Chinese look at history, always like to simply divide people into good people and bad people, and look at people with a face, which is conducive to saving our brain resources and forming a cognition of history.
But the facial cognitive model, although it is conducive to memory, is essentially not in line with the truth of the facts, especially some of the big figures in history, you are actually difficult to describe it as a simple good or bad.
Zhuge Liang is actually such a character, he is indeed a very great figure, but also a positive image, of course, there is no problem with this, but as a Shu Han Minister, at the same time, he also leads a large army, and the person who kills and decides with a horizontal knife cannot be a person with kind eyebrows and good eyes, who will always walk under the light.
Zhuge Liang also had the behavior of belly black, and this matter is actually very familiar to everyone, but many people do not know the relationship between the characters here, so they did not see the black side of Zhuge Liang's belly, this matter is the famous death of Meng Da.
Through meng da's death, we can see the internal contradictions faced by shu Han, and at the same time, we can also see that many of the so-called external strategies are just extensions of internal situations.
We all know Liu Bei's famous White Emperor City Tuoguo, at that time Liu Beituo was lonely, there were two people, the other was called Li Yan, he was not very famous later, because he was suppressed by Zhuge Liang and withdrew from politics within a few years.
Why liu bei's loyal subjects were subjected to such treatment was mainly related to the identity of Li Yan, who was the representative of the Shu clan, and Zhuge Liang was a representative of the outside, and the two of them were the main and guest contradictions of the Shu Han.
Liu Bei was lonely, and had to use both the main and the guest, so as to maintain the stability of the regime, the so-called main guest of the Shu Han Dynasty, referring to the Factual Group belonging to the foreign, and the family clan at that time belonged to the Lord.
If Liu Bei wanted to gain a firm foothold, he had to use the Shi clan at that time, and in the same way, if Zhuge Liang wanted to gain a firm foothold and carry out the Northern Expedition, he would definitely suppress the forces of the Shi Clan, twist into a rope, and go all out to the Northern Expedition.
And this Li Yan is not a fuel saving lamp, when Zhuge Liang was preparing for the Northern Expedition, he was preparing to fight with Zhuge Liang in Chongqing, and for a long time, the local warriors on this side of Chengdu would definitely run to Chongqing, which was a very bad thing, and would weaken the already weak Shu Han.
At this time, Meng Da's surrender gave things a turnaround, Meng Da was originally a general of the Shu State, and Guan Yu was killed when he carelessly lost Jingzhou, and both he and Liu Feng had certain responsibilities.
Meng Da was afraid of sanctions, so he surrendered to Cao Wei, and after Liu Feng returned, he was really killed, and after Meng reached the State of Wei, he was treated very well, and Cao Pi let him use his private army to garrison the main road between Wei and Shu, which could be said to be very preferential to him.
Is Meng Da particularly powerful, and why does Cao Pi value him so much?
Meng Da was actually very general, and Cao Pi valued him, mainly because Cao Pi, in order to accumulate political capital, Cao Cao started as a Qingzhou soldier, and Cao Pi was disbanded beyond control.
Coupled with the usurpation of the Han Dynasty as emperor, these made Cao Pi under great pressure, and now there are generals who surrender to the Shu Han, of course, he regards it as an important political capital and attaches great importance to it.
But after Cao Pi's death, the situation was different, Meng Da's status plummeted, and at this time, the Shu kingdom also changed the emperor, Meng Da thought about it, both sides changed the emperor, it is better that I return to the Shu kingdom.
Thinking like this, Meng Da wrote a letter to Zhuge Liang, and at this time it reflected the black place of Zhuge Liang's abdomen, and he was ready to use this opportunity to attack Li Yan and get rid of Meng Da at the same time.
Zhuge Liang asked Li Yan to write a letter to Meng Da, saying that you come back, Li Yan and Meng Da are old acquaintances, both are old people in Shudi, Li Yan thought to himself, if Meng Da returns, his position will be stable, so he quickly wrote a letter to Meng Da.
Li Yan also relaxed his vigilance for a while and left Chongqing, Zhuge Liang's purpose was achieved, the main Li Yan did not do things in Chongqing, and at the bottom line of his own eyelids, it was still very easy to clean up Li Yan.
Later, Zhuge Liang revealed this news to Sima Yi, and in this way, Sima Yi, who had always been known for his steadiness, divided into eight teams and marched hand in hand, day and night, and arrived in the new city in eight days of 1200 miles, giving Meng Da a sneak attack.
Moreover, Zhuge Liang also saw that he could not be saved, allowing Meng Da to be defeated after being besieged for sixteen days, and after cleaning up these peripheral obstacles, Zhuge Liang could also wholeheartedly prepare for his Northern Expedition.
It cannot be said that Zhuge Liang did not do anything wrong, his purpose was for the great cause of the Northern Expedition, and the later facts also proved that after Zhuge Liang's death, the contradiction between the main and the guest of the Shu Han became more and more serious, and in the later period, it was basically the old people of Shudi who took power.
And once the Shu people held great power, the recognition of the Shu Han regime was completely indifferent, anyway, who came was the same, and later Chengdu surrendered without the pressure of the army.
The famous surrender faction Ofe Zhou was the representative of the Shu clan, and he did not suddenly decide to surrender, but before that, he had been making various surrender remarks, saying that shu Han would eventually perish.
Such a person, when Zhuge Liang is there, it is impossible to look up, it can only be said that the struggle is cruel, and in the position of Zhuge Liang, in the face of a larger and higher level of struggle, killing people and scheming are indispensable.