It is said that Liu Chan in history was not stupid. Is that really the case?

Liu Chan is not stupid, but he is definitely not smart. Speaking of Liu Chan, someone always takes him to two extremes. Some people say that Liu Chan is a fool who has no money to help. Others say that Liu Chan's wisdom made a fool, and he saved himself. In fact, Liu Chan is a person with average IQ, neither stupid nor very clever. It's okay to be an ordinary person, but if you can put it in the position of emperor, your IQ is obviously not enough.

When Zhuge Liang was around, the light covered Liu Chan. Liu Chan not only regarded Zhuge Liang as Guan Zhong, but also handled all military and political affairs through Zhuge Liang. Liu Chan is just a shopkeeper of cutting and offering sacrifices, otherwise he can't care about anything else. In addition, Zhuge Liang also strictly controlled Liu Chan and prevented him from making any progress.

Before Zhuge Liang died, Liu Chan asked Zhuge Liang who was his successor. Zhuge Liang answered Jiang Wan first, and then Liu Chan sent a messenger to ask: What happened after Jiang Wan? Zhuge Liang answered Fei Yi. So Liu Chan appointed Jiang Wan and Fei Yi as the rulers according to Zhuge Liang's meaning.

On the surface, Liu Chan followed Zhuge Liang's advice, but in fact, Liu Chan didn't know how to choose people. As an emperor, he doesn't know who to use. If he really has the ability, he should take charge of himself after Zhuge Liang's death, instead of letting Jiang Wan and Fei Yi take power and continue to be the shopkeeper of cutting.

Although after Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Chan was still in charge of Shu Han as an emperor for nearly 30 years, but this more than 30 years was due to Zhuge Liang's political legacy, that is, his successors Jiang Wan and Fei Yi trained and promoted by Zhuge Liang. Their abilities and personalities are excellent, and they have been in power for 19 years. After the death of both of them, the politics of Shu Han began to weaken.

After Fei Yi's death, unhealthy tendencies began to appear in the Shu-Han court. The most important evidence is Liu Chan's employment problem, because he trusted an incompetent eunuch, Huang Hao, which led to eunuch autocracy.

For example, in 262 AD, Jiang Wei learned that Cao Wei had frequent military transfers in the north. He thought that the other side would have more military information, so he wrote a letter to the court and told the story. Then, at the end of the imperial court, Huang Hao first got the information that Shu Han's desk was not as useful as eunuch, or as powerful as eunuch.

This advanced military intelligence was actually stopped by Huang Hao, and then Huang Hao divined from the wizard. The result of divination was nothing, so Huang Hao decided not to report it, and no one in the whole Shu-Han court knew about it. Huang Hao, a eunuch, can be an absolute monarch. You said the court in Shuhan was in chaos. Isn't this thanks to Liu Chan?

From this perspective, this is Liu Chan's responsibility. Haohao can monopolize power. There is no one but Emperor Liu Chan. You say Hao Hao is still an idiot, and this Hao Hao can't avoid it alone. This is not a fool's wisdom, but stupidity.

There are always people who say that Liu Chan is stupid in front of Si Mazhao, which is also wrong. If Liu Chan wants to fool Si Mazhao, he must be smarter and deeper than Si Mazhao, but this is impossible. During the Three Kingdoms period, there was no precedent for killing the king of subjugation. Later, Sun Hao, the Emperor of Soochow, satirized Sima Yan. This is not Liu Chan's cleverness, but that he didn't have this habit at that time. They are very lucky. If they were born decades later, you will see them again in the late Western Jin Dynasty.

Liu Chan is an ordinary person with low ability, but he is not stupid. But it would be a tragedy if he were put on the throne of the emperor. In the case of resistance from all parts of Shu and Han, he first gave in for fear of death and chose to surrender, which led to the demise of Shu and Han. Compared with his father Liu Bei, Liu Chan is a whole world, an underground world.