Chen Lin
陳琳
Courtesy name: Kongzhang (孔璋)
Source:
Koei Wiki (Fandom)
- Died
- 217
- Ancestral home
- Yeyang, Guangling (Huai'an, Jiangsu)
- Book mentions
- 11
Roles:
advisor
politician
scholar
Appears in 5 chapters:
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Chapter 2
— Zhang Fei Whips The Government Officer; He Jin Plots To Kill The Eunuchs.
Secretary to He Jin who pens the famous remonstrance against summoning outside armies - 'to cover the eyes and snatch at swallows is to fool oneself.' He Jin dismisses him.
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Chapter 3
— In Wenming Garden, Dong Zhuo Denounces Ding Yuan; With Red Hare, Li Su Bribes Lu Bu.
Chen Lin; warns He Jin against entering the Palace of Happiness on the day Zhang Rang's ambush is waiting; ignored, the warning proves correct moments later.
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Chapter 22
— Yuan Shao And Cao Cao Both Take The Field; Guan Yu And Zhang Fei Captures Two Generals.
Chen Lin; pens the famous manifesto against Cao Cao for Yuan Shao - denouncing him as a 'eunuch's offspring' and listing the regime's crimes. The manifesto so cuts that Cao Cao reads it through his fever and laughs that it cured his headache.
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Chapter 32
— Jizhou Taken: Yuan Shang Strives; River Zhang Cut: Xun You Schemes.
Chen Lin; captured among Yuan Shao's senior officers when Yejun falls; Cao Cao spares him for his literary brilliance, makes him court secretary.
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Chapter 56
— Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
One of the four scholars - with Wang Lang, Zhong Yao, and Wang Can - whose laudatory odes at the tower prompt Cao Cao's self-justifying speech.