The late Han Dynasty was an era of heroes, in order to be evaluated as a hero, relying on their own efforts alone is not enough, but also need the support of the bears, so a closer look, the Three Kingdoms period can be divided into two major factions, the tyrants are a faction, they are responsible for attacking the city strategically, the unproductive generation is a faction, they are like neutral units, used to be brushed experience.
Look at these mediocre talents, because of their weakness, they have also gained a lot of popularity, the most famous of which is Liu Jingsheng. Compared with most people's impression of Liu Biao is very unified, the small old man who is not tall can be seen at a glance as a corrupt Confucian, and others are fighting in full swing, he knows that he is guarding his own acre and three points of land, the war burned to the doorstep, the performance did not show a bit, he drove to the west of the crane, the most important thing is that Liu Biao seems to be afraid of his wife. Leaving aside these traditional concepts, from the historical records, Liu Biao does not seem to be the person you know.
It is more than eight feet long and has a great posture
In the era of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, Liu Biao was indeed an old man, but who had not been young, to be precise, Liu Biao and Liu Bei and Cao Cao were not people of the same era, and in this chaotic world, Liu Biao's appearance was earlier. In the records, Liu Biao is more than eight feet tall and has a great appearance, and from the surname alone, Liu Biao is a descendant of the Han Dynasty.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - Liu Biaozi Jingsheng, Shanyang Gaoping ren also. Less well-known, number eight jun. It is more than eight feet long and has a great posture.
In the early years, eunuchs gained power in the court, and in order not to be left behind, foreign relatives and scholars and doctors launched a series of hostile acts, and the young Liu Biao was also among these people. However, contrary to their wishes, the scholars did not get the results they wanted, but instead attracted the crazy revenge of the eunuchs, known in history as the "disaster of the party", compared to those who were imprisoned, Liu Biao's luck was not bad, but he was also forced to embark on the road of escape.
Although he was a loser, during this period Liu Biao gained a high prestige, whether the eunuchs were righteous or not, the reputation would always be not good, and although Liu Biao and others were persecuted parties, they won the support and sympathy of the world. Many people may have the impression that when Liu Bei evaluated Liu Biao, he called him the Eight Juns of the world, this title originated from the party prohibition period, to put it bluntly, it is eight people of relatively high grade, in addition, there are eight Gu, eight and eight kitchens, etc., because of the different historical material carriers, there are many kinds of sayings.
In 184 AD, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the imperial court feared that the previous exiled scholars and doctors would collude with the Taiping Dao, so they lifted the party ban. Liu Biao was able to return to the imperial court. At this time, the imperial court was already in ruins, first Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao two brothers burned the palace, and then Dong Zhuo began to cause chaos in the imperial program, according to historical understanding, Liu Biao should have been with Dong Zhuo at first, but later became Dong Zhuo's main enemy
"Pei Notes on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - Zhuo Yue: "Yes, but kill Eryuan, Liu Biao, and Sun Jian, and the world obeys the lone ear." ”
Liu Biao went to Jingzhou
Beginning in 189 AD, the heroes could no longer tolerate Dong Zhuo's misdeeds, and it was time to come out and grab the territory, and when Sun Jian went north, he killed the original Jingzhou Assassin Shi WangRui. Dong Zhuo sent Liu Biao to take over the post of Jingzhou Assassin, which seemed to be a beautiful difference, but in fact it was a fatal thing, at this time Jingzhou can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, in addition to the local powerful division, Yuan Shu is also infecting Jingzhou. What's more fatal is that Liu Biao may not have carried soldiers and horses with him when he went to Jingzhou, except for an edict, which may be that in the early stages of the war, Dong Zhuo's military resources were somewhat tense.
After arriving in Jingzhou, Liu Biao began his entrepreneurial plan, in view of his own weakness, Liu Biao used a very practical routine, united with the local scholars, let them become their own angel investors, anyway, they are descendants of the Han Family, but also the righteous Jingzhou Assassin History. To this end, Liu Biao found two brothers in Lu County, Qu Liang and Qu Yue, plus the Cai clan in Xiangyang, which also explained in passing why Cai Mao spoke so well after Liu Biao's death, because Cai Mao was not entirely a subordinate of Liu Biao, he was also Liu Biao's partner, Liu Biao needed Cai Mao's soldiers, and Cai Mao needed Liu Biao's reputation.
At the time of the great chaos in the world, the attention of the heroes was on Dong Zhuo's body, and taking this opportunity, Liu Biao grew stronger in Jingzhou. In 191 AD, Yuan Shu took the lead in reacting, what is the use of fighting Dong Zhuo, grabbing territory is the king's way. So Liu Biao attracted his fierce enemy, Sun Jian. At this time, Liu Biao already had a certain strength, Yuan Shu recalled Sun Jian to let him attack Xiangyang, in the face of the fierce tigers in Jiangdong, Liu Biao did suffer a little loss, but because of Sun Jian's hasty advance, he was ambushed by Liu Biao's general Huang Zu, and unfortunately was killed by random arrows.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Yuan Shuzhi was in Nanyang, and joined forces with Sun Jian to attack and seize The State of Biao, so that Jian attacked the table. Jian was killed by the arrows, the army was defeated, and the technique could not win the table.
Seeing that Sun Jian had been defeated, Liu Biao began to fight back against Yuan Shu and forced him out of Nanyang. This battle Liu Biao won, but he formed an enemy, not Yuan Shu, but the two brothers Sun Ce and Sun Quan in Jiangdong. After solving the threat of Yuan Shu, Liu Biao was not satisfied with the status quo, and he also stared at the fat meat of Yizhou, but because Liu Yan still had some strength, Liu Biao just attacked with simple language.
After Liu Yan's death, seeing Liu Zhang's incompetence, Liu Biao began to infiltrate Yizhou, but although Liu Zhang was incompetent, the Yizhou generals were still able to hold up the card, so Liu Biao's plan to control Yizhou was not successful. Yizhou did not fight, but Liu Biao found an opportunity in Jiaozhou, and in order to balance Liu Biao's influence in Jiaozhou, Cao Cao appointed Jiaotong's powerful shi Xie to lead Jiaozhou Mu and confront Liu Biao.
A few years later, Liu Biao was also old, and the people of his generation were basically gone, when those juniors became the overlords of the side, after Cao Cao pacified the north, it was only a matter of time before he went south, and the Sun clan of Jiangdong was ready to avenge their father's revenge. Looking at his own side, the two sons are useless, Cai Mao is a surrender faction, Liu Bei is not with Cao Cao, but there are only those two people in his hands. Maybe Liu Biao closed his eyes just thinking about it.
Some views on Liu Biao
Liu Biao died, and the Jingzhou he had guarded for half his life was also lost, but this alone did not prove that Liu Biao was a fool. In summary, Liu Biao's Jingzhou was not in vain, and before Liu Biao's death, the war in Jingzhou had never been broken, not only with Sun Ce and Sun Quan in the east, but also with Cao Cao in the north, Liu Biao had also been using troops against him, Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei were examples.
Looking at Liu Biao's corrupt nature, Liu Biao is a Confucian, but he is definitely not a corrupt Confucian, but an accomplished scholar. In addition to the two Famous Taoist Confucian texts of Zhou Yi Zhang sentences and the Five Classics Chapters and Sentences, Liu Biao also participated in the revision of the Jingzhou Astrology, which was an astronomical book in early China, but unfortunately it has now been basically lost.
In addition, Liu Biao's position in the late Han Dynasty was not simple, Chen Shou wrote Liu Biao with Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao when writing the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was enough to prove that Liu Biao was a weighty figure at that time, and then look at his subordinates, in addition to Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei' affiliated forces, jingzhou's warlords and scribes were enough to make other warlords afraid.
References :Pei's Notes on the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Zizhi Tongjian (Zizhi Tongjian)