For various reasons, there are many people in history who have been wronged and buried and misunderstood. Zhou Yu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was one of them. Because of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Zhang Xuecheng called "three points of fiction and seven points of truth" but actually "seven points of fiction and three points of truth", Zhou Yu is a household name in China. However, the Zhou Yu that people know is the same as the real Zhou Yu in history. In history, the real Zhou Yu "has a magnificent temperament, a great rate to win people", "heroic, bold and skipped people", "the wisdom of building dictatorship, the appearance of outstanding people, and the real wizards". In the historical records of the other Three Kingdoms, there is no record of Zhou Yu's "narrow quantity". Sima Guang gave Zhou Yu a very high evaluation in the Zizhi Tongjian.
However, Zhou Yu in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is written as a narrow-minded person who always calculates Zhuge Liang but is punched in the face, who is smart and is mistaken by cleverness, who is a person with a violent personality, whose political and military talents are far inferior to Zhuge Liang's final death by Zhuge Liang, and who is associated with some allusions such as "Three Qi Zhou Yu", "Losing His Wife and Folding Soldiers", and "He Shengyu Who Was Born Bright". The real Zhou Yu in history is one of the most outstanding politicians and military figures in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a great hero with high moral character, loyalty and bravery, wisdom and courage, heroic and heroic, talented, loyal to friendship, loyal to love, "sexual restoration", dignified appearance, and gentlemanly style! He is a perfect man and great husband in ancient China who embodies the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a more real history book, which writes that Zhou Yu befriended Sun Ce when he was young, and that he was good-looking and handsome, and then went to visit his uncle just in time for Sun Ce to lead the troops to the east, and Sun Ce saw Zhou Yu and said: "With you, great things can be achieved." The two led troops to conquer many places, Yuan Shu wanted Zhou Yu to be his general, Zhou Yu used the excuse of escaping jian'an for three years to return to Eastern Wu Sun Ce to personally greet and immediately appointed Zhou Yu as the general of Jianwei Zhonglang, equipping him with two thousand soldiers and fifty horses, and the people of Wuzhong called him Zhou Lang. In the fifth year of Jian'an, Sun Ce died, Sun Quan was in charge of things, and in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan rebelled against Jiangxia and appointed Zhou Yu as the governor of Dadu, just when Liu Bei was attacked by Cao Cao and asked for help from Eastern Wu, so he sent Zhou Yulusu to resist Cao Cao, which is the origin of the famous Battle of Chibi, when Cao Cao's army was ill, at the beginning of the battle, Cao Cao's army was defeated, and Cao Cao led the army to garrison in Jiangbei. Zhou Yu and others were in Jiangnan. Zhou Yu then prepared dozens of brisk warships, loaded them with firewood and grass, poured oil into them, wrapped the ships in a curtain, put up flags on them, and first reported to Cao Cao in letters, deceiving him with his desire to surrender. He prepared the boats and tied them behind the big boats, so they proceeded in order. Cao Cao's generals all craned their necks to watch, and all pointed out that this was Huang Gai to surrender. The yellow cover flipped over the boats, and the boats ignited at the same time. It was very windy and burned down the camp on the shore. In an instant, thick smoke and fire covered the sky, and countless people and horses were drowned and burned to death. Cao Cao's army was defeated and retreated to hold Nan Commandery.
Sun Quan granted Zhou Yu the post of general and concurrently served as the Taishou of Nan Commandery. Liu Bei led Jingzhou Mu as a general of the left and governed the public security. Liu Bei went to Wujing city to meet sun Quan, and Zhou Yushang said: "Liu Bei has the posture of a tyrant, and such fierce generals as Yu and Zhang Fei are definitely not people who have been subordinate to others for a long time. I think the most important thing now is to leave Liu Bei in Wudi, build a palace for him, and give him beautiful women and antiques; and then separate the guan zhang and put one side on each side, and the big thing can be decided. Sun Quan did not adopt Zhou Yu's advice because Cao Cao was in the north, and he should recruit a wide range of talents, and he was afraid that Liu Bei would be difficult to subdue in a short period of time. At this time, Liu Zhang was a pastor of Yizhou, and there was an invasion by Zhang Lu outside the country, so Zhou Yu went to Beijing to see Sun Quan and said: "Now that Cao Cao has been defeated, Liu Zhang has begun to be afraid because he did not raise an army with the general you to attack Cao. I am willing to attack Shudi with General Fenwei, and after Obtaining Shu, I will annex Zhang Lu, and then leave General Fenwei to guard Shudi and ally with Ma Chao. I will come back and occupy Xiangyang with you to suppress Cao Cao, so that you can plot to the north. Sun Quan allowed his suggestion. After Zhou Yu returned to Gangneung, he packed his clothes and died of illness in Baqiu during the march, when he was only thirty-six years old.
At first, Zhou Yu was considered a friend by Sun Ce, and the concubine asked Sun Quan to serve Zhou Yu as a brother. At that time, Sun Quan was still a general, and the generals and disciples were still relatively simple in their etiquette for Sun Quan, but only Zhou Yu first paid respect to him, and had already implemented the etiquette of courtiers and kings. Zhou Yu had carefully studied music when he was young, even after drinking three lords, if there was anything wrong with the player, he must have heard it, and when he heard it, he would look back, so someone made up a song at that time: "The song is wrong, Zhou Langgu." ”
When Zhou Yu died, Sun Quan wept bitterly and said, "Gongjin has the talent of Wang Zuozhi, and now he is dying short, so who will I rely on in the future?" He called himself empress dowager, but he still remembered Zhou Yu and once said to the secretaries of state: "Without Zhou Gongjin, how can I be called emperor?" Wang Tu of Eastern Wu's hegemony disappeared with zhou Yu's sudden death, and since then he has changed from wanting to invade the world to being partial to the side of security. It can be seen that zhou yu's role in Eastern Wu is irreplaceable. Su Shi wrote in the phrase "Nian Nu Jiao Chibi Huaigu" that "when I thought of Gongjin, Xiao Qiao was first married, with majestic hair, a lupine scarf, and the tree between the laughter and the ashes flew away." From this poem, it is enough to see Su Shi's worship of Zhou Yu, in the face of the misunderstanding of Zhou Yu by future generations, if Zhou Yu has knowledge underground, it is estimated that he will look up to the sky and sigh: "Since Yu was born, how could he give birth to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" ”
What a bullshit Romance of the Three Kingdoms, distorting history and distorting historical figures, Zhuge Liang actually has no special achievements in history, nor is it so godly as described in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Luo Guanzhong greatly admires Zhuge Liang in order to boast about Zhuge Liang and even deliberately smears, smearing to the point of madness, Zhou Yu is such a modest and generous politician and military man with foresight and foresight, I am not even for Zhou Yuming for the historical figures who were blackmailed by him.