It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the great master of the Taiping Dao, Zhang Jiao, gathered hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops to revolt, and thus created an era of division of the masses. In that chaotic world where heroes rise in all directions, and there are guns and grass kings, many heroes have emerged, some people want to unify the world and establish hegemony, some people want to revive the former glory of the Han Room, and some people only want to be a mountain king who has no quarrel with the world.
One of them is particularly special, this person is named Zhang Lu. Although he was only a small warlord, he occupied Hanzhong for thirty years, and with the belief of "Five Buckets of Rice", he created a unique "utopia" in the chaotic world of wars and horses, in the territory under his jurisdiction, rice and meat can be eaten, the night is not closed, everyone has clothes, for the war-torn people, this is simply heaven.
Zhang Lu's grandfather was Zhang Ling, the ancestor of "Zhengyi", who was very prestigious in Shudi, because he needed to pay five buckets of rice to join the guild, so he was also called "Five Buckets of Rice Road". When it reached Zhang Lu's generation, the Wudou Rice Sect became more and more prosperous, and thus attracted the attention of Liu Yan, the Official of Yizhou.
Zhang Lu's mature and beautiful mother, knowing that Liu Yan had noticed her son, often went in and out of Liu Yan's house, and she knew what relationship the two had developed without asking. Zhang Lu relied on his mother's help and the power of his followers to obtain an official and a half-position from Liu Yan.
Zhang Lu was initially only appointed as a petty officer, and together with his colleagues led an army to attack Hanzhong. After the defeat of Hanzhong, Zhang Lu not only killed his colleagues, but also took over his subordinates and occupied Hanzhong as king from then on. At this time, his "dry guy" Liu Yan was already dead, and after Liu Yan's son Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, he heard that Zhang Lu had become an anti-bone boy, and in a fit of rage, he killed Zhang Lu's mother and his family in Yizhou. Zhang Lu was in pain and never wanted to die, and from then on, he began a thirty-year-long confrontation with the Liu family.
In fact, the people under Liu Zhang's rule lived no more comfortably than the people under Zhang Lu, who established a utopian state of "theocracy" in Hanzhong. Here, everyone pays attention to honesty, can not do evil things, "sacrificial wine" on the side of the road to build a "righteous house", which is placed with all kinds of food, there are meat and vegetarian, passing by can eat enough. But do not allow waste, nor too much greed, otherwise you may be entangled in "ghosts". In addition, those who commit crimes have three chances of being forgiven, and if it is only a minor crime, they can be absolved of their sins by simply performing voluntary labor.
All kinds of social welfare attracted the residents around Hanzhong to migrate to this happy city, and even barbarian tribes outside the country rushed to naturalize. However, Zhang Lu did not want to provoke war, but the war fire refused to let him go. Liu Zhang in the south and Cao Cao in the north both coveted Zhang Lu's territory.
After Liu Zhang saw that Ma Chao and Han Sui were defeated by Cao Cao, he thought that the next person to suffer must be himself, so he asked Liu Bei to help, and as a result, the entire Yizhou was occupied by Liu Bei.
At this time, Zhang Lu had two paths to take, one was to submit to Cao Cao, and the other was to defect to Liu Bei. Zhang Lu thought about it for a moment and came up with a sentence, "I'd rather be a slave of Wei Than a guest for Liu Bei." He thought that Liu Beiwai was a gentleman and a villain, and if he went to defect, he might be killed.
Of course, surrender was not an easy task, his younger brother Zhang Wei first disagreed, Zhang Wei led the army to block Cao Cao, after being defeated by Cao Cao, the military master Yan Pu also did not agree to Zhang Lu's immediate surrender, so that he would be looked down upon by Cao Cao.
Zhang Lu could only choose to run, and before he fled, he ordered the people to seal up the warehouse and leave a note to Cao Cao: "I originally wanted to surrender, but now is not the time, I had to temporarily avoid the front, these goods are all state, please check it." ”
After Cao Cao saw this, he was very moved, and sent someone to persuade Zhang Lu to surrender, giving him the high-ranking official Houlu, and his son was also given the title of Marquis, and enjoyed the glory and wealth in the second half of his life.
In such a chaotic world, Zhang Lu was still able to establish his own ideal country and let the people who depended on him live a happy and happy life, which was extremely rare. Although later, even if the time did not coincide, Zhang Lu also tried to minimize the harm to the people, which shows that Zhang Lu was one of the large and small warlords in the Three Kingdoms such as the carp across the river, who was both ambitious and the most knowledgeable about current affairs.