Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 508 Six Pitfalls Part Two
"Oh, I've long heard that the cultural land of Chu State was prosperous, but now it seems... it's more than an exaggeration! The people of Chu State are so despicable!" Liu Yan laughed.
Of course, this was in "private" circumstances, with only "our own people" around, and no students from the State of Chu.
Liu Yan obviously looked down upon these rude people from Chu State...
Liu Yan was born in Lu County, Yuzhou. Although it was a county under Yuzhou, it was actually closer to Xuzhou. Since the Tao Qian era, it had been under the control of the Xuzhou Group. Liu Yan was also a man of Liu Bei, Marquis of Qi.
In the history without the white rabbit effect, Liu Yan began to follow Liu Bei when Liu Bei was lingering in Xuzhou and Yuzhou. Therefore, although Liu Yan was very young, he was definitely a "veteran" figure for the Han Dynasty.
Liu Bei died of illness in Baidi. When he entrusted his son to the care of others, he appointed Zhuge Liang and Li Yan as ministers. When Li Yan was impeached, the impeachment memorial was initiated by Zhuge Liang, and the first person to sign it was Liu Yan.
Moreover, Liu Yan was the General of Chariots and Cavalry of Ji Han at that time, so it can be said that... his qualifications were not in vain!
To put it in a more utilitarian way, although following Liu Bei in the early stages is very dangerous, even if you are a waste, you can still gain benefits later on.
After all, in terms of ability, Liu Yan had never led troops himself, nor did he have any political achievements. His main personality had a high degree of overlap with Jian Yong - both were the type who could easily gain the favor of others and were good at eloquence.
Liu Yan's qualifications are inferior to Jian Yong's, he is younger, and his achievements are slightly less. In short... he is a weakened version of Jian Yong!
The reason why he once became one of the top 5 of the Shu Han regime, in addition to his qualifications, was also because his surname was Liu - like Liu Bei, he was a distant relative, so he was more valued and trusted.
However, compared to Jian Yong, Liu Yan is not only lacking in ability, but also has more character flaws...
Just like Wei Yan and Li Yan of the current Chu State, he was one of the "Six Traitors of Shu Han" who were severely criticized by Chen Shou, the author of "Records of the Three Kingdoms". In fact... Bai Tu felt that he should be the leader of the six traps!
It was only because of their limited capabilities that the impact was smaller, unlike Wei Yan and Yang Yi, who caused the Shu army to face internal strife .
Historically, during Zhuge Liang's fourth Northern Expedition, Liu Yan had a conflict with Wei Yan on the front line and was directly reprimanded by Zhuge Liang. Although Wei Yan also had character flaws, his abilities were there. Although his status was not as good as Liu Yan's on the surface, in terms of role... Liu Yan was not as good as Wei Yan's leg hair.
With Li Yan's previous experience as a lesson, Liu Yan admitted his mistake and wrote a self-criticism to Zhuge Liang, thus saving his official position, but was driven back to Chengdu from the front line.
At that time, the core of Shu Han followed Zhuge Liang . Being driven back to Chengdu from the front line was basically a signal of being away from the core of Shu. Naturally, Liu Yan was ashamed and ridiculed. Gradually... he developed more psychological problems and became dazed and crazy.
As a result, a year later, during the first month of the New Year, Liu Yan did something big...
Liu Yan's wife, Hu, went to the palace to accompany the empress dowager during the New Year. It was a custom in the Han Dynasty for the wives and daughters of ministers to go to the palace to accompany the empress dowager during the New Year.
Unexpectedly, because Hu stayed in the palace for a month, Liu Yan insisted that his wife had an affair with Liu Chan. Not only did he spread the news, he also had his soldiers beat his wife with shoes in the street, and divorced Hu with a divorce letter...
However, Liu Yan's disclosure of Liu Chan's affair with his wife caused an uproar in the city, and it was obvious that the matter would not end with him divorcing his wife.
Afterwards, Hu also sued Liu Yan to the officials. At that time, the officials of Shu Han also reacted very quickly. It is not known whether it was Liu Chan's direct instructions or Zhuge Liang's behind-the-scenes command, but in any case, they cut the Gordian knot and directly captured Liu Yan. They beheaded this nominal Top 5 of Shu Han on the made-up charge of "a soldier is not a man who can beat his wife, and his face is not a place to be trampled."
From then on, Shu Han also broke the rule passed down from the Han Dynasty - one's wife should stay at home during the New Year and not enter the palace!
The evaluations found in history books, including those compiled during the Wei and Jin dynasties, no matter which version, all expressed a rebuke and ridicule towards Liu Yan. The same is true for Bai Tu...
After all, Hu was more than ten years older than Adou. Even if she couldn't trust Liu Chan, could she not trust Fei Yi and Dong Yun?
When Liu Chan wanted to have more palace maids and concubines in the palace, he was stopped . Moreover, the person in charge of the palace guards at that time was Dong Yun himself!
Even Dong Yun didn't think there was anything wrong with Hu staying in the palace, so... this matter was just for the empress dowager to keep Hu for a while longer. After all, everyone in the city knew that Liu Yan had been away from the core and was crazy, so it was reasonable for the empress dowager to comfort Hu a little more.
Even this was originally an act to show his closeness to the royal family, but Liu Yan had to use his imagination to make this month into an ethical blockbuster, believing that Liu Chan, who he had watched grow up, had an affair with Dong Yun's wife in front of him, and that it was the Queen Mother who pimped him...
This is Liu Bei’s son, not Cao Cao’s son!
This matter was written as a script for those wild drama troupes, and anyone caught would be sentenced to several years in prison.
Of course, Bai Tu also believed that Liu Yan’s reaction at the time was largely due to the fact that he had gone crazy after being kicked out of the core decision-making level.
The six losers of Shu Han mostly had serious character flaws, but...Liu Yan had an additional original sin - he was a wimp!
No matter how bad the others are, at least their abilities are there, so Bai Tu thinks he is the worst.
Liu Yan came to Jinling as a candidate from outside Chu at this time. He was always arrogant and looked down on these rustic candidates from Chu!
However, Yang Yi, who was about the same age as him, looked at Liu Yan with contempt, and then said meaningfully: "It's not that the scholars of Chu are so despicable, but they are still scholars of Chu even though they are so 'despicable'."
Needless to say, Yang Yi is also one of the six villains of Shu Han, but unlike Liu Yan, although he has character flaws, he also has abilities.
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If only one of him and Wei Yan was in Shu Han, perhaps neither of them would be a pit. It was because the conflict between the two was too deep, and intensified after Zhuge Liang's death, that made both of them become "huge pits", or in other words... "giant babies".
After Zhuge Liang, the pillar of Shu Han, fell, the two men, as important ministers and generals of Shu and responsible for commanding the border troops, did not think about how to stabilize the situation in Shu after Zhuge Liang's death, but instead each led their troops to fight on the front line!
So even though Yang Yi defeated Wei Yan at the time, portrayed Wei Yan as a villain and established himself as the successor to the prime minister, but... after returning to Chengdu, he was immediately stripped of his military power and given a high-ranking official title.
Later, Yang Yi's condition also deteriorated. He kept shouting that he had made contributions to Ji Han and shed blood for Liu, and even threatened that if he defected to Wei... After being demoted and exiled, he continued to curse in the letters and finally committed suicide.
Yang Yi was from Xiangyang, but in history, Yang Yi first served as the chief clerk of Fu Gan, the "Governor of Jingzhou" of Cao Wei, and then resolutely defected to Ji Han.
Yang Yi in the current Cheng Ji world obviously also has a good affinity with Liu Bei. After surrendering to Chu in Jingzhou, he also went north to surrender to Liu Bei.
When Bai Tu was on a western tour during the founding of the country, he did not feel overly sorry when he learned that Yang Yi had left Jingzhou.
Although Yang Yi is capable, he has a very low affinity with Wei Yan, so we have to be careful. If he is gone, then he is gone...
At this time, Yang Yi and Liu Yan came to Jinling together to take the academic examination. Yang Yi despised Liu Yan, who was showing off just because he had more qualifications and was from a royal family.
After hearing Yang Yi's words, Liu Yan didn't react for a while, and it took him a while to understand what Yang Yi meant...
During several previous visits and conversations, Liu Yan had discovered that many of these candidates from the State of Chu came from "truly ordinary families"!
Some of them even have parents who are just ordinary farmers. They just work in workshops during the slack season and earn a little extra money, which enables them to read and write...
If you think about it carefully, they met so many candidates from the State of Chu, among whom only... one or two out of ten were from aristocratic families?
This is also the reason why many students from Chu State gradually changed from contempt to respect in their hearts - it is not that the gentry of Chu State is despicable, but that they are gradually surpassing the stage where "only the gentry can study and have a future"!
If it were in my hometown...
In today's chaotic times, these ordinary farmers can only rely on the local gentry in order to protect themselves. They are either exploited by the imperial court or by the gentry who "protect" them, and this will continue to be the case for their descendants.
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The fact that Chu could achieve this shows at least two things...
First, in the State of Chu, the proportion of "rich households" who had no worries about food and clothing was astonishing. Second, in the State of Chu, the cost of elementary education and even advanced education was very low!
"So what? It is better for the barbarians to have a king than for the Chinese to have no king..." Liu Yan also realized the problem behind this, but still sneered unconvinced.
This was said by Confucius, and later generations have different "interpretations" of this statement.
However, what is certain is that the "barbarian kings" in this saying are a mockery of the monarchs of the Chu and Wu states at that time. The mainstream explanation in the Han Dynasty was that Confucius lamented that the "barbarians" like the Chu state had competent kings, but the countries of the "Xia" did not have competent monarchs.
Liu Yan brought it up now to mock - a group of barbarians, even if they learned some culture, they could not change their barbarian nature!
It just so happens that Bai Chu also uses "Chu" as his nickname, which makes it even more sarcastic.
After hearing this, Yang Yi stared at him for a while, wanting to ask him...
Who was it that failed to solve the geometry problem just now, but was solved in no time by the candidate from Chu State whose family was a bricklayer?
Liu Yan was a little angry at Yang Yi's look, but Yang Yi didn't want to offend Liu Yan, whom his master trusted more, so he just reminded him...
“According to the interpretation of the Analects by Confucius’ New School, this sentence is ‘A country without rules and correct ideas, even if it has a wise monarch, is worse than a country with rules and correct ideas without a wise monarch.’ The Chu State’s interpretation of Confucianism in the imperial examinations and academic examinations was based on the New School. Although there won’t be any special tests, be careful not to quote it randomly, which will result in loss of points.” Yang Yi said lightly.
