Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Strategist, Diplomat, and General

Sheng 晟

Attested AD 581 - AD 584

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Sheng was a Strategist, Diplomat, and General.

IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Sui

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  • Assessment deeply knowledgeable of Türk terrain and divisions; strategy entirely adopted · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 51, passages 85, 98

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Book of Sui, Chapter 51Volume 51 Biographies 16: Zhang Sunlan · 10 passages
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晟先知攝圖、玷厥、阿波、突利等叔侄兄弟各統強兵，俱號可汗，分居四面，內懷猜忌，外示和同，難以力征，易可離間，因上書曰：「臣聞喪亂之極，必致升平，是故上天啟其機，聖人成其務。 Sheng had long known that Shetu, Dianjue, Abo, Tuli, and other kinsmen each commanded powerful forces, all called themselves qaghan, and held separate domains on four sides; inwardly suspicious yet outwardly cordial, they could not easily be crushed by force but could readily be divided; he therefore memorialized, "I have heard that the depth of disorder must give way to great peace, and that Heaven opens the moment for the sage to complete the work.