Talking about eating human flesh

Hello, everyone, this is me. Today, I will tell you the story of Liu Bei. Welcome attention.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms records a story about Liu An killing his wife, in which Liu An, a hunter who admired Liu Bei, killed his wife to entertain Liu Bei, showing Liu Bei's popularity.

Liu An killed his wife:

This detail is probably because Liu Beijun in real history did eat human flesh when he was short of food. Therefore, Luo Guanzhong, a novelist who is familiar with history, not only wants to show this historical detail, but also can't bear to damage the positive image of Liu Bei's "king of benevolence and righteousness", so he deliberately designed it as a whitewash.

The story of Liu Bei eating people in history happened when Liu Bei went south to attack Yuan Shu and Lu Bu took advantage of his weakness to attack Xuzhou. Liu Bei left Zhang Fei to guard Pi and led the troops in Huaiyin, Shi Ting and other places to compete with Yuan Shujun. Zhang Fei couldn't suppress Cao Bao, a local local strongman in Xuzhou, and Cao Bao stuck to the barracks and led Lu Bu into the city. Although Zhang Fei killed Cao Bao, there was chaos in the city, and it was hard for Lu Bu to resist, so the rear area of Liu Beijun fell.

Liu Bei wants to attack Guangling to gain a foothold. The garrison commander here is Sun Ce's uncle Jason Wu. At that time, under Yuan Shu's command, the defense was tight and it was difficult to attack for a long time. As a result, tens of thousands of troops of Liu Beijun were thus attacked by Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, trapped in Guangling and cut off their military supplies. "Hunger is sleepy, and poverty is hungry." Therefore, the officers and men under his command actually "eat each other."

In other words, when a large number of people starve to death or die in battle, the living soldiers eat the bodies of their dead comrades, so embarrassed that even the superiors and subordinates can't take care of them. Batman may also eat the meat of a dead officer.

As for Liu Bei, there is his inseparable good brother Guan Yu. Do they share weal and woe with the soldiers, or do they hide their own food so that they don't have to bear the notoriety of eating human flesh?

Let's just say that even at the end of his rope, Liu Beijun miraculously persisted, and from then on, he got the opportunity to surrender to Lu Bu on the surface of the organizational system, instead of being directly annexed and incorporated, which shows Liu Bei's extraordinary control ability and the degree of his morale.

The army was stationed in Guangling, hungry and sleepy, and the officials ate each other. Poverty and hunger invaded and forced, and I wanted to make it small, so I asked the officials to hand over the cloth. -Pei note "reflection" lead "hero"

The three kingdoms are in troubled times, and the princes compete for the male. In the melee between warlords, the people fought for fish, and the wise men made their fame by cheating as their instinct. As a wandering vassal, Liu Bei himself and his generals did not kill prisoners in a massacre.

This is in sharp contrast with Cao Cao's writing poems lamenting that "the bones are exposed in the wild, and the surnames are all dead", while hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Xuzhou Slaughterhouse and 70,000 yuan in Guandu Slaughterhouse in Shao Jun.

Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness are beyond the reach of his contemporaries, Cao Cao, Sun Quan and even many founding monarchs of the unified dynasty. Its moral index ranks among the best among many monarchs in the history of China.

After all, whether Liu Xiu, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin or Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the troops, they may be able to sympathize with the people and not do evil deeds for the massacre, but they cannot completely ban the massacre of subordinate generals, leaving behind many misdeeds such as Chengdu (Eastern Han Dynasty), Xiaxian (early Tang Dynasty), Jiangzhou (early Song Dynasty) and Hezhou (early Ming Dynasty).

Even in the 40 years after Liu Bei's death, although the Shu-Han army was weak and suffered many setbacks, the rulers and army commanders changed many people, but they always adhered to the moral bottom line of the founding monarch and never slaughtered prisoners. This is really sincere love for the people, not hypocrisy.

But Liu Bei is a rare benevolent gentleman in history. He treats people kindly, cares about the people and does not kill innocent people. When he had to, he ate people, which was enough to show the cruelty of troubled times. Being a peaceful dog is really better than being a troubled person. Once the achievements were made, a sea of blood paved the way for the emperor.

The story of "Liu An killed his wife" was invented in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At the same time, Cao Cao praised the move, and even raised Liu An's plot, highlighting that Cao Cao and Liu An, who killed his wife and cut his flesh, shared the same interests and appreciated each other regardless of human life, in sharp contrast to Liu Bei's sigh and sadness when he learned the truth.

In this way, the different personality characteristics and work styles of Liu Bei and Cao Cao are vividly on the paper.