Why did Liu Bei, the uncle of the Han emperor, make a living by weaving mats and selling shoes?

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor by Huainan . Cao Cao He took the emperor to order the princes, and sent an order to the world, ordering the princes to attack Yuan Shu, but no one went, only Liu Bei with Zhang Fei The two Guan Yu brothers led thousands of troops and horses to go.

When Yuan Shu heard that Liu Bei came to attack him, he sneered and said to the left and the right, "Those who weave mats and sell shoes, those who slaughter pigs and sell wine, and the likes of the housekeepers, want to murder me too? After all, the crowd of civil and military people burst into laughter.

Liu Bei made a living by weaving mats and straw sandals before he started his army; his third brother, Zhang Fei, was a butcher who killed pigs on the street; his second brother, Guan Yu, guarded the gates of wealthy people. The three brothers all started from the very bottom, the proper people at the bottom.

But to explore his life experience, Liu Bei is not easy, Liu Bei is the descendant of Zhongshan King . Liu Bei was later conferred by Han Xiandi Liu Xie as the uncle of the Han Dynasty, and later established Shu Han, precisely because of this blood relationship with the royal family.

You belong to the royal bloodline, but why did you fall into the role of weaving mats and selling shoes for a living?

Liu Bei is the 17th great-great-grandson of Liu Sheng, King of Zhongshan, Liu Sheng is Han Wudi Liu Che's elder brother, he was one of the princes and kings during the Han Wudi period. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in addition to expanding the territory and criticizing his subjects for his use of military force, he also did a major thing - push grace .

And the decree of grace is the real reason why Liu Bei became the bottom people. The decree of grace made the land and rights in the hands of the princes and kings smaller and smaller. Emperor Wu During the period, there were still dozens of princes and kings who owned cities. However, pushing back more than a dozen generations, the descendants of the princes and kings have long had no land to divide, and in the end they can only be like Liu Bei, and they can only be reduced to the common people at the bottom who are self-sufficient.