Chapter 3: Zhuge Liang (I)
Under the recommendation of Sima Wei, Wang Xu successfully met Zhuge Liang, who was 5 years old this year (171) (because of the time travel, the timeline was out of order, and some characters were born in advance. )。 After observing Zhuge Liang's physiognomy, Wang Xu found that Zhuge Liang was indeed extraordinary. So they took him as a disciple and brought him back to the valley of the ghosts.
Another month passed, after Wang Xu returned to the Ghost Valley with Zhuge Liang, Long Yao was stunned when he saw this little guy and asked for his name, because Zhuge Liang was too famous.
Zhuge Liang (181 - October 8, 234), the name Kongming, the name Wolong, Langya Yangdu (now Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province), the prime minister of Shu and Han during the Three Kingdoms period, an outstanding politician, military strategist, inventor and writer in ancient China.
Zhuge Liang went to Jingzhou with his uncle Zhuge Xuan in his early years, and after Zhuge Xuan's death, Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in Longzhong. Zhuge Liang proposed to Liu Bei to occupy Jingzhou and Yizhou, and unite with Sun Quan to fight against Cao Cao's "Longzhong Pair" strategy, Liu Bei successfully established the Shu Han regime according to Zhuge Liang's strategy, and formed a three-legged trend with Sun Quan and Cao Cao. In the first year of Zhang Wu (221), Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor and appointed Zhuge Liang as prime minister. After Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, Zhuge Liang was named the Marquis of Wuxiang and led the Yizhou pastor. Be diligent and prudent, handle political affairs in person, and reward and punish them strictly; Alliance with Soochow to improve relations with various ethnic groups in the southwest; We should implement the policy of tuntian and strengthen war preparedness. Five northern expeditions to the Central Plains failed to achieve the goal of reviving the Han Dynasty. In the twelfth year of Jianxing (234), he died of illness in Wuzhangyuan (now Qishan, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province) at the age of 54. The later lord Liu Chan was posthumously known as the Marquis of Loyalty, and later generations often called the Marquis of Wu. Huan Wen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was posthumously crowned as the king of Wuxing.
Zhuge Liang's prose masterpieces include "The Teacher's Table" and "The Book of Commandments". He once invented the wooden ox flowing horse, Kong Ming lantern, etc., and transformed the crossbow, called the Zhuge crossbow, which can be fired with one crossbow and ten arrows. Zhuge Liang "did his best all his life, and then died", and was a representative of loyal ministers and wise men in traditional Chinese culture.
Zhuge Liang's achievements in politics:
First, the construction of a clean government:
As the prime minister, Zhuge Liang knows very well: "The house leaks below, stops at the top, the upper leakage does not stop, and the bottom is uninhabitable." He not only took the lead in building a clean government and set up a banner, but also took clean government as an important political and legal construction, which had a significant impact on all aspects of Shu Han's politics, economy, military and culture. The construction of a clean government during the Zhuge Liang period was first manifested in the strict control of the scale of the Shuhan Palace and the scale of Huiling.
During the reign of Zhuge Liang, the young queen often wanted to choose to fill the harem. Dong Yun, who was in charge of palace affairs at that time, thought that the number of concubines of the ancients was only twelve, and now the concubines were already in place, so it was not appropriate to gain them, so he insisted on not listening. The number of queens and concubines is a complex issue, involving many issues such as the size and establishment of the palace, which cannot be decided by Dong Yun. At that time, "and the preparation is gone, the heirs are young and weak, no matter how big or small, the bright are specialized." "No matter how big or small the political affairs are, the saltiness is determined by the light".
Zhuge Liang created a political atmosphere of honesty and dedication to public service in the upper echelons of the Shu Han Dynasty, and the officials of the Shu State took Zhuge Liang as an example, thrifty officials, and avoided luxury, creating a whole era of clean government.
2. Enactment of laws:
Zhuge Liang's legislation is open and the law enforcement is fair, which is different from the feudal legal trend of the same era. In the first year of Shu Zhangwu (221), Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor in Chengdu. The strong intervention of Liu Bei's ruling clique undermined the attempt of a considerable number of people to dominate the southwest, and in this case, the Shu Han regime, as a guest regime, faced obstruction from the old forces in Yizhou. In the face of this situation, Zhuge Liang believed that this was not a public grievance left by harsh laws and punishments, and Shu Han was based on the long-term abolition of the law, which led to the chaos of the officials and the people, and the unreasonableness of the monarch and the ministers, and the disorder of the "program and discipline". He said that "if the three outlines are not correct, and the six disciplines are ignored, there will be chaos." The three outlines refer to the monarch as the minister, the father as the son, and the husband as the wife. The six periods refer to the kindness of the fathers, the righteousness of the uncles, the narrative of the clansmen, the relatives of the Kundi, the respect of the teachers, and the old friends. Therefore, only the law can change the situation of morality and government, and only by using the law can we change the situation of Shu people, autocratic power, and the way of monarchs and ministers, and gradually replace the situation with tombs. Different from the Confucian view of "Chongli" to govern the world, Zhuge Liang believes that the root of the rise and fall of the country's governance lies in the "law", therefore, Zhuge Liang repeatedly admonished and repeatedly emphasized the importance of the law in the process of governing the country. [67] Not only that, Zhuge Liang further emphasized the serious consequences of not ruling the country by law: "If there is no punishment at the top, and there is no rudeness and righteousness at the bottom, although there is the world and the wealth of the world, but those who cannot be exempt from it will also be like this." The husband is rewarded and punished with the punishment of the husband, and the person cannot disobey his fate, Sun Wu, Sui Tho and the like. Therefore, the order cannot be taken lightly and is impassable.
Therefore, at the beginning of Zhuge Liang's entry into Shu, he and Fa Zheng, Liu Ba, Li Yan, Yi and others jointly formulated the legal code of Shu "Shu Branch" according to and added and deleted the old laws of the Qin and Han dynasties. In addition, he also personally drafted dozens of various rules and regulations, including the "Eight Affairs", "Seven Precepts", "Six Fears", "Five Fears" and other regulations.
Zhuge Liang's achievements in the economy:
Zhuge Liang in Hanzhong Xiushi persuasion of agriculture, the use of Hanzhong's economic conditions, according to local conditions to take a series of effective measures to develop production, so that the Northern Expedition military funds were basically solved on the spot, after Zhuge Liang's death, the Shu Han army retreated, the Wei army also in the Shu camp "to get its books, grain and grain." This just shows the effect of Zhuge Liang's persuasion of farmers and the implementation of military cultivation warfare. If the local people live well, they will be able to attract more people, so that Hanzhong, which is vast and sparsely populated, will be able to redevelop and gradually reach a virtuous circle of more people and more food, so that the people can "live in peace and enjoy their work."
The water conservancy projects such as the "mountain and river weir" that Zhuge Liang "added to the heel" are still the water conservancy projects with the largest irrigation area in Hanzhong. According to Mr. Li Yizhi's investigation, "Shanheyan still irrigates more than 8,000 acres of Chengtian, Guannan Zheng County more than 30,000 acres, and Guanjiu County more than 7,000 acres, totaling more than 46,000 acres." "The six famous pools in Hanzhong City are still used today. According to the archaeological survey statistics, there are still more than 70 ancient weirs since the Han Dynasty in the whole area, and some weirs and canals have been used and maintained from generation to generation, and have been used until now. At the same time, on the basis of inheriting and learning from the experience of developing and utilizing water conservancy resources in ancient times, various localities have continuously added and repaired a large number of water conservancy facilities such as ponds, reservoirs, and ponds. Mian County alone has built 37 additional reservoirs that can store 100,000 cubic meters of water; There are more than 300 ponds and ponds; There are still more than 50,000 acres of winter paddy fields.
The above-mentioned facts show that the actual effectiveness and continuous improvement and utilization of the ancient farmland water conservancy facilities in the Hanzhong Basin are inseparable from Zhuge Liang's great achievements in opening up farmland, building water conservancy, and developing production when he was in Hanzhong to persuade agriculture.