If you look through the pages of "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han", you will find that there are too many unexplained details hidden in the "final conclusions" of the Three Kingdoms - do you think Liu Bei's "three visits to the thatched cottage" was because he was thirsty for talents? In fact, it is recorded in "Wei Lue" that it was Zhuge Liang who took the initiative to meet with Liu Bei. Later, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" changed it to "Three Visits".
The legend of Guan Yu "warming wine and killing Hua Xiong" is not mentioned at all in "Three Kingdoms" - the real Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian in the Battle of Yangren. Luo Guanzhong gave Guan Yu the credit just to highlight the "righteous" image of Shu Han; Zhao Yun "Changbanpo Qi" "Enter seven out" also has some content. "The Biography of Zhao Yun" only records the twelve words "carrying the weak and protecting Mrs. Gan, and all will be spared." There were no millions of Cao Cao troops to surround him, and there was no order from Cao Cao to "no arrows", but it became the most famous scene of the Three Kingdoms in later generations.
There is also Zhuge Liang's "empty city strategy", which does not exist at all in "Three Kingdoms" - Sima Yi was leading his army to deal with Sun Quan in Jingzhou at that time, and was not in Xicheng at all; it was Cao Cao who really used the empty city strategy. In his early years, he fought with Lu Bu in Puyang and used the empty camp strategy to deceive Lu Bu. And Zhuge Liang "captured Meng Huo seven times", but
The focus is not on "mercy", but on capturing Meng Huo seven times. Zhuge Liang captured and released Meng Huo in order to win over the forces and stabilize the rear so that he could concentrate on the Northern Expedition.
Even Cao Cao, who "held the emperor hostage to command the princes", was not ambitious from the beginning - in the early days, he protected Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty when he returned eastward because he wanted to be a "capable minister in governing the world". It was not until the Yidaizhao incident that he completely broke with the Han Dynasty. The Three Kingdoms has never been a black and white list of heroes. Open this book and help you restore the characters and stories that have been covered up by legends.
