During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes competed for hegemony, and wars were frequent. Duke Qi Huan listened to Bao Shuya's recommendation and appointed Guan Zhong who was released from the prisoner car as the prime minister, and according to Guan Zhong's strategy, the princes of Jiuhe became one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and Qi also became a great power in the East.
Coincidentally. There are such striking parallels in history. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and Xu Shu, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang almost repeated the story of Bao Shuya, Qi Huangong, and Guan Zhong. Liu Bei listened to Xu Shu's recommendation, "looked at the thatched house three times", and invited Zhuge Liang, the "cloth clothes" who was ploughing on Wolonggang, Nanyang. According to Zhuge Liang's strategic plan of "Caolu Pair", he finally divided the world with Wei and Wu, established the Shu Han regime, and achieved an imperial cause.
It is located in the Xu Shu Temple in Shanjiazhuang, Nanzhang County, Xiangyang
The story of "Xu Shu Goes to Recommend Zhuge " takes place in Xinye County, Nanyang City. In September of the sixth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (201), after Cao Cao won the Battle of Guandu, he took advantage of the situation to crusade against Liu Bei, who was fighting against Cao in Runan County (now Zhumadian City). Liu Bei was defeated and went to Jingzhou to defect to his brother Liu Biao. Liu Biao was afraid that Liu Bei's stationing in Xiangyang would be unfavorable to him, so he supplemented him with some men and horses, appointed him as a new wild herd, and asked him to guard the north gate for him to resist Cao Cao, who might go south at any time. During Liu Bei's defense of Xinye, Lu met Xu Shu, who recommended himself to join, and after some conversation, he saw that Xu Shu was wise and brave, so he worshiped him as a military advisor. At this time, Liu Beiwu was related to Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other fierce generals, assisted by Xu Shu, and his combat power increased greatly for a while, and he won several battles one after another in resisting the attack of Cao Cao's general Cao Ren. Cao Cao was very puzzled, Liu Bei was a defeated general who was beaten by himself, how could he defeat Cao Ren? In order to weaken Liu Bei's strength and clear the way for Jingxiang to go south, he obeyed the plan of the strategist Xun Yu, and made someone kidnap Xu Shu's mother to Xuchang, deceive Xu's mother's handwriting, forge a letter to his family, and write a letter to Xu Shu to Xuchang to meet. When Xu Shu heard that his mother was imprisoned by Cao Cao, he was immediately confused, hurriedly bid farewell to Liu Bei, and ran to Xuchang. Liu Bei was reluctant, and sent one trip after another, until he was sent to the Shayan Territory, before he said goodbye to Xu Shu with tears. Xu Shu saw that his mother was anxious, and hurried away on his horse, and gradually disappeared. Just as Liu Bei was about to return, he suddenly saw Xu Shu turning his horse back and said to Liu Bei: "I saw my mother's heart, and I almost missed a major event." There is a master in Nanyang Wollongong, named Zhuge Liang, known as Mr. Wolong, who has the talent of the heavens and latitudes, if he is invited out of the mountain, he will be able to help the lord achieve great things and restore the Han Dynasty. Outside the north gate of Shayan Town, Xinye County, there is an undulating hill, the local people call it "Split Ridge", according to legend, it is the place where Xu Shu walks the horse and recommends Zhuge to the mountain, there is a lying cow-shaped stone on the ridge, known as the "dismounted stone", the legend is that Liu Bei stepped on this stone at that time. On the gatehouse of the Beizhai Gate of Shayan Town, there is a stone plaque inlaid with four big characters of "looking back and recommending the virtuous".
The watershed of Shayan Town, Xinye County, also known as the Recommendation of Xianling, is the place where "Xu Shu walks and recommends Zhuge in the past", and the local "Recommendation Pavilion" is built at the place where Xu Shu and Liu Bei parted.
Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang were not only ambitious young talents in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but also close friends who regarded each other as confidants in life.
In the Jiaxian Museum of Pingdingshan City, I have seen such an inscription: the stele is 1.06 meters high, 0.6 meters wide, 0.2 meters thick, the surface is rough and uneven, and the shape is not right. No amount, no order, no payment. The material of the inscription is very ordinary, which is the red stone commonly found in the nearby mountains. One day in February 2006, a villager in Zhangdian Village, Likou Town, Jiaxian County, accidentally found a stone tablet with words when he was cleaning up a pile of old stones, and asked someone to defend it. After hearing the news, the cultural relics experts who rushed to verify that it was a stone tablet carved by Zhuge Liang when he was young. The stele is engraved with a few lines of Han Li Yin text, which reads: "Liang carries Yuan Zhi, Jian'an in the spring of the sixth year, and sets foot in Xianzong." The terrain is not strict, but it is quiet and beautiful, and it is the land of dragons and phoenixes. Bai Liuhou, looking up to his image is not prestigious, but he strategizes, decides for thousands of miles, and becomes the emperor's army. Our generation sighs, respects, and serves it. According to the background of the "Six Years of Jian'an" and the names of "Liang" and "Yuanzhi", experts invariably thought of the famous Shu Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and his friend Xu Yuanzhi. It turned out that this unsightly inscription was actually a stone tablet carved by the young Zhuge Liang and his friend Xu Yuanzhi when they traveled through Yingchuan and paid homage to the Liuhou Temple. A Han tablet can survive so far, it is precious, not to mention from the hand of Zhuge Liang, it is the only surviving stone carving of Zhuge Liang found so far, the value is immeasurable! Therefore, this tablet is named "Zhuge Liang Liuhou Temple Inscription Tablet", which is collected by the Jiaxian Museum as the treasure of the town hall.
Treasured in the Jiaxian Museum "Zhuge Liang Liuhou Ancestral Monument"
The discovery of the inscription of Zhuge Liang's Liuhou Ancestral Hall unexpectedly justified the name of Zhang Liang's hometown. At that time, many places were vying for the title of "Zhang Liang's hometown", because it was directly related to the local celebrity effect and the development of cultural tourism. This inscription is in the world, irrefutably proving that the Zhang Liang Temple of the Han Dynasty is in Zhangdian Village, Jiaxian County. Zhuge Liang, the wise sage who died nearly 1800 years, inadvertently settled a pen and ink lawsuit in the hometown of Zhang Liang, a sage and good minister he revered.
The inscription of Zhuge Liang Liuhou Ancestral Hall witnessed the friendship between Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu in his youth. Xu Shu, also known as Fu, the word Yuanzhi, the Eastern Han Dynasty Yingchuan people, since childhood, good swordsmanship, there is a chivalrous and righteous style, because the road is uneven and killed, is to avoid disaster and live in Jingzhou Nanzhang, more single blessing, his seclusion place because of him and the list of family village. Here, he abandoned the sword and halberd, folded his knowledge, studied in the rain and ploughed in the rain, and lived a stable life. Facing Yuxi Mountain, Shanjiazhuang faces the water mirror village where Sima Hui lives across the Yi water. Xu Shu and Sima Hui are fellow villagers, often go to Shuijingzhuang to visit the door, discuss knowledge with Sima Hui and others, and make some friends here, including Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang Liuhou ancestral monument rubbing, the inscription for Zhuge Liang handwritten carving. The content is: "Liang carries Yuanzhi, in the spring of the sixth year of Jian'an, and sets foot in Xianzong." The terrain is not strict, but it is quiet and beautiful, and it is the land of dragons and phoenixes. Bai Liuhou, looking up to his image is not prestigious, but he strategizes, decides for thousands of miles, and becomes the emperor's army. Our generation sighs, respects, and serves it. ”
Zhuge Liang's ancestral home was Yangdu County, Langya County (now Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province), and after his parents died one after another, he lived with his sister and younger brother with his uncle Zhuge Xuan. When he was 13 years old, he moved to Xiangyang with Zhuge Xuan. After his uncle died of illness, he took his family to Wollongong, Nanyang, to work and live in seclusion. During his time in Xiangyang, he had many contacts with local celebrities. Sima Hui is a heavyweight of the ancient literature and scripture school in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a native of Yingchuan Yangzhai, in order to avoid the war in the Central Plains, the family migrated south to Nanzhang, and lived in seclusion, known as Mr. Shuijing. He was noble by nature, indifferent to fame and fortune, and like many hermits at that time, "he either lived in seclusion to pursue his aspirations, or avoided his ways, or calmed himself to calm his restlessness, or went to danger in order to make his peace." "I'd rather be poor and lowly, plough the acres, than become an official, enjoy wealth and glory, and have been living in seclusion at the foot of Yuxi Mountain, in order to seek self-peace. At that time, Xiangyang celebrities Pang Degong and Huang Chengyan, as well as Xu Shu, Cui Zhouping, Shi Guangyuan, Meng Gongwei, Zhuge Liang, etc., who had lived in Xiangyang, all came to him to ask for advice, and formed a huge hermit group around Sima Hui. Because of Sima Hui, Zhuge Liang became close friends with Xu Shu and Cui Zhouping. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhuge Liang" contains: "Liang compares himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi, and the people of the time are not Xu Ye. However, Boling Cui Zhouping, Yingchuan Xu Yuanzhi and Liang are friendly, which is called Xinran. Later, when Zhuge Liang was the prime minister of Shu Han, he once said to his subordinates: "In the past, I was in the early days of Jiaozhouping, and I heard about the gains and losses repeatedly. In the Yeyun Nunnery in Wolonggang, Nanyang, there are colorful clay sculptures of Zhuge Liang and Cui Zhouping, Meng Gongwei and Xu Yuanzhi talking together. Presumably, during Zhuge Liang's seclusion in Wollongong, these friends of his often came here to meet him. Zhuge Liang is a person with great ambitions, not only comparing himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi, but also admiring Zhang Liang, who fought the world with Liu Bang and made miraculous contributions to the establishment of the Han Dynasty. Yingchuan is Zhang Liang's hometown, Xu Shu's hometown, and the national political and cultural center at that time, so there was this trip to Yingchuan with Xu Shu. About after paying homage to Zhang Liang's hometown Liuhou Temple, the passion is hard to hide, the ambition is full of ambition, and the stone is inscribed, leaving this inscription.
In the year when Xu Shu accompanied Zhuge Liang to Yingchuan, Liu Bei led the army to Xinye to garrison. Xu Shu returned to Nanzhang after traveling to Yingchuan and Bailiuhou Temple with Zhuge Liang, probably feeling that the page of righteous murder in the past had been turned over, and there was no need to be incognito, so he wanted to devote himself to his career and display his ambitions. He once thought of doing things under Liu Biao, but Sima Hui dissuaded him and said: "Gong Huai Wang Zuozhicai, it is advisable to choose people to do things, so why move lightly to see Jingshenghu?" suggested that he go to assist Liu Bei. Later, he really went to Xinye to recommend himself to Liu Bei and became Liu Bei's military advisor. He trained the army, lined up the troops to resist Cao, fought several victories, and became famous since then.
When Xu Shu arrived at Cao Ying, he knew that Cao Cao's strategist Xun Yu had designed his mother to be placed under house arrest, and he had deceived his mother's handwriting to forge a family letter. The folk proverb "Xu Shu entered Cao Ying, without saying a word", that is, from this. After Cao Pi became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Xu Shuguan was the right middle Lang general, the imperial history Zhongcheng, and died of illness at the end of the Taihe period.
After Xu Shu left, Liu Bei's military tent suddenly lacked strategists, so according to Xu Shu's recommendation, he took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to Wollongong to "visit the thatched house" and implore Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain to help. Since then, a vivid historical drama has been staged in turn with Zhuge Liang as the center, Zhuge Liang has become a star on the historical stage of the Three Kingdoms, a core figure of the Shu Han regime, and a famous and sage who has been revered by future generations.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong used many chapters to vividly describe the history of Zhuge Liang before and after he left the mountain. Such as "Shan Fu Xinye meets the British Lord", "Yuan Zhi goes to Ma Recommend Zhuge ", "Liu Xuande takes three visits to the grass house", "Bowangpo military division uses soldiers at the beginning", "Zhuge Liang burns Xinye" and so on. In these depictions, Xu Shu was forced to go to Cao Ying and his friendship with Zhuge Liang, creating a strong artistic atmosphere for Zhuge Liang to go out of the mountain. If there was no Xu Shu's foil, Zhuge Liang's image would not be so tall; if there was no Xu Shu's recommendation, there would be no Liu Bei's "three visits to the thatched house"; if there was no Zhuge Liang, the history of the Three Kingdoms would not be so vivid and vivid.
It is true that history cannot be "if", and what is cannot be historical. However, "Xu Shu Goes to Recommend Zhuge to Horses" is a real historical existence. It is Xu Shu's "recommendation" through the ages, who recommended Zhuge Liang, the embodiment of resourceful wisdom, a lupine scarf, a fairy tale of seeking talent and "looking at the thatched house" through the ages, recommending a "grass house meeting" that judges the situation and divides the world into three parts, and recommends a Three Kingdoms era that opens and closes and meets the wind and clouds......
History, we should remember Xu Shu's "recommendation" work.
Wolongong, Nanyang, the place where Zhuge Liang bowed and lived in seclusion and Liu Bei's "three visits to the thatched house".