Whenever there is chaos, there are countless talented and brilliant generation, and the strategist is one of them; generally speaking, the strategist is the existence of wisdom far beyond the ordinary people, they are behind the scenes to plan, pointing out the river and the mountains, the decision to win in a thousand miles away. There are many famous strategists in history, such as Zhang Liang, Fan Zeng, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Zhu Geliang, Sima Yi, Wang Mang, etc., but can top the legendary strategist is only three people, but these three people, the end of the good is only two people, there is a person did not manage to avoid the disaster of killing.
Legendary strategist Zhang Liang
Zhang Liang was an outstanding strategist at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, known as the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty" with Han Xin and Xiao He; Zhang Liang's predecessor was in the capital of South Korea, Yang Zhai, and served as a minister to the king of Han for five generations. He persuaded Liu Bang to make peace at the Hongmen Banquet to save his strength, and made his way through Xiang Yu's father, Xiang Bo, so that Liu Bang could get away smoothly. With his outstanding wisdom, he assisted King Liu Bang to win the Chu-Han War and establish the Han Dynasty, and helped Liu Ying, the son of Empress Lu, to become the Crown Prince and be crowned Marquis of Liou.
After Liu Bang was crowned emperor, he asked his ministers why he won the world. Gao Qi and Wang Ling praised him because of his great benevolence. Liu Bang said, "I am not as good as Zifang in planning and strategizing, and I am not as good as Xiaoho in deciding what to do; I am not as good as Xiaoho in suppressing the country, caressing the people, and paying the wages and feeds, and not stopping the grain road; I am not as good as Han Xin in winning battles and attacking with a crowd of millions of people." From this, we can see how powerful Zhang Liang really is; many people believe that the so-called Chu-Han hegemony is actually a game of chess between Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng, and in the end, Zhang Liang was slightly better than half of the game.
But Zhang Liang has always been weak and sickly, and since Liu Bang entered Guanzhong and the world was beginning to settle down, he excused himself from being sickly and stayed behind closed doors. With the gradual stabilization of Liu Bang's throne, Zhang Liang gradually retreated from the position of "emperor's teacher" to that of "emperor's guest," following the principle of being dispensable, and advancing and stopping at the same time. In the early Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang was rarely involved in the brutal struggle of Liu Bang's campaign to eliminate the foreign kings.
During the secret struggle of the Western Han royal family, Zhang Liang also adhered to the legacy of "not interconnecting relatives". He gave up everything on earth and concentrated on cultivation, believing in Huanglao, practicing meditation, and wanting to become an immortal. However, Empress Lu was kind enough to advise Zhang Liang not to suffer from his own suffering. Zhang Liang finally listened to Empress Lu's advice, and still served the people, and eventually died a good death. However, some people say that Zhang Liang finally succeeded in cultivation and ascended to heaven.
Legendary Strategist of Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang was the Prime Minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, an outstanding statesman, militarist, diplomat, writer, calligrapher and inventor; he followed his uncle Zhuge Xuan to Jingzhou in his early years, and after Zhuge Xuan's death, he lived in seclusion in Longzhong, so he was known as the "Crouching Dragon (Long)". Wolong (Long)". Later, Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to join forces with Sun Quan to defeat Cao's army at the Battle of Red Cliff. Formation of the Three Kingdoms tripod situation, and seize Jingzhou, Yizhou, followed by the defeat of Cao's army, captured Hanzhong.
After Liu Bei established the Shu Han regime in Chengdu, Zhuge Liang was appointed prime minister and presided over the government. When Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, Zhuge Liang was appointed Marquis of Wuxiang, leading the Yizhou pastor. He was diligent and prudent, dealing with large and small matters personally, and was strict with rewards and punishments; he allied with Dongwu to improve the relationship with the southwestern tribes; he practiced the policy of cantonment and strengthened the war preparations. He went on six northern expeditions to the Central Plains, but he failed to achieve any success because he ran out of food. He died in Wuzhangyuan due to illness and fatigue.
From the Jin Dynasty onwards, successive generations have been promoting Zhuge Liang to the rank and title, and granting him a temple with a number. Jin named wuxing king; Tang named wuling king, and give the temple; Song gave "Yinghui temple", plus the number of "renji"; Yuan dynasty was posthumously awarded him as "mighty loyalty and martial arts show spirit renji king"; the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang fixed "emperor high", selected from the sacrifice of 37 famous ministers, "loyal martial marquis and embraced"; the qing dynasty not only to many memorial zhuge Liang's ancient ancestral temple repair, for worship, and every year in the spring and autumn ritual temple also to zhuge Liang from the sacrifice.
Legendary strategist of Liu Bowen
Liu Bowen's real name is Liu Ji, the word Bowen, so the world called him Liu Bowen, he is the end of the early Ming Dynasty, military, politicians, literati, the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty; know the classics and history, especially the fine image of the science of latitude and longitude, the people of the time compared to the Zhuge Liang. After Zhu Yuanzhang heard of Liu Ji and Song Lian and other famous, courtesy to hire. He wrote a letter stating the current affairs of the eighteen strategies, doubly favored. He was involved in the planning of the pacification of Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and other military plans. In 1367 AD, he became the Imperial Historian and entered the "Wushen Daitong Calendar". He also requested that legislation be enacted to stop indiscriminate killing.
Liu Ji Zhu Yuanzhang leveled the world, on the world's security, righteousness in color, in case of emergency, courage, plan to set up, people can not be measured. Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly called Liu Ji as: "my son room also." After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he asked for the establishment of the law of the military guards, and also asked for the purification of the discipline. Chinese folk widely rumored that "three worlds Zhu Geliang, a unification of the Jiangshan Liu Bowen; the former military adviser Zhu Geliang, the latter military adviser Liu Bowen". He is known for his brilliant calculations and strategizing.
Liu Bo Wen is also well aware of the "cunning rabbit death, dog cooking" reasoning, so in 1371 A.D. when he resigned and returned to his hometown; but Zhu Yuanzhang finally did not let go of Liu Bo Wen, in 1375 A.D., Liu Ji infected with wind chill, Zhu Yuanzhang knew, sent Hu Weiyong with the imperial doctor to visit. The imperial doctor wrote a prescription for medicine, he grabbed the medicine as ordered and came back to decoct and took it, feeling as if there were some uneven stones squeezed together in his stomach, making him very painful.
Liu Bo Wen held a sick audience with Zhu Yuanzhang, and politely reported to him that Hu Weiyong had brought the imperial doctor to visit him, as well as the situation that he was even more uncomfortable after taking the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor. After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang only lightly said some comforting words to him to take it easy and recuperate from his illness, which made Liu Ji quite chilled. Not long after, Liu Bowen died, but before Liu Bowen's death, he asked his son to dedicate a book of heavenly writings to Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is not known what this book of heavenly writings actually is.
Since ancient times, only know that the founding generals are difficult to get a good end, in fact, the strategist is almost the same, the general holds the military power, and the strategist knows too much of the emperor's secrets, are to be removed from the object. The reason why Zhang Liang good end, because of the withdrawal of the early, and there is Lu Hou shelter, so the good end; and Zhuge Liang good end because he lived longer than Liu Bei, coupled with strong external enemies, but Zhuge Liang did not dare to take it lightly, so "everything must be personally", became a generation of powerful ministers; and Liu Bowen is worse, and ultimately escaped the poisonous hand of Zhu Yuanzhang.