There are countless heroes in the Three Kingdoms, but the monarch who is the most proficient at winning people's hearts and making good use of people is none other than Liu Bei.
Liu Bei is generous, loyal, charitable, and has won the hearts of the people. Since his youth, there have been many young heroes attached to him, and his subordinates are all strategists and brave generals who can be good and decisive, loyal and brave.
Liu Bei lived up to the expectations of the people and finally achieved the hegemony of the Shu kingdom. Regrettably, his descendants have not been able to pass on the grand cause. Jiang Wei, a famous general of the Shu Kingdom, once said, "The destruction of the Shu Kingdom is by no means the crime of the general, but it is actually caused by the fact that the Lord of the Future has no way!" ”
The first "Anle Gong": Liu Chan
Liu Chan, the son of Liu Bei, was known in later generations as the "Unsupportable Adou". Her biological mother was Liu Bei's concubine, Lady Gan. In the twelfth year of Jian'an, Lady Gan gave birth to Ah Dou when she accompanied Liu Bei to Jingzhou.
The following year, Liu Bei, who was garrisoned in Fancheng, was raided by Cao Cao's army, and Liu Bei withdrew and marched to Changbanpo in Dangyang, where he was caught up by Cao Cao's army. Suddenly, the blades of the soldiers were connected, and the people scattered and fled.
Lady Gan followed her husband with Ah Dou in her arms, but was unfortunately scattered by the panicked people. Zhao Yun, who escorted the lord to flee south, returned in time to fight a bloody battle on The Slope of Chang banpo and rescued the lord's wife and children.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun broke through the siege of Cao Jun, caught up with Liu Bei, and returned Ah Dou. Liu Bei picked up the son and threw him to the ground: "For Ru's son, I have damaged one of my generals!" At that time, Ah Dou was only one year old and was still in his infancy.
Later generations often joke that Ah Dou was broken by his father when he was a child, and when he grew up, he would be extremely stupid and useless. However, according to historical records, Liu Bei's arms were longer than his knees, presumably "thrown to the ground" and "put on the ground" is almost the same.
In the first year of Zhang Wu's reign, Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor and Liu Chan was made crown prince. In the third year of Zhang Wu, Liu Bei died of illness, and Liu Chan succeeded to the throne. At that time, the Shu kingdom had already folded Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and several other famous generals, and the trend of talent gathering had gone.
Zhuge Kongming, the chancellor, was busy in the Central Plains of Northern Ding, went out to fight, and had no spare strength to govern the internal affairs of Shu. After Kong Ming's death, Liu Chan favored the eunuch Huang Hao and stopped the Northern Expedition under his advice. It was not until the Wei army invaded Hanzhong that Liu Chan sent people to the rescue, but it was too late.
The Shu state is located in a remote area, and the lack of combat strength caused by the consumption of long-term wars, coupled with the withering of talents, internal and external troubles, the general trend has gone. Liu Chan voluntarily surrendered, was treated favorably by Sima Zhao of Northern Wei, and was given the title of "Duke of Anle" by Sima Zhao.
"Enjoyable and enjoyable"
Liu Chan moved to the capital of the State of Wei from the time of his surrender. One day, Sima Zhao feasted on Liu Chan and the surrendered Shu courtiers. At the banquet, Sima Zhao ordered people to perform the Song and Dance of the Shu Kingdom. The old ministers of the Shu Kingdom were touched by the scenery and wept one after another, and only Liu Chan was calm and self-satisfied, indulging in pleasure.
Sima Zhao asked Liu Chan, "Can The Duke of Anle miss the Shu Kingdom?" Liu Chan replied, "Enjoy here, don't think about Shuya." "So Sima Zhao decided that Liu Chan was stupid, had no great ambition, and was not enough to be troubled, so he did not cut the grass and remove the roots from him." Liu Chan was also able to live without fear, and he was able to live this life in a mediocre way.
This is the origin of the well-known idiom, "Happy not to think".
As for what Liu Chan was thinking when he answered Sima Zhao, whether it was Taoguang who cultivated obscurity and pretended to be crazy and stupid in order to save his life, or whether he was really faint and stupid, posterity has no way of knowing. It is indisputable that since ancient times, kings have been defeated, and those who have been defeated have either died or been humiliated.
The second generation of "Anle Gong": Liu Xuan
In the fifth year of the Western Jin Dynasty Emperor Yongjia, the Yongjia Rebellion broke out. The Xiongnu army, led by Liu Yuan's son Liu Cong, defeated the defenders of Luoyang, the Capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, captured Luoyang, and plundered and killed. Most of Liu Chan's relatives died in the turmoil, and only his brother Liu Yong survived.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms contains: The Great Chaos of Yongjia and the extinction of descendants. Only Yongsun, Xuan Ben Shu!
At that time, a new regime had been established in Shudi, that is, on the land of Xichuan.
In June of the second year of Tai'an, Li Xiong, a former general of the Shudi rebel army, attacked Picheng, and in September he declared himself the Governor of Dadu, the Great General, and the Pastor of Yizhou. In the first year of Yongxing, Li Xiong proclaimed himself the King of Chengdu, with the name Jianxing and abolished the Jin Dynasty Law.
The following year, the Yongjia Rebellion broke out, the Jin soldiers were in chaos, the regime was weakened, and Liu Yong's grandson Liu Xuan took advantage of the chaos to return to Xichuan.
At this time, Nishikawa was already human. The old land has a new king, and does not recognize the descendants of the old lord. Although Liu Bei's descendants are the royal bloodline of the Han dynasty, the surname of one family and the bloodline of one lineage are equivalent to the bubble to the sea in terms of the macro process of history.
Liu's prestige has long since faded. Nevertheless, The Chenghan Emperor Li Xiong still remembered that Liu Xuan was a relative of the Han Dynasty and ostensibly favored him, otherwise he would have trapped himself in an unkind and unjust place. However, Li Xiong did not really make friends with Liu Xuan, but hid needles in the cotton and stingers in his smile.
Why? Because Li Xiong gave Liu Xuan a very ironic and intimidating title - "An Le Gong".
No one in the world knows that "Anle Gong" was the title given to him by Sima Zhao in order to humiliate Liu Chan, and now Li Xiong has added this humiliation to the head of Liu Chan's great-grandson, Liu Xuan, for two purposes: First, to show his dignity and authority in a way that degrades the descendants of the old lord.
Second, warn Liu Xuan, your grandfather is happy and happy, only to be able to live, you had better give me peace and self-preservation, just indulge in wine, seek pleasure and pleasure, do not try to regain the land of Shu, otherwise your life will not be guaranteed.
There is no power to return to heaven
In that year, Liu Bei ascended the throne of Hanzhong and occupied the three counties of Yizhou and Jingzhou, the largest in the world, plus a Hanzhong. His subordinates will have Fazheng, Zhuge Kongming, Huang Quan, Liu Ba, the military generals Xiang Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, each loyal liver and righteous gallbladder, Xiao Yong good at war.
That was when Emperor Liu, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was most spirited. I don't want to die a hundred years later, the heroic Tu Weiluo of that year was actually decayed to this point due to bad luck and incompetence of his descendants, and his descendants needed to endure humiliation and dirt in order to survive in the chaotic world.
We have no way of knowing whether Liu Chan, the first "Duke of Anle", once leaned on a window ledge alone on an autumn night after his surrender, remembering his homeland, lamenting the death of Providence, and accusing himself of being timid as a rat and fainting incompetent.
We also have no way of knowing whether Liu Xuan was desolate and miserable when he learned that he had been named the "Duke of Anle" on his homeland. I only know that they did not choose to fight to the death in a desperate situation, but chose to be content with the destiny of heaven and live a lifetime.
Taking history as a mirror, I can't help but think deeply. When we are in deep trouble, the fearless spirit of rising up and fighting against fate is certainly touching and admirable, but is it really wrong to choose to give in to fate, to turn a deaf ear to the insults of weakness and incompetence, and to just seek a peaceful life?
I believe that everyone has different answers and opinions in their hearts.