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"The Teacher's Table"
Everyone is very familiar with Zhuge Liang's "Table of Renunciation", and everyone may have memorized it when they were in junior high school, so we will not quote the full text here.
Zhuge Liang has "Pro-Virtuous Subjects, Far Lesser People, The Reason why this Ancestor Han flourished." "Shi Zhong, Shi Lang, Guo Youzhi, Fei Yi, Dong Yun, these are all good and honest, and they are loyal and pure." This is Zhuge Liang's admonition to the later lord Liu Chan during the Northern Expedition, allowing him to contact the virtuous and stay away from the villain.
However, how did Zhuge Liang himself do it?
Street kiosks
In 228 AD, just after submitting the "Table of Renunciation", Zhuge Liang went out of the Qishan Northern Expedition. At that time, Zhuge Liang returned from the Southern Expedition and recuperated for five or six years, in Zhuge Liang's own words in the "Table of Departures", "the armored soldiers are enough." No matter from the test of personnel, the preparation of grain and grass, or the replenishment of troops, it was the best preparation for the Northern Expedition, and it was also the most successful and sure one of the Northern Expedition, but it failed. The defeat of the street pavilion, (headline number: miscellaneous characters) made the first Northern Expedition a failure, the most prepared one was so defeated, and the subsequent Northern Expedition was used to fill the numbers, which involved the reasons for insufficient troops, poor grain and grass, and low morale. The State of Wei has since strengthened its defense against Shu Han, Cao Zhen ordered Hao Zhao to guard Chen Cang, and Zhuge Liang attacked Chen Cang in 229 without success, all of which were prepared by Cao Wei, so the Lost Street Pavilion lost the battle, lost the opportunity, and the State of Shu had no chance to take advantage of it.
The main reason for this failure was the "Lost Street Kiosk". Then the main reason for the loss of the street pavilion, judging from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is caused by joining the army and talking about the soldiers on paper, and the lack of talent, and the military order with the life of the whole family. In the end, he was in a different place to pay for his ignorance.
After the defeat of the street pavilion, Zhuge Liang's self-depreciation of the third level was just a form.
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So why let the horse guard such an important position as the street kiosk? At that time, there were Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, these brave generals who fought in battles, and Wang Ping and Liao Hua, who were conscientious in their duties, so why did they use civilian and other horses who had no battlefield experience?
This has to start from Zhuge Liang, after Liu Bei won Jingzhou, he recruited Ma Liang, a famous scholar in Jingzhou, Ma Liang and Cao Pi in the same year, six years younger than Zhuge Liang, and his social ability, planning ability, political ability, and military ability were not lower than Zhuge Liang, so Zhuge Liang often discussed the major affairs of the military state with him and formed a deep friendship, at the same time Liu Bei admired Ma Liang, and in the future, he always consulted with Ma Liang and treated him as a later show of the Shu kingdom.
In the process of interacting with Ma Liang, Zhuge Liang also admired Ma Liang's younger brother Ma Chen, who interjected from time to time on the side, but unfortunately Ma Liang died young in the Battle of Xiaoting. Zhuge Liang treated Ma Liang's brother Ma Chen, just like Ma Liang, believing that he had talent and a plan, and Ma Mo also talked endlessly with Zhuge Liang, spending all night discussing major events in the army, and some insights made Zhuge Liang recognize, the two became friends in previous years, and Zhuge Liang took Ma Mo with him to participate in military aircraft.
Zhuge Liang
After the Battle of Xiaoting, Liu Bei was hit hard and bedridden, Zhuge Liang rushed to the White Emperor City, (headline number: miscellaneous characters) Of course, Ma Mo, who was a think tank and a good friend, also followed, and in front of Liu Bei's sickbed, he retreated left and right, and Liu Bei clearly told Zhuge Liang that "Ma Mo is exaggerated and cannot be of great use." It didn't attract enough attention from Zhuge Liang.
After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang took Ma Mo to the south to fight in the northern war, as his own successor training, Zheng Nan used Ma Mo's strategy to attack the southerners for the best, seven captures and seven vertical Meng Yu achieved good results, using a counter-plan, so that the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui dismissed Sima Yi from his military post, so Zhuge Liang was even more emboldened.
It is the Battle of the Street Pavilion, Zhuge Liang left such an important task to the civilian Ma Mo who had no battlefield experience, let Ma Mo have some military merit, a little prestige in the team, and can also compete for a better position in the hou lord Liu Chan, here Zhuge Liang can be said to be nepotism, not meritocracy, looking around the Shu Han circle, Zhuge Liang in addition to Ma Mo really did not have a confidant, so at that time the military arrangements could completely dispatch the cautious Wang Ping to guard the street pavilion, but to use Ma Mo, Wang Ping only did not obey Ma Mo's deputy general, So Zhuge Liang used villains, the "villains" we are talking about here. It is not the "little man" of the gentleman and the villain, but the person who is incapable is called the "little man".
Alpine flowing water meets Zhiyin
Fei Yi, of course, the performance behind is very capable, but Fei Yi's social and language skills are extremely strong, the envoy to Eastern Wu received high-level courtesy, (headline number: miscellaneous characters) of course, there is identity and his language ability to determine, within the Shu Han, the famous generals Wei Yan and Yang Yi are enemies of life and death, Fei Yi can play between the two, indicating Fei Yi's social ability, then, Fei Yi's good social skills, naturally can unite Zhuge Liang around, regardless of Fei Yi's other abilities, He is definitely in harmony with Zhuge Liang's personal relationship, and Zhuge Liang recommended him in the "Table of Teachers", all of which are mixed with personal relationships.
Fei Yi
Dong Yungangzheng, a person who is difficult to contact, because of Liu Bei's admiration, the later lord Liu Chan is not afraid of him for three points, but afraid of him for ten points, and the main concubines of the later lord have to be nodded by Dong Yun, so when Dong Yun was alive, the words and deeds of the later lord were particularly careful. However, how such a stereotypical Dong Yun entered Zhuge Liang's legal eyes, of course, there is Dong Yun's own charm, and more importantly, Zhuge Liang entered Yizhou and Had a very good relationship with Yizhou celebrities, Dong He is Dong Yun's father, so Zhuge Liang recommended Dong Yun also mixed with personal feelings and selfishness, of course, Dong Yun and Fei Yi are still very capable, this selfishness is not wrong.
The last one is Guo Youzhi, (Headline Number: Miscellaneous Characters) This is completely a soy sauce, but Zhuge Liang's recommendation is completely Guo Youzhi's obedience. But in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can not see his figure, Zhuge Liang arrived in Chengdu, Guo Youzhi is nothing more than obedient, there is no achievement, Zhuge Liang usually let pour water, mention the night pot to use smoothly, so the "Table of Teachers" also said that he was "the minister of the Festival of Death", perhaps behind which is a kind of person like Hechen Zhou, drifting with the wind. Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has only eight words saying that he is "sexually harmonious and obedient, and only prepared for the staff", Chen Shou was first a Shu Han courtier, and then a Jin historian, and his comments were highly credible, and may have seen Guo Youzhi.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang in the "Table of Renunciation", said "pro-Xianchen, far lesser", he himself can not do it, Fei Yi Dong Yun Guo Youzhi's recommendation, are from personal relations, fortunately Fei Yi and Dong Yun still have some ability, it is estimated that it is crooked, as for Guo Youzhi who plays soy sauce, it is completely done to wipe the desk and pour water in some offices, which is better done and is recommended. As for the use of Ma Mo, (Headline Number: Miscellaneous TalkIng Characters) is also the most fundamental reason for the failure of the Northern Expedition, completely out of selfishness, because he and Ma Mo have the best relationship in the military, and it seems that Zhuge Liang is also a two-faced person, for his own circle, cultivate Ma Mo who is ambitious and talented, so that Ma Mo has military merit in the ranks of Shu Han, of course, a Jiang Wei who is cultivated later, Zhuge Liang in the circle of Shu Han, as the first powerful minister, is also weak and powerful.
Forgot about the White Emperor City
So we can see that Zhuge Liang's use of nepotism, the most failed use of people to guard the street pavilion, you can use Wei Yan, but Wei Yan Shu Han's first military general, regardless of military merit, ability, battlefield experience is the best, but Wei Yan was the object of Zhuge Liang's suppression, the reason is that Wei Yan is a thorn. As for Wang Ping, he may be afraid that he wei guosheng general is not born right, that is, he uses the unoptimized general Liao Hua, who has thirty years of battlefield experience, which is always more suitable than Ma Mo, from Wang Ping's point of view, it is very important to be born in Zhuge Liang, compared with Wei Yan and Ma Mo, the work in Zhuge Liang is far less than that of those who are related and obedient.
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