At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. At that time, after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the Eighteenth Route princes rebelled against Dong Zhuo. Under such circumstances, the world is divided. At this time, according to the situation at that time, as long as you occupy a state, you are the earth emperor, and if I occupy a state, I am the earth emperor. In other words, at this time, everyone can be called emperor.
In my territory, I am a king, and everyone else is a subject, and the same is true in your territory. From this point of view, it is very "simple" to be able to call the emperor, and the situation at this time is a bit like the Spring and Autumn Warring States, and after the Battle of Chibi, a three-legged situation was formed. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a chaotic situation.
In such a situation, the relationship between the chaotic world is very complicated, and every group of people who divide is ambitious. Every divided prince is full of uncertainty, and at that time, a prince may still exist today, and tomorrow it will not exist. Uncertain relationships bring more instability.
From this point of view, many talents in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were constantly job-hopping. For example, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu are several masters, and the reason why these people jumped ship is very simple, not because of ability problems, but because they are not valued by the original owner. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, various military generals and strategists constantly jumped ship, which made the relationship between the various princes also become delicate.
Liu Zhang was one of the princes of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and at that time, Liu Bei had little capital to oppose Liu Zhang. However, at the critical moment, Liu Zhang actually invited Liu Bei to enter the river. To this day, people still don't understand this. On the surface, Liu Zhang let Liu Bei enter the river in order to fight against Zhang Lu, but fundamentally, this was never the case.
The Zhang Lu clique that wanted to invade Xichuan was formerly a small clique in the Liu Zhang clique. At that time, Liu Zhang wanted to get closer to Cao Cao, after all, Cao Cao's power had expanded at that time. However, at this time, Cao Cao was very disrespectful to Liu Zhang, after all, Cao Cao's power was there. Liu Zhang wanted to win Cao Cao over, so he sent Zhang Song as an emissary.
But Cao Cao's attitude made Zhang Song feel humiliated. On his return journey, Zhang Song met Liu Bei, who was also famous as Cao Cao, and under Cao Cao's contempt, Zhang Song decided to defect to Liu Bei. So there was the matter of Liu Zhang pulling Liu Bei into Sichuan. At that time, Liu Zhang was incapable of controlling Yizhou's subordinates, which could be seen through Zhang Song.
The most important thing is that Liu Zhang cannot repair the rift between the different factions within Yizhou. If this situation continues, then Liu Zhang will undoubtedly be the next Zhang Lu and Zhao Yun, and in such a situation, Liu Zhang will win Liu Bei over. The purpose of this is to intimidate external self-esteem and deter internal dissatisfaction, and on the other hand, to maintain vigilance against Liu Bei.
In the face of Liu Zhang's invitation, Zhuge Liang gave such an answer, that is, "Liu Zhang is weak, Zhang Lu is in the north, the people are rich and do not know how to save, and the wise man thinks of Mingjun." ”。 At that time, Liu Zhang must have known Liu Bei's ambitions. However, Liu Zhang never imagined that "Si De Ming Jun" was most suitable for Liu Zhang's subordinates. After Liu Bei broke with him and the two armies fought, Liu Zhang's generals began to defect to Liu Bei.
At that time, Zhang Song had always served as Liu Bei's internal response. This was something that Liu Zhang could never have imagined. As soon as the Shu general Meng Da saw Liu Bei, he became Liu Bei's general, the minister Fazheng became Liu Bei's military division as soon as he left Chengdu, and Li Yan, who guarded the gate of Chengdu, became Liu Bei's confidant. Under such circumstances, Liu Zhang had no combat effectiveness at all.
Liu Zhang's heart at that time was to guard against the native warrior clan of Shuchuan, which directly caused the discord among Liu Zhang's subordinates. But the problem is that under such circumstances, Liu Zhang did not know how to attract talents, but instead "sent" these talents to others. The internal discord within Liu Zhang's clique was very serious, so he was even more panicked about the rebellion of local soldiers and civilians or other generals of the shi clan.
Liu Zhang's failure, the most important person is Zhang Song. At that time, Zhang Song instilled in Liu Zhang: "The generals Pang Xi and Li Yi in the present prefecture are all proud of their merits, and if they want to have external intentions, they must not yuzhou, then the enemy will attack outside them, and the people will attack them inside, and the way will be defeated." So Liu Zhang's advisers and generals turned to Liu Bei.