At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor was mediocre, the eunuchs were in power, the people were poor, and the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. Zhang Jiao, the leader of the "Taiping Dao" organization, set off a major uprising that shook the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Bei, who was a member of the Liu family, was still very confused about this at this time, although Liu Bei, who had become a commoner, had the great ambition to be the emperor, but he had to work hard to fill his stomach - selling straw sandals.
Finally, the appearance of a famous Confucian and two wealthy businessmen gave him a pair of wings to break free from reality, and strengthened his confidence to move from a peddler pawn to a hero.
This great Confucian is Liu Bei's teacher Lu Zhi, and he is also a native of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a person known to everyone on the earth, not only good at learning, but also with a high level of martial arts, and was an authentic all-round talent in civil and military affairs. Lu Zhi's teacher was very famous, and he was the master of the academic world and the master of ancient literature and scriptures at that time. Teacher Ma Rong is the grandson of Ma Yuan, a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the nephew of the Empress of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty (Ma Yuan's daughter).
Lu Zhi's senior brother is even more famous, Zheng Xuan, a Confucian scholar who has paid attention to Confucian classics and unified scriptures. The teacher is very good, the senior brother is even better, and Lu Zhi, who is the younger brother, is naturally unambiguous, and the history says that he "can learn from the past and the present, and is good at studying and refining without abiding by the rules and sentences" ("The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Lu Zhi's Biography"), and is the author of "Shangshu Chapters and Sentences" and "Three Rites Interpretation" two Confucian masterpieces.
Under the earnest teaching and dedication of Professor Lu Zhi, Liu Bei and his classmates must have been influenced by Confucian orthodoxy to a greater or lesser extent. Especially Liu Bei, judging from what he did in the future, his behavior is completely in line with Confucian standards.
Liu Bei's idea of success comes from his teacher Lu Zhi, who can be described as a noble man in life, and if he does not have such thoughts in troubled times, he will not be able to achieve hegemony. The other two nobles were wealthy businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who laid the economic foundation for Liu Bei's entrepreneurship.
Liu Bei's family is located in Zhuo County, which can be regarded as a medium-sized city. There are many people doing business here, among them there are two Zhongshan merchants, one named Zhang Shiping and the other named Su Shuang. Their business is not ordinary – selling horses.
One day, Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang met an extraordinary-looking young man Liu Bei in Zhuoxian County: his hands were very long, and his hands could hang down beyond his kneesThe ears are so big that you can see your own ears (which is a bit outrageous);Seven feet five inches tall, about 1725 meters of appearance.
Zhang and Su were surprised when they saw Liu Bei, and after a while, they were even more surprised—Liu Bei said in a calm tone that he was the great-grandson of Emperor Jing of Han and King Jing of Zhongshan.
In addition to being surprised, Zhang and Su expressed their admiration for Liu Bei. Liu Bei also knew the identities of Zhang and Su as merchants, but he did not show a trace of contempt for these two people who were so poor that they only had money left, but greeted them modestly.
When Pingshui meets, there is fate. What's more, he met a royal family with extraordinary appearance (people valued this very much at the time) and unstoppable personality charm, Zhang and Su were thundered.
Zhang and Su's reaction after being thundered was that they were eager to have further exchanges with this young man. According to the traditional habits of the Chinese nation, the place to exchange feelings and establish friendship is generally arranged at the restaurant table.
With the deepening of mutual understanding between the two sides, Zhang and Su found that Liu Bei was very extraordinary, born in a royal family, lost his father at a young age, sold straw sandals, went to college, and had the ambition to take the world as his own responsibility, all he lacked was opportunities.
No, Liu Bei still lacks another thing - money. And such things are what they are rich in.
Zhang and Su immediately stated that as businessmen, their social status was basically equal to zero, and they could not provide Liu Bei with too much help, so they could only solve the problem of money for him, so they gave him a lot of banknotes (more money and wealth).
From then on, Liu Bei no longer worried about his livelihood, and began to let go of his hands and feet, and carried out preliminary preparation activities for the realization of his ideals.
Liu Bei's brilliant life is a life of grassroots struggle to become a great hero, relying on the hearts of the people and the people's hearts step by step from a peddler, a rogue soldier, and a rogue general to the hegemony of Wang Tu.
Liu Bei relied on benevolence and righteousness to make a name for himself, sacrificed himself to save Kong Rong, aided Tao Qian with great righteousness, took in Lu Bu, who was a lost dog, and refused Liu Biao to let Jingzhou, and Changbanpo vowed to live and die with 100,000 people. But he was never obsessed with benevolence and righteousness, Liu Zhang asked him to enter Shu to help resist the strong enemy, he was able to make up his mind to temporarily abandon benevolence and righteousness, seize Liu Zhang's territory, and instead give benevolence and righteousness to the people and scholars of Yizhou;In the face of Sun Quan's request for Jingzhou, Liu Bei dared to "not pay off the debt", because in the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei tried his best to fight Cao Cao, and the Jingzhou territory was fought back by his own blood, in order to unite the overall situation of Eastern Wu, so he said aggrievedly that he borrowed Eastern Wu, so Liu Bei refused to return Jingzhou and had no moral baggage, so Liu Bei would not be obsessed with this kind of verbal benevolence.
Liu Bei has lost many battles and won few battles in his life, much like his ancestor Liu Bang, Liu Bei's elegance and knowledge are also very similar to Liu Bang, but Liu Bang is not comparable to Liu Bei, Liu Bei is more humane and warm. In real history, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei actually did not worship Liu Bei, but Liu Bei still regarded them as his own brothers and personally led his troops to attack Eastern Wu to avenge Guan Yu. All of these are the demeanor of a hero in troubled times!