Chapter 802: Grand Strategy

When he saw that Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong still did not dare to come to see each other when they believed that they were seriously ill and even had 'died', it made him feel a sense of pride and a sense of pride in their 'courage'. But he also understands that this is the creation of the times, they have become a giant of Luo Ting-style language, a dwarf of action, and this legacy still affects future generations, that is, the endless keyboard warriors on the Internet.

When Zhao Yu first came to this era, he was actually very jealous of the scholar class, but gradually he discovered the mystery of 'Xiucai rebelled for ten years'. Because in addition to the superiority of words, they are indeed the most helpless marginal cowards in terms of actual behavioral capacity and energy, and the complete loss of power determines that they are only performing a beautiful gesture in literature. Because apart from paying lip service to patriotism, the scholar group does not have the ability to act freely and independently, or even the right to participate in politics.

In addition, the ancient social system led to the shortness of the hero's breath is their destined fate, in the feudal autocratic society almost cut off any specific path for anyone who has ambition to do things for the country, in addition to relying on the state power, no matter how much you love the motherland and have a grand strategy, you don't dare, can't make a difference. In addition to the qualifications and paths that this country gives you, you do not have independent patriotic rights for yourself and civil society. It is impossible for an innumerable or all of the seemingly scattered people who have lost their actual rights and ability to love the country to face the crisis of the country on their own.

Because they do not have the right and energy to independently organize any social forces in the civil society, they have neither the power to restrain the chickens, nor the organizational power to raise their arms and echo the crowd, and even more forbidden to organize their colleagues to spontaneously defend the country and change society. What's more, everyone is going their own way, unwilling to cooperate, and flying separately when disaster comes, and the country just ignores you and cuts off any hope of serving the country. The 'heroes' who are destined to be lonely and powerless should be short of breath and depressed. Except for the railings to shoot all over, no one will, boarding. Lift the big white and listen to the golden wisps, what else can you do?

If you use force to deal with these scholars, it will not only violate the ancestral system, but also be a bit humiliating. Therefore, Zhao Yu's strategy is "a soldier who surrenders without a fight". And with Zhao Hao's understanding of the war that Sun Tzu said, it can actually be extended to all areas of competition in the human world. Surrendering without a fight is the best result that competition can achieve.

Although the current situation is not visible, Zhao Hao thinks that it can be called a war without gunpowder. And even in war, the real masters do not have to meet each other in battle to be able to distinguish the winner from the loser. They had already created a situation of inevitable victory through a series of pre-war plots. Through the display of this situation, the opponent completely loses the courage and confidence to confront, so as to achieve the effect of "yielding" others without "fighting".

However, in the eyes of everyone, Zhao Hao only attacked Zhao Mengqi in the newspaper, and seemed to have done nothing about the initiators, not only did not put pressure on them, but also did not try to prevent the further fermentation of the incident, so that he fell into passivity. But he thought that the soldiers were impermanent, the water was impermanent, and those who could win due to the changes of the enemy were called gods. The instinctive realm of strategy is to plan impermanence and win because of the enemy, so as to achieve the realm of doing whatever you want, adapting to the situation and being unpredictable.

Therefore, Zhao Yu feels that as a person who plans the overall situation, he should be able to subconsciously and correctly use various strategies according to the different times, places, objects, and surrounding conditions and environments, which is the new realm of strategy. And there are indeed many wise men in history who can know themselves and know their opponents, and who are like gods, who are often able to predict the future development trend of things through the clues of events in the embryonic state of events, and can be prepared to deal with them in time. Show up at the right time and place and take the right action to get the victory you need.

Zhao Yu thought that he would be able to turn evil into good fortune for so many years, in addition to the dedication and assistance of several masters, the generals under his command were loyal, and he also had an all-pervasive intelligence team. Because knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is an indispensable element of strategy itself, and if you can't understand yourself and anticipate your opponent, you can't produce a correct strategy. Blind judgment and wrong estimation can only lead people astray. Therefore, the first indispensable step of strategy is to fully grasp the situation of friend and foe, and on this basis, formulate a series of correct strategies that are in line with the development of things, and translate them into action.

After a period of investigation, Zhao Hao has a certain understanding of the basic context of the incident, their purpose and the people involved, but he still has doubts. You must know that Chen Yizhong, who is hiding behind the scenes, and Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong, who have been exposed, are not ordinary people, Chen Yizhong is the former prime minister in charge of military and political affairs; Yao Liangchen also served as a deputy minister for a short time, and the current head of the household department, you must know that the household department is the most powerful department except for the official department, even the increasingly powerful military department has to be relegated to it; Wei Tianzhong served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry on his own, and he was also the head of the key department.

The three officialdom veterans will not fail to understand that without the support of force and courtiers, it is not easy to remove the emperor who is in the ascendant and support a broken county king who has no power, no power, and no real materials to ascend to the throne. As far as Zhao Yu knows, after several rectifications and blood exchanges in the imperial court, in addition to some personnel from the household department and the Ministry of Industry, there are also some of Chen Yizhong's protégés who are old, but their attitude is not clear, some people are wavering, and some people even report to themselves secretly. It can be seen that there are not many people in the DPRK who can be used by the three of them.

Zhao Yu knew that they still had some opposition scholars to support, and some of them were dissatisfied with their policy of combining civil and military forces and reusing officials; Some were former officials who acted as traitors and surrendered to the city during the fall, fearing that they would be liquidated and wanted to find a backer; There are also those who don't know the truth, and believe that their little emperor reuses Qiongzhou people, and despises the Jiangnan scholars, don't look at them as unofficial and unofficed, but there are many of them, and they are young and vigorous, and they are easy to be provoked.

But Zhao Yu thought that even if he had the support of both the government and the opposition, he would not be able to shake his position at all, and Chen Yizhong and they should also understand this truth, and also know what consequences they would suffer if what they were doing failed at the moment. Therefore, he believed that there was still support, but he had not yet figured out who he had, and this potential enemy was the most dangerous.

However, what made Zhao Hao puzzled was why Yao Liangchen and others would take such a big risk to get in, which violated this common sense from the perspective of non-profit and non-fighting. Although Yao Liangchen was pulled down from the phase, his transformation into a household secretary was not considered to have yielded to him; Wei Tianzhong's talent is not outstanding, but he has never removed him; And Chen Yizhong's escape from the city was not completed, and he stayed for many years without returning, and he didn't do anything about it, and even the monitors were withdrawn after that, indicating that he was letting him go. learned that he secretly returned to China, but he just pretended not to know, as long as he stayed honestly.

In other words, Chen Yizhong and the three of them are all vested interests, and if they cause political turmoil, they will bear the brunt of endangering their vested interests and even their personal safety. And they do this, there is only one reason that Zhao Yu thinks can be explained, that is, they can get greater benefits from it, in the current situation, they are just being a powerful minister, but being an emperor is not necessarily so bold, and with their age, I am afraid they will not be able to wait for the day when they usurp the throne.

In the face of someone's attempt to 'rebel', Wen Tianxiang and a cadre of generals thought that they should be quickly suppressed by thunderbolt means, and they should be punished according to the laws of the country, instead of using the newspaper to make them stink and let them retreat. But Zhao Hao felt that the method of striking the other party's spirit and forcing the other party to collapse under huge mental pressure is the same as the deterrence method in that both act on the other party's psychology, the difference is that deterrence is mostly a pre-action measure, while punishment is a remedial means after the failure of the action.

Criticism in power struggles is no stranger to everyone, but in fact, it is nothing more than refuting the words and actions of the other party and making it unreasonable. Criticism includes the criticism of the individual manipulators and the criticism of mobilizing the masses, and its ultimate point is to isolate the other party through criticism, so that it is in a desperate situation where everyone shouts and beats in the power struggle; As for innuendo, it is an indirect method, although it does not directly attack the other party. However, by deconstructing the logic, viewpoints, and propositions of the other party through roundabout means, the other party will lose the justice and rationality of the ideological and spiritual world, and it can also achieve the effect of isolating and scandalizing the opponent.

In short, whether it is criticism or insinuation, it is a way of mental beating, and it is a means of rigid manipulation. If used well, it can deeply touch the person who is controlled, so that the other party has to be at the mercy of the person who controls it, give up its own ideas, and end its irrational behavior. It can also be regarded as one of the ways to surrender without a fight. If it fails, it can also quickly change its methods and decisively use force to suppress it. That is, if it can be deterred, it will be deterred; If deterrence is unsuccessful, punishment is used.

Of course, Wen Tianxiang felt that his own arrangement was too risky, once they felt that the matter had been revealed and took risks, even if they didn't suppress it, it would be a disaster, especially for the Xing Dynasty that had just returned to Jiangnan. Regarding his worries, Zhao Hao thought that it would not be too much if he looked at it from the perspective of the prime minister, and it was very appropriate, because he didn't know how much strength he had, and he didn't know his purpose. This is also determined by the difference in status and the height of viewing the problem.

Zhao Yu is naturally aware of the risks he faces once things get out of control, but he feels that it is worth a try. Because he knows that the more he transcends power, the more power he can get; The more you think about the gains and losses of power, the faster you will lose. Only by being able to transcend power and not regard what you gain as important is that you can let go of your hands and feet. Lao Li said well: if you are willing to give, you will have to give. The so-called big heart, big ambition, and big heart also come from this.

The reason why Qin Shi Huang dared to risk the destruction of the country and the loss of power after the defeat of the war, and insisted on waging wars repeatedly, was of course because the national strength was super strong, and launching a war would plunder greater power; On the other hand, in his opinion, he did not take his position very seriously, and did not care much about his own gains and was afraid of losing, which is also an important reason. In other words, he would rather gamble on the rivers and mountains of his Qin State to win the great cause of unifying the world.

If you care about one thing a lot, would you bet on it? But the kings of the six countries cherished their thrones and their powers, and no one dared to rashly provoke wars, for fear that one would ruin their throne if they were not careful. Qin Shi Huang took his own country as a bet, willing to take such a big risk, how could he be a person who cares about power? Regarding the point of view of Qin Shi Huang in "Hero" that he cherishes the people of the world and does not hesitate to sacrifice himself, Zhao Yu definitely does not agree with it now, there are too many nonsense elements in it, and that is definitely not his true intention.

Naturally, Zhao Yu would not take his hard-won throne seriously, this was something he had worked hard to win little by little. And with great effort, he built his own country little by little like a swallow building a nest, so how could he easily give it up. Now he seems to be doing nothing, just using propaganda to put pressure on his opponents, and manipulating his courtiers to stop their opponents from pressing forward. In fact, it adopts a standby and action strategy.

According to Zhao Hao's understanding, the way of standby implies the following meanings: First, recuperate. When the time is unfavorable, he retreats, recuperates, and accumulates strength on his own; The second is static braking. The third is to strike later. The opponent strikes first, and I respond with no movement, so that the opponent has nowhere to focus; Wait until I see the right time, find the flaws in the other party, and then subdue the other party with one shot.

Lao Tzu also once said, "Heavy is light root, quiet is restless." It is a gentleman who never leaves the baggage all day long. Although there is a view of glory, the swallow is transcendent. But the Lord of all vehicles, and despise the world? If you are light, you will lose your minister, and if you are rash, you will lose your king. He also said, "Tranquility is often better than peony, and tranquility is the bottom." This shows that Lao Tzu attaches great importance to stillness, believing that stillness is the root of movement. And to apply this principle to the way of standby, is to use static braking, keep still, watch the other party's movement, and find its flaws in the other party's movement.

This is also the essence of the last-mover first-in-the-first system, which seems to be passive everywhere at the beginning, but in fact, it is step by step. Gain insight into the enemy's intentions and grasp their strength before the time is ripe to fight the enemy to death, leaving him with no power to fight back......