In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Li Ru was a resourceful man, and he knew and saw people as first-class. Although Dong Zhuo was killed after his death, he was also a very effective strategist. However, the historical Li Ru was not so capable, not only did he not have a big strategy for governing the country, but even the political and ideological line was also very problematic.
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According to historical records, Li Ru was originally a well-known expert in learning at that time, and was called a doctor at that time. Because of his great fame, the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei took the throne and was appointed as Lang Zhongling. This Lang Zhongling was originally one of the Nine Secretaries of State, with a high status, and was in charge of the protection work around the emperor at that time.
Literary youth have always been like this, and in politics they belong to the category of opportunism. Dong Zhuo was ordered by He Jin to enter Beijing, and Li Ru found that Dong Zhuo's thighs were very thick, so he quickly turned right politically, transformed himself, and became Dong Zhuo's guest. Note that in the history of Zhengshi, Li Ru was not familiar with Dong Zhuo before, let alone Dong Zhuo's son-in-law.
Li Ru was a very learned man, and naturally won the favor of Dong Zhuo. In order to better see if Li Ru was loyal to him, Dong Zhuo sent Li Ru to kill Liu Wei, the young emperor of Han. At that time, Dong Zhuo had heavy troops under his command, and had already deposed the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei and established Liu Xie as emperor. And Li Ru was really shameless, forgetting how to serve the little emperor before, and actually gladly went to the emperor's palace. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Empress He Chronicle, "The Kwantung army rose up and discussed Dong Zhuo together. Dong Zhuo placed Liu Zhen, the king of Hongnong, in the cabinet, and made LangZhong order Li Ru to offer poison, but Liu Zhuo refused to drink it, and Dong Zhuo and others forced him. Therefore, Liu Jie, his wife Tang Ji and the palace people drank the medicine and died after drinking a feast. ”
It is also the fact that the Kwantung coalition forces, led by Yuan Shao, have attacked Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was furious and not only killed Yuan Shao's uncle, but also put Liu Zheng, the king of Hongnong, in the attic, and asked Langzhong to order Li Ru to offer poison. The little emperor naturally refused to drink, and Dong Zhuo, Li Ru, and others forced the emperor to drink. Therefore, Liu Wei was helpless, and after eating afternoon tea with his wife Tang Ji, he drank poison and died. A very learned person, just because he covets glory and wealth, or wants to make his life more colorful, does not want to fall into a terrible trap. On the surface, Li Ru seems to be very beautiful, but unfortunately, he was criticized for life because he killed the current emperor that year.
Historically, Dong Zhuo died soon after, of course, it had nothing to do with the mink cicada, but Lü Bu participated, of course, with the cooperation of Wang Yun, Li Ru seemed to have some outstanding performance.
Li Ru had been lingering, even after Dong Zhuo's death, he was still watching everything around him. Later, Li Daiguo continued to disturb the imperial program, and Wang Yun was implicated. At this time, Li Ru seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw and desperately surfaced. According to the "Later Han Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty Emperor Xiaoxian": In the third year of Chuping (192), in the winter of October, Li Daiju's doctor Li Ru was a servant, and the emperor's edict said: "Ruqian was ordered by Hongnong Wang Lang, and it was advisable to kill my brother. "What Dong Zhuo did is not The original intention of Confucianism, and the innocent cannot be punished." ”
It seems that at this time, Li Ru still wanted to perform in front, but unfortunately the new emperor did not give him a chance, although the new emperor's wings were not hard, but he said that when you killed my brother, I hated you for a lifetime. Although the one named Li Dai desperately excused Li Ru, it was a pity that the stain was a stain, and it would not disappear because of his high learning and skill.
Later, Li Ru had no news, perhaps he felt that he might never emerge, perhaps his conscience found out for a while, but Li Ru was like this, unlike Jia Xu at that time, although he also contributed to Li Dai guo and others, but with a flash of his eyes, he could always find out who was the person who could best reflect his own value. This shows that although Li Ru was once very knowledgeable, he was very shameless in character and incompetent in politics.