"Six out of Qishan", "Seven Captures of Meng".
When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, everyone generally talks about it, and sometimes they will fight over whose force value is high. The Three Kingdoms is not only history, but also the spiritual food of everyone who likes the story of the Three Kingdoms. What Xiaobian wants to say today is why Zhuge Liang can't unify the three kingdoms? At the beginning, he was the "Wolong" that Mr. Shui Jing strongly recommended and let Liu Bei fight several victorious battles. In order to get the assistance of the "Wolong" Zhuge Kongming, Liu Bei also personally "Three Gu Maolu". The first two times Liu Bei did not see Zhuge Liang at all, and Guan Zhang and zhang almost had a hard time putting up with Zhuge Liang's "closed door soup".
For this, Liu Bei criticized the two for not having the strength, and Liu Bei firmly believed that Zhuge Liang had great talent and had to be invited. At this time, Zhang Fei even wanted to tie Zhuge Liang up. Liu Bei was still humbly waiting for Zhuge Liang in the courtyard, and for the third time, Zhuge Liang was finally touched by Liu Bei's sincerity. Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei discussed the situation in the world, saying that Cao Cao "blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and this sincerity should not be fought with", Sun Quan owned Jiangdong, "the country is dangerous and the people are attached, the meritocracy can be used for it, and it can be used for help." Liu Biao and Liu Zhang are weak and can be replaced by Jing and Yi as the base. Three divisions of the world stabilize the foundation, and finally dominate the world. But later, why did Zhuge Liang fail to unify the world?
I think there are three reasons, first of all, the national strength of the Shu state is relatively weak, whether it is at the national level or the people level.
The national strength was weak, and Wei Wu was too strong
The population of the Shu state was the smallest among the three countries, so the troops that could be deployed were much less. The land area is also the smallest in the three countries, so the land planted and the grain harvested are also the least in the Shu country. In other respects, both the State of Wei and the State of Wu were able to overpower the State of Shu by a large margin. For example, in terms of talent, the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Shu State were deified in later generations, Fazheng, Pang Tong, Fei Yi, Jiang Wan, Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Mi Zhu, Dong Yun... These courtiers do not say that there is moisture.
Only from the back of the military general fault, the military strength is weak, you can meet the Shu kingdom will die. There was barely a Jiang Wei doing the final "struggle" after Zhuge Liang's death. On the other hand, the talents of the State of Wei were abundant, and the Sima family, Guo Huai, Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, and so on, made great contributions to the suppression of the State of Shu. The State of Shu was really completely inferior to the State of Wei in these respects. In the end, it is not surprising that the three countries could not be unified.
Although Zhuge is a god, he will fall from the stars
Second, Zhuge Liang's military ability and life expectancy were not enough to save the declining Shu state, and "supporting the building will fall and turn the tide from both falling" is only a beautiful fantasy.
Since the deaths of Liu Bei and others one after another, Zhuge Liang monopolized power, and zhuge Chengxiang, who was exhausted, had to do everything himself all day long, and most of the big and small affairs were personally done, and he died of illness at the age of 53. No wonder Sima Yi would say, "Kong Ming is less troublesome than eating, how can he stay for a long time?" Looking at Zhuge Liang's military achievements, the great battles he fought in the main history are almost only "six out of Qishan" and "seven captures of Meng". In the "Battle of Chengdu", Liu Bei adopted Zhuge Liang's strategy, mainly Liu Bei fought.
As for the "burning of Bowangpo and Xinye" and the "Battle of Hanzhong", it was basically Liu Bei who fought, and Zhuge Liang even opposed the continuation of the front line of reinforcements and quarreled with Liu Bei. Before Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang did not grasp the military and political encyclopedia, and he was more of a strategist who offered advice and advice.
The Kingdom of Shu has gone, leaving nothing to hate
Finally, what if Zhuge Liang replaced the "unsupportable Ah Dou"? Zhuge Liang held great military and political power, and did not have to be ordered by Liu Chan at all. Can he do a better job of governing the country in war, or even unify the world?
If zhuge Liang really replaced Liu Chan after Liu Bei's death, then there were bound to be some courtiers or forces in the Territory of Shu who opposed it, and the internal strife in Shu was already weak, and after tossing and turning, the strength would definitely decline greatly. The State of Wei and the State of Wu may have destroyed the State of Shu at this time. If Zhuge Liang became the monarch of the Shu state, he raised the domestic governance to a higher level.
At this time, could the Shu state compete with the powerful Wei state? The strength of the State of Wei is as strong as the sun in the sky, thriving day by day! It is believed that the State of Wei can start a war with the State of Shu at any time and will also win. In the face of the powerful strength of the State of Wei and under the torrent of history, no one can stop the road to the unification of the State of Wei, such as Zhuge Kongming, who has unparalleled wisdom, nor can he stop the great cause of the unification of the State of Wei. This has left behind the post-secular language of "Zhuge Liang in three parts of the world, and Liu Bowen in the unified country".
Strictly speaking, at this time, the state of Wei had become the "Western Jin Dynasty", and Sima Yan seized the power of Emperor Wei, and in 265 AD, the name of the state was changed to "Jin". In 280, after the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Wu State and the Western Jin Dynasty to unify the world, ending the warlord scuffle of nearly a hundred years at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, according to experts, the population of Yongkang in the first year (300 AD) recovered to 33 million, and there was a good situation of "Taikang Prosperity".
Therefore, in the face of the tide of history, in the face of Wei Guo's strong strength, it was not something that Zhuge Liang could resist. No scheme can determine a certain necessity. Zhuge Liang's inability to unify the world was not that Zhuge Liang was too weak, but that the wei state was too strong.