The "friendship" between Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan is said to be "deeply regarded as a friend" in the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, The Biography of the Ancestors", and this "deep" word shows the depth of the friendship between the two people, however, a fact that makes people wonder, that is, in 188 AD, Gongsun Zhan broke Zhang Chun in Youzhou, and in the process of pursuing the remnants of the enemy, he was besieged by the Wuhuan army in Guanzi City in western Liaoning for more than 200 days, during which time, what did Liu Bei do?
Gongsun Zhan in the film and television drama (source: network)
The history books do not specify the specific time point when Gongsun Zhan was besieged and broke through, but in November 188, Gongsun Zhan broke Zhang Chun and was besieged for 7 months, that is, the breakthrough would not be until at least June 189, and Liu Bei had already gone to Luoyang to follow Wu Qiuyi to Danyang to recruit troops.
That is to say, Liu Bei did not take Gongsun Zhan to heart? Why?
The answer is very simple, this friendship was originally "managed" by Liu Bei.
When Liu Bei was a poor child who relied on his mother to "weave mats and sell shoes" to provide for his studies, good clothes, beautiful music, and the fun of flying eagles and horses were the ideals of life, and if he wanted to get these, through the study of Confucianism, he was held up as "filial piety", and he had to follow the path of the "little Hao clan" that his grandfather and father had walked, and the ceiling within reach might be to serve as a county commander after "raising filial piety".
More unfortunately, at this time, the Eastern Han Dynasty society was full of decay, just like the nursery rhymes circulated in the folk during the time of the Second Emperor Huanling:
Show talent, don't know the book. Filial piety, fathers do not dwell.
"Xiucai" originally required to be good at jingyi literature, the recommended person was illiterate, "filial piety" mainly depends on character and reputation, but the recommended person was separated from his father, which belonged to the recognized filial piety at that time.
The Liu family, which is neither rich nor expensive, has no network of connections to make Liu Bei famous in the world, nor does it have wealth to support him to take the above shortcuts to enter the world, and to take the most orthodox "moral" route, such as "filial piety" and "honest officials", they need to restrain all their desires to "play" to the whole world.
Compared with these paths with little hope, Liu Bei only needs to think through the big brother Gongsun Zhan and pretend that he is a "mediocre trader" who does not like to read and is proficient in calculation, and he can participate in his interest gang and get everything he desires.
The reason for this is not conjecture.
As a descendant, when we look at Liu Bei facing Gongsun Zhan, he is obviously hiding clumsily.
Let me ask you, Liu Ziping, a native of the Plains, knows that Liu Has Wu Yong, and there are "ten thousand enemies" like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei around him, who are "imperial insults", that is, guards, why doesn't Gongsun Zhan know?
If he knew that Liu Bei went out to study when he was fifteen years old, that is, in 175 AD, the two met as friends, and by the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 AD, Gongsun Zhan had commanded Three Thousand Horsemen of Youzhou as "Governor of Du" and did not promote Liu Bei, and in 188 AD, when Gongsun Zhan was promoted to commander of the Cavalry Commandery, he did not promote Liu Bei, until he returned from guanzicheng in Liaoxi in 189 AD, and was promoted to The Governor of Youzhou, Duting Marquis, and also the governor of the state, but still did not promote Liu Bei, 14 years, "deep" friendship, Can't even pull the brothers?
The reason is very simple, the relationship between the two has been unequal since the beginning, belonging to Liu Bei unilaterally pandering to Gongsun Zhan, with the richness of his experience and the broadening of his horizons, this past has become a stain on his future, just like Liu Ping mentioned in the previous program, because he knows his bottom line, so "plain and light, shame is below", otherwise a "county citizen" who is not even a "celebrity" Why does a "county citizen" look down on Liu Huang uncle who is a martial artist and a corporal of Li Xian, then Gongsun Zhan, who knows more about the details, naturally will not treat Liu Bei as a "scholar".
Liu Bei in film and television drama (source: network)
It is precisely because of this past between Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan that after he broke up with Cao Cao in Peiguo, his first choice to solve the problem of survival was the Qingzhou Plain County, which he had operated for Gongsun Zhan for a long time, relying on old relations, becoming a Gao Tang Wei and Gao Tang Ling, and after being defeated by Liu Kou, he directly threw himself into the command of the eldest brother, became the Sima of the other department, and followed Shi Tiankai of Qingzhou to return to the plains and serve as the plains commander until the plains.
However, when Tao Qian asked Tian Kai for help and sent Liu Bei into Xuzhou, Liu Bei, the head of a county, had very few soldiers and horses, and the original words of the history books were:
There were more than a thousand soldiers and a thousand people riding in Youzhou Karasuma, and there were thousands of hungry people.
To explain, there are more than 1,000 soldiers and some Wuhuan and Zahu from Youzhou, nomadic cavalry, and the rest are thousands of hungry people who follow.
Therefore, when he arrived in Xuzhou, Tao Qian only assigned Liu Bei 4,000 Danyang soldiers, and Liu Bei jumped ship.
To put it bluntly, Gongsun Zhan has not regarded Liu Bei as a dish that can be served on the table, and his impression is that Liu Bei has always been the son of a greedy and playful trader, but in fact, he has really looked away.
Similar to Gongsun Zhan is Lü Bu.
Lü Bu, who had just defected to Xuzhou, had great respect for Liu Bei, and the Book of Heroes records that Lü Bu said to Liu Bei:
I am also with the secretary of state.
That is to say, Lü Bu, who was much higher than Liu Bei's official, was close to him, saying that we were both people from the frontier and should naturally be close. He also asked Liu Bei to sit on his inner bed, let his wife and concubine kneel and serve food and drink, and call Liu Bei his younger brother, what was Liu Bei's reaction? The original words of the history books are:
The outside is not said inside.
That is, it is polite on the surface and unhappy in the heart.
Liu Guanzhang three brothers in film and television dramas (source: network)
In fact, Lü Bu was born in Jiuyuan, which is where the Southern Xiongnu and the Han people lived together, and he let his wives and concubines serve and bow down, in fact, he treated Liu Bei with the courtesy of "close relatives and the highest" in Hu customs, but Liu Bei did not regard himself as a "borderlander", but felt that Lü Bu was "rude" and not exquisite.
To what extent is this "rudeness"?
We mentioned earlier that Cao Cao's angel investor Wei Zi had a son named Wei Zhen, when he was young, Xiahou Huan appointed Chen Liu Taishou and promoted him to serve as a "Shangji Official", which also belonged to Wei Zhen's "Lord", that is, "Lord Gong", unexpectedly, Xiahou Huan once ordered Wei Zhen to bring his wife to the banquet, and Wei Zhen bluntly said that this was a corrupt act that only existed in the last days, and it was not in line with etiquette.
The original words are:
The customs of the last days, the righteousness of incivility.
This remark was very serious, and it directly caused Xiahou Huan to be angry and throw him into prison.
From this story, we can also see the depth of Liu Bei's "city government", he is not a young man, he will not scold Lü Bu in person, but he will write down a stroke in his heart, and since then, he has been disgusted with Lü Bu until the White Gate Tower.
Then, for the "borderland people" who are similar to Lü Bu's way of thinking, and the big brother Gongsun Zhan, who has never taken Liu Bei's future seriously, how will Liu Bei view him?
The answer is self-evident, and his actions have been drawn to conclusions.