The last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty were an era of great chaos, but since ancient times, this chaotic world has produced heroes and generals. In a chaotic world, no one can decide whose fate is determined, and they all follow the great wheel of history. Pound and Ma Chao are two of the "little people" who cannot control their own destiny, Ma Chao is also the lord of Pound, and Pound has been loyally following Ma Chao for many years. In the end, he still left Ma Chao, so why did he leave the late master Ma Chao? Is it because Ma Chao's character is not good? Today we will all talk about this matter!
To figure this out, we first need to know who Pound is. Pound is actually a vassal of Ma Chao's father, Ma Teng, and has been a close associate of Ma Teng's cronies since childhood. It was also known as Pang Lingming, who followed Ma Teng to defeat the foreigners, so ma Teng was promoted to lieutenant officer, and later followed Ma Teng's son Ma Chao to fight in the four directions. It is reasonable to say that such a courtier is the most unlikely to betray Ma Chao, but in the end he betrayed him, for no other reason than the following aspects!
First, Ma Chao's character is too poor, and he is particularly immoral!
Although Ma Chao is the son of Ma Teng, the old lord of Pound, the relationship between their father and son is not very harmonious. At the beginning, Ma Chao thought that his ability was particularly strong, he was not accustomed to his father Ma Teng's conservative tactics, and he wanted to unify the world and establish his own forces. Therefore, this boy unceremoniously pit his own father Ma Teng, specifically Ma Chao and Han Sui, let Ma Chao's father Ma Teng go to Xuchang to pretend to defect to Cao Cao, but the plan was not recognized, and Ma Teng was killed.
As a courtier of Ma Teng, Pound saw that Ma Chao had done this to his own father, and his heart was suddenly cold and half-cut, where was he still single-mindedly fighting for Ma Chao's life. Later, he took advantage of Ma Chao's conquest to vote for Zhang Lu at that time, and in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was very particular about ruling the world with benevolence and filial piety, and Ma Chao had no benevolence and no filial piety, so Pound De would leave him!
Ma Chao did not retain Him when Pound left him, or did he want to kill him?
In fact, a major general like Pound, Ma Chao was not willing to let him go so easily. However, most of the generals who followed Ma Chao at that time were Ma Teng's family backgrounds at that time, and they were basically friends of Pound, and even if Ma Chao specifically wanted to kill Pound, he also needed to consider the influence of all aspects at that time. The rest of the generals who followed him would not make people panic, and Ma Chao comprehensively considered whether to let Pound go to Zhang Lu. In addition, Pound himself carried a lot of soldiers and horses, and his own strength value was also very high, plus Zhang Lu's power at that time was also very strong!
Third, there is also a saying that at that time, Pound had already seen that Ma Chao was not a person who could achieve great things, so Liangchen chose a tree to live in and found a way out for himself as soon as possible!
At that time, after Ma Chao pit his own Lao Tzu, it can be said that he was powerless wherever he went. First attacking Liu was frustrated, then listening to Zhou Yu and Sun Quan and then attacking Cao Cao together, and later planning to go bankrupt due to Zhou Yu's illness and death. All kinds of indications show that the forces represented by Ma Chao are unlikely to achieve great achievements in the world, and Pound's vassals as the late lord cannot directly rebel against Ma Chao, so they use a roundabout method to defect to Zhang Lu first.
Later, when Cao Cao was cleaning up Zhang Lu, his own failure to contribute eventually led to the defeat of Zhang Lu's army, and Pound himself defected to Cao Cao at that time. Since then, he has also soared to Tengda, first by Cao Cao as the Marquis of Guannei Pavilion, and then as a general of Liyi, which is much more beautiful than where Ma Chao is!
In fact, the ancients were the most pragmatic, and in the chaotic era at that time, whoever was strong could live forever. Pound is not a saint, but he also has to think about himself or for his own family inheritance, so he has to choose to hold a bigger tree, whether it is Zhang Lu or Cao Cao, these people are particularly powerful, at least much stronger than Ma Chao. Therefore, Pound's departure from Ma Chao is not mainly a problem of Ma Chao's character, but also a big part is caused by the reality of the situation at that time.
Here Ma Chao is not favored, Ma Chao even dares to pit his own old son, and who dares to pit, let alone a small general like Pound. It can be said that Pound can become ma chao's next sacrificial pawn at any time, and if I were pound at that time, I would gradually leave Ma Chao. Such a person is not worthy of a warrior like Pound to be loyal to him, and only a tyrant like Cao Cao deserves to have a famous general like Pound.
And Ma Chao was not able to keep Pound, not only his own character was not good, the most straightforward thing was that Ma Chao's strength was too weak at that time. In an era where strength determines everything, what is called character and human feelings is not enough, if Ma Chao was as powerful as Cao Cao at that time. Pound is bold enough to dare to defect to Cao Cao, after everyone has passed my analysis, you should be able to clearly understand why Pound did not continue to follow his former master Ma Chao. Perhaps this is a tacit understanding reached by two people, so that each of them can live well, we do not comment on this history, we only analyze it as a third party, and the views are for reference only.
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