It is okay for an ordinary person to stick to his dreams for a while, but it is too difficult to do it with passion for a lifetime.
"When I look at the Three Kingdoms at the age of 20, I think Cao Cao is the most powerful, when I look at the Three Kingdoms at the age of 40, I think Sima Yi is the most powerful, and when I look at the Three Kingdoms at the age of 60, I think Liu Bei is the most powerful."
At the age of 20, I can understand that Cao Cao is powerful, and I can understand that the princes of Tianzi have supported millions of troops to conquer the world, and the limelight is endless.
The 40-year-old felt that Sima Yi was powerful and could understand, and he laughed until the end, and the world returned to the Sima family.
60 years old to see Liu Bei the most powerful?
This, failed to understand, Liu Bei had some people to look forward to, there were capable and famous generals, but in the end the country was destroyed, and the friends and generals around him could not be saved.
In terms of employing people and retaining people's hearts, it is indeed powerful, but how can it be said that it cannot reach the evaluation of "the most powerful" than Cao Cao and Sima Yi?
Compared with other first-class figures, Liu Bei's family only gave Liu Bei a Tianzi surname and the strange-looking tree at the door. He is a single parent again, and he and his mother rely on each other to sell straw shoes for a living. Born with nothing.
However, from the beginning, he aimed to take the world, encountered any setbacks, and never changed his original intention under such difficult circumstances.
Half-life galloping horses, half a hundred years old, still sent people under the fence, no land.
In Liu Biao's Jingzhou, he cried bitterly that his years had passed away, and he was vulnerable like a child. But wiping away the tears, we saw his unwavering insistence on his goal.
In 201 AD, the sixth year of Jian'an, God and Liu Bei made a joke.
Cao Cao's army attacked, and the newly acquired Runan, which was soon there, fell.
Liu Bei once again became a dog that lost his family.
The reason why he says "again" is because before this, he has already suffered from failure.
When he was young, he beat the Yellow Turban with Cao Cao, Gongsun Zhan and others, Cao Cao and Gongsun Zhan had become princes of the party, he was still just a county commander, and he had no soldiers and no fame;
It was not easy to have the opportunity to enter Xuzhou, and when he saw that he was about to embark on the peak of his life, he was secretly attacked by Lü Bu, and Xuzhou and his family were lost;
Shortly after asking Lü Bu for peace, he was defeated by Lü Bu and had to defect to Cao Cao;
Originally thought that Cao Cao could help him out, but he did not expect to lose to Lü Bu again and lose his family again;
It was not until Cao Cao personally led a large army to defeat Lü Bu, and Liu Bei returned to Xudu with Cao Cao, during which time he fell in love with growing vegetables;
After being scared out of a cold sweat with Cao Cao, Cao Cao sent Liu Bei to attack Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei took the opportunity to retake Xuzhou, but unfortunately he was defeated by Cao Cao not long after, this time not only his family, but even Guan Yu was lost;
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Every time he lost to the bottom, every time he lost crisply and neatly, this is the most straightforward portrayal of the first half of Liu Bei's turbulent and displaced life.
In the blink of an eye, he was forty years old. Before the age of forty, he successively defected to Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, Lü Bu, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao, sent people to the fence, repeatedly defeated in battles, and remained unarmed and displaced.
Liu Bei, 40, has nothing and a bright future, and if time stops at this moment, he is just an uneasy person with mediocre talent and humiliation.
After crying, we have to find a way (mountain).
Fortunately, Liu Biao took him in.
Although Liu Beigui was a "general who often lost", Liu Biao did not dare to underestimate him at all, this man who had dealt with countless tyrants, although he had repeatedly failed, was famous all over the world, not only the left generals and YuZhou Mu who were personally sealed by the imperial court, but also the fierce generals such as Zhang, compared with his own men, he was really a crack soldier.
To this end, Liu Biao specially went out of the city to greet Liu Bei, which was the same as Yuan Shao's greeting of Liu Bei in that year.
Liu Biao: "Brother Xian, are you moved?" ”
Liu Bei: "Don't dare to move." ”
Liu Biao: "..."
Thus, after a round of friendly consultations, Liu Bei was "assigned" to a small county town of Xinye, guarding the northern gate of Jingzhou, Xinye, only more than 50 miles from Wancheng under Cao Jun's control.
After turning a large circle, Liu Bei returned to the starting point and was used as a gun by others.
Although it was nothing to ask for, Liu Bei gladly took the order.
Liu Biao was willing to take him in and give him a foothold, which was already very good.
In this way, Liu Bei became Liu Biao's guest general.
Liu Bei, a man who had been repeatedly regarded by Cao Cao as a kind of man and regarded by the world as a tyrant, was now willingly guarding the North Gate for Liu Biao, a man who in Cao Cao's view was "vain".
Ordinary people may find it difficult to do, but for Liu Bei, this is really nothing.
He started from scratch, more than twenty years of wind and rain, how much humiliation he has suffered, how much shame he has endured, perhaps even he himself can't remember.
When Lü Bu sneaked in and captured his Xuzhou, but in turn invited him to garrison XiaoPei, guan Zhang's brothers were not at peace, and he lightly accepted.
When everyone thought that he had forgotten the shame that Lü Bu had brought him, he used a light and fluttering sentence to kill Lü Bu with a knife and axe.
Cao Cao, on the other hand, was willing to serve him as a sword.
In the face of Cao Cao, a chaotic adulterous male, he disguised himself as a loyal and loyal appearance, not only saved his life, but also successfully gained Cao Cao's trust and approval, and even obtained the right to lead an army alone from Cao Cao.
Liu Bei could actually make Cao Cao mistakenly think that he was a person who could be subdued and used for his own use, and when he opened the history books, could he find a second person who "teased" Cao Cao so much?
Such a means was much higher than Murong Zhi's yu Jian.
The world knows Cao Cao's strength, but does not know Liu Bei's strength, is it not biased?
However, this is not the most powerful and dazzling place in Liu Bei's body, the most terrible thing about Liu Bei is that he seems to know what he wants from the beginning, and has formed a strong belief that he is always unwilling to be subordinate to others.
Later, he established the lofty ideal of reviving the Han Dynasty.
As for Cao Cao, it seems that he has not been able to figure out what he wants and where he is going.
Wanting to make meritorious contributions to the country, he wanted to be the general of the Expedition to the West, and then inscribed the tomb saying "The Tomb of the General Cao Hou of the Han Dynasty", which is also the zhi of this.
Reading "Let the County Self-Ming Ben Zhi Ling", people see more of the literati-style generosity, with the waves, and lack of the temperament of an imperial architect.
And Sun Quan's lifelong efforts are only self-preservation.
Sima Yi and the like were even more insufficiency.
Only Liu Bei, always running and working hard for this ideal, has repeatedly lost battles, repeatedly lost battles, and drifted half his life without changing his original intention, not also strong!
For an ordinary person, a dream, it is no problem to persist for a while, but after a long time, several hardships, several failures, listening to others say a few gossip, it may be difficult to continue, even if you still insist, it is difficult to do it with passion as at the beginning.
Liu Bei said, I did this.
No matter what position he was in and how many failures he encountered, Liu Bei never changed his ideals.
From the sixth year of Jian'an to the twelfth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei stayed in Xinye for six years.
Except for seven years in Jian'an, after a small battle, Liu Bei spent the rest of his time in Xinye.
This may be the most comfortable time in Liu Bei's life.
A person who has been living in a state of tension for a long time may suddenly relax one day and may soon lose his fighting spirit.
Just look at how the Eight Flags warriors of Manchuria fell.
Just look at how many people fell under the sugar-coated shells.
Let's just say ourselves, if one day, the boss suddenly gives you a month off, what will you do?
There is no surprise that many people will choose to eat, drink and have fun.
But Liu Bei did not, the war did not crush him, and Anyi did not crush him.
Looking through the history books, we can't find any clues that Liu Bei indulged in pleasure during this period.
What he did was to train troops and visit talents.
Such a person, terrible.
Liu Bei knew what he wanted, and he knew what he should do.
Extreme self-discipline and never giving up constitute the second main line in Liu Bei's life.
Albert Einstein said: "I never regard ease and pleasure as life itself—this ethical basis, which I call the ideal of the pig pen." ”
For this ideal of pig pen, Liu Bei has always been dismissive.
There was a famous scholar of Xu Feng, who was fiercely intimidated by Liu Bei because he had "asked for a field and asked for a house" with others.
Later, Xin Zhiyi quoted this allusion in the word:
Hugh said that the perch can be drunk, the west wind is exhausted, and the season eagle is not returned?
Asking Tian to ask for a house, afraid that he should be ashamed to see, Liu Lang was angry.
It is a pity that the years flow, the sorrows of the wind and rain, and the trees are like this!
Who is Qian to call, red scarf green sleeves, tears of heroes?
The days go by.
From the age of 40 to 47, it was in his prime, which was a good time for a man to do a great job, but Liu Bei only stayed in a small county, looking at the strong enemy in the north every day, secretly hurting himself.
If Liu Bei could fill in the words, I am afraid that he would also write sentences such as "The general's reputation is broken in a hundred battles, to the river beam, back to wanli, the old man is long".
But during this period, it is not completely without opportunities.
In the twelfth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao at this time was leading a large army to attack Wuhuan, and the country was empty.
Liu Bei took the opportunity to propose to Liu Biao to secretly attack Xu Du, but at this time, Liu Biao was already old and demoralized and could not be adopted.
Later, Liu Biao invited Liu Bei to a banquet.
When the conversation was happy, Liu Bei got up and went to the toilet, and when he returned, Liu Biao saw that Liu Bei had tear marks on his face and asked him what was wrong.
Liu Bei said: "I always keep my body from the saddle, and the hips and flesh are gone." Now I don't ride anymore, but the flesh in the hips is raw. If the sun and the moon are galloping, the old will be finished, and the work will not be built, it is a sad ear. ”
His sadness is not the house and the car, but the inability to make a contribution in the best years of his life, which is a hero's sadness.
Since ancient times, famous people will be like beauties, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world.
The resurrection of the flesh of the hip is a sad thing for a person who has great ambitions and wants to make a contribution.
This period may be Liu Bei's most fearful and helpless time, Cao Cao's army may go south at any time, Liu Biao is critically ill, may trigger infighting in Jingzhou, where to go, even he himself is not clear.
At this time, how he hoped that someone could give advice and advice for the point.
Coincidentally, Zhuge Liang entered Liu Bei's field of vision "just in time".
From today's point of view, the three Gu Maolu is by no means an accidental event, but we do not press the table.
Just talk about Liu Bei.
Although Zhuge Liang has the reputation of "Wolong", compared with Liu Bei, it is completely at the same level.
Liu Bei was a general of the left, leading YuZhou Mu, and the name of the hero was known to everyone in the sea.
And Zhuge Liangshang is just a cloth cloth.
In terms of age, Liu Bei is 47 and Zhuge Liang is 27, which is twenty years older.
But this was the case, Liu Bei repeatedly crossed the mountains and mountains with a shy face to meet a young man in cloth who was twenty years younger than him, and consulted him on major state affairs (not how to take care of his skin).
By the Lord of the First Lord, everything that goes three ways is seen.
Because of the screen people know: "The Han chamber is in decline, the traitors steal their lives, and the Lord is covered in dust." Loneliness does not measure the strength of virtue, wants to believe in the righteousness of the world, and the wisdom is short-sighted, so it is rampant, as for today. However, the king is still unsatisfied, and the king will be safe? ”
In just a few words, I have outlined my pain for the situation, my helplessness that I am unable to change although I have ambitions, my determination to go to the soup and the fire although I am helpless, and my ardent desire for talents, and even if I listen to it today, I can't help but make people cry.
If you are Zhuge Liang, can you not be moved?
In this regard, Liu Bei is enough to compare with his ancestor Liu Bang.
At the time of difficulty in life, Liu Bei did not build a car behind closed doors, but did not forget to study, did not shame to ask questions, and worked hard to find mentors and comrades in his career.
As a result, we all know that as soon as Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, Liu Beicai ushered in the biggest turning point in his life.
Now, many people feel that they can't move when they are thirty or forty years old, and 1,800 years ago, 47-year-old Liu Bei still said that he was "still unmoved."
I think that's the hero.
Successive failures have not worn away his ambitions, nor have years of ease worn away his sharpness.
Jobs famously said: stay hungry, stay foolish.
Isn't Liu Bei the best interpreter?
In the face of so many setbacks and failures, he never felt that the time was too late, never lost self-confidence, never proud or discouraged, always maintained his original intention, was poor and strong, and did not fall into the ambition of Qingyun.
In this regard, I just want to conclude with a sentence I saw on Zhihu:
Such a person, even if he falls under the Nine Shadows, will move forward step by step and slowly climb up. As long as he wants, nothing is impossible. ”