Confucius had a saying, "If you can't bear it, you will be chaotic and big." Forbearance is sometimes a kind of "wisdom", sometimes it is a kind of "helplessness", and sometimes it is a kind of "strategy". If you want to talk about the most tolerant people during the Three Kingdoms, many people will say, of course, sima Yila, who survived and died three generations of cao wei monarchs. Today, we will take stock of the four most tolerant people during the Three Kingdoms period.
4. Cao Cao
Cao Cao was a very sincere man, daring to be bold, daring to speak and dare to do. Through the poems left by Cao Cao, it can be seen that he was a very bold person. Although there are many schemes and killing people without blinking, they are not sinister. Cao Cao can endure, more because he can withstand the temptation of power.
Or, it should not be the temptation of power, but the temptation to resist the title of emperor. Cao Cao was already sitting in the north, and it was only a matter of words to depose Emperor Xian of Han, but Cao Cao did not do it. Because he was a pragmatist, he knew very well that he was now a tu emperor, and if he rushed to usurp the throne, he would attract the infamy of the people of the world. Moreover, there are also examples of Yuan Shu claiming the title of emperor, and everyone in the world attacks him and will soon be destroyed. Although he could be emperor, she could not be emperor, and he resisted.
Therefore, although Cao Cao was scolded for a thousand years, he never did anything to usurp the throne in his life. He endured and preserved his reputation for a thousand years.
3. Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor Xian of Han, as the son of heaven who was "blackmailed by Cao Cao to order the princes", was raised by Cao Cao in a cage like a canary. There is no freedom, no power, only to eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, and occasionally someone comes over and acts as a facade for the country. Emperor Xiandi of Han was imprisoned by Dong Zhuo from an early age, so he could not grow up, was imprisoned by Li Daiguo, grew up a little longer, and was imprisoned by Cao Cao for the next few decades. It was not easy to survive until Cao Cao died, cao Pi also directly usurped the throne, and Emperor Xian of Han did not even have the value of being a canary.
If you change to any person, you think, you can't do anything every day, except eat and sleep. If you want to read some books, if you want to have some fun, if you want to marry a wife, you have to apply and see people's faces. Every day I was active in a small palace, and I couldn't go anywhere. In ancient times, there was no computer, no mobile phone, just like being imprisoned in a prison. Many of the prisoners who came out of the prison were very honest and did not want to go back to prison. It can be shown that this life of spiritual imprisonment and physical imprisonment is worse than death. Living and living is not good, dying and dying cannot be. If it were you, you would have been an emperor who sat in the world, could have wielded all kinds of blame, and now you have been imprisoned for decades like this, and you may not be able to bear it spiritually.
However, Emperor Xian of Han endured. This spirit, this perseverance, is indeed admirable. He waited until Cao Pi usurped the throne, waited for decades, and got a good ending. Cao Pi was really good to Emperor Xian of Han, allowing him to establish the state of China, with his own fiefdom, his own people, using the calendar of the Han Dynasty, and also holding separate sacrifices, and after his death, Cao Rui also buried him with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven. In the change of dynasty, the ending of Emperor Xian of Han was indeed very good.
Second, Liu Bei
Liu Bei is a grassroots entrepreneur, no status, no background, no network resources, etc., all relying on his own hands and feet to fight out the world. Liu Bei's ability to endure is mainly reflected in two aspects, one is not to let outsiders know his ambitions, and the other is to repeatedly defeat and fight without slacking off.
Liu Bei had defected to many people, Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and so on, and when he was around these people, Liu Bei showed a very humble appearance, never letting people know what ambitions he had as Emperor Liu's uncle. Therefore, these people are willing to accept him and are willing to protect him. At first, Tao Qian wanted to cede Xuzhou to Liu Bei, and for Liu Bei, who was in urgent need of territory at that time, Xuzhou's temptation to him was too great, but Liu Bei resisted. Because he knew very well that the time had not come, he pushed and pushed again and again, and finally the people of Xuzhou forced Liu Bei to take charge of Xuzhou. Liu Bei endured in this way, and what he wanted was the hearts of the people of the world.
Liu Bei and many people have fought, but many things have been lost, and there is no famous victory. But every time Liu Bei lost, many people were willing to follow Liu Bei, just because Liu Bei won the hearts of the people. Therefore, although every time Liu Bei lost, Liu Bei's soldier supplies and food supplies would be sent to his door to support Liu Bei to continue to fight and lose repeatedly. If you are an ordinary person who has experienced three or five failures, you may doubt your life and commit suicide directly. However, Liu Bei did not, and failed for decades, and finally mixed with the strength that could scare Cao Cao into moving the capital. It's intolerable.
1. Sima Yi
Saying that Sima Yi can endure, many people agree. During Cao Cao's time, Sima Yi did not show the mountains and did not show the water, although Cao Cao always wanted to kill Sima Yi, but he did not find any excuse to kill Sima Yi. The two generations of cao pi and cao rui monarchs had also been guarding against Sima Yi, but they did not say that there was any excuse to kill Sima Yi.
After Sima Yi had survived three generations of monarchs, he slowly began to reveal his nature, using all the contacts he had accumulated over the decades, and at once he controlled the entire government, directly giving Cao Cao the jiangshan he had desperately laid down. This is not cruel. In the NEW Three Kingdoms TV series, Sima Yi said: I only used to swing the sword once, but it took ten years to sharpen the sword. Listening to this sentence, it makes people feel cold in their necks. Such a tolerant person, who knows when he will give you a knife. He is like a person hiding in a dark corner, always invincible, often his one attack, you have no power to fight back.
Well, having said that the four most tolerant people in the Three Kingdoms period, which one do you like the most?