As we all know, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is based on the real historical story of the Three Kingdoms by the author Luo Guanzhong, most of the characters and historical events in it are real, and the background and framework are exactly the same as the real history, which is why the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is so popular. But the strange thing is that in the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in fact, it is not the Three Kingdoms, but the Four Kingdoms, but this part of Luo Guanzhong is not written into the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
First of all, to give you science popularization, the fourth country at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was established by Gongsun Du, the military strength is far below the other three kingdoms, everyone in the study of history, in fact, it is easy to ignore this country. Gongsun Du is also a hero of the chaotic world, when the end of the Han Dynasty was in chaos, he first established himself as a waiter, recruited troops and horses, laid his own territory in the Liaodong region, and then established the Yan state. At that time, Cao Cao was still blackmailing tianzi to order the princes, so the State of Yan was actually the earliest of the Four Kingdoms.
However, the good times did not last long, and later the other three kingdoms were established, and the Yan state was in an embarrassing situation. Although the founding of the country was founded earlier, its military strength was far inferior to that of the other three countries, and it could only survive in the cracks. Fortunately, at that time, the neighboring Cao Wei needed to deal with Eastern Wu and Shu Han, and did not make time to fight against the Yan state, which allowed the Yan state to continue to live. Later, Shu Han was harvested by Cao Wei, and eastern Wu was in civil strife, and the State of Wei finally had time to clean up the State of Yan, which had been obstructing the eyes, and the successor of the State of Yan, Gongsun Yuan, was weak and eventually destroyed by Sima Yi, and the State of Yan withered away.
So why doesn't Luo Guanzhong mention this Yan country in the book? In fact, he also considered the integrity of the story, although the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a novel based on history, but the meaning of entertainment is greater than the truth. Therefore, Luo Guanzhong will add a lot of unwarranted plots to enrich the main characters, and the story of Yan Guo really has no conflict points, it is easily destroyed, and there is really no need to write ink. And even if Luo Guanzhong has passed in one of them, it is also an obstacle to the development of the plot, after all, no matter how weak the Yan Country is, it is also one of the countries, and if the content is too small, it will make the story line become lacking and reduce the excitement of the novel.
And Although Gongsun Du was quite legendary in his life, he was incompatible with the other three legendary figures, and he almost did not experience political battles, and soon pulled up the team and established his own regime. However, Sun Quan, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are often entangled, and this friction has created the novel's brilliance. And Gongsun Du and Yan Guo are as incompatible as if they were on the wrong set, there is no conflicting development at all, and naturally they can only be deleted.
The most important point for Luo Guanzhong to abandon the plot of the Yan kingdom is the geographical location, although the Liaodong region is also an important frontier place, but the core of the Central Plains should be the place where the heroes fight, after all, in the hearts of the ancients, there is also a regional plot. Moreover, the Central Plains region pays more attention to events such as the history of novels, and writing the stories of the Central Plains will make them more substitutionary, increase the dissemination and discussion of the story, and let Luo Guanzhong's masterpieces be carried forward.
To sum up, although the State of Yan was also one of the more important countries at that time, its remote terrain, no major battles and battles during its establishment, and most of the time there was no intersection between the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains, which led to Luo Guanzhong finally erasing the State of Yan directly in the novel. In fact, this matter is also to blame Gongsun Du himself, he is really too unambitious, the first founding of the country is obviously the biggest advantage, but he does not want to unify the Central Plains, just occupy one side, be a tu emperor, this may be the reason why the Yan kingdom can not survive in the end, Huai Bi its sin!