At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs and foreign relatives competed for power and profit, and the imperial court was filled with a miasma of black smoke. The war against the Western Qiang lasted for decades and cost the country countless sums of money. The military expenditure and replenishment of soldiers in these conquests have made the people's various kinds of servitude one after another, and the people have no livelihood. In 184 AD, Zhang Jiao, with more than ten years of religious propaganda, pulled up the banner of armed uprising. "The heavens are dead, the yellow sky is standing, the years are in the nails, and the world is auspicious."
For a time, the followers were like clouds, and the uprisings one after another, and the border troubles of years of conquest, made the young Han Ling Emperor helpless. He accepted the minister's suggestion and changed part of the history of thorns to state pastor, giving it substantial military and administrative capabilities. Although the pressure of national conquest was reduced in a short period of time, the state herders with military strength gradually formed a local separatist force. Imperial power fell, local divisions, and the Eastern Han Dynasty entered the final dark period. The world of great chaos is also the world of great strife, and the rise of several heroes also hides the withering of countless lives.
01, Zhuo County Taoyuan Three Knots, the first encounter with Hongyi generous Uncle Liu Huang
In this chaotic era that swept the world, Liu Bei, a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, spontaneously organized a rebel army in Zhuo County to participate in the campaign to suppress the Yellow Turban Army. Although Liu Bei's ancestors were noble as emperors, the family road had long declined, and At this time, Liu Bei could only rely on mat weaving and selling shoes to make a living. However, the young Liu Bei had great ambitions, and Hongyi's generous character made him friends with many heroes. Among them were the martial saints Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who later became famous in the world, and the three of them were brothers and sisters and formed an alliance of blood to become iron brothers.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the first lord slept with the two people in the same bed, and Enruo brothers. And the thick man sat widely, stood all day long, followed the lord around, and did not avoid hardships and dangers. At the beginning of Liu Bei's army, because he had no official background, he repeatedly made military achievements but could not be reused. In desperation, they went to liu bei's brother-in-law Gongsun Zhan, and later liu bei was finally awarded the title of Pingyuan Xiang according to his military achievements. At this time, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were the only two thugs of Liu Bei, each commanding a soldier and horse.
02, follow Liu Bei for half a lifetime, still do not lose the ambition to rise
In the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei has been following Liu Bei and is displaced. Later, because Cao Cao's father died in Xuzhou, Cao Cao sent troops to attack Xuzhou in anger. Liu was invited by Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian to come to the rescue. After several pushes, Liu Bei declared himself Xuzhou Mu after Tao Qian's death. In the chaotic world, where there are quiet years, Xuzhou has been the land of four wars since ancient times. There was Yuan Shu in the south, Yuan Shao in the north, Cao Cao in the west, two brothers yuan shu and yuan shao, four brothers and three dukes, and one of the ten permanent attendants of Cao Cao's grandfather. They have Zu Meng behind them and elite divisions under them. And Liu Beikong topped the title of an imperial uncle, and the general Shuai was only related to Zhang and the two.
Soon they lost Xuzhou, and the disgraced emperor could only turn to Cao Cao, who had already blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes. At this time, a very dramatic event occurred, after Liu Bei defected to Cao Cao, the Han Xiandi, who had become a puppet, directly recognized Liu Bei as an imperial uncle, made a marquis and a general, and the official uniform he gave Liu Bei a reward contained a secret edict to murder Cao Cao. After the incident was revealed, Guan Yu was captured by Cao Cao, and Liu Bei and Zhang Fei fled to Yuan Shao, gathered their troops, and then went to Runan to carry out the work behind Cao Cao's enemy lines for Yuan Shao. Liu Bei has always been a person with lofty ambitions, although he has been in a mess for half a life, he is still indomitable; although the speed of life is very slow, it is always in the upward curve. Seeing that there was no place for Yuan Shao to emerge, Liu Bei led his troops to Jingzhou in the name of linking Liu Biao in Jingzhou. This is a new world, and it is also a new opportunity to rise.
03, when the Yang Changsaka Bridge, Yanren Zhang Yide famous
Liu Biao of Jingzhou was the authentic imperial prince of the dynasty, and at the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, only a few people gathered the people of Jingzhou, although he had no ambition to dominate the world, but his wrist was also quite powerful. Liu Bei's belonging was definitely a threat in Liu Biao's eyes, and he could not directly refuse in the face of the imperial family. Liu Bei was then arranged to lead his men and horses to garrison Xinye County in northern Jingzhou. It is located in the southern part of the Nanyang Basin and belongs to the northern gate of Jingzhou. Placing Liu Bei here not only gave the face of the same clan, but also far away from the center of Jingzhou. What's more, if Cao Cao marches south to Jingzhou, Xinye is a place that cannot be bypassed, which is equivalent to treating Liu Bei as a thug.
Liu Biao's death in 208 brought a lot of uncertainty to Jingzhou. Cao Cao naturally did not miss this opportunity and personally led a large army south to conquer Jingzhou. Liu Bei's widowed general Wei Lian was defeated in battle, and without assistance from Jingzhou, he had to retreat south. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, "Compared with Dangyang, there are more than 100,000 people, thousands of taels, and more than ten miles a day", such a speed is naturally not as fast as that of Cao Cao's army in pursuit. At Dangyang Changbanpo, the two armies met, and Liu Bei was defeated. After helplessly letting Zhang Fei break, Zhang Fei only led dozens of cavalry, according to the water broken bridge bravely, for a time the Cao army did not dare to go forward to fight. Zhang Fei's bravery gave Liu Bei the opportunity to escape, and Mr. Luo Guanzhong's explanation of this story in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very wonderful. Zhang Fei drank twice, causing the enemy general Xiahou Jie to break his liver and gallbladder and crash into his horse. Due to the wide spread of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei drank millions of Cao soldiers alone, and Xiahou Jie's death became a stepping stone for the hero Zhang Fei.
04, the grumpy personality caused Zhang Fei to die, and the door was honored as a double queen
In the years that followed, Liu Bei's clique joined forces with Sun Quan in the east and then burned Chibi after history exerted the era of the three kingdoms. Liu Bei took Jingzhou to capture Xichuan and competed with Cao Cao for the victory of Hanzhong, and the power of the Shu Han clique reached their peak. The parallel establishment of the three countries is precisely because of the balance of the strength of the three families, and no one wants to see one of them dominant. Just when the historical conditions for Zhuge Kongming's unification of the Central Plains were about to be realized, Guan Yu was unfortunately killed. The news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Liu Bei vowed to avenge his second brother. In the process of preparing for the battle, because Zhang Fei respected the gentleman but never showed compassion for the soldiers, he was murdered by his subordinates and surrendered to Sun Quan.
Of the three brothers who rose in the torrent of this era, only Liu Bei remained. In 221, Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor in Hanzhong, and Zhang Fei was made a cheqi general, a lieutenant of the lingsi, and the marquis of Xixiang. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei's eldest daughter married Liu Bei's son Liu Chanxi, and Liu Chan was made empress after succeeding to the throne, known in history as "Empress Jing mourning". In the 15th year of Jianxing, Empress Jing mourned the death, and Zhang Fei's second daughter entered the palace, initially a nobleman, and was crowned empress in 238 AD.
05. The origin of Zhang Fei's wife, Lady Xiahou
Speaking of this, I have to mention Zhang Fei's wife, Lady Xiahou in the history books. In the history of the Shu Han Dynasty, there is almost no record of Lady Hou's family lineage, but we know that the famous Xiahou family in the Three Kingdoms period was the Xiahou Yuan family of the Cao Wei clique. In the entire Cao Wei clique, Cao Cao trusted the people of the Xiahou family the most. Xiahou Yuan was Cao Wei's general of the Western Expedition, presided over Cao Wei's western army, stationed in Guanzhong, and Xiahou Yuan was unfortunately killed in battle at the Battle of Hanzhong. Cao Wei and Shu Han were inseparable, and Xiahou Yuan had been fighting against Shu Han for a long time, so was Lady Xiahou really from Xiahou Yuan's family? The answer is true!
Although neither Chen Shou's Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms nor the Shu Han history books have any record of Zhang Fei's wife. However, there is a record in the "Wei Liu" that records the history of the State of Wei: "In the beginning, in the fifth year of Jian'an, Shi Ba, from the thirteenth fourth year of his sister's year, traveled to the county to collect trees, which was obtained by Zhang Fei. Fei knew that she was the daughter of a good family, so she thought that she was a wife, and she was the daughter of Liu Chan. That is to say, in the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), the cousin of Xiahou Ba (Xiahou Yuan's second son) went out to pick in Tan County, and was unfortunately captured by Zhang Fei.
Later, she married him and gave birth to a daughter who became Empress Liu Chan. So in the five years of Jian'an, did Zhang Fei and Lady Xiahou appear in Tan County at the same time? The answer is, it's possible! At the beginning of Jian'an 5, Liu Bei defeated Xuzhou and defected to Yuan Shao, and in July was sent by Yuan Shao to the south of Xuchang to carry out a mission behind enemy lines. Yu Commandery (谯郡, in modern Bozhou, Anhui) happened to be the only place to travel from Yuan Shao's territory to the south of Xuchang, and Zhang Fei and them happened to run into Lady Xiahou... It can only be said that history is sometimes coincidental and unbelievable
epilogue:
The heavens and the earth are not benevolent to all things, and the lives of the world in chaos are as cheap as grass. Hundreds of people have been displaced, and several heroes have been made famous. If Lady Xiahou, cardamom Nianhua once an occasional outing to pick activities, was captured, so that after this time did not see Gao Tang's parents, hometown is known. The history we see today is only a microcosm of the times in which countless people lived. A few historical books can record the rise and fall of all the people.
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