First, Liu Bei's thirst for talents
Everyone knows that the talent reserve of Shu Han cannot be compared with Cao Wei and Eastern Wu. The reason why Guan Yu and Zhang Fei appeared, the "ten thousand enemies" of this kind of monster level, was caused by too few talents. Liu Bei has been using these two brothers to "split and split into eight petals". After such hellish grinding, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei naturally became super bulls.
For talents, Liu Bei was more eager than Cao Cao and Sun Quan. For example, wei yan was promoted to be the Taishou of Hanzhong. Wei Yan in the zhengshi is Liu Bei's "buji" identity, that is, Liu Bei's private soldiers, which belong to the same nature as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the original time. Because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Xichuan, Liu Bei immediately recognized and reused it.
When Zhang Liao followed Lü Bu, all his battle achievements were embellished with Lü Bu, and it was not until after he surrendered to Cao Cao that Zhang Liao was equivalent to officially appearing and had his own record. Wei Yan was also this routine, but Liu Bei had been cultivating him, and as long as he saw that the cultivation was successful, he would immediately activate it, even if it was "an army that was shocked", he would not hesitate.
But what is unexpected is that Liu Bei, who is so eager for talents, is suddenly said to be: he does not reuse Zhao Yun and does not reuse Ma Chao.
Zhao Yun is better to say, one is that he and Liu Bei are fellow countrymen, the second is also one of the original shares of Shu Han, and two save Liu Chan, and the third is that Zhuge Liang likes and relies on it, even if "Liu Bei does not reuse", it can only mean that Zhao Yun does not have Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, so dazzling. The influence of the position of the Shu Han is doubted by no one.
But to say that Liu Bei does not reuse Ma Chao is a bit of a wrongful death to Uncle Liu Huang. We can make an inappropriate analogy that there is a beautiful woman who wants to grab it whenever they see it. But unexpectedly, she underwent all kinds of plastic surgery, making herself a ghost or a ghost, and when everyone hated it, one person not only married her, but also gave her a name and status.
At this moment, can you criticize: Is this person who married her a complete lustful person? This is the case with Ma Chao, why doesn't Liu Bei reuse Ma Chao? One is that Ma Chao is too special, and the other is that Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu are very willful.
Second, Ma Chao is too special
Ma Chao is the eldest son of Ma Teng, and his birth mother is a Qiang daughter. When he was a child, he lived a very hard life, until the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, after his father Ma Teng's discovery, Ma Chao followed his father to live a career of licking blood from the knife edge. For example, Ma Chao was almost killed in his early years when he fought Yan Xing.
Ma Chao's prestige in Xiliang, like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's "Ten Thousand Enemies", was bought by fighting and fighting again and again. Due to the tough customs and difficult conditions of the people in Xiliang, if you want to survive in this environment and make a name for yourself, you can only be more powerful. Therefore, Cao Cao was called "Horses don't die, and I die without a place to bury."
At the same time, Ma Chao's prestige spread in all directions as early as the Battle of Chibi. Zhou Yu once proposed to Sun Quan the idea of kicking liu bei away and attacking Xichuan to annex Zhang Lu. Among them, after Eastern Wu captured Xichuan and Hanzhong, it wanted to unite with Ma Chao of Western Liang to deal with Cao Cao.
That is to say, you can stand on three legs, but let Ma Chao replace Liu Bei. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Shu and Zhang Lu, because Liu Fenwei (Sun Yu) stuck to his land in order to help Ma Chao.) ）
Unfortunately, Zhou Yu died too early, this plan could not be implemented, and as soon as Zhou Yu died, Lu Su began to "fatten Liu Bei", forming an alliance of Sun Liu and jointly resisting Cao Cao - this is Ma Chao's first special point: he was a strong potential competitor of Liu Bei and a prince of the party.
The second special point is ruthlessness. The so-called Three Kingdoms Theory sells fathers, Ma Chao said second, lü Bu did not dare to compete for the first. This is one of the reasons why some people always associate Lü Bu and Ma Chao. They are all princes of one side, all brave and abnormal, and they all almost killed Cao Cao, but they are all small masters of selling their fathers.
Lü Bu sold Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, the so-called righteous father. Ma Chao sold to be pro-Daddy Ma Teng!
Before starting the army, he found Han Sui and said: Although my father is in the palm of Cao Cao's hand, in order to start a military and become a hegemon, I have decided to leave my father alone. Please also do not care that your own son is also in the palm of Cao Cao's hand, from now on, I Ma Chao is your own son. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Now Chao abandons his father, with the general as the father, the general should also abandon the son, and take the chao as the son)
It was precisely because ma Chao raised an army that Cao Cao killed Ma Teng. Of course, it was not killed at the beginning, because at that time, Ma Teng still had use value. It was not until he was convinced that Ma Chao was maimed and did not pose a threat to himself that Cao Cao killed Ma Teng, a time difference of about a year. It is not written in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao killed Ma Teng first, and Ma Chao started an army to avenge his father. Lao Cao was too shrewd to make such a low-level mistake.
Lü Bu was capricious, and later wanted to turn to Yuan Shu and was rejected because of "evil repetition and non-acceptance". Meng Da betrayed Guan Yu, fooled Liu Feng, and rebelled against Shu Han, and later when he was flattened by Sima Yi, zhuge liang and Lu Xun were indifferent, because "evil is repeated and waits to be destroyed".
Ma Chao rebelled against Cao Cao, sold his father twice, and rebelled against Zhang Lu three times, even if he was brave and fierce, his reputation was completely ruined. Especially for the Central Plains people, even the father dares to sell, what else dare not to do? For example, Jiang Xu's mother scolded Ma Chao like this: "Ru betrays the father's rebellious son, kills the king's thief, the heavens and the earth are long tolerant of Ru, but they do not die early, dare to look at people with their faces!" (From Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
Therefore, when Ma Chao defected to Liu Bei, it was not easy for Liu Bei to give him such a high status. It should be noted that when Ma Chao came to vote, even his family and the first general under him, Pound De, threw it away, and only Ma Dai followed. What does this mean? It can be referred to later when Pound de was shopping for Guan Yu, Pound's family members were all held in the palm of Cao Cao's hand.
Now Ma Chao first sells his father, then sells his wife and children, and was once a potential competitor, if you are Liu Bei, do you dare to let Ma Chao command the soldiers and horses?
This is actually why later, even if Liu Bei used Ma Chao, it was also the reason why Zhang Fei led - Ma Chao was too special, so that Liu Bei could only give him a name and status, and could not say that Liu Bei was a "lustful person", that is, Liu Bei did not reuse Ma Chao!
Third, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu are very willful
In the "Records of the Duke of Shanyang", there is such a record of Ma Chao: After Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei, he felt good about himself, and after seeing Liu Bei, he called him a brother and a brother, and there was no one to look like a subject. It made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both angry and had to kill Ma Chao. Liu Bei hurriedly dissuaded, and finally Zhang Fei came up with a solution.
When Ma Chao came to see Liu Bei again, he saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, standing behind Liu Bei and glaring angrily. Ma Chao was shocked, so frightened that he did not dare to sit down, and from then on he recognized his own status, "since then he is a respected matter (Liu) Bei."
This account can only be used as a reference, not credible. When Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei, Guan Yu was in Jingzhou, when did he run back to Xichuan? But there is a problem that can be seen from this, that is, why Ma Chao became so well-behaved after surrendering to Liu Bei.
When Liu Bei was the King of Hanzhong, he was the first to make a statement (Ma Chao ranked first in "The King of Li hanzhong on the Table of The Emperor of Han"). Peng Xi, who had always been despised by Zhuge Liang, later found Ma Chao and said nonsense: "Qing is outside, I am inside, and the world is not enough." Ma Chao was so frightened that the servants found Liu Bei to make a small report, and as a result, Peng Xi was killed.
The reason why Ma Chao was so well-behaved was because Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang were "very willful" in Shu Han.
Guan Yu wrote to ask Ma Chao, the subtext is, all said Ma Chao Niu, is there my Guan Yu Niu? Zhuge Liangxin will reply to the book, Ma Chao has at most a comparison with Zhang Fei, how can it be compared with you Guan Yu. Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, playing like this, how could the other party, Ma Chao, not know about this.
After Li Mi, the eldest brother of Wagang, surrendered to Li Yuan, he was overtured and comforted by Li Yuan in various ways. However, Li Yuan's men all put small shoes on Li Mi, causing Li Mi to eventually defect and be killed.
Isn't it a reason for Xi liang's eldest brother Ma Chao to surrender to Liu Bei? It was only by Zhuge Liang, the eldest brother of Wen chen, and Guan Yu, the warrior general, who sang one and one and completed. Even if Liu Bei really wanted to treat Ma Chao kindly, he could only be silent in the face of zhuge liang and Guan Yu's willfulness. What's more, isn't this the effect That Liu Bei needs?
You have been willful for so many years, and now you have come down to vote, and you can only let others be willful. Of course, it sounds good to say that it is called an expedition! Only through the inspection can it be reused again - this is clear to the old people, needless to say.
Although Ma Chao passed the inspection, the situation in Shuhan took a sharp turn for the worse, and at the same time, Ma Chao was also too willful before, and he was physically and mentally exhausted, discouraged and lazy, and only wanted to get a good home. In this case, no one can reuse Ma Chao anymore. After all, his body and mentality determine that Ma Chao has entered the "pension and death" period.
Although Ma Chao lived a tragedy, the ending was very good, and his daughter also married Liu Chan's son Liu Li. Although it was not reused by Liu Bei, it was respected by Liu Bei (Shu Han), which was enough to be satisfied!