In his lifetime, Zhuge Liang was known for his "divine calculations", similar stories include grass boat borrowing arrows, empty city plans, seven captures and seven longitudinal Meng, etc., and the two wills he left in the last days of his life were even more vividly reflected in his miraculous calculations.
In the twelfth year of Jianxing (234), the 54-year-old Zhuge Liang launched the fifth Northern Expedition in his life, and every day he carried out extremely labor-intensive work, no matter what he personally disposed of, but the amount of food he ate was very small, and after a long period of this life, Zhuge Liang became ill and eventually died of illness in Wuzhangyuan.
Zhuge Liang had two last words before his death, one was mainly aimed at Sima Yi of Cao Wei, he asked Yang Yi and others to keep their secrets, first slowly retreat, wait for Sima Yi to lead the army to chase and then return to the army to fight, and launch the original carved wooden portrait, so that it is bound to be able to scare off Sima Yi, and then you can return to the army safely, so there is a story of "dead Zhuge scared back the living Zhongda".
Another last word is a secret letter to Liu Chan, he arranged his own affairs in the secret letter, the funeral is as simple as possible, there is no need to do a lot of work, even the funeral goods do not need too much, and there is no need to sensationalize the whole country, only need to "four people carry the coffin, go south, the rope is broken and buried", that is to say, in this secret letter, he did not even arrange his specific burial site, but let people go where they are buried, it looks very casual, but in fact, it implies a deep meaning.
It should be known that the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was a completely chaotic world, and all kinds of people did everything in order to obtain some property, and even the things that damaged yin morality such as tomb robbery were done in a bright and just manner, especially Cao Cao in the north, which directly established the so-called "Lieutenant Touching Gold" and "General Zhonglang of Faqiu", and used the strength of the army to rob tombs.
Driven by this kind of atmosphere, the people of the whole world are extremely popular in the wind of tomb robbery, especially in Cao Wei in the north, there are basically no complete cemeteries left. Therefore, Zhuge Liang said in his will to "go south", mainly based on the situation at that time, the closer the cemetery is to the north, the more dangerous it is, and the "four people carrying the coffin" is mainly for the sake of not being publicized, after all, ordinary people download that four people carry the coffin, and no one will think that the coffin is the famous Shu Han Dynasty Minister.
However, this is not the most exquisite part of this last word, the most able to prove Zhuge Liang's clever calculation is "broken rope burial", I believe that many people feel very natural when they see this last word, and the four soldiers who accept this order will naturally give the order to the next at the beginning, but they will find that it is not right as they walk.
It is important to know that the rope is not so easy to break, even if it is carrying a heavy coffin, it is difficult to break the rope without walking for a year and a half. If you know that if you walk for a year, the rope will break, then the four soldiers may still persist, but the most crucial part is that no one knows when the rope will break, so the four soldiers, after walking for a few weeks, will cut the rope off and go back to their lives.
Liu Chan saw that they came back quickly, and naturally he was suspicious, and after a few questions, he inquired about the truth, so these four soldiers could not escape death, and after they died, naturally no one in the world knew zhuge Liang's real burial place. Zhuge Liang set up this plan in order to protect himself before his death, and the four soldiers who accepted the order probably only knew that they had unconsciously been calculated before they died, and this was exactly what Zhuge Liang expected.