The attack on Liu Bei has a often mentioned historical source. In the nineteenth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (214 AD), Liu Bei, the pastor of Jingzhou, struggled to take Liu Zhang's Yizhou.
Wu Qiyue said: "The army has no rewards, and the soldiers do not go." In order to stabilize the hearts of the army, Liu Bei said to the soldiers: After entering Chengdu, the Fuku Department Store is taken by the public, and I don't want a big money. After entering the city, the general took the treasury
All empty. Liu Bei had no money and was very worried, and he offered a plan to Liu Bei, who was already reluctant, "This matter is easy to solve, and it should be minted for a hundred dollars." Equalize the prices of goods, and make the officials the official market. "Liu Bei used this plan, and sure enough, the treasury was abundant, and Liu Bei could use troops everywhere." Some articles say: Liu Bei's move is frantically plundering the wealth of the Shu people, and Liu Bei is worthless. Liu Bei went from a benevolent and righteous prince to a greedy thief.
Is this really the case? Shu Han's straight hundred dollars have such a big sin? Looking at this kind of article, we find that there is a problem, that is, we never mention the extremely crucial factor of "making officials an official city." Cleverly avoiding this key factor, Liu Bei issued a hundred dollars and plundered the wealth of the Shu people.
What is An official city? The meaning is that the market set up by the state is for the needs of buying and selling. In the feudal era, salt, iron, cloth and other necessities of life had to be run by the government. Liu Ba's plan, to put it more in layman's terms, is that the state casts a hundred dollars, and then these straight hundred dollars can only be consumed in the official market.
What Liu Bei allowed his soldiers to rob was the "treasury", which was a warehouse at the national level, not the grains and grains of the common people. It is not to kick the door of the people's homes and plunder the people's fat people's anointing. Liu Bei first gained Yizhou, and after that, the use of military supplies was huge, and he was worried about "military use" rather than military expenditure. The warehouses at the national level are empty, how much does it have to do with the people? In the first episode of "Yongzheng Dynasty", The Eight Brothers lent all the money of the household department to officials to buy people's hearts, and the treasury had less than half a million taels.
However, the fourth brother and the thirteenth brother went to Jiangnan to raise funds, and all kinds of means were used, raising two million taels. Empty warehouses at the national level and money in the hands of ordinary people are not a concept. Liu Ba's plan was to provide sufficient treasury. The treasures of the treasury were all taken by the soldiers, so what Liu Bei had to do was to issue a hundred dollars to return the treasures that had been snatched by the soldiers before.
The treasury that the soldiers snatched was very clearly divided in ancient times. The Book of Rites says that it is in the Fuyan Mansion and in the Kuyan Library. The so-called government refers to the place where treasures and goods are stored; the so-called treasury refers to the storage and storage of military materials such as armor, vehicles and horses.
Which ordinary people have these things in their homes? Shu Zhi called "a month of months (the plan of the reserve Ba) the treasury is enriched." From what angle can this treasury be understood, can we draw the conclusion that "Liu Bei plundered the wealth of the people in Shu and enriched himself"? It is nothing more than watching the Romance of the Three Kingdoms hate the "hypocritical" Liu Bei (is Liu Bei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms like this?). ), I think Liu Bei has no personality (the real Liu Bei is full of personality), and liu bei is just a variety of dislikes.
Liu Bei is a foreign clique, and if he issues a hundred dollars to loot the wealth of the Shu people, then the Shu people are so willing to support Liu Bei in the struggle for Hanzhong? Shu Zhi Yang Hong said: Cao Cao's taking of Hanzhong was a disaster for Shu. Men in Shuzhong were on the battlefield, and women in Shuzhong were transporting supplies. If the Shu people were wiped out by Liu Bei, would they still have the heart to help the outsider Liu Bei fight? Does it fit the logic of human nature?
Liu Bei issued a straight hundred dollars, where to see that "the Shu people are trapped"? Zhuge Liang said that "Yizhou is tired", that is, after Liu Bei attacked Wu to conquer Jingzhou, it was impossible to transfer flowers and graft wood to Liu Bei after entering Shu and before cutting Wu. Legend of Wang Lian of Shuzhi: Wang Lian served as a lieutenant of Siyan, and made a lot of profits from salt and iron (for Shu Han), which was beneficial to the country. There is a certain correlation between national use and military use, but national use is not equal to military use, and military use is not equal to national use.
Moreover, shu han's direct hundred dollars have been found in a large number of Wu and Wei countries, indicating that shu han's foreign trade and economic cooperation is smooth. If the Shu people are trapped by a hundred dollars, how can they export? Even if it is exported, the people's hearts are not angry? Liu Bei wanted to rob the people of their belongings, and under the pretext of sending soldiers to the people's homes to forcibly expropriate them, was it not more convenient than issuing a hundred dollars? Even if Liu Bei wanted to make a false name of loving the people and go around in circles to issue a hundred dollars to loot the people's wealth, (when Liu Bei was alive), could the Shu people have a large-scale rebellion against Liu Bei? Liu Bei raised up the "army of the country" to cut down Wu, if the Zhibaiqian plundered the people's wealth very fiercely, the Shu people did not take advantage of this opportunity to rebel against Liu Bei? Liu Bei's army defeated Yiling, and Shuzhong was greatly trapped, but could there be Shu people who rebelled against Liu Bei?
Say a few more. Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is said to have been wronged and wants to justify Cao Cao's name. Liu Bei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also not the real Liu Bei, but also weakened, and the roles are given to Zhuge Liang and Guan Zhang. However, it is rare to cite the "Zhi" as Liu Bei's name, or to accuse Liu Bei of yanyi.
Is this fair?