Liu Bei was a descendant of Liu Sheng, the Prince of Jing of Zhongshan, the son of Emperor Jing of Han, and when he was fifteen years old, his mother asked him to travel abroad to study, and Liu Bei began to study with Lu Zhi as a teacher.
Tang Dynasty Han Yu "Master Said" "Ancient scholars must have teachers, teachers, so preaching and teaching karma to solve puzzles." The teacher is very critical, Liu Bei learned the essence from Lu Zhi, "not very happy to read, like dogs and horses, music, beautiful clothes." ”
In the first year of Jianning (168), the general Dou Wu was made a marquis because he supported Emperor Liling, and Lu Zhi, who was a cloth cloth, wrote to advise Dou Wu to resign and make him a knight, but Dou Wu did not accept.
In the early years, Lu Zhizhou County did not accept it one after another, and only became a doctor in Jianning and began his career. In the fourth year of Xiping (175), he was elected as the Taishou of Jiujiang because of the barbarian rebellion in Jiujiang, and ordered the barbarians to submit, but later left his post due to illness.
During this time, Lu Zhi concentrated on writing the Shang Shu Zhang Sentence and the Three Rites interpretation, during which he also wrote to the imperial court to put forward views on scripture. It was at this time that Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan were taught, and the location was in the mountains of Yin County, Henan.
Although Liu Bei threw himself into Lu Zhimen, he did not like to read much, but instead liked hunting, music, and gorgeous clothes. He is seven feet and five inches long (about 173 cm, about 23.1 cm in Han Shi), has long arms, has a pair of big ears, and a beard that is extremely rare. Usually, there are not many words, and mood and anger are not colorful. Because his personality is good at treating people and things, coupled with his style of acting similar to that of his ancestor Liu Bang, he is good at befriending heroic warriors and righteous soldiers, so there are many young people in the local area who are eager to attach themselves to him, and people at the time are also rated as having the style of a high ancestor.
Later, when Nanyi rebelled, the imperial court appointed Lu Zhi as the Taishou of Lujiang because of his trust in the barbarians in Jiujiang, and Lu Zhi was in charge of seeking peace in the territory and preaching great righteousness. Lu Zhi was conscripted as a huilang more than a year after he took office as the Taishou of Lujiang, and together with Cai Yong and Ma Riyu, he supplemented the Han Ji and proofread the five classics in the palace. Later transferred to Shizhong, Qian Shang Shu.
In the first year of Guanghe (178), a solar eclipse occurred, so Lu Zhi wrote to emperor Hanling to criticize the shortcomings of the times, but the hanling emperor ignored it.
In the first year of Zhongping (184), the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the four provinces pushed Lu Zhiping to suppress the rebellion, so they were ordered to worship the northern general Zhonglang and hold the festival, and lead the northern army to fight against the Yellow Turban leader Zhang Jiao. Lu Zhi repeatedly defeated Zhang Jiao and forced Zhang Jiao to retreat to Guangzong (廣宗, in modern Wei County, Xingtai, Hebei Province), and then Lu Zhi besieged Guangzong and built a ladder to prepare for the siege and destroy Zhangjiao. However, at that time, Emperor Ling sent the eunuch Xiaohuangmen Zuo Feng to the front line to see the battle situation, and someone advised Lu Zhi to bribe Zuo Feng, but Lu Zhi refused, so he ordered Zuo Feng to report to Emperor Ling: "Guangzong's Yellow Turban Thieves are easy to destroy, but Lu Zhonglang did not attack, and waited for Heaven to punish them." "Frame Lu Zhi for being ineffective in battle. Emperor Ling, believing this to be true and furious, took him back to Lu Zhi in a prison cart to avoid death, and instead sent Dong Zhonglang to take over the attack on Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo was defeated at Xiaquyang (下曲陽, in modern Jinzhou, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province). In the same year, he was reinstated as Shangshu because of Emperor Fusong's petition.
In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), when Emperor Ling of Han died and Liu Zhen ascended the throne, the general He Jin decided to kill the eunuchs and summoned Dong Zhuo, who was then the pastor of He Prefecture, into Beijing to intimidate Empress He who opposed the move. Lu Zhi knew that Dong Zhuo's fierceness was difficult to control, and he tried to persuade He Jin but failed. Subsequently, He Jin was defeated, and Yuan Shao, a lieutenant colonel, was still a eunuch, and Zhang Rang, Duan Jue, and others threatened Liu Wei and Liu Xie the Prince of Chenliu to flee to Xiaopingjin (小平津, in modern Mengjin County, Luoyang, Henan Province) and were chased by Lu Zhi's men, Zhang Rang and others threw themselves into the river and died, and Liu Xie returned to the palace. After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he took advantage of the chaotic dictatorship and summoned hundreds of officials to discuss the abolition of the establishment. At that time, no one in the hundred officials dared to speak out, only Lu Zhi dared to speak out against it, but it made Dong Zhuo furious, and he even intended to kill Lu Zhi, only because Cai Yong and Yilang Peng Bo rescued him.
Subsequently, Lu Zhi asked to return to his hometown on the grounds of old age and illness, but he was afraid that he would be poisoned by Dong Zhuo, so he took the small road and left, when Dong Zhuo did send people to pursue and kill, but he could not catch up with Huai County before giving up. Lu Zhi then lived in seclusion in Shanggu County,Jundu Mountain, not communicating with people. Yuan Shao was promoted to a military division. He died in 192. Before his death, Lu Zhi told his son that he would be buried without a coffin, but only with a piece of cloth to wrap the body.
Liu Bei's teacher is very powerful, and the teacher's teacher is even more powerful! Lu Zhi's teacher was Ma Rong, a well-known classicist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. And Lu Zhi's teacher Ma Rong is even more of an incredible figure. He was the nephew of Empress Mingde Ma of the Han Ming Emperor, a famous classicist during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and a grandson of the famous Eastern Han general Ma Yuan.
Ma Rong was young and studious, proficient in scripture. He edited and annotated the Zhou Yi, Shang Shu, Mao Shi, Analects, And Filial Piety, and wrote the Three Transmissions of Differences and Similarities. In addition to the commentaries, he also annotated books such as Lao Tzu, Huainan Zi, Leaving Sorrow, and The Biography of The Daughters of Lie. He had more than a thousand students, such as the famous scholars Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi, who were his protégés. Ma Rong is quite good at beauty and music, when lecturing, the front row is male students, the back column of beautiful women, singers and prostitutes, the middle is separated by a silk tent, Ma Rong "often sits in the high hall, Shi Daisha tent", known as "Professor Dai Tent".
In the second year of the Yongchu Dynasty (108), the general Deng Xiao heard of Ma Rong's reputation and summoned him to be a sher, but Ma Rong did not reply and moved to live in the Wudu and Hanyang areas of Liangzhou. At that time, the Thieves of the Western Qiang were swarming, causing the price of grain to soar, and people starving to death could be seen everywhere on the roadside. Ma Rong was so hungry that he didn't want to die early, so he went to accept Deng Xiao's offer.
In the fourth year of Yongchu, Ma Rong appointed the school secretary Langzhong to Dongguan to go to the school to be the secretary of the school. At this time, Empress Deng was in charge of the imperial government, and the Deng Brothers assisted in the imperial government. The imperial court abolished the ritual of hunting and abolished the method of training the battle front, and the thieves took advantage of this time to be unscrupulous. Ma Rong believed that none of the ways of literature and martial arts could be abandoned, so that in the second year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (115), he presented the "Ode to Guangcheng" as a satire.
After the song was presented, it offended the empress dowager, so much so that Ma Rong stayed in Dongguan and did not get a promotion for ten years. Subsequently, Ma Rong impeached himself through the death of his eldest brother's son and returned home. Empress Deng, believing that Ma Rong was humiliated by the appointment of the imperial court, ordered him not to be allowed to remain an official.
After Empress Deng's death, Emperor An of Han personally managed the imperial government and recalled Ma Rong to lecture on scripture in the lecture hall. Later, he was sent to the King of Hejian to serve as the chief of the stables. At that time, Emperor An was touring Emperor Daizong in the east, and Ma Rong presented the "Ode to the Eastern Tour", and Emperor An was very surprised by this, so he appointed him as Langzhong. When Hou Beixiang became emperor, Ma Rong resigned from Langzhong's post due to illness and served as Gong cao of the county.
In the second year of Yang Jia (133), the Heavenly Son issued an edict to promote Dun Hou and a simple person. Lieutenant Cen Qi of the City Gate recommended Ma Rong. The imperial court then summoned Ma Rong to the bus, answered the examination questions set by tianzi, and was awarded the title of Yilang. The general Liang Shang recommended him to serve as Zhonglang (中郎), and later changed his position to Wudu Taishou (武都太守). At that time, during the Western Qiang rebellion, the general Ma Xian of the Western Expedition and the lieutenant Hu Yu of the Qiang Dynasty were ordered to conquer the Western Qiang, but they stayed for a long time.
Ma Rong knew that Ma Xian would definitely fail, so he wrote to ask for service, saying that Ma Xian was stranded everywhere and missed the opportunity, and at the same time he was worried about Ma Xian's plan to attack the west and the east, and he was afraid of the situation of generals and soldiers routing and mutiny. If he could incorporate the five thousand soldiers of the Kwantung under his command, he would be the first soldier and soldier, and within a month he would be defeated by the Qiang. But the imperial court did not adopt it. He wrote to him: "The appearance of comets in Betelgeuse and Biju indicates that there will be war near the state. The Rong in the West and the Di in the North are afraid that they will raise troops, and it is best to take more precautions. Soon, the Qiang people in Longxi rebelled, and Wuhuan invaded Shangjun, which was basically the same as Ma Rong said.
After three promotions, during the reign of Emperor Huan, Ma Rong served as the Taishou of Nan Commandery. Before that, Ma Rong did something against the wishes of the general Liang Ji, and Liang Ji went to ma Rong to accuse Ma Rong of embezzlement in Nan County. Ma Rong was dismissed from his official post and exiled to Shuofang with his hair shaved. During his exile, Ma Rong attempted suicide, but was pardoned and returned to Beijing, where he was again appointed as a parliamentarian. Soon after, he resigned again due to illness.
In the ninth year of Yanxi, Ma Rong, who was eighty-eight years old, died at home. During the Tang Dynasty, he was worthy of Confucius, and in the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously honored as Fufeng Bo.