Cao Cao", who appears (basically as a villain) in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, seems to be famous as a human resources enthusiast.

He collected all kinds of people who were skilled in military valor, art, and technology, as well as military strategists.

However I think that

"What was he going to do with a bunch of military strategists?"

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A military strategist is a person who advises the monarch or general commanding an army on strategic command.

I think that if there were many such people, all of whom had different opinions, monarchs and generals would have a hard time planning their strategies.

General Eisenhower, who planned the Normandy landings, said, "I will not accept the command of the operation unless I alone am the final decision-maker.

(I haven't been able to find any evidence of this.) I was also told that the core of Microsoft's Windows OS is basically built by a team of a few people.

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It is a common practice for organizations to put people into a team that is in a death march, but it causes a lot of confusion in the field.

This is because the cost of training new members takes up a lot of the team's resources.

I was put on such a flaming team once, but I didn't do anything because I wasn't ordered to -- for three months, actually.

Over the past three months, I have been able to study the Linux kernel code at length.

Of course, I had to make up some random story to report at the regular briefing.

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I believe that the majority of the military strategists gathered by Cao Cao were also doing random things to earn their stipends.

Because, after all, there are only about three military strategists for Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and those three are usually the ones who propose the strategy.