Who is Liu Bei's most trusted advisor?
Thinking about it, the vast majority of people will blurt out: Zhuge Liang!
Yes, Liu Bei does trust Zhuge Liang very much.
However, Liu Bei has many "loved people"!
184-194: "Young Partner" Jian Yong
The earliest strategist beside Liu Bei was Jian Yong.
Jian Yong has been very familiar with Liu Bei since he was a child, and he was mixed up with Liu Bei when he started a business, and his qualifications are about the same as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Of course, unlike Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had the name of "Ten Thousand Enemies" early on, Jian Yong did not leave any outstanding contributions for a long time.
Jian Yong's main job is to "often be a lobbyist and exchange missions", that is, to run diplomacy.
Jian Yong's greatest achievement in life was to finally persuade Liu Zhang to surrender. Other than that, Jian Yong doesn't seem to have any special contributions.
However, due to his deep qualifications, Liu Bei later entered Sichuan, and Jian Yong was worshiped as General Zhaode, second only to Mi Zhu.
194-207: "Golden Mastermind" Mi Zhu
Mi Zhu, a huge rich man in Xuzhou, has nearly 10,000 servants and diners, and has assets of hundreds of millions.
Tao Qian died, and Mi Zhu passed on (or may be a fake biography) Tao Qian left his will, welcomed Liu Bei as the lord of Xuzhou, and began to assist Liu Bei.
Later, Liu Bei was attacked by Lu Bu and transferred to Guangling Haixi, embarrassed, and the big money lord Mi Zhu funded his military expenses, so that Liu Bei survived.
In terms of talent contributions, Mi Zhu seems to be smaller than Jian Yong and Sun Gan, but by virtue of sponsorship, Mi Zhu not only won Liu Bei's trust the most, but also became Liu Bei's brother-in-law.
After Liu Bei entered Sichuan, Mi Zhu became the general of An Han, above Zhuge Liang and others!
Zhu is graceful and elegant, and Gan Xi is not the director. It is to treat it as a courtesy, and it has not tasted domination. And then reward the best, and there is no comparison. - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Mi Zhu"
Later, Mi Zhu's younger brother Mi Fang was the Taishou of Nanjun and opened Jiangling to surrender to Wu, resulting in the defeat and death of Guan Yu's soldiers, but Liu Bei did not blame Mi Zhu.
It's just that, perhaps with guilt, Mi Zhu died soon after.
In addition, during Liu Bei's leadership of Xuzhou, he got Sun Qian. Since then, this Sun Qian has also accompanied Liu Bei in life and death, and he will never give up.
Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian also became Liu Bei's most trusted strategists during his exile.
It is worth mentioning that before and after Liu Bei led Xuzhou, he had the opportunity to cooperate with first-class figures such as Chen Deng and Chen Qun, but perhaps Uncle Liu Huang's appeal at that time was still relatively limited, and these first-class figures did not go on with Liu Bei for a long time after all!
Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian, the early strategists of this generation, their main job is to help be a lobbyist, and the rest of the aspects do not seem to have made great achievements.
Liu Bei's early years of displacement and inability to gain a foothold have a lot to do with the lack of ability of the think tank.
207-222: "Like a fish in water" Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang is undoubtedly Liu Bei's most important advisor.
1. 207-211: Like a fish in water, the most important strategist "does not have one".
Liu Bei "looked at the thatched house three times" and invited Zhuge Liang.
Among them, Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair" became the strategy to guide Liu Bei to stand on his feet, and it was also the most famous strategy during the Three Kingdoms period.
After inviting Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and him were "in love", even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were "jealous", and Liu Bei described Zhuge Liang as "like a fish in water", which shows his trust in Zhuge Liang.
However, it needs to be emphasized that Liu Bei's credit to Zhuge Liang has a direction.
The so-called "burning Bowangpo" and "burning Xinye" in the novel are either fictional, or happened before Zhuge Liang came to vote, and they have nothing to do with Zhuge Liang. At the level of military command, Liu Bei did not rely on Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang's main contribution at this stage, in addition to putting forward the strategic plan of "Longzhong Pair" early on, was mainly to persuade Wu to resist Cao in internal affairs and diplomacy.
2. 211-220: "One of the most important strategists".
In 211, after the arrival of Pang Tong, he quickly won Liu Bei's trust, "treated him as inferior to Zhuge Liang", and Zhuge Liang became a general in the military division, and Zhuge Liang became one of the most trusted strategists.
After Pang Tong, Fa Zheng became one of Liu Bei's advisers.
Overall, at this stage, Zhuge Liang was in the rear, and Pang Tong and Fa Zheng followed Liu Bei's side to give advice, which was also the most rapid development period of Liu Bei's group.
3. 221-222: entrusted with the important task of entrusting orphans.
After Fa Zheng's death, Liu Bei no longer had anyone around him who could be compared to Zhuge Liang in terms of trust.
Although Huang Quan's plan is also very powerful, there is still a significant gap between him and Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng in terms of the degree of credit.
Before Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang was entrusted with the task of being a lone and handed over the fate of Shu Han to Zhuge Liang.
It can be said that Zhuge Liang is indeed the most important resourceful person in Liu Bei's life.
210-214: Pang Tong who treated Zhuge Liang as "close to Zhuge Liang".
When Pang Tong first voted for Liu Bei, he was sent to try to defend Leiyang, but he was not reused. It wasn't until Zhuge Liang and Lu Su's recommendation that Liu Bei paid attention to Pang Tonglai.
After Liu Bei came into contact with Pang Tong, "the great weapon" and "the proximity to Zhuge Liang" began to be reused.
Pang Tong's talent in "flexibility" was better than Zhuge Liang's, enabling him to solve many problems that Zhuge Liang could not solve.
Zhuge Liang clearly proposed to take Yizhou as early as "Longzhong Pair".
However, because of the so-called "friendship of the same clan" between Liu Bei and Liu Zhang, Liu Bei couldn't make up his mind and hesitated, worried that he would "lose his trust in the world for small reasons".
Pang Tong analyzed the situation in detail and pointed out: Attacking both the weak and the weak is something that the ancients often did. Let's go and get Yizhou down, and then give Liu Zhang a piece of land in the future, what's wrong with this?
Pang said in unison, dispelling Liu Bei's concerns and making Liu Bei make up his mind to enter Sichuan.
Subsequently, Liu Bei entered Sichuan. Zhuge Liang stayed in Jingzhou, and Pang Tong followed Liu Bei into Sichuan.
During his time in Xichuan, Pang Tong made suggestions, especially the "middle strategy", skillfully seized the military power of Baishui Pass, which not only relieved his worries, but also obtained Baishui elite soldiers, and his strategy was extremely exquisite, laying a solid foundation for Liu Bei to finally take Sichuan!
Later, during the siege of the city, Pang Tong was killed.
Later, whenever Pang Tong was mentioned, Liu Bei, who was "invisible", often cried bitterly, and his longing was overflowing.
212-220: "Soaring, unrepeatable" Fazheng
刘备对庞统，是“亲待亚于诸葛亮”。
How much does Liu Bei trust Fazheng?
Zhuge Liang's own evaluation is: If the law is filial piety, it can control the lord and order him not to go east;
Zhuge Liang couldn't convince Liu Bei by himself, but he thought that Fa Zheng would be able to convince Liu Bei if he was there!
It seems that even Zhuge Liang himself thinks: Perhaps, Liu Bei's trust in Fazheng has surpassed his Zhuge Liang.
The lord is also in the public security, the north is afraid of Cao Gong's strength, the east is afraid of Sun Quan's pressure, and the near is afraid of Mrs. Sun's change under the elbow; ——Zhuge Liang said in "Three Kingdoms: The True Biography of the Law".
Liu Bei's reuse of Fazheng can be described as all-round.
Politically: Liu Bei first took the law as the Taishou of Shu County. Shu County is the political and economic center of Yizhou. At the same time, it also allows Fazheng to participate in the formulation of laws. Liu Bei was the queen of Hanzhong, and he took Fazheng as the Shangshu order. With the administrative system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "although the three princes are placed, the matter is returned to the Taiwan Cabinet", Shangshutai is the central organ for decision-making and giving orders!
Militarily: Liu Bei went on an expedition, Zhuge Liang was in the rear, and Fa Zheng was with the army to give advice.
During the Battle of Hanzhong, Fa Zheng not only strategically put forward the method of taking Hanzhong, but also meticulous in the actual military command, and even Huang Zhong attacked and killed Xiahou Yuan, which was also a "attackable" issued by Fa Zheng...
In the battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao sighed: I said that Liu Bei is not so powerful, it turns out that there is a law that is teaching him!
In addition, Liu Bei's marriage to Wu as his wife and other difficult and hesitant affairs were finally resolved by Fa Zheng's suggestion.
It can be said that Fa Zheng is probably the only one who has surpassed Zhuge Liang in terms of trust and reuse.
Unfortunately, Fa Zheng died in 220 at the age of 45.
From Jian Yong, an old friend when he was young, to Mi Zhu, who is over 100 million rich, and then to Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, the continuous "upgrading" of the strategists around Liu Bei has witnessed the continuous growth of Liu Bei Group.
In this process, Zhuge Liang continued to attract stronger resourceful people on the one hand, and on the other hand, he continued to give preferential treatment to the "eliminated" old strategists.
It is his ambition to attract more outstanding talents, and it is his duty to treat the "eliminated" talents well.
If there is ambition, the team will always maintain vitality and innovation, and if there is righteousness, the team will always maintain a unique human touch and cohesion.
Pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, full of vitality is the driving force for Liu Bei's team to continue to grow and roll forward, and the condensed human touch is the center of Liu Bei's team's good and loser.