In 234 AD, The Shu Han Chancellor Zhuge Liang led the Sixth Northern Expedition, and after more than a hundred days of confrontation between the Shu army and the Wei army in Wuzhangyuan, Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four. So if Zhuge Liang could live to be eighty years old, would Shu Han be able to dominate the world?
The reason for Zhuge Liang's short life
Zhuge Liang once wrote in the "Table of Teachers" that in order to repay Liu Bei's kindness, he would "bow down and do his best, and after death", Zhuge Liang made a big package, no matter how big or small, and he was self-congratulatory, which can be described as a bloody drain.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang's death is inseparable from his overwork, which also reflects from one side that a character like Zhuge Liang's, with his conscientious attitude, cannot live long.
If Zhuge Liang could live a few more years, would it be possible for the Shu Kingdom to unify the world? The answer is no.
First of all, the resources of the Shu state were shorter than those of the Wei state
In the land of nine states under the heavens, the Shu state only occupied yizhou, and compared with most of the central plains occupied by the Wei state, its land, talent, and economy were far behind, and the war was a resource.
Secondly, the Shu state had fewer talent troops than the Wei state
Although there is no detailed record, according to the inferences of some historical records, the strength of the Wei state is conservative at more than 400,000, while the strength of the Shu state is about 100,000, and the gap in strength alone is very large.
The other is talent, although the State of Shu occupies the land of one state, but the talent reserve is far less than that of the State of Wei, the land of the Nine Prefectures under the heavens, the State of Wei occupies six, but also the most developed Yellow River Valley at that time, but also the origin and development of Chinese civilization, the talent is far more than the State of Shu.
Finally, the internal contradictions of the Shu state were acute
The reason for Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition is that in addition to reviving the Han Dynasty, there is also an extremely important one, that is, to transfer internal contradictions through war, it should be known that the composition of shu Han is extremely complicated, and there are indigenous clans, and there are forces brought by Liu Yan when he entered Sichuan, and later Liu Bei brought a group of people into Sichuan, and this gang was divided into the old group and the Jingxiang group, Liu Bei was still alive and could suppress them, but after Liu Bei bai emperor was isolated, some forces began to stir.
And Liu Bei's fiasco in the Battle of Yiling greatly affected the national strength of the Shu state, so that the internal instability factors were fully exposed, and an important reason for Zhuge Liang to launch the Northern Expedition war was to turn the internal gaze to the outside, thereby weakening the internal contradictions, and the internal struggle of the Shu state after Zhuge Liang's death fully reflected the sharpness of the internal contradictions of the Shu state.
Therefore, even if Zhuge Liang lived to eighty and a hundred, the dream of reviving the Han Dynasty would be difficult to complete, but the Guozuo of the Shu Kingdom might grow a little longer.