Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[During the two thousand years of the feudal era, land annexation was always so boring.

Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have always only killed the people but made it difficult to tax the landlords. Bankrupt peasants were annexed by the landlords. Over time, the country became poorer and the landlords became richer. In the end, when the people could no longer squeeze out money, only an empty empire was left. The landlords collapsed under the pressure. After the dynasty changed, the landlords were still landlords, and the poor peasants were still poor peasants. The cycle started over and over again from generation to generation.

Before Song Huizong's New Deal, the Yue family was barely able to have enough food and clothing in Tangyin. After the promulgation of the New Deal, the Yue family quickly completed their class decline and became tenant farmers of the Han family in Xiangzhou. Four sons also starved to death one after another. Only Yue Fei, who was called Wulang, He survived by relying on his gifted physique.

The pressure of the entire family quickly fell on Yue Fei's shoulders. Within two years, his eldest son was born, and the sixteen-year-old Yue Fei entered a situation where there were seniors and juniors.

Under such circumstances, Yue Fei should have spent his whole life immersed in the fields under the burden of family, but as we said before, Song Huizong still had some remarkable things in establishing schools, such as opening official schools in counties For example, there is no charge for students of appropriate age.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the embryonic form of romance novels had already been born among the people. People at that time called it "talking" or "Zhu Gong Diao". On this stage where romance reviews were initially started, the Three Kingdoms has always been a popular theme.

According to the family records of Yue Fei's descendants, Yue Wumu loved hearing about the Three Kingdoms when he was a boy. He was especially fond of Guan Zhang, who was praised by storytellers. He envied his bravery, loved his loyalty, and admired his chivalry.

Perhaps it was under the influence of the "idol" Guan Yu that the young Yue Fei became interested in "Spring and Autumn". After finishing the farm work quickly by relying on his physical strength, Yue Fei continued to attend free official schools and read it after "literacy" on his own. There are more and more books.

According to the statement left by Yue Fei's future subordinate Li Tinggui, the former Taishi Bureau, Yue Fei, who had escaped from illiteracy, was very knowledgeable. Whenever he heard that the other party had some knowledge, he would find ways to ask for advice, and he soon developed an interest in the art of war under the influence of the times. interested.

It is also for this reason that Yue Fei, who joined the army as an adult, was able to borrow the penetrating insight written by Du Mu in the late Tang Dynasty, "Hebei regards the world as if it were a pearl, and the world regards Hebei as if it were limbs", thus gaining Zhang Suo's favor.

We don’t know the specific thoughts of the impoverished young Yue Fei when he was studying in poverty. Was he yearning for the generous and chivalrous style revealed in the Commentary on the Three Kingdoms and his determination to help the crisis, or was he yearning for the pre-Qin Dynasty after he started reading the Zuo Zhuan of the Spring and Autumn Period under the influence of Guan Yu. The ancient and heroic charm of Yingyi.

But in short, when Yue Fei became an adult and faced the perilous Northern Song Dynasty, he had no intention of shirk and avoidance. Instead, he calmly said that he had fallen behind Qing Shi:

"Let the name of Yue Fei be known in the books of future generations, just like the heroes of Guan and Zhang!\