Liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms in historical evaluation.
Liu Bei is a perfect image of a generous, honest, honest, courageous, affectionate and righteous, and the only drawback is that he loves to cry.
However, neither the Romance of the Three Kingdoms nor the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, including the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, is vague about Liu Bei's adolescence, or even does not introduce it at all. only mentioned three points, one is that when Liu Bei lived in Lousang Village, he had an ideal of making a canopy car, the second was that the weaving mat seller was poor at home, and the second was to study under Lu Zhi, and he was also called a brother and a brother in the same door as Gongsun Zhan.
But after Lu Zhi was a Taishou and Gongsun Zan was a nobleman, it can be said that Liu Bei is completely incompatible. Why don't you and I try, a street sweeper, and the mayor's son can make friends?
In fact, Liu Bei's adolescent history was not unaware, but deliberately concealed all the activities before the Taoyuan Three Rebellions.
So, why does history hide these 20-plus years of blanks?
A family history that has been tossing and turning.
It is said that Liu Bei's grandfather Liu Xiong was promoted as filial piety and served as a county magistrate in Fan County, Dongjun, while Liu Bei's father Liu Hong only became a county official and died early.
The young Liu Bei and his mother had no support, so they could only choose to return to their hometown in the countryside.
Fan County is in Puyang, in the north of today's Henan, and his hometown is in Lousang Village, Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province, 450 kilometers apart. It is said that Liu Bei's mother begged all the way back to her hometown. This shows that Liu Bei was really poor when he was a child.
Therefore, when he returned to Lousang Village, even if he still had some connections in his previous generation, he would not need it here, and the mother and son could only weave mats and sell shoes as a business, and their lives were hard.
But in 175, when Liu Bei was fifteen years old, Liu Bei suddenly worshiped Lu Zhi, the former Taishou of Jiujiang, together with Liu Deran in the same village and Gongsun Zhan, a nobleman from Zhuo County.
This is a historical mystery. It is unlikely that Liu Bei's unofficial and powerful uncle Liu Yuanqi can operate alone.
During the study period, Gongsun Zhan also called Liu Bei a brother and sister.
Some people say that it may be that Lu Zhi fell in love with Liu Bei and accepted him as an apprentice.
Let's take a look at Lu Zhi's personality, historical records record that Lu Zhi is eight feet two inches long, and his voice is like a bell. Resolute character, noble character, often have the ambition of Kuangfu Sheji, help the world, do not like to make resignations, can drink a stone.
When Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor of the Han Dynasty, no one dared to object, only Lu Zhi stood up to defend himself. It can be seen that Lu Zhi is an upright person.
But what was Liu Bei's image when he was a child?According to historical records, Liu Bei doesn't like to read, he likes dogs and horses, and beautiful clothes. doesn't like to talk, and his mood is invisible, which is a typical image of an arrogant rich boy.
These characters are exactly what Lu Zhi is very disgusted with. In addition, Liu Bei is likely to have a sentence that often hangs on his lips: I am a ...... of my Han clan relatives
Later, Lu Zhi was reused by the imperial court, and by the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Lu Zhi was already a Zhonglang general who attacked the rebels, at this time, if Lu Zhi was a disciple, Liu Bei would definitely defect to Lu Zhi, but Liu Bei did not.
Liu Bei participated in the suppression of the uprising, participated in the suppression of Zhang Chun's rebellion, and was meritorious and was made a small county lieutenant. Later, Liu Bei was eliminated and dismissed by the imperial court, and Liu Bei held a grudge when he found out, beat up his superiors, and fled.
Later, when the general He Jin was recruiting, Liu Bei joined on the way, and was promoted to the county prince for meritorious service, and soon resigned. From beginning to end, Liu Bei has not been promoted by the teacher at all, and has been running below the county level.
Until he was 28 years old, he defected to Gongsun Zhan.
And the Romance of the Three Kingdoms also started when Liu Bei was 28 years old.
How do you solve this historical unsolved case?