A phoenix and a dragon, the general Shu Road. It was only halfway to the east of the slope when the phoenix died. The wind sends the rain, and the rain follows the wind. When the Longxing Han Dynasty was passed, there was only a dragon when the Shu road was passed.Anyone who has watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms should know that there is such a sentence: Wolong and phoenix chicks, you have to settle the world.
Wolong refers to the famous Zhuge Liang, and Feng Xiao is his good friend Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan.
Later generations tend to compare these two people. However, if we examine their actual achievements, we will find that Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are completely different.
Compared with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong's performance is a little pitiful.
Is that because Pang Tong is not worthy of his name, or is there some other reason?
Many people know that the famous Sangu Thatched House incident in the history of the Three Kingdoms. The Ming monarch longed for the great talent and the corporal Lixian, and the virtuous minister was moved by the sincerity of the monarch, bowed to the best of his ability, and died. It's a good story of the king's and ministers' encounters.
But in fact, behind the fig leaf of this warm vein, it is all cold interest calculations.
Zhuge Liang's departure from the mountain was actually an investment by the big families in Jingzhou at that time to Liu Bei.
Because Cao Cao, Liu Bei's sworn enemy at that time, made a little unreasonable in the Central Plains and killed Kong Rong, a descendant of Confucius and a well-known figure in the family. This incident caused the world's big families to be quite dissatisfied with Cao Cao.
When Liu Biao was still alive, the big family in Jingzhou was eager to eat pot pulp to welcome the king, and persuaded Liu Biao to join Cao Cao three or four times.
But after this incident, their attitude towards Cao Cao took a 180-degree turn.
Liu Bei, who claims to be every time he rebels against him, can be done, finally ushered in the first outlet of his life at this time.
The big families in Jingzhou began to gradually invest in Liu Bei to see if he had the ability to confront Cao Cao.
This investment is made in three steps.
The first person to go to Liu Bei was Xu Shu, a graduate of Lumen Mountain College.
This person is from a poor family, and he is burdened with murder**, so he is regarded by Lumen Mountain Academy as the stone that throws stones to ask for directions. Even if you make a mistake, the price is acceptable.
When Xu Shu finished interviewing Liu Bei, he introduced his friend Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang is a big family and a descendant of the Langya Zhuge family. But this family was a migrant settlement in Jingzhou during the war. Identity? It is one level higher than the children of the Han family, and one head lower than the local family.
After Zhuge Liang gained a firm foothold in Liu Bei's group, it was the turn of the Fengxiao Pang Tong of the Jingzhou family.
The role of the first two is actually to explore his way.
Their role is to ensure that Pang Tong's bet can be secured.
It's really more popular than people.
However, there must be a disadvantage to everything. It's like a company, when he started out, a ** was only worth one yuan. When his performance is a little successful, his *** will become ten yuan.
Those who bought ** first will naturally make a lot of money, and their status in the group will rise.
If the latecomer wants **, then he has to pay more for ten yuan**.
Pang Tong is such a person. Although the experience of Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang has verified for him that Liu Bei Group is a company with potential. But when he came to Liu Bei Group, the shares had been almost divided, and he had nothing to do.
As the saying goes, one point of risk and one point of return, since you are bent on stability, you have to accept this result.
However, who is Feng Xiao Pang Tong? Before he reached the age of the crown, he was considered by Mr. Shuijing Sima Hui to be the crown of talent in Nanzhou.
That is, he was the most knowledgeable man in the South.
This has been certified by authoritative experts, compared to Zhuge Liang's self-comparison with Guan Zhong and Le Yi, it is too much. So how could he be willing to succumb to Zhuge Liang? It is precisely because of this psychology that he laid the bane for his later ending.
In 212 AD, Liu Bei was invited by Liu Zhang, the leader of Sichuan at the time, to enter the Hanzhong region to help him resist Zhang Lu.
In the talent team that entered the Sichuan operation this time, Liu Bei made a very interesting arrangement.
Whether it is Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, or joining shareholders like Zhuge Liang, he didn't bring any this time.
Who are the people he is carrying? For example, the generals Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, who had just defected to Liu Bei's group, and Pang Tong, who had just entered Liu Bei's group for two days.
This kind of talent allocation obviously has the consideration of balancing the power of the group and promoting new people.
This is also a good opportunity for Pang Tong to show his talents.
But it was in the face of this opportunity that Pang Tong did not resist **, and something happened.
The occupation of Sichuan was the second expansion of Liu Bei's group. Zhuge Liang can have today's achievements, isn't it because he helped Liu Bei capture half of Jingzhou in the first round of IPO financing? But if Pang Tong helped Liu Bei seize Sichuan, would I still be under him?
It is precisely based on this psychology that Pang Tong was very aggressive in his strategy of seizing Sichuan.
When he first entered Sichuan, Liu Zhang, the leader of Sichuan, personally came to greet Liu Bei.
At that time, Pang Tong gave Liu Bei a plan, asking him to set up a Hongmen banquet and take Liu Zhang down directly, and Sichuan would be at his fingertips.
The probability of success of this plan is low, and there are too many uncontrollable variables.
First of all, if Liu Zhang can't be taken, the two sides will turn against each other, and Liu Bei's group will add an enemy out of thin air.
Moreover, Liu Bei's good reputation that he has operated all his life will be completely lost.
Even if Liu Zhang is taken by luck, it will not be able to stabilize the situation in Sichuan at all.
If you are those local snakes in Sichuan, who would be willing to follow Liu Bei, an unscrupulous leader? Maybe he will use this method against himself one day.
Liu Bei also understood that this strategy was too risky, so he flatly refused.
Later, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang turned against each other, and Pang Tong put forward three suggestions to Liu Bei.
The best strategy, choose a light army to attack Chengdu, capture the thief and capture the king, this strategy is too rash.
At that time, Liu Bei was in Mianyang, the northernmost part of Sichuan, and there was still a long way to go from Chengdu.
Once the news of this army is exposed on the march, then Chengdu will be on guard, and with the high walls of Chengdu and the abundance of food in the city, they can only wait for death.
Zhongce killed Yang Huai and Gao Pei, the two generals sent by Liu Zhang to guard Liu Bei, and then captured Fucheng, which they were guarding, and drove all the way to Chengdu.
Compared with the first one, this strategy is only less presumptuous, and it is still a risky strategy.
Because of the frontal advance of Chengdu, it is necessary to attack the city one by one, and Liu Bei has no rear, once there is a situation under the garrison, then Liu Bei's group will be finished.
The next strategy is to retreat to the White Emperor City, hold the Yiling passage, and wait for the Jingzhou army to come to help.
In fact, this is the safest strategy, and later Liu Bei chose the middle strategy, and sure enough, he couldn't attack a place called Los Angeles for a long time.
Pang Tong, who came up with the idea, was also completely anxious, and personally led his troops to attack the city and plunder the land, and was finally killed by random arrows.
Don't be too aggressive.