Due to various reasons, there were many people in history who were wronged, buried, and misunderstood. Zhou Yu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was one of them. Because of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which Zhang Xuecheng called " 30% fictional and 70% real " but was actually " 70% fictional and 30% real ", Zhou Yu became a household name in China. However, the Zhou Yu that people knew was completely different from the real Zhou Yu in history. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu, also known as Zhou Yu, was a handsome and talented man, but he was narrow-minded. He always wanted to plot against Zhuge Liang, but he always shot himself in the foot. He was a smart person who was blinded by his cleverness. He was hot-tempered, and his political and military skills were far inferior to Zhuge Liang's. In the end, he was angered to death by Zhuge Liang. It was related to some allusions such as "Three Enraged Zhou Yu","Lost his wife and lost his soldiers","Since he gave birth to Zhuge Liang, he gave birth to Zhou Yu". However, the real Zhou Yu in history was one of the most outstanding politicians and military strategists at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was a great hero with noble character, loyalty, chivalry, wisdom, and courage. He was talented, loyal to friendship, loyal to love, and had a grand appearance! He was the perfect man and great man of the ancient times of the Chinese nation who had condensed the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
Firstly, he was an outstanding politician at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. His political ability was far above Zhuge Liang's, mainly in the following aspects: One was to persuade Sun Ce to take Jiangdong and start a foundation. At that time, there were many heroes in the north, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou was powerful. Only the land of Jiangdong was fertile, and there was the natural danger of the Yangtze River, so he could start a business. The facts proved that taking Jiangdong had made Sun Ce successful. Secondly, after taking Jiangdong, he planned for Sun Ce to take Lujiang, then Jingzhou, then Yizhou. From there, he would rule the north by dividing the river and then unify the Celestial Dynasty. From the development of the situation, this view was undoubtedly wise and far-sighted! The strategy of Dongwu was basically in line with this direction. Third, after the Battle of Red Cliff, Zhou Yu did not agree to lend the four prefectures of Jingzhou and Jiangnan to Liu Bei, but advocated taking advantage of the situation to destroy Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei borrowed Zhou Yu's battle at Red Cliff to survive. Later, while Zhou Yu and Cao Ren were confronting each other in Jiangling, Liu Bei seized the opportunity to seize Jingzhou, Jiangnan, Changsha and other four prefectures. Zhou Yu knew that lending land to Liu Bei was like raising a tiger, and he was confident that he could destroy Liu Bei in a single battle, and Cao Cao would have no time to worry about the south. Unfortunately, this idea was opposed by Lu Su and Sun Quan. They were worried that Cao Cao would take advantage of the war with Liu Bei to go south. Reality proved that Zhou Yu's proposition was correct. Cao Cao had no strength to go south at that time. After Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor, he reflected on this matter and thought that lending land to Liu Bei was Lu Su's mistake and shortcoming. If Zhou Yu's proposal had been implemented, there would not have been a three-way world. It was very likely that there would have been a confrontation between the north and the south. The fourth manifestation of Zhou Yu's political talent was his plan to take over Yizhou after capturing Jiangling. After capturing Jiangling, the first county of South County, he suggested to Sun Quan to lead the army to Yizhou. Then, the army would be divided into two groups. One would set out from Yizhou to Chang 'an, and the other would set out from Jiangling to Xiangyang. In this way, the north could be conquered. This coincided with Zhuge Liang's Longzhong Dui, but it was more feasible than Longzhong Dui. Because when Zhuge Liang was facing off against Liu Bei, Liu Bei was living under someone else and had less than 2,000 soldiers. He did not have any ability and foundation to realize the strategy of facing off against Zhuge Liang. He was purely talking about strategy on paper and comforting himself. Later, Cao Cao went south and Liu Bei was beaten to the point of throwing away his armor. He ran all the way south and wanted to go to Guangxi to seek refuge with Wu Ju, the prefect of Cangwu. How could he still think of taking Jingzhou and pacifying Yizhou? It was already good enough that he could survive! If Zhou Yu had not defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Red Cliff and Lu Su had not insisted on lending Jingzhou to Liu Bei, Liu Bei would not have been able to obtain Jingzhou. If Zhou Yu did not die of illness before taking Yizhou, Liu Bei would not have taken Yizhou. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's Longzhong Dui was actually just an immature general view of the situation. To put it into shape, there was no foundation or ability at all. Anyone with a bit of knowledge could say this. For example, Gan Ning, the general of Dongwu, had proposed to Sun Quan the idea of taking Jingzhou and pacifying Yizhou. In contrast, Zhou Yu's proposal to take Jingzhou and pacify Yizhou was made on a practical basis! Unfortunately, due to Zhou Yu's early death, it could not be implemented and instead allowed Liu Bei to take Yizhou. He could only ridicule Liu Bei for his good fortune. Zhou Yu's political talent was demonstrated in the fifth aspect, and it was also the one that he had shown the most. Before the Battle of Red Cliff, he had stood up against all opposition and fought against Cao Cao, who claimed to have an army of 800,000! Regarding this, many people were very familiar with it, so there was no need to say much here. Of course, Zhou Yu also had a very high political talent for governing the country. He could govern Dongwu as big as it was, and he could govern a county as small as it was small. These were all reflected in this book.
Secondly, Zhou Yu was an outstanding military strategist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. His military ability was far from what Zhuge Liang could hope to achieve. The political talent mentioned above was actually military strategy talent. Political and military skills were sometimes inseparable. In addition, his military talents were mainly shown in the following aspects: First, he had been the main commander of the Eastern Wu army for a long time and had shown outstanding leadership skills. Secondly, the famous Battle of Red Cliff, where he defeated many with fewer people, was enough to show his military talent. The third was the siege of Jiangling after the Battle of Red Cliff. After Cao Cao's defeat at Red Cliff, he left two famous generals, Cao Ren and Xu Huang, with 8,000 elite soldiers to guard the important town of Jingzhou and the first county of Nanjun, Jiangling. Zhou Yu led 20,000 troops to attack. Battles were never easy to fight, and Jiangling City was high and deep, with sufficient food. However, after a year of confrontation, Zhou Yu managed to defeat Cao Ren and occupy Jiangling with minimal casualties. An example that could be compared was: More than ten years later, Guan Yu led tens of thousands of troops to attack Xiangyang, which was guarded by Cao Ren's five thousand men. He also took advantage of the flood to surround Xiangyang, but he still could not take it down after several months. In the end, it was broken by Xu Huang from the outside. Fourth, in the series of wars in which Dongwu expanded its territory, Zhou Yu, as the commander second only to Sun Ce and Sun Quan, fought in the south and north, and helped to conquer half of Dongwu's territory. He was the main commander in the conquest of Jiangdong, Lujiang, and Huangzu. He won almost every battle and was invincible, fully demonstrating his outstanding military talent. More than half of Dongwu's territory was due to Zhou Yu's contributions. It was no wonder that after Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor, he had shed tears many times and said to the officials,"I am not the Duke of Zhou, I am not the Emperor."
Zhuge Liang had to be mentioned here. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's political and military talents were displayed to perfection! Look at Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms: He set fire to Bowang Slope and defeated Cao Cao's army many times. He went to Wu and fought with the Confucian scholars. He angered Zhou Yu and lured him to send troops to resist Cao Cao. Alone in the Zhou camp, he borrowed arrows from the straw boat and the east wind to command the Liu family's army in the Battle of Red Cliff. He commanded Guan Yu and others to ambush Cao Cao several times. He angered Zhou Yu three times and seized Jingzhou skillfully, causing Zhou Yu to lose his wife and soldiers. It was really colorful and superb. Actually, this was all Zixu Wu's business! [True history: Before and after the Battle of Red Cliff, Zhuge Liang did not make any other contributions other than sending an envoy to Wu to beg Sun Quan to send troops to save Liu Bei. He was not given any official position and was just a guest of Liu Bei.] He did not argue with the Confucians when he was in Dongwu, nor did he provoke Zhou Yu with the words " the two Qiao's locked in the bronze sparrow palace ". This was because Cao Cao's bronze sparrow palace had not yet been built at that time, and the two bridges in the Ode to Bronze Sparrow did not refer to the two Qiao's in Jiangnan. Sun Quan's dispatch of troops had little to do with Zhuge Liang. It was the heroic Zhou Yu who strongly advocated against Cao Cao and convinced Sun Quan with his military and political advantages. Moreover, with Zhuge Liang's insignificant qualifications and status at that time, he had no chance to anger Zhou Yu, who was second only to Sun Quan in Jiangdong. The Battle of Red Cliff was all thanks to Zhou Yu's strategic planning and command. It had nothing to do with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang did not stay alone in Zhou Yu's camp to fight with Zhou Yu, borrowing arrows and the east wind. Later on, there was no such thing as Zhou Yu being angered three times. Liu Bei did not go to Wu to get married, but Wu personally sent Sun Shangxiang to Gong 'an. Because Zhuge Liang did not make any achievements in the Battle of Red Cliff, he was only given the title of Military Advisor Zhonglang General after Liu Bei occupied the four prefectures of Jiangnan. This was a military rank between partial general and lieutenant, far below Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun. His job was to " regulate grain taxes to supplement military funds ", which was roughly equivalent to the current director of the finance bureau or the director of the tax bureau. Before Zhou Yu's death, Zhuge Liang could not be compared to him. Even after Zhou Yu's death, Zhuge Liang did not show much military talent. Liu Bei's pacification of Yizhou and the capture of Hanzhong were not commanded by Zhuge Liang. The six prayers to the mountain were fruitless, and some small victories were exaggerated in an artistic way. The real Zhuge Liang's main talents in history were to show etiquette, appoint official positions, follow the power system, open up sincerity, and spread justice.”。Chen Shou, the author of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, said very clearly: " Liang Cai is good at governing the army, but he is not good at stratagems. He is better at governing the people than generals."”Zhou Yu, on the other hand, had been leading the army for a long time, serving as the main commander or deputy commander of Dongwu. He had personally participated in commanding almost all major battles. His military and political skills not only impressed his opponents, but also the equally outstanding leaders of Jiangdong, Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and others. Sun Quan repeatedly lamented that Zhou Yu was the "hero of ten thousand people". On the stage of history at that time, Zhou Yu was brilliant. Compared to Zhuge Liang at that time, big stars like Zhou Runfa and Liang Chaowei were compared to a small assistant who had just entered the film and television industry. Whether it was seniority, status, talent, or experience, they were not on the same level at all. -- This was the truth of history. However, it was obvious that in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, everything was reversed. Not only did Zhuge Liang become a god, but Zhou Yu was also used to serve as a foil to Zhuge Liang, thus creating a big "unjust case": For thousands of years, the Zhou Yu that people knew was the narrow-minded person who was angered to death by Zhuge Liang. He was always shorter than Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang became an omnipotent god. The power of literature was clearly reflected here.
Thirdly, Zhou Yu was a perfect and outstanding person in both appearance and inner quality. Not only did he have an extraordinary appearance, he was elegant, heroic, and talented, but he was also very humble, open-minded, honest, loyal, upright, and noble. He had a very outstanding personality and charisma. The history books called him "tall and strong with good looks","trustworthy in Lujiang" and "outstanding in manliness". When he was in his teens, he heard that Sun Ce, who was the same age as him, was a young genius. He personally traveled hundreds of miles to visit Sun Ce and became his brother. He also invited Sun Ce's family to move into his house and vacated half of his house for Sun Ce's family to live in. From this, it could be seen that he was "extraordinarily heroic". His eloquence was also very outstanding, especially when he elaborated on important points. He was always eloquent, high-spirited, original, and lively, giving people a heroic feeling. Sun Quan commented on Lu Meng, a famous general of Wu who attacked Jingzhou after Zhou Yu, saying,"Lu Meng is tall, knowledgeable, and resourceful. He may be second to Gong Jin, but he is not as good as Gong Jin.”From this, one could see the image of Zhou Yu's "eloquence". More importantly, the real Zhou Yu was a very broad-minded person. He was the exact opposite of the narrow-minded Zhou Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, who finally shouted three times,"Since I have given birth to Liang, I have given birth to Yu" and was angered to death by Zhuge Liang. According to historical records, Zhou Yu was a man of great character and was impartial. Many outstanding talents in Dongwu, such as Zhang Zhao and Lu Su, were recommended by him. Every time he recommended someone, he would say that the person was ten times better than him. Cheng Pu, the old general of Dongwu, was under him because of his seniority. He had never been convinced by him and often humiliated him in public, but he had never "tolerated him and never argued with him". In the end, Cheng Pu was moved. Cheng Pu sighed to others," And GongJin contact, like drinking wine, unconsciously drunk. In addition, Zhou Yu was also an elegant and outstanding musician. He was proficient in music and was good at composing lyrics and music. When he was young, he had a saying,"There was a mistake in the song, Zhou Lang Gu." He was very famous locally. It was not an exaggeration to call him an outstanding musician of ancient times.
He was also a loyal person, a loyal person, and a devoted person. He was very loyal to friendship and was very loyal to love. The Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, was an important era for the formation of traditional Chinese culture. The traditional culture of valuing righteousness over profit and advocating loyalty developed to the extreme in the Han Dynasty and was deeply integrated into the traditional culture of the Chinese Dynasty, forming the so-called strength of character of the Han Dynasty. His contemporary, Guan Yu, was also one of the models of the strength of character of the Han Dynasty, and was therefore respected by later generations. Of course, Guan Yu, who was self-reliant and arrogant, could not be compared with Zhou Yu in terms of military or political ability, or his fame and status at that time. As the son of an official family, Zhou Yu had been influenced by Confucian culture since he was young. He had read Han Shu and eaten Han Valley. The impassioned, righteous, and loyal character of the Han Dynasty was integrated into his blood. He and Sun Ce hit it off at first sight and had similar interests. From then on, they became friends. From then on, he dedicated his life to this confidant. In the meantime, he had rejected many temptations of benefits, including Cao Cao's persuasion to surrender. When Sun Ce raised his army, he only had 2,000 soldiers, while Zhou Yu had 3,000. With Zhou Yu's talent and strength, he could have stood out, but he didn't. Instead, he lent all his soldiers to Sun Ce and got food and warships for Sun Ce. Then, they crossed the River East and helped Sun Ce conquer the River East. Between 'righteousness' and 'benefit', he valued righteousness more. This righteousness was also friendship. For this reason, Sun Quan once sighed,"Gongjin is a man of strategy. If it weren't for his magnanimity, he wouldn't have been under others for a long time!" In fact, Zhou Yu was a servant not only because of his magnanimity, but also because of his " friendship " and " loyalty " with Sun Ce. Because he was a loyal man, he wanted to repay Sun Ce's kindness. Therefore, he was willing to fight for the Sun brothers. In addition, he was also very dedicated to love. In ancient times, it was very common to have three wives and four concubines, let alone a man like Zhou Yu who was outstanding in appearance, outstanding in talent, both intelligent and brave, elegant and powerful. However, he only married Xiao Qiao. He and Sun Ce only got married when they were twenty-five years old. At that time, it was already too late to get married. The reason was that he did not meet the person he wanted. He didn't want to sleep with her. Once she met Xiao Qiao, she would be loyal and never marry a concubine. This was very romantic and touching. In ancient times, such stories were rare.
In short, Zhou Yu was such an outstanding politician and military strategist in history. He was an outstanding historical figure who absorbed the essence of the loyal and righteous people of ancient China. He was a typical figure who concentrated the advantages of the traditional heroes of ancient China. He was a perfect man of the Han Dynasty. He was an out-and-out hero of the Three Kingdoms. Naturally, he was also a hero in my heart. Such a character and the character he displayed were part of the vast and profound traditional culture of the Celestial Empire. Some aspects were also very inspiring for future generations.
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