An article in the novel Tian Ju tells the story of playing chess with the world and winning the game. In the cold winter night, "Chess Idiot" takes stones as his son and fights with the imaginary cold-blooded heaven and man. Finally, he acted as a sunspot, kneeling in the corner of the chessboard to lock the victory, "winning the day and a half."
In history, there were Li Hongzhang, Zhuge Liang and Yue Fei.
1, Li Hongzhang
Li Hongzhang, a patriotic hero who has been labeled as a traitor for a hundred years, was called "the only person in the Qing Empire who has the ability to compete with the world powers" by Japanese Prime Minister Ito Bowen. Empress Dowager Cixi called him a "man who recreated Huang Zhi" and history books called him one of the "Four Famous Ministers of Zhongxing". Some people even called him "/kloc-the three great men in the world in the 9th century" with Bismarck and Grant.
In the face of the unprecedented changes in the Millennium, only Li Hongzhang clearly realized the world situation, and the bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty made progress. Only through reform and opening up and self-reliance can the country embark on the road of modernization.
However, Li Hongzhang is not heaven after all. He has a mind against nature, but he can't compete with China's traditional ideas that have been ingrained for thousands of years. He couldn't cure the problem, but he chose to cure it, at least between the Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War, which ushered in a rare revival for China.
2, Zhuge Liang is not Zhuge Liang, maybe Liu Bei will grow old with the sigh of resurrection; Without Zhuge Liang, perhaps Sun Quan would have surrendered to Cao Cao; Without Zhuge Liang, there would be no Shu Han, there would be no tripartite confrontation among the three countries, and even the Jin Dynasty, where Cao Wei had been in power, the whole prehistory of our country would be rewritten.
But just with Zhuge Liang, I had this ambition of being a Wuxiang Hou who was unwilling to be practical and devoted to "the country". Zhuge Liang has been fighting from the humble cloth to Liu Bei's strategist to the prime minister of Shu Han, from burning Xinye to Battle of Red Cliffs to the sixth exit of Qishan. His enemy is not so much Cao Wei as "Heaven", which is the general trend of the country.
Finally, Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan, but before he could conquer it, he was exhausted and died, which made the hero cry.
3. Yue Fei, Chiang Kai-shek once said in the Anti-Japanese War Declaration that countless nameless Yue Wumu should be used to create a Yue Wumu of the Chinese nation. For a long time, Yue Fei has been recognized as the backbone of China samurai and an excellent symbol of the indomitable energy of the Chinese nation. Yue Fei lives in a truly mixed world.
The Northern Song Dynasty was still intoxicated with the dream of recovering sixteen states, but was driven out of the capital by nomads and fighters and fell apart. Maybe we're strange. Why can't DaSong beat Xu Jin even if he loses a Kaifeng? This is because the social contradictions at that time have intensified now, and the government forces have been eroded. Just like in the late Qing Dynasty, no matter how hard we tried to buy ordnance, the national energy has now collapsed.
Yue Fei's greatness lies in that when we are about to abandon him, he is still working hard, even pulling out Yue Jiajun single-handedly, making an army of miscellaneous brands become the main force of the country. I don't know if Yue Fei will sigh that he is so close when he looks at Bianjing from afar in Zhuxian Town, so that he can "conquer heaven with his bed in the east".