In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei often calls himself "Queen of Zhongshan Jing", so who is this Zhongshan Jing King? Liu Sheng, half-brother of Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che, was the son of Liu Qi, the Emperor jing of Han, and was enfeoffed in the Zhongshan Kingdom in 154 BC.
Although Liu Sheng was the king of Zhongshan, under the policy of cutting the domain, the princes only had the power to collect taxes and not to govern the people. Therefore, Liu Sheng's work is mainly hedonism, and he has given birth to more than 120 sons in one go.
In 127 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, at the suggestion of his father, implemented the "Tui En Order", which divided the sons of the princes into princes and weakened the strength of the princes. Under such circumstances, Liu Shengzhi Liu Zhen was made marquis of Lucheng. However, in 112 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to "seize the title of gold", on the grounds that the gold used for sacrifice by the king and hou was not good, "Wang Cut County, Hou Exempted the State", and there were hundreds of people who were stripped of the marquis at one time, and Liu Zhen was one of them. From then on, Liu Zhen and his descendants became commoners.
According to many historical records, Liu Bei should be the 16th grandson of Liu Zhen. Although Liu Bei's great-grandfather did not leave a record for a lifetime, Liu Bei's bloodline as a royal family should still be pure, so when Emperor Xian of Han later saw Liu Bei, he found that according to the family tree, Liu Bei should be his uncle, so he was called "Emperor Uncle". Of course, although this has a lot to do with the strength that Liu Bei already had at that time, there should be no doubt that Liu Bei was after the Han Room.
Although liu zhen's generation has been a commoner since the generation of the old ancestor Liu Zhen, as a descendant of the clan, Liu Bei's great-grandfather still has some strength in the fiefdom, and the Liu clan can also be regarded as a large clan in Zhuo County. Liu Bei's grandfather Liu Xiong was once promoted to the rank of County Commander of Fan County; his father Liu Hong also served in the prefecture county, but unfortunately his early death led to the fall of the family.
In 161 AD, Liu Bei was born, just as a teenager, his father died suddenly, there was no way to have children, Liu Bei and his mother could only live by selling shoes and weaving mats. It is this experience at the bottom of society that makes Liu Bei more deep into the people and experience the people's feelings, and some of his future deeds are unrelated to his early experience.
Despite being in the market, he couldn't stop his ambitions.
There is a mulberry tree more than five meters high next to the fence in the southeast corner of Liu Bei's house, and the shade of the tree droops like a car cover. Li Ding, a native of Zhuo County, was very amazed by the shape of the tree and asserted that this family must be a noble person in the future. Since Liu Bei was playing under the tree with children of the same ethnic group since he was a child, he once pointed to this tree and said that he must take such a "Feather Bao Gai Car", and this kind of car can only be sat by the emperor. Uncle Liu Zijing happened to pass by the side, frightened and hurriedly waved his hand, telling Xiao Liu Bei not to talk nonsense again, so as not to encounter the disaster of killing. Xiao Liu Bei giggled and buried his bold words in his heart.
In 175 AD, when Liu Bei was fifteen years old, he served as the Taishou of Jiujiang, and then taught to worship the Han Dynasty's Great Ru Ma Rong, and Lu Zhi, a well-known fellow countryman in both the government and the public, was idle in the Mountains of the Jiao clan near Luoyang due to illness.
The far-sighted Mother Liu asked Liu Bei to go to Lu Zhi's house to worship the teacher, and also entered Lu Zhi's door with Liu Deran and Gongsun Zhan of the Liaoxi people.
Although Liu Bei worshiped Lu Zhi as a teacher, he did not like to read. Following Lu Zhi for two years, he couldn't talk about how much knowledge he had learned, and Lu Zhi probably didn't have much of an impression on him. However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty society where teachers and students were like monarchs, this was also regarded as plating a lot of gold on Liu Bei's resume, not to mention that he also got acquainted with a classmate named Gongsun Zhan.
Gongsun Zhan is also a person with great ambitions, and the two are like-minded, often pointing out the shortcomings of the country and the mountains and needles together. The Han Empire was already crumbling at that time, and Liu Bei was already watching the fire.
Although his study experience under Lu Zhimen was very short, he changed Liu Bei a lot.
In 177 AD, the Lu qi court was reopened and returned to the capital. After Liu Bei returned to his hometown, he did not continue to work as a small trader, but began to manage his own power. Although in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei has always been a loyal gentleman, but in fact, if there is only loyalty and quality, it is difficult to become a leader in the chaotic world. Liu Bei not only has a humble side to treat people, but also has a bold and debauched side, and can be moody and angry. Rather than reading, he was more interested in horseback riding and hunting, playing the piano for music, and bright clothing. The adult Liu Bei was extraordinary in appearance, seven feet and five inches tall, with hands over his knees, and his ears were so large that even his eyes could see.
With such a chivalrous temperament, a group of teenagers quickly gathered around him, and they all had Liu Bei as the leader, and Liu Bei soon became famous in the local area. The horse merchants Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang of zhongshan came to Zhuo County to sell horses, but they also felt that Liu Bei was extraordinary and took the initiative to fund him a lot of money, and Liu Bei used this money to be charitable and make good friends, and his fame and strength continued to rise and expand.
At this time, Uncle Liu Huang already had the foundation to hold high the banner of righteousness and unveil the pole, although the strength was not large, but the lifting was only a call from Liu Beizhen's arm.
Compared with his future old enemy Cao Cao, Liu Bei's starting point can be described as much lower. Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng served as the Great Changqiu, his father Cao Song bought a lieutenant, Cao Cao was a lang official in the imperial court at the beginning, and later raised an army with the Cao and Xiahou clans as the core force. And Liu Bei did not have these conditions, all he had was personal charm.