"Die before leaving the master, and make the hero cry for a long time", Du Fu's poem can be called a high overview of the life of Zhuge Liang, the minister of the Shu Han Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang had already lost his father when he was young, and could only grow up under the care of his uncle Zhuge Xuan, and when Zhuge Xuan also died, he lived alone in Longzhong, farming and studying, hoping to live well in that chaotic world.
It was only in the year when he was twenty-seven years old that Liu Bei, the tyrant, came to Longzhong with his two righteous brothers to visit twice and three times, showing a very high degree of sincerity, so Zhuge Liang, who originally did not want to be involved in the chaotic world, talked with Liu Bei about some major events in the world, and then Zhuge Liang made up his mind to go out of the mountains and assist Liu Bei to fight for the world, of course, their purpose was to "restore the Han Room", not to usurp the Han like Cao Pi.
At the beginning of Zhuge Liang's departure from the mountains, Although Liu Bei was named a prince, he had actually been defeated by Cao Cao long ago, had already lost his territory, and staying in Jingzhou was just sending people under the fence, which could be described as the extreme of frustration. In this situation, it is difficult to see what chances there are any chances of reversal, so Zhuge Liang later said in the "Table of Departures" that he was "appointed to the defeated army, and was ordered to be in danger."
It can be said that Zhuge Liang was the winner and loser of Liu Bei's ability to kill the Jedi, and after Cao Cao led more than 200,000 troops, he marched south with great momentum, and the actual head of Jingzhou, Liu Chun, was frightened and directly surrendered, so Liu Bei could only run away in desperation. In this case, many people could not see a way out, so they abandoned Liu Bei one after another, and it was Zhuge Liang who went to Eastern Wu to move Sun Quan and contributed to the formation of the "Sun Liu Alliance".
Sun Liu's alliance then set a fire in Chibi, burning Cao Cao's army of more than 200,000 to ashes, and then Liu Bei, as the winning side, also occupied Jingzhou, and under Zhuge Liang's strategy, he captured Hanzhong and Shudi, truly owning his own stable territory and gaining one-third of the world, Liu Bei was able to establish the state and become emperor, but at this time Shu Han was still only a divided regime.
Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei worked hard for so many years, not just to be able to become a divided regime, but to "revitalize the Han Dynasty and return to the old capital", and it was also after Liu Bei's death that Zhuge Liang still led the Northern Expedition many times, and indeed won many victories, but several times because of lack of grain, he had to retreat under the last resort, in order to solve the problem of grain and grass.
Zhuge Liang learned with his superior wisdom and invented the grain transport artifact "Wooden Cow Flowing Horse", which can not only "travel a hundred miles a day" on a complex mountain road, but also each wooden cow flowing horse can carry a hundred catties of grain. Although Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was still unsuccessful, in vain, the poet issued the feeling of "making the hero cry for a long time", but the name of the wooden cow and the horse was passed down.
The reason why it is said that the name that has been handed down is because the wooden cow and the horse have been lost later, probably because the Shu Han was afraid that the enemy would know its own military secrets, so it was destroyed. However, since the wooden cow flow horse is so magical, then naturally there are many people who have exhausted their lives to restore it, and there is a retired old man named Wang Lijiang in Urumqi, Xinjiang, who spent a long time trying to create a thousand-year-old wooden cow flow horse, and he did succeed.
As soon as the "wooden cow flowing horse" created by the old man Wang Lijiang was reported, it caused a sensation and caused thousands of people to watch, but some scholars identified it: the quality is too poor to go far, this is not a real wooden cow flowing horse. What do you think about that?