Regarding Liu Bei, the first lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, the first thing everyone learned was the story of his selling straw shoes and Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's Taoyuan Sanjie. After the three of them married, Zhang Fei sold his family's land property to fund Liu Bei's uprising. Then Liu Bei marched south to the north, established his own forces, and saluted corporals and collected talents. With the assistance of Zhuge Liang and others, Shu Han finally rose in the chaotic world and laid the pattern of three divisions of the world. But many people do not know that Liu Bei actually has a teacher, he is the scribe and general Lu Zhi at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Illustration by Liu Bei
Lu Zhi experience
Lu Zhi, Zi Gan, a native of Zhuozhou, Hebei. He was eight feet two inches long, sounded like a bell, and was a handsome young man. In his youth, he worshiped The Great Ru Ma Rong as a teacher and introduced Zheng Xuan to learn from Ma Rong. Ma Rong is a foreign relative of the Hao clan, and there are often singers and dancers in the family, Lu Zhi has been in the Ma family for many years, but he has never glanced at the singers. For Lu Zhi's concentration, Ma Rong was very appreciative and admired.
Lu Zhi returned to his hometown to teach after completing his studies, and it was at this time that Liu Bei became Lu Zhi's student. At that time, Liu Bei's classmates also included Liu Deran, Gongsun Zhan and Gao Lu and others. Later, Empress Dou's father Dou Wu was honored as a great general and began to control the imperial government because of his merits in assisting Liu Hong, the Emperor of Hanling, to succeed to the throne. After Dou Wu became a relative of the emperor, he did not forget his poor relatives, so he wanted to make his clan also knighted. Lu Zhi believed that Dou Wu was seeking his own death, so he wrote to him to advise him to stop being knighted. Dou Wu did not heed Lu Zhi's advice and was eventually killed in a coup d'état.
Lu Zhi
Lu Zhiwen and Wu were both complete, and the prefecture and county repeatedly recruited him, but he did not agree. It was not until the Jianning years that he was recruited as a doctor and began to enter his career. In 175 AD, the barbarians rebelled in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou, and the imperial court believed that Lu Zhi was the best candidate to suppress the rebellion, so it arranged for Lu Zhi to go to Jiujiang to suppress the rebellion. Lu Zhi also lived up to expectations, and quickly put down the rebellion after taking office. Later, a barbarian rebellion broke out in Lujiang County, and Lu Zhi was worshipped by the imperial court as the Taishou of Lujiang.
Lu Zhi's exploits
After that, Lu Zhizhi recalled the imperial court to serve as a councilor, responsible for collating Confucian classics with Ma Ribao, Cai Yong and others. Because Emperor Liu Hong did not think that writing a book was the most important thing, he worshipped him as a servant and a shangshu. After the Outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Lu Zhiliu Hongbai became the general of The Northern Zhonglang and led an army to Jizhou to pacify the Yellow Turban Army. Lu Zhi won many battles, and the emperor sent his confidant eunuch Zuo Feng to the front line to labor. At that time, people advised Lu Zhi to pay bribes to Zuo Feng, but Lu Zhi refused. Zuo Feng did not get the benefit, and after returning to Beijing, he provoked dissension and slandered Lu Zhi in front of Liu Hong.
Liu Hong
Liu Hong was furious and removed Lu Zhi from his official post, ordering him to be escorted back to Luoyang and sentenced to life imprisonment. Dong Zhuo, who succeeded Lu Zhi, failed miserably in quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion. After Liu Hong's death, the general He Jin wanted to recruit Dong Zhuo into Beijing in order to eliminate the eunuch forces. Lu Zhi tried his best to dissuade him, but He Jin did not listen. In the end, He Jin was killed, and the government fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo took control of the government, many ministers secretly defected, and only Lu Zhi dared to stand up against it. Dong Zhuo was so angry that he wanted to execute Lu Zhi, but thanks to the intercession of Cai Yong and others, Lu Zhi saved his life.
Yuan Shao
Later, Lu Zhi returned to his hometown zhuo county on the grounds of ill health and withdrew from the court dispute. After Yuan Shao took Jizhou, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, he worshiped Lu Zhi as a military division. But soon after, Lu Zhi died of illness. In 207 AD, when Cao Cao led an army to northern Expedition wuhuan and passed through Zhuo County, he praised Lu Zhi's character and life, and specially sent someone to sweep his grave. It can be seen that the eyes of the masses are shining. When you contribute to the country, no one will forget your exploits.