The phenomenon of "honoring Liu and degrading Cao" in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also relatively famous, in fact, the reason is very simple, because between Wei shu and Wu, Shu Han represents orthodoxy and is a positive character.
This is the basis of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", for which Boss Cao was criticized as a traitor, smearing a lot, and many people in the Cao family were inexplicably hit by dark arrows, especially Zhang Liao and Xu Huang.
Zhang Liao (169–222), courtesy name Wenyuan, was a native of Mayi, Yanmen (present-day Shuozhou, Shanxi). A famous general of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. He was subordinate to Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, and Lü Bu. After the Battle of Xia Pi, he submitted to Cao Cao.
After that, with Cao Cao's conquests, he made many achievements in battle, and with Guan Yu, he relieved the Siege of Baima, surrendered Chang Feng to the East China Sea, attacked Yuan Shang at Yicheng, led the vanguard to kill Wu HuanDan at the White Wolf Mountain, and also asked For The Liaodong Liu Yi, Huainan Meicheng, chen Lan, and so on.
After the Battle of Fusu, Cao Cao appointed Zhang Liao, Li Dian, Le Jin and others to defend Hefei, repeatedly repelling Sun Wu's attacks, and in 215, the Battle of Xiaoyaojin broke through 100,000 troops with 7,000 people, almost capturing Sun Quan alive.
"Zhang Liao stops crying" has also become a legendary story circulated by the people. After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he still ordered Zhang Liao to guard the imperial grandson power. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Records That Records Le Jin records that Emperor Wen of Wei sighed and said, "This is also the ancient summoning of the tiger." ”
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, The Biography of Zhang Liao, records that Sun Quan's generals said: "Although Zhang Liao is ill, he should not be treated as well, be cautious! ”
In 222, Zhang Liao lived up to the expectations of the people, and defeated the Wu general Lü Fan with an illness, and died of illness in Jiangdu in the same year, at the age of fifty-four.
Later generations referred to him, along with Lejin, Yu Ban, Zhang Gao, and Xu Huang, as Cao Wei's "Five Sons of Liang General".
However, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a generation of famous generals was shot in the waist by Ding Feng of Eastern Wu and finally died, which can be said to be ridiculous. In the Eighty-sixth Edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is written:
"A Biao army on the shore killed, and the first general, Nai Ding Fengye. Zhang Liao hurriedly clapped his horse to meet him, and was shot in the waist by Ding Feng's arrow, but xu Huang saved him and left with the Lord of Wei.
There were countless folding armies, and Sun Shao and Ding Feng seized countless horses, car battles, ships, and equipment behind them. Wei Bing returned in defeat, and the Wu general Xu Shengquan was awarded a great merit, and the King of Wu was rewarded. Zhang Liao returned to Xuchang, and the arrow sore burst and died. ”
And the other Xu Huang was also inexplicably wrongfully killed.
Xu Huangyuan followed Yang Feng and protected Emperor Xian of Han on his eastward journey, and he was meritorious. Later, he surrendered to Cao Cao, followed Cao Cao around in battle, Yu Yanjin led his troops to kill Wen Ugly, Yu Guandu led his troops to rob and burn grain and grass, Pingma took the lead in crossing the river in time, and defeated the Shu general Chen Shi when defending Hanzhong, and had many military achievements.
Especially in the battle of the siege of Fancheng, Xu Huang led his army to drive straight in, repelled the Shu army in one fell swoop, defeated Guan Yu head-on, and made great achievements, which were praised by Cao Cao. During the reign of Emperor Ming of Wei, Xu Huang died of illness.
However, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Meng Da rebelled, Xu Huang went to the conquest as the vanguard of Sima Yi, and Xu Huang killed him to the city gate of the new city and was shot in the head by Meng Da with an arrow, and died that night. Meng Da, an unknown person who killed a generation of cao Wei generals, is also a very boring way to write.
Of course, in fact, there are many people who have been wronged in Cao Wei, such as from the Cao Wei general Cao Ren from a general on the town guard side to a soy sauce party, and for example, the general Xiahou Huan has become a hot-tempered mangfu, in fact, people are still a civilian minister who can govern one side, which can be said to be both civil and military.
In fact, the reason why "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" gives people this feeling is because the author wants to better express the contradictions and conflicts in the novel, and it is necessary to choose two positive and negative opposites, so that the reader feels that good and evil are clear, the position is clear, and there is a deeper impression.
The history of China from the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties has always been based on the Wei state as the orthodox, until the Southern Song Dynasty when the idea of "respecting Liu and degrading Cao" was formed.
At that time, the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty was weak and incompetent, losing a large area of land north of the Yangtze River, and settling in the status quo of half of the country, which was somewhat similar to the Shu Han Dynasty in the southwest corner of the Three Kingdoms period. In order to make the people under its rule satisfied with the status quo, the Court of the Southern Song Dynasty honored Liu Bei, who was of The Miao ethnic group of the Han Dynasty, as the first lord, and Luo Guanzhong only conformed to the wishes of the broad masses of the people at that time and inherited this tendency.