At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the final outcome of the Three Kingdoms was still dominated by Cao Wei, and the former Shu Han also had the strength to compete with it, but after the deaths of the three brothers Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei, it declined rapidly. In addition to Liu Chan's ability far superior to Liu Bei's, there are also reasons why talents are withering and not picking up. This problem, Zhuge Liang, as the "father" of shu Han, had already seen that he had personally cultivated many talents, but unfortunately, the three people he valued, after his death, had a loyal servant and did not have much ability. Not only did they not lead Shu Han to the peak, but they could not even defend the forces of Shu Han, these three people were Zhuge Zhan, Jiang Wei, and Dong Jie.
Zhuge Liang's son
Zhuge Zhan, Zhuge Liang's forty-six-year-old son. Because of his father's ability and fame, the whole Shu Han had great expectations for this child. He was very intelligent since he was a child, and the common people also believed in him very much, and the decrees of the imperial court, whether they were related to him or not, as long as they involved him, the common people would believe that it was good. Zhuge Liang's successor, Jiang Wei, commanded the Northern Expedition several times, but Was seized by Zhuge Zhan and Dong Yue.
After he had difficulty getting the military power to go to the battlefield, because he was not familiar with war, he was indecisive and lost the opportunity, and eventually died in Mianzhu, a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, resulting in the loss of the last barrier of Shu Han, directly causing the destruction of Shu Han. Jiang Wei, Zhuge Liang's personally appointed military successor. Zhuge Liang saw the crisis of the shu Han's demise and repeatedly took the Northern Expedition, hoping to feed the war with war. However, Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition became more and more frequent, and the number of victories was not much, not only did not achieve Zhuge Liang's goal, but the grain pressure on Shu Han was even greater, resulting in the final seizure of military power.
If a country wants to develop well, it must be able to coordinate internal affairs and foreign affairs, and the three people appointed by Zhuge Liang not only did not communicate well, but anyway, they dragged each other's feet. Later, Liu Chan favored the eunuch Huang Hao, and Zhuge Zhan and Dong Yue always raised objections and checks and balances in the imperial court, but Jiang Wei believed that he was only in charge of foreign affairs, and never helped or participated in this. Because of problems such as population and natural disasters, the Shu Han grain was in a hurry, and Huang Hao, who had lost the balance of manpower, still took Liu Chan with him and had no intention of doing political affairs, but Zhuge Zhan and Dong Yue instead believed that Jiang Wei's continuous northern expedition was because of good and great achievements, and directly took away the power of the last military commander of Shu Han.
Zhuge Liang originally left three people, thinking that he could cooperate and balance them through the differentiation of power in later generations, so as to achieve the goal of long-term peace and stability of Shu Han, but he never expected that after his death, these three people could only divide and balance, ripping each other off and dragging their feet, resulting in Shu Han's foreign wars, defeated again and again.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms