It's Not a Good Job to Be a Military Advisor

"The Job of a Military Advisor Is Not Easy" uses humorous and sharp writing to dismantle the life ups and downs of 35 top military advisors in Chinese history, breaking the world's beautiful fantasy of military advisors "strategizing and achieving success". The book begins with Yi Yin, a kitchen slave who counterattacked, and Jiang Ziya, who came out of the army at the age of 72, and connects with legendary counselors such as Guan Zhong, Sun Wu, Fan Li, Sun Bin, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Zhuge Liang, and Xun Yu, detailing their complete lives from dormancy, emergence, achievements, and ending. The book not only describes their most glorious moments in the world with their ingenuity - Guan Zhong dominated with economic warfare, Sun Wu used military skills to train female soldiers, Sun Bin besieged Wei to save Zhao for revenge, Zhuge Lianglong won the three points, but also revealed the cruel truth of the military advisor's profession: those who have great achievements are like Wen Zhong, Liu Bowen cannot escape tragic death, those who are upright like Fan Zeng and die with hatred, and those who work hard like Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan. The author restores history with popular stories, reveals the survival rules that military advisors need to understand strategies, understand people's hearts, and be good at self-preservation, and explains the dangers in the workplace of "one miscalculation and the whole game is lost". The whole book is both interesting and historical, allowing readers to see clearly that no one can shake the fan of the Chinese military account, and that the life of a top counselor is the ultimate game of wisdom and destiny.