Chou Yu Kung-chin
About in the middle part of the story he dyed young, but he is famous and popular due to his intelligence. He was really talented in devising schemes, his intellectual power almost equal to K'ung-ming's. The tactic with fire in the Shibi war was plotted by he and K'ung-ming. Was a closed friend of Sun Ch'uan's brother Sun Ts'e, and Sun Ch'uan truelly trusted him and depended on him while hi lived.
He was afraid of K'ung-ming's talent which made Liu Pei a menace for his monarch, and sometimes planted to assassinate him. When he died, Sun Ch'uan wailed for him, and K'ung-ming also deeply grieved for him.
