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future, advised Liu Bei against launching the
Hanzhong Campaign. Liu Bei ignored their advice and went ahead anyway. As Zhou Qun predicted, Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao and captured the territories in Hanzhong Commandery but not its people because they had already migrated elsewhere. During the campaign, Liu Bei also ordered Wu Lan (吳蘭) and Lei Tong (雷銅) to lead a detachment of troops from his main army to attack Wudu Commandery (武都郡; around present-day
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s!'" Zhang Yu also cracked a joke to get back at Liu Bei: "Once upon a time, there was a certain
Prefect of Lu County (潞縣) who was later reassigned to Zhuo County. After he retired, someone wanted to write him a letter but didn't know how to address him in a way that reflected the two appointments he
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and asked him to predict the outcome. Zhou Qun told him that he would gain the territories in
Hanzhong Commandery but not its people, and advised him to not send a detachment of his main army to attack the enemy. At the time, Zhang Yu, who was known for being better than Zhou Qun in divining the
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Liu Bei had been holding a grudge against Zhang Yu since the incident in Fu County, so he became angrier when he heard that Zhang Yu was predicting his downfall, and decided to take revenge against Zhang Yu. He accused Zhang Yu of making an inaccurate prediction about the
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287:, Sichuan). During the banquet, Liu Bei saw that Zhang Yu had a thick beard, so he came up with a joke to make fun of Zhang Yu: "When I was in Zhuo County (涿縣), there were many people with the family name
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pleaded with Liu Bei to spare Zhang Yu, Liu Bei said, "When something blocks your doorway, even if it were pretty flowers, you'll have to get rid of it." As Zhang Yu was well-versed in
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334:(茂才; a cultivated talent recommended for a government post), probably to commend him for his earlier advice, but did not do the same for Zhang Yu.
388:. Liu Bei also died on 10 June 223, about nine years after he seized Yi Province from Liu Zhang in June 214; his year of death (223) was also a
464:(露), which means "to expose". So it was to address someone who exposed his mouth. "Gentleman of Lu-Zhuo" (潞涿君) became a Chinese idiom. See the
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will come to an end. Our lord (Liu Bei) may have conquered Yi
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195:Zhang Yu
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324:Longnan
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