Zhao Yun, as one of the most famous military generals in the Three Kingdoms period, although it is undeniable that his personal abilities and deeds were partially exaggerated in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the real Zhao Yun was also a very outstanding talent.
However, in the historical records, Zhao Yun first appeared in Gongsun Zhan's camp, but he became famous after following Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei had no power and no power, so he had to defect to Gongsun Zhan, an old classmate, and it was not expected that he would meet Zhao Yun here."
bosom friend
”。 Then the two not only ate at the same table, but even slept together, after which Zhao Yun ran away with Liu Bei.
But such a talent, not only can wu be able to fight the world, but also an almost perfect Confucian general, why did Gongsun Zhan willingly let him run away with Liu Bei?
First, the person Zhao Yun really wanted to turn to was not Gongsun Zhan
After the Battle of the Yellow Turban, the imperial court appointed Liu Yu as the pastor of Youzhou, and Gongsun Zhan was sent to defend against the nomadic peoples such as Wuhuan and Xianbei, which means that Gongsun Zhan was actually Liu Yu's subordinate.
When Zhao Yun went to defect to Gongsun Zhan, because Zhao Yun's hometown Changshan was under Yuan Shao's rule, it was logical that Zhao Yun should defect to Yuan Shao. However, Zhao Yun unusually threw himself into Gongsun Zhan's command. Gongsun Zhan also once asked Zhao Yun why he defected to him, and Zhao Yun said this:
"Usually, natural and man-made disasters, the people are in danger of being upside down. After consultation between the military and the people of this county, we only turned to those who were good at shi and benevolent government, not because we hated Yuan Shao or liked it. The world is indictment, the unknown is, the people have fallen into the county, the contempt for the state, from the benevolent government, not for the yuan public private general also. ”
What does this statement mean to Zhao Yun? That is to say, he does not look at the territory and who has the greatest strength, but only surrenders."
A man of good charity
”。
So who are the people who do good deeds? Naturally, it will not be Gongsun Zhan, who has always been a person with a heavy heart to kill. When he and Liu Yu were in Youzhou, they had always advocated fighting to deter the nomads with killing, and their tyranny had always been well known. On the contrary, Liu Yu, who has always opposed the use of war to stop the war, but wants to quell the rebellion of the nomads by surrendering, and he has implemented measures such as connecting cities with the nomads, and he has also successfully stabilized the north of China at that time, and the nomadic tribes at that time were very grateful to Liu Yu's benevolent government.
Therefore, the person Zhao Yun really wanted to defect to should be Liu Yu, but because Liu Yu's position at that time was really too big, and Gongsun Zhan was exactly Liu Yu's subordinate, so Zhao Yun naturally threw himself into Gongsun Yu's account first.
Second, Zhao Yun was never loyal to someone, or Gongsun Zhan
So-called,"
The Tao is not the same
Even if this person has the ability, putting it under his own hands will not make people feel at ease. For example, Cao Wei's Sima Yi, Cao Cao knew from the beginning that this person had the talent of heaven and earth, but he did not reuse Sima Yi until his death.
Zhao Yun, a person who has a special Confucian integrity in his bones."
disloyal
", even said"
Foolishness
"To the point that what he wants to surrender to, or loyalty to, is never Gongsun Zhan, but"
Han Room
Not only Zhao Yun mentioned above, Liu Yu, who wanted to defect to the benevolent government, or Liu Bei, who followed him later, both of them had the same characteristic, or name:
Uncle of the Great Han Emperor
。 Therefore, the reason why Zhao Yun was willing to follow them was also a very special reason, because they were all members of the Liu Han Imperial Family.
Zhao Yun was loyal to the Han Dynasty in his bones, so he was willing to defect to Liu Yu and was willing to follow Liu Bei, because these two people were both relatives of Liu Hanzong, and his loyalty was never just a single person, but Liu Han's world.
Zhao Yun's perfection as a person is perfect in that he truly takes Kuang Fu Han's world as his mission and wants to restore Liu Han Jiangshan. The lord he wanted, or the lord who could use him with confidence, must have the same ambition as him, and Gongsun Zhan obviously did not have this ambition, or almost every prince at that time did not have this ambition, they either wanted to become autonomous or wanted to take the Han Dynasty.
Only Liu Bei and Liu Yu, who were han dynasty descendants, wanted to restore the Han Dynasty like Zhao Yun, including the reason why Liu Bei did not reuse Zhao Yun in the later period was because he knew that Zhao Yun was not loyal to himself, but loyal to the Han dynasty. This looks the same, isn't Liu Bei a descendant of the Han Dynasty? Isn't the Kingdom of Shu the Shu Han? But it's still fundamentally different.
Even Liu Bei was like this, Gongsun Zhan naturally did not need to say much.
Third, Zhao Yun's origin was too low to get Gongsun Zhan's attention
Zhao Yun has not held any high position in his life, and the reason is certainly not all a matter of ability, a large part of the reason is because of his origin. Everyone who understands knows that almost everyone in The Liu Bei Group is reused is a well-known and prestigious person, except for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, including Zhuge Liang. Although he seemed to be just a farmer in the Nanyang Mountains, in fact, the family was originally a descendant of the Langya Zhuge clan. However, Zhao Yun was a true ordinary person, and unlike Guan Zhang, he and Liu Bei started in the end and had brotherly feelings.
This was still the case under Liu Bei's command, and it was naturally even more so under Gongsun Zhan's command. At that time, Gongsun Zhan was anxious to break away from Liu Yu's jurisdiction and develop southward, and what did his greatest enemy, Yuan Shao, rely on most? It is nothing more than the title of a fourth and third duke. Therefore, at that time, everyone that Gongsun Zhan reused was also a member of the scholar clan, or someone who already had a lot of fame, but Zhao Yun was obviously not among them.
At that time, everyone understood that many times it was not you who was more important, but your origin. Born badly, it is easy to be looked down upon no matter how big it is.
Fourth, Gongsun Zhan did not let Zhao Yun go with Liu Bei, but only "borrowed"
In the end, everyone said that Gongsun Zhan was willing to let Zhao Yun follow Liu Bei, but in fact, there was none. At that time, Gongsun Zhan did not directly let Zhao Yun follow Liu Bei away, he only lent Zhao Yun to Liu Bei to support Xuzhou, but after Xuzhou rescued, Zhao Yun returned. When Zhao Yun really followed Liu Bei, it was only after Gongsun Zhan's defeat that Zhao Yun really defected to Liu Bei.