In fact, when Cao Cao sent troops to attack Hanzhong, Liu Bei had already planned to welcome Zhang Lu to Yizhou. Yan Pu advised Zhang Lubei to surrender to Cao Cao: "If you want to help achieve great things, you must entrust Cao Cao; If not, I will marry Liu Bei. " Zhang Lu said angrily, "I'd rather be a subordinate of Cao Gong than a guest of Liu Bei!" So I surrendered to Cao Cao. This history is recorded in Volume II of Huayang Guozhi.
So, what happened to Zhang Lu and Liu Bei? Does Zhang Lu look down on Liu Bei for saying such a heavy thing?
This should start with Zhang Lu's identity and experience.
Zhang Lu was a very special existence in the warlord regime in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. First of all, he is a warlord, and he divided Hanzhong. Different from other governors, Zhang Lu established a political power of combining politics with religion!
Zhang Lu is well connected. He is Zhang Ling's grandson. Zhang Ling was the first generation Shi Tian of Wudou Sect, and Zhang Lu inherited this position, and was the third generation Shi Tian of Wudou Sect. At the same time, it is said that he is Sean's tenth grandson!
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was chaos in the world, and Zhang Lu started from Ada. Because of the relationship between Zhang Lu's mother and Ada, she gained Ada's trust. Ada sent Zhang Lu to attack Hanzhong, cut off the ancient street, killed the imperial envoys, and established a separatist regime in Hanzhong.
When Ada was alive, Zhang Lu was obedient. After Ada's death, his son Liu Zhang became the leader of Yizhou. Liu Zhang's ability was not good, so Zhang Lu established his own regime in Hanzhong, educated the people with the theory of "five fights", and established a short-term regime of integrating politics with religion.
Located in the war-torn Central Plains, Hanzhong is relatively stable, so a large number of people come to Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu and Zhang Lu teach them whole grains. In Hanzhong for more than 20 years, Zhang Lu has many followers and has become a separatist force that cannot be ignored!
So both Cao Cao and Liu Bei want to win Zhang Lu. Zhang Lu chose Cao Cao, who was very kind to Zhang Lu and gave Zhang Lu very good political preferential treatment and resettlement.
As for whether Zhang Lu and Liu Bei had a holiday, there is no record in the history books that Zhang Lu looked down on Liu Bei so much. Then why did Zhang Lu choose Cao Cao instead of Liu Bei, and say something so contemptuous of Liu Bei?
When Zhang Lugang surrendered, it was incomprehensible, but after watching the later development of Zhang Lu, he suddenly understood.
After Lu surrendered to Cao Cao, he came to Chang 'an, Luoyang, Yecheng and other places with a large number of believers, taking advantage of Cao Cao's preferential treatment to Zhang Lu, and spreading Bidu Tantra to the upper and lower classes of society either explicitly or implicitly. After the development of Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty, by the time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the school of warfare had developed greatly, and its power had spread to the north and the Central Plains. Even the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi is a believer in Wudoumen!
And if Zhang Lu goes to find Liu Bei, first of all, Liu Bei has few people, and secondly, his territory is too small, which will inevitably arouse Liu Bei's suspicion, so the spread of Wu Douzong is impossible!
Zhang Lu said that sentence, actually for Cao Cao, to let him know that he really surrendered to Cao Cao and didn't ask for two heads first, so as to gain Cao Cao's greater trust and lay the foundation for his later development.
Zhang Lu is definitely a person with high EQ and IQ.