Zhuge Liang is very clever and has many inventions. In order to invent a small toy for his wife to relieve boredom, he also invented wooden ox cart, Kongming lantern and Zhuge Lian crossbow, which were fully used in the war and greatly improved the combat capability. Such a legendary figure, on his deathbed, did not forget to maintain the stability of the army and guard against the enemy's attack. To this end, he entrusted Liu Chan to do three things.
After Zhuge Liang died, four people were arranged to carry the coffin for him; Four people continue to go south; The three men didn't stop until the rope carrying the coffin broke, and the place where the rope broke was where he was buried. Although Liu Chan didn't know the reason, he knew that Zhuge Liang had a clever plan all his life, and this arrangement had its own reasons, so Liu Chan arranged the affairs in strict accordance with Zhuge Liang's requirements.
Why should four people carry the coffin? It turned out that Zhuge Liang was ill. He knew that his time was running out, and he was afraid of attracting Wei's attention, so the funeral could only be simple. These four coffins are all regarded as ordinary teenagers. Even if the enemy found them, they wouldn't think it was Zhuge Liang's funeral. They will certainly think, how can the prime minister of Shu Han handle the funeral so simply?
Why do you keep going south? At that time, the Shu army was in the Northern Expedition. If it carried the coffin to the north, it would be easy to meet the enemy. On the contrary, if you go south, you are unlikely to meet the enemy. There is a saying in Zhuge Liang Biography that Zhuge Liang left his last words before he died: "Buried in Dingjun Mountain".
How to understand it until it is broken by a rope and buried? Zhuge Liang was afraid that Sima Yi would dig his own grave after the defeat of the Shu army, so that he could never be born. Moreover, in the war years, grave robberies often occur. Even without Sima Yi's tomb, it is impossible to dig graves for grave robbers. No one can predict when the rope will break, which means that Zhuge Liang's burial place is random and unpredictable.
There are only four people carrying coffins. They know where they are. It didn't go well. Four people carried the coffin for three days, and the rope for carrying the coffin was not broken. The Gang of Four can no longer carry it. One of them said, "Why don't we cut the rope and bury the coffin like this? As long as the four of us don't talk, no one knows anyway. "
Soon the four reached an agreement, then cut the rope, buried the coffin on the spot and came back to me. Liu Chan knew that the rope was thick. According to the general situation, it took at least ten days and a half months to break. Four people have come back in such a short time. There must be some fraud. Liu Chan ordered the four men to be tied up and tortured. Finally, the four men told the truth, and Liu Chan dragged them out and beheaded them angrily. Only four people who knew the burial place of Zhuge Liang were also executed, and Zhuge Liang's tomb eventually became a mystery.
Zhuge Liang lived a simple life, and the things buried after death were not as luxurious as those of ordinary officials. He knew that Shu was busy with the Northern Expedition in recent years, the economy was not rich, and he lived a simple life after his death. It is more appropriate to describe Zhuge Liang's life with "devoting all his efforts to death and then dying"