The Three Kingdoms have never lacked strategists, as if Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, who we are more familiar with, are actually relatively fortunate people, all of whom know that strategists do not have their own careers, but are attached to their respective princes and offer advice and advice, the light ones support the daily affairs of the thorough, and the heavy ones perceive the opportunity to establish the foundation of the world for the lord and make great contributions, so many ambitious princes will recruit the world's strategists and cultivate their confidants.
The above-mentioned Zhuge Liang or Sima Yi, Guo Jia, etc., under the call of the turbulent situation, joined the struggle of various factions, making the situation more complicated, many of them left their names in history, of course, there are also for various reasons to vote for the wrong lord, resulting in a bumpy life.
For example, Chen Gong, his path of strategists is really very tortuous, and when he first looked at the Three Kingdoms, it was a pity that such a talented person was buried like this. Chen Gong has been very studious since childhood, but also knowledgeable, plus the friends are some talented strategists, it can be seen that he has strong social skills, there is a very obvious thing that can explain Chen Gong's ability, when in Yanzhou, because of the death of the assassin, Yanzhou was temporarily ownerless, many things were delayed, at this time Chen Gong played his own powerful role, gave full play to his personal influence, and vigorously contributed to Cao Cao's takeover of Yanzhou.
Cao Cao's strength increased greatly as a result, and he was also grateful to Chen Gong, and even regarded Chen Gong as a confidant. Of course, Chen Gong also lived up to Cao Cao's expectations and made great contributions to the development of Cao Ying, which can be said to be the most brilliant time of Chen Palace, but unfortunately, an unexpected event occurred later, which seriously discorded the relationship between the two monarchs and subjects, and eventually caused the tragic death of Chen Gong.
The change of this matter also began with Chen Gong's promotion of Cao Cao's takeover of Yanzhou, everyone knows that in fact, Cao Cao was a more suspicious person, after occupying Yanzhou, some remarks were very unfavorable to his stability of his position, so in order to consolidate his position, but also to block Youyou's mouth, Cao Cao actually decided to execute some Mingshi who took the lead in causing criticism.
This practice is actually understandable, but the main problem is that Chen Gong and these masters have a very deep friendship. Cao Cao's actions can be said to have angered Chen Gong, who had already decided in private to betray Cao Cao. Therefore, during Cao Cao's expedition, Chen Gong took the opportunity to contact relevant personnel and transferred the power of Yanzhou to Lü Bu.
However, I did not expect that Lü Bu was a brave and unscrupulous person, completely a can not afford to support Adou, even if Chen Gong tried his best to assist, Lü Bu still could not achieve things, after Gunzhou was occupied by Lü Bu, Cao Cao was furious, in the winter of Jian'an three years, he waved his troops to valu Bu, at that time led a large army to surround Xia Pi City, because Cao Cao's army was too strong, and launched psychological tactics, this Lü Bu was frightened to roll urine, wanted to take the initiative to surrender, Chen Gong did not agree, offered a plan of horns, let Lü Bu garrison the army outside the city, and he defended the city inside the city, Mutual assistance, so that Cao Cao did not dare to attack one side easily, only a few months, Cao Cao's army was short of food and grass, this siege plan was not attacked and destroyed, but Lü Bu listened to the woman's rumors, resulting in the defeat of the army, resulting in both subjects and lords being taken prisoner.
Chen Gong saw the old lord of the past, but also had mixed feelings, fortunately Cao Cao regretted talent, wanted to reuse Chen Palace, but Chen Gong was discouraged in his heart, did not want to do this kind of abandonment of the Lord, only prayed for death, Cao Cao saw that he had made up his mind, so he had to order the killing of Chen Gong, although Chen Gong was executed by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao did not kill his wife, children and mother, but instead made good living, which was a fulfillment of his promise, but looking at Chen Gong's life, it was actually quite sad and lamentable.