Among the many famous scenes in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the paragraph "Zhuge Liang scolds Wang Lang" can be called a classic, whether it is a novel or a TV series adapted from it, its fragments make readers enjoy tireless discussions.
And the ending is already known to many people, and in the end Zhuge Liang shook his three-inch tongue and destroyed Wang Mang's abusive body, causing this 76-year-old minister to fill his chest in anger and fall off his horse and die.
In fact, now that we look at Wang Lang's words, is he really saying something wrong? Let's first look at Wang Lang's argument, in this Situ's view: "The heavens and the earth have changed, the artifacts are easy to change, and the people who have virtue" are to put it bluntly, it means "the prince will have a kind of Hu", and at that time, the world was in chaos, Yuan Shu called the emperor Yu Shouchun, Yuan Shao called Xiong Yu in The land; Liu Biao occupied Jingzhou, Lü Buhu swallowed Xu County, it was Cao Cao, with his own strength to clear these princes, unified the north, so it should be "inherit the great unification, the way of Fa Tang Yao Zen Yu Shun, to rule the world." ”
In addition, Cao Wei replaced the Han Dynasty, although it forced the Han Emperor to give way, but in fact it still belonged to the peaceful transfer of power, so many historians often regardEd Wei as a continuation of han orthodoxy, and the two countries of Shu and Wu can only be counted as local separatist forces.
And in this battle, Zhuge Liang took the initiative to raise troops to attack, so Wang Lang was even more aware of the pros and cons, believing that "great Wei brought a million armor, good generals thousands of members", and the power of the Shu state, just as "the rotten grass is better than the sky and the moon", the military gap between Wei and Shu was indeed visible to the naked eye, according to statistics, at that time, there were 1.08 million people in the upper and lower parts of the Shu state, and 4.43 million people in the Wei state, zhuge Liang's move to fight against the Wei state was indeed forced.
Since Wang Lang's sentences were incisive, why was he still killed by Zhuge Liang's anger and vomiting blood? He eventually lost the word "loyalty", which is what the author Luo Guan strongly admired.
In Wang Mang's dialogue, he explained the decline of the Han Dynasty as providence, but Zhuge Liang did not think so, but proposed that it was the traitors and villains of many dynasties, from the Ten Constant Servants of the Yellow Turban Thief to Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Guo Feng and other disasters in the government, that led to the chaos of today's lives.
Immediately after, Kong Ming began a personal attack: revealing Wang Lang's Laodi, counting his past as an old minister of the Han Dynasty, but instead of thinking about repaying the country, he aided and abetted abuse, thus putting Wang Lang in a moral inferior position.
And this is where Wang Lang's weakness lies, the ancients paid great attention to their own integrity and reputation, but Wang Lang was openly exposed in the past before the three armies, plus Wang Lang was originally old, and as a result, he could not withstand this blow, and he died in a hurry.
However, Wang Lang's words did predict the fate of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains after Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang had several Northern Expeditions, plus Jiang Wei's eleven wars, but did not achieve much, but barely restrained the military strength of the State of Wei to ensure that it would not be a threat to itself, but the State of Shu did not avoid the fate of being destroyed by the State of Wei in the end.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Lang in the history of the canon, of course, did not have the situation of being scolded by Zhuge Liang, and people rarely appeared on the battlefield, but a famous scribe during the Han and Wei dynasties, during the Cao Wei period, the official to the three dukes, left a number of works of "Zhou Yi Biography" and "Spring and Autumn Biography", which can also be regarded as a remarkable achievement, if you use the stereotype of the Three Kingdoms to discuss such an old minister of the two dynasties, it is obviously biased.