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The more friends you have, the wider the path and the easier it will be to get things done. This truth has been proven by countless experiences and lessons over thousands of years. Many of us often feel this way when we encounter obstacles: "If I have enough friends, I can easily accomplish this task!" "If you're in touch with someone who matters, you always get a response when you want to ask them for help.

Meng Weijun was one of the four princes of the Warring States Period, and there were thousands of diners under his door. One day he asked the diners who was familiar with the accounting business and could go to Xue Di to collect debts for him. Let's just say he can do it. So I got in the car, packed my bags, loaded the coupon and went out. Before leaving, Feng Tan said goodbye to Meng Weijun, and he asked, "After the debt is collected, what will you buy and come back?" Meng Weijun replied: "You can buy whatever my family still lacks." ”

Feng Tan arrived at Xue Di and summoned the people who should repay their debts to come to the deed. After closing the deed, he pretended to give the debt to the people on the order of Meng Weijun, and burned a car of coupon deeds on the spot. The common people were grateful to Dade and shouted long live. Feng Tan drove back to Qi without stopping. Meng Weijun was very surprised by his quick return, and came out to meet him neatly dressed. Meng Weijun asked: "Have you collected all the debts?" Feng Tan replied, "It's over." "What did you buy and come back?" Feng Tan replied: "You said, 'I will buy what my family still lacks', I think about it privately, the treasures in your palace are piled up, the fat stables outside the door are full, and the beauties of the harem are shoulder to shoulder, and what your family lacks is 'righteousness'." I have privately used the debt money to buy back the 'righteousness' for you. ”

Meng Weijun asked, "How did you buy 'righteousness' for me?" Feng Tan said: "You only have a small Xue Di now, but you don't care for the people there, so I will use the way of a merchant to profit from the people." I privately trust your orders to give the debts to the people, and burn all those bonds, and the people will cry out long live. That's how I buy for you. Meng Weijun said very unhappily: "Sir, forget it." ”

A year later, the king of Qi distrusted Meng Weijun and removed him from his post and sent him to his fiefdom Xue Di. Meng Weijun's carriage and horse were still a hundred miles away from Xue Di, and the common people helped the old and the young, and rushed to the road to meet them. Seeing this scene, Meng Weijun said to Feng Tan: "The 'righteousness' that Mr. bought back for me only saw it today." Feng Tan said: "The cunning and clever rabbit has three holes to avoid death; Now you only have one hole, and you can't lie down with your pillow high (meaning letting your guard down). Please let me dig two more holes for you. Meng Weijun agreed, so he gave fifty carts and five hundred catties of gold. Feng Tan went west to the Wei state, and he said to the king of Wei Hui: "The Qi state exiles his minister Meng Weijun wherever he goes, and whichever prince meets him first will make his country rich and militarily strong." So King Hui vacated the upper position (referring to the phase), made the original prime minister a general, and sent an envoy with a thousand catties of gold and a hundred carts to hire Meng Weijun. Feng Tan drove back first and warned Meng Weijun: "A thousand catties of gold, a very heavy dowry; A hundred carts, this is a noble envoy. The monarchs and ministers of the Qi State probably heard about this. The envoys of Wei went back and forth three times, but Meng Weijun resolutely refused to go.

When the king of Qi heard the news, the monarch and his ministers were very frightened, and sent the prince to carry two carts with thousands of catties of gold, painted with literary style, and a sword to wear, seal the letter, and apologize to Meng Weijun, saying: "I have no blessing, I have suffered a calamity from the ancestral gods, and I am convinced that the ministers who met you have offended you. I don't deserve your assistance, I hope you will take care of the temple of the first king of Qi, and then return to the capital to govern the people of the whole country. Feng Tan admonished Meng Weijun: "I hope you will ask the King of Qi to give the ancestors the ritual utensils handed down by the previous kings to worship the ancestors, and build a temple in Xue Di." The achievement of the temple, Feng Tan reported to Meng Weijun: "Now that the three holes have been built, you can sit back and relax (no worries)." ”

This is the story of the famous "Three Holes of the Cunning Rabbit" in history. This story illustrates the fact that we need to value everyone in our lives because there are many paths with multiple friends.

The more friends you have, the wider the path and the easier it will be to get things done. This truth has been proven by countless experiences and lessons over thousands of years. Many of us often feel this way when we encounter obstacles: "If I have enough friends, I can easily accomplish this task!" "If you're in touch with someone who matters, you always get a response when you want to ask them for help.

However, the main condition for this kind of contact with important people is to use the enormous power of network resources. In fact, the more connected you are, the easier it will be to get things done. Why is that? From an economic point of view, this involves the theory of information asymmetry.

The so-called information asymmetry refers to the fact that the individuals in the transaction have different information, which generally means that the seller has more information about the transaction item than the buyer. For example, in the rental of houses, the landlord knows much more about the rented house than the tenant, which is the information asymmetry in economics.

Information economics believes that information asymmetry causes the imbalance of interests of both parties in the market, and affects social fairness, justice and the efficiency of market resource allocation. For example, the person who buys the product will always have less information about the product than the person who sells it, so the seller can always get paid more than the value of the product by virtue of the information advantage.

In the real economy, information asymmetry is very common, take interpersonal communication as an example, the amount of information that people have is different, and modern society is an information age, the more people who have more information, the chance of success is far greater than those who have less information. As a result, the party with the information advantage obtains too much surplus in the transaction, and there is a situation where the disparity in information power is too great, resulting in a serious imbalance in the benefit distribution structure.

Generally speaking, different people have different information, just like the Matthew effect, if you have more information, then you will have more and more information, and people with less information will only end up with less information. Due to information asymmetry, people's successes and failures and the wealth they create are different. And the acquisition of information, in addition to the daily accumulation, interpersonal relationships are also one of the most extensive ways to obtain information. So, if you can make extensive use of your network resources, you will have more information, so that the more hope you will have of success, and the more opportunities you will have.

So, you have to learn to make friends extensively, and that's the economic explanation for multiple friends and multiple paths.