Fu Zhu was a strategist buried by everyone in the Three Kingdoms era, and he was also the most tragic strategist in that era and even in the entire history of China, not even one of them.

[Eight Schemes and Eight Nos]

According to the available records, after proposing the "Jizhou pair", Fu Zhu put forward a total of eight suggestions to Yuan Shao, all of which were later proved to be completely correct, but Yuan Shao did not take any of them.

The earliest time was in the second year of Xingping (195), when Emperor Xian was in exile in Hedong, and Yuan Shao took the opportunity to propose that Yuan Shao welcome the Son of Heaven in advance, but Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong, and gave up this great opportunity. Yuan Shao didn't listen to the frustration in the end.

And the result? After Cao Cao made up his mind to welcome the Son of Heaven, he went to Luoyang, and it only took about ten days to move Emperor Xian to Xuchang. Then Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes, using the righteousness of the Son of Heaven to suppress Yuan Shao, and made Yuan Shao angry half to death.

The second time was when Yuan Shao was ready to send his eldest son Yuan Tan to Qingzhou, and he also passed him on to his dead eldest brother Yuan Ji, so that the third son Yuan Shang stayed by his side, but he did not clarify his heir. Seeing the risks of doing so, he hoped that Yuan Shao would clarify his heir in order to interrupt the delusions of the other sons.

Yuan Shao did not listen to Fu Zhu's proposal, but instead prepared to send his other sons and juniors to each lead a state, and Fu Zhu directly told Yuan Shao that if he did this, the trouble would happen from this incident, in order to imply that it might lead to a split within Yuan Shao's group, and the sons would fight for power and profit on one side. But Yuan Shao didn't listen.

As a result, after Yuan Shao's death, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang each divided one side and fought hard, giving Cao Cao an opportunity to take advantage of, and finally they were eliminated one by one, and a piece of the foundation laid by Yuan Shao was also handed over.

The third time was after Yuan Shao eliminated Gongsun Zhan, and began to prepare for the crusade against Cao Cao. On the other hand, he used the cavalry advantage in the north to constantly harass Cao Cao's territory, gradually weakening Cao Cao's strength, and concentrating on defeating him. Moreover, he also emphasized that Cao Cao had great righteousness and should pay more attention.

But Yuan Shao just didn't listen to the frustrated power, he listened to Guo Tu, and then at Guo Tu's suggestion, he reduced the frustrated power and distributed part of the frustrated power to Guo Tu. Then Yuan Shao was almost no longer in Guandu.

The fourth time was that Yuan Shao was preparing to send Yan Liang to lead an army to crusade against Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun, and after knowing about it, he advised Yuan Shao not to let Yan Liang take charge alone, thinking that Yan Liang was brave and impatient, and Yuan Shao would listen. As a result, in the Battle of the White Horse, Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang among the ten thousand troops, and Yuan Shao lost one of his generals in vain.

The fifth time was that Yuan Shao was ready to personally lead a large army south to crusade against Cao Cao after Yan Liang's defeat, and advised Yuan Shao to leave a good way back, and it was best to divide his troops to the south to gain a firm foothold, and then the army went south, which was safer.

Yuan Shao didn't listen, and as a result, Yuan Shao himself ran away with 800 cavalry, and the remaining tens of thousands of troops were killed and buried alive by Cao Cao.

The sixth time was that Yuan Shao thought that Yuan Shao would fail, and he might lose his life if he went south with Yuan Shao, so he refused to go south on the grounds of illness, but Yuan Shao did not agree, and forcibly took Fu Zhu across the river, while continuing to reduce the power of Fu Zhu and hand over the troops under Fu Shao's supervision to Guo Tu. And after crossing the river, he really didn't come back alive.

The seventh time was that after Wen Chou was also killed by Cao's army, Cao Cao withdrew his troops and returned to Guandu, and proposed that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fight a protracted war, believing that a protracted war would be beneficial to Yuan Shao, and a quick decisive battle would be beneficial to Cao Cao.

Then Yuan Shao still didn't listen, led the army directly to Guandu and Cao Cao to fight to the death, Cao Cao said that he wanted to preemptively defeat Yuan Shao, and only began to defend after failing to succeed, but Yuan Shao was also unable to attack for a long time, but consumed a lot of strength and energy of Cao's army in the continuous tug-of-war, which made Cao Cao a little unbearable, proving Cao Cao's hope for a quick victory, and a protracted war was not conducive to it.

But at the same time, Yuan Shao also suffered heavy losses, and his morale and military spirit slowly reached a critical point.

The eighth time was when Chun Yuqiong was escorting grain and grass supplies, and Fu Zhu thought that Cao Cao was likely to take the opportunity to attack grain and grass again, so he asked Yuan Shao to send Jiang Qi to lead an army to patrol the perimeter of the grain transport team just in case.

But in the end, Yuan Shao still didn't listen, and as a result, Cao Cao, at the suggestion of the traitor Xu You, really attacked Chun Yuqiong, and caught Chun Yuqiong off guard and finally succeeded, Yuan Shao's army lost a large amount of grain and grass, and began to collapse thousands of miles since then.

In addition to putting forward the above eight suggestions and the "Jizhou pair", he also worked with Geng Wu, Min Chun, Li Li and others to dissuade Han Fu from letting Jizhou, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful.

[Absolute tragedy]

Historically, Fu Zhi has a very high status in the Yuan Shao Group, responsible for supervising all the troops under Yuan Shao's command, and can be said to be the second person in the Yuan Shao Group, but it is such a position that Fu Zhu obviously has a great talent, but in the end it was not brought into play, and it could not be used by the monarch Yuan Shao.

It's not that Yuan Shao doesn't know the talent of the frustrated professor, otherwise he wouldn't let the frustrated professor be in a high position, but Yuan Shao is too stingy, because the frustrated professor and his own opinions disagree, he gradually rejected the frustrated professor, and then he couldn't listen to what the frustrated professor said. In order to repay Yuan Shao's kindness, he never gave up on him, and finally ended in tragedy.

As a central figure in a group, there is nothing more tragic than having great talent but not being able to come in handy.

After proposing "Jizhou Pair", he was reused by Yuan Shao because he wanted to agree with him, but he didn't expect that Yuan Shao did not take any of the eight suggestions he put forward subsequently, although he did not appear as a strategist in Yuan Shao's group, he did a lot of strategists.

From the point of view of a strategist, is there anything more tragic than having made the right proposal and not being adopted, and what is more tragic than a strategist who has made all the right proposals and none of them have been adopted?

As a wise man, Fu Zhu knew that he should not go south to fight Cao Cao, and he also knew that Yan Liang should not be sent, and he knew that Cao Cao would attack Chun Yuqiong, Fu Zhu worked hard, but in the end nothing could change, everything still happened, is there anything more tragic than this?

He knew what was going to happen, but he could only watch it happen, he couldn't control his own destiny, and was eventually swallowed up by the tide of fate.