In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang was clever and calculating, what exactly was he like in the main history?
Introduction: Mention zhuge liang, I think everyone will definitely think of the story of "grass boat borrowing arrows". When Cao Cao marched south, Liu Bei and Sun Quan formed an alliance against Cao Cao, but Eastern Wu lacked enough bows and arrows to resist the enemy. At this time, Zhuge Liang promised to build 100,000 arrows within three days, so in the middle of the night when the fog on the river was thick, he took more than a dozen boats to the gongs and drums outside Cao Ying, and Cao Jun could only fight back with bows and arrows because he could not see the situation clearly, and at dawn Zhuge Liang returned with more than a dozen boats fully loaded. There was also the "burning of the vine armor soldiers", after he took power, the southern barbarians rebelled, and Zhuge Liang, in order to solve the problem of the south and central once and for all, used a fire to burn out the elite of the southern central region, and since then the southern barbarians have no ability to rebel. But in fact, these are the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" fabricated, the history of him does not have such a strong ability, we will see how Mr. Wolong in the history of the real world.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Zhuge Liang, he was eight feet tall, like a pine cypress. The eight feet of the Han Dynasty were converted into modern sizes of about 1 meter 84 in height. Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, was a native of Langya, and during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he moved with his family to settle in Nanyang. Langya is now Linyi, Shandong, which meets the height standards of Shandong Han. Shortly after Zhuge Liang's family moved to Nanyang, he also reached the age of school, because he came from a family of scholars, so his uncle Zhuge Feng sent him to Jingzhou to be a student under Mr. Shuijing, the great sage of Jingzhou. Mr. Shui Jing discovered that Zhuge Liang was quick in thinking and gave him the title of "Wolong".
After Zhuge Liang graduated, he lived in seclusion in Longzhong to cultivate land, because he was very famous, so this place was also called "Wollongong". Later, Liu Bei learned of his name, so he went to invite him out of the mountain. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Zhuge Liang records: "The First Lord was enlightened, and wherever there were three directions, it was seen." According to this sentence, Luo Guanzhong also deliberately fabricated the story of "Three Gu Maolu" to show Liu Bei's corporal Li Xian and set off Zhuge Liang's lofty status.
And Zhuge Liang's ability is not as strong as in Yanyi, after he joined Liu Bei's camp, he was more of a politician and did not participate in the military. At that time, Liu Bei granted Zhuge Liang absolute power because he had no internal affairs talents, which caused dissatisfaction among Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, after all, Zhuge Liang was only 27 years old at the time and had not made any achievements. But Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei said that I now have Kong Ming, just like a fish has water, and then explained Zhuge Liang's ability to them. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei finally understood after hearing this and began to respect Zhuge Liang.
Chen Shou, the author of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", has this comment on Zhuge Liang: "It can be said that it is a good talent for knowledge and governance, and it can be said that Guan and Xiao are Yapiyi." However, after years of moving the crowd, failing to succeed, the cover strain will be slight, not its strength! This means that Zhuge Liang's ability to govern the country is as strong as Guan Zhong and Xiao He, but the military is not his strong point. In the history of Zhuge Liang, after taking power in the Shu Han Dynasty, in addition to leading troops to the south to suppress the rebellion, a series of victories were won here. Later, he began the Northern Expedition, but liuqishan did not make any achievements, and was consumed alive by Sima Yi in Wuzhangyuan, which also verified this theory from here.
Conclusion: In fact, when Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was in line with the idea of "respecting Liu Liu and suppressing Cao", in order to bless the aura of Liu Bei's side, so he forcibly added some achievements that were not originally theirs to them, and Zhuge Liang was "mythologized" in this way. The historical Zhuge Liang was also an ordinary person, and he was admired more because of his loyalty, bowing down to death and then having an attitude.