As we all know, liu bei once looked at Maolu three times in order to get Zhuge Liang. From the winter of 207 AD to the spring of 208 AD, Liu Bei of The Tun Army (present-day Xinye, Henan), with the generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, went to Zhuge Caolu in Longzhong three times to ask Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain.
But in fact, among the talents under Liu Bei, the difficulty of getting it is definitely not Zhuge Liang, who is three gu maolu, but this person, in order to get this person, Liu Bei almost traveled half of China. This person is Liu Ba.
Liu Ba, from a family of official eunuchs. His grandfather Liu Yao was the Taishou of Cangwu Commandery in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his father Liu Xiang was also the Taishou of Jiangxia County and the general of Langkou.
Liu Ba was very famous when he was young, so Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou at that time, recruited Liu Ba out of the mountains several times in succession and recommended him as Maocai, but Liu Ba refused to agree. For Liu Ba's talent, even Zhuge Liang said: "In the midst of planning, I am not as good as zi chu yuan." ”
Therefore, in 190 AD, when Liu Ba was hiding from the military disaster in Lingling and serving as the chief bookkeeper of the county bureau Cao Official, Liu Bei asked his distant nephew Zhou Bu to go to him to study, and Liu Ba heard that it was Liu Bei's introduction, and desperately resigned, saying that he could not afford it and rejected Liu Bei's praise.
Thirteen years after Jian'an, Cao Cao marched south, Liu Biao died of illness, his son Liu Chun surrendered, Liu Bei led the people to retreat south, and a group of Jingchu celebrities fled south with Liu Bei, only Liu Ba "did not take the usual road", reversed, and went north to meet Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was naturally very happy with Liu Ba's surrender, so he summoned him as the governor of the prefecture and asked him to surrender and accept the three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang. Liu Ba heard that these places were very reluctant to go, why? Because Liu Bei is near Changsha. There was no way, Cao Cao had to persuade him many times, and Liu Ba was on the road.
Soon after Liu Ba was on the road, Cao Cao was defeated at Chibi, so Liu Bei occupied these three places, and Liu Ba naturally had no way to go back to Cao Cao to regain his life.
At that time, after Zhuge Liang heard about it, he immediately advised Liu Ba: "Liu Gongxiong is a man of great talent, unparalleled in the world, owns the land of Jingzhou, and the clutch of Providence and Human Will can be known from this." Where are you going to go when you leave? ”
As a result, Liu Ba still did not agree, and he also walked away to cross his toes. After coming to Jiaotong, Liu Ba did not stay long, then left, and turned from Jiaotong to Yizhou in Shudi, preparing to return from Yizhou to the Central Plains. As a result, Liu Ba had just arrived in Yizhou and was caught by Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang's father Liu Yan had been held up by Liu Ba's father, and Liu Zhang was naturally very happy to see Liu Ba, so Liu Ba was left in Yizhou by Liu Zhang.
After that, Liu Zhang asked Liu Ba what good opinion he had about himself? Liu Ba only mentioned one: "Don't accept Liu Bei, Liu Bei is a master, not a man, he will be a harm to the state when he enters Shu, and he cannot be accepted." ”
But Liu Zhang did not listen, and eventually Yizhou was swallowed by Liu Bei. When Liu Bei attacked Yizhou, he ordered the whole army: "Whoever dares to harm Liu Ba, he will destroy his three tribes." ”
Later, the warriors took Liu Ba, who could not escape, and Liu Bei was overjoyed. This time, Liu Ba, who had been halfway through China, finally couldn't escape the "evil relationship" with Liu Bei.
After zhuge liang's several elections, Liu Bei recruited Liu Ba as the left general Xi Cao Tuan.
So, the question is, why did Liu Ba always look down on Liu Bei and was unwilling to submit to Liu Bei?
The reason is related to Liu Ba's own personality, Liu Ba, who was born into a famous family, because he is quite talented, so he has developed a paranoid personality of arrogance and arrogance. From Liu Ba's initiative to go north to see Cao Cao, we can see his paranoid personality.
Moreover, Liu Ba, who also has the same surname as Liu Bei, believes that Liu Bei is only a martial artist, which is too far away from his famous and erudite talents. This is an inevitable portrayal of his personality, which is why Liu Ba despised Liu Bei all his life.
And it was this paranoia in his personality that led to his lifelong failure to make a name for himself. Although Liu Ba was talented, his personality made him useless, and in the end his fame was not as good as Zhuge Liang.com.
However, after Liu Bei submitted to Liu Bei, he also did two things: the first thing was that when Liu Bei became emperor, he announced to the emperor that all the literary edicts were given by Liu Ba.s.
The second thing is that Liu Ba suggested that Liu Bei mint "straight hundred coins", that is, copper coins with a face value of one hundred yuan, circulating in the market. At the same time, officials were sent to manage the market and stabilize prices.
Liu Bei followed Liu Ba's advice, and within a few months, the treasury was flushed. It shows that Liu Ba is indeed a financial expert. As early as 221 AD, Liu Ba knew how to use the supply and demand of money to regulate economic growth, and used government procurement to intervene in the market to stabilize prices, a full 1700 years before the British economist Keynesian monetary theory, no wonder Liu Bei even found half of China to get this person.
However, Liu Ba died of illness in 222, the second year of Liu Bei's reign as emperor. Die too early, otherwise you will certainly be able to create more merit.