The Three Kingdoms era, which was less than a hundred years old, became the most familiar history of Chinese, various stories, characters, legends, allusions, many people say that it is simply a family treasure.
But although we are so familiar with this history, they are basically standing on the position of honoring Liu and degrading Cao, and the stories we talk about the most, the Three Knots of Taoyuan, the Battle of Chibi, borrowing the East Wind, Zhao Yun's seven in and seven out, Zhuge Liang's various magic tricks, and so on, are basically fictional.
It is nothing more than to highlight the legitimacy of the Shu Han, even if there are many cases for Cao Cao in modern times, cao Cao is at best a traitor, and still does not have the aura of Zhuge Liang Liu Bei Guan Yu.
So when we look at the Three Kingdoms, the Shu Kingdom is always all kinds of lofty, all kinds of clever calculations, all kinds of safeguarding justice, even if Zhuge Liang finally fails, it is also painful.
But once we put down our colored glasses and look at the Shu Han regime through a completely undifferentiated perspective, we will find that there is actually another very depressing fact in the Shu Han, that is, the Shu Han may be very bad, the warlords divide the regime, and finally make the people unhappy.
No matter what Liu Bei's starting point was, his clique belonged to outsiders, and they all carried out a very serious wealth plunder of the residents of Shudi, and the way he plundered wealth was a bit similar to the Kuomintang's indiscriminate issuance of paper money, that is, the large-scale issuance of insufficient money.
Liu Bei issued a kind of money called big money,
Each piece can be exchanged with the people for 100 five-baht coins, this five-baht coin is the common coin of the Han Dynasty, this one-to-one hundred exchange, this is really fatal.
But Shu Han relied on his own regime, forced to promote this kind of large money in Sichuan, and plundered a large amount of wealth from the people, if we look at it from Cao Wei's point of view, then Shu Han is simply a very shameless and brutal local separatist regime.
In fact, in the Three Kingdoms at that time, the Shu Han State was the weakest, the people were the most bitter, and the taxes they bore were the heaviest, which directly led to the complete rupture between Liu Bei's upper clique and the Shi clan at that time after Zhuge Liang's death.
How serious this rupture was, at that time, the Shu Han court, there were already ministers who openly issued surrender remarks, the most typical of which was Yu Zhou, and also wrote articles such as "Qiu Guolun".
Even directly ridiculed the names of Liu Bei and Liu Chan,:
"First the Lord is prepared, his training tools are also, and the latter is secretly Zen, and his teachings are also, as liu has been given, he should also be given to people."
The meaning is that the names of Liu Bei and Liu Chan combined are the meaning of Liu Jiajiangshan's preparation of Zen concessions, and many people in later generations have written poems satirizing the surrender of Zhou Zhou, such as Wen Tingjun's "Passing the Five Zhangyuan", like the bed jin tent without words, since then Zhou Zhou is an old minister, lamenting that Zhuge Liang was the descendant of Shu Han when Zhuge Liang was a person.
To tell the truth, Yu Zhou was just a target, at that time, the vast majority of the people of Shu Han were no longer satisfied with the Liu Chan clique, their previous raids on Shu land were really too serious, among the Three Kingdoms, Shu Han raised officials and soldiers in the heaviest proportion, issuing large sums of money to plunder wealth, coupled with the continuous heavy burden, in fact, the late Shu Han, has completely lost the people's hearts, lost the support of the people at the bottom.
Looking at the demise of Shu Han, it seems that it was also doomed long ago, but only a small number of troops, to the extent, opened the door and surrendered, this is not Liu Chan's incompetence, but the choice of Shu Han up and down, only a very few people died in a heroic battle, and the others seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief, and finally perished.
As for what attitude you use to look at it, depending on our values, few people conclude that the demise of Shu Han is due to the loss of the people's hearts, in fact, Shu Han can be regarded as one of the many warlords in the history of Sichuan, then the demise of Shu Han can be seen very clearly at once, and there are not so many mysteries and whys.
To die is to perish, and to be unpopular is to perish the country, as has been the case since ancient times, and water can carry boats and overturn boats. There's not much to say about this in the past.