Ning was a slave to Cao Gong rather than a guest for Liu Bei!
Zhang Liang was one of the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty" who helped Liu Bang lay the foundation of the Han Dynasty. After Liu Bang became emperor, Zhang Liang returned to the hidden mountains and forests and did not ask about the world, which saved his own life and the lives of his descendants.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the world was in chaos and the princes were divided, Zhang Lu, a descendant of Zhang Liang, went out of the mountains to save the chaotic world. Zhang Lu's grandfather was very famous, he was Zhang Daoling, the founder of Taoism, known as "Zhang Tianshi".
Prosperous Buddha, chaotic world! Influenced by his grandfather, Zhang Lu shouldered the mission of saving the world's lives, and when he saw that the people were in the depths of the water, he decided to go down the mountain to save the world.
After Zhang Lu came to Hanzhong, he divided Hanzhong and made Hanzhong a paradise. Zhang Lu promoted the Wudou Rice Sect in Hanzhong, used the cultural ideas of the Wudou Rice Sect to educate the people, and established a political and religious regime.
At that time, when the war was raging and the people were displaced, Zhang Lu set up righteous houses in Hanzhong to provide food for the victims and passers-by to eat for free.
At that time, the princes did not regard the people as people at all, and did their best to exploit and oppress the people, but Zhang Lu was different from them, he considered the people and the people.
Because Zhang Lu behaved differently from others, he became an outlier in everyone's eyes, Liu Bei commented on him as: "Zhang Lu is hypocritical and may not be loyal to Cao", and Sun Quan evaluated him as: "Rice thief Zhang Luju Wang Ba, Han, for Cao Cao's eyes and ears, planning Yizhou." ”
Both Liu Bei and Sun Quan looked down on Zhang Lu, one saying he was a hypocrite and the other saying he was a thief. Of course, in the eyes of the people, Zhang Lu was a good person, or a big good person, who gave them food for Zhang Lu.
If Zhang Lu was born in the Taiping Dynasty, he would definitely be able to do something to benefit the people, but he appeared in the chaotic world, which was not the place where he could live.
In the chaotic world, there is no benevolence or morality to speak of, and there are merciless massacres everywhere. Zhang Lu had the ability to govern Hanzhong and benefit the people, but he had no ability to guard Hanzhong.
Hanzhong was a piece of "fat meat", and the princes all wanted to come and compete for a bite, including Cao Cao. In the twentieth year of Han Jian'an (215 AD), Cao Cao personally led Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu was naturally not Cao Cao's opponent, and he retreated in defeat.
At that time, Yan Pu persuaded Zhang Lu to defect to Liu Bei, but Zhang Lu scolded: "I would rather be a slave to Cao Gong than a guest for Liu Bei!" Zhang Lu preferred to turn to Cao Cao as his slave rather than to Liu Bei and become his guest.
As for why Zhang Lu hated Liu Bei so much, it was probably liu Bei who scolded him! In this way, Zhang Lu defected to Cao Cao. If Zhang Lu is in peacetime, he is definitely a great character, but it is a pity that he was not born at the right time!
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References: "History", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", etc