Speaking of Lu Xun, there will immediately be two labels popping up - one is a white-faced student, and the other is a general who wins from "Shu".
With these two labels in place, Lu Xun gave people a kind of scholarly image of a clear eyebrow and a lupine scarf. One day, the country was suddenly recommended and promoted by people of insight, and the tide of the tide was shocked, which surprised a group of old ministers and generals to worship - unfortunately, this is not Lu Xun, but it is very similar to Mei Changsu in "Langya List"...
We have to admire Mr. Luo Guanzhong's penmanship, a few strokes to carve this image into people's hearts, and even the CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" also found a young actor with a clear eyebrow to play Lu Xun, the purpose is to highlight Lu Xun's "new" and "green". However, in the real history, Lu Xun was by no means a white-faced scholar, let alone a rising star, he was not a vegetarian on the battlefield, but a general under Sun Quan.
Lu Xun (183 – March 19, 245), real name Lu Yi (陸議), was a Chinese poet
Lu Xun's emergence alone was indeed accompanied by the intensification of the contradiction between Wu and Shu.
In the middle of the speech
Guan Yu's northern expedition to Xiangyang, Cao Ren was besieged by Fancheng, and the reinforcements led by Yu Ban were washed away by the water, and the Cao Wei clique was suddenly panicked, but it was too laborious to fight head-on, so it wanted to ask Wu Guo to copy Guan Yu's back road. Lü Meng falsely claimed that he was ill, openly asked Lu Xun, a "newcomer", to take his place, and secretly crossed the river in white to copy Guan Yu's back road, and annexed all the bases of the Shu Han regime in Jingzhou in one fell swoop. In this military operation to change the territory of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Xun was like a vase, except for giving Lü Meng a little advice at the beginning, he just fooled Guan Yu on the surface, making him feel that the Eastern Wu side really did not allocate strong generals to deal with him, so as to take it lightly, and Lü Meng took Jingzhou as the core combat strength.
But in history
Lu Xun's appointment as the chief general of the Front Army was not just a blindfold, but more of a personnel arrangement approved by Sun Quan and Lü Meng. Moreover, after Lü Meng claimed to be ill, Lu Xun was only appointed as a partial general and right governor, not a complete replacement for Lü Meng.
Above_ Lü Meng (179–220)
At this time, Lu Xun was not only not a "white-faced student" who did not understand military strategy, but also a veteran general who had been in battle for a long time. In fact, he was also an early follower of Sun Quan -- in other words, he was not Sun Ce Sun Jian's old subordinate, but Sun Quan's own "old team", who was only twenty-one years old when he followed Sun Quan, and sun Quan was one year old, and when he served as the commander of the Wu front army this time, he was already thirty-six and fifteen years in the army! Moreover, Lü Meng and Lu Su were thirty-nine and twenty-eight years old in charge of Jingzhou affairs, respectively, and Lu Xun's age was not light.
Looking back at Wu Guo's military operation, Lu Xun's means are old-fashioned, soft and hard, and he is completely a general's style. After the plan was determined, Sun Quan personally led the army to launch an attack, and Lü Meng, as the front and Lu Xun, defeated Guan Yu's generals Zhan Yan, Chen Feng, Deng Fu, Guo Mu and others one after another, "before and after the recruitment, all tens of thousands." He also asked Sun Quan to recruit the Jingzhou shi clan as officials, so as to gather the hearts and minds of the native people of Jingzhou and stabilize the situation in Jingzhou. It was only then that Lu Xun was counted among the top military attaches of Eastern Wu, "Quan Yixun was the right protector, the general of Zhenxi, and the Marquis of Lou".
Above_Map of Eastern Wu
So why was Lu Xun portrayed by Mr. Luo Guanzhong as a scholar?
On the one hand, it was Lu Xun's handwritten letter to Guan Yu that he said that he was "a servant who is late, who is overwhelmed, who likes his neighbors and virtues, and who is happy to pour himself out...", and then said to his subordinates when he resisted Liu Bei in Yiling: "Although the servant is a scholar, he is ordained to the Lord." Therefore, the state submits to the kings and makes those who look up to each other, and the servants have the size to be called, and they can bear the burden of humiliation."
On the other hand, it was Lü Meng who told Sun Quan that Lu Xun "did not have a distant name, was not taboo by Yu, and had no repetition."
Combining the two, Lu Xun appeared as a scholar. However, here shusheng is only self-deprecating and humble, and not having a great reputation does not mean that he has not been in the battlefield for a long time - but it is indeed enough to paralyze Guan Yu.
Above_Sun Quan inscription statue
Then again, Jingzhou is located upstream of Sun Wu's regime, and historically, whoever controls the upstream will control half of the life and death of the Nanjing regime. Huan Wen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was like this, Wang Jun of the Western Jin Dynasty was like this, and it was also the same for Sun Quan. Whoever served as the military commander in the direction of Jingzhou also shouldered the national fortunes of the State of Wu, so the person Sun Quan wanted to appoint must not only be trustworthy, but also strong enough, looking at the Eastern Wu general at that time, it seems that Lu Xun is the only candidate.
When Lu Xun was a civil official, he was only responsible for Tuntian at the beginning, but when he had achieved results, he checked the household registration and recruited soldiers and soldiers. Subsequently, he led his troops to suppress Pan Lin and Youtu, and the size of the troops expanded to 2,000 people. When attacking the rebels' expense stacks, they not only eliminated the rebels with less, but also took the opportunity to expand their troops, "tens of thousands of elite soldiers, eliminated the evil, and eliminated the excesses."
From this point of view, what Lu Xun is good at is not only the ability to fight habitual battles and predict the enemy's victory, but more importantly, he can stabilize the situation in a place and have enough food.
Above_Territory of Jingzhou in the Three Kingdoms
As the main general of Jingzhou, he must be able to resist foreign enemies, but also be good at the production of materials and the people, and also handle the relationship between the warrior clan and the government, and Lu Xun, who is born of a scholar clan and has both culture and martial arts, is the best candidate for this position. Coupled with the fact that he was a close confidant of Sun Quan, and he was rich and strong in character, and all the conditions were very suitable, even if Lü Meng did not call him sick and ask for a replacement, Sun Quan would arrange for him to sit in Jingzhou sooner or later.
Time shifted to the first year of Huang Wu (222), Liu Bei led an army to Jingzhou, and Sun Quan officially appointed Lu Xun as the governor of Dadu and False Festival. In this performance, zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Bu Qi, and other old ministers were deliberately arranged to reprimand Lu Xun for "a scholar", and Lu Xun also claimed to be "young and talentless", and it was Kan Ze who exchanged the guarantee for the life of his whole family for Lu Xun's horse, which is even more unrealistic -- such a big national task, where does the family's guarantee have a role? With Lu Xun's military achievements and seniority, he was the governor of the capital.
Liu Bei (161-223)
Therefore, the arrangement of the interpretation has its own purpose of character portrayal, but in reality, even the talents of the heavens are difficult to achieve overnight, and it is impossible to suddenly ascend to the throne just by being appreciated and introduced. Hoping to grow from a scholar to a general through introduction is the consistent "dream" of ancient literati, just like when many people hope to get rich overnight, they can't do it but want to get it - so this feeling will appear repeatedly in literary works.
Therefore, lu Xun, who was really "eight feet long and looked like beautiful jade" and had a scholarly version, was seventeen years away from being upgraded to the Metropolitan Governor's version!
Text: Left light bucket
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Li
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