Yue Yi
樂毅
Source:
wikipedia.com
- Also known as
- Lord of Changguo
- Book mentions
- 13
Roles:
general
Factions:
Yan State (Warring States)
(primary)
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Appears in 10 chapters:
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Chapter 36
— Shan Fu's Strategy: Fankou Is Captured; Xu Shu's Affection: Zhuge Liang Is Recommended.
The Yan general paired with Guan Zhong in Zhuge Liang's self-comparison - both, says Xu Shu, are the Sleeping Dragon's inferiors.
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Chapter 37
— Sima Hui Recommends A Scholar To Liu Bei; Liu Bei Pays Three Visits To The Sleeping Dragon Ridge.
Half of the famous self-comparison the friends could never gauge - 'he always compared himself with Guan Zhong and Yue Yi.'
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Chapter 43
— Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
The statesman under whom feeble Yan took seventy cities of Qi - the second half of Zhang Zhao's challenge to the self-comparison.
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Chapter 57
— Sleeping Dragon Mourns In Chaisang; Young Phoenix Intervenes At Leiyang.
Paired with Guan Zhong in Lu Su's estimate of the Young Phoenix.
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Chapter 79
— Brother Oppressing Brother: Cao Zhi Composes Poems; Nephew Harming Uncle: Liu Feng Receives Punishment.
The memorial's last martyr — destroyer of Qi's might, victim of calumny.
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Chapter 93
— Jiang Wei Goes Over To Zhuge Liang; Zhuge Liang Reviles Wang Lang.
Paired with Guan Zhong in Wang Lang's oration as the comparison Zhuge Liang claims for himself, turned against him as an argument that he of all people should recognise the decree of Heaven.
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Chapter 104
— A Falling Star: The Prime Minister Ascends To Heaven; A Wooden Statue: The Commander-In-Chief Is Terrified.
Alluded to in Yuan Weizhi's elegy, paired with Guan Zhong, as the measure of statecraft Zhuge Liang is said to have exceeded - and the other half of the comparison he made for himself back in the thatched cottage.
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Chapter 113
— Ding Feng Makes A Plan To Slay Sun Chen; Jiang Wei Arrays A Battle To Defeat Deng Ai.
Named in the chapter's closing couplet as a commander destroyed not by the enemy but by his own court: 'Because of court intrigues / Yue Yi and Yue Fei failed.' The comparison is to Jiang Wei, recalled mid-victory.
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Chapter 118
— Weeping At The Ancestral Temple, A Filial Prince Dies; Marching To The West River Land, Two Leaders Competes.
Named in the elegy, paired with Guan Zhong, as the measure of Zhuge Liang's gifts.
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Chapter 120
— Recommending Du Yu, An Old General Offers New Plans; Capturing Of Sun Hao, Three Kingdoms Becomes One.
Named in the closing matter among the ancients the novel has measured its people against — the last of the many appearances of the Guan Zhong and Yue Yi comparison.