[Reading Water Margin and Three Kingdoms, one truly laments that Zhuge Liang perhaps lacked a ruthlessly cunning strategist like Wu Yong. Zhuge Liang's open maneuvers were too powerful, yet he lacked an advisor skilled in underhanded plots by his side. After using a scheme to demote Sima Yi, why didn't he secretly hire assassins to take out Sima Yi?
If he were a ruthless strategist, he surely would have had Sima Yi's entire family killed.
If Ma Su practiced it further, perhaps he could have become such a talent.
Chapter 590