Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei married in Taoyuan, and although they were not brothers, they were better than brothers. The three of them do not seek to be born in the same month of the same year, but to die in the same month of the same year is a matter of life and death. Therefore, Guan Yu's power in the Shu Han Dynasty was second only to Liu Bei, and he was a big figure under one person and above ten thousand people. He was a veritable second-in-command in shu Han, surpassing the military master Zhuge Liang, and the analysis from these points is as follows.
First, Guan Yu was the head of the Five Tiger Generals and the first shu Han general.
In 219, Liu Bei captured Hanzhong and ascended the throne as the King of Hanzhong, the Great Feng Wenwu Minister. Among them, there are five people with the highest achievements in martial arts, namely Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong. Guan Yu ranked first and was the first of the warriors. At that time, the other four people, as well as Zhuge Liang, did not dispute this.
This shows that not only did the third brother Zhang Fei approve, but even the military master Zhuge Liang also believed that the head of the Five Tiger Generals was none other than Guan Yu. As for Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong, as later subordinates, they were not yet qualified to point fingers at Guan Yu. Guan Yu's first of the Five Tiger Generals was not ranked by virtue of his relationship, but was evaluated according to his actual achievements. He once went through five levels and slashed six generals, searched for a brother in thousands of miles, and contributed to Liu Bei. During the capture of Changsha, Guan Yu fought with Huang Zhong three times and made great contributions to the capture of Changsha.
Guan Yu also looked down on Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, who were tied for the Five Tiger Generals. After he heard that Ma Chao had returned to Liu Bei, he wanted to fight with Ma Chao in Sichuan and divide the high and low, but fortunately Zhuge Liang had a clever move and wrote a letter to Guan Yu to dissuade him. Guan Yu was very dissatisfied with the "veteran" Huang Zhong and himself as a general of the Five Tigers, and he made a big fuss about it. The relevant descriptions in the speech are as follows:
Yun Chang asked, "What about the Five Tiger Generals?" The poem said: "Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma, and Huang are also." Yun Chang angrily said, "Yi De Wu Brother Ye; Meng Qi Generation Famous Family; Zi Long Jiu Sui My Brother, that is, My Brother Also: Bit and I Xiang can also be." Who is Huang Zhong, who dares to be with me? The eldest husband will not be with the old man after all? "So he refused to be printed."
He believed that Huang Zhong was not qualified to be on a par with himself, and finally Fei Shi cited the example of Xiao He and Cao's participation in Liu Bang to persuade Guan Yu. Guan Yu finally heeded the advice and suppressed his dissatisfaction with Huang Zhong.
Second, Guan Yu, as Liu Bei's second brother, was like a prince.
I think that at that time, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei slammed their heads on the ground, and the feelings between the three of them had surpassed those of their brothers. In 219 AD, Liu Bei was called the King of Hanzhong, so Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were the second prince, the third prince, and also the nobleman. In 221 AD, when Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, if Guan Yu was still alive, then he would be the emperor's younger brother. In ancient times, there were not a few self-made emperors, and these emperors had their own brothers and good brothers before becoming emperors.
After they became emperors, they would not treat these brothers of theirs badly. For example, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, rose between the ends of the micro, and there were a bunch of brothers such as Fan Duo. Another example is Zhu Yuanzhang, there are twenty-four generals in Huaixi and others. In short, one person gets the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and Guan Yu, as Liu Bei's closest comrade-in-arms and brother, will follow Liu Bei's development after Huang Tengda. In fact, Guan Yu followed Liu Bei, and indeed brilliant Tengda. He followed Liu Bei and achieved the position of the commander of Jingzhou, which was already precious. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Guan Yu records the following:
The first lord of The Western Dingyi Prefecture, Bai Yu Dong oversaw the affairs of Jingzhou.
Third, Guan Yu sat in Jingzhou, sealed the territory of the great official, and had great power.
When Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and others successively entered Sichuan and struggled to open up a new base area, Guan Yu, as Liu Bei's most trusted general, sat in Jingzhou. We know that in the history of Jingxiang, there were a total of seven counties, of which Cao Cao occupied Nanyang County and Nan County, Sun Quan occupied Jiangxia County, and Liu Bei occupied four counties, such as Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, and Changsha County, which was a very large territory. After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei occupied the most jingzhou among the three parties.
At that time, Liu Bei occupied it in the name of his son Liu Qi, and his name was justified. Later, Sun Quan lent Liu Bei the Southern Commandery under Zhou Yu, who occupied almost most of Jingzhou. Therefore, Jingzhou, where Guan Yu sits, is a large territory and has sufficient food for soldiers. He was a feudal governor of the Shu Han Dynasty, a commander of the party, and extremely powerful.
Summary: Guan Yu is the second brother of Liu Bei who has his head on the ground and is the elder of Shu Han. They were comrades-in-arms who lived and died together, and they fought all their lives to revive the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Guan Yu is a well-deserved second-in-command and a major shareholder within the Shuhan Group. His position in the Shu Han Dynasty, holding the military power of Jingzhou, was more than Zhuge Liang, second only to Liu Bei.
Zhuge Liang is the general manager who was invited halfway, responsible for the specific affairs of the group, working for Liu Bei, and is not a major shareholder like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. The difference between shareholders and general managers is very big, one is to work for themselves, the other is to work for others. For example, Guan Yu could independently lead an army to attack Wei and launch the Battle of Xiangfan, and if he changed to Zhuge Liang, he would not be able to lead the army to fight independently while Liu Bei was alive.