"The great rivers go east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters of the ages are flowing." The vicissitudes of the Three Kingdoms are like a vast dream scattered through history.
When reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", although I felt the heroism in it, in the end I could not eliminate the lamentation in my heart about the ending of Shu Han. The Shu Han regime, which was full of great masters and imminent victory, eventually died, and the person who personally buried the country was the later lord Liu Chan.
When we try to condense the vast and complex history of the Three Kingdoms into this individual, we will find that his life may be more lamentable than history.
A life that begins as a supporting role
In the various versions of film and television dramas and various games related to the Three Kingdoms, the story of "single-rider savior" has been described in great detail, the protagonist of the story is the famous general Zhao Yun, and the entire storyline is to highlight his bravery and loyalty.
And there is another important role in this allusion, he is Liu Chan. Liu Chan, who is still in his infancy, played the first important supporting role in his life - the role of being rescued. He never escaped the curse of this fate in his life.
In the thirteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao besieged Liu Bei at Changshanpo, and the shu army and Liu Bei's wives and children were cruelly abandoned, and the general Zhao Yun held Liu Chan and fought in blood, and finally broke through the siege and handed Liu Chan into Liu Bei's hands.
The story should have ended here, but Luo Guanzhong added a shocking plot to the back. Liu Bei took the swaddled little baby, and suddenly his appearance changed drastically, and he threw Xiao Liu Chan to the ground with force.
Fortunately, Zhao Yun caught Xiao Liu Chan, otherwise history might really have to be rewritten.
This accident is said to be a political performance made by Liu Bei in order to co-opt Zhao Yun. However, when Zhao Yun rode the Savior alone, he had already put life and death aside, and the loyalty and righteousness of the world could be learned, and if Liu Bei really threw Liu Chan to death, Zhao Yun would be stupid on the spot.
This logic is very strange, unless Liu Bei is really a scheming politician, it is possible to do such a superfluous thing in order to win people's hearts, or from another point of view, Liu Bei does not know how to thank Zhao Yun, and only uses his son's life to express gratitude to Zhao Yun.
However, judging from Liu Bei's behavior of abandoning his wife and son, Liu Bei may be really angry and really want to throw Liu Chan to death, after all, his son can be regenerated, and Zhao Yun is a rare general. He waited in the rear for half a day, and finally found that Zhao Yun almost died, and his heart must have been very complicated.
Regardless of the truth, Liu Chan was very unlucky, first abandoned by his father, and then he was shaken in the battlefield, and finally he had a hard time settling down, but he was almost thrown into a vegetative state by his father.
Liu Bei has always claimed to be a descendant of Liu Bang, and has always regarded Liu Bang's way of success as his purpose. Regardless of whether he was a true descendant or not, he had quite Liu Bang's demeanor in abandoning his wife and son.
During the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang Pengcheng was defeated and chased by Xiang Yu, his wife and children were all thrown down, and poor Emperor Hui and the princess climbed into Liu Bang's car several times, but were kicked by Liu Bang. In the end, it was the coachman Xiahou Nian who insisted on saving the lives of the two children.
For Liu Bang and Liu Bei, what they care about most is their own career.
From this, it can be inferred that Liu Bei may have been thinking about how to restore the Han Room every day, how to kill Cao Cao, and neglected to teach Liu Chan. Otherwise, Liu Chan would not have been almost abducted by Lady Sun when he was a few years old.
Coincidentally, it was still Zhao Yun who saved Liu Chan this time, and if he was really brought back to Sun Wu by Lady Sun, he would either become a prisoner of the order or become An outcast of Liu Bei.
A prince with no ambitions
Liu Chan's childhood can be described as many disasters and difficulties. Before, although his father was not in pain and his mother was not there, Mrs. Sun had been taking care of him, and after Mrs. Sun was gone, Xiao Liu Chan really became a lonely person.
As a child of the monarch, no one dared to make friends with him, the adults were engaged in careers, the Shu Han regime was also likely to be precarious at any time, and no one cared about how to cultivate this little leader.
Liu Chan has been playing with the slaves around him from childhood to adulthood, and it is conceivable that he has completely become a second ancestor, sounding dogs and horses every day, and not worrying about anything.
The description of Liu Chan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms also describes him as having fun, enjoying beautiful clothes, and having no ambitions.
However, he was Liu Bei's only optional heir.
In the first year of Zhang Wu's reign, Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor and Liu Chan was made crown prince. At this juncture, Liu Bei finally remembered this son, but he knew in his heart what Liu Chan looked like, and in order to give him the ability to rule the world, he directly sent Zhuge Liang as his teacher.
People often say that three years old looks old. If you don't have a good education when you are a child, don't expect to do much when you grow up. Even though Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang to personally copy the book to explain to Liu Chan, it was too late.
In the third year of Zhang Wu, Liu Bei died in the Yong'an Palace, and before he died, he and Zhuge Liang hugged and cried, and the Jiangshan he had worked so hard to lay down was about to be passed on to his son, but this child was an unenlightened master. In the future, where Shu Han will go, the future is foggy.
At this time, Liu Bei said something that shocked Zhuge Liang: If this child can't be lifted up, you will depose himself as emperor.
In any feudal dynasty, almost no emperor dared to say this, but Liu Bei said it, and many people suspected that Liu Bei deliberately said this in order to win Zhuge Liang. But in the feudal era, the weight of this kind of speech determined that it could not be used to play tricks.
Liu Bei should have foreseen that Shu Han's strange road had arrived, he was not a cunning person, he started from a cloth, relying on corporal Li Xian, benevolent people, and heart for the world. At this moment, people are more willing to believe that he has given up his selfish desires for the sake of the world.
Born in sorrow and died in comfort
Zhuge Liang, a sage of the ages, really bowed to the old Liu family, and after death, in the face of such an incomplete monarch, he began to manage the affairs of the whole country in every detail. At this time, Liu Chan was once again reduced to the background board of Zhuge Liang's brilliant personality.
In fact, although Liu Chan has no ambitions and mediocre qualifications, he is very well-behaved and obedient. Before liu bei died, he instructed him to treat xiangxiang as if he were a father, and he did exactly what he did, never stopping Zhuge Liang's arrangement.
It was precisely for this reason that when Zhuge Liang was in power, Shu Han was able to obtain temporary stability.
However, at this time, the general trend of the world had been determined, during the Three Kingdoms War, the strength of Shu Han had been very weak, although after years of hard work, but compared with Cao Wei, who had a strong family, it was still not the same.
Zhuge Liang tried his best to save his beloved country, but in the end he could not defeat the Mandate of Heaven and regretted his death during the Northern Expedition. Out of the master a table of real name, a thousand years who can be Bo Zhongjian.
It is infinitely regrettable that the eternal phase that has been painstakingly drained for a promise and a faith has since retired from the stage of history.
The Shu Han, who did not have Zhuge Cheng Xiang, was already on the verge of extinction after years of accumulation and weakness. Liu Chan sang day by day, ignored the government, favored the eunuch Huang Hao, and the politics of the Shu Han Dynasty became increasingly corrupt, and the destruction of the country was only in the blink of an eye.
At that time, Cao Wei under the rule of the Sima family was becoming stronger and stronger, and in the sixth year of Jing Yao, the wei general Sima Zhao raised his strength to destroy Shu, and Liu Chan directly surrendered, and the Shu state was destroyed from then on.
Almost all the kings of the fallen countries who surrendered in history did not have a good end. The most famous of these is Wang Jian, the last monarch of the State of Qi. In order to protect himself, he has been making good friends with Qin since the implementation of Qin Shi Huang's policy of long-distance and close-range attack, destroying the plan of the Six Kingdoms.
When the unification of the First Emperor was about to be determined, this uninhabited monarch directly raised the flag and surrendered, not even resisting, and hoping that Qin Shi Huang and others would give him a fief and enjoy his old age in peace.
Although Qin Shi Huang gave him a fief as agreed, it was an empty mountain, besieged by Tuantuan, and finally Qi Wangjian was starved to death in the mountain.
The defeated political enemy has only two paths: either to be killed or imprisoned for life.
In the eyes of most people, Liu Chan was fortunate, and Sima Zhao did not execute him, but took him to Luoyang, the capital of the Wei state, and entertained him.
Wei Guo was strong, the palace was majestic, and the beauty was like a cloud, and Liu Chan was almost stunned. Sima Zhao, seeing Liu Chan's sluggish appearance, couldn't help but tentatively ask him how he felt.
Liu Adou said the classic "Here is happy, don't think about Shu." Sima Zhao laughed when he heard this. He was immediately made the Duke of Anle.
Meng Da once said: "Self-proclaimed Ah Dou has come as a prince, and people of insight are cold to each other." ”
In Sima Zhao's eyes, Liu Chan was just like the rumors, a natural mediocre talent.
However, Liu Chan is not stupid, although he is not strong in ability and likes to have fun, but he is not right or wrong. This conversation with Sima Zhao, which was nailed to the pillar of shame, is likely to be his way of self-preservation.
Liu Chan was kind in nature, did not like war, and had no long-term ambitions. When he saw that the general trend was gone, he did not want the people of the Shu kingdom to be involved in the darkness of the war again, and his weak personality made him choose the road of no return to surrender.
However, after his surrender, the Wei general Zhong Hui and others who were ordered to attack the Shu state rebelled, and in the process of wei clearing the gateway, the Shu state inevitably became a battlefield.
Smoke was everywhere, corpses were strewn across the wilderness, and the land of Shu was a sea of blood. Liu Chan's son and his closest ministers were tragically killed in the riot. It is difficult to imagine Liu Chan's mood, he originally surrendered to Cao Wei with the purpose of reducing casualties, but he did not realize that the people without the protection of the state were like grass and mustard.
After understanding this matter, looking back at the phrase "happy not to think about it" is not a little more desolate and helpless.
Later, although Sima Zhao gave Liu Chan a county administration and let him spend ten thousand years in peace, he was actually spying on him.
During the Warring States period, opposing powers would send protons to each other, often princes and the like. Prince Dan of Yan, Yin Zheng, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin all made protons.
These great historical people, without exception, lived a life of starvation, precariousness, and fear abroad, and their country was still living so depressed, could Liu Chan, the king of the subjugated country, really be able to live a life of peace and happiness like his title?
The answer is of course no, Sima Zhao is not doing public welfare, he is lonely and widowed in his old age, and he is burdened with the crime of subjugating the country, and he is worried about his life at any time.