There were no generals in Shu, and Liao Hua was the vanguard. Mainly to ridicule the late Three Kingdoms period, the Shu state did not have a general who could recruit good warriors, and by the time of Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, the entire Shu state could not find a general who could command troops, and could only let Liao Hua, who was nearly eighty years old, be the vanguard. So why in the late Shu Han Dynasty, the Shu state will wither away, and even a general who is alone and can't find a big general who is trying to win the storm is really regrettable.
As we all know, talent is the foundation of the founding of the country and the foundation of a strong country, so since ancient times, the rulers have paid attention to recruiting talents. Cao Cao put forward the policy of "meritocracy", which attracted a large number of talents, thus sweeping away the northern masses in one fell swoop and creating Cao Wei's jiangshan. The Sun brothers occupied Jiangdong, relying on the absorption of talents from all sides. However, in the Shu Kingdom, except for Zhuge Liang, the Five Tiger Generals, and a few other people, there were no other surplus talents.
Although Liu Bei's attitude towards talents is still very eager. Three Gu Maolu, asking Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain is the best example. In order to attract talents, Liu Bei even "those who are under the soldiers will sit at the same table and eat with the same people, and have no choice." Therefore, when Liu Bei was alive, although there were not many military generals in the Shu Kingdom, they were all the top beings at that time. However, after Liu Bei's death, the Shu state quickly went downhill, and finally there would be a joke that "there was no general in Shu, and Liao Hua was the vanguard". So what causes this awkward situation?
The biggest objective factor in this situation is that the Shu state is small in territory and remote in the southwest. In the Central Plains, these places are the land of barbarian tribes, the land is barren and the people are poor, the population is sparsely populated, and where is comparable to the rich land of the Central Plains. Talent is a central region that likes to flow to wealth and power. Therefore, few talents were willing to turn to the Shu state.
When Liu Bei was founded, the talents of the Shu State were mainly divided into two parts, one part of which was that the talents followed Liu Bei and entered the Shu land from Jingzhou. The other part of the talent is the former Yizhou Liu Zhang Group people. Moreover, Liu Bei's important departments were all from Jingxiang, and the local people in Yizhou were often suppressed. When foreign talents from other places flow in, it is difficult to have a great opportunity to show. Therefore, fewer and fewer people came to the Shu kingdom.
The Shu state was exhausted and needlessly depleted of talents. After Guan Yu lost Jingzhou and was killed by Eastern Wu. Ignoring Sun Liu's alliance, Liu Bei personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Eastern Wu. This crusade can be said to be the strength of the whole country of Shu. However, in Yiling, it was burned by Lu Xun for more than 700 miles, and returned from a major defeat, and the Shu state not only lost hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, but also damaged dozens of young generals such as Huang Quan, Ma Liang, Fu Tong, Cheng Qi, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Du Lu, and Liu Ning.
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan to attack Cao Wei, which not only consumed manpower, material and financial resources, but also did not benefit much, but also damaged many generals.
The Shu emperor Ah Dou was dimwitted and incompetent, not good at promoting or selecting the talents of Shu Han, Zhuge Liang monopolized power, and Zhuge Liang could be said to be a must-do thing. Whatever you do, do it yourself. It is difficult for his men and young officials to be reused and lacks experience. When it is really needed, it is not possible to stand alone. After Zhuge Liang's death, except for Zhuge Liang's disciple Jiang Wei, there were almost no people in the Shu Kingdom who could be greatly entrusted.
"There are no generals in Shu, Liao Hua is the vanguard" is the result of the combination of many factors in the Shu kingdom, if Liu Bei or Zhuge Liang discovered this hidden danger as soon as possible, perhaps the Shu state would not have a situation of military talent gaps, nor would it perish so quickly.
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