Guo Chongtao (c. 865–926)
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, all kinds of heroes rose up together, and behind each hero Haojie, there will be the shadow of a strategist, who will prosper if he gains, and who is the strongest strategist in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, personally believed to be Guo Chongtao, who assisted Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang Zhuang to destroy Liang Deshu
Throughout history, it is easy for the strategists themselves and the emperor to share hardships and hardships, and it is difficult to share blessings, such as Gou Jian and Fan Li, Cao Cao and Xun Yu, and in the current society, it is precisely from these people that we can learn what kind of boss to cooperate with and how to coexist with the boss, so as to achieve mutual achievement, rather than hurting each other
Guo Chongtao is undoubtedly a negative example of getting along with the boss, because he was eventually wrongfully killed, and also let the boss Hou Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxun's own career plummet, and finally he was killed, and the country changed hands
Nearest the king nearest the gallows
Guo Chongtao was 20 years older than Li Cunxun of the Later Tang Dynasty, even if it was left to him by Li Cunxun's father, when the 24-year-old Li Cunxun took over, there were few real strategists, and the think tank at that time was still a dangerous job, often killed, no one wanted to do it, everyone knew that the companion was like a companion tiger, so they all wanted to leave to find a safe place, including the chief Meng Zhixiang of the think tank, that is, Meng Zhixiang, who later became emperor in Shuzhong, and meng Zhixiang, who must run away, recommended Guo Chongtao to Li Cunxun, and ten years later, When Guo Chongtao led a large army to conquer Shuzhong, he also recommended to Li Cunxun that Meng Zhixiang could succeed him as the envoy of Xichuan Jiedushi, and then there was the later Meng Zhixiang who was proclaimed emperor in Shuzhong, and Guo Chongtao and Meng Zhixiang were mutual achievements
What really made Guo Chongtao shine was to offer advice to destroy Liang, because Zhu Wen and Li Cunxun's father Li Keyong had a feud, so Li Cunxun had always wanted to destroy the Liang Dynasty, and at this time, when Zhu Wen's son Zhu Youzhen was in power, Guo Chongtao planned a comprehensive strategy of a thousand-mile attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Liang Dynasty's elites were all outside and the capital was empty, taking over Hou Liang, and at this time, Li Cunxun of the Later Tang Dynasty had the strongest team in all of China
Then Li Cunxun was proclaimed emperor, and after that, Li Cunxun, who already felt that he was the first in the world, began to have a contradiction between himself and Guo Chongtao, because in Li Cunxun's eyes, whoever disobeyed me would conquer whom, and in Guo Chongtao's world, it was the Qi family that ruled the country and the world, so that the common people could live happily, plus Li Cunxun's wife, eunuchs, and even actors (lingren) often asked for things, and Guo Chongtao, who was in charge of financial power, refused most of them, resulting in a very big contradiction between them, and at this time, Shuzhong was also boiling with public resentment. So Guo Chongtao began the last expedition of his life.
At this time, Guo Chongtao was already 61 years old, he would not have thought that his fate was also fixed at the age of 61, and Guo Chongtao, who was full of poetry, would not have thought that he would be like the Zhong Hui in the Three Kingdoms period, he could win, but he could not return to the dynasty
Guo Chongtao, as the actual head of the titular deputy envoy, led the army to assist Li Cunxun's son Li Jiquan the Prince of Wei on a campaign, and after his careful arrangements, he soon took Chengdu, and when he was about to give feedback to Luoyang, because the general sent all the good things to the Guo mansion instead of the King of Wei, the King of Wei was already dissatisfied
In addition, Guo Chongtao made the most undeserved taboo is that the king is not secret, and the subject is not secret, and the king of Wei suggested that after the king of Wei ascended the throne, all the eunuchs should be killed, to know that the relationship between Guo Chongtao and the king of Wei is not good, but the relationship between the eunuch and the king of Wei is very good, which adds the taboo of alienation, and inevitably the eunuchs will begin to stir up the king of Wei and say that Guo Chongtao wants to rebel in Shu
At this time, Luoyang was also full of people, and Guo Chongtao, who had left Li Cunxun's side, did not block the calculation behind Li Cunxun's wife Liu Hou, who directly carried her husband Li Cunxun to send a message to Li Jiquan, the king of Wei, asking him to kill Guo Chongtao
At this time, Guo Chongtao was still very confident, because he knew that he was leading the army, if he had a mistake, these soldiers would be difficult to be brought back, but the ignorant and fearless young man Li Jiquan did not care about that, directly killed Guo Chongtao, the chain reaction of killing Guo Chongtao was that no one was willing to contribute to Li Cunxun anymore, who was willing to work for a boss whose reward and punishment were unknown and ungrateful, and finally Li Cunxun died in the same year in the change of the Xingjiaomen. It was because guo Congqian, who admired Guo Congqian, wanted to avenge Guo Chongtao that he killed Li Cunxun
Li Jiquan, who led the troops from Chengdu to Luoyang, did not see his father, and after hearing that his father had died, he found that Dashi had committed suicide, so when Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang died, he never saw Guo Chongtao again, it can be said that guo Chongtao was obtained, so that Emperor Zhuangzong destroyed Da Liang and became emperor, and was killed by Guo Chongtao's son, and Later Tang was not Zhuangzong's
The Empress Liu who sent a note to Li Ji to kill Guo Chongtao first fornicated with her brother-in-law on the way to escape, and then after being arrested, she wanted to become a nun to survive, and finally she was killed, and the gold and silver treasures she obtained by selling officials were only collected for others
On the other hand, as the boss, Li Cunxun should think deeply about the communication, getting along and trusting with Guo Chongtao, Guo Chongtao is a talent that has not been met in a hundred years, and when Li Cunxun trusts, he can achieve fame, but when Li Cunxun, who lacks communication and lacks skills, begins to doubt Guo Chongtao, his career is over
As a subordinate Guo Chongtao, first of all, should know the ambition and personality of his boss, when helping Li Cunxun to destroy Liang, if you can still choose, you should be like Li Bi and Tang Dezong, choose to retreat in a hurry, in order to maintain their own good end, and cooperate with people with different values, it is undoubtedly with the tiger skin, it is better to go into hiding, and now society is best to change places to shine