Sun Bin and Pang Juan are classmates. They study the art of war together. Pang Juan later served as a general when Wei was an official, but he thought his talent was not as good as that of Sun Bin, so he secretly sent someone to invite Sun Bin to Wei to spy on him.
When Sun Bin arrived in Wei, Pang Juan was jealous of his talent, so he fabricated charges, sentenced Sun Bin to flogging, gouging out Sun Bin's knees and tattooing his face, trying to bury him in the world. Later, Sun Bin assisted Tian Ji, the general of Qi State, to defeat Pang Juan twice, and won the battle of Guiling and the battle of Maling, thus establishing the hegemony of Qi State.
2. Han Xin:
Han Xin lost his parents when he was very young. He earns his living mainly by fishing. I am often given alms by an old woman who washes silk cotton, and I have been discriminated against and neglected by people around me. On one occasion, a group of hooligans humiliated Han Xin in public.
A butcher said to Han Xin: Although you are tall and big and like to carry a sword with you, you are actually very timid. If you dare to stab me with a knife, if you dare not, go under my crotch. Han Xin knew that he was alone, and recklessly would certainly suffer. So, in front of many onlookers, I got the butcher's crotch. History books call it "the humiliation of the crotch."
At the end of the Qin dynasty, farmers revolted all over the country. Han Xin first joined the army under Xiang Yu, but he has never been reused. He threw himself into Liu Bang's command in a fit of pique, but he was still not reused. He left angrily again, so he staged a historical allusion of "Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon". Xiao He tried to recommend Han Xin talents to Liu Bang, and he was made a general.
3. Fan Ju:
Wei Guogong's son is very eloquent and wants to be an official in Wang Wei, but because of his poor family and no access, he has to be a guest in Jia's family as a Chinese medicine practitioner. On one occasion, he was sent to Qi State and was suspected of betraying Wei State. After returning to China, he was almost whipped to death by the Prime Minister of Wei State. With the help of Zheng Anping, he changed his name to Zhang Lu and sneaked into Qin with Ji Wang, the envoy of Qin.
After meeting with Fan Ju, he put forward the strategy of dislodging relations and attacking Qi, and attacked the practice of crossing the Southern Wei Dynasty. He advocated that Han and Wei should be the main targets of Qin's annexation, while maintaining good relations with Qi. Fan Sui was worshipped as a guest. Later, he reminded Zhao Haoqi that the kingship of Qin was too weak and needed to be strengthened.
Before 266, Zhao Haoqi of Qin dynasty deposed the Empress Dowager, and drove four domestic big noble out of Hangu Pass, worshiping Fan Ju as his relative.
4. Sima Yi:
Sima Yi was smart and knowledgeable since childhood, and he fell in love with Confucianism. Because of Cao Cao's family background, Sima Yi once refused the official position granted by Cao Cao. But in the 13th year of Jian 'an (208), after Cao Cao became prime minister, Sima Yi was forced to be a civil servant. Because Sima Yi once supported Cao Cao as emperor, he gradually gained the trust of Cao Cao.
Later, after the fall of Cao Shuang, Sima Yi weakened the imperial clan of Cao Wei by exterminating the grass or imprisoning it, which laid a solid foundation for his descendants to usurp Wei Jinkai in the future.
5. Sima Qian:
Sima Qian (former145-no textual research) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete the historical records he wrote, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by the later Buddha.
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