novelSusiti Chapter 714 The Strategist Who Destroyed the Bandits and the Female Strategist Zhuge Liang Emerged f
Chapter 714 The Strategist Who Destroyed the Bandits and the Female Strategist Zhuge Liang Emerged f
"Ding! A divine-level attribute random summoning card is being used. The system will provide a list of five characters. Please remove two and summon one character randomly from the remaining three."
"Summoning in progress, please wait..."
"Ding! The first person to be randomly summoned with god-level attributes, Chen Zhen, a strategist of the Warring States period, with an intelligence of 96."
Chen Zhen, a master strategist!
He was active as a strategist during the Warring States period and played an important role in political and military struggles on many occasions.
According to the "Strategies of the Warring States", Chen Zhen told as many as seven fables when he was persuading others, which was the most among all strategists at the time. The seven fables are "Loyalty is Abandoned", "The Man from Chu Has Two Wives", "The Song of the Man from Yue", "Bian Zhuang Stabs the Tiger", "Adding Feet to a Snake", "The Deer and the Hunter", and "Sailing Together in the Same Boat".
Many idioms also originated from Chen Zhen, such as "Adding Feet to a Snake" and "Bian Zhuang Stabs a Tiger".
These fables successfully helped Chen Zhen persuade the king, ensuring that his strategies were always accurate and his plans always succeeded, without losing his integrity.
This practice of creating stories while lobbying was also a distinctive characteristic of novelists at the time.
Chen Zhen served as an official in the Qin state in his early years, but after failing to win favor with Zhang Yi, he left Qin and took up a post in the Chu state.
During his time in the State of Chu, he helped Gongsun Yan rise to the position of Prime Minister of Wei, facilitated the five-state war against Qin, resolved the crisis of Qin and Han attacking Chu by using delaying tactics, advised King Huai of Chu not to fall for Zhang Yi's scheme to sow discord between Qi and Chu, and persuaded King Huai of Chu to stand aside during the Battle of Yiyang.
In the fifteenth year of King Huiwen of Qin, when Chen Zhen was sent as an envoy to the State of Qi, he persuaded the Chu general Zhaoyang to withdraw his troops.
Diplomacy and war are both continuations of politics, differing only in methods but sharing the same goal.
During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, there were war gods like Bai Qi, the Lord of Wu'an, who charged into battle for the country. On the battlefield of diplomacy, a battlefield without gunpowder, there were strategists who used their wisdom to fight for the interests of the country.
There are hardly any cases of turning hostility into friendship; it's merely the result of strategists racking their brains and exhausting their words.
When discussing strategists, we shouldn't only think of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, because in that era of great strife, they were not the only strategists!
"Ding! A second character with divine attributes has been randomly summoned: Liu Huiniang, the female strategist of the bandit-slaying clan, with an intelligence of 97."
Since its publication, "The Tale of the Bandits" has been met with mixed reviews, mainly because the main characters of "Water Margin"—the 108 heroes of Liangshan—were almost all killed, and the novel also removed the concept of the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends descending to earth.
If it were about breaking down feudal superstitions, that would be one thing (in fact, many people do not agree with classifying mythological plots as feudal superstitions), but then Yu Wanchun turns around and sets his own characters as the incarnation of the thirty-six gods of the Thunder Department, which is a bit of a double standard.
Returning to the content itself, apart from a few characters such as Wang Jin, Li Cheng, and Wen Da, most of the characters in the book are original creations. They are all heroes and good men who bring great disasters to Liangshan. Among them, the ten "Heavenly Generals" can be called Liangshan's nightmare.
The Heavenly Mother of Lightning, Xiu Yuanjun, was born, a deity with a very long name.
Without knowing much about Taoist classics, I can't say for sure whether there really is such a great deity in the Thunder Department. In any case, it seems that Yu Wanchun is quite concerned about this matter, even though he is rather verbose.
Liu Huiniang was extremely beautiful, but she was also frail and sickly, which made her seem delicate and pitiful.
In addition, she is resourceful and wise, known as the "Female Zhuge Liang," and thus truly deserves the title of "more insightful than Bi Gan, and more beautiful than Xi Shi."
Although Liu Huiniang never personally killed a Liangshan leader, she made a great contribution to the suppression of Liangshan. Aside from her martial arts skills, she was exceptionally talented in all other aspects. The book describes her as follows:
He was born with a keen eye, able to discern the smallest details in the dark and identify people within a range of two or three hundred miles when climbing mountains in broad daylight.
From a young age, he was clever and skillful, creating tools that no one could recognize.
In her hands, clocks and wooden oxen and flowing horses were nothing more than ordinary fare.
All books and histories, once read, will never be forgotten.
When she was sixteen, an old nun wanted to take her as her disciple, but her parents refused. Then one day, she disappeared.
They searched everywhere but found no trace of him, and the couple wept bitterly.
Half a year later, she suddenly returned and said that the old nun had led her to a deep mountain cave and taught her all the military strategies, battle formations, Qimen Dunjia, and Taiyi Liuren techniques. She learned them all in half a year and became even smarter from then on. Everyone called her "Female Zhuge Liang".
Military strategy, commanding troops, and mastering ingenious tactics... it seems there's nothing Liu Huiniang can't do. She outwits Wu Yong multiple times in battles of wits, and in military affairs, she repeatedly defeats the Liangshan army with her strategies, ultimately helping the government forces to successfully annihilate the Liangshan forces.
"Ding! A third person with god-level attributes has been randomly summoned: Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu Han, with a leadership stat of 100."
Wow! Gold was dispensed!
Su Ye seemed to see a dazzling golden light suddenly flash out from the summoning interface!
I told you I was the chosen one!
Any god-tier attribute summoning card could summon this sleeping dragon.
A perfect, flawless leader, the kind of talent every monarch dreams of!
He was capable of governing the country, fighting wars, and was extremely loyal. Even though he died young, he was able to entrust his orphaned child to someone else.
With such a prime minister, the monarch could simply resign!
Zhuge Liang's abilities were indeed very strong, which is beyond doubt and should not be smeared. In particular, the phrase "I will devote myself to the cause until my dying breath" is an undeniable testament to his noble character.
He presented Liu Bei with the "Longzhong Plan," suggesting that they occupy Jingzhou and Yizhou and unite with Sun Quan to jointly resist Cao Cao.
Following Zhuge Liang's strategy, Liu Bei successfully occupied Jingzhou and Yizhou, forming a tripartite balance of power.
After Liu Bei's death, he devoted himself to assisting Liu Shan, the later ruler, in governing Shu Han. He worked diligently to improve the state, appointed people based on merit, rewarded and punished them fairly, paid attention to economic development, and properly resolved ethnic conflicts, which earned him the support of the people of all ethnic groups in Shu.
He implemented a land reclamation policy, strengthened military preparedness, and launched five northern expeditions to the Central Plains, but failed to achieve his goal of restoring the Han Dynasty. He was diligent and cautious, personally handling all matters of state, large and small, and was strict in rewarding and punishing officials. He also formed an alliance with Eastern Wu and improved relations with various ethnic groups in the southwest.
Mentioning Zhuge Liang will make anyone who has read Romance of the Three Kingdoms feel excited. He was a god-like figure who knew everything from astronomy to geography. He was not only good at strategizing, but also had a deep and far-sighted mind.
He assisted Liu Bei in conquering a vast territory with only tens of thousands of troops, helping Liu Bei take Jingzhou and pacify Yizhou, thus forming a tripartite balance of power with Cao Wei and Sun Wu, making him arguably the most powerful strategist of his time.
Even after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang never forgot his mission to restore the Han Dynasty. He launched five Northern Expeditions and eventually died of illness in the army at Wuzhangyuan. He devoted himself to the cause until his death at the age of 54. He was posthumously honored as Marquis Zhongwu and is a representative of loyalty and wisdom in traditional Chinese culture.
"Ding! A fourth person with divine attributes has been randomly summoned: the beautiful Qin Liangyu..."