There is no doubt that looking at the entire Three Kingdoms, the most eye-catching character is none other than Zhuge Liang, although the Three Kingdoms as a novel are slightly different from the history of Zhengshi, as Lu Xun commented: "I want to show Liu Bei's length and thickness, like Zhuge Liang's wisdom and close to the demon."
However, according to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, "the profit and loss of the crossbow, the wooden cow and the horse" is indeed true, and "the festival of loyalty to the virginity, followed by death" is also documented. In the table of renunciation, bowing down to exhaustion, after death, it is a concentrated manifestation of Zhuge Liang's high wind and bright festival, he worked hard for the Shu kingdom, and finally died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, which can be described as a glorious death!
So, what disease did Zhuge Liang suffer from?
To get the answer to this question, it is impossible to rely on zhengshi alone, because in the zhengshi "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shushu, Zhuge Liang's biography", there is only one sentence about Zhuge Liang's death: "In August of his year, Liang fell ill and died in the army, when he was fifty-four years old." ”
Then, if you want to solve this problem, you can only start from the wild history, the so-called wild history, that is, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a passage that records Zhuge Liang's symptoms after his illness: "On the summer day of the twelfth year of Jianxing, Yi asked: What is the trouble of Kong Ming's sleep, food and things?" The Messenger said: The Beggar sleeps at night, and the punishment of more than twenty years is seen by himself. The eclipse of the eclipse is not more than a few liters of the day. Yi Gu said that the generals knew: Kong Ming eats less trouble, can it last for a long time? It can be seen that Zhuge Liang's heart is stressed, sleep is insufficient, and his appetite is reduced.
Zhuge Liang's first illness was in the summer of the seventh year of Jianxing, when Zhuge Liang vomited blood in an agitated mood, and then fainted and was bedridden. The original text is as follows
Ninety-ninth time: "It was reported that someone from Chengdu had come and said that Zhang Bao was dead." Kong Ming heard this, cried loudly, vomited blood in his mouth, and fainted on the ground. The crowd woke up. Kong Ming has been bedridden since then. After the tenth day, Kong Ming summoned Dong Jie, Fan Jian, and others to pay into the account: "I feel drowsy and cannot be a director." ’”
The second illness occurred: in the spring and February of the twelfth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang fainted under the agitation.
The 102nd time: "Neglect to report Guan Xing's illness and death." Kong Ming cried loudly and fainted on the ground, half-shaking Fang Su. ”
The third illness: in the mid-Autumn Festival of the twelfth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang fainted in a hurry, vomited blood the next day, and finally caught a cold, and died shortly after.
The one hundred and thirteenth time: "Kong Ming heard this letter, sighed, and unconsciously fainted on the ground; the crowd will give first aid, half a day Fang Su." Kong Ming sighed: "My heart is confused, the old disease has recurred, I am afraid I will not be able to die!" The next day, he helped the pathologist and vomited blood. ”
The 104th time: "Kong Ming vomited several mouthfuls of blood and lay down on the bed." "Kong Ming finished dispatching one by one, and then he fainted, and fang su was late." "Kong Mingqiang supported the sick body, so that the left and right helped to the car, out of the village to see the camps; consciously the autumn wind blew the face, and the bones were cold. Back in the tent, the illness turned heavy. "When the curse is in a hurry to return the account, it is unconscious."
The following began to speculate about the cause of the disease: as we all know, Zhuge Liang likes to drink, Zhuge Liang is sharp and unscrupulous, and when the grass boat borrows arrows, he "only cares about drinking wine for fun"; before zhou Yu dies, "drinking and having fun on the top of the front mountain"; during the seven captures of Meng, he and Meng are "drinking until late".
Combined with the above symptoms of the disease, it is bold to guess that Zhuge Liang has cirrhosis of the liver!
In addition, blood-sucking insects may also be one of the reasons for Zhuge Liang's illness and death.
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were countless plagues caused by blood-sucking insects, and there were countless epidemics caused by blood-sucking insects. This one is most likely caused by blood suckers, so it is not nonsense to say that Zhuge Liang died of a blood sucker!