For a long time, in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhu Gekongming was a figure who could give orders and was close to the gods.
Even for thousands of years, Zhu Gekongming has become the perfect representative of China people's ideals of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world.
We don't attach importance to prose, calligraphy and invention. Kongming's politics and military affairs have always been legends. Because of this, the real Zhu Gekongming gradually blurred.
The colorful stories such as "Borrowing from the East Wind", "Empty City Plan", "Borrowing an Arrow from a Grass Boat" and "Capturing Meng Huo Seven times" have shaped Zhu Gekongming, the marquis of Wu, into an image close to God.
In the author's opinion, Zhu Gekongming is only a man of flesh and blood after all. He is as knowledgeable as he is, but he is not omnipotent. Even if his strategy is good, he often miscalculates. It can be said that Zhu Gekongming has his noble personality, but also his indelible achilles heel.
In order to get a deeper understanding of Zhu Gekongming, and even understand it, I think we should look at it from the social background, official history and romance novels.
Before Zhu Gekongming and Liu Bei met in the Three Kingdoms, it was recorded that Zhuge Liang's character was Kong Ming, and Yang Du, a wicked man, was also a local. But Cui in Boling and Yingchuan is generous and friendly, which is called loyalty. "
Later, whether in Romance of the Three Kingdoms or History of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei visited the shanzhai and invited Zhu Gekongming to come out of the mountain, so there was the famous Longzhong couple.
Since we talk about Longzhong Dui, we have to mention the military strategy planned by Lu Su against Sun Wu before Longzhong Dui. This thing is similar to the Longzhong pair in Zhu Gekongming. Even so, it is not enough to show that Zhu Gekongming copied Lu Su. However, it is a fact that Zhuge Liang's "Great Right" has shortcomings.
I remember Mao Zedong Runzhi once commented on Zhu Gekongming: "The mistake started in Longzhong thousands of miles away and was divided into two forces. Finally, Guan Yu, Liu Bei and Zhuge are invincible. "
According to Longzhong's thinking, Jingzhou should be taken first, and then Xichuan should be taken. There seems to be no flaw. Zhu Gekongming wants to own Jingzhou and give it up at the same time, so that a passerby can conquer Sun Quan and a legion can conquer Cao Cao in the north in the future. It seems reasonable.
However, Jingzhou and Xichuan are thousands of miles apart, so it is not easy to hold both places at the same time. Thousands of miles away, the soldiers are divided into two ways, and destruction is inevitable. Later, Jingzhou was defeated, Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei sent troops to Wudong, and Lu Xun burned the company's camp. Did the West Shu lead to the first decline?
Obviously, this is a solemn testimony of error. But we know that people are not saints or immortals, and it is impossible to count everything. When Zhu Gekongming was in chaos, he was able to work out a grand military strategy for it, and its brilliance was still worthy of recognition.
But you have to say that it is obviously not objective to think that Zhu Gekongming is strong with the strength of Longzhong.
In the love story, Zhu Gekongming is regarded as a treasure by Liu Bei. But in fact, in 10 years after Zhu Gekongming came out of the mountain, what he did was equivalent to the director of the current tax bureau and grain bureau, and he did not command any army in 10 years.
Zhu Gekongming was first used in the military by Liu Bei when Cao Cao went to the south of the Yangtze River.
What did you do, that is, let Zhu Gekongming lobby Sun Wu, stimulate it with sweet words, put it on the interests, and jointly deal with Cao Cao, just for lobbying.
The saying that "the grass boat borrows an arrow" and "the east wind" is sheer nonsense and fiction.
After the failure of Cao Cao and Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhu Gekongming really became a strategist.
Worship Zhuge Bei as a military commander, put him in charge of Lingling, Guiyang and Changsha, and adjusted his taxes to fill the army.
Speaking of military strategists, I have to say that Pang is studying in Jingzhou. The teacher's name is Feng Chu, with the same name as Wolong. I don't see his ability except to provide a series of skills. Playing with Zhang Lu, in order to compete with him for credit, ended up in a "falling phoenix slope."
Because of this, Zhu Gekongming left Jingzhou.
Guan Yu conquered Chengdu, and the biography of the Three Kingdoms Zhuge Liang recorded as follows: "Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, etc. Led the people to retreat to the river, divided into counties and counties, and encircled the capital with the former master. Chengdu, Liang is a military division, in charge of the left general's office. The Lord went out first and stayed in Chengdu. He eats his own feet. "
After ten years of pacifying Chengdu and twenty-six years of Jian 'an, Zhuge Liang and Kong Ming took Liu Bei as emperor and established the West Shu.
It was also at that time that Zhu Gekongming became prime minister. Since then, the three countries have stood firm.
With the establishment of the Shu-Han regime, it has to be said that Xishu is the second-in-command of the real regime.
Although Zhu Gekongming was the prime minister of Shu Han, Guan Yu was the second in command, and Guan Yu was in charge of half of Western Shu.
There is a subtle and sensitive event between these two people, and that is the death of Guan Yu.
Under the warning of Zhu Gekongming, Guan Yu's Northern Expedition and Jingzhou remained empty. During the half year that Guan left Jingzhou, he didn't send a single soldier to Jingzhou.
From this perspective, it doesn't make any sense. At that time, there were many soldiers in West Shu, and Zhu Gekongming did not send troops to help Guan Yu keep Jingzhou, so he was loyal to him, which was quite different from his cautious personality.
But we also know that Zhu Gekongming's loyalty to Liu Bei is beyond doubt, and so is Guan Yu's loyalty to Liu Bei. It is also an indisputable fact that these two loyal figures often clash. To some extent, Guan Yu may even have been killed by Zhu Gekongming with the help of Wu Dong.
As we all know, teacher Luo Guanzhong wrote The Three Kingdoms to beautify West Shu and Zhu Gekongming, but everyone who has read the original romance of The Three Kingdoms knows it well, and there are hints everywhere.
Go back to Zhu Gekongming. After Liu Bei's death, Zhu Gekongming inherited Liu Bei's legacy and made the unification of China his greatest goal in life.
If you want to explore Cao Cao in the north, you must first pacify the south. So there was a fictional story of "seven capture Meng Huo".
Why a novel? Because the name "Meng Huo" has never appeared in all historical records. According to Zhu Gekongming's cautious character, he is determined not to take such a big military risk. History has proved: "In the spring of three years, the Ming Dynasty led to the south, and its autumn was flat."
So, how did the seven capture Meng Huo spread? Was it written by Teacher Luo? It is likely that seven enemy military bases were destroyed, but it can't be elegant. However, it should be noted that in the days of the Southern Expedition, Zhu Gekongming did invent a weapon with extremely strong lethality, "Liancrossbow", which helped him a lot in the Northern Expedition of Cao Wei.
After that, it was Zhu Gekongming's Northern Expedition.
The first Northern Expedition was written in the year of graduation, a famous millennium. Finally, in a disappeared street pavilion.
It must be emphasized here that the employment level in Zhu Gekongming is average. Ma Su was incompetent, and Liu Bei once accused him of not being reused. Zhu Gekongming still attaches great importance to Masu. The Northern Expedition recaptured Jiang Wei for the first time, leaving Jiang Wei little opportunity to practice. Finally, Jiang Wei became a man who only knew how to lead troops to fight and could not handle interpersonal relationships. Finally, Liu Chan suspected him.
In the second Northern Expedition, we passed three customs and surrounded Chencang, but we paid back the money because we ran out of grain and grass.
In the third Northern Expedition, Zhu Gekongming gradually alienated Wei Yan, which once again exposed the defects in employing people.
In the fourth Northern Expedition, Mrs. Zhang was shot and killed, relying on wooden cows to transport grain.
In the fifth northern expedition, the soldiers left the oblique valley, according to the martial arts Wuzhangyuan. Attack Weinan with Sima Zhong Da. At this time, Sima Zhong Da finally killed Zhu Gekongming.
Having said that, it must be emphasized that there is no such thing as "six out of Qishan" in history. Zhu Gekongming has only made five expeditions to the north. It was these five northern expeditions that caused great internal friction to Shu Han and became the second road for Shu Han to decline after the defeat of Liu Bei's Yiling.
Throughout Zhu Gekongming's life, at best, he is just a Wolong teacher who has few strategies and is good at prose and calligraphy.
And he is blindly brave in the military, militaristic; He was cautious in strategy and refused to accept other strategies, so that several northern expeditions failed.
To some extent, Zhu Gekongming devoted himself to death, regardless of his success or failure. His persistent pursuit and loyalty have always been admired and admired by future generations. No wonder it makes sense for Luo Guanzhong to make him the perfect idol for adults.