order to save Liu Bei's son, he went in and out of the Cao camp seven times, which proved his loyalty.
Liu Bei should be happy to have such a subordinate, so that his position is more stable. After all, if a person has no good hands, even if he has the ability, he has nowhere to play. Why did Liu Bei leave his last words before his death that "the dragon cannot be reused"?
First, Zhao Zilong's bravery
Zhao Zilong was born in a chaotic world and initially followed his brother. When his brother died, he met Liu Bei, and since then, he has become an indispensable member of Liu Bei's men, building a foundation for him to be born into death.
Liu Bei still had some talents, otherwise how could he cause Cao Cao to hunt him down after cooking wine on heroes? It must have been through talking that Cao Cao sensed Liu Bei's threat and wanted to deal with him before his power grew.
However, Cao Cao did not expect that he provided Zhao Zilong with an opportunity to show his courage. In order to avoid Cao Cao, and in order to protect his subordinates from being killed by others, Liu Bei could only grievance his wife and children, and finally let his young son fall into Cao's camp.
Regardless of the danger, Zhao Zilong single-handedly rescued Liu Bei's son. Through this battle, Zhao Zilong entered the eyes of everyone, and he became famous because of this battle. With such a fierce general, Liu Bei would definitely pay more attention to Zhao Zilong.
In order to save Liu Bei's son, Zhao Zilong went in and out seven times, and it can be said that he was absolutely unashamed about the lord. Later, in the battles of Hanshui and Bowangpo, there were more or less Zhao Zilong's figures. This was an affirmation of him, otherwise Liu Bei would not have let him do so many things if his ability was not good.
His loyalty was beyond doubt, but no one could have imagined that before Liu Bei died, Zhao Zilong would be left unrememberable, which was simply unexpected. From this, it can be seen that Liu Bei's heart is not as broad as his appearance, and this matter has something to do with Zhao Zilong.
Second, the upright Zhao Zilong
Speaking of this, we have to mention the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao led his troops to the south, because the soldiers were not adapted to the climate in the south, in order to solve these problems, Cao Cao let people connect the ships all together to solve the problem of the soldiers' dissatisfaction with the water and soil.
Who knew that Sun Liu's coalition forces finally burned Cao Ying through the method of fire attack, causing Cao Cao to be seriously injured, and finally had to withdraw to the base camp to recuperate. Although Cao Cao was no longer able to go south, Cao Cao was still a threat to Liu Zhang's power.
In order to solve this problem, Liu Zhang specifically asked Liu Bei to go to his place to discuss how to solve this situation. But he didn't know that his behavior was to lure the wolf into the house. In the end, Yizhou was captured by Liu Bei and turned it into his own territory.
The capture of Yizhou was worth celebrating, and Liu Bei also held a special celebration feast for this purpose. Everyone thought about how much they could share in their hands, and Liu Bei was very much in agreement with this. However, Zhao Zilong, who heard this, immediately stood up against it, saying that he should return the land to the people in the city.
He also told Liu Bei that he had come to fight the war to let the people live a peaceful and happy life, not to seize their things, and if these were divided, what was the difference between them and robbers? After Hearing this, Liu Bei was immediately ashamed and immediately gave up this idea.
From Zhao Zilong's remarks, it can be seen that he is still very upright, but for politics, he is really not the opponent of those people. He invisibly offended all these people, after all, Zhao Zilong touched the interests of others, how could he not have resentment in his heart?
Zhao Zilong regarded money as dung, but most people didn't know it. In the chaotic world, there is no way to come out to fight, since the victory has been achieved, it will definitely want more, and also want to let his family live a better life, all this is destroyed by Zhao Zilong.
On the surface, Liu Bei agreed with Zhao Zilong's opinion, but he also had to win the hearts and minds of the people, and later compensated these generals from other aspects, but the gap between the two could no longer be bridged. Liu Bei also slowly let go of Zhao Zilong because of this matter and no longer reused him.
Third, Zhao Zilong should not be reused
Some people also say that Liu Bei and Zhao Zilong are a perfect pair, Zhao Zilong is a righteous person, and Liu Bei is fighting everywhere to bring justice to the people, which makes Zhao Zilong also useful. But all this is superficial, when interests conflict, everything is illusory.
Liu Bei's final era was in 222 AD, and in order to conquer the world, the first thing he wanted to take was Eastern Wu.
Originally, Liu Bei was full of confidence, but he did not expect that Eastern Wu was so unbreakable, which became a shame for his life.
After that, he became ill in the White Emperor City and died. He felt that his time was running out, so he asked people to find Zhuge Liangtuo. He clearly knew that his son could not actually support the wall, and even told Zhuge Liang that if his son really couldn't do it, he could take his place.
Zhuge Liang listened to Liu Bei's words and immediately said that he did not dare. Liu Bei actually had a tentative intention when he said this, after all, who wants to give the foundation he has worked so hard to lay to others? Zhuge Liang was also extremely trustworthy, and he promised that he would certainly not change his mind, which Liu Bei knew clearly.
He wanted to use Zhuge Liang and make him his son's helper, so that even if he was really gone, Shu Han would not be swallowed up by others. However, he was not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, in order to balance Zhuge Liang, he also specially found Li Yanlai and Zhuge Liang to check each other.
He let Li Yan hold the military power but was suppressed by Zhuge Liang, and although Zhuge Liang could not command the army at will, he could suppress Li Yan, and the two were in a state of mutual restraint. Liu Bei himself was more at ease when he did this, because neither of them could dominate alone.
After dealing with these things, Liu Bei also told Zhuge Liang that Zilong could not be reused. It can be seen from this that he made up his mind not to let Zhao Ziyun go on the expedition again. But a military general, if he did not play a role on the battlefield, then his life would be like that.
Even if Liu Bei knew, he still left such a last word.
It can be seen from this that Zhao Zilong actually has little status in Liu Bei's heart, all he wants is how to preserve the inheritance after his death, and how others are not in his own consideration at all.
summary
I don't know if Zhao Zilong knows Liu Bei's true thoughts, how he will think in his heart, and whether he will feel cold. What Zhao Zilong wants is very simple, that is, to uphold justice and seek the welfare of the people. He had no other ambitions at all, such as a higher official position.
Zhao Zilong was simple and simple, and he was able to die well in the end. After Liu Bei's death, Zhao Zilong was also very indifferent in the face of his own situation, the ups and downs of life did not have such a great impact on him, it can be said that he was one of the most capable people in the Three Kingdoms, which was brought to him by his righteousness.