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Finally, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Internal Affairs) was originally cast as strategist Zhuge Liang (played now by Takeshi Kaneshiro) but replaced Chow instead.

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The classic example of this strategy was his treatment of Meng Huo, a native chieftain who, it was said, was captured by Zhuge seven times and released seven times. 28 By first asserting his power and then displaying kindness and a sense of justice, Zhuge won the submission of Meng Huo and other local elites.

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By using the strategy of "dividing to rule," Zhuge managed to reduce the influence of local elites and thereby enhanced central authority.

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Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu, decided that the national strategy should be to ally with the Sun-Wu regime in Jiangnan and to launch northern expeditions to conquer the Cao-Wei in North China.

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Third, Zhuge restructured administrative units in Nanzhong.

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However, yishuai and daxing in Nanzhong, Shu-Han's rear base, rebelled, which forced Zhuge to turn his attention to pacifying the rear base before any northern expedition could be launched.

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Second, Zhuge either appointed local elites as governors or moved them to the central government, but most of them were daxing, namely, descendants of Han Chinese, and some of them had been loyal to the Shu-Han regime during the rebellion period.

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After the new alliance, Zhuge finds himself working with his counterpart, Sun Quan's viceroy, Zhou Yu (Tony Leung).

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For his insights parallel to this line Thomas Barnett was compared to Zhuge Liang Crouching Dragon 卧龙, Zhuge's Taoist nickname in Chinese media.

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