Liu Bei's dying was the most poisonous plan, one arrow and three eagles cut the grass and roots for Liu Chan, and Zhuge Liang woke up like a dream on his deathbed

During the Three Kingdoms period, Uncle Liu Huang was a model of "entrepreneurial emperor", from the very beginning of the mat weaving and selling shoes, and finally entering the Sichuan Shu King,during which he left a legendary story for future generations. And most of us must have tied the word "Rende" to Liu Bei's character image, right? Yes, if you look at it from the records of Yanyi, this imperial uncle who weeps emotionally at every turn is indeed a rare benevolent king. But is that really the case?

It is not difficult for us to find that Liu Bei's personality change has undergone a transitional period. That is, in the early days of entrepreneurship until before entering Xichuan, Liu Bei had always been Huairen Huaide, and he also had great respect for the military Kong Ming that he had sought for three times, which could be said to be obedient to the point of obedience. In addition, he was justified by the title of "Uncle Emperor" at that time, and he also won the respect and love of the people of the world.

However, since Liu Bei's accession to Xichuan, especially after his ascension to the throne, his previously magnanimous and generous personality has undergone earth-shaking changes. For example, in order to avenge his brother's personal vendetta, he did not hesitate to cut off Sun Liu's alliance and poured all his national strength to attack Eastern Wu, so that he finally defeated Yiling, which not only caused a great loss of vitality to shu Han, but also died of illness in the White Emperor City. During this period, all the ministers in Shuzhong urged Liu Bei not to be arrogant, but he did not even accept Zhuge Liang's advice at that time, and changed his previous humble attitude, so that he suffered this great disaster.

However, perhaps the person who will die is also good in his words, Liu Bei did not finally understand it until his death, not only regretted it, but also summoned xiang xiang to the front of the collapse, which later had the touching story of the famous "If the heir can be supplemented, then supplemented, if he is not talented, the king can lead himself as the lord of Chengdu". After instructing Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei ordered the crown prince Liu Chan to recognize Kong Ming as his father, and everything was done according to his words. For Kong Ming, who was a courtier, Liu Bei's words and deeds naturally made him grateful and did not dare to rebel.

However, as an emperor of a generation, Liu Bei was naturally well versed in the art of power and scheming. So, is his act of defiance really as simple as we seem on the surface?

It should be known that after Liu Bei's troops entered Xichuan, two camps obviously appeared above the court. One was a group of relatives of the old ministers under the leadership of Liu Bei, while the other was liu zhang's old ministers represented by Li Yan. Therefore, behind the seeming peace between these two factions, there is actually an undercurrent. Therefore, Liu Bei first and finally elected Zhuge Liang and Li Yan as the left and right ministers, with the former as the main and the latter as the supplement, and jointly assisted the later lord in governing the country. Liu Bei's move seems to be out of respect for the two camps in the court and is not biased against each other, but in fact, it is still to be able to restrain each other between the two camps and avoid the power of either side.

Secondly, in the face of the Jiangshan Sheji that he had worked so hard to fight, if Liu Bei could really sincerely surrender Jiangshan to him, then he would be really condescending to become emperor, and it would not be too much to call him a saint. Therefore, in his words to Kong Mingto, his original intention was to test the loyalty of the prime minister. Moreover, at that time, the Qunchen was present, and every sentence and every word spoken by Zhuge Liang was witnessed by everyone, so even if the Future Minister really had a rebellious heart, the Qunchen would not agree. To put it bluntly, Liu Bei did not have complete trust in Kong Ming, otherwise he would not have let Li Yan take up shang shu ling.

Third, we all know that when we asked the generals about the aftermath, they only said a word to Zhao Yun alone, and the rest of the generals said everything. Why? The reason why Liu Bei did this was actually because Liu Bei made the worst plan, that is, if the two trusted and important ministers were to live up to it, then the military power held by Zhao Yun would also be able to support Han Ye and sort out the government and the opposition.

Therefore, it was not until Zhuge Liang was dying that he finally discovered the brilliant plan of the Former Emperor with one stone and three eagles. However, it was to make himself bow down and be loyal to the Shu Han regime; then to promote Li Yan to the throne, so that the old ministers of Shuzhong restrained Zhuge Liang's side; and finally, he also ordered Zhao Yun to "supervise" the government in case of an accident. Although this kind of imperial power technique is shrewd, it must be chilling to smell, right?

Of course, no matter how well Emperor Zhaolie's calculations were, he could not calculate the luck of Shu Han in the end, and although Cheng Xiang naturally knew that it was difficult to succeed, he still had a bold and loyal heart, just to repay the favor of the previous three Gu. However, when all the efforts of all people were given the title of "Duke of Anle" by the State of Wei, they were exhausted in the rolling waves of history.