Today's idiom story in Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be found in Biography of Yang Hucheng in the Book of Jin, about two years in Xianning, Western Jin Dynasty. The hero is yang hu, a famous Western Jin Dynasty star. As follows:
Qin Liang has been defeated in many wars, so he said, "Wu Ping is determined by himself, but he must make great achievements quickly." However, many different commentators lamented: "The world is cold, and seven or eight places are ten, so sometimes it is sometimes." Don't you hate Peng Daxiang's later paintings and calligraphy? "
The general idea of this passage is that the Western Jin Dynasty was defeated by Qin and Liang. Yang Hucheng said to Emperor Wu of Jin: "If it is settled, the chaos of the Hu people in the northwest will soon be settled. Therefore, the most important thing today is to quickly complete the great cause of eliminating Wu Dong! " However, after the ministers of the DPRK and China talked about this matter, there were many voices of opposition. Hearing the news, yang hu sighed, "Ten things, usually nine things make you feel dissatisfied. At present, some people don't take what they pay, so why don't people of insight in the future feel sorry? "
This paper introduces an idiom evolved from Yang Hucheng's famous saying "Everything is wrong and everything is equal", which means that nine out of ten things usually make you unhappy, and there are too many things you don't like, so it is often difficult to realize your wishes.
After the idiom, let's talk about the historical background and main characters of this story. It was the second year of Xianning in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the general trend of the world had undergone earth-shaking changes. Liu's Shu-Han Empire perished more than ten years ago, and the Cao-Wei Empire was replaced by the Western Jin Dynasty. The three-legged separation that lasted for nearly eighty years was broken. Compared with the powerful Western Jin Empire, the national strength of Wudong Empire in the south of the Yangtze River declined and the political situation was chaotic. In view of this situation, Yang wrote many times and put forward suggestions to destroy Wu Dong.
However, Yang Hucheng's proposal was opposed by many North Korean ministers, and finally failed to get the consent of Jin Emperor Sima Yan. There are two main reasons. First of all, the situation in the northwest of the Western Jin Dynasty was unstable and suffered from the invasion of ethnic minorities for a long time; Secondly, some ministers think that Wudong's navy is so powerful that it is difficult to break through Wudong's natural barrier of the Yangtze River even if it sends troops. These views also greatly influenced Sima Yan. So I rejected yang hu's proposal.
Yang hu fought against Wu Dong all the year round, knowing that Wu Dong was vulnerable, and he felt very sorry that his proposal was rejected. Then, he lamented that "everything went wrong", which became the lifelong regret of yang hu, a celebrity, because just after this proposal was rejected, yang hu died in Xianning, Western Jin Dynasty for four years. Two years later, the Western Jin Dynasty finally launched a war to destroy Wu, and the result was as expected by Yang Hu. The Jin army was on a roll and soon wiped out Wu Dong.