During the Three Kingdoms period, if anyone can be equally famous with Zhuge Liang, it is not Pang Tong, Pang Shiyuan. In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Xu Shuzhi's sentence "Wolong Phoenix Chick, get one can get the world" shows the status of Pang Tong among the people, and he is a talent like Zhuge Liang. So can Pang Tong really be on par with Zhuge Liang?
We all know that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is different from history, and in fact, Xu Shu's words recorded in Chen Shou's Romance of the Three Kingdoms are "Confucianism and laymen know the times?" The time keeper cares about Junjie, and there are Dragon Phoenix Chicks here. "After gaining Pang Tong, Liu Bei was entrusted with a heavy responsibility." Treating Zhuge Liang personally, he and Liang were also the generals of the military division Zhonglang "Yes also."
During this period, the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms also recorded a story of a banquet between Liu Bei and Pound. After Liu Bei killed Yang Huai and Gao Pei, and held a feast for the three armies, Liu Bei naturally couldn't help but say with joy: Today is really the most enjoyable; but Pang Tong said that taking pleasure in conquering others is not a soldier of benevolence. Liu Bei, who had long been drunk and drunk, was naturally angry, and when the King of Wu was cutting down the silk, the army was singing and dancing, so he was not a teacher of benevolence and righteousness?! During the banquet, Liu Bei also reprimanded Pang Tong for retiring, and it was also after Liu Bei woke up that he invited Pang Tong back, and Pang Tong, as a strategist and subordinate, refused to apologize, and finally gave up with a sentence of "All kings and subjects have mistakes".
After the 36-year-old Pang Tong died in Luofengpo, it is recorded that Liu Bei "lamented the first lord, and his words were drooling." "It should be known that Pang Tong and Fa Zheng were the only two ministers given the title of Shangchen before Liu Bei's death, so it can be seen that Pang Tong's status is indeed very high, almost indistinguishable from Zhuge Liang. So what is the reason why Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang are equally famous?
Pang Tong's statement was more due to his conversation with Sima Hui, the water mirror master, and then he became a Gong Cao under Zhou Yu's account. However, just after the Battle of Chibi, the young Zhou Yu died suddenly, and at that time, everyone speculated that Zhou Yu's death was not unrelated to Sun Quan's plot, and after escorting Zhou Yu's body back to Eastern Wu, Pang Tong, as a Gong Cao, was not welcomed by Sun Quan, and he had to defect to Liu Bei.
After Liu Bei captured Jingzhou, Pang Unification initially received only a small position as ling of Leiyang County. He was talented, but he ignored county affairs in office, and Liu Bei deposed him in a fit of anger, but then an interesting thing happened, although he was an alliance, Lu Su, who lived in Eastern Wu, wrote a letter to Liu Bei, bluntly saying that Pang Tong's talent was by no means a hundred miles, and Zhuge Liang also echoed it. As a result, Pang Tong was appointed as a general in the military division. Later, in order to capture Xichuan, Pang Tong became a military division with the army and offered three strategies, and Liu Bei adopted his middle strategy to create Ye Meng Guan, and then successfully captured Xichuan, but Pang Tong fell early at Luofengpo.
It can be said that Pang Tong is talented, but throughout his life, there are actually no outstanding achievements. As far as the plot of Nishikawa is concerned, Fa Zheng and others can also complete it, so why is there such a high reputation?
In fact, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, a kind of "character evaluation" prevailed. Under this social atmosphere, the appointment of Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Lu Su and other talents also benefited from this mutual evaluation. Just like when Cao Cao was at the end of the year, he suffered from lack of fame and could not be among the high class, so he had to find the famous scholar Xu Zijian at that time, and in desperation, Xu Zi would use a sentence of "the son to rule the world, the adulterous male of the chaotic world" and then Cao Cao benefited from this and became famous.
And Pound de because of Mr. Shui Jing's "taste evaluation", but also in jingzhou celebrities the most famous, in the current words is "critic", and Pang Tongzhi is more kind, in the comments of the crowd more positive reviews, and this kind of evaluation, although may lead to mediocre people occupy a high position, but for the reviewer to bring the marginal utility is that they can also get the praise of the reviewer, and then be able to "make friends" and get the highest evaluation.
Reference: Chen Shou, Romance of the Three Kingdoms