The successful establishment of a political regime requires all kinds of talents, and the Han Gao Emperor Liu Bang created the imperial industry not only with first-class talents such as Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and Han Xin, but also with second-rate talents such as Cao Shan, Zhou Bo, Fan Duo, Dou Bao, Chen Ping, and Zhou Chang.
In the same way, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, talent was also one of the key factors in determining the achievement of the cause, and Cao Cao had the five great strategists such as Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu, as well as the five sons and generals such as Zhang Liao, Yu Ban, Le Jin, Zhang Gao, and Xu Huang, in order to achieve the cause of cao Wei's domination of the northern nine prefectures.
However, from the perspective of talent, Liu Bei, as one of the founders of the Three Kingdoms, was extremely short of talents in the whole process of establishing a career, especially strategists and strategic and governing talents, until the arrival of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei began to operate, all the way to sing, the development of the entire group also reached its peak because of Zhuge Liang's arrival, so There was Liu Bei's love for Zhuge Liang.
However, just having Zhuge Liang was far from satisfying Liu Bei's desire for talents, especially Liu Bei positioned Zhuge Liang as a talent for governing the country, and when Liu Bei was in the front, Zhuge Liang managed in the rear, providing enough soldiers and food for Liu Bei on the front line, and Liu Bei still needed talents such as strategists.
So the phoenix Pang Tong appeared, Pang Tong filled the gap that Liu Bei did not have a first-class strategist, when Liu Bei hesitated to take Yizhou, it was Pang Tong who strengthened his confidence for Liu Bei, when Liu Bei hesitated how to take Yizhou, it was Pang Tong who proposed a specific strategy for Liu Bei to seek Yizhou, when Liu Bei hesitated how to attack Yizhou, it was Pang Tong who proposed three strategies for Liu Bei, and the appearance of Pang Tong gave Liu Bei the feeling of adding wings to this tiger.
Since Liu Bei had Pang Tong, a first-class strategist, the level of progress in the war was not one point or two, but divine speed, Liu Bei was able to take all of Yizhou, Pang Tong was the first merit, and the greatest role of the strategist was to provide the commander with a full strategy at the right time, Pang Tong did it, but Heaven was jealous of the talent, on the eve of Liu Bei's seizure of Yizhou, Liu Bei's only strategist Pang Tongzhan died in Luocheng.
Liu Bei has always been a monarch of a courtesy corporal, whether it is for ordinary people or assassins, or for his brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, all of whom are equal, Pang Tong's departure is like breaking Liu Bei's hands and siblings, and it is difficult to understand that feeling of grief does not happen to him.
However, soon Fazheng filled the gap left by Pang Tong and became the only first-class strategist around Liu Bei, Fazheng was not inferior to Pang Tong, and it can be seen from the plot of the Battle of Hanzhong for Liu Bei that Fazheng's arrival made Liu Bei deeply feel warm and joyful, and it was from the bottom of his heart, just as the man and woman in love found true love again, Liu Bei was satisfied, and since then Liu Bei has been inseparable from Fazheng, but the reason why Liu Bei is really inseparable from Fazheng is the love of the two people.
Things are clustered in groups, people are divided into groups, Liu Bei and Fazheng are a type of people, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" records that Liu Bei's characteristics are: do not like to read, like to walk dogs and horses, like to wear beautiful clothes, like to listen to music, like to make friends with heroes Haojie, the whole of a clumsy disciple, illiterate grass hero image, different from other grass heroes is Liu BeiLi Xian corporal, kind to the next person, good to the next person, clear grievances.
Fa Zheng, Fa Zheng is a straightforward villain with a true disposition, not only in terms of strategy, things are like gods, there is no exhaustive strategy, in terms of personality, there are clear grievances, and the eyes will be repaid, Fa Zheng because he directly betrayed Liu Zhang and secretly betrayed the lord to seek glory and turned to Liu Bei, morally ashamed of the first thing, in fact, Fa Zheng this person is actually a person who has grace and grace, and who has revenge and revenge is not afraid to reveal his true disposition, this kind of person is a straightforward person, a real person who can make people see through.
What Liu Bei likes is straightforward people and people with real talents and practical learning, and what he hates is people who read books and twists and turns, such as Xu Jing, who is a person with a false name and no real talent, Liu Bei was originally unwilling to use this person, it was Fa Zheng who proceeded from the overall situation of the world, advising Liu Bei that as a monarch, he would use all kinds of talents, even if it was only a person with a false name, Liu Bei obeyed.
Liu Bei is a stubborn person a lot of times, stubbornness comes up, persuasion is useless, only Fazheng, Fazheng persuasion method is very unique every time, for example, Liu Bei has doubts about marrying Liu Zhang's late brother Liu Mao's wife Wu Shi, Fazheng exemplifies the story of HuaiYi, the wife of His nephew Prince Huai of Jin, when He fled to the Qin Kingdom, to move Liu Bei.
Liu Bei did not listen to the advice in the war, insisted on charging, at that time the arrows were raining, everyone was worried that Liu Bei was injured, but did not dare to persuade, Fa Zheng's method of advice was very special, Fa Zheng directly exposed himself to the rain of arrows, blocking in front of Liu Bei's body, Liu Bei was worried about Fa Zheng, directly retreating, Fa Zheng's method was much more clever.
There are many examples like this, and after a long time, Liu Bei will eat the FaZheng set, and when he encounters things, others will not be able to persuade him, only Fazheng persuasion will work, so after the Battle of Yiling, Zhuge Liang said:
If the Law of Filial Piety is present, it will be able to restrain the Lord and order not to go east; if he returns to the east, he will not fall into danger.
In fact, this statement has two meanings, one is that if Fa Zheng is there, he will certainly be able to persuade Liu Bei not to launch a war against Sun Quan; second, even if Liu Bei crusades Sun Quan in the East, Fa Zheng can assist Liu Bei so that the entire army will not be destroyed.
Why can't Zhuge Liang persuade him? Quite simply, because Zhuge Liang also agreed that Liu Beidong's conquest of Sun Quan must take back Jingzhou, which was the basic seat of the Shu Han regime and the cornerstone of unifying the world.
The most crucial thing for Zhuge Liang to say that he was able to persuade Liu Bei was in the latter sentence, that is, if Fa Zheng assisted Liu Bei in his expedition against Sun Quan, he would certainly not fail, which also confirmed from the side that Zhuge Liang agreed with Liu Bei's eastern conquest of Sun Quan, because the vast majority of officials and bone soldiers of the Shu Han regime were jingzhou people, and Jingzhou was quite important to them, that is, its ancestral homeland, it was also a strategic place, and it was also the most important base for unifying the world.
As a first-class strategist of the Shu Han Dynasty, Fa Zheng had many ways to persuade Liu Bei, and even if he did not persuade Liu Bei to go on a crusade, Fa Zheng would have a way to let Liu Bei win the Battle of Yiling.