Text: Foolish people talk about dreams: Former Qin Dingguanzhong

A brief story about Chapter 30: The Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Jiangnan region of Bi'an saw the chaos in the north, and Huan Wen, who was in charge of the central government, took advantage of Fu Jian's just occupation of the Guanzhong region and led the army to the northern expedition when his foothold was not stable. And Fu Jianjian was clear of the wilderness, avoiding its edge, and waiting for work, which eventually made the Huan Wen army lack food and grass, and Huan Wen did not want to lose too much of his family's strength, and his idea was broken by the poor students who wanted to vote, Huan Wen took advantage of the counterattack of the former Qin army, Huan Wen retreated, and the former Qin Empire also gained a firm foothold in Guanzhong.

We have said more than once before that the family is born with hypocrisy and selfishness. The Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, led by the clans, was a political speculation by the clans, and it was impossible to achieve military success. Huan Wen's previous Northern Expeditions were like this, basically aiming to win the fame and achievements of his family, and he did nothing that was easy to damage the strength of the family. In fact, as early as in the society at that time, some talented and knowledgeable students of the Hanmen Shu clan had already seen this.

In this story, the words of the poor student who asked to see Huan Wen really spoke about the hypocrisy and selfishness of the family, leaving Huan Wen speechless. Similarly, this poor student saw that everything in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was controlled by the family, and he was from a humble background, so it was impossible for him to do anything in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, let alone realize his political ambitions and life ideals, so he did not follow Huan Wen back to the Jiangnan region. Seeing such an insightful poor student, it makes me think of the ancient society, strategizing, winning a thousand miles of strategists, before we made a summary of the early stage of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, about the historical context of the initial integration period of the great national integration is over, here we see through the Huan Wen mind of the cold students, to talk about some things in our ancient strategists.

Speaking of ancient strategists, there are many people whose names are like thunder, such as Zhang Liang, Fan Zeng, Three Kingdoms period, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Sima Yi of Cao Wei, Zhuge Liang of Shu Han, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Zhang Zhao of Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Liu Ji and Liu Bowen in the early years of the Ming Dynasty and so on. In fact, in feudal society, every period of change of dynasty was a period in which strategists were active. Because of the chaos in the world, the powerful heroes need people to give advice, so the strategists are naturally born. These thunderous names of the strategists are basically all unsuccessful, calculated as a last resort, and assisted their lords to establish immortal achievements, which are highly respected by later generations, and their deeds are even more familiar.

For the ancient strategists, to be able to do the complex is the analysis of all aspects, the thorny problems to solve, this is not any special function, in fact, these strategists have a common hobby is to keep their hands on the book, they through tireless study and hard study, they have their own opinions and judgments on everything, especially the judgment of human nature, it is the key means for them to assist the employer in the future, so when they begin to assist the employer, often by seeing through the human nature of the employer's opponent, Speculate on the other party's next move and plan a response plan that is beneficial to the employer.

But not every strategist can see through human nature, in the business of strategist, there are many people who do not succeed, and the real name can go down in history is nothing more than those people who are familiar to people, even if the strategist can see through human nature and design a perfect plan of action, but whether the employer can adopt it depends on whether the employer is wise and mediocre. When choosing an employer, those strategists who have gone down in history often have to see through the humanity of the employer before choosing whether to assist or not.

For example, during the period of the Chu and Han Dynasty hegemony, Liu Bang's strategist Zhang Liang saw that Liu Bang was a master of success, but on the contrary, Fan Zeng did not have Zhang Liang's vision, and chose a brave and unscrupulous Xiang Yu as his employer. In the end, Fan Zeng died of anger and illness, and Xiang Yu also ended up killing himself by Wujiang.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were countless famous strategists, such as Guo Jia, who predicted that Sun Ce would die at the hands of villains, Lu Su and Zhuge Liang, who saw the three-point situation in the world, and Sima Yi, who eventually replaced the Cao Wei regime, etc., because of the great success of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the stories of these strategists were widely spread and popular.

In the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although the world was in turmoil, this period of history was often reluctant to be mentioned, and the situation in the whole world was complicated. There are many separatist regimes, and each ruler of the separatist regime has his own group of advisers. But the outstanding ability belongs to Shile's strategist Zhang Bin, Fu Jian's strategist Wang Meng, and Tuoba Tao's strategist Cui Hao, because this history is complex and confusing, and the employers of these strategists are all nomadic emperors, resulting in these strategists are far less famous than the strategists of the Three Kingdoms period. But they have also achieved great results.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were often no particularly famous strategists in the feudal dynasties. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that the landlord class of the Shu nationality has completely become the ruling class. Because the initial reason for the emergence of strategists is that many children of the Hanmen Shu clan do not have the opportunity to enter the ruling class to display their talents, in order to make a living, they can only give advice to some powerful nobles, and take the opportunity to realize their political ideals, but in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Shu landlord class became the ruling class, and the scholars became the most effective way to enter the ruling class, and the children of the Hanmen Shu no longer have to make a living by sending people under the fence to give advice to their employers, and then realize their political ambitions. As long as you have a certain amount of talent and knowledge, you can completely pass the imperial examination to complete your political ideals.

Similarly, because the imperial examination has also constrained the minds of the majority of poor students, their horizons have become narrower and narrower, and it is difficult to have the ability to see through everything. However, in the dynasties after the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were also more famous strategists in the early days of each feudal dynasty, but the number was relatively small.

For example, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others in the early days of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty also assisted Li Yuan, and Li Shimin's father and son stood out among the many secession regimes at the end of the Sui Dynasty and replaced the Sui Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty, which flourished for a time, was established.

In the early days of the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Pu, who ruled the world in half of the Analects, also directed the Chen Qiao Mutiny and added the yellow robe to his employer Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Pu made outstanding contributions to the stability of the Northern Song Dynasty in the early years and the Northern Song Dynasty's ability to unify the world and end the turbulent times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

When Kublai Khan seized the throne of the Great Khan and established the Yuan Dynasty, he was also assisted by the Han strategist Liu Bingzhong and the Khitan Yelu Chucai. However, because Liu Bingzhong was born in the Han people, but assisted the nomads to enter the Central Plains, he was not highly praised by later generations, so their reputation did not reach the point where people are familiar with it.

The person who helped ask for food was called Huazi Zhu Yuanzhang, drove away the Mongols, and Liu Ji, who established the Ming Dynasty, can be regarded as famous, because Liu Kievzuo Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Tatars and restored China, and his reputation is not inferior to Zhuge Liang, who is famous in the universe. The legends and stories about Liu Ji can be said to be endless.

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Fan Wencheng, the Han strategist who assisted the Manchu Qing aliens to dominate the Central Plains, was also far inferior in prestige to many famous strategists in China's history, and Fan Wencheng's situation was very similar to that of Liu Bingzhong, who assisted Kublai Khan.

In the midst of these famous strategists, when they assisted their employers in building their eternal achievements, they also built their own political blueprints. They have one thing in common, no matter what the background and status of these strategists are, they have been constantly learning from beginning to end, constantly absorbing and summarizing the lessons of people in previous lives, and finally completing their ideals.

After talking about the famous strategists of all dynasties, I want to say that in our real work and life, we should also take these unrelenting strategists as an example in our hearts, constantly improve ourselves in learning, and at the same time look at historical stories, we should also deeply explore the reasons for the formation of history and the advantages and disadvantages of the personality of historical figures, compare ourselves, and check and fill in the gaps, which is the essence of our modern people's reading of history.

In history, the ancestors of our Han nation have attached great importance to the development of humanities for thousands of years, in fact, they are committed to the study of human nature, especially from the history books of all dynasties, we can see that most of these history books are chronicle history books, passed down to modern times, and the 24 histories are the most famous. In these biographical history books, the people of later generations analyzed the personalities of the historical figures of the previous dynasties very incisively, so that the people of later generations could understand the truth of the rise and fall of gains and losses. Even today's people still study history books with the attitude that reading history means reading people's hearts, but in fact, I personally believe that reading people's hearts is important, and when we read history, we should also analyze the trend and trend of the general trend of the world, which is actually as important as reading people's hearts.

And it is precisely because the history books are mainly in the style of chronicles, in fact, we have no way to explore the truth of many specific things in history, people are pondering people's hearts, and no one restores historical facts, which makes many historical unsolved cases completely become a dead knot. The chronicles that can solve many historical puzzles have survived to this day, except for Zuo Chuan and Zizhi Tongjian, there are basically no too famous works, and Zuo Chuan was written earlier, and Zizhi Tongjian was written too late, which led to the history from Qin and Han dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the connection between many historical events is relatively vague, and it is difficult for modern people to get a glimpse of it.