This so-called (*) "Sleeping Dragon" developed that plan, which involved a temporary alliance with Sun Quan, after the third visit he received from Liu Bei.
This man is traditionally held to have developed a signaling system making use of paper hot-air balloons, known as his namesake lanterns. He marched his forces all the way to Lake Dian after suppressing an uprising instigated by Yong Kai during his Southern Campaigns, during which he also captured and released Meng Huo seven times in order to placate the Nanman. He wrote the Chu Shi Bao before undertaking his less-successful Northern Campaigns in a last-ditch effort to complete his Longzhong Plan. This so-called (*) "Sleeping Dragon" developed that plan, which involved a temporary alliance with Sun Quan, after the third visit he received from Liu Bei. For 10 points, name this Three Kingdoms-era figure, a famed strategist of Shu Han who would later be considered the Chinese icon of wisdom and strategy.
This man is traditionally held to have developed a signaling system making use of paper hot-air balloons, known as his namesake lanterns.
{Zhuge Liang} [or {Chu}-{ko Liang}; or {Kongming}; or {Marquis Zhongwu}]