The Three Kingdoms era was an era of heroes; the Three Kingdoms era was an era in which princes rose together. As the saying goes, behind every successful man there is one, oh no, behind every beautiful prince there is a scheming strategist, military master or Confucian courtier, some of these strategists are proficient in the military, before the army, calm and calm; some are proficient in personnel affairs, strategizing, and winning the hearts of the people; some are proficient in political affairs, protecting the country, and the governor Anbang... The story of the chaotic world is more exciting because of them, and it is full of suspense because of them. Look at the Three Kingdoms, read history, comment on people, understand things, and understand ancient and modern. Let us walk together with our new general "Ah Fei (Cao Yunfei)" into the era of the counselors of the Three Kingdoms, open the curtain of ancient and modern times, and see the end.
Former Military and Later Politics Solid Mountains and Rivers, Witty Words and Good Stories: Three Kingdoms Strategists Series Commentary (1)
Since the Beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 AD, the imperial court of the Eastern Han Dynasty began to decline on the surface, and it went down more and more, more and more collapsed, and under Liu Yan's "Li Mu" suggestion, it gradually lost the majesty of the center, and then formed a situation of division between the masses and became uncontrollable. And the Han Dynasty can really be said to have begun to collapse is the eunuchs and foreign relatives of the infighting led to the loss of the main backbone, and Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing can be said to be the beginning of a new prelude, but this Dong Fat Zi is a rough person, gangs, fights and fights, let a rough person to really do everything properly is absolutely impossible, and the protagonist of our article, Li Ru, is an investor in the brilliant development of Dong Zhuo Group.
Li Ru, character Wenyou. This word is really not wrong, throw away our first impression of Li Ru's poisonous spicy, Li Ru is really a man of outstanding literary talent, Dr. Guanju, and Hongnong Wang Lang Zhongling, this Hongnong Wang Lang Zhongling must pay attention to the difference from Lang Zhongling, if it is Lang Zhongling, that is the emperor's senior adviser and the general head of the security forces, in the Ninth Qing, ranked two thousand stones, is a very high status, and Hongnong Wang Lang Zhongling is just a small guard chief beside Li Ru when Liu Wei was deposed as the queen of the princes. This position was gradually reduced with the decline of the real power of the princes of the Han Dynasty, and in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, there were still ranks of 2,000 stones, which were reduced to 1,000 stones during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and later further reduced to 600 stones. Li Ru's other official doctorate is also Six Hundred Stones. In short, this is a small person.
However, no matter what, this should also be a talent who is quite close to Liu Jie's side and should protect his safety, but Li Ru began to sit still on the stage of history at this time, and after seeing clearly dong Zhuo enter beijing and the power tilted toward the opposition, he always thought of going to the stage and going to the stage. He thought to himself, "How can I always be like this as the water dispenser position next to the Han Dynasty Group?" How could I stay with an abandoned prince with no future? I'm going to climb up! I'm going to go to the history books! ”
Thus, Li Ru first entered the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the original text of which is recorded as "The Kwantung Army rises up and discusses Dong Zhuo together." Dong Zhuo placed Liu Zhen, the king of Hongnong, in the cabinet, and made LangZhong order Li Ru to offer poison, but Liu Zhuo refused to drink it, and Dong Zhuo and others forced him. Therefore, after Liu Jie and his wife Tang Ji and the palace people drank a feast to say goodbye, they drank medicine and died. In the face of the emerging forces in the imperial court, Dong Zhuo Group, even if Li Ru originally watched Liu Zhuo grow up or had a tangled mentality towards Liu Zhuo, he couldn't manage it, without saying a word, directly into the arms of Dong Zhuo Group, not only did not fulfill his duties as the leader of the security team, but also actively looked forward to his old owner returning to the west, completed his first business in one fell swoop, it can be said that he accepted the highest weight of a human head in the Three Kingdoms, and then went to the peak of his own life. Enjoy the unlimited scenery.
What needs to be explained here is that Li Ru's record in the main history is actually not as rich and gorgeous as in the Three Kingdoms interpretation, in the main history, Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, the surrender of Lü Bu, the persuasion of the mink cicada, the advocacy of the poisonous emperor, the burning of the city of Qianli, etc. have nothing to do with Li Ru, especially the poisoning of the young emperor Liu Wei, which is clearly recorded as "making LangZhong make Li Ru offer poison", that is to say, Li Ru is actually not Dong Zhuo's number one adviser, but just a knife of Dong Zhuo, and "this knife" is experienced when he experienced the inner human entanglement and the future of power , resolutely ran to the latter.
After successfully entering the Dong Zhuo Group, Li Ru got everything he wanted, money, status, etc., it turns out that Li Ru's step really can't be said to be wrong, of course, it can't be said that it was right, the Han Dynasty did not have any hope under the circumstances at that time, Han Room stocks can be said to be a cold stock that will fall at any time, Li Ru quickly transformed, can not be said to be not a fierce decision, this decision we now have a light stroke in the history books, but we can further think about him, Is it really such a simple thing? Li Ru was not a fool, and Li Ru must have seen what Dong Zhuo had done in his eyes, didn't he know that these actions were all reversals that were likely to cause the disaster of killing himself later? Certainly not, in this case, Li Ru also succeeded in joining the Dong Zhuo Group, it can be said that it is indeed very fierce, leaving aside Dong Zhuo's good and evil nature, Li Ru's choice is the right move in the chaotic world, in the chaotic world, choosing a potential boss is the king's way, from the perspective of the situation, Dong Zhuo is indeed more promising than the little emperor.
In short, although Li Ru is a small person, but the decision-making is fierce, dare to take sides, compared with the nerds in the same column, he is more courageous and has ideas, but unfortunately, there are indeed some problems in ideology and morality, and he will be criticized by people and become the root of the disease he left behind.
Similarly, we say that Li Ru did not have such a god as written in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", nor did he do a lot of big things that hurt heaven and nature (the author guesses that Li Ru may also know that things cannot be done in a special way, in fact, he still left a back road for himself), so Li Ru's ending was not as bleak as written in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after Dong Zhuo's death, when Li Dai and others reoccupied Chang'an, Li Dai not only admired Jia Xu as an official, but also vigorously promoted Li Ru as a servant, which shows that Li Ru did indeed through his own defections and efforts. In the Liangzhou faction, he gained a certain position, not only a small role of running errands, but it is recorded in the Later Han Dynasty: "Li Daiju's doctor Li Ru was a servant, and the emperor was enshrined in the edict: 'Ruqian is the order of Hongnong Wang Lang, forcing my brother to be killed, it is advisable to add guilt.'" The words said: "What Dong Zhuo did is not The original intention of Confucianism, and the innocent should not be punished." In this way, Li Ru was protected by Li Dai, and as for Li Dai's words, we have no way of knowing whether they were telling the truth or being partial, but Li Ru did not do too much adultery and evil in addition to offering poisonous wine, and his ending was even good.
Finally, to sum up. As a doctor, Li Ru should indeed be just a knowledgeable Confucian courtier, but in order to temporarily change jobs, he lost his long-term development, and after doing the thing of poisoning the emperor, the corruption of character and the low energy of politics should no longer be erased from people's hearts, and his active dreams in the history books can only dissipate with "impunity for innocence".
This article is written by "Ah Fei (Cao Yunfei)", the special author of "The Heroic Dream of famous generals through the ages", and it is forbidden to reprint it without the author's authorization