If Liu Bei unified the Three Kingdoms and restored the Great Han Dynasty, would he kill the Five Tiger Generals and Zhuge Liang? This is very difficult to say.
In ancient times, it was all family world, the emperor was very selfish, for the stability of his throne, in order for future generations to sit firmly in the country, the emperor would do his best to eliminate all the factors that might threaten his own world security in the future. But this is also related to the quality and ability of each founding emperor.
The reason why Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, killed the meritorious generals was two reasons: First, Liu Bang's ability was limited. He came from a family of commoners, his status was low, and at the beginning Xiao He and Cao San's status were above him, and after he defeated Pei County, after killing Pei Ling, everyone elected Pei Gong, and as a result, Xiao He and Cao San were unwilling to become Pei Gong, because they were afraid that once they failed, they became Pei Gong, that is, the main culprit, and there was no doubt that he would die, so he pulled Liu Bang to be the head of the wrong and let him become Pei Gong. Later, who knew that the Qin Dynasty was overthrown by the rebel army without being fought, and Liu Bang also sat firmly in the position of the lord at this time, and Xiao He and Cao Shan had to wholeheartedly assist Liu Bang. It may also be that Xiao He and Cao Gan's intestines behind them all repented, resenting why they did not dare to take over the position of Pei Gong at that time. Later, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought another four years of the Chu-Han War, and at first Liu Bang could not defeat Xiang Yu, and was only one of the many princes that Xiang Yu had divided. Liu Bang knew that he could eat a few steamed buns and drink a few bowls of rice, followed the advice of Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others, reused Han Xin, Peng Yue and others, and defeated Xiang Yu. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he also divided many princes.
At that time, the princely kingdoms all had great power, almost like independent kingdoms. Liu Bang is very unconfident, thinking all day long, before they were all equal to themselves, and even some of them were stronger than me Liu Bang and had a high status before, can they obey me? Especially Han Xin, so powerful, my country and mountains are almost all beaten down by him, if he creates a rebellion, how can I win him. It is precisely because Liu Bang is extremely unconfident in himself and suspicious of the princes and kings who have divided the seals, that he has forced everyone to endanger themselves, because he has the right to have troops, and finally he has turned back one by one, which has led to the situation that Liu Bang has continuously suppressed rebellions and slaughtered heroes in history.
Second, Liu Bang also considered the matter after his death. Kings with different surnames rebelled one after another, which made Liu Bang busy suppressing them, but also considering the problem of the stability of his own Inheritance in the Han Dynasty in the future, so he swore an oath with his courtiers to kill Baima while suppressing and abolishing the kings of different surnames, and in the future, non-Liu surnames were not allowed to be kings. When Liu Bang was critically ill, some people said that fan would unite with Lü Hou to endanger Qi Ji and her son Liu Ruyi, and Liu Bang did not hesitate to order Chen Ping and Zhou Bo to go and kill Fan Yi with his own edict. It should be known that Fan Duo and Liu Bang were playmates who grew up together bare-stomached, first followed Liu Bang to make a revolution, saved Liu Bang's life several times, and were loyal to Liu Bang, but for the safety of Qi Ji's mother and son after his death, Liu Bang even mercilessly wanted to kill Fan Duo, which shows the selfishness and ruthlessness of the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang's penchant for killing meritorious generals was entirely out of consideration for his ming dynasty. He once took a branch full of thorns and told the crown prince Zhu Biao that he would help him remove all these thorns to ensure the stability of the future crown prince's succession. Zhu Yuanzhang was a very capable person, and in front of all the meritorious generals, he was the most outstanding, so he did not have an unconfident psychological existence. He went through the Hu Weiyong case and the Blue Jade case, and killed heroes, all for the sake of consolidating the throne of future generations. Zhu Yuanzhang was born lower, just called Hanako, in begging for food, he suffered from the humiliation and bullying of others, and there was little warm family life to live since childhood, so he was also cold and ruthless to people. After he became emperor, he became cruel, resumed the corporal punishment that had been abolished as early as the time of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty, and imposed cruel punishments such as lingchi, peeling, cutting off feet, and brushing on ministers and officials at every turn, which really made posterity a little chilling when it came to the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Yang Jian of sui and Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, were both born in a rich family and had a warm family life since childhood, so they were not cruel in temperament, plus both of them were very talented, and after the founding of the country and the throne, they did not kill heroes. But when they heard that there was a world that harmed them, they did not hesitate to open the killing ring. For example, when Emperor Wen of Sui dreamed that there were eighteen children in the great water tearing him up, he killed the entire family of the founding hero Li Hun, and also degraded the minister surnamed Li and expelled him; Li Shimin got the proverb that "after the third generation of tang, the heroine wu has the world", he killed people with the surname of Wu, and suspected the general Li Junxian, and finally demoted him to a foreign post, and soon found a reason to kill him.
In history, the founding emperors who did not kill heroes were only Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, and Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of Song. Both of them are also from noble backgrounds, have received a good education from an early age, have a warm family life, and both are superhuman talents, both of whom are outstanding figures. In particular, Liu Xiu was very good at fighting, and no matter how many harmful opponents he was at that time, as long as he encountered Liu Xiu, he would only lose his share, and he would have the feeling of being invincible all over the world. However, Liu Xiu ascended the throne as emperor and did enough to do the art of weiwei; Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe and body were also full of propaganda. The meritorious generals under both of them were very obedient and loyal to them. Liu Xiu was very good at sealing his meritorious generals and building the Ling Yan Pavilion for them, making them grateful to Shu Zero; Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a glass of wine, so that his generals suddenly woke up, surrendered their military power, accepted a large number of rewards from the imperial court, and went home to enjoy the blessings of Qing. Both of them had full self-confidence and trusted the loyalty of the generals who fought with them, so they were able to treat the meritorious generals well and became the most praised monarchs in history.
Let's look at Liu Bei again, although he is the master of the Han Room, but in his generation, he is already in decline in the family, relying on mat weaving and selling shoes to maintain his life, it can be said that Liu Bei and Liu Bang's origin should be similar. Liu Bei himself was not very talented, and after half a lifetime, he was defeated in one slip, and in the end, under zhuge Liang's planning, he achieved one of the three worlds. Although he was kind and generous, he also considered his own future affairs, disregarded the father-son relationship with Liu Feng for decades, listened to Zhuge Liang's advice, and endured forcing Liu Feng to commit suicide.
In order to retake Jingzhou and avenge Guan Yu, he lost his reasoning, rebelled against the early strategy of "Donghe Sun Quan", and brazenly invaded Eastern Wu, resulting in a tragic defeat at Yiling. In fact, Liu Bei's personality is somewhat similar to Liu Bang's, if he can finally unify the Three Kingdoms and restore the Han Dynasty, it is very likely that he will not lightly kill the Five Tiger Generals and Zhuge Liang, who have great achievements. Why? Because Liu Bei was in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was no longer crowned king of a different surname, and naturally the "Five Tiger Generals" and Zhuge Liang were also difficult to be crowned kings. Moreover, Zhuge Liang was a scheming figure like Zhang Liang and Xiao He, and he would not touch Liu Bei's taboo. The five tiger generals were all loyal, and if after unifying the world, they could all be content with rewards, not arrogant and proud of their achievements, and did not cause security risks to Liu Bei's future generations, Liu Bei should generally not kill them. Unless Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were proud of their achievements, arrogant, and forcefully interfered in his family world and touched Liu Bei's bottom line, although they had a deep revolutionary friendship with Liu Bei, liu Bei could only endure the pain in order to stabilize and spread the world safely. Some people say that Liu Bei will cry, Liu Bei's Jiangshan is crying, and then Liu Bei may be in tears and justifiably kill Guan Yu Zhang Fei, no less than Zhuge Liang's tear-wielding horse rumors.