Many people have thought about this question: Why did Zhuge Liang choose Liu Bei instead of the more powerful Cao Cao and Sun Quan? It cannot be denied that Zhuge Cheng Xiang has the dream of reviving the Han Room, and is more inclined to find a boss surnamed Liu. But in fact, Zhuge Liang chose Liu Bei, there are two other considerations: on the one hand, in the camp of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, what kind of role he can play, what kind of height and official position he can achieve. On the other hand, it is the national layout of the entire Zhuge family.
First, if Zhuge Liang was not in Liu Bei's camp, what kind of height could he reach?
To be honest, whether considering from the perspective of ability or from the perspective of talent groups, Zhuge Liang will not have any good development without Liu Bei.
First of all, let's talk about Cao Cao:
Cao Cao's talent is abundant, and there are a lot of top strategists such as Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu, and none of them is at least inferior to Zhuge Liang's ability. When Zhuge Liang got there, there would be no chance of being a top-notch. In particular, Zhuge Liang was good at internal affairs management, not good at strange plots, and his characteristics overlapped with Xun Yu. Xun Yu was the one who had helped Cao Cao defend Yanzhou, saying that the two were friends of life and death. Would Cao Cao abandon Xun Yu and reuse Zhuge Liang? I don't think so.
In addition to being unable to stand out, there is also a situation of "regional killing". Most of Cao Wei's strategists, except for Jia Xu, were Yingchuan talents, all introduced by Xun Yu. Among them was Xun You, Guo Jia, and Cao Cao's early masterminds. Zhuge Liang was a native of Langya, Xuzhou, and had no intersection with the Yingchuan family. At that time, when the talents huddled together to warm up and value the height of the door, he would not get any development opportunities in the past. His good friends Xu Yuanzhi, Meng Gongwei and Shi Guangyuan are the lessons of the past.
Let's talk about Sun Quan:
Sun Quan's Jiangdong region is also the center of the family gate valve, and the four major families of Zhu Zhang gulu are a closely related whole, and even Sun Ce, Sun Quan and others belong to outsiders. In order to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong, the Sun family had to give up a large number of important positions to them, such as the chief heavy minister of Jiangdong was Zhang Zhao, who had no strategy, and the governor of Jiangdong's later army was Lu Xun and Lu Kang, the enemies of the Sun family. As long as they were there, even Lu Su, who saw the three divisions of the world at the same time as Zhuge Liang, could only stand on the side. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's defection to Sun Quan could not escape this fate.
Second, the world layout of the Zhuge family
In a chaotic world, the prosperity of a family can never be all pressed on one political force, it is best to distribute it equally, each occupying a piece, so that no matter which group wins in the end, the family will prosper. In the five generations and ten kingdoms of later generations, the Yang family will adopt this way of survival; at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there were also people in the family of national hero Wen Tianxiang who were officials in the Yuan Dynasty. It's a pretty standard way of living, and there's nothing to blame.
The Zhuge family in Xuzhou Langya actually allocated their own talent allocation in this way. Before Zhuge Liang left the mountains, Zhuge Jin had already been an official in Eastern Wu, and although he was not a political leader, he was also reused, enough to ensure the integrity of his own lineage; Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Shi had been looking for opportunities in Cao Wei's land, although the official position rose relatively slowly, but it was also stable. Therefore, Zhuge Jin did not consider Cao Wei, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei, and Zhuge Tian did not consider Sun Quan, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei. It gives people the feeling that the people of the Zhuge family have already discussed it, and each of them has divided their own development areas and not crossed the line with each other. Since this was the case, it was not surprising that Zhuge Liang was able to target Liu Bei.
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