After Zhang Song left the state pastoral mansion, he still felt depressed in his heart. Although he is full of talent and comes from a famous family, because of his ugly appearance, he has never been reused by Liu Zhang.

If it weren't for his outstanding family background, I'm afraid it would be impossible for Zhang Song to get his current status.

Although Zhang Song is ugly, he is a person whose eyes are above the top, and he can only associate with those who are talented and like-minded.

Zhang Song has many friends, and Fa Zheng is one of them.

Speaking of Fa Zheng, many people may only know that this person is outstanding in talent and resourceful. However, most of the details of his history are not very familiar.

In fact, Fa Zheng has left a record in history, because he himself died too early and there are not too many, but later generations feel that this person is resourceful through other people's attitudes and evaluations towards Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng is a Fufeng people, and he came to Yizhou to escape the war. However, as an outsider, Fa Zheng has never been reused, even though he is talented.

Not only that, but he was also ostracized by many locals, and his heart has been depressed.

In history, after Fa Zheng sent Liu Bei, he was deeply loved by Liu Bei. Later, Zhang Song and Fa Zheng conspired to welcome Liu Bei into Yizhou, and Fa Zheng was even more respected by Liu Bei, and then soared.

Fa Zheng's status under Liu Bei's account is not even inferior to Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

Zhuge Liang is an internal affairs talent, but Fa Zheng's proficiency in internal affairs is not as good as Zhuge Liang. However, Fa Zheng is good at scheming, and in the process of marching and fighting, he is often able to offer unexpected strategies.

It is mentioned in the biography of the first master: Zhuge Liang is the humerus, and Fa Zheng is the mastermind.

It can be seen that for Liu Bei, Fa Zheng is even more important militarily than Zhuge Liang, otherwise he would not be called the mastermind.

Liu Bei also has no doubt about Fazheng's importance, Fazheng is a person who repays kindness and complains.

Later, after Fa Zheng was reused by Liu Bei, the people who had given Fa Zheng small favors in the past were all repaid by him; On the contrary, those who once had old grudges with Fazheng also received revenge from Fazheng.

Fa Zheng's revenge on others can be regarded as a communiqué personal vendetta, and Zhuge Liang is in charge of internal affairs and attaches great importance to the legal system within the country. Rao is like this, Zhuge Liang has no way to deal with Fazheng's illegal actions.

Because he knew that Fazheng was highly valued by Liu Bei, and if he really wanted to investigate Fazheng's responsibility, not only would Fazheng be punished in the end, but he might resent Fazheng because of it.

There are not too many achievements of Fa Zheng in history, one of which is that he helped Liu Bei capture Hanzhong, and used a trick to make Huang Zhong behead Cao Cao's general Xiahou Yuan.

At that time, Liu Bei robbed Liu Zhang's foundation and occupied Yizhou, but Cao Cao subdued Zhang Lu and occupied Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Fa Zheng believed that Cao Cao defeated Hanzhong but did not continue to attack Yizhou, leaving only Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He to garrison Hanzhong, and there must be internal turmoil.

However, Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He's talents were not enough to hold Hanzhong, so they should take this opportunity to immediately send troops to seize Hanzhong.

Fa Zheng thinks: If you take away the land of Hanzhong, you can crusade against the **** and respect the Han family; , can encroach on Yong, Liang two states, open up the border; Next, you can stick to the key points and fight a protracted war.

Liu Bei was moved by Fa Zheng's words, so he led the generals to attack Hanzhong.

Later, Liu Bei crossed the river in the south, camped at the foot of Dingjun Mountain and Xingshi Mountain, and confronted the Xiahou Yuan who led the army. At that time, Xiahou Yuan was stationed in the southern stronghold of Zouma Valley, and Zhang He was stationed in Guangshi, the stronghold of the eastern front.

Fa Zheng adopted the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and asked Liu Bei to divide more than 10,000 elite soldiers into ten teams and take turns to attack Guangshi at night.

In order to resist Liu Jun, Zhang He had to lead his own soldiers to fight. Although Zhang He did not lose his stronghold, he could not withstand Liu Beijun's repeated attacks, so he asked Xiahou Yuan for reinforcements.

Xiahou Yuan was about to allocate half of his elite troops to support Zhang He, but he continued to hold on to the southern front.

Later, Liu Bei sent troops to attack Zouma Valley and set fire to the antlers in front of Cao's position, and Xiahou Yuan personally led 400 soldiers to fight the fire and repair the antlers.

At this time, Fa Zheng saw Xiahou Yuan coming out of the village to fight the fire, and immediately saw the opportunity to propose an all-out attack on Xiahou Yuan. Liu Bei then ordered Huang Zhong to be condescending and raid from the rear with drums.

Xiahou Yuan was caught off guard and was beheaded by Huang Zhong, Cao's army was defeated, and Liu Bei occupied the initiative in the battle of Hanzhong from then on.

It can be said that the Battle of Dingjun Mountain laid the foundation for Liu Bei to occupy the entire Yizhou and divide the world into three parts, and also cast the prestige of Huang Zhong, the general of Shuzhong.

Although there were countless famous generals during the Three Kingdoms period, there were few people who could kill famous generals like Xiahou Yuan. Many people remembered Huang Zhongzhen's beheading of Xiahou Yuan, but not many people knew that this was Fa Zheng's plan.

For Fa Zheng's talent, even Cao Cao was amazed.

Chen Shou's evaluation of Fa Zheng is even more high, and he directly compares Fa Zheng with Guo Jia and Cheng Yu under Cao Cao.

Although Fa Zheng is good at scheming, he has a loss of morality, and he will be retributed. Coincidentally, Cheng Yu is also impatient, gloomy, and likes to grudge with others; Guo Jia doesn't like to be restrained and behaves inappropriately.

Chen Shou juxtaposes these three people, but it is also a very interesting thing.

It's just that Fa Zheng died young, he was only five years older than Zhuge Liang, but he died early.

Fa Zheng's death made Liu Bei very sentimental, crying for several days, and then posthumously named Yihou. This is also the only minister with a nickname in Liu Bei's era.

Later, Guan Yu died in battle, Liu Bei prepared to go east to avenge Sun Quan to avenge Guan Yu, and most of the ministers under his command admonished, but Liu Bei did not listen to all of them. The Shu army was defeated in the Battle of Yiling, and Liu Bei returned to the White Emperor, where he died not long after.

Zhuge Liang sighed at that time: "If the law is still there, it will be able to stop the Lord's crusade to the east; Even if it can't be stopped, if it goes with the crusade, it will definitely not be defeated. ”

Zhuge Liang's words are not low for Fazheng. It can be seen from this that the status of Fa Zheng in Liu Bei's heart is even higher than Zhuge Liang.

In fact, this sentence is not unfounded, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were at war, the battle situation was unfavorable and the first lord was angry and refused to retreat, and no one dared to persuade Liu Bei to retreat.

At that time, it was raining, but Fa Zheng ran directly to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei said: "Filial piety and avoid arrows." ”

Fa Zheng said: "Ming Gong's relatives should be the arrow, but the villain? ”

Liu Bei was afraid that Fa Zheng would lose, so he had to say helplessly: "Filial piety, I will go with you." ”

After Fa Zheng heard that Liu Bei was willing to withdraw his troops, he followed Liu Bei and left. In this way, when others did not dare to advise, Fa Zheng persuaded Liu Bei to change his mind.

This not only shows the status of Fa Zheng in Liu Bei's heart, but also shows Fa Zheng's ability to persuade people.

However, no matter how resourceful Fa Zheng is, he can only be a county magistrate now, and he can't display his talent if he has no talent.