Chief strategist of 刘邦, founder of the Han dynasty, who praised him with the words now the idiom 运筹帷幄, planning in a tent to win battles far away. Earlier he tried to kill the First Emperor of Qin.
Zhāng Liáng shì Liú Bāng zuì zhòngyào de móushì zhīyī.
Zhang Liang was one of Liu Bang's most important strategists.
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An old man, later called 黄石公, dropped his shoe off a bridge on purpose, made him fetch it and put it on his foot, then said 孺子可教 'the lad can be taught', now an idiom of praise. Only after three meetings at dawn did he hand over a book of strategy.
culture
He lives on in the saying 你有张良计，我有过墙梯, 'you have Zhang Liang's schemes, I have a ladder over the wall': whatever clever plan the other side makes, you have a way around it.
