In the chaotic world of the Three Kingdoms, there is nothing more exciting than the war, but in the Three Kingdoms, not only are there those who make a big move and show off their martial arts, but also they are not only heroes who dance swords and make swords. So in the Three Kingdoms there was Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia, these respectable and lovely civilian heroes.
Before me, I have probably commented on the names of civilian officials, but I still hope that this article will bring you a refreshing feeling.
First of all, we must first distinguish a concept, civilian officials are not strategists, so commenting on civilian officials cannot be evaluated only by such a general concept as intelligence, which is the same as commenting that military generals cannot rely on force alone. Civilian officials have a variety of official positions and uses, and naturally they cannot be evaluated by a numerical value, let alone ranked.
Civil servants can be broadly divided into the following categories:
Strategy, Strategy, Internal Affairs, Diplomacy, Logistics, Command, Clerical, Garrison.
Another point is that a civilian official does not only belong to one of these eight categories, but often has all kinds, but only one category.
And these eight categories can be divided into two categories: combat and politics.
First of all, the combat class, they are also strategists, which have a great role in the campaign, including strategy, strategy, and command.
Strategists are the most practical of all strategists, they are mainly aimed at the situation of a certain battle, strategizing, and are the talents that must be brought on the march, but their position is generally not high, mainly because they can only guarantee the victory of a certain battle, but have no impact on the situation. The representative figures of this category are Fazheng of Shu and Cheng Yu of Wei.
Speaking of strategy, on the contrary, it is to put forward the direction of development of the situation rather than the actual strategy, such as Xun Yu's Feng Ying Xian Emperor, Guo Jia's ten victories and ten defeats, and Zhuge Liang's Longzhong pair. The representative figures are Lü Bu's Chen Gong and Wei's Guo Jia.
Finally, talking about the category of commanders, it is a kind of high-ranking and partial military officer among all civilian officials, who generally have suggestions and become decisives, holding official positions such as governor, chancellor, and Sima Yi, and are generally the main driving force for the great war, such as Zhou Yu of Wu and Sima Yi of Wei.
Then there is the political category, which is the other four categories of civil servants in addition to the clerical category. In general, they are less understood by people.
The internal affairs category is the main administrative security and economic officials, the most famous of which are Chen Qun of Wei, and the jujube slander of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Hong and others in the State of Wu also belong to this category.
Diplomacy, as the name suggests, is to carry out foreign strategy, generally to have the ability to adapt to changes, is the highest requirements for eloquence of a kind of strategist, generally speaking, good diplomatic talents to do not only complete the task, but also can not be entrusted with the perfection, so people like Zhang Song, Song Guo and other people can not become first-class diplomatic talents, better diplomatic talents are concentrated in the Shu country, such as Qin Bi and Deng Zhi, of course, other countries are not nothing.
Logistics, in fact, can also be classified as the combat category, is responsible for escorting grain and grass and supplies, in this regard people do not need to explain too much, the representative figure is Shu's Jiang Huan.
The garrison category, that is, the Taishou, the lowest-ranking civilian officials, of course, are not without talents, representative figures, and there are three or four volumes of the Three Kingdoms Chronicle dedicated to them.
You may note that the category of instruments belongs neither to combat nor to politics. By the way, they are a very special kind of people, who are high-ranking officials, talented but useless, such as Chen Lin and Ding Yi among the seven sons of Jian'an.
Of course, there are also some special utility civilian officials, such as counselors, which are not introduced here.