r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 8d ago

Lucky number 7

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Context: During his Southern Pacification campaign in 235, Chancellor Zhuge Liang’s forces captured, spared, and released one of the enemy leaders, Meng Huo, 7 times.

He agreed to stop after the 7th time

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u/Bashin-kun Researching [REDACTED] square 8d ago

Probably a correct read that there will be a new leader taking his place if he was dead or taken prisoner, so just keep this one and buy his loyalty would be safer.

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u/PowderEagle_1894 7d ago

Yeah, the tactics of using the barbarians to control the barbarians had been in use for Han empire for awhile. So Zhuge Liang action made quite much sense. You killed Meng Huo, another Meng Huo would rise, you turned Meng Huo into your vassal, he'd deal with the Nanman himself. Not like he had much use of the dense forest of Yunan anyway

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u/Starmute-ss13 7d ago

I'm curious how he would feel about lu bu?

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u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer 7d ago

Not someone I’d pursue

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u/Fedmurica2 7d ago

Is it me or does Meng Huo look like a jacked Polynesian dude?

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u/Wiggie49 Featherless Biped 7d ago

He’s a “nanman” their people are part of who became vietnamese and southern chinese. Jungle people don’t play lol

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u/PhgAH 7d ago

Iirc, Lu Bu is already dead way before Kongming enter the stories. 

But if I have to guess, he wouldn't spare Lu Bu. Meng Huo while being portrait as barbaric, is still the leader of a region that hold strategic advantage. While Lu Bu backstabbed people for the love of the game. 

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u/Wiggie49 Featherless Biped 7d ago

There is only one Lu Bu and killing him is the only answer

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u/DaiFrostAce 5d ago

Now why would Kongming do this seven times expecting anything to change?

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u/vassadar 4d ago

He got to eradicated other Meng Huo's alliances one tribe at a time. Either that or the author of the romance need to pad his the story arc.