The Liu family once had a very prominent position in Chinese history, starting from the defeat of the overlord Xiang Yu by Liu Bang at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years was ruled by the Liu family.
From the importance of the Han Dynasty to the Chinese, in fact, the important position of the Liu family in Chinese history has been highlighted. Because the reason why the Han people have called themselves Han people for thousands of years is because the prosperous era created by the Han Dynasty has brought stability and happiness to the people of the Central Plains, and has also made China stand tall in the forest of the world since then.
The Liu family did more than that. Even in the last years of the Han Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, Liu Bei supported Liu Shi's card face, established a powerful regime in the chaotic world, and formed a three-legged situation with the other two forces.
This period was the Three Kingdoms period, which occupied an important position in Chinese history, when a large number of heroes who could sing and weep emerged, and a complicated chaotic situation was formed.
To say that Liu Bei's career in this life is hard, it has some similarities with his ancestor Liu Bang. Although Liu Bei is a descendant of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, hundreds of years have passed, and in Liu Bei's generation, he is just an ordinary person who weaves straw shoes to maintain his livelihood, which starts out with Liu Bang.
However, Liu Bei is a kind-hearted and ambitious person, he is not willing to be mediocre, in the face of the Jiangshan laid down by his ancestors has become what it is now, and in the midst of his heartache, he made a vow to support the Han Family and revitalize the liu family's majesty.
Although Liu Bei has been chased and beaten since then, because he loves the people like a son, won the support of his generals and ordinary people, and is good at grasping the opportunity, coupled with the help of Zhuge Liang and the Five Tiger Generals, Liu Bei finally developed and expanded his own forces, and after occupying Jingzhou and Yizhou, he established his own base area, established the Shu Han state, and established himself as emperor.
Unfortunately, he did not have the luck of his ancestor Liu Bang after all, and may really not have the appearance of an emperor, although he has already been called emperor, but compared with the Han Dynasty, he actually occupies only a small part, and he does not have the power of the Cao Wei group and the Sun Wu group, which is the smallest country in strength and territorial area among the three major forces.
Therefore, after Liu Bei became emperor, he was bent on launching the Northern Expedition, and wanted to take advantage of his own death to see the situation of the unification of rivers and mountains.
However, Liu Bei could not wait for this day after all, and he fell ill and died. In order to consolidate his own state power, Liu Bei entrusted his children and great causes to Zhuge Liang, hoping that Zhuge Liang could support his child Liu Chan to govern the country and make his child Liu Chan the emperor of the great unified country in order to fulfill his unfulfilled wishes.
Liu Chan, the child of Emperor Liu's uncle, was a famous foolish emperor in history, although he did not do anything out of the ordinary, but after he was conquered by the Cao Wei clique, he did not organize any resistance, immediately surrendered the whole country, and even ate and drank happily in the enemy camp, and he gave birth to an idiom - Happy Not Thinking. It can be said that this big guy, compared with his father, is really incompetent.
But is this really the case? If Liu Chan was really an incompetent emperor, why did the Shu state under his leadership not immediately perish after Zhuge Liang's death, as we think, but lasted for another thirty years. Let's take a look at what Liu Chan, the last emperor of the Shu Kingdom who has been saddled with the infamy of the ages, did after Zhuge Liang's death?
The first thing Liu Chan did was to split the excessive power of the chancellor in two. When Zhuge Liang was alive, he combined the power of the Shu state into one, and it was appointed by Liu Bei himself, so zhuge Liang's position as chancellor during his lifetime was too powerful to even compete with the emperor. That is to say, the loyal Zhuge Liang would not do anything to betray the monarch.
After Zhuge Liang's death, there were almost no people in the Shu state who could hold this important position, and even if there were, with such a large amount of power, it was probably a threat to Liu Chan, so Liu Chan abolished the position of Chancellor and divided the role of the former Chancellor into Sima and The Great General, and the two positions performed their respective duties and contained each other.
This move can be said to be something that even his father Liu Bei did not expect, after all, the position of chancellor who gathered too much power in the first place was set up for Zhuge Liang.
The second thing is that Liu Chan's ability to govern the country is not inferior. Due to the nationwide foreign war that began with Liu Bei, and then Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei successively went north in order to complete Liu Bei's unfinished cause, in fact, the economy of the entire Shu state was very tight, and the losses became increasing day by day.
However, the situation in the country, which should have been decaying, was stable under Liu Chan's rule, there was no civil unrest for thirty years, and the military and the people were able to eat enough.
If Liu Chan had been governed at that time, perhaps in some time, the development of the Shu state would have been much better than its subsequent decline. It was just that at that time, the great general Jiang Wei had been carrying out foreign wars in order to fulfill Zhuge Liang's last wishes, and Liu Chan was not good at directly refusing, otherwise it might cause internal divisions.
Therefore, Liu Chan surrendered without resisting, which actually showed his wisdom, and he only wanted the people of shu to suffer less.