Zhang Zhao, the word Zibu. A native of Pengcheng, Xuzhou. He himself was Sun Ce's military advisor, Sun Ce entrusted Sun Quan to him before his death, and later Zhang Zhao assisted Sun Quan, who was very influential at that time and was one of the core ministers of Jiangdong.

[Follow Sun Ce and assist Sun Quan]

Zhang Zhao is a native of Xuzhou, and earlier Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian recruited Zhang Zhao, but Zhang Zhao did not accept it, was imprisoned, and was later rescued by his friend Zhao Yu before being released, but after Tao Qian's death, Zhang Zhao wrote a eulogy for him instead. During the chaos in Xuzhou, Zhang Zhao went south to Yangzhou and surrendered to Sun Ce. Sun Ce trusted Zhang Zhao very much, regarded him as a long history and a lieutenant general of the Fu army, handed over all his big and small things to Zhang Zhao to deal with, and also visited his mother with him, and later said that Zhang Zhao was his own Guan Zhong. In history, Zhang Zhao once recommended Lü Meng to take over the position of his brother-in-law Deng Dang, and also helped Sun Ce persuade Wang Lang to surrender, but unfortunately this time it was not successful.

Although Zhang Zhao was not a supporter of Sun Quan before Sun Ce's death, Sun Ce still entrusted Sun Quan to him, just as Liu Bei entrusted Gu to Zhuge Liang later, giving Zhang Zhao the power to take it for himself. After Sun Quan came to power, Zhang Zhao did his best, assisted him, personally helped Sun Quan to get on the horse, and helped Sun Quan establish his prestige.

At the beginning of Sun Quan's rise to power, the situation was not very stable, and Sun Fu, who was of the same clan, secretly connected with Cao Cao, and was deposed by Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao.

According to the "Book of Wu", it is a time when the world is divided, and there are many people who do not take orders. Sun Ce's affairs are getting shallow day by day, and the grace has not been negotiated, once it falls, the people are embarrassed, and there are quite similarities and differences. and Zhao auxiliary power, appease the people, and the princes and guests can use their own peace. Every time the right goes out, he stays in Zhao and guards the shogunate. After the yellow turban thief rose, Zhao sought peace. The right to conquer Hefei, ordered Zhao not to ask Kuang Qi, and supervised the generals, and broke through the Yuzhang thief Zhou Feng is equal to the southern city. Since then, he has been a general, often on the left and right, and has been a minister. The right to show the old ministers, especially the treatment.

Zhang Zhao also dared to expose Sun Quan's shortcomings, in history Sun Quan and his own brother Sun Ce loved hunting, Sun Quan every time he hunted, often riding a horse to shoot tigers, and the tiger once pounced on the saddle he was sitting on. Zhang Zhao's expression changed drastically, and he stepped forward and said to Sun Quan: "General, why do you need to do this. To be a monarch is to be able to control heroes and drive the sages, but to chase in the wilderness and compete with fierce beasts! What if there is a bad guy who is made fun of by the world? Sun Quan apologized to Zhang Zhao: "I am young and do not think about the problem far-reaching, and I am ashamed of you in this matter." ”

However, Sun Quan did not give up his habit of hunting, so he made a tiger shooting car, the car has a square hole, and there is no plate cover on the hole, and one person drives it for him, so as to ensure safety. From then on, Sun Quan himself sat in the car and shot out from the square hole. There were often wild beasts that broke away from the pack and stormed his cars at every turn, but Sun Quan often took pleasure in striking wild beasts with his hands. Although Zhang Zhao tried his best to advise, he often smiled.

Later, Sun Quan once drank and got drunk in Diaoyutai when he was in Wuchang, and asked people to sprinkle water on the ministers and said: "Today's drinking can only be stopped if you fall into the water after getting drunk." Zhang Zhao was silent and went out to sit in the car. Sun Quan sent someone to call Zhang Zhao back and said to him: "Everyone is happy together, why should you be angry? Zhang Zhao replied: "In the past, the king of Xuan made a one-night banquet in the wine pond of the bad hill, and at that time he thought that he was just happy, and he didn't think there was anything wrong. Sun Quan was silently ashamed, so he stopped drinking.

Although Zhang Zhao is upright, he doesn't like newcomers, including Lu Su, Gan Ning, etc., the new civil and military forces in Jiangdong have been criticized by Zhang Zhao, and he has also won over Zhuge Liang, hoping that he will work for Sun Quan, but unfortunately he was rejected again.

[Huge impact]

Zhang Zhao can be said to be very famous at that time, and the arrogant You Heng also recognized Zhang Zhao's talent very much, and once said to Liu Biao: "If you want to make Sun Ce's account read the evil, will Zhang Zibu see it?" ”

During the confrontation between Cao Cao and Sun Quan Huainan, Cao Cao's writer Ruan Yu wrote in "The Book of Cao Gong and Sun Quan": "If you can take the cloth from the inside and attack Liu Bei from the outside, so as to follow the red heart and use it well, then the responsibility of Jiang Biao will be paid for a long time, and the high position will be considerable." ”

Before the Battle of Yiling, in order to paralyze Cao Pi, Sun Quan mentioned that he would send Sun Shao and Zhang Zhao to serve with his Sun Sun Deng as hostages. These can be seen Zhang Zhao's status at that time.

In the second year of the reign of Huang of Wei (221), Wei sent an envoy Xing Zhen to appoint Sun Quan as the king of Wu. Xing Zhen did not get out of the car after entering the palace gate. After Zhang Zhao found out, he said to Xing Zhen: "There is no such thing as disrespect in etiquette, so the law does not fail to enforce this." And you dare to be arrogant, do you think that the Jiangnan people are outnumbered and weak, and they don't even have a small knife to enforce the law and carry out executions? Xing Zhen hurriedly got out of the car, which also showed Zhang Zhao's prestige.

【Red Cliff Persuasion】

Zhang Zhaozai's hesitation about Cao Cao's question made his persuasion of Sun Quan to surrender a stain in the future. Earlier, Cao Cao asked Sun Quan to proton after Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan asked Zhang Zhao and others, Zhang Zhao was very hesitant and could not decide, but Zhou Yu tried not to proton, and Sun Quan listened.

Before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao went south to occupy Jingzhou, preparing to go down the river to crusade against Jiangdong, Zhang Zhao thought that the Yangtze River had been lost, Jiangdong was no longer able to resist Cao Cao, and there was no righteousness, so he became a representative of the surrender faction, and urged Sun Quan to return to obedience, as a result, Sun Quan later united Liu Bei to fight against Cao Cao under the persuasion of Lu Su, Zhou Yu and others, Zhou Yu broke Cao's army in Chibi, and then conquered Jiangling, Zhang Zhao can be said to be so self-ashamed. After the victory of Chibi, Sun Quan personally led an army to surround Hefei and sent Zhang Zhao to lead an army to attack Dangtu, which belonged to Jiujiang County, but failed to conquer it.

According to the "Jiangbiao Biography", in the first year of Huanglong (229), Sun Quan was proclaimed emperor and a hundred officials of the conference, which was attributed to Zhou Yu. Zhang Zhao raised his glass and wanted to praise the merits, but before he could say anything, Sun Quan said: "If you listen to Zhang Gong, you will have to beg for food by now." Zhang Zhao was very ashamed and fell to the ground sweating.

It can be said that Sun Quan hated and loved Zhang Zhao in history, earlier Zhang Zhao because Sun Ce's third brother Sun Yi was similar to Sun Ce, so he supported him to inherit Sun Ce's position, but did not support Sun Quan, maybe Zhang Zhao may not be optimistic about him because of Sun Quan's defeat in Guangling, but after Sun Ce really entrusted Sun Quan to Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao did not have the slightest second heart for Sun Quan, and tried his best, and these Sun Quan also saw it in his eyes.

But the problem is that Zhang Zhao's prestige is too high, and he doesn't give Sun Quan much face, and Sun Quan can't do anything about him, so when Sun Quan was proclaimed emperor, he took the opportunity to ridicule Zhang Zhao and vent, but Zhang Zhao was very face-saving.

So soon after, Zhang Zhao said that the old abdicated, handed over his subordinates, and was re-worshiped as the general of Auxiliary Wu, whose status was second only to the three dukes (prime minister), and was renamed Lou Hou, and the food was ten thousand households. After his retirement, he wrote annotations for the Zuo Chuan and the Analects.