There is one person in the Three Kingdoms. His relationship with Liu Bei is even better than Zhuge Liang . He was the longest-reigning monarch of the Three Kingdoms. He crushed the princes. Without him, there would be no Five Tiger Generals. All the Three Kingdoms were almost unified by him.
This person is neither Cao Cao nor Yuan Shao .
However, what is even more bizarre is that such a powerful person has a bad reputation in history.
Do you know who it is?
Liu Bei has a concubine called Mrs. Gan . This concubine is more capable. At that time, because the wives Liu Bei married several wives one after another, the family affairs were always managed by Mrs. Gan.
Mrs. Gan has a beautiful appearance, fair skin and a beautiful figure. Liu Bei fell in love at first sight when he saw her and couldn't extricate himself.
In the 12th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao led his troops south to attack Jingzhou , and Liu Bei also went to Jingzhou to garrison. At this time, Mrs. Gan had been following Liu Bei, which shows that the two were very loving.
One day, Mrs. Gan suddenly had a strange dream. She dreamed that she looked up at the sky and swallowed the Beidou in the sky into her belly. The next day she woke up, she found that she was pregnant.
After ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to a son. Liu Bei was so happy that he thought that this child was born in the sky, and he was extraordinary after all, so he gave him a name called "A Dou ".
A Dou suffered a lot with her mother since childhood. She was born in the military camp and has never enjoyed a stable and wealthy life since she was a child.
When A Dou was still in his infancy, Liu Bei brought Mrs. Gan and his son to guard Fancheng, but suddenly heard that Cao Cao had come, so Liu Bei had to retreat with the people of Jingzhou.
In this process, Cao Cao's army caught up with their team. In a panic, Liu Bei and Mrs. Gan and his son were separated and could only ride a horse and continue to flee south.
Zhao Yun I couldn't bear to see Mrs. Gan and the young A Dou lost in the war. When he was halfway through, he gritted his teeth and turned back to find A Dou, fought with Cao's army for several desperate battles, and then he protected Mrs. Gan and his son.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei established himself as King of Hanzhong . This title is quite special. Previously, The founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty , Liu Bang was the King of Hanzhong. That year, Liu Bei was 59 years old and his son A Dou was already 12 years old.
Liu Bei put high hopes on Adou. He made Adou the crown prince. In order to make him more knowledgeable, Liu Bei personally selected many books for him to govern the country.
At the same time, he also found a teacher for his son. This person is Zhuge Liang. In addition to learning a lot of strategies for governing the country every day, Adou also has to learn martial arts.
After Liu Bei officially became emperor, he then made Adou the crown prince.
A Dou was very smart when he was a teenager. Even Zhuge Liang praised him for being "talented, Renmin, and Corporal". Not only Liu Bei, but even Zhuge Liang was very optimistic about A Dou.
is right. In fact, this person who is more trusted by Liu Bei than Zhuge Liang is the one who is called "A Dou who can't help", the last lord of Shu Han in history, Liu Chan .
So what kind of person is Liu Chan the real person in history?
He is the person Liu Bei trusts the most. Zhuge Liang is behind him. He almost unified the Three Kingdoms, but became a "waste" who achieved nothing in the words of later generations.
How did Liu Chan get to this point?
Four years after Adou was made the crown prince, Liu Bei passed away in regret. He always had a great ambition, which was to unify the world, but at this time, Shu Kingdom had already encountered subsequent shortcomings.
Liu Bei could only extend this wish to A Dou, hoping that he could realize his dream of unifying the Three Kingdoms for himself.
Adou is not a radical person. Although he has always remembered his father's last wish, the current situation in Shu Kingdom cannot be militarized, and he can only be in a corner to protect himself.
At this time, the three-part world has become a foregone conclusion. Wei, Shu and Wu have become the "three-legged" trend. A Dou is sandwiched between Wei and Wu, and his life is actually very frustrating.
Before Liu Bei died, he entrusted Adou to Zhuge Liang. In order to support Adou, Zhuge Liang personally led his troops to fight everywhere. Rebellions broke out in Shu. Zhuge Liang sent people to go on missions to Wu Kingdom and made friends with Sun Quan .
Although Zhuge Liang controlled the government, the entire Shu Kingdom did stand firm under Zhuge Liang's difficult protection. Adou seemed to be enjoying his achievements behind him, but I am afraid no one in power would be a puppet emperor.
Such a life lasted until Zhuge Liang's death. In the twelfth year of Jianxing, after Zhuge Liang died of illness in Weibin, A Dou finally was able to rule.
Although the war between Shu Kingdom and Cao Wei was half the battle with Zhuge Liang before, it seemed that the two sides were not as good as the ones, but A Dou understood the current situation of Shu Kingdom.
Over the years, Shu Kingdom has been wars for years, with Cao Wei harassment outside and rebellions everywhere. The treasury is already very empty, and Shu Kingdom has almost become an empty shell.
If you continue to send troops, it will definitely accelerate the demise of Shu Kingdom. If you drag it on like this, it will only harm and not benefit Shu Kingdom. After considering all the considerations, Adou decided to withdraw his troops.
Although A Dou did many criticized things during his reign, his mind and distant knowledge are still worthy of recognition.
One year, Sima Yi launched a coup, Xiahou Ba was forced to go to Shu Han, because Shu Zhong roads were rugged and difficult to walk, and the dense forests were deep, so I got lost halfway.
Xiahou Ba could only dismount and walk with his legs. His feet were worn out and still couldn't find the way. After Adou knew about this, he immediately sent someone to pick him up.
Xahou Ba is the son of Xahou Yuan . In a battle, Xiahou Yuan was killed by Huang Zhong . Therefore, Xiahou Ba gritted his teeth in hatred for a while, determined to avenge his father.
The two clearly have an enemy relationship, but Adou tolerated Xiahou Ba. When they met, they said to him: "Your father died in the battlefield, and I was not killed by my ancestors."
Just one sentence broke the barrier in Xiahou Ba's heart. Not only that, he also asked his son to pay homage to Xiahou Ba. Such a mind is not something that ordinary people can do.
However, such a person still became "confused" in his later years, and was scolded by later generations for thousands of years, becoming an incompetent king of the country in people's hearts.
Is an emperor who can crush the princes and persist for 41 years in troubled times really a coward?
Liu Chan took power and retreated his troops to rest in a corner. Although this went against Liu Bei's last wish, it is undeniable that for a long time, Shu Kingdom did not experience major wars again.
He accepted surrendered generals and valued talents. Chaos broke out in Shu and various princes competed for hegemony, which was also Liu Chan's strong suppression.
Objectively speaking, at least in the first few decades of A Dou's reign, the people of Shu Kingdom recuperated and lived a peaceful life. He could not be said to be the emperor of the ages, but he could not be called a foolish monarch.
So why did such a kind emperor be scolded by later generations?
is actually because he did two controversial things in his later years.
The first thing is to reuse the culprit of the demise of Shu Han - eunuch Huang Hao .
A Dou was unable to take power when Zhuge Liang was alive. After Zhuge Liang passed away, the forces he left behind were still hindering A Dou. These people did not believe him at all and often publicly accuse him of resistance.
In this case, A Dou could only cultivate his own power, so he embarked on the old path of Eastern Han and began to use the eunuch power. Huang Hao became A Dou's first available person.
However, since Huang Hao held power, he began to appoint confidants, suppress talents, wantonly undermine the balance of the government and destroy military plans, which gave Cao Wei an opportunity to take advantage of it and thus destroyed Shu Han.
Many people say that if Zhuge Liang was still alive, he would definitely not indulge Huang Hao in a rude way. This is indeed true.
But if you look at the current situation, you can know that Adou is not ignoring this situation, but being powerless.
This year he was already 52 years old. He was ineffective and the country of Shu began to fall apart. The so-called "one moves the whole body" and A Dou dared not act rashly, which made the eunuch find an opportunity.
The second thing: open the city gate and present the surrender.
Jiang Wei wrote a letter to A Dou, saying that Guanzhong is managing troops, and Shu must prepare early. Who knew that Huang Hao got involved and told A Dou that the enemy would not come.
A Dou did not distinguish right from wrong. After listening to Huang Hao's words, he did not take this matter seriously, so the ministers in Shu didn't know about it.
However, after a few months, Cao Wei attacked Shu, it was too late to resist. The soldiers outside the city were still swearing to refuse to surrender, but after careful consideration, Adou made a decision against the public.
In order to save the people and their subjects from disaster, he decided to lead his ministers to open the city gate and offer surrender. Shu Han was destroyed, and A Dou became a backbone-destroying king.
Because of this, he has a lot of controversy in later generations. Most people think that he has no backbone and is in vain to be the son of Liu Bei, and he has given up many people to the world that he has won with his hard work.
There are also a few people who think that he can hold the throne firmly for 41 years and surpass the princes. He is definitely not a cowardly and incompetent fool.
So in your heart, what kind of person is Liu Chan?
