To be honest, step by step, Liu Bei had gone from a poor commoner to a formidable hero. It was indeed not easy.
A loser marries a fair, rich, and beautiful woman! Wasn't this too melodramatic? It was too inspirational.
Long Jiuxiao had to explain himself,"
Because of Liu Bei's father's early death, the family was in decline. In order to maintain their daily livelihood, the sensible him and his mother sold straw sandals, woven straw mats, and set up stalls (typical grassroots). He dropped out of school at the age of 17 and became a gangster.
Liu Bei was 53 years old when he married the Sun family in Jiangdong.
Sun Shangxiang was between 17 and 26 years old at that time. She was a rare beauty. He likes to brandish his sword and spear.
As far as Sun Shangxiang's pictures were concerned, she was a rare beauty. Her eyes were as bright as the stars, her eyebrows were as far away as the sky, her nose was upturned, and her cherry mouth was small.
According to history, Long Jiuxiao could deduce:
Sun Shangxiang's age is unknown. Therefore, Long Jiuxiao could only deduce it.
Sun Quan's father, Sun Jian, died in 191. At that time, Sun Quan was only seven years old (in fact, he was nine years old. Sun Quan was born in 182. Would he be nine years old in 191? (The novel is not clear), there must have been Sun Shangxiang at that time. Even if it was a posthumous child, it would not have been born after 192 (the latest was this year, or there would be a problem, you know).
Sun Liu alliance army. Sun and Liu were engaged in a political marriage in the year 208 - 209. By the year 209, Sun Shangxiang would be at least 17 years old and at most 26 years old.
Liu Bei was born in the year 161. In the year 209, Liu Bei was 49 years old, not 53 years old as mentioned in the novel. This statement was wrong.
Based on Sun Quan's age, we know that she should be less than 26 years old. This age was the best time in a woman's life. He was just a little arrogant and overbearing.
As for Sun Shangxiang, some people said that she was made up, but the Records of the Three Kingdoms called her Lady Sun.
Long Jiuxiao believed that in the feudal era where men were superior to women, it was normal not to mention the wife. Therefore, the historian only left behind five words," Madam Sun." It was puzzling! This Mrs. Sun was Sun Quan's younger sister, Sun Shangxiang.
Let's not talk about Bai, Fu, and Mei anymore. Let's talk about the grassroots Liu Bei!
First of all, Liu Bei himself had many merits, such as knowing people, being kind and generous, and not yielding.
With these advantages, one might not be able to become a formidable person.
It was just like how many people read Master Ma's Chicken Soup every day, but they were still poor.
Not everyone could be an ambitious person. If one wanted to be an ambitious person, one must have an important thing, which was political capital.
What was political capital?
Take Sun Quan as an example. His political capital was his territory and team. He wanted to continue his father and brother's business. This was the political legacy left behind by his father Sun Jian and brother Sun Ce. Therefore, Sun Quan was the luckiest among the Cao, Liu, and Sun families. He didn't need to work hard to own a large company.
Cao Cao's political capital was his connections and family background. His father, Cao Song, was the adopted son of a powerful minister. Cao Song had spent tens of thousands of gold to buy a " marshal ", which was equivalent to the current Minister of Defense.
The friends of Cao Cao when he was young, such as Qiao Xuan, Bao Xin, Zhang Miao, Yuan Shao, etc., were either famous celebrities or the second generation of officials. These were all very helpful to Cao Cao's rise.
What was Liu Bei's political capital? After checking for a long time, there was no P at all. It was just a blank slate. There was nothing.
Did someone say that Liu Bei was not a "Han royal relative"?
One had to know that at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Han royal family had long been common. If this title really worked, then everyone would be a grass head king. At that time, even the emperor was deposed. Did the down-and-out emperor really have a strong appeal?
Just like when Cervantes wrote Don Giaccotti, he used the mouth of the protagonist to tell the true meaning of history: "As long as you can make a name for yourself, people will naturally discover your noble blood.”
Since the identity of a clan relative did not help Liu Bei much, how did he get something for nothing? What about gathering and accumulating his own political capital?
1. Acquire the resources of Master Teacher Lu Zhi
What kind of person is Lu Zhi?
Lu Zhi's name was Zi Gan. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty said that he was eight feet two inches tall, about 1.9 meters now. Lu Zhi's voice was loud and clear. He never used a microphone to speak. He had an excellent alcohol tolerance and could drink a stone of wine at a time. Don't take this number seriously. In any case, he could drink it in large quantities!
He was Liu Bei's fellow countryman. He had both ability and political integrity, both civil and martial arts, noble morals, and a resolute personality. Lu Zhi was born in a scholarly family of several generations of doctors. Not only was he a minister, but he was also a great scholar and a leader of the scholars. He was equivalent to a ministerial-level cadre and was also a famous doctor's supervisor in the country.
Liu Bei was not a person who liked reading. It was not easy for him to think of Lu Zhi as his teacher. He had to thank his mother and uncle for this.
The Annals of the Three Kingdoms records that the First Ruler did not like reading, but liked music, dogs and horses, and beautiful clothes.
In other words, Liu Bei did not like to study. He usually liked to sing karaoke, ride horses, raise pets, play games, and farm treasures. It was such a slacker who actually acknowledged Lu Zhi as his master.
2. Borrowing the resources of his classmate Gongsun Zan
Although Liu Bei was not good at his studies, he made a very good friend from Lu Zhi, Gongsun Zan.
Where is Gongsun Zan from?
Gongsun Zan was also known as Bo Gui, and he was also very ostentatious. He was " beautiful, had a loud voice, and was quick-witted and eloquent."
Gongsun Zan's position was a secretary. As a basic civil servant, Gongsun Zan quickly revealed his ability.
Wei Lue recorded that Gongsun Zan was very good at reporting work to the leaders. Every time he reported, he would not mention those trivial matters." General Manager Chang said a few things and did not forget them."
The article was well written. A person who could write a summary and report on work would definitely have a future. The prefect liked him so much that he married his daughter to him. In order to better train him, he also sent Gongsun Zan to Teacher Lu's private school for further study. Gongsun Zan was older than Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was very much in tune with him." Gongsun Zan was a good friend of the First Lord."
According to the investigation, this handsome man from a noble background had a loud voice. He had performed well in the first edition of The Voice of the Three Kingdoms competition and won first place. As a result, he became the son-in-law of the Zhuozhou Mayor. With Liu Bei's EQ, he would definitely hug such a tall, rich, and handsome classmate.
It is recorded in the Annals of the Three Kingdoms that Gongsun Zan was deeply friendly with the First Lord. Gongsun Zan was old, and Liu Bei treated him as his brother.
This thigh was not in vain. In the future, Gongsun Zan became a powerful vassal in the north. When Liu Bei was in trouble, he went to seek refuge with him. His old classmate was very generous and gave him the official position of " Sima of the other division ". He also gave Liu Bei troops to resist Yuan Shao. Later on, Liu Bei became the county magistrate of Pingyuan County and the prime minister of the country. The country was equivalent to the prefect of a county. He could be considered to have temporarily gained a foothold in this chaotic world.
3. Good at making friends with celebrities
Life was full of surprises. Liu Bei suddenly received a distress letter in the plains. It was like winning five million in the lottery. This was because the person asking for help was called Kong Rong.
What kind of person is Kong Rong? Confucius '19th grandson, when he was young, he became one of the top ten figures in the Chinese Dynasty because he let Li win. Everyone, have you heard of Kong Rong letting Li win? He was also the leader of the literary world at that time, a famous person in the world.
No wonder when Liu Bei received the distress letter, he was so excited that he could not help but say the most useless sentence in the Three Kingdoms: "Kong Beihai knows that Liu Bei exists in this world.”
After Liu Bei saved the famous Kong Rong, his own reputation soared like a rocket. Then, surprises came one after another. Tao Qian sent the special forces Danyang soldiers. After Tao Qian died, he simply handed Xuzhou over to Liu Bei. The tycoon Mi Zhu also quickly provided sponsorship funds. He instantly turned from a guest general to a border governor. At this moment, Liu Bei finally had the " political resources ". Note that it was resources, not capital. This was because resources could be taken away, but capital could not.
4. Transform political capital
With a certain amount of " political resources ", Liu Bei could at least be immune to all poisons, even though he could not laugh arrogantly in the martial world. Therefore, no matter how down and out he was, there would always be people taking him in wherever he went.
When Liu Bei had defected to Cao Cao, Cao Cao's advisors had advised him to kill Liu Bei, but Cao Cao had not killed him. Instead, he had treated Liu Bei well.
In fact, Cao Cao wanted to kill Liu Bei more than anyone else, but he knew that Liu Bei's resources were more important than his life. Liu Bei saw through Boss Cao's thoughts and decided to raise the price to squeeze more political resources out of Cao Cao.
The famous "Imperial Decree of the Belts" was about Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty writing an imperial edict with blood and sewing it into his belt, then secretly passing it to Dong Cheng to assassinate Cao Cao. Before the Yidai Edict incident, Cao Cao's group and the Han government were still one entity. But after the Yidai Edict incident, Cao Cao and the Han government became opposites. He became a traitor that everyone could kill. This released a very useful signal, which was that rebelling against Cao was equivalent to supporting Han.
Liu Bei had officially broken off relations with Cao Cao through the Yidai Zhao incident and successfully forged his own political path. Liu Bei had finally obtained the political capital to establish a foothold in the world. Liu Bei's expression changed so quickly. The people of Hechuan had the ability to change their faces. Even the usually calm Long Jiuxiao was impressed.
Throughout Liu Bei's life, he had relied on learning from great scholars to raise his status, make friends with his classmates, and enter the political stage.
He also relied on befriending celebrities and rescuing great scholars and dukes to obtain political resources. He would also summarize his experiences in actual combat and explore a political route with appeal, building it into his own political capital. The moment he had the political capital, he had already completed a magnificent transformation from a 'commoner' to a 'warlord'.
Liu Bei's life, if one looked at it in terms of years, was quite a story. At least, Long Jiuxiao thought so:
160 years, born in Zhuo.
At the age of 15, he and his brothers, Liu Deran and Gongsun Zan, became Lu Zhi's teachers. They did not like to study and liked to play. He studied for two years.
He had been idling around for seven years. The biggest gain was getting to know Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. The well-known story of the three sworn brothers in Taoyuan happened during this period.
In 184, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei organized a local armed force in Zhuo County. The Yellow Turban uprising broke out. The 24-year-old Liu Bei organized an uprising and followed Zou Jing to attack the Yellow Turban Army. He was dissatisfied with the overseer's bribery and made things difficult for him. He beat him up ruthlessly and then escaped. A wise man wouldn't fight when the odds were against him.
In 190, he joined his old classmate, Gongsun Zan, and became the county magistrate and prime minister of Pingyuan County. He didn't want to be a county head or a chief, so he brought his brothers to the south.
In 194, he joined Tao Qian. He was stationed in Xiaopei and was appointed governor of Yuzhou, known as "Liu Yuzhou". He also took in Lu Bu, who had been defeated by Cao Cao. There is a story of shooting halberds at the gate.
In 196, when Lu Bu attacked Xiaopei, Liu Bei was defeated and defected to Cao Cao. He was still timid and afraid when he was planting vegetables and discussing heroes with Green Plum Boiled Wine.
In 199, Liu Bei seized the opportunity to occupy Xiapi and return to Xiaopei. In the second year, Cao Cao was defeated and captured Liu Bei's wife and children, as well as Guan Yu. Liu Bei captured Zhao Yun.
200 years, defected to Yuan Shao.
In the year 201, Liu Bei once again lost the city. He defected to Liu Biao of Jingzhou (his office was in Xiangyang) and was stationed in Xinye.
In the year 202, Bowang Slope was set on fire. He overthrew Xiahou Dun.
In 207, he visited Zhuge Liang three times.
In 208, Cao Cao went south. Liu Biao died of illness in August. His second son Liu Cong ascended the throne and sent Cao Cao to surrender. Liu Bei was forced to abandon Fancheng and flee south. Carry out a strategic shift! Zhang Fei shouted to cut off the Dangyang Bridge, Zhao Yun saved Ah Dou.
208, Battle of Red Cliff, Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao.
In 209, he was married to Dongwu. After Liu Bei had pacified the four counties of Jingnan and obtained the 10,000 troops that had originally belonged to Liu Biao, he became the herdsman of Jingzhou and his reputation grew.
In the year 211, Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou, invited Liu Bei to enter Shu to help defend Yizhou from Cao Cao's attack.
In 212, Liu Bei asked Liu Zhang to borrow troops and grain to return to Jingzhou to help Sun Quan. The two sides broke off.
In the year 213, Liu Bei broke off with Liu Zhang and attacked Liu Zhang from Jiameng. He also summoned Zhuge Liang and others to reinforce Shu.
In the year 214, Liu Zhang finally surrendered. Liu Bei entered Chengdu and became the governor of Yizhou, becoming the ruler of Shu.
217--219 In the Battle of Hanzhong, Huang Zhong killed Xiahou Yuan, the general of Cao Cao's army. Zhao Yun set up an ambush to defeat Cao Cao's army. Liu Bei proclaimed himself King of Hanzhong. The next year, Cao Cao died of illness.
In the year 221, Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu under the name of " Han Clan ". The name of the country was " Han ", and the history called it " Shu Han ". The regime of Shu was officially established. He wanted to attack Wu to avenge Sun Quan for taking Jingzhou and killing Guan Yu. During this time, Zhang Fei was killed by his subordinates.
In the year 222, Liu Bei's Eastern Expedition was defeated in Yiling and he fled back to White Emperor City.
In the year 223, Liu Bei's illness worsened. He summoned Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, from Chengdu, and entrusted him with his future affairs and orphans. Seeing that Zhuge Liang had no intention of rebelling and was only willing to assist Prince Liu Chan, Liu Bei was relieved.
Liu Bei died of illness in Yong 'an Palace in Baidi City. He was 63 years old. The body was transported back to Chengdu and buried in August.
Liu Bei was the most downtrodden grassroots of the Three Kingdoms, all the way until he became the Emperor. If he had not rashly launched the Battle of Yiling, he would have almost become the final winner of the Three Kingdoms.
In the chaotic warlords of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei's group was relatively weak compared to other forces. They had no stable base and had been in a state of exile. He once lived under the warlords Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao.
In his early years, he had been running around everywhere and lacked a wise and knowledgeable chief of staff.
Even though his subordinates Guan and Zhang were known as the enemy of ten thousand people, and Secretary Liu himself had the reputation of a hero, he still met with obstacles everywhere and suffered a lot.
The turning point of Liu Bei's life was after 208, when Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei's group as a military advisor. Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's strategy: Occupy Jingzhou, unite Sun Wu, retreat Cao Cao's army, and enter Sichuan. In 221, he proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu and established the Shu Han Dynasty. His territory included Sichuan, Yunnan, northern Guizhou, and the old Hanzhong Prefecture in Shaanxi.
Long Jiuxiao believed that from Liu Bei's life experience, we could get the following enlightenment:
1. It doesn't matter if it's hard. He had to have dreams and faith. Only those who dared to fight would win! Seize the opportunity, dare to pay, and finally win.
2. You can't fight alone. You have to have a team. In today's society, if you want to achieve great things, you must rely on the strength of a team, not on individual fighting alone.
3. Be prepared to retreat if the situation goes south. As long as the trend was wrong, the volume suddenly increased, or the price deviated, one had to pay attention to risk awareness.
4. There must be a concept to attract the public. The concept of an imperial uncle, even a pig in the wind can fly. The hype of the theme was very important! With a story, there was a basis for hype.
5. To do things, one must be a person first. Liu Bei treats people sincerely and magnanimously. They shared joys and sorrows together, and Liu Bei treated the scholars and guests who came to seek refuge with him. He did not choose to sit at the same table and eat at the same Gui.”
6. Cherish talents and make good use of them!
7. Dare to arm wrestle with the strong.
8. A broad-minded person who can tolerate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world.
9. Putting people first. After losing, he brought hundreds of thousands of young, old, women, and children with him to retreat to Jiangling. Later, all the scholars and people of Jingzhou surrendered to Liu Bei. This was an example of winning the hearts of the people.
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