The three historical figures whose primary school textbooks were exaggerated grew up but began to "do evil", and many people have heard of them
In the primary school textbook, we once learned about many great characters through a short text, and these characters all have outstanding features, and some of them are even worshipped by us for life.
But unfortunately, although the characters here have performed brilliantly, many of them are just a moment of light, and then for various reasons, they have taken a crooked road, and even become the object of our scorn.
This may not be thought of by many people, and they are deeply influenced by the textbooks, and whenever we mention these people, we have great respect. In fact, in the textbook of that year, at least these three people were representatives of the early glory and the later stage of the crooked road.
In the textbook, the first one that should be taken out for comment is Kong Beihai Kong Rong. In our textbook, there is a text that was once loved by everyone, and this text is Kong Rong Rang Pear. To be honest, many students at that time were affected by this article and even fixed their own standards of behavior.
You know, Kong Rong was only a few years old, but when he divided the pears with his brother, he was able to take the initiative to choose the youngest one. You know, Kong Rong was just a child at that time, and the nature of a child was to possess and fool around, but he was able to be humble, what a virtue was this? So when the teacher and parents talked about this paragraph with great care, we felt extremely ashamed when we listened, and we were determined to look up to him.
In fact, this paragraph is not exaggerated, and there is not much embellishment in the language textbook, which is what Kong Rong did when he was a child. However, just as the ironic words of The Elder Xiao Ge of the Ming Dynasty to Zhang Juzheng in 1566, the hour has passed, and it is inevitable.
Kong Beihai is such a case, when he was a child, he was so humble and became one of the spiritual representatives of the Chinese nation, and as a result, he grew up and acted recklessly, including not limited to using his own culture to cultivate the heroes of the world, especially Cao Cao, who was almost a keyboard man every day and interfered in the policies of the imperial court. Not only that, Kong Rong actually made an improper statement after the death of his parents, accusing his parents of not being too entangled in their feelings, proposing that for example, in the bottle, out is to leave!
You know, Kong Rong was a descendant of Confucius, and he carried baggage when he was young, so he shocked the world, and even seriously impacted the foundation of the inspection system, so Kong Beihai was killed by Boss Cao, and he carried a notoriety of filial piety until his death.
The incident of Kong Beihai has been shocking, but the next person is even more unacceptable, because Kong Beihai only subverts traditional morality at most, but it does not really hurt people, and the next figure is really oppressing the people.
This person's name is Li Sheng, maybe everyone has not heard his name, but definitely heard his song of mercy, including that sentence, hoeing the day of the afternoon, sweat drops down the soil.
This man spoke so grandly, as if he had great respect for the common people, but in fact, this man's extravagance was outrageous. There are historical records that this person consumes 200 chickens a day, just to make a dish of mountain treasures and seafood.
The history books also record that this person has made a big show every time, and once Liu Yuxi wanted to defect to him, only to witness her luxury, so that old Liu fled into the wilderness and was ashamed to be with him.
And it is worth mentioning that if he only has money to engage in pomp and circumstance, luxury consumption is nothing, but this person's money is through corruption and bribery and the exploitation of the people's income with officials. While shouting respect for the peasants, on the other hand, they enjoyed it every day, and raised a glass with many officials to exploit the people.
The inconsistency inside and outside has reached such a point, which is really outrageous and vicious, and it is still above kong beihai.
The second person is already so subversive, and this third person is even higher. This person's name is Kuang Heng, and when we were young, we read a text called Chiseling a Wall to Borrow Light.
At that time, the teacher was particularly fond of this text, repeatedly selling it to us, telling us that in order to read, it was basically hard enough to make people look up to the mountain, and those of us should try to learn from it.
In fact, it is also true that Kuang Heng's performance in his youth made him an absolute flaunting figure under the inspection system. But that was only the beginning, and the history that followed was disappointing. We don't care what Kuang Heng is trying to do to read for what? But we know that after this man studied, he gave the green light all the way to becoming an official, and in order to obtain higher rights, he was almost unscrupulous and colluded with everyone.
The history books clearly record that the eunuchs in the imperial court were in power, making the government black, and this court chancellor not only did not dare, but also suffered from his own suffering when he was a commoner, but on the contrary, he aided and abetted abuse, and in the face of the eunuchs in power, he remained silent, and he did not hesitate when scraping the benefits.
The most criticized thing is that when the eunuch was in power and the country was harmed, he only knew how to show concessions. However, in the face of the imperial court and all kinds of meritorious ministers who expanded abroad, especially Chen Tang and others who had beaten the ambitions of the Han people, he struck a heavy blow and destroyed the backbone of these empires one by one.
Although this person later caused himself to be killed because of an awkward quarrel with the eunuch, the history books record that this person embezzled and accepted bribes to play with power before falling out with the eunuch, which was even more powerful than the other party.
Therefore, this example that we should learn from as a child has become a moth that really harmed the country at that time, on the one hand, it was silent to the ministers of the chaotic country, on the other hand, it was its own incorruptibility in terms of corruption and bribery, of course, the most important thing was to deal a fierce blow to Chen Tang and other able people. All these actions are a bitter blow to the country, and their destructiveness is still above Li Sheng.
These are the great people who used to be in our textbooks, who have bloomed with the brilliance of humanity in the first half of their lives, and even become part of the spirit of the Chinese nation. But unfortunately, everyone has their own growth experience, some people from bad people to good people, and some people from good people to bad people, it is obvious that the above three are the part of the long crooked.
However, we must also look at this dialectically, whether these figures are good or bad, we must always remember that Chinese study history not only to learn lessons, but also to criticize the glorious side of inheriting these people. Even if the lives of the above three are worthy of our scorn, their short glorious moments will be inherited by us. Only with this mindset can we better read history, understand history, and lay down the right values.