The Han Dynasty’s Strategist: Bringing Peace to All Generations!

"Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace to all generations!"

Lou Jing: "True strategy means making sure those who come after us no longer need to strategize! Strategy is about trading space for time, turning 'unstable factors' into 'forces for construction'!"

Jia Yi: "True strategy begins with a clear-eyed understanding of imbalance and succeeds through careful work on the whole picture. True strategists are farmers of time!"

Chao Cuo: "Reform is not only a contest of courage, but also the calculus of wisdom!"

Gongsun Hong: "Reform does not have to shake the heavens and earth. Steady institution-building is the path to lasting peace!"

Sang Hongyang: "War is not only a contest of military strength, but also a struggle over money and provisions!"

Zhu Fuyan: "Improving institutions is the gentlest form of reform!"

Wei Xiang: "True strategic resolve means letting ancient trigrams shine with the undying light of balance amid the storms of a new age."

Zhao Chongguo: "The finest victory is one in which the enemy walks into defeat on the chessboard of strategy. True strength does not lie in conquest, but in making your opponent lay down his bow and arrows when he sees you tilling the land."

Shi Dan: "True strategy is never armchair talk. It is about carving ideals, or rites, into the land, or law, so truth can take root over time."

Ban Zhao: "Cultivate both talent and virtue, live by your conscience, and advance by yielding. This is the code left to all women."

"Emperor Gaozu rose from humble beginnings and pacified the realm. He exhausted every stratagem and every use of military force. Yet Liu Jing, Jia Yi, Chao Cuo, and the others stepped forward with their proposals and secured peace for generations to come. How could wisdom belong to him alone?"