Zhuge Liang did not turn to the strongest Cao Cao, but to the weakest Liu Bei, and the reason in our cognition is nothing more than "rather a chicken head than a phoenix tail."
However, with Zhuge Liang's talent, no matter which wise lord he trusts, he will survive for ten years and eight years, he will be able to stand out, and it will be sooner or later that he will stay up a little longer and become a "chicken head" above ten thousand people under one person.
Liu Zhang's cousin Liu Zhang was weak and did not have the heart to chase deer, zhuge Liang did not surrender to understandable, but Sun Quan and Cao Cao both had the ambition to chase deer, of which Cao Cao also proposed "meritocracy" and attached great importance to talent, so why did Zhuge Liang turn to Liu Bei, who was still dependent on Liu Biao at that time, was it really for the illusory ambition of "reviving the Han Room"? In fact, the six-character crazy words spoken by Zhuge Liang when he was young have pointed out that it is impossible to turn to Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and the reason is not simply "rather a chicken head than a phoenix tail."
01
The situation before Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain is rarely recorded in the history books, and a passage from the "Wei Luo" is quoted in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms And Zhuge Liang Biography", which can glimpse the true face of Zhuge Liang when he was young.
Liang was in Jingzhou, with Jian'an Chu and Yingchuan Shi Guangyuan, Xu Yuanzhi, Runan Meng Gongwei and other travels to study, the three of them were skilled, and Liang looked at his general plans alone. Every morning and night calmly, often holding his knees and shouting, and saying three people: "The three people of the Qing Dynasty can enter the Thorn Shi Gun Shouya." The three asked where they were, bright but smiling without saying anything.
Among them, three sentences make the image of the young Zhuge Liang jump on the paper, which is completely different from Xu Shu, Shi Tao and other celebrities.
1, "Liang alone to look at its outline", indicating that Zhuge Liang has read a lot of books and is knowledgeable. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucianism flourished, but there were many classifications of Confucianism, and if any one of them wanted to be "skilled", it might not be able to do it in a poor lifetime.
2, "Every morning and night calmly, often hold the knee and whistle", in the morning and night clean environment to hold the knee long whistle. Many famous scholars in the Han Dynasty have records of "shouting", but Zhuge Liang held his knees and whistled in the morning and night, obviously different from ordinary people, with both vision and expectation for the future, and the dashing hero Haojie who did whatever he wanted, and was very confident in himself.
3, "Qing Three people can go to the Thorn Shi Gun Shou", and the three people asked About Zhuge Liang, he was "but laughed but did not say", obviously Zhuge Liang is very conceited, thinking that his ability is far superior to the three people, but did not say it. When zhuge liang evaluated Jiang Huan, he said, "Jiang Huan, the instrument of sheji, is not the talent of a hundred miles", the hundred miles of the sword is the thorn shi gun shou, and the instrument of the sheji is the talent of the prime minister, so Zhuge Liang should consider himself to be the talent of the prime minister.
02
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's Biography", there is also a small record of Zhuge Liang's youth.
Xuan Pawn, Liang Gong Cultivating Long Mu, good for "Liang Father Yin". Eight feet tall, each self-comparison with Guan Zhong, Le Yi, when people are not allowed to be. However, Boling Cui Zhouping (崔钧), Yingchuan Xu Shuyuanzhi (徐庶) and Liang are friendly and are called Xinran.
Among them, the six words of "self-comparison pipe Zhongle Yi" are the core, except for Cui Jun and Xu Shu, others laugh too crazy, and others can't see through it.
Guan Zhong was the famous minister of the State of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, assisting the Duke of Qi Huan to dominate the Spring and Autumn Period, and Guan Zhong made amazing achievements in many fields such as politics and economy, and personally won the trust of the Duke of Qi Huan. Le Yi was a famous general of the Warring States yan state, with a weak Yan army, crushed the strong Qi in one fell swoop, and even almost destroyed the state of Qi, if it were not for the death of King Yan Zhao, who trusted him very much, the king of Yan Hui suspected Le Yi, causing Le Yi to flee to the State of Zhao, the State of Qi may have already destroyed the country, and the State of Yan that annexed the State of Qi may be able to create a greater miracle and destroy the remaining five kingdoms in one fell swoop.
Xu Shu and the other three people asked Zhuge Liang's ambitions, Zhuge Liang smiled and did not say anything, this paragraph gave the answer, Zhuge Liang's ambitions are even more ambitious than we think, not simply famous ambitions, but also the military ambition of "striking weak and strong" to achieve a great reversal miracle.
03
To sum up, Zhuge Liang has three criteria for choosing the main body, and only Liu Bei meets all of them.
1, Qi Huan is public to Guan Zhong, Yan Zhaowang is to Leyi, and Zhuge Liang hopes that the future lord will trust him very much. The existence of Liu Beisan Gu Maolu is very controversial in history, but when "ploughing Nanyang", Zhuge Liang had close contact with Liu Bei, but did not communicate with Cao Cao and Sun Quan, it should be Liu Bei who made Zhuge Liang feel trusted, and later Liu Bei entrusted Zhuge Liang to further explain the existence of this trust.
2, Cao Cao Sun Quan did not lack talent, the civilian and military generals under him were all in place, and if Zhuge Liang defected to these two people, it would be very difficult to get ahead. Among them, Cao Cao held tianzi hostage to order the princes, and the position was that of a chancellor, and Zhuge Liang could not compete with Cao Cao for a position; in addition to Sun Quan's complete structure, his brother Zhuge Jin was in Eastern Wu, and Zhuge Liang could not block his brother's way to become a knight. Only Liu Bei, with only a few famous generals under him, seriously lacked top civilian officials, and only in the Liu Bei clique could Zhuge Liang quickly become a famous minister, thus realizing the ambition of "self-comparison and management of Zhong".
3, Le Yi is a typical example of the great reversal miracle of "striking strong with weakness", and Cao Cao and Sun Quan are all princes of one side, of which Cao Cao is the strongest warlord and Sun Quan is the second strongest warlord in the world. At that time, Liu Bei was attached to Liu Biao, not even a piece of land, miserable can not be more tragic, Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei to achieve a great reversal, and even planned to seize the world, in line with Zhuge Liang's lofty ambitions. To put it simply, as long as the lord is the lord, who is the most miserable Zhuge Liang is most likely to join whom.
After Liu Bei's death, Wei Guohuaxin, Wang Lang, Chen Qun, Zhuge Zhang, and others wrote to Zhuge Liang, believing that there was no hope for the Shu state, and exhorting Zhuge Liang to lead the ministers of culture and military affairs to surrender at an early date, for which Zhuge Liang wrote an article entitled "Zhengyi", refuting this argument, holding that "the ancestors of the past generations have created the old foundation, and they have fought thousands of pawns, and destroyed more than 400,000 strong brigades on the outskirts of Kunyang. Xi Xuanyuan's clan was tens of thousands of pawns, controlling the four sides, and ding (four seas) [hai nei], and hundreds of thousands of divisions, according to the right way, were guilty, and there were those who could be obtained and (thousands) [dry] imitators", with Liu Xiu's thousands of people to win the victory at the Battle of Kunyang, the ancient Yellow Emperor tens of thousands of people defeated the four emperors, pacified the world, and now Shu Han has hundreds of thousands of troops, and will be able to win victory with weak blows. That is to say, Zhuge Liang firmly believed that the Shu state could defeat the strong with the weak and achieve the goal of a great reversal.
It can be seen that Zhuge Liang did not turn to the powerful Cao Cao Sun Quan, in fact, he was already doomed when he was young, in today's words, Zhuge Liang did not take the usual road, but chose the most difficult road, Liu Bei just met Zhuge Liang's requirements. Of course, this thorny road, once successful, Zhuge Liang's merits will be unprecedented, Guan Zhong + Le Yi's merits, enough to kill Guan Zhong, Le Yi, Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Han Xin and others.
Zhuge Liang's lifelong ambitions, Wen should be comparable to the first Xiang Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Wu should be comparable to the first person Le Yi who is strong with a weak blow, it is simply unprecedented, I believe that even the most determined Zhuge Liang black powder, this must have to be solemnly respected.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Luo, etc