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Book Sharing: These Strategists Are Unusual

title: [Book Sharing] These Strategists Are Not Normal
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date: 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC
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Author: Night View of the Ceiling
Publisher: Kobau
Publication Date: 2019/06/12
Language: Traditional Chinese


#### Book Recommendation Website: [http://moo.im/a/789CHP](http://moo.im/a/789CHP)

## Preface:

This is the first book I finished reading this year. This is a very interesting book that explains many interesting strategists in history through a writing style similar to PTT netizens. And in the middle, there are also many well-known poems interspersed, making it very enjoyable to read.

For example:

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Dao Yan: "Your Highness, don't be afraid, this monk is harmless to humans and animals. How about I introduce you to a few little partners who are proficient in the art of Qimen?"
Zhu Di: "Give this king a dozen!"
System prompt: Astrologer Yuan Gong, Diviner Jin Zhong join the Yan Wangfu, congratulations to Zhu Di for obtaining senior con artist teammates × 2.


There are many interesting tones to make reading easy and comfortable.

In fact, there seems to be another one in the same series, "[These Emperors Have Problems](http://moo.im/a/frFJMN)", which is what I will read next.

## Content Summary and Thoughts:

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Emperors have problems, strategists are not normal, and the country will perish immediately.
The perfect new way to read history, sparked by a combination of imaginative thinking and rigorous textual research!

Introducing fourteen quirky strategists from the Imperial, Buddhist, and Legal schools,
A relaxed and humorous tone combined with rigorous research takes you to see history from another perspective.




### Chapter List

#### Volume 1: Imperial School Strategists: No, no way, I'm in charge

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Chapter 1: The Extremely Volatile and Explosive Paranoiac - Wang Anshi

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Chapter 2: The Two Worlds of Split Personality - Zhang Juzheng

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Chapter 3: The Perfectionist Who Makes People Fear - Zhuge Liang

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Chapter 4: The First Person to Swear the Chinese FLAG - Cao Cao

#### Volume 2: Buddhist School Strategists: Okay, anything, whatever you want

- Chapter 1: The Birth of the Drama Queen Wallflower Syndrome - Cai Jing
- Chapter 2: Thriving in the Delusions of Cultivation - Li Bi
- Chapter 3: Buddhist Health, Learn About It - Sima Yi
- Chapter 4: Avoiding is shameful but useful - Su Weidao
- Chapter 5: Don't say it, I have a fear of wives - Fang Xuanling

#### Volume 3: Legal School Strategists: Shut up, be quiet, don't talk too much

- Chapter 1: Walking the Jianghu, Relying on a Mouth - Su Qin
- Chapter 2: The First Case of the Birth of the Virus of Dui Ren Syndrome - Wei Zheng
- Chapter 3: Amazing, My Hypermnesia - Liu Bowen
- Chapter 4: The Suffocating Honesty Syndrome - Yan Shu
- Chapter 5: True. Buddhist Schizophrenia Chaos History - Yao Guangxiao

At the beginning, it mentions a few more assertive strategists (Cao Cao was originally a strategist?), but many people are actually also very accomplished in literature. Whether it's Wang Anshi's poems or Zhuge Liang's "Memorial on the Northern Expedition," they are also mentioned in this stage. Later, many strategists from different schools also mentioned many of their life stories, allowing readers to clearly understand the lives of these strategists. Because of the relationship of "accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger," the political careers of these strategists also fluctuated. Many times they spoke out loudly, but they were also demoted to local officials. These interesting stories will also be mentioned in this book.

## Thoughts:

This book is quite stress-relieving because the overall tone is to use the tone of PTT netizens to help you interpret the content of many historical books. The whole thing is quite relaxed, but the author will also attach the original text, allowing readers to compare the original text with the author's netizen tone, and they will be even more impressed by the author's meticulousness. Through these interesting tones, the readability of the whole book is enhanced.

Because I often read related poems when I was a child (to play video games, I had to first learn a Tang Dynasty poem), many of the words have also become more interesting under the author's reinterpretation. I recommend that everyone can use this book as a light read.
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