I don't know if you have such a doubt when you look at the Three Kingdoms, that is, Liu Bei has the most noble surname, but he has to run for his life, and even had to follow his mother to sell straw shoes when he was a child. On the contrary, Cao Cao, a surname that is not noble at all, has a childhood life that is better than Liu Bei's. Why was Liu Bei, as an imperial aristocrat, only able to sell straw shoes on the street to support himself, while Cao Cao, a commoner surname, could effortlessly possess countless riches, so that later he could easily build the name of Tianzi to control the whole world. The cause of the whole thing has to start from the time of Emperor Wu of han, and then let Xiaobian lead everyone to deeply understand these interesting things about the Han Dynasty!
When Emperor Wudi of Han was emperor, those nobles surnamed Liu all had their own side of the world, and it was precisely because of this that they became very arrogant, they thought that they could also be emperors on this land, so they did not pay attention to Emperor Wudi of Han at all. In order to solve this problem, the emperor chose a very good method, he simply handed over the land directly to the nobles to take care of, but made a request, that is, after the nobles died, all his fields should be divided equally among his children. This proposal was approved by everyone, because it would avoid the phenomenon of children fighting for the inheritance of their father's property. But over time, people began to realize how smart the emperor was. Because at that time, each prince would have many concubines, and there would be more children, no matter how big the princely state was, after a generation, it would no longer pose any threat to the emperor.
At the same time, the emperor also proposed another rule, that is, every prince must hand over a certain amount of gold every year, and at the beginning, everyone did not take this gold seriously, because every princely state had a great cause and did not look down on this little bit of gold. However, by the time of their sons' generation, even the largest property was divided up by many children, which made it impossible for many countries to hand over enough gold on time. The emperor was waiting for this opportunity, and those countries that did not hand over the gold on time were all dismissed from their official positions and received the land in their hands, and it was not long before Emperor Wu of Han successfully took back all the land of the princely states.
As the third generation, Liu Bei naturally also experienced that cruel era, although he was a nobleman, he could not hand over enough gold on time, and finally he could only become a commoner. Although he became an ordinary poor man, he had to work hard for his own life, so he embarked on a life of selling straw shoes with his mother. Compared with his experience, Cao Cao was obviously much better, although his grandfather was only a eunuch, but because he spent a very long time in the imperial court, he had a large network, which was finally used by Cao Cao, and it was precisely because of this that he was able to rise rapidly in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty and become a hegemon in the world. Although liu bei eventually grew up to be able to match Cao Cao with his unremitting efforts, he paid much more than Cao Cao along the way, and the source of all this was because of Emperor Wu of Han.