[Explanation]: Use resourcefulness and rely on the human or financial resources of others to achieve your own goals.

【Idiom Story】:

The idiom "borrowing arrows from a straw boat" means to use resourcefulness and rely on the human or financial resources of others to achieve one's own ends.

This idiom comes from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which uses the strange trick Kong Ming to borrow arrows.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led a large army to conquer Eastern Wu, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei united to resist Cao. Sun Quan has a general named Zhou Yu, who is both wise and brave, but he is narrow-minded and very jealous of Zhuge Liang's talents. Because of the need for arrows for fighting in the water, Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to be responsible for making 100,000 arrows within ten days, but Zhuge Liang only needed three days, and he was willing to make a military order, and he would be punished if he failed to complete the task. Zhou Yu thought that it was impossible to make 100,000 arrows in three days, so he just used this opportunity to get rid of Zhuge Liang. So on the one hand, he asked the craftsmen not to prepare all the materials for making arrows, and on the other hand, he asked the minister Lu Su to inquire about Zhuge Liang's reality.

Lu Su met Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang said: "I want you to help me in this matter." I hope you will lend me 20 boats, 30 sergeants in each boat, covered with green cloth slownuts, and more than 1,000 straw handles, lined up on both sides of the boat. However, this matter must not be known to Zhou Yu. ”

Lu Su agreed, and prepared everything according to Zhuge Liang's request. Two days passed, and there was no movement, and on the third day and the fourth watch, Zhuge Liang secretly asked Lu Su to go to the boat together, saying that they would go to get arrows together. Lu Su was puzzled.

Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to be connected with ropes and sail to the opposite shore. It was foggy on the river that day, and there was no one to be seen on the other side. When the boat approached Cao Jun's water village, Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to swing out and call the soldiers to beat drums and shout. Cao Cao thought that the other party was coming, and because of the fog, he was afraid of ambushing, so he sent 6,000 archers to shoot arrows into the river, and the arrows rained down on the grass handles. After a while, Zhuge Liang ordered the boat to turn around again, allowing the other side to receive arrows.

The sun came out, the fog was about to disperse, and Zhuge Liang ordered the ship to hurry back. At this time, the straw handles on both sides of the ship were densely packed with arrows, and each ship had at least five or six thousand, and the total number exceeded one hundred thousand. When Lu Su told Zhou Yu about the borrowing of arrows, Zhou Yu sighed and said: "Zhuge Liang is clever, I am not as good as him." ”

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