At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei rose up with a slight posture and became one of the forces of the Three Kingdoms, and being able to do all this was inseparable from Zhuge Liang's help, without Zhuge Liang, the Three Kingdoms would become a two-hero struggle.
But Liu Bei still ignored a person, although this person is slightly less famous, but his knowledge is super strong, and he is also a person recognized by Zhuge Liang.
If Liu Bei could still gain his support while gaining Zhuge Liang, it was only a matter of time before the Han Dynasty was unified, and he was Zhuge Liang's friend Cui Zhouping.
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Liu Bei's encounter with Zhuge Liang is actually very bumpy, Liu Bei's earliest favorite candidate is actually not Zhuge Liang, but Xu Shu, the two have long known each other, Liu Bei also trusts him very much, but unfortunately, Xu Shu's mother is in Cao Cao's hands, and the two are doomed to have no luck.
In order to help Liu Bei, Xu Shu recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei and personally wrote a letter asking Zhuge Liang to help Liu Bei.
Zhuge Liang's name had long been circulated in many places, and Sun Quan had repeatedly asked Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain, but all of them were rejected by Zhuge Liang, and Xu Shu's letters also greatly increased Liu Bei's confidence, so he came to Longzhong with his two brothers.
On the way to find Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei met two people, who, after knowing Liu Bei's situation, recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei again, one of them was Sima Hui, and the two saw each other as they were.
But another person, Liu Bei, did not talk much, and it also became a major regret in Liu Bei's heart, and this person was Cui Zhouping.
Although Cui Zhouping at that time did not have the intention of participating in the general trend of the world, if Liu Bei sincerely invited, Cui Zhouping was also very likely to assist Liu Bei with Zhuge Liang, such a partner of courtiers, even Cao Cao would be very afraid, so how strong was the real Cui Zhouping?
Zhuge Liang's friend
As the saying goes, people are divided into groups, a person's true level, and his friends have a direct relationship, perhaps there are elites in the circle of friends of ordinary people, but in the circle of friends of the elite, there are absolutely only elites.
Zhuge Liang was proud all his life, and there were not many friends, even in Shuzhong for many years, there was still a gap with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others.
In his lifetime, there were only four friends, Xu Shu and Feng Yan were naturally among them, and Cui Zhouping was also the one who was recognized by Zhuge Liang.
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", because the main highlight is Zhuge Liang and other Shu generals, there is not much description of Cui Zhouping, but in the real history, Cui Zhouping is not a mortal, and his ability in some aspects is even more than Zhuge Liang.
Completely different from Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang joined the Shu Kingdom and belonged to the "WTO", before that, he did not have much contact with the outside world, while Cui Zhouping belonged to "retreat".
Before knowing Zhuge Liang, Cui Zhouping already had an achievement of his own, and this achievement even Cao Cao had to admire.
Thanks to his father's sake, Cui Zhouping grew up with no worries about food and clothing, which gave him the opportunity to learn, he was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics from an early age, his intelligence was superior, and he also had a deep insight into the art of war.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country was worried about internal and external turmoil, Dong Zhuo at home was ambitious, causing war in the country, and outside, there were also the old rivals of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, at this time Cui Zhouping was not afraid, and took the initiative to apply to become the Taishou of the West River and face the Xiongnu army.
Although he experienced the attacks of the Western Han And Eastern Han Dynasties, the strength of the Xiongnu was greatly reduced, but he was still one of the overlords of the steppe, and his combat effectiveness was extremely fierce, but Cui Zhouping was still fearless, only because he already had a countermeasure to defend the Xiongnu in his heart.
After coming to Xihe, Cui Zhouping only did two things, one was to vigorously develop agriculture here, and the other was to form a brand new army.
Although there were corresponding defensive units in the Xihe area, the combat effectiveness of this unit was very poor, relying on the city to barely defend, completely unable to cause effective damage to the Xiongnu, so Cui Zhouping sent this unit to develop agriculture, while he led the newly formed troops to resist the Xiongnu.
Before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, the Xiongnu had launched several attacks on the Central Plains, but they were all blocked by Cui Zhouping
In the face of Dong Zhuo's atrocities in the Central Plains, Cui Zhouping was powerless to resist and chose to disarm and return to the field in desperation, which made him know Zhuge Liang and travel with him every day.
Cui Zhouping's vision
If Liu Bei had invited Zhuge Liang at the same time as Cui Zhouping, what would have happened? Perhaps the outcome of the Three Kingdoms is still the unification of the Wei state, but there will also be many variables.
As a strategist, Cui Zhouping has seen the world, and Zhuge Liang alone cannot be compared with this.
In his conversation with Liu Bei, Cui Zhouping clearly made it clear that Liu Bei's idea of supporting the Han room was not easy to succeed.
The reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty was defeated represented that the han dynasty had exhausted its strength, and there were not many people who wanted to re-support the Han room at that time, and Liu Bei was still the weakest one among them, so this matter was too difficult for Liu Bei's operation, and Zhuge Liang's actions were enough to prove everything.
Not only that, Cui Zhouping opposed Liu Bei Kuang's fu Han room, but also because doing so would make Liu Bei have a weak rib, and some things could not be done.
During the war, fearing the head and fearing the tail was a big taboo for soldiers, if Liu Bei simply established himself as king early and did things without any taboos, maybe the achievements would be higher.
Relatively speaking, Cao Cao saw this long ago, his understanding of the general trend of the world is unscrupulous, he flaunted himself as a tyrant, blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes, turned everything into his own resources, and achieved his own hegemony, which is where Liu Bei failed.
If Cui Zhouping said shu state, Zhuge Liang naturally abdicated and let xian, mainly attacking the state management, and the external battle was all dominated by Cui Zhouping, so that the combat effectiveness of the Shu state would be greatly improved, Cui Zhouping could make the Xiongnu fail to attack many times, naturally there were two brushes, which could surrender the enemy generals one by one, and it was not impossible for the Shu state to complete the unification.
But on the whole, Liu Bei's difficulty in completing reunification is still too great. Compared with Cao Cao and Sun Quan, Liu Bei's background is still too little,
At the time of the three divisions of the world, both the territory and the population are the worst party, such conditions, even Cui Zhouping is difficult to do too much.
However, there is also a point that many people overlook, the biggest difference between Cui Zhouping and Zhuge Liang is also in the family lineage, Cui Zhouping belongs to the Boling Cui clan is a very large family, this family has been active from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
If Liu Bei can say that He moved Cui Zhou ping out of the mountain, it means that he has the support of the Boling Cui clan and can easily solve the financial problem, with this support, Liu Bei has reached the same height as Cao Cao, and in the end, it is not yet known whose hand the deer died.