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.
Even a "benevolent" person like Liu Bei could not avoid thinking about his own Jiangshan society, and after Zhuge Liang proposed the "Longzhong Pair" for him, he looked at Liu Biao of Jingzhou and tried to get close to him, almost getting a Jingzhou in vain from Liu Biao. However, in the end, Liu Bei "borrowed" from Sun Quan to Jingzhou, and as for how to "borrow" it, friends could not be clearer.
Later, Liu Bei won Yizhou from Liu Zhang, and on the surface it seemed that Liu Bei was "intolerant of the same emperor", but in fact, it can be seen from both Jingzhou and Yizhou that Liu Bei was a good hand at "killing and killing". At the feast of victory in Yizhou, the military master Pang Tongdu thought that Liu Bei had some false benevolence and false righteousness, saying: "The country of the people is happy, and the soldiers of the non-benevolent are also." See Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
It can be seen from this that such a perfect persona as Liu Bei had unkind and unjust acts in the war and chaos years of the Three Kingdoms, not to mention other people? In particular, the "three-surnamed family slave" like Lü Bu left zhongxiao behind, and his "evil deeds" were also well known, and in the end, he did not get good results, which can also be regarded as evil and evil retribution.
But there is another important figure in the Three Kingdoms, who plays in him unfaithful, unjust, unkind and filial piety, so that the character with all four evils is written as a first-class hero, he is Ma Chao.
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.
When Cao Cao wanted to borrow Liangzhou, Ma Chao thought that this was Cao Cao's false way to eliminate the evil, so he co-opted the warlord Han Sui in Kansai and prepared 100,000 people to rise up against Cao.
On the surface, Ma Chao is also a tyrant who dominates one side, and it is reasonable for him to want to destroy Cao Cao, but he sent himself to the road of "unrighteousness, unkindness and filial piety" with one word. Ma Chao 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. ”
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that Ma Chao and others conspired against each other and cited the governor as the governor. And the covenant also, chao said: "The former Chung Si was subordinate to the chao envoy to take the general, and the Kwantung people could not be trusted." Now Chao abandons his father, taking the general as his father, and the general should also abandon his son, and take Chao as his son. ”
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".
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms