As one of the four famous works in China, although the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about the relationship between the Yellow Turban Army uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the three-legged relationship between Eastern Wu, Shu Han and Cao Wei, the main description of Luo Guanzhong, as a fan of Shu Han, is only given to Cao Wei and Shu Han, and Eastern Wu is only occasionally mentioned as an alliance. When Sun Ce, the overlord of Eastern Wu, was killed by the Assassins, he ceded the position of Eastern Wu to his younger brother Sun Quan instead of his own son, and also packed up his own strategists to Sun Quan.
Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao, and Lu Su
These three people are Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao, and Lu Su. Zhou Yu, as everyone knows, the main instigator of the great victory in the Battle of Chibi, and the proposer of the two divisions of the world, for Cao Wei is also advocating the alliance with shu Han to fight together, and his talents are highly recognized, whether ancient or modern. Lu Su, whether for public or private reasons, had a very good relationship with Zhuge Liang, and for the alliance between Shu Han and Eastern Wu, his indispensable promoter, and it can even be said that without him, there would be no joint army base for the Battle of Chibi.
Zhang Zhao, who rarely appears much in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is actually mainly dealing with the internal affairs of the state. In terms of internal affairs, Zhang Zhao's work left people speechless, and in balancing the power of Sun Quan and the power of the Eastern Wu Shi clan, they were impeccable. But externally, he has always been a capitulationist. When Liu Bei sent Zhuge Liang to Eastern Wu to persuade them to join forces, generally like Zhou Yu, or advocating alliances like Lu Su, he advocated direct surrender to Cao Wei, because he could not fight anyway, it was better to surrender honestly, and Eastern Wu could reduce losses a little. However, Sun Quan still trusted Zhou Yu and Lu Su more in this kind of foreign affairs, which led to the cooperative victory at the Battle of Chibi and the preservation of Eastern Wu.
After the end of the alliance, Liu Bei personally led his troops to eastern Wu because of Guan Yu's death and the loss of Jingzhou, and the momentum was fierce. Sun Quan asked his subordinates again for their opinions, and Zhang Zhao, who was a staunch capitulationist, offered to offer Jingzhou, the culprit, to Liu Bei to keep him safe. Not to mention this, Sun Quan as a lord to lose face of the problem, originally the two sides of the grudge is Jingzhou, Eastern Wu and Cao Wei cooperation is also for Jingzhou, planning for so long, the battle did not fight to give the fruits of victory, Sun Quan naturally will not listen to him.
A new man, Lu Xun, was sent to deal with Liu Bei, but as a result, he almost burned all the Shu Han, and Liu Bei was forced to flee to the White Emperor's City in a hurry. Sun Quan didn't bother to listen to Zhang Zhao's ideas in external affairs later, after all, all the ideas he came up with were surrender, and some people said that he was the most incompetent of the three strategists, what do you think?
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms