Because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not clear on some issues, but the impact is particularly large, it misleads a lot of people. On the issue of Huang Zu, it is easy to mistakenly think that Huang Zu is just an ordinary general under Liu Biao, but in fact, this is not the case at all.
Jiangxia is indeed a county under Jingzhou, but it should be noted that Jingzhou was a thorn history department, that is, a supervision division, and the county was the highest administrative division in the Han Dynasty. The gunshou was two thousand stones, while the early thorn history was only a small official of six hundred stones, but only in the middle and late period, the thorn history department gradually materialized, and the level of the thorn history was higher.
Huang Zu was The Taishou of Jiangxia, which was appointed by the imperial court, not by Liu Biao. Moreover, when Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou, Huang Zu, as a county sheriff from a local powerful background, was already very powerful in Jiangxia, not the question of whether Liu Biao reused him or not, but whether he was willing to accept Liu Biao's leadership.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was an era that paid special attention to the birth of the family, and the more it was in the middle and late stages, the more it was attached. Huang Zu was born in the Jiangxia Huang clan, and the Jiangxia Huang clan produced many celebrities in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the highest of which was Huang Wan, who once served as a Situ, who was also a famous courtier at that time. Since then, the Jiangxia Huang clan is a door valve family, not an ordinary scholar family.
Therefore, when Liu Biao went to Jingzhou to serve as the assassin of Jingzhou, the situation itself was very delicate, and it was not easy for him to stabilize the situation. Like Huang Zu, the family has a huge power, and has formed a relatively strong independent force in Jiangxia, and the strategy that Liu Biao can adopt is only to win over and appease, and there is no question of whether he is reused.
Moreover, this kind of door valve family will form in-laws through marriage in the local area, close their relationship, and make this network of relationships more and more large. For example, after Liu Biao arrived in Jingzhou, in order to get the support of the local magnates, he married Lady Cai as a wife, because Lady Cai's mother was from the Huang clan of Jiangxia and was a close relative of Huang Zu.
Shortly after Zhuge Liang followed his uncle to Jingzhou, his uncle died, and he took his young brother to live in Jingzhou, and the last wife he chose was also from the Huang clan of Jiangxia, which gave Zhuge Liang a ticket to enter the local clan of Jingzhou, and he could successfully go out in Jingzhou later. You carefully ponder how big the Huang family's power in Jingzhou is.
This is also an important reason why Sun Jian will encounter resolute resistance when he attacks Jiangxia. It was because Huang Zu himself was a powerful gatekeeper of Jiangxia and had a huge power, so if Sun Jian could defeat Huang Zu, then he could take Jiangxia, plus Nanyang, which had already been occupied before, which meant that Yuan Shu could occupy the two richest counties in Jingzhou at that time.
It is precisely because Lady Cai herself is not only from the local door valve family in Jingzhou, but also has the relationship of the Jiangxia Huang clan, so when Liu Biao considers a successor, he will abolish Chang Liyou and make his young son Liu Chun the heir, rather than letting the older Liu Qi take over. Because Liu Qi's back is a local tyrant such as Cai and Huang, and Liu Qi has no foundation and lacks prestige, even if Liu Biao lets him succeed to the throne, he will not be able to sit steadily.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", an image of Liu Biao's fear of the inside is created, in fact, it is not because Liu Biao is afraid of the inside, what is Liu Biao? However, if you have sacrificed yourself to the heavens privately and have the heart of disobedience, how can you be afraid of a female stream? If he is afraid of the inside, it can only mean that he cannot fall out with his wife, because he knows that the consequences of falling out with her are very serious.
In fact, Liu Form rode into Jingzhou, and did not have any of his own hardcore forces, so he mainly engaged in various balances in Jingzhou to barely maintain the situation without chaos, so he reused people from the local door valve family, such as his counselor Ku Yue, who was also a big family. Rao was like this, and there was also the Zhang Xian Rebellion in Changsha.
Of course, on the other hand, it is precisely because Huang Zu's independence is relatively strong, so Liu Biao's attitude towards Huang Zu and Jiangxia is also more ambiguous. When Sun Jian and later Sun Ce and Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia successively, Liu Biao had sent troops to support him earlier, but gradually he did not pay much attention to it, and he watched Huang Zu fend for himself, which can also show that the relationship between Huang Zu and Liu Biao was not harmonious.
Cao Cao did not like you Heng at that time, so he sent someone to give him to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao could not stand You Heng's mouth cannon, and then gave him to Huang Zu. Huang Zu was really unceremonious and directly cut you heng down. You Heng was also a well-known celebrity in the country at that time, and Cao Cao and Liu Biao were unwilling to bear this notoriety, so Huang Zu did this thing that offended people without fear.
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