This person is unfaithful, unrighteous, unkind and filial, and has all four evils, so why is he written in the novel as the first-class hero of the Three Kingdoms?
Since ancient times, our country has been a country of etiquette, and loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, and filial piety are the basic requirements of the code of conduct in the world. Looking back at the characters of the Three Kingdoms period, there were not many people who were loyal, benevolent, and filial, and even Liu Bei, who was known for his broad benevolence, would play his own "small calculation". And today we are talking about a character of the Three Kingdoms, who is unfaithful, unjust, unkind, unfilial, and full of four evils, but why is he written in the novel as the first-class hero of the Three Kingdoms?
The Three Kingdoms were originally in the era of war and chaos, and it was even more common for kings to succeed and lose, and whoever had the ability was in charge, those who did not have the ability to "stand in line", and even if they could not stand in the right line, they could also follow a piece of the pie. Therefore, in the Three Kingdoms, we often see that we will go with this general today, and mix with another state tomorrow, and we will have our own "small abacus" for the sake of interests.
First of all, the main theme of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is to honor Liu Cao, Cao Cao represents "evil", and Ma Chao, as a person in Liu Bei's camp, naturally wants to be added to the aura by Luo Guanzhong. We all know that in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Ma Tengyi was defeated and killed in the edict, and Ma Chao only raised a military vendetta to avenge his father, but in the main history, it was Ma Chao who took charge of the army, completely disregarding the safety of his father, brothers, wives and children, and the old and young of the Yan clan, and even colluded with his father's enemy Han Sui. Although Han Sui and Ma Teng had married brothers with different surnames, they had killed Ma Teng's wife, and Ma Chao, in order to win Han Sui over, actually said to Han Sui: "Now, Ma Chao has abandoned his father and taken General Han as his father." General Han was also an outcast and took Ma Chao as his son. ”
One day, the king of Chu was completely angry and ordered that Wu Su be killed, and Fei Wuji told the king of Chu that Wu Hao also had two sons, who were very capable, and if they were not eliminated, they would surely become a scourge, so it was better to use their father as a hostage now and deceive them to get rid of them together, so that they could never be in trouble. The king of Chu sent someone to the Wu Zixu brothers and said: If you two come, I will spare your father's life, and if you don't come, I will kill your father now."
The shrewd Wu Zixu saw the trickery of the King of Chu, and he said to his brother, the King of Chu was deceiving us, we went, there was only one way to die, but the honest and loyal brother did not listen to Wu Zixu, insisting on going alone to save his father, and was eventually killed by the King of Chu. Wu Zixu, who chose to flee, heard that the prince was in the Song Kingdom, so he went to the Song Kingdom to defect to the Prince. The father has difficulties and does not go to the rescue, which is Wu Zixu's "filial piety".
Some people say that "Guan Yu sacrificed Liu Bei to cry and vomit blood, and Zhang Fei was killed Liu Bei only said four words", this is to confuse the novel with the Three Kingdoms Zhengshi nonsense, Liu Bei in the zhengshi, Guan Yu Zhang Fei died, he did not cry: Zhang Fei was killed long as Liu Bei predicted, after Guan Yu's death, Liu Bei was happy and happy to ascend the throne as emperor - he had seen too many lives and deaths, if Liu Bei cried bitterly and wept at every turn, he would not be worthy of being called a generation of tyrants.
Of course, Liu Bei also cried, but instead of crying about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he cried for Pang Tong Fazheng: "Entering Luo County, commanding the people to attack the city, being hit by the flow of arrows, pawning, and Chinese New Year's Eve six." The Lord lamented, and his words drooled. "The first lord was established as the king of Hanzhong, and Yi Zheng was made a Shang Shu Ling and a general of the protector army." He died next year, at the age of forty-five. The Lord drooled for a long time. ”
The words "forsaken the Father" are uttered from the mouth of the Son of Man, and it is extremely sad. Ma Chao rebelled in the front, and Cao Cao killed Ma Teng in the back. The notoriety of killing his father, in the Han Dynasty where filial piety was the first, Ma Chao had to carry it for a lifetime. However, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong used the Pen of Qiankun to reverse time and space: first Ma Teng's family was killed, then Ma Chao dreamed that a group of tigers lying in the snow was attacking, and then his cousin Ma Dai stumbled and fled, saying that his uncle's family was killed by Cao Cao, Ma Chao fell to the ground crying, and then joined forces with Han Sui to avenge his father.
Ma Chao's infidelity, we can interpret him as disloyalty to the "Han Dynasty" Tianzi. However, in the era of war and chaos at that time, they all wanted to dominate one side, not only Ma Chao, but also saw that few of those princes were still "loyal" to the Han Dynasty. The point of "infidelity" can be left unsupported.
In the next incident, Ma Chao vividly interpreted his "unrighteousness, unkindness and filial piety", that is, his act of rebellion against Cao. Ma Chao was a talented man and a martial artist, and everywhere he went in such a war-torn era was "fragrant and fragrant", but he had no one in sight, and Cao Cao refused to take office several times, only staying in Liangzhou, which can be seen that Ma Chao is a very ambitious or untamed person.
At this time, Ma Chao ignored Ma Teng, the old father who was an official in the dynasty, and his rebellious act directly sent his father to the guillotine. After all, Ma Chao is also a person with real ability, under Ma Chao's counterattack, Cao Cao, who escaped from death several times, had a lingering palpitation, so he arrested Ma Chao's father Ma Teng, the second brother Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, and others in Yecheng to vent their anger, counting the three tribesmen, and killing them all.
Ma Chao's act of disloyalty, injustice, benevolence, and filial piety not only ruined the future of his family, but also ruined the lives of the three tribesmen, did things recklessly, only cared about his own selfish interests, and originally caught a good hand of "trump cards", but was beaten by him. In the end, he was desperate to turn to Liu Bei, probably stained with Liu Bei's light, Liu Bei in the novel can be the representative of the "square", so Ma Chao also wore the aura of a first-class hero, as for the character has long been covered up by the advertised "talent".