Liu Guanzhang and the three people are all at the bottom of society, Guan Yu killed people in his hometown, fled to Hebei, Zhang Fei was a pig killer who sold meat, in that era only rich people ate meat, so his industry was considered to be middle class, Liu Bei weaved mats to sell shoes, the mats were straw mats, shoes were straw shoes, and he produced and sold himself, which was considered a small handicraft.
None of these three people actually farmed for a living, why?
People who cultivate land don't want to rebel. What they do all year round is to work on their own acres and three-quarters of land, as long as there is a full mouth to eat, they will not toss blindly. But businessmen are different, they go north and south, often interact with people in all walks of life, and know all kinds of up-to-date information.
Information is opportunity, ancient and modern.
The year in which the three of them worship in the novel coincided with the Yellow Turban Uprising.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is recorded that in the last year of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao, who went into the mountains to collect medicine, met nanhua Laoxian and gave him three volumes of the Heavenly Book, Zhang Jiao immersed himself in cultivation, and later there was a plague in Jizhou (he was a giant deer in Jizhou), Zhang Jiao and his disciples used rune water to save the people, hundreds of thousands of people were attached, thus founding the Taiping Sect, and later Zhang Jiao: The sky is dead, Huang Tiandang is standing, the age is in Jiazi, the world is auspicious, and the army rebelled against the Han.
The Han Dynasty sent troops to suppress the uprising.
Those who became successful in the Three Kingdoms later participated in the war to eliminate the Golden Army to a greater or lesser extent, and experienced the cruelty of the war, which would make people grow.
Only those who participated in the campaign to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, let the haojie of the three kingdoms discover that the Han Dynasty was really coming to an end, which was a crisis and an opportunity, and later they recruited troops to build their own power map.
Whether it was Cao Cao or Liu Bei, or even Liu Bang Liu Xiu in the early days, their families were all relatives and friends.
Liu Bang started by relying on his friends in Pei County's circle of friends and the financial support of his father-in-law Lü Gong.
Liu Xiu started his family by his friends in Nanyang, and later he was calculated by Liu Xuan, sent to Hebei, quickly established strong relations with local forces, married Guo Shengtong, the niece of Liu Yang, the King of Zhending, and made his original partner Yin Lihua a minor.
Cao Cao started his family by his own brothers of the same clan, his father's original surname was Xiahou, and later passed on to the grand eunuch Cao Teng, so that Cao Cao was related to the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and the backbone of his family later was mostly these two families.
We often see in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Cao Cao's general Cao Ren Cao Hong Xiahou Yuan Xiahou Huan, these people are his cousins, do not need to worship, have a natural blood connection.
The key moment is still the most trustworthy family.
Sun Ce's starting team is his father's old department, Cheng Pu Huanggai and other people are considered to be Sun Ce's uncles, so there is no condition for worship, and later Zhou Yu and others he recruited in Jiangdong are the same age as him, he and Zhou Yu married sisters Hua Qiao and became a couplet, which is also another kind of worship.
Liu Guanzhang and the three people have neither their own base area nor the property left by their fathers, starting from scratch, and the only way for them to establish a connection is to worship this method, using a sense of ceremony to establish a strong relationship between them.
There is no such thing as worship in the main history, and the relationship between the three is a combat friendship.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei followed Liu Bei very early, Liu Bei is not only doing small business, useless, he himself is very charismatic.
When he was young, Liu Bei did not like to read, liked to wear beautiful clothes and play around, walk dogs and raise horses, sing a rock and roll, and his hobbies were somewhat similar to Yu Qian.'s.
The Lord was not very fond of reading, but liked dogs and horses, music, and beautiful clothes.
Such a person will generally have many friends, and the first angel investment that Liu Bei relied on to start with was funded by two horse dealers, named Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang.
Relying on this money, Liu Bei recruited troops to organize a team against the Yellow Turban Army.
At this time, Guan Yu Zhang Fei came to liu Bei.
Some people have verified that Guan Yu is actually one year older than Liu Bei, but in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Guan Zhang worships, and Liu Bei is the eldest brother.
Because of the three, Guan Yu was a fugitive, Zhang Fei killed pigs and sold meat, Liu Bei was no longer poor and surnamed Liu, he himself said that he was the grandson of Emperor Jing of Han, and his teacher Lu Zhi was also a great Confucian at the end of the Han Dynasty, how to see Liu Bei's knowledge and qualifications are much higher than Guan Zhang.
Therefore, in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu always treated Liu Bei as a brother and a father, and Chen Shou wrote:
And Guan Yu and Bei, righteousness for the king, Enyou father and son.
Guan Yu has always respected Liu Bei as a father, and the eldest brother is like a father, so at least in Guan Yu's heart, Liu Bei is his brother, whether he is older or smaller than himself
Zhang Fei has always treated Guan Yu as a brother, and Zhang Fei's biography in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins by writing:
Zhang Feizi Yide, Zhuo County people also, less and Guan Yu in advance of the master. Yu is a few years older, and Fei Brother is doing things.
It seems that in the TV series, Zhang Fei's sentence "I am the same" is from the heart, he really admires Guan Yu.
Therefore, Liu Bei was the absolute boss of Guan Zhang and the two, and when he and Cao Cao drank, Guan Zhang's cattle people stood directly behind Liu Bei, like guarding the soldiers.
To summarize the three forces of the three countries:
Cao Cao did not need to be worshipped, and his cronies were his brothers.
Sun Ce can't worship, and he can't call his uncle the eldest brother.
Only Liu Guanzhang had the possibility of worship, and Luo Guanzhong turned this possibility into reality, and also set the place where the three people worshipped in a very poetic place, Taoyuan.
Text: Xue Baipao