Speaking of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I think everyone will not be unfamiliar. We all know that there are countless heroes, such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Sun Quan and others, and their stories are all talked about by the public.
However, today we want to introduce a "little person" who has only appeared once in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". This person's name was Lu Ji, and he was an official of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. Lu Ji's appearance in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was exactly when Zhuge Liang came to Eastern Wu to lobby and fight Confucianism. And Lu Ji was one of the group of Confucians who debated with him.
Although in the eyes of novelists, Lu Ji was dumbfounded by Zhuge Liang's response, after all, it was only to set off Zhuge Liang's tall image, and had nothing to do with the historical prototype of Lu Ji. According to the merits of Lu Ji's life, the famous director Kan Weiping also filmed a TV series called "The Legend of Lian Shi" for him, leading people to understand the life of this legend.
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Speaking of Lu Ji, we have to mention an anecdotal allusion called "Lu Ji Huai Tangerine". According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Ji Biography:
At the age of six, he met Yuan Shu in Jiujiang. The orange is waiting for it, and the orange is two pieces. And return, bow down to the fallen land. Shu Yue: "Lu Lang is a guest and pregnant with Orange?" He replied, "What my mother loves, I want to give to my mother." "Magic is amazing."
It turned out that when Lu Ji was six years old, he went with his elders to meet Yuan Shu. Because Yuan Shu used oranges to entertain guests, Lu Ji felt that it was particularly delicious after tasting it, and he wanted to take a few oranges home to give his mother a taste. So Lu Ji secretly hid two oranges in his sleeve. Who knows, when I was ready to leave, the orange fell out of my sleeve.
However, after listening to Lu Ji's explanation, Yuan Shu was also surprised by Lu Ji's filial piety, so he did not think about it anymore. This story was also selected by Guo Jujing of the Yuan Dynasty into the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties", which was widely circulated, including a poem praising Lu Jidao:
"Filial piety is nature, a six-year-old child on earth." Green oranges in the sleeves, the widowed mother nursed. ”
Later, due to the illness of his father Lu Kang, the Lu family, which had lost its top pillar, had to attach itself to the Sun family in Jiangdong. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), after Sun Ce unified Jiangdong, Lu Ji, who was only a teenager, became Sun Ce's guest. Lu Ji was erudite and knowledgeable, and his personality was also just and upright, and he had been blunt and advised many times, and he was not polite to Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and other Eastern Wu ministers.
However, Lu Ji's personality was full of spikes, which also caused dissatisfaction from Sun Quan, who later controlled the power. On the one hand, Sun Quan chose Lu Xun, who was more obedient and obedient; on the other hand, Sun Quan secretly suppressed Lu Ji and asked him to be dispatched to the remote Yulin as a Taishou.
Being so belittled, Lu Ji didn't care. In fact, his ambition is not how big he is as an official, but how deeply he has learned. It turned out that Lu Ji's ambition was not to become an official, but to become a scholar. He once annotated the I Ching and once made a famous celestial map, the Hun Tiantu, which used the knowledge of feng shui geography for astrological fortune telling.
Until the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 AD), Lu Ji, who was only 32 years old, unfortunately died of illness. It is worth noting that on the occasion of his death, Lu Ji once prophesied:
"From now on, sixty years away, the car is on the same track, the book is the same text, and I hate it."
It turned out that Lu Ji predicted that after 60 years, the divided world would once again return to unification. Sure enough, in the sixth year of Xianning (280 AD), the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Sun Wu, ending the division of the Three Kingdoms and reunifying China. This coincides with Lu Ji's prophecy, which cannot but be astonishing.
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The code of conduct practiced by Lu Ji throughout his life can be summarized as "one world, not a military vehicle". What does this mean? It is that there is no need to use force, but to rely on benevolence to make people happy and convinced. Lu Ji once said at a meeting of eastern Wu courtiers to discuss how to unify the world:
"In the past, Yiwu Xiangqi Huan Gong, Jiuhe Zhuhou, one Kuang tianxia, no military vehicles." Confucius said: 'If a distant person disobeys, he will cultivate Wende since then.' 'The present-day commentator does not practice the art of morality, but only shangwu, although his achievements are childish, he has not been safe. ”
At that time, when he was only a teenager, Lu Ji profoundly realized that it was far from enough to make people surrender by force alone. If you want to truly convince people, only through the benevolence of the country and the benevolence of the king can we impress the masses and enemies, and we can achieve long-term results.
In fact, in the Three Kingdoms period of war and strife, Lu Ji's concept was undoubtedly naïve, after all, the so-called gun can only come out of power. But Lu Ji himself has been practicing such a code of conduct all his life. When Sun Quan appointed him as the Taishou of Yulin, he was specially equipped with 2,000 soldiers.
However, Lu Ji sternly refused, and he was not willing to lead his troops to fight. Not only because at that time he suffered from a leg disease, had limited mobility, and could not ride a horse and shoot arrows; but also because Lu Ji still adhered to the concept of benevolence and morality, so he was unwilling to do this thing.
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During the Three Kingdoms period when heroes and heroes were born, Lu Ji probably did not do anything earth-shattering in his life, and his reputation and achievements were far inferior to other people. But there is still something shining in Lu Ji's body, which is worth learning and thinking about.
Throughout his life, he was able to stick to his original intention, keep his mission in mind, and have a clean wind in his sleeves and be a man of integrity. Perhaps, if Lu Ji was born in a peaceful and prosperous world, with his own character and ability, he could also make a big career. Unfortunately, during the war-torn and strifeed Period of the Three Kingdoms, the concepts he held were destined to be destroyed by reality, and eventually fell into the mud.