Collection of Huaxia: Comments on the top ten emperors at the beginning

In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao's army was infected with the plague, and Cao Cao withdrew at the right time and place, thus keeping Liu Bei's army.

In December of 208 A.D., Cao Cao withdrew from Jingzhou. At this time, Liu Bei was finally wise enough to follow Zhuge Liang's suggestion to quickly occupy Jingzhou.

In the next few years, relying on Jingzhou's geographical advantages, Zhuge Liang began to carry out drastic reforms, lowered taxes, increased agricultural development, stabilized people's hearts, and laid the foundation for Liu Bei's army strength.

In the 16th year of Jian'an, Liu Zhang, the governor of Yizhou, felt dangerous under the lobbying of his subordinates. He was worried that Cao Cao would come to invade, so he invited Liu Bei from the same clan to send troops to protect him.When Zhuge Liang heard this, he felt that this was a good opportunity, and he could take advantage of this time to eat Yizhou!

In the end, after several years of war, Zhuge Liang and a group of civil servants and generals worked together to finally win Yizhou, which is the area of ​​Sichuan today.

After taking Yizhou, Zhuge Liang began to carry out various reforms, the first being the establishment of the legal system.

The previous owner of Yizhou, Liu Zhang, was fatuous and incompetent, and made the whole Yizhou disorderly, and the people were uneasy. So Zhuge Liang, in addition to improving the economy, also established a complete set of laws. The state order is regular.

At that time, after Cao Cao recuperated, his strength had been greatly restored, and he had been coveting the land of Jingzhou and Yizhou for a long time, and he was ready to move. For this reason, in the 22nd year of Jian'an, that is, in 217, he began to send troops to attack Hanzhong.

Naturally, Zhuge Liang was not afraid, so he fought with a group of generals, and successfully beat Cao Cao back.

After surviving this battle, it can be regarded as the realization of the first step of the "Longzhong Pair" strategy formulated by Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei. They won Jingzhou and Yizhou, stabilized their forces, and occupied the land as king!As a result, Liu Bei was able to call himself the "King of Hanzhong" to deter the world!

However, things turned around after two years. Just when Zhuge Liang was ambitious to expand to the east and north, Sun Quan actually betrayed him!
Lu Meng of the state of Wu saw that Jingzhou was weak, so he proposed to attack Sun Quan.

Guan Yu was guarding Jingzhou. Unexpectedly, Lu Meng crossed the river and killed him. In the end, Guan Yu was defeated. From this, the famous saying "Guan Yu lost Jingzhou carelessly" appeared, which also made the first step of "Longzhong Opposition" frustrated, and Liu Bei's army was greatly weakened. .

Since then, Liu and Sun have turned against each other, and the tripartite relationship has been destroyed.

Another year later, Cao Cao died, Cao Pi inherited the position, and proclaimed himself "Emperor".

Seeing that Cao Pi was so arrogant and dared to proclaim himself emperor, others naturally couldn't lose, so Liu Bei also proclaimed himself emperor under the advice of all his courtiers, established the Kingdom of Shu, and Zhuge Liang was able to become prime minister.

Not long after the founding of the country, Liu Bei began to want to take back Jingzhou.

It's just that the courtiers disagreed, and Zhuge Liang led them to advise frequently.

First of all, although Shu and Wu are hostile, they still have an alliance.Secondly, there is a big tiger Wei Guo in the north watching. If Shu and Wu fight, it is easy for people to take advantage of it.

It's just that Liu Bei definitely didn't listen. Whenever he thought of Guan Yu being murdered by the state of Wu, he was filled with grief and indignation, so he ignored others' persuasion and sent troops to attack.

The battle lasted for several years, and Liu Bei failed to defeat Jingzhou for a long time, and finally drove west because of a disease.

Before he died, Zhuge Liang also successfully met Liu Bei, which led to the famous "Baidicheng Tuogu" incident, asking Zhuge Liang to assist Liu Chan, but Zhuge Liang kicked Liu Chan down and became the emperor himself.

At this time, when he was telling the past, Zhuge Liang couldn't help crying in a low voice: "Your Majesty shouldn't die... I hate that I didn't try my best to persuade Your Majesty. If I used death to persuade Your Majesty, I probably wouldn't have fallen to this point."

Seeing Zhuge Liang so sad, Liu Yang didn't know what to say for a while.

After all, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang cherish each other and have worked together for decades. Even if Liu Bei has been dead for many years at this time, Zhuge Liang will not be able to slow down.

After Zhuge Liang's grief subsided a bit, Liu Yang comforted him: "The matter has come to an end, the prime minister doesn't need to regret any more. As the prime minister said, life and death have their own destiny, and we ordinary people can't force it."

"Yes, I can't force it... The late emperor is dead, I believe that the old man will go down to accompany him soon, but I don't know if he can complete the late emperor's great cause when the lamp oil is exhausted."

It can be seen that Zhuge Liang is really a generation of loyal ministers, he is old, but until now he only cares about the affairs of the country.

However, what happened later may not be what Zhuge Liang could have wished.

After the Shu Kingdom stabilized in the next few years, Zhuge Liang decided to make the Northern Expedition. At the beginning, he won great victories and regained the four places, but because Ma Su carelessly lost a place in Jieting, the battle situation was fundamentally reversed.

Zhuge Liang, who could have garrisoned troops at Jieting, lost his stronghold and was unable to settle his soldiers. He had no choice but to return to the court.

Since this time, Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition ended in failure, because he misunderstood Ma Di, which gave birth to the famous allegorical saying, such as "Zhuge Liang beheaded Ma Di to take care of the overall situation".

In the next ten years, Zhuge Liang embarked on the road of the Northern Expedition in this way. If he failed, he would fight again, and after a while he would fail. This was repeated, but Zhuge Liang never gave up.

After all, Zhuge Liang saw through the current situation, and he wanted to destroy the Kingdom of Wei while he was still alive, otherwise when he died, Liu Chan's ability would not be able to stabilize the Kingdom of Shu.

The battle lasted for a long time, during which he stopped for several years to recuperate and stabilize the military power of Shu. It was not until February of the 12th year of Jianxing that Zhuge Liang started his last Northern Expedition.

In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan sent troops to attack Wei State at the same time.

Sima Yi led the Wei army, and the two armies faced each other in the Wei River.At the beginning, neither of the two armies took action. Sima Yi hoped to exhaust the grain of the Shu Kingdom before attacking, and the Shu Kingdom had been transporting grain and waiting for an opportunity.During this period, Sun Quan responded to Zhuge Liang's call to lead troops to attack the State of Wei, but was defeated, and the State of Shu lost its support.

Zhuge Liang didn't give up, he kept waiting for the opportunity, and soon the opportunity came, the river was flooded, so he sent troops to build bridges and prepared weapons, intending to cross the river and attack Huanglong.

At this time, the team led by Sima Yi has no obvious advantage, the most important thing is that the opponent is Zhuge Liang!Sima Yi had already suffered losses in Zhuge Liang's hands many times, so he was naturally cautious.

Just like that, Sima Yi withdrew from the Weihe River and set up a fortified city, guarding it and avoiding a frontal battle.

Naturally, Zhuge Liang couldn't let Sima Yi guard like this, so he sent soldiers to provoke him many times, and ordered people to give Sima Yi women's clothes as a mockery, mocking Sima Yi as a woman.

The generals in the Wei army were naturally angry when they saw this, but Sima Yi was very calm.