Zhuge Liang knew that things were going well, so why couldn’t it cause rain if the valley was burned? The answer is weird
In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang is a scheming counselor who borrowed arrows from a straw boat. He predicted that there would be heavy fog on the river in three days, and then borrowed 100,000 arrows from Cao Cao. But when Sima Yi was burned in the Shangfang Valley, a heavy rain wiped out Zhuge Liang's heroic ambition to regain the Han Dynasty and destroy Cao Wei, and brought hope of life to Sima Yi, who was approaching death. Why could Zhuge Liang predict that there would be fog on the river, but failed to predict that it would rain when he burned Sima Yi?
From the literary point of view of the literary work, the story of Zhuge Liang’s straw boat borrowing arrows happened during the period when Liu Bei’s power was at its most prosperous. In order to express that Liu Bei’s power had a strong counselor, the author would write it Zhuge Liang deified.
During the Shangfang Valley Incident, Liu Bei had already passed away. It was the period of decline of the power of the Shu Han Dynasty, and according to history, Sima Yi could not die here, but Zhuge Liang’s image in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms It has always been a clever plan, so we can only say that the heavy rain was God's will. Sure enough, Zhuge Liang died of illness a month after this happened.
Therefore, the author's writing is in line with the real history, and once Zhuge Liang died, the remaining people in the Three Kingdoms became a new force, and the next cases in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will develop again.
In "Three Kingdoms" and real history, the straw boat borrowing arrows does not exist, but the fire burning the upper valley and causing rain does exist. In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the author wrote that the straw boat borrowed arrows was to deify Zhuge Liang, and the burning of the upper valley and the resulting heavy rain was to follow the true historical line. In real history, it would rain when the fire burned in Shangfang Valley, mainly because of the terrain of Shangfang Valley, which was also called "Huludao".
When Zhuge Liang burned Sima Yi, the fire would conflict with the air to form hot steam. When the hot steam reaches high altitudes and encounters cold air, it will form rain. This is scientific knowledge that is only available in modern times. Zhuge Liang knew how to observe the sky at night. He did not understand this scientific knowledge at all. Naturally, he did not expect that it would rain heavily, extinguishing the fire in the upper valley and extinguishing the hope of the success of the Northern Expedition. .
It cannot be said that Zhuge Liang is not smart, because even the current weather forecast is sometimes inaccurate. Weather changes are affected by many factors and are uncontrollable.
To sum up, Zhuge Liang could predict fog when borrowing arrows from a straw boat, but could not predict heavy rain when the fire burned the valley above. The main reason is that when the author wrote "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there were In order to deify the character Zhuge Liang and adopt the line of real history, we can only arrange this kind of "God's will" fate for Zhuge Liang.
In fact, whether it is in literary works or in real history, Zhuge Liang has many things we need to learn from. The article "Being a Teacher" in the high school textbook is what we need to learn from Zhuge Liang's loyalty. Loyal to our country.