When it comes to the Three Kingdoms strategists, many people will think of Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia, and even Mao Zonggang said when commenting on the "Popular Interpretation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "Before and after the Three Kingdoms, I asked if there were people who had strategizing such as Xu Shu and Pang Tong. Q. Are there marching soldiers such as Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Sima Yi? Ask the people who have materials such as Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Bu Qi, Yu Fan, Gu Yong, Zhang Zhao? ”
In Mao Zonggang's eyes, Guo Jia was of course the first person to be like a god, and Xun Yujia was inferior to Guo Jia, and of course, he could not be compared with Zhuge Liang: "Zhuge Kongming is also a must, better than Guan and Le, biyi and Lü are both, and they are the first strange people in ancient and modern times." ”
Whether Zhuge Liang can compare with Guan Zhongleyi and Yi Yin Jiang Shang, this is not mentioned for the time being, because those four ancients are all good generals and good looks, and they are not necessarily known for their wisdom, and the topic we are going to discuss today is the selection of the first strategist of the Three Kingdoms, according to the relevant historical materials cited in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Pei Songzhi's notes, Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia may not be able to enter the top three: Zhuge Liang is a politician, a military expert, and even an agricultural expert and inventor, but his own job is really not to be the chief of staff.
While Liu Bei was alive, the military commander Zhonglang sent Zhuge Liang's mission in Jingzhou to engage in logistics: "Make governors of the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Changsha, and transfer their taxes to replenish the army." ”
Liu Bei occupied Xichuan and advanced Hanzhong, but the general Zhuge Liang of the military division still engaged in logistics: "The first lord went out, Liang Chang town guarded Chengdu, and enough food was enough for the soldiers." ”
Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, Zhuge Liang was promoted to chancellor of the kaifu, and he still did not participate in the war.
In Liu Bei's clique, Zhuge Liang's position has always been similar to Xiao He around Liu Bang, and it was Zhang Liang Chen Ping who advised Liu Bang, and Zhuge Liang, like Xiao He, was responsible for the overall situation and logistics, and his status did not allow it, and they did not despise scheming.
Liu Bei's two great advisers, in the early stage was Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan, in the middle was Fa Zheng Fa Filial Piety, Pang Tong Fa Zheng died successively, Liu Bei did not let Zhuge Liang as chief of staff, this is because the burden on Zhuge Liang's shoulders is heavier, if the emperor leads the emperor to go out on the expedition, not only the logistical supplies can not be guaranteed, in case the enemy wrapped dumplings, then Shu Han will be shut down in advance.
Zhuge Liang was not a strategist, he later led the troops to fight, but also had a staff team, such as Wei Yan was a former military division, and Ma Mo basically assumed the responsibility of chief of staff or combat staff.
Saying that Zhuge Liang is a strategist is not a respect but a demeanr, so we are ranking the three major strategists of the Three Kingdoms today, and Zhuge Liang, a model of good looks through the ages, will not participate in the evaluation, and Zhuge Xiang looks at people's eyes, as if it is really not as good as the lord Liu Bei, and the exaggerated Ma Mo Shou Street Pavilion is a testimony to the level of knowledge of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang was not a strategist but a deputy marshal and commander- and commander- and Guo Jia was a professional strategist, but he was not the chief strategist of Cao Cao's camp, or even a first-class strategist, which we can see from the fact that he followed Cao Cao for eleven years and was not promoted: the same cao Cao strategist, when Guo Jia died in the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), was still just "military master sacrifice wine (some historical sources call it military sacrifice wine, military sacrifice wine)", and Xun Yu, who was twelve years old in Jian'an, had already eaten the Shangshu Ling of 2,000 households. Cao Cao wanted to ask Emperor Xian of Han for the position of Three Dukes, but Xun Yu refused; Jia Xu defected to Cao Cao later, but became the Taizhong Doctor of rank than Qianshi in the fifth year of Jian'an, and Cheng Yu was promoted to general of Fenwu (that was Cao Cao's original official name) in the seventh year of Jian'an.
According to other historical records of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's first strategist, that is, the "mastermind", was not Xun Yu but Xun You: "Xun Yu qing xiu tong ya, with the style of Wang Zuo, Xun You, Jia Xu, Shu Hu counted all strategies, after the change of power, its good, Ping Zhi Ya Qi!" ”
Chen Shou did not have a festival with Guo Jia, and he did not need to belittle Guo Jia and elevate Xun Yu Xun You Jia Cheng Yu, but his evaluation of Guo Jia was mixed: "Chen Qunfei Jia does not rule the inspection, several courts sue Jia, Jia Yi is self-assured." Taizu became more and more important, but the group was able to hold right, and he was also pleased. Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye, and Jiang Jicai strategized and strategized, and although the Qing Dynasty ruled the virtues of the qing dynasty, they were different from Xun You, and the planning was expected to be planned. ”
Chen Qun publicly criticized Guo Jia, Guo Jia did not care, and although Cao Cao did not punish Guo Jia, he also believed that Chen Qun's criticism was correct.
Cao Cao, like Liu Bei, was known for his thirst for talents and good deeds, and if Guo Jiazhen had the great ability and contribution that Mr. Yi Zhongtian had said, how could he have been a military master for eleven years without being promoted to half a rank?
If only the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms is used as a basis, then Cao Ying's strategists must be divided into at least three grades: the first grade is Xun Yu, Xun You, and Jia Xu, the second grade is Cui Yan, Mao Jiu (the first advocate of the Heavenly Son to order not to be a subject), Chung Chong, Hua Xin, Wang Lang, and the third grade is Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Liu Ye and others - in the third grade, Cheng Yu Liu Ye's rank in Jian'an for twelve years is higher than Guo Jia.
At this time, we can't help but ask: If Cao Ying has something important to decide on, will Cao Yu ask Xun Yu first, or guo Jia first?
Cao Ying's three top strategists are Xun Yu Xun You Jia Xu, and who of these three has the highest strategy depends on what the criteria are: On the sense of the overall strategic situation, it is Xun Yu Xun Wenruo; if we want to talk about improvisational command, it is Xun You Xun Gongda; if we want to talk about conspiracies and tricks, it seems that no one can surpass the poisoner Jia Xu Jia Wenhe.
The comprehensive ability of a counselor is judged not only by what he says, but also by what he does and what he gets from his master.
Guo Jia said a lot of things, but Cao Cao only gave him a few good words and did not give the high-ranking official Houlu, which shows that Cao Cao also paid lip service to Guo Jia but did not really pay attention, or that Cao Cao thought that Guo Jia was not so valuable, at least not as valuable as Xun Yu Xun Youjia.
The Strategists of the Three Kingdoms were mostly in Cao Cao's camp, and Liu Bei's first strategist Xu Shu entered Cao Camp, although he did not say a word but ate by talking, but he only became a right lieutenant general and Yushi Zhongcheng - Xu Shu's strategy was good, but in Cao Camp, it was not his turn to give advice, and Xu Shu's duty was to pick faults for the civil and military officials.
If we give Cao Wei the quota of the three major strategists of the Three Kingdoms, the readers will certainly be very dissatisfied, for the sake of fairness, we will find one from Shu Han and One each from Eastern Wu.
Lu Su in the main history is not an old and good man with dough, we can even say that he was a first-class rebel at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, he first proposed that "the Han Room cannot be revived" and promoted Sun Quan to be called emperor.
Because Jingzhou lost Guan Yu and was killed, Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair" became a castle in the air, while Lu Su's "Stepping on the Pair" became a reality: "The Han Room cannot be revived, and Cao Cao cannot be eliminated." For the sake of the general, only Dingzu Jiangdong, to see the world's provocations... Eliminate Huang Zu, enter Liu Biao, and even the Yangtze River is extreme, according to it, and then build an emperor to try to the world, and this high emperor's business is also. ”
Lu Su was the initiator of Sun Liu's alliance, but he persuaded Sun Quan to lend Nan Commandery to Liu Bei, and even Zhou Yu could not understand his good intentions, and Liu Bei also thought that he had taken advantage, but he did not know that Lu Su was throwing out a hot potato - we can see from the situation map of the Three Kingdoms that Nan Commandery was the front line on the border with Cao Cao at that time, and Lu Su wanted Liu Bei to replace Eastern Wu.
If we look at this comparison map of the change of hands before and after the fourteenth year of Jian'an and the fifteenth year of Jian'an, we will find that Liu Bei was pit by Lu Su: originally, Nan County, as a prominent part of the Eastern Wu forces, was blocked between Cao Cao and Liu Bei, which was equivalent to the strategic buffer zone between Cao And Liu and Liu. When Nan County returned to Eastern Wu, Liu Bei could rest assured that he would develop west and south, occupying Nan County, and Liu Bei and Cao Cao would come face to face, and there was no time to look south, and as a result, the southern Shi Xie was swallowed up by Sun Quan.
Lu Su ceded Nan Commandery, but received Jiaozhou, which was several times larger than Nan Commandery, that is, zhou Yu became a bearish "Southern Commandery Taishou" (Sun Quan was already suspicious of Zhou Yu at that time, and said to Liu Bei: "Gongjin Wenwu Strategy, Ten Thousand People's Ying, Gu Qi's vast amount of weapons, I am afraid that it will soon be the ears of people." "), and helped Sun Quan expand his territory, and also pushed Liu Bei to the front line of anti-Cao, which can be described as killing three eagles with one stone.
Lu Su's plan could not be said to be poisonous, and even Cao Cao was frightened enough by him: "Reserve Jingjing sees the power, asks the capital to oversee Jingzhou, but Su persuades the right to borrow it and reject Cao Gong together." Cao Gongwenquan prepared the land industry, wrote a book, and wrote it on the ground. ”
Lu Su's strategic vision was unmatched in Eastern Wu, and Zhang Zhao was far inferior to him, which Sun Quan had the most say: "As Zhang Gong's plan is, now he has begged for food." (Quan title honorific title, Lintan, Gu Zhi Gongqing Yue) Xi Luzi tasted this, which can be described as clear in the situation. ”
Without Lu Su, there would have been no Battle of Chibi, so it seems that it is not too much to evaluate Lu Su as the first strategist of Eastern Wu and to let him enter one of the three major strategists who influenced the process of the Three Kingdoms, and the first strategist of Liu Bei's clique, according to the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, seems to have the status of Fazheng surpassing Pang Tong, and the reason why Zhuge Liang saw that Fazheng was arrogant and did not deal with it was also for a reason: "The lord is in the public security, the north is afraid of Cao Gong's strength, the east is afraid of Sun Quan's persecution, and the near future is afraid of Lady Sun's life changing under the elbow; Fa filial piety is directly assisted by the wings, so that it soars upside down and cannot be copied, how can we forbid the Fa Zheng to do evil deeds? ”
After the defeat of Yiling, Zhuge Liang remembered the Fazheng again: "If the Fa filial piety is straight, it will be able to control the Lord and make it not go east; if you go east, you will not fall into danger." ”
Liu Bei, who knew people and was good at his duties, obeyed Fa Zheng's words, which showed that Fa Zheng did have two brushes, and Fa Zheng's later official Shang Shu Ling and the general of the Protector Army were almost equivalent to zhang Liang And Chen Ping's positions, saying that he was the first strategist of the Shu Han Dynasty, should not be excessive, right?
If Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang are regarded as the talents of the prime minister and do not participate in the ranking of the counselors, then Cao Wei and Xun You Jia Xu can make up for it, and how can it not be Guo Jia Guo Fengxiao - Guo Jia is very outstanding, but compared with Erxun and Jia Xu, it seems that it is almost graded, and the weight of speaking in front of the lord is obviously not as good as Fazheng and Lu Su.
Saying that Xun Mou and Fazheng and Lu Su are the top bold strategists of the Three Kingdoms is only the author's opinion, and when the final conclusion cannot be reached, how are the strategists of the Three Kingdoms ranked, we must ask the readers to decide: Cao Wei's most brilliant strategist, is Jia Xu or Xun Yu? Each of the three countries selects a top strategist, and these three people are ranked according to their personal comprehensive ability, who should be ranked first?