There are many interesting allusions in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the White Emperor City is one of them. Zhuge Liang used the White Emperor's city as an excuse in the former "Table of Renunciation" to conquer Mengyu in the south and the Central Plains in the northern expedition. For a while, it was a beautiful talk. Today, I would like to use the White Emperor City to say my thoughts.
First of all, Liu Bei is not a true so-called lord of benevolence and righteousness! I am afraid that many friends agree with my ideas on this point, right? In the past, "honoring Liu And Suppressing Cao" was just for the feudal rule of the emperor, in fact, Liu Bei was a tyrant who knew how to use "people!!!
Cao Cao once said in cooking wine with Liu Bei Qingmei, The hero of the world is only the king and the ear! I think Cao Cao's subtext at that time was"If everyone says that I am a tyrant, then Liu Bei is also a tyrant, what kind of person am I, what kind of person Is Liu Bei!" "With Cao Cao's great talent and strategic vision, liu bei will not be mistaken.
Secondly, Liu Bei is a conspirator who is accustomed to the "anti-guest-oriented" strategy! The first is Tao Qian's "Three Concessions to Xuzhou", which is said in the speech that Tao Qian is because his two sons do not have the ability to manage and Liu Bei is known for his benevolence and righteousness, so he gives up. I personally think it's pure nonsense!!! Liu Bei originally helped Tao Qian resist Cao Cao, and according to the reason, after Cao Cao retreated, Liu Bei had no reason to stay in Xuzhou, but Liu Bei preferred to stay in Xuzhou and did not leave, as if he regarded himself as the lord of Xuzhou. It seems that Liu Bei's rescue of Xuzhou was premeditated, planned, and purposeful, and Tao Qian's request to Liu Bei was no different from "luring a wolf into the house"!
And the so-called "three let Xuzhou", please pay attention to the back: Emperor Xian of Han also named Cao Cao the King of Wei three times, and Cao Cao was resolutely rejected at first, and finally "helplessly" was sealed. After that, Emperor Xian of Han gave the throne to Cao Pi three more times, and Cao Pi also came three times without being accepted, and finally "reluctantly" agreed. And why doesn't Cao Cao not say that Cao Pi is the lord of benevolence and righteousness? Liu Bei's little tricks were learned by the Cao family for eight or nine inseparable, which I am afraid that even Liu Bei himself did not think of, right?
Later, Liu Bei was unable to stand in the Central Plains and ran to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao, this time with the help of Zhuge Liang, he once again used the "anti-guest-oriented" strategy, this time he almost succeeded, but he did not expect that Liu Chun's surrender without a fight broke his dream! This forced Liu Bei's attention to another powerful prince----- Sun Quan. Through a seemingly harmonious alliance, Sun Quan broke Cao Cao in the Chibi War and achieved absolute hegemony in the southeast. At this time, Liu Bei once again used his usual trick to "borrow" Jingzhou from Sun Quan, and he could not pay it back. After that, there was a saying: Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou---- borrowed and did not repay. However, this time, Liu Bei's wishful thinking was wrong, he did not expect that Sun Quan was such a tough "creditor", and even threatened Liu Bei with force! This made Liu Bei unwilling to eat and sleep restlessly, and under the reminder of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, he thought of Liu Zhang of Xichuan, and Liu Bei repeated the same technique to help Liu Zhang resist Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and blatantly drove the army into Shuzhong. This reminds me of the first Gulf War in 1991, when the United States seized the oil resources of the Gulf in the name of helping Kuwait deal with Iraq! The two are really similar!
Gossip aside, back to the main topic, when approaching Chengdu, Liu Bei suddenly attacked and led his army to attack the military fortresses around Chengdu, making Chengdu undefendable and forcing Liu Zhang to surrender. The Battle of Izukawa was Liu Bei's last and most successful "anti-guest-oriented"! Since then, the final situation of the three kingdoms has been laid.
In the end, in the battle of Yilin, Liu Bei was defeated and returned, retreating to the White Emperor's City, at this time Liu Bei was also seriously ill, and his life was short, and he knew very well that Liu Chan was weak and incompetent, and the power would inevitably fall in the future, and his son was likely to repeat the mistakes of Emperor Xian of Han, so Liu Bei thought of TuoGuo!
Liu Bei's first thought was Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was an active supporter and inheritor of Liu Bei's strategy of "opposing guests first", and from Liu Bei's discerning vision, it is likely that Zhuge Liang would embark on the same path as Cao Cao after his death, so Liu Bei decided to retreat into the future and test Zhuge Liang, thus having the words "If the heir can be supplemented, then he will be the lord of Chengdu", with Liu Bei's tyrant I, he will never give up the Jiangshan that has been built for decades to others, and if Zhuge Liang had a little suspicious behavior at that time, in my personal guess, Liu Bei might be" Two hundred axemen have been laid down in the tent, and they have waited for the toast to be raised, and they have rushed up, and the corpses have been torn apart with blades." What Liu Bei did not expect was that Zhuge Liang was older and more adulterous than him, and when he heard this, he immediately performed a tearful play and said, "The subject dares to exert all his strength to be loyal to the festival of chastity, and then die." ”
Liu Bei may not have listened to Zhuge Liang's words at all, and then he remembered Li Yan, who at that time had not yet fallen into the hands of Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang was a minister who was in charge of internal and external affairs, while internal and external military affairs were managed by Li Yan, and Liu Bei painstakingly made Zhuge and Li Yan entrusted at the same time, really thinking that these two people would contain each other and make the other party dare not act rashly. One thing Liu Bei did not expect was to play a conspiracy, the two Li Yan were not Zhuge Liang's opponents, and later Li Yan was finally caught by Zhuge Liang and deposed as a Shu person, and the military and political power of the Shu state was finally controlled by Zhuge Liang alone. This can be seen from Zhuge Liang's previous "Table of Renunciation", which says that "the palace and the palace are all one" How is its attitude different from Cao Cao and Sima Zhao? During the Northern Expedition, Dong Yun, Xiang Yu and other close associates were left in charge of military and political power to strengthen control over Liu Chan. Oh, off-topic, sorry!
After Liu Bei made the above arrangements, he was still not at ease, Zhuge Liang belonged to the Jingzhou group, Li Yan belonged to the Yizhou group, and neither of them was the subordinate group that Liu Bei had originally brought from Xuzhou, and at that time, Guan and Zhang were dead, and if the one who followed the longest was only Zhao Yun. Therefore, Liu Bei called Zhao Yun to his side and said to Zhao Yun that Liu Chan was rescued from the Cao Army by you seven in and seven out, so it was best to follow you, and after I died, I hope you will continue to take care of him. Because Zhuge Liang and Li Yan were by their side, Liu Bei did not directly state his true purpose, but asked Zhao Yun to monitor Zhuge Liang and Li Yan's clique and ensure Liu Chan's dominance. Therefore, in my opinion, the real object of Liu Bei's White Emperor's City Trust orphan was Zhao Yun, not Zhuge Liang and Li Yan, and Liu Bei's personally directed the White Emperor City Trust, which ensured that the Shu Han regime did not immediately fall into the chaos of power and profit after his death, and the mutual restraint between Zhao Yun, Zhuge And Li Yan stabilized the factional struggle in Shu Han for a certain period of time, so that Liu Chan could sit on the throne relatively safely.
Liu Bei spent his whole life in the chaotic world, and at the last moment of his life, he reached the peak of his life's power and scheming skills with the means of Bai Dituo, which drew a relatively perfect end to the end of a generation of tyrants!