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Three Kingdoms Little People Zhi 0017: Zhi Da Cai Shu's incompetent mouth cannon - Kong Rong
Kong Rongzi Wenju, a great literary hero of the Three Kingdoms era. He was not only ranked among the "Seven Sons of Jian'an", but also held the positions of Beihai Taishou and Taizhong Doctor.
Naturally, Kong Rong is also one of the most well-known figures in Chinese history.
In particular, the story of "Kong Rong let the pear" is known to almost all women and children in the Chinese cultural circle.
As a result, Kong Rong has almost become a model of humility and generosity.
However, after stripping off the cloak of the saint, you will find that the real image of Kong Rong is far less glorious and tall.
Let's put aside the processing component of artistic ethics and start from the real historical records to peek into the true face of Kong Rong.
Kong Rong was born in Shandong and was the twentieth grandson of the sage Confucius.
Born intelligent, he has shown the potential for quickness and eloquence since he was a child.
At the age of ten, Kong Rong followed his father to the capital to visit Mingmen, and at that time, Yin Li of Henan was arrogant and did not accept people easily.
Kong Rong deliberately went to Li Bing's house and knocked on the door, and claimed to be a disciple of the Li family.
After seeing Li Yi, Kong Rong moved out of his ancestors and told him that Confucius and LaoZi (Li Er) had been in the same debiyi since ancient times, so the Li family and the Kong family could also be regarded as the family of successive generations... As soon as these words came out, everyone present looked sideways, and it was even more difficult to imagine that these words were actually from the mouth of a ten-year-old child.
Chen Wei, who was the doctor of Taizhong at the time, arrived a little late, and the people sitting there told him about this matter, and Chen Wei muttered quietly: "When people are smart when they are young, they may not be of great use when they grow up." (Madame is small and smart, not necessarily strange), I didn't expect this muttering to be heard by Kong Rong, who had a sensitive ear, and then said ironically: "According to what you said, you should be quite smart when you were young, right?" ...... This sharp-toothed answer caused the audience to laugh, and Kong Rong, who was only ten years old, became famous at once.
However, what people did not expect was that Chen Wei's phrase "growing up may not be strange" has been truly fulfilled decades later.
When he grew up, Kong was integrated into the dynasty as an official, and had no achievements in military and political affairs.
After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he was sent to Beihai to serve as a taishou and an official in Beihai.
This Beihai is not today's Guangxi tourist resort Beihai, but in the Weifang generation of Shandong, named after the Bohai Sea in the north.
The Shandong Peninsula of that era was not as prosperous as it is now.
In addition to the rampant thieves and poor public security, it is also the place where the Yellow Turban Yu Party is rampant.
Objectively speaking, Kong Rong's achievements in the Beihai are still obvious to all. He gathered soldiers and people, gathered soldiers to teach martial arts, issued texts, wrote books himself, communicated with the states and counties, set up schools, demonstrated Confucianism, and slowly transformed the people who had been seduced by the Yellow Turban Army through the art of "indoctrination".
However, Kong Rong's political achievements are limited to this. In the case of the situation of eliminating the Yellow Turban in the whole country, he blindly respected Confucianism and tried to impress the enemy with morality. Isn't it funny to talk about benevolence and righteousness with robbers?
Later, the North Sea turned out to be the Eden of the bandits. The Yellow Turban Army all over the country, all the local officers and soldiers who could not defeat them, rushed to the North Sea and squeezed the hole to melt this soft persimmon.
When the Yellow Turban thieves all besieged the city to beg for grain, Kong Rong, who was too defensive on the side, could not do anything. In the end, Relying on Tai Shi Ci's fate, he rushed out to invite Liu Bei and only then did he break the siege.
After that, the Central Plains Continent entered the era of warlord division.
The prelude to the struggle for hegemony between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao began, but Kong Rong remained neutral without knowing the times, and neither of them was attached. Such a stupid meat head, naturally everyone came to punch.
Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan led an army to attack and beat Kong Rong's troops to the ground.
The funniest thing is that at this time, Instead of finding a way to survive for himself, Kong Rong also drank wine and laughed with a bunch of corrupt Confucians every day.
After the city was destroyed, Kong Rongcai was like a dog that lost his family, leaving his wife and children alone (all captured by Yuan Tan) and fleeing to the east of the Taihang Mountains... One of the halls is too guarded, can't protect the people, can't even protect his own family, but he still reads his own set of great truths all day long. It is no wonder that the Book of the Later Han Dynasty has a sentence on Kong Rong that "Zhi Da Cai Shu" is evaluated. He is full of warp, in fact, he is rough, his thinking is empty, and his eyes are high and his hands are low...
Under Cao Cao's command, Kong Rong was appointed as a master craftsman, moved to Shaofu, and served as the Grand Master of Taizhong.
It can be seen that Cao Cao also knows Kong Rong's fame and the treatment given to him is still relatively high. The so-called general will be a master, which is similar to today's construction minister, engaged in some house water conservancy construction, tree planting and greening. Although he has no real power, he is idle and well-paid, which is most suitable for a literati like him who has no ability.
For Kong Rong, as long as he is a good official and low-key, he can sit down comfortably in this position. Although it is not said that feihuang Tengda, the high-ranking official Houlu is still more than enough.
However, Kong Rong's mouth was still the same smelly, and his eyes were still the same high. He also couldn't control his mouth even though he was old.
According to historical records, Kong Rong, as an aide, never offered any constructive suggestions in the court. Behind his back, he made a big fuss and found some crooked reasoning to criticize others.
Wherever Cao Cao says east, he will pull west; if Cao Cao wants to go south, he will be biased to the north; Cao Cao said that this dish is delicious today, and he will bluntly say that it is difficult to eat other dishes, and you can't only praise this dish with colored eyes...
What an ancient bar spirit!
The record of the Hole Fusion Mouth Cannon recorded in the history books is as follows:
Cao Cao wanted to save grain and engage in alcohol prohibition, and Kong Rong specially wrote a good drinking article, retorting that "women can also destroy the country, why can't they help marriage and so on...
Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, and Cao Pi made Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law Zhen a concubine. This was a good marriage, and it was not unusual for women in the Han Dynasty to remarry.
As a result, Kong Rong said that the Cao family had a tradition of robbing other people's wives. It even went back to ancient times, saying that after the King of Wu cut the silk, he should first give the beautiful woman to his brother Zhou Gong...
Cao Cao wanted to make an expedition to Wuhuan to relieve the military threat in the northwest direction, and Kong Rong laughed and said that the chickens did not lay eggs and birds in that place, and it was not worth mobilizing the masses. He also said that in history, the Sushen tribe did not pay tribute to King Wu of Zhou, and the Ding Zero tribe stole the cattle and sheep of the state of Su Wu and should be fought together. I don't know where it goes...
The ancients called the companion a king like a companion tiger, but Kong Rong had to tease the tiger as a big cat, is not looking for death.
If you play this set too much, it is inevitable to play with fire and self-immolation.
Finally, Cao Cao, who could not bear it, put Kong Rong in jail on the grounds that Kong Rong had made an inappropriate speech at a gathering (the general content was that Kong Rong used a clay pot to form a mother-son relationship, which was likely to be drunk and crazy).
On August 29, 1308 (The Gregorian calendar is September 26, 208), Kong Rong walked to the execution ground and joined the whole family, at the age of fifty-six...
Once a party was too guarded, full of economics and a generation of great literary heroes, just so dead and unproductive, even the whole family had to be pulled to accompany him to the funeral, which can be described as the most tragic end.
However, this is not unjust.
It turns out that Kong Rong is not a man of economic help.
First, he was pedantic; second, he lacked political wisdom; third, his military prowess was almost zero.
The only thing he is good at is his mouth skills.
It is not denied that his sharp teeth and cleverness are a good thing. But a good person is not just a mouth that can speak. To put it bluntly, without the ability to govern the country and the people, you should keep a low profile and try your best to do what you can do in your own position. You can give full play to your strengths as a literati, improve your literary attainments, be a conscientious teacher, engage in academic revision of history books, and leave some information for future generations, which is also a great achievement. However, Kong Rong had to do the opposite, unscrupulously showing his ability to "make a big fuss" on any occasion, just trying to be cool for a while. In the end, he also cocooned himself and died on top of his own stinky mouth cannon...
However, before dying, Kong Rong seemed to understand some things, and wrote such an ancient sentence of "words make things fail, and the instrument leaks and is not secret" as his own dying poem. After a lifetime of being a mouth cannon, he realized that the ammunition that exploded out would eventually bounce back to him...
PS: In fact, objectively speaking, Kong Rong's achievements in literature are still very remarkable. His articles are mainly argumentative, and the content is mostly to advocate and educate, promote benevolent government, recommend talents and talents, comment on characters, and express his opinions on current politics and politics, which is quite sharp and distinctive. In art, the text and sentences are neat, the words are elegant and rich, the ancients are quoted in the present, the metaphors are exquisite, the momentum is full, and the sharpness and humor of the writing are known.
It's just that except for the "Kong Beihai Collection", most of Kong Rong's works have not been preserved, but before the two young sons were arrested, they left an allusion that has been passed down through the ages - "Under the nest, there are no eggs", it can be seen that Kong Rong's entire family, literary genes are very powerful...