Yu Qian: He saved the company and was fired by the new boss... He was put to death.
In the Tumubao War of 1449, the emperor was captured, and the people of the capital were in panic and advocated moving south. Yu Qianli rejected the crowd, supported the new king, organized the defense of Beijing, and forced the Ming Dynasty to pull back from the edge of the lost country. What will happen to such a person? The emperor who was captured eight years later was successfully restored, and the first thing he did was to kill Yu Qian. The crime is made up, and everyone in the world knows his injustice. The tragedy of the strongest worker is never that he can't do a good job. It's that you do it so well that the credit is over the boss.
诸葛亮：活活累死的 CEO
刘备死后，蜀汉大大小小的事全压在诸葛亮一个人身上，连军队里打二十军棍以上的处罚，他都要亲自过目审批。司马懿听说后直接断言：“吃得少，干得多，还能活多久？”果然，54 岁病逝五丈原。他临终前蜀汉的国力不到魏国三分之一，硬靠他一个人的人力调度撑了十几年。这告诉我们一个朴素的道理：不会授权的老板，寿命一般不长。
话说坚信自己是玻璃做的法国国王
法国国王查理六世晚年得了一种怪病：他坚信自己的身体是玻璃做的，一碰就碎。他不敢让人靠近，走路小心翼翼，还命人在衣服里缝上铁条“防碎”。这在医学史上非常有名，叫“玻璃妄想症”，欧洲贵族里得的人还不少——在那个玻璃是奢侈品的年代，连疯都疯得跟身份配套。
一人灭一国的唐朝公务员
王玄策，唐朝一个七品小官，出使天竺（印度）时，恰逢当地王位政变，新王把唐朝使团全抓了。王玄策一个人逃出去，跑到吐蕃和尼泊尔借了八千多兵，杀回去连战连捷，攻破都城，把新王活捉押回长安献俘。整个过程他本人一没带兵二没军衔，纯靠一张嘴借兵灭国。回朝后史官给他记了一笔，升了官——搁今天，这叫一个普通科员出差途中顺手完成了一个军区的工作量。
